"Brother Leyin is quite the wit."
Brother Yan wore a fake smile. "Could there possibly be someone else named Qin Leyin?"
"True... I'm Qin Leyin now."
Le Yu rubbed his temples, casting all thoughts of poetry and distant lands to the back of his mind. He looked at them and asked, "What is it?"
The Shi family members exchanged glances. Though they had been righteously indignant just moments ago, now that the moment had arrived, they could not help feeling a little timid. Only Brother Yan draped an arm around Le Yu's shoulder and asked warmly, "Are you feeling better, Brother Leyin? I heard you were unconscious and had to be carried onto the ship this morning."
"Much better, thank you for asking," Le Yu said. "Just some lingering weakness in my limbs. A few hours of sleep and I'll recover."
Le Yu only remembered drinking Jing Zhengwei's blood until he became dazed and passed out. By the time he regained consciousness, he was already lying aboard the Shi family's ship, staring at an unfamiliar ceiling.
At first, he had thought Jing Zhengwei's blood was poisonous. He had wondered whether the Qin Ri Qi Harmony Combat Arts had such a side effect—that breaking one's virginity could somehow contaminate the blood, and that it just happened to completely counter Qin Leyin, the vampire... But once his mind had cleared a little, he remembered that this was a side effect of the Heart of Nayser.
The genuine Heart of Nayser was, of course, a flawless Illusionary Divine Weapon. But as a copy, the disposable Heart of Nayser used by Qin Leyin not only required ten full minutes to activate, but after the 'all skills level +1' buff vanished, its user would fall into a state of absolute weakness, with their stamina and