Volume 2 Chapter 28 / Chapter 115: Protagonist, Give Him a Hug
During the conversation, Feng Yudie quickly finished the roasted chicken in front of her, leaving only a plate of chicken bones. Ye Anping didn't eat much, just a few peanuts and a couple of sips of tea.
"Done eating, let's go!"
Feng Yudie patted her satisfied belly, smilingly urging Ye Anping to settle the bill.
Ye Anping didn't say anything. He called the waiter of the restaurant, waving his hand to take out more than ten spirit stones from his storage pouch.
However, just as the waiter was about to bow and accept the spirit stones, Ye Anping's movement suddenly froze.
Thud!
Ye Anping, who had just stood up, suddenly frowned, bent his knee, knelt on one knee directly on the ground, and slammed his elbow on the table beside him.
Ye Anping gritted his teeth, used his hands to scrape against the table's edge to prevent himself from falling directly to the ground.
"Ah?! Mister Immortal ?! What happened to you?"
The waiter was frightened, subconsciously wanting to step forward to help, but seeing Ye Anping's pale face, he was afraid of taking responsibility and didn't dare to approach.
On the opposite side of the table, Feng Yudie was also shocked. Just a moment ago, everything was fine, so why did it suddenly change like this?
"What's wrong?!"
After a moment of daze, Feng Yudie immediately overturned the table and came to Ye Anping's side. She helped him sit back in the chair and grabbed Ye Anping's right hand, rolling up his sleeve. She formed a sword-finger gesture and pointed at Ye Anping's right wrist.
"His left pulse is rolling wildly— What kind of pulse is this?!"
Feng Yudie, diagnosing Ye Anping's chaotic pulse, had little understanding of medical skills. She looked at Xiaotian, who was floating on the side, with a questioning gaze.
Xiaotian did not hesitate and quickly took out the Heavenly Dao Scriptures, flipping through it rapidly.
『Yudie, this is a sign of excessive Yang energy attacking the heart, a danger to life. Generally, it happens when a man overdoses on cultivation』
Seeing the solution in the Heavenly Dao Scriptures, Xiaotian's serious furrowed brows suddenly lifted.
Bang!
It single-handedly closed the Heavenly Dao Scriptures and looked at Feng Yudie, shouting, 『Yudie!! Kiss him!!』
"Kiss him?" Feng Yudie was stunned for a moment before realizing, "Huh?!"
『Kiss him!! Mouth to mouth!!』
"Kiss— kiss—"
Feng Yudie looked at the now pale Ye Anping, glanced around, and finally spotted the equally shocked waiter nearby.
"You come over and kiss him!! Mouth to mouth!!"
Huh?
The waiter looked confused, and Xiaotian also wore a confused expression.
Even the currently uncomfortable Ye Anping, upon hearing this, twisted his eyebrows, glaring at Feng Yudie, questioning her silently: Are you out of your mind?
Xiaotian added, 『Yudie! It has to be a female cultivator!』
"Ah? I— I can't find a female cultivator!"
『You are one, aren't you?!』
"I— I—"
Feng Yudie stuttered for a while, then looked at Xiaotian, asking, "Am I?"
『You—』
Xiaotian directly turned petrified in mid-air.
Feeling that he could barely hold on, Ye Anping didn't care much. He grabbed Feng Yudie's right hand and pulled her into his arms.
Feng Yudie felt a bit at a loss as her neck straightened. "Ah?!"
"Release your true essence!"
"..."
Xiaotian hurriedly urged, 『Do as he says!』
Hearing Xiaotian's reminder, Feng Yudie bit her lip, took a deep breath through her nose, and relaxed her body. She activated her true essence, slowly releasing it from her dantian.
Ye Anping quickly mobilized his spiritual power, guiding Feng Yudie's true essence from various meridians and pathways into his body, simultaneously submerging his consciousness into every part of his body.
This time, Ye Anping found that his cultivation had increased again, but this time it wasn't much—roughly equivalent to the progress he would make in three to four months of meditation.
He figured it must be because of the demonic cultivator named Yao Yuanhua. This was the third time, and Ye Anping had nearly discerned the pattern.
Originally, Yao Yuanhua's fate was supposed to end in the hands of Feng Yudie and Xiao Yunluo. However, by helping Feng Yudie eliminate Yao Yuanhua prematurely, the opportunity and luck shifted to Ye Anping's side. He had essentially stolen some luck from Feng Yudie.
"Whew."
After a while, Ye Anping felt the calming of the Yang energy in his body. He relaxed and released the hands that were holding Feng Yudie tightly.
He opened his eyes and looked at the now embarrassed Feng Yudie, who seemed like she wanted to push him away but hesitated. He raised his eyebrows and then, following his gaze, her face turned black with lines.
He caught a whiff of Feng Yudie's fragrance, different from his junior sister's scent. Hers was a faint scent of lily of the valley. The width of her shoulders and the sensation of holding her...
Ye Anping inexplicably found himself thinking: Feng Yudie is actually a girl too.
"..."
Feng Yudie, noticing Ye Anping staring at her face, turned her eyes to the side. She was at a loss as to how to push him away but seemed hesitant. After a moment, black lines appeared on her face.
"Are you done? How long do you want to hug?"
Xiaotian floated on the side, laughing incessantly. Hearing her question, it suddenly became serious and said, 『Yudie! To be safe, you'd better let him hug a little longer.』
"Whew."
Ye Anping sighed, relaxed his grip, and let her go.
Xiaotian hurriedly advised Ye Anping again, 『Hey, Ye Lad, hug her a little longer!』
Ignoring Xiaotian, Ye Anping said to Feng Yudie, "I owe you a favor."
Feng Yudie stepped back a couple of steps, readjusted her left shoulder that had been pulled by Ye Anping, tidied up her clothes, and then used her hand as a sword to pick up the dozen or so spirit stones that Ye Anping had dropped and handed them to the nearby waiter.
"You can leave now."
The waiter, after taking the spirit stones from Feng Yudie, bowed and quickly left.
Once he was gone, Feng Yudie looked at Ye Anping again, furrowing her brows as she asked, "Did you cultivate some strange technique?"
Ye Anping lifted his teacup, took a sip, and replied, "It's just that the two cultivation techniques I practice clash a bit. The accumulation of Yang energy in my body is a bit fast."
Hearing this, Xiaotian quickly floated around Ye Anping, turning in circles. It then asked, 『Ye Lad, this won't do. You should abandon those cultivation techniques and start anew. Sooner or later, something will go wrong』
Ye Anping did not answer. He knew that abandoning and retraining the technique was a fundamental solution, but if he abandoned the technique at the Foundation Establishment stage, his cultivation would drop back to the first or second level of Qi refining. It would be too costly to retrain.
He planned to abandon the technique and retrain after reaching the Foundation Establishment stage. By then, even if he abandoned the technique, he wouldn't lose cultivation. At most, he would be unable to use spiritual power until he learned a new technique.
Listening to Xiaotian's words, Feng Yudie looked at Ye Anping and asked, "Do you have a plan?"
"Yes."
"Then I won't say more."
Pouring herself a cup of tea, Feng Yudie sat back at the table, looked at Ye Anping for a while, and suddenly raised three fingers to him.
"You owe me this much!"
Ye Anping raised an eyebrow, "Three roast chickens?"
"Dream on!" Feng Yudie gave him a disdainful look, "Thirty thousand spirit stones!"
"A bit expensive."
"Of course! I saved your life, and you saved mine before. This time, we're completely even!" Feng Yudie tilted her head back, hands on her hips. "If we weren't familiar with each other, I would have kicked you out of the window when you weren't holding onto me just now. You're the first stinky man who hugged me!"
Ye Anping pondered for a moment. Since he could get the money back from his junior sister later, he nodded in agreement, "Alright, thirty thousand spirit stones, I'll give them to you in a few days."
"Huh? That easy?" Feng Yudie raised her eyebrows and quickly satirically asked, "Then add another twenty thousand?"
Ye Anping rolled his eyes, "I can subtract twenty thousand for you."
"Okay, okay, okay! A fixed price, thirty thousand it is— hehe." Feng Yudie thought for a moment. Exchanging thirty thousand spirit stones for a month's worth of true essence seemed like a good deal. As a Heavenly Spiritual Root cultivator, she could quickly accumulate true essence using certain methods, just by cultivating in places with spiritual resonance for a while.
Thinking about it, she rubbed her chin, glanced at Ye Anping, and finally dismissed the idea of making money. She couldn't help but sigh in her heart: If only Ye Anping were a girl...
"Feeling better now?" she asked.
Ye Anping took a deep breath, checked his meridians again, and found that the Yang energy was temporarily suppressed by Feng Yudie's true essence. He would still need to go back to his junior sister later.
"Yeah, I just need to go back and recuperate," he replied.
"That's good." Feng Yudie shrugged slightly and suddenly smiled again. "Young Master Ye, do you think I passed the test?"
"Passed what test?"
"Is it about being with Junior Sister Pei? Am I reliable or not?" Feng Yudie desperately blinked at Ye Anping, implying, "I will definitely take good care of Junior Sister Pei in the future. How about I call you 'Big Uncle Brother' from now on?"
"?"
"Or big brother-in-law is fine too. I don't mind," she continued.
Ye Anping remained indifferent. "No way."
Feng Yudie propped her cheek, lifted her tea cup, and waved her hand. "Ah, Young Master Ye, how can I get you to agree to me being with Junior Sister Pei? I will definitely take good care of her in the future."
"?"
"When do you not like girls? I'll agree to you being with my junior sister when that happens."
"…"
At this point, Xiaotian sneaked over to Ye Anping's ear, wearing a mischievous smile, and asked, 『Ye Lad, how does it feel to hold Yudie? Is she soft? Is she delicate? Does she smell good? Do you want to hold her again?』
『Ah, Ye Lad, if you still want to hold her, just let me know. I'll go back and enlighten her for you. If you don't speak up, I'll assume you want to hold her, okay?』
"…"
Ye Anping ignored Xiaotian and reflected on the situation. The whole thing felt like a prank orchestrated by fate, and it happened so abruptly.
Sima Xuanji had mentioned that his fate was tied to Feng Yudie's. Perhaps meeting her was the reason for the sudden settlement of his "golden finger" rewards.
It seemed that in the future, it would be better for him not to be separated from his junior sister, especially after dealing with anything related to Feng Yudie. The recent situation had proven that.
Ye Anping pinched his nose and stood up. "I'm going back."
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