Seeing that something was wrong with Yu Ye's condition, Ji Qinglin had already been on guard.
Still, he had not expected Yu Ye to strike so decisively. Using the Intercept Cloud Step to close in before him, she slashed a hand blade straight at his face.
Just how much did this little brat hate him?
Ghostly afterimages flashed before him. Yu Ye's hand blade missed, yet it punched a gap straight through the living room's doorframe, making Ji Qinglin wince. "Fight if you want, but can we not tear down the house?"
Good thing he had already mastered the Layered Shadow Soul Chasing Step. Otherwise, that blow would have ruined his face.
What exactly was wrong with this little brat? Did she catch a virus? But the stuff Huaimin sold should not have had quality issues.
Ji Qinglin dodged the attack and retreated into the living room. As he pondered what was happening to Yu Ye, he looked down and saw the Technique Storage Devices he had bought tossed onto the sofa. They even appeared to have been opened.
"Tch. Yu Ye, don't tell me you recorded all of them into your body in one go?"
Hearing her Master's voice come from behind her, Yu Ye still showed no sign of waking up. With the Gale Step beneath her feet, her figure blurred as she drifted lightly forward to attack again.
"Treading Snow to Seek Plum Blossoms. You really think highly of your Master."
Precisely because he had been unable to install these techniques before, Ji Qinglin had studied the basic capabilities of most of them to some extent for self-preservation.
Treading Snow Thousand Sails Step—one step, red plum blossoms fall.
Knowing that the Gale Step beforehand was only meant to close the distance, while the final kick was the charged killing move, Ji Qinglin pulled out the Positioning Restraint Device's remote. He hesitated for a moment but ultimately did not press it. Instead, he raised both arms and moved them before himself, black and white glimmers gathering to shield him.
Thud—
The irrational Yu Ye indeed did not change her move. Her all-in kick landed squarely on the Taiji Diagram over Ji Qinglin's chest, yet it felt as though she had kicked into a pond.
Not only was there no point of leverage, the force gathered in her foot also vanished without a trace. Seizing the moment, Ji Qinglin grabbed Yu Ye's missed calf and stepped back. Yu Ye's airborne body immediately lost its balance.
Smack—
Seizing the opportunity, Ji Qinglin grabbed Yu Ye's upturned backside with his other hand and used both arms to press her straight onto the sofa.
That alone naturally could not restrain Yu Ye, but Ji Qinglin had basically confirmed what was wrong with her. As he pinned her beneath him, he immediately took out the Nerve Inhibitor from the drawer.
Before Yu Ye's Meridian Severing Seal could hit him, he pressed the Nerve Inhibitor onto her body first.
As the Nerve Inhibitor pierced her, Yu Ye's body finally went limp like a deflated balloon. All that soft, tender smoothness, wrapped in her thin shirt, collapsed into Ji Qinglin's embrace.
Ji Qinglin let out a long breath. Looks like I guessed right. He gently patted Yu Ye, who had lost consciousness on top of him for the second time, and complained, "You really are bold. Recording so many techniques at once—weren't you afraid your meridians would burst?"
The body and meridians had to be able to hold the installed techniques, just as a computer's memory had to hold the games it downloaded. Otherwise, they could not run properly.
By installing techniques gradually and step by step, the meridians' carrying capacity could rise along with them. But if one pushed too hard, it would exceed the meridians' limit. Quite a few Qi Practitioners had suffered Cultivation Deviation or become cyber lunatics because of this.
The Nerve Inhibitor was like a painkiller. It could temporarily cut off the pain caused by the meridian impact, but it only treated the symptoms, not the root cause. The problem had not actually been resolved.
Holding Yu Ye in his arms, Ji Qinglin saw her willow-leaf brows still slightly furrowed and her silver teeth lightly biting together. It seemed the pain had only been partially relieved.
He could send her to a clinic to export the excess data from her meridians, but it was too far away. Besides, after using the Yin Yang Polarization Hand to dispel Treading Snow to Seek Plum Blossoms for the first time, Ji Qinglin's understanding of the move had deepened considerably.
If the data released from the meridians could be dissolved, then the data stored within them should be dissolvable too, right?
With that thought, Ji Qinglin reached out and pulled open Yu Ye's thin collar, exposing her fair neck and rounded shoulder. Her skin was pale and tender as jade beneath the light.
