Chapter 37
Helan Xue entered the water and sat down behind Lin Queli, placing both his hands on Lin Queli’s back.
“Relax.”
“Oh, oh, oh…” Lin Queli took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down. Come on, Shizun is being perfectly proper and has no ulterior motives at all. It’s me who’s overthinking things!
He’s a celibate!!
Thinking of Helan Xue’s past style and his deeply ingrained celibate image, Lin Queli also relaxed, letting himself fall back limply, supported by Helan Xue’s hands.
After closing his eyes, Lin Queli felt a gentle cold qi seep into his body from his back, spreading to his entire marrow, gradually soothing the faint pain and discomfort in his body, and even giving him a little more strength.
But perhaps because Lin Queli’s body was trying hard to accept Helan Xue’s cold qi, even though the cold qi was deliberately suppressed and very gentle, it still came from a cultivator who was half a step away from becoming an immortal. Therefore, Lin Queli was still a little dizzy.
After the qi transfer was over and Helan Xue withdrew his hands, Lin Queli fell into Helan Xue’s arms.
Helan Xue paused.
He looked down. Lin Queli’s thin undergarment was soaked through by the pool water, clinging to his body, the porcelain-white skin underneath faintly visible.
Not just his clothes, but his hair was also wet and stuck to his cheeks, falling over his shoulders, making him look like a porcelain doll that could be manipulated at will by its owner.
“…Lin Luo.”
Lin Queli’s warm breath happened to spray on Helan Xue’s neck, a ticklish, warm sensation.
【Dual cultivation! Host, take this opportunity to seduce him!】
【Get on top! Host, get on top!】
Lin Queli was still a little dazed. Vaguely hearing the System’s anxious voice, he subconsciously turned over and sat on Helan Xue’s lap.
“…” Helan Xue’s gaze sharpened.
“What are you doing?”
Lin Queli wrapped his arms around Helan Xue’s neck, panted a few times, and then completely came back to his senses. He was so scared that he retreated again, getting off and backing away clumsily, splashing a wave of water.
“Ah, ah! Shizun! I’m sorry!”
Helan Xue’s face was splashed. The stones at the bottom of the pool were slippery. Seeing that Lin Queli was about to lose his balance in his panic, he frowned and pulled him into his arms.
“Don’t move.”
Lin Queli’s cheek was pressed against Helan Xue’s chest, and his whole body was trembling.
Finally, he hugged Helan Xue, his eyes red. “Shizun…”
Helan Xue looked down at him, not understanding why his little disciple’s emotions were like a storm.
One moment he said he didn’t want to have physical contact with him, the next he was snuggling up to him.
Lin Queli sniffled.
“Da Zhuang, if I rewind, how much debt will I have?”
【Huh? Host?? You…】
“I don’t want to kill Shizun. Can’t I just rewind? It’ll be fine to do it again! Anyway, anyway… what I mean is, I’ve already seduced Shizun once. I know what kind of person he is. The second time will definitely be smooth!”
【But Host…】
A moment later.
【Okay! The System will follow the Host’s arrangements! I’ll go and check!】
【Data generating… my god!! Host… are you sure?!】
Lin Queli: “…I’m ready.”
Lin Queli took a deep breath.
【It’s 1 million, Host.】
Lin Queli: “…”
Lin Queli was about to faint.
【A rough calculation, it took the Host almost half a year to earn 500 points. If it’s 1 million, you might have to stay here for another thousand years to seduce Taxue Xianzun… if it goes smoothly, maybe you can go home in nine hundred and ninety-nine years!】
【Oh, that means you have to keep cultivating to become a big shot to live that long.】
【How about… we just kill the Immortal Venerable?】
The corner of Lin Queli’s mouth twitched. He cheered himself up and said with a smile, “Didn’t I profit from this! I can live for another 1000 years!”
【…】
Actually… being with Shizun was not boring. On the contrary, he was very happy. Like Lin Luo, he had no parents and had never been treated like this by anyone.
He even just realized that he was a little reluctant to leave the Myriad Sword Sect, Shouyang, Qiansui, Ji Chun, and the others.
Lin Queli stared at Helan Xue in a daze.
At this moment, he was shocked to realize that he was actually willing to spend another 1000 years with Helan Xue.
Helan Xue was also looking at Lin Queli.
The two were very close, their breaths mingling. Lin Queli felt that the ice water around them had even become hot.
“Shizun…”
A call pulled Helan Xue’s reason back.
Helan Xue looked at the disciple before him.
—His disciple.
Helan Xue took a deep breath, picked Lin Queli up, and returned to the stone bed. A spell dried their wet clothes, but Lin Queli’s long hair was something the spell couldn’t do. It was still dripping water.
Helan Xue took a towel and wiped it for him. Helan Xue had long been detached from the mortal world, but in these three days, he had asked Ji Chun and learned that for ordinary people, especially someone as weak as Lin Queli, sleeping with wet hair could easily cause headaches and illness.
Lin Queli lay on the stone bed. When he came back to his senses and saw Helan Xue wiping his hair for him, he was stunned.
Helan Xue actually…
Helan Xue touched the unabated redness at the corner of Lin Queli’s eyes. “What’s wrong?”
Lin Queli pillowed his arm and said softly, “I was thinking… is Shizun so good to every disciple?”
Helan Xue was a cultivator of the Dao of Cangsheng. His killing intent arose for the sake of the common people, and he cultivated to slay demons for the common people. He had the world and its people in his heart, and he was just a speck of dust in his eyes.
So was he good to him because of this?
