One Sip, One Peck

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I'm here to save your life, and you still have the leisure to flirt with me? Who's the one who's about to die anyway?

You sent Ye Ling and the palace maids away, and I thought you had some secret to tell me, but it turns out you just wanted to flirt with a man.

Qin Yi considered himself quite adept at understanding women's hearts now, but he truly couldn't fathom what this demon was thinking. He could only say, "Why must Your Majesty tease me? If you truly cannot move on your own, then I'll let Ye Ling in..."

Cheng Cheng suddenly interrupted, "It's not like we haven't hugged before, what are you pretending for?"

Qin Yi's eyes remained fixed on him. "When did I ever hug you? Don't make baseless accusations..."

"When I rolled down the hillside."

"That's on my back!"

"Then carry me on your back."

Qin Yi was both annoyed and amused. He strode forward, leaned close to Cheng Cheng's face, and lifted her chin with his hand. "You're not a powerful demon king now, but a weak and powerless woman. Yet you still provoke me like this, aren't you afraid I'll...!"

But Cheng Cheng didn't care at all, letting him lift her chin, her tone becoming even more seductive. "I'll let you have your way, do you dare...?"

"I..." Qin Yi was furious. "Your main body is dying, and this divided soul is flickering like a candle, how can you still have the mood to flirt with men? As a demon king, don't you understand any sense of urgency?"

Chengcheng looked him straight in the eye with her Cheng Cheng peach blossom eyes and said slowly, "Actually... there's no hope. I know my condition. Dying with you before I die... wouldn't be such a bad thing."

"Nonsense, how would you know if you haven't seen it?" Qin Yi was too lazy to argue with her anymore, so he picked her up and asked, "Where is the real body?"

Cheng Cheng reached out and put her arms around his neck, quietly observing his sullen face. After a long while, she said, "Right here."

As the words were spoken, the soft tatami floor where the two were standing suddenly collapsed, but instead of falling down, a gentle current of air pulled them down slowly.

Qin Yi suppressed his initial urge to break free, shook his head, and held Cheng Cheng as they plummeted downwards.

The floor above closed again.

The pearl in the hidden passage below was warm and had a hazy glow. There seemed to be a faint smoke swirling in the space, and it smelled very good.

The air currents dragged the two of them down, creating a scene reminiscent of a classic movie scene where they embraced and fell in slow motion, all that was missing was a spin...

Cheng Cheng kept her arms around his neck, her beautiful eyes fixed on him, unblinking.

Qin Yi turned his head away, not looking at her.

He was starting to doubt his own self-control; if he continued this advance, he had a growing feeling that he might unleash his animalistic desires...

It's untimely, inappropriate, and shouldn't be done at all.

Finally, my feet touched solid ground.

This was a large, enclosed room, fully equipped with beds and curtains. In one corner of the room was a large bathtub, several meters in diameter, bubbling with steam as if groundwater were rising from it.

In another corner is Pill Furnace, with what appears to be a sealed Earth Fire at the bottom.

The terrain of this secret chamber seems quite interesting, with a sense of water and fire coexisting, and yin and yang rotating. The gauze curtain is in the very center, protected by the faint power of the earth's veins, and a very strict restriction can be felt around it.

"This is one of my several secret chambers. The Demon Power of the earth's veins here has a certain suppressive effect on my injuries, so I placed it here." Cheng Cheng in his arms said, "My main body is inside the tent, and the core of the surrounding restrictions is..."

She leaned in and gave her some pointers.

Qin Yi pursed his lips tightly and remained silent, pretending to be completely unaware, before striding forward and releasing the restriction.

The gauze curtains parted automatically, revealing a snow-white fox lying asleep on its side within the brocade quilt.

It's not a white fox, it's Chenghuang.

Qin Yi saw that on its back were extremely beautiful antlers, the interlaced patterns of which seemed to possess the mystery of the Great Dao.

This was the first time Qin Yi had seen Cheng Cheng's complete form. Her weak and dormant appearance showed no trace of the alluring queen she once was; she looked like a helpless little fox.

Completely unprepared, if he really wanted to take the Chenghuang Blood and refine the Demon King Pill, Chengcheng would have no power to resist at this Cheng Cheng.

They trusted him implicitly, as if they had entrusted everything to him.

Qin Yi then placed Cheng Cheng, whom he was holding, next to Chenghuang so they could lie down together. "You rest for a while, I want to see your true form."

"Hmm." Cheng Cheng lay quietly, her expression becoming solemn, and finally stopped teasing him.

She also knew that verbal descriptions of injuries were not as effective as Qin Yi's personal investigation.

Qin Yi stretched out his palm and placed it between Chenghuang's eyebrows.

The soul, weak and dormant, showed no signs of severe injury, though it seemed to have suffered an impact, which it withstood. The physical body, however, likely suffered more severe damage; since body and soul are one, the impacted soul eventually succumbed and was forced into hibernation.

Qin Yi breathed a slight sigh of relief. His soul hadn't suffered any severe damage, which would make things a little easier. All he needed were high-grade pills that could nourish the soul, something the Bai Kingdom's imperial palace probably already possessed.

Healing the soul is always very complicated. "Soul" and "spirit" are general terms; in reality, they are subdivided into "spirit," "soul," "spirit," and "physical essence," each distinct and extremely intricate. However, for treating only the physical body, the immortals have many methods, which gave Qin Yi more confidence.

Move your palm down.

Cheng Cheng next to her, blushed crimson.

Qin Yi glanced at her, still flirting with her, and even blushed while treating her illness...

He ignored Cheng Cheng and tried to probe with his Law Power and Divine Sense to fully sense the condition of Chenghuang's body.

The Cheng Cheng the Law Power touched its body, Chengcheng beside it let out a soft "yelp" and trembled.

Qin Yi realized what was happening. "If I touch it, will you receive a reaction?"

Cheng Cheng's voice was barely audible. "Because only my soul is awake right now, the connection between my two bodies hasn't been severed."

Qin Yi was speechless. He shook his head vigorously, forcing himself to act like a doctor using a stethoscope, and closed his eyes to sense the state of Chenghuang's body.

Upon closer inspection, he frowned.

What's causing this feeling of blood drying up... Is there something wrong with my body's blood supply system?

Qin Yi focused his attention on Chenghuang's heart.

The Great Demon of Myriad Manifestations' heart is no longer like that of an ordinary being; it is no longer fragile and easily damaged. In fact, it is quite energetic, possessing a subtle crystalline texture, and it is also beating, only at this moment the beating is extremely weak.

This crystallized, energetic, and normally very powerful cardiac supply system was now atrophied and dim, with almost no blood flow. If normal blood vessels flow like a stream, it was like a blocked sewer at this moment, with only a pitiful little bit of blood trickling out from the atrium, barely proving that this Chenghuang was still alive.

"What's going on? Heart Shattering Palm?" Qin Yi asked Liusu.

After a moment of silence, Liusu said calmly, "The Soaring Serpent's talent Divinities and Ghosts Terrified. The fact that its heart wasn't directly shattered is already a testament to Chenghuang's strong cultivation."

"Is it really Soaring Serpent?... Never mind, we'll deal with that later. What do we do with this one now?"

Liusu said, "It has lost all its lifeblood and its original power. Simply restoring its blood supply is not difficult, but at that time it may not be Chenghuang anymore. It may degenerate into an ordinary fox, and its cultivation and bloodline talent will be completely lost. To truly restore it, it needs its lifeblood as a guide, supplemented by suitable heavenly materials and earthly treasures, to refine the Heaven Vein Source Pill."

Qin Yi's expression became very strange.

He knew why Cheng Cheng thought there was no hope.

Where can I find other Chenghuang heart blood as a guide? There's nothing like it.

He had received it before, but everyone assumed that the pill had already been used up, so how could it still be kept? Of course, Cheng Cheng had not included the pill she had given him in her plans at all.

But who knew that he really didn't use it; he kept it in his arms the whole time.

One sip, one peck is preordained.