20 Opportunities (VII)
"Empress!"
"We have successfully penetrated the territory of the Bloody Moon Sect! There are roughly fifty disciples at this point, and one of them has attained the status of Core Disciple. The elders do not seem to be wary of him."
"What shall we do now?"
A beautiful woman spoke as she got on her knees. In front of her, another woman stood, sitting down on an exquisite throne with a face of boredom.
She looked down at the woman, who was bowing with a calm gaze, before parting her red lips.
"For now, tell that disciple to remai—!"
Glow...!
Before she could finish, her Sect Leader's Token, suddenly started to glow.
'What does he want right now?
'Does he want something? I gave him enough resources for him to reach the peak of the Golden Core Realm.'
With a faint sigh, Shen Huiying sent an ounce of Qi to the token.
[What do you want from this Empress?]
She asked him.
"As I mentioned before, someone interrupted. Tell that disciple to stay sly and try to find out some information about the Bloody Moon Sect Leader."
"She's been in seclusion for too long... Who knows what she's planning to do." Shen Huiying declared.
The woman, who was bowing, cupped her hands as she accepted her words.
"Yes, Empress!"
"Is there something else you want me to do?" She added to make sure.
Shen Huiying simply nodded her head, but suddenly, her token glowed again, but this time, it was much more intense than before.
[I need help.]
"!!!"
Seeing those words, Shen Huiying abruptly stood up.
"I'll be leaving; there's something urgent going on." She declared as she waved her hand, and the disciple in front of her disappeared from the place.
Crack...!
Waving her delicate hand, a space crack appeared, which she immediately entered and travelled thousands of kilometres in the blink of an eye.
She took out her token and immediately tracked Long Yu's location.
Immediately, she found his location and disappeared once again.
"...Long Yu?" She called out as she appeared in a forest that was close to a city.
She instinctively looked around, and her eyes widened as she noticed Long Yu's body on the ground, a layer of ice gradually covering his entire body.
"Long Yu!?" She instantly appeared right beside him and softly pressed her hands against his chest to relieve his condition.
"Fuck, it's hot!" She cursed out in surprise.
However, her hands remained in his chest as she had experienced much hotter fire.
"...This... what kind of fruit did he consume!?"
Long Yu's body was a complete mess. His meridian had been frozen, and at this point, his heart was going to freeze too.
Strangely, his foundation remained more stable than ever; if anything, it was getting better as the ice spread through his whole body.
"Nihility Flame..." Shen Huiying called out, and a small purple flame appeared on the palm of her hands.
She quickly pressed it against Long Yu's chest and transferred the flame into his veins, quickly unfreezing them.
Then, the flame passed through his organs, the meridians; however, what she did not know was that by passing the flame through those places, it was directly tempering them.
After all, they had been tempered by extreme ice, and now they were being tempered by extreme fire.
Slowly, the temperature of Long Yu's body started rising...
"Come on...! Wake up! This Empress orders you to wake up!!" Shen Huiying spoke loudly as she bit her lip.
She didn't expect something so dangerous to happen to Long Yu's body; thankfully, he was lucky enough for her to have the Nihility Flame.
This same heavenly flame could absorb any kind of effect.
"This... he has an Innate Yang Body!?" She suddenly exclaimed as she saw her Nihility Flame connecting with his body perfectly.
"Haah..."
A small, ragged breath came from his mouth in the form of smoke. Seeing this, Shen Huiying sighed in relief despite her shock, however, her eyes were more intense than ever.
If Long Yu, despite having an Innate Yang Body, was injured after getting away from her for just a few months, it would simply be better if he stood in a place where she could see him.
"Cough!!"
Long Yu's upper body rose as he suddenly started coughing. From his mouth, a bunch of frozen saliva fell to the ground disgustingly.
"Haugh...!" He quickly took a deep breath.
"Haaah..."
He took a few minutes to calm down from his situation as tears trickled down his face.
'Fuck... It was more intense that I thought...'
'I actually almost died!' He screamed inwardly.
That was simply a suicide move.
[Well... but the benefits were much greater. Your foundation became more stable than ever, and you even unblocked all the remaining meridians in your body, not to mention how they widened even more!]
[Besides, now you did something that even Upper Heavens cultivators are scared of! You completely tempered all of your pressure points!]
[Now, your physical strength is even comparable to that of someone with strength-related physique.]
'Yeah, yeah... It was all thanks to my plan.'
[And my help on tempering your pressure points.]
'I still take all the credit.'
[...]
"Long Yu..." Shen Huiying suddenly approached Long Yu, and softly grasped his shoulders, looking at him with a dead-serious face.
"What?"
"You should join this Empress's sect."
"Uhh—WHAT!? Isn't your sect only for women!?" Long Yu stammered as his eyes widened in surprise.
That was the least thing he expected to come out of her mouth.
Gulp...!
Nonetheless, he suddenly swallowed hard as he saw Shen Huiying's eyes twirling around in a spiral.
She had the typical look of a yandere...
"Urgh..." He groaned in pain as he suddenly felt her increasing the strength in her hands.
"Look... this Empress is already being very forgiving. But, it's only been after a few months that you parted away from this Empress, and now this Empress meets you with this kind of injury!?"
"If this Empress didn't have this Nihility Flame that could especially absorb any kind of effect... you would be dead by now."
"Do you understand how dangerous it was!?" She looked deeply into his eyes.
Yet...
Despite her words, Long Yu simply uttered in a calm voice.
"Do you like me?"
"A-ah, w-what!?" Shen Huiying stammered in surprise, as she didn't expect those words to come out of his mouth.
"Do you like me?" Long Yu calmly repeated.
"No...?" Shen Huiying replied after clearing her thoughts.
She did not like him, however, he was hers. He stole her purity, and he couldn't simply escape from her because of that same fact.
"Then, why?"
"Why what?" She tilted her head in confusion.
Long Yu's eyes became empty at that moment.
"Why do you care?"
Shen Huiying was taken back by his words but still replied nonetheless.
"That's because you belong to this Empre—!?"
"Why?"
"What did I do to belong to you?"
He interrupted her immediately, not giving her a chance to talk, and before she could even open her mouth to talk, he continued.
"Don't say it's because I took your virginity. It was simply a coincidence that I was there at that moment. Besides, if you don't even like me, why don't you simply kill me?"
"Wouldn't it be better if I, the man who stole your 'purity', simply disappeared from the face of the world?"
"If I died, you wouldn't need to be preoccupied with me, no?"
"T-that's... because..."
Her mouth was open, but no words came out of it.
"I see... There's no reason whatsoever. Take this..."
Long Yu abruptly stood up and threw her the ring and the token that she had given him.
"Now... there's no reason for you to care about me."
"This is goodbye."
Long Yu simply walked off.
Shen Huiying, speechless, looked at his retracting back. She was very confused.
Shouldn't Long Yu thank her after he saved her?
He even sent her a message to help him, and if it wasn't for her, he would be dead by this moment.
But, why was he so bad?
She clearly only wanted him to be under her vision so she could protect him, even though she didn't express those words clearly.
"Ah... he's bleeding..."
Shen Huiying suddenly blurted out as she saw a faint path of blood coming from the direction Long Yu had walked.
To her, Long Yu was still injured...
And the guilt on her heart increased by a ton, even though she didn't know why.