Only half a beauty's shoulder was revealed, yet because she was still unconscious, her loosened clothes clung weakly to her body, making her seem even more like a seductive fox spirit enticing him.
Ji Qinglin steadied himself, turned Yu Ye over, quickly removed her thin shirt, and laid her face-down on the sofa, exposing her fair, smooth back.
Such a lovely back—what a waste not to carve "I love my Master" onto it.
So in those martial arts dramas from the Old Era, whenever they treated a woman's injuries, they stripped her clothes. So this was where the fun lay.
Knowing that Yu Ye was still in pain, Ji Qinglin did not dwell on it. Using the Yin Yang Polarization Hand's technique, he gathered two streams of data in his palms. His hands, glowing with black and white light, gently pressed and kneaded Yu Ye's smooth back.
Yu Ye had not used a technique, and with his current cultivation, Divine Sense Observation could not yet see the data flowing through her internal meridians. However, he could see data constantly leaving his hands and canceling out against the outside world, proving that the Polarization Hand was taking effect.
After massaging her for a while, he lowered his head to look at Yu Ye again. Her tightly furrowed brows had relaxed, her breathing had grown much softer, and her pearly teeth had loosened. He could even vaguely see glistening drool about to spill out.
"I took in a disciple hoping to enjoy some peace and comfort. Yet not only do you refuse to attend to your Master, I have to give you a massage instead? Your Master really wants to give you one palm—sigh, forget it. Your back is quite pretty."
Ji Qinglin muttered boredly to himself. After pressing and kneading for over ten minutes, a moan finally came from beneath him. "Ah~"
"How was it? My technique wasn't bad, right?"
"Mm? Mm."
Yu Ye had only just woken up. Her instinctive reply was relaxed yet somewhat perfunctory, but she quickly sensed that something was wrong.
Upon hearing it was her Master's voice, she tried to rise, only to discover that her upper body was completely bare. She immediately dropped back onto the sofa.
Ji Qinglin picked up a piece of clothing and handed it to Yu Ye. Yu Ye hurriedly grabbed it and covered her snow-white, delicate body. "Master! Why are you here?"
With helpless patience, Ji Qinglin described what had just happened to Yu Ye. When he finished, he snorted coldly.
"You still have the nerve to ask why your Master was here? Good heavens, first the Intercept Cloud Step, then Treading Snow to Seek Plum Blossoms. If you wanted to deceive your Master and destroy your ancestors, you should have said so earlier. Your Master would have handed the position over to you directly. Why go through all this trouble?"
Caw caw—
The Coal Boss also flew back and flapped its wings as it cried a few times, as if saying that it had been scared to death just now.
After putting on her clothes, Yu Ye scratched her head awkwardly. From time to time, she furtively glanced at Ji Qinglin, her eyes full of guilt.
Yu Ye: It was all your fault. You insisted on bragging that if we recorded everything in, each of us could practice half and achieve twice the result with half the effort.
Crazy Night: Who knew your body was so weak? Besides, you didn't see it just now—your Master looked pretty cool taking that move of yours.
Yu Ye: You still have the nerve to say that! This is already my second failed attempt at attacking Master.
"Your disciple only wanted to master these techniques as soon as possible."
"The good news is that you mastered them. The bad news is that you went crazy. What use is that? Even Grade A Meridians can't withstand you abusing them like this. You don't need to worry about the Cultivation Grand Competition. Even if you just stand still then, your Master has a way to get you into the top sixteen."
Yu Ye knew that her Master clearly valued her more than he valued the rankings. She nodded, then, for once, obediently stepped forward and began kneading Ji Qinglin's shoulders.
"Your disciple knows her mistake. I think I heard you complain just now that your disciple never attends to you. I'll massage you twice as much to make up for it, all right?"
"Enough. Your meridians have only just recovered, so move less. You never attend to me normally, and now you're putting on an act. You worked up a sweat training, so hurry and take a bath first."
Seeing that her master insisted, Yu Ye could only give up. She put on her clothes and walked out of the living room, wiped the fragrant sweat from her forehead, and entered the bathroom with satisfaction, leaving the exhausted man lying alone on the sofa to rest.
The time for Master and disciple training had temporarily come to an end. Next, it was time to put their abilities to good use. Characters would take the stage one after another, so I hope everyone would support it.
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