"Did you feel your whole body heating up and your heartbeat speeding up now?" Song Qingshu gave her a meaningful look.
Li Qingluo's heart sank. She had indeed felt that way, but she had assumed it was because his inner strength was too vast and she had not yet adjusted to absorbing it. She had not paid much attention to it, but hearing him put it that way, she realized there seemed to be something more to it.
"You poisoned me!" Li Qingluo was both shocked and furious. Before, she had not known, but now that he had pointed it out, the heat coursing through her body became increasingly unbearable. Images that made her blush uncontrollably even began surfacing in her mind.
"Poisoned you?" Song Qingshu laughed. Shaking his head, he said, "I'm not that despicable."
As the leader of a sect, Li Qingluo was widely knowledgeable and exceptionally intelligent. She quickly realized the crux of it. "Your qi..." She examined herself carefully and discovered that with every bit of his qi she absorbed, the heat inside her increased by another degree. She had never encountered such a thing in all her years of cultivating the North Darkness Divine Skill. Horrified, she hurriedly released his hand.
But how could Song Qingshu let her get her way so easily? He interlocked his fingers with hers and gripped her hand tightly. "Madam, you were touching me so happily just now. Why are you suddenly in such a hurry to leave?"
"Who touched you?" Li Qingluo tried to pull her hand back, but it would not budge. Ashamed and furious, she snapped, "Let go of me!"
She had never expected that after mastering the North Darkness Divine Skill, there would come a day when she herself would want to shake off someone whose