Gu Yue's Fur Stands on End: What If the Dragon Queen Is Pregnant?

Tang Wulin felt a surge of soul power pour into his body.

It was warm, supple, and carried a seven-colored radiance as it slowly advanced along his meridians.

"While the medicinal effect still holds."

Lin An's voice came from above.

"Use all your strength to collide with my soul power."

Collide?

Tang Wulin jerked his head up.

That face, so exquisite it didn't seem real, was inches away.

There was no extra expression in those eyes, only an unquestionable certainty.

"This will hurt you—"

"It won't."

Lin An cut him off.

Tang Wulin gritted his teeth.

He closed his eyes, cast aside all distracting thoughts, and began to circulate his soul power with full force, slamming it fiercely against that seven-colored soul power.

Boom!

The two forces collided violently within his meridians.

Tang Wulin's entire body shuddered.

It hurt.

But it wasn't a tearing pain.

It was the pain of being tempered.

Like a piece of raw iron thrown into a furnace, enduring a thousand hammer blows.

Fine beads of sweat erