Seeing Mo Lin in unbearable pain, his life force seemingly draining away rapidly, Yun Yun felt an unprecedented surge of anxiety.
Her delicate brows knitted tightly. After pondering for a moment, she clenched her teeth, seemingly having made up her mind.
She flashed behind Mo Lin and sat down cross-legged. Her jade-like hand slowly extended, gently pressing against his scorching back, which felt like a furnace.
However, the instant her palm touched Mo Lin's skin, an unexpected change occurred!
Mo Lin, who had been curled up and unconscious, seemed to sense the cool, comforting touch behind him, carrying a familiar presence. His body reacted instinctively.
Unconsciously and with great difficulty, he twisted his body. Like a young beast seeking shelter, he actually leaned back on his own, pressing his entire back tightly against Yun Yun's chest. His head tilted backward as well, weakly resting against her soft, supple breasts. His cheek even rubbed lightly against that warm softness without awareness, and he let out a muffled, satisfied murmur.
"Uh..." Yun Yun froze instantly! Her pretty face flushed scarlet in a flash, like a ripe apple, the redness spreading all the way to her ears and neck.
She had never imagined that Mo Lin, even while unconscious, would... would be so "clingy"!
Such intimate contact had far exceeded the limits of what she could accept.
Instinctively, she wanted to push him away. But when her palm touched his burning-hot skin and she sensed his faint, chaotic life force, the hand she had raised to push him away stopped abruptly.
He... he's unconscious. This is only an unconscious action... Saving him is what matters... Yun Yun desperately told herself, forcibly suppressing her embarrassment, anger, and that strange flutter in her heart.
She took a deep breath and tried her best to ignore the shocking sensation against her chest and the youth's scorching breath. She focused her mind inward.
Her vast, pure Wind Attribute Fighting Energy of a Dou Emperor flowed slowly into Mo Lin's meridians like a gentle stream, attempting to stabilize his turbulent aura first.
But the moment her Fighting Energy entered, it met fierce rejection!
That scorching energy was incomparably domineering, while the icy energy was terrifyingly pure. Her Wind Attribute Fighting Energy could not harmonize them at all and instead showed signs of intensifying their conflict!
"No! His energy attributes are too extreme! My Fighting Energy won't help him—it may even harm him!" Yun Yun hurriedly withdrew her Fighting Energy, her beautiful eyes filled with gravity and helplessness.
Seeing the youth in her arms suffering so badly, she was frantic with worry yet utterly powerless.
At that critical moment, Yun Yun's gaze inadvertently swept over Mo Lin's fist, clenched tightly in pain, and the clearly separated ice and fire energies within him. Yet they seemed to share some strange connection, as though they were about to merge into the same origin... A bold, nearly absurd thought flashed through her mind like lightning!
"Extreme Ice... extreme fire? No, this fire is not extreme, but that icy coldness... That's it! Could the cultivation technique he practices be related to balancing yin and yang?
Was he trying to forcibly fuse these two extreme energies, only to suffer backlash as a result?" As a Dou Emperor, Yun Yun possessed extraordinary knowledge and instantly considered a possibility.
She recalled the strange ice-attribute ability Mo Lin had displayed earlier, as well as the ice and fire energies within him now, struggling to collide and fuse... A risky idea surfaced in her mind.
"Since they cannot be harmonized from the outside, perhaps... they can be guided to generate each other internally?" A trace of determination flashed through Yun Yun's eyes.
She pressed her jade-like hand against Mo Lin's back once more. This time, however, she did not inject her own Fighting Energy. Instead, she condensed her powerful Spiritual Power into threads and carefully extended them into Mo Lin's utterly chaotic meridians. Like the most precise guide, she began trying to direct those two violent energies.
Her Spiritual Power gently wrapped around a tiny stream of scorching energy and guided it toward another, relatively calm stream of icy energy.
The process was extremely dangerous. The slightest mistake could trigger an even more violent explosion.
Fine beads of sweat appeared on Yun Yun's smooth forehead. She concentrated completely, not daring to be distracted in the slightest.
Miraculously, under her meticulous guidance, the two energies that had originally been as incompatible as fire and water still repelled each other upon contact, yet they did not explode immediately. Instead, a strange process of annihilation and rebirth occurred.
Within the gaps left by annihilation, an exceedingly faint yet vibrantly life-filled strange energy was born!
This thread of energy was pure, balanced, and peaceful, as though it contained the mysteries of the world at its beginning!
Yin and yang complement each other, giving birth to all things... Could this... be the legendary... A storm surged through Yun Yun's heart. She seemed to have touched the edge of some supreme law.
Suppressing her shock, she continued carefully guiding more ice and fire energy into this dangerous "contact."
As strands of newborn energy emerged, the violent conflict within Mo Lin's body actually began to subside slowly.
Though weak, the newborn energy seemed to possess miraculous soothing and harmonizing effects. Wherever it passed, his damaged meridians began to be nourished and repaired, while the violent energies gradually became docile.
Mo Lin's scorching body temperature began to drop. His pain-wracked, curled-up body slowly relaxed, and his breathing became steady and deep. Even his posture against her chest became more "comfortable," his cheek unconsciously rubbing against the softness before her chest as he sought out an even more comfortable spot.
Yun Yun: "..."
The blush on her pretty face had only just faded somewhat, but now it surged back once more, accompanied by a helpless, bitter smile. This fellow still didn't forget to take advantage of her even while unconscious!
But she had no time to care about that now, because she had also gained immense benefits from this guidance.
Although the threads of newborn yin-yang energy mostly merged into Mo Lin's body, the faint aura that escaped and entered her body actually caused the cultivation bottleneck that had stalled her for so long to show signs of loosening! It was simply unbelievable!
Time quietly passed amid the tense guidance.
No one knew how long had passed. When the eastern sky began to pale, the ice and fire energies within Mo Lin finally reached a fragile balance. Most of the violent energy had been harmonized and absorbed by the newborn energy.
His complexion returned to normal, and his aura became steady. It was even more solid and powerful than before. Clearly, he had gained a blessing from disaster, his cultivation advancing once again as he directly broke through to Peak Five-Star Dou Shi!
Yun Yun slowly withdrew her Spiritual Power and let out a long breath. Her breathtaking face showed a trace of exhaustion, but even more than that, an indescribable enlightenment and shock.
She lowered her head to look at the youth sleeping soundly in her arms, a satisfied smile even lingering at the corner of his lips. Her gaze was incomparably complicated.
Just how many secrets did this mysterious youth have hidden within him?
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