Did he dote on him because he was Helan Xue’s disciple, and Helan Xue had a Shizun’s responsibility towards him?
Helan Xue paused, perhaps not expecting Lin Queli’s thoughts to jump here.
He looked at the soft strands of Lin Queli’s hair in his hand and said in a low voice, “Only you… are so worrisome.”
Lin Queli blinked and turned his head to look at Helan Xue. “Then if we start over, and Shizun doesn’t know me, would you still take me as a disciple?”
Helan Xue shook his head. “What’s there to start over? Don’t talk nonsense.”
“Just assuming!” Lin Queli was very stubborn. He grabbed Helan Xue’s hand and blinked. “Would Shizun?”
Helan Xue said, “Everything is fated. This Venerable went to that snowfield and saw you.”
Lin Queli tilted his head. “Th-then if it wasn’t me in the snowfield that day, but someone else, would that someone else have become Shizun’s disciple?”
Helan Xue was at a loss for whether to laugh or cry. He gently rubbed Lin Queli’s head. “You’re already sick, why are you still so noisy… No, not everyone is as annoying, lazy, and unloving of cultivation as you, giving people a headache.”
Every little dog is different.
Lin Queli pouted and buried his face in his arm. “I knew it. If we started over, Shizun would definitely not take me as a disciple. Shizun dislikes me.”
“Not so…”
Helan Xue had already dried Lin Queli’s hair. He slowly combed Lin Queli’s dark hair with a wooden comb. “This Venerable would have made you cultivate on the first day, so that you would know that even a furnace cauldron cannot rely on others and be bullied. What the Changming Clan didn’t teach you, This Venerable will.”
Lin Queli was stunned.
Like Lin Luo, he had indeed not been taught by many elders since he was young. After his parents passed away, he had been living with his relatives. His relatives were not bad to him, but they didn’t pay much attention to him.
Since he was young, no matter what grievances he suffered, he would just smile and let it pass. It was no big deal. He had lived happily all the same and had gotten used to living day by day, never thinking about the future or goals.
Lin Queli said in a small voice, “Then if we start over… this disciple will work hard to cultivate!”
He vaguely understood why Helan Xue had been so strict and disapproving of him before.
But if they started over, Helan Xue wouldn’t help him wipe his hair like this.
Lin Queli suddenly felt a little sad. He stood up and hugged Helan Xue tightly, resting his head on his shoulder, his nose filled with the woody scent of Helan Xue.
“Shizun, if we start over…”
Helan Xue frowned and interrupted, “There is no starting over in this world. Don’t think nonsense. This Venerable will find a way. You will get better.”
Why is this child getting sadder and sadder the more he thinks about it?
Lin Queli still wanted to finish and said stubbornly, “If we start over, Shizun must dual cultivate with me.”
“…”
—Not forgetting one’s original intention, that is to say.
Helan Xue rubbed his temples. “What, has it become dual cultivating if we start over, and not now?”
Lin Queli muttered in a small voice, “Now… I don’t want to dual cultivate with Shizun anymore.”
Helan Xue laughed out of anger.
He’s even being picky now.
Helan Xue gently patted Lin Queli’s back and put away the wooden comb. “Don’t think about it. Go to sleep.”
He pulled Lin Queli down.
Lin Queli had wanted to make a fuss again. After all, he was afraid that if he fell asleep, it would be his next life. But he was indeed tired and couldn’t think anymore. After being forced to lie down by Helan Xue, he curled up on the stone bed and fell asleep in a daze.
…
After Lin Queli fell asleep, Helan Xue lit a special incense for him.
With this incense, Lin Queli could sleep for a day.
Then, Helan Xue used a teleportation array to go to the Myriad Sword Sect’s library.
For the past thousand years, he would come here from time to time and had enough time to memorize the classification of almost every book in every corner.
But even one category had tens of millions of books.
Helan Xue tirelessly searched the library for a whole night and only found his target when it was almost dawn.
—Secret Manual of the Furnace Cauldron
In these three days, he had tried many methods to suppress the evil fire in Lin Queli’s body, but none of them worked.
Lin Queli’s body was like a bottomless pit, devouring all the spiritual energy that entered his body, and in the end, it would even devour the owner himself.
At this point, perhaps he had to find another way.
Helan Xue opened it.
—Using a body of flesh and blood as a pill furnace, it can be used for dual cultivation to help others improve their cultivation, and even break through bottlenecks.
The first sentence made Helan Xue frown.
No wonder he had never read it before.
He skipped the chapter that described the process of dual cultivation in detail and found what he wanted.
—Furnace cauldrons are divided into grades. A rare, peerless furnace cauldron in the world, if not dual cultivated with regularly, will be burned by evil fire, and in serious cases, lose their life.
Helan Xue took a deep breath and continued to read.
The book recorded how painful this type of furnace cauldron was, and most of them would fall into the evil path and eventually be dual cultivated to death.
Every word and every sentence was extremely glaring.
On the last sentence of the title page…
—If one does not dual cultivate and the yin and yang are imbalanced, only the Extreme Cold Yuan Soul can solve it in the world. But the Extreme Cold Yuan Soul is even rarer than a thousand years, and few cultivators can cultivate an Extreme Cold Dantian.
Helan Xue’s fingertip paused on the sentence about the Extreme Cold Yuan Soul, and he couldn’t come back to his senses for a long time.
“Immortal Venerable! Immortal Venerable—!”
At the same time, Ji Chun’s voice came from outside.
“Something has happened!”
Helan Xue closed the book, put it back in its original place without leaving a trace, so that others would not notice that this book had been read, and strode out of the library.
“What is it?”
