The valley was deep and secluded, with a naturally formed stone cave standing quietly within it.
Lin Feng led Qiong Xiao to the cave entrance, then casually stopped without entering immediately.
Qiong Xiao's heart was in turmoil. She had no idea how this mysterious and powerful master intended to heal her, and her heart nearly leaped into her throat.
Just as her thoughts began to run wild, Lin Feng, who was walking ahead, suddenly moved.
He did not take out any formation flags or formation plates. There was not even a trace of Mana Fluctuation.
Lin Feng merely raised his right hand casually and gave the empty cave entrance a light wave.
As though he were brushing away an annoying fly.
Buzz!
An invisible ripple spread instantly outward from his palm.
The void seemed to turn into a water mirror, rippling with layer after layer of profoundly mysterious waves before returning to calm, as if nothing had happened.
Yet Qiong Xiao, following behind him, widened her cool, beautiful eyes in an instant. Her rosy lips parted slightly, and she froze in place as though immobilized by a spell.
As a master of formations, she could clearly sense that in that brief instant, an unimaginably complex and incomprehensibly profound grand formation had completely enveloped the entire cave.
The formation isolated the inside from the outside and concealed the Heavenly Secrets. Its intricacy was a hundred times more unfathomable than the Mountain Protecting Great Formation personally laid down by her master, Sect Master Tongtian, around Biyou Palace!
Th-this was another formation created with a single thought?
Qiong Xiao's heart clenched violently. As she looked at Lin Feng's back, her reverence was joined by an indescribable fervor.
With a casual wave, he had created a defensive formation at the level of a Saint.
Just how many heaven-defying methods was this master still hiding?
Having finished all this, Lin Feng acted as though he had merely done something insignificant. He walked directly into the cave, found a clean stone platform, and sat down cross-legged.
The cave was somewhat dim, yet exceptionally dry and clean.
Lin Feng did not turn around. He merely patted the ground before him, his calm voice ringing out.
"Sit here."
Qiong Xiao's delicate body trembled, and she instinctively looked up.
In the darkness, Lin Feng's figure appeared somewhat indistinct, but his unquestionable presence was utterly clear.
She lightly bit her lower lip. Her heart was in chaos, and her cheeks were heating up, but her feet still obediently shuffled forward.
"Face away from me. Focus your mind and calm your breath. Do not resist in any way." Lin Feng's voice came again, still carrying that placid, indifferent tone.
F-face away from him?
Qiong Xiao's mind buzzed. The blush that had only recently faded from her face surged back at once, hotter than ever before.
This position...
A man and a woman alone in the same room, and he was going to heal her in such an intimate posture?
Qiong Xiao's heart pounded like a drum as countless messy thoughts flashed through her mind.
But she did not dare disobey her master's orders.
In the end, all her shyness and panic became a nearly inaudible soft hum.
She walked before Lin Feng, slowly turned around, and carefully sat down as instructed, almost in a kneeling posture.
As she moved, her snow-white immortal dress spread across the ground, further accentuating the graceful curves of her back, like a breathtaking mountain range.
Her snow-white neck, smooth fragrant shoulders, and the butterfly bones faintly visible beneath her thin immortal robes formed a sight enough to make any man's blood boil.
Even the air in the cave seemed to thicken at that moment.
Qiong Xiao was so nervous that her breathing nearly stopped. She could clearly feel the gaze behind her, as though it carried tangible heat, resting on her back and making her whole body feel uneasy.
Just as she was about to be unable to endure this torment, Lin Feng finally made his next move.
He extended both hands without the slightest hesitation and gently pressed them against Qiong Xiao's jade-smooth back.
"Mm!"
Through the thin layer of her immortal robes, those warm, broad hands carried a pure masculine presence that passed through without obstruction.
Qiong Xiao's body instantly tensed, like a startled kitten, every hair on her body standing on end.
A strange electric current exploded from where his palms touched her, racing up her spine and straight to the crown of her head, leaving her mind blank in an instant.
That feeling... was unlike anything she had ever experienced.
It filled her with unbearable shame, yet she could not summon even the slightest desire to flee.
He could feel the warmth and softness of the skin beneath his palms, even the frantic pounding of the fairy's heart before him.
Yet Lin Feng's expression did not ripple in the slightest. With a thought, he gave the system an order in his mind.
"System, choose Repair Dao Foundation."
"Ding! Confirm spending 500 points to Repair Dao Foundation for maid [Qiong Xiao]. Confirm?"
"Confirm."
The moment the command was issued, an incomparably pure life energy, vast as the sea, surged wildly from Lin Feng's palms and instantly poured into Qiong Xiao's body.
Qiong Xiao was already in a state of extreme nervousness and embarrassment. When that immense energy suddenly rushed into her body, she was so startled that she nearly cried out.
She instinctively tried to circulate her power and resist, but Lin Feng's order of "do not resist" still echoed in her ears.
More importantly, although that energy was vast, it was incomparably gentle. Like a warm current in early spring, it carried not the slightest aggression. Instead, it possessed a merciful and mighty power that soothed all things.
Qiong Xiao forcibly suppressed her instinct to resist and allowed the warm current to flow through her limbs and bones, rushing toward her Dao Foundation, which was already covered in cracks.
She had already prepared herself to endure excruciating pain.
Repairing one's Dao Foundation was no different from scraping bone to treat poison. That kind of pain was beyond anything ordinary people could imagine.
Yet the expected agony never came.
That gentle life energy was like the softest spring rain, silently nourishing her dry, shattered origin.
The spiderweb-like cracks did not widen under the cleansing energy. Instead, they began healing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The Dao markings upon her Dao Foundation, once dim and lifeless, began to shine brilliantly once more.
Throughout the entire process, there was not the slightest pain.
What replaced it was an indescribable sense of comfort.
It was as though she had soaked in a warm spring in the depths of winter, as though a traveler lost in the desert had taken a deep drink from a sweet, clear spring.
That comfort rising from the depths of her origin gradually relaxed Qiong Xiao's tightly tensed body.
Even her soul seemed as though it would melt within that warm current.
Her previously pale face gradually took on a healthy flush.
Overwhelmed by the extreme comfort, her tightly clenched teeth loosened, and the corners of her lips unconsciously curved upward into a satisfied smile.
That life energy continued pouring into her without end, repairing every hidden injury within her body and replenishing every shred of vitality she had lost.
This feeling was simply too wonderful.
So wonderful that she nearly forgot where she was, forgot that a man was pressed against her from behind.
Her consciousness gradually became hazy, and an uncontrollable, strange sensation suddenly surged up from deep in her throat.
"Mm~"
A soft, melodious moan, carrying a hint of laziness and satisfaction, slipped uncontrollably from Qiong Xiao's lips.
It was not loud, but in the silent cave, it sounded exceptionally clear.
The instant the moan escaped, Qiong Xiao's body stiffened sharply.
Her hazy consciousness, as though drenched by a bucket of cold water, instantly cleared.
She... what had she just done?
She had actually... made such an embarrassing sound in this situation?
Boom!
A rush of heat surged to her head. Qiong Xiao's entire face, along with her snow-white neck and crystalline earlobes, turned red as though they might drip blood.
She wished she could immediately find a crack in the ground and crawl into it!
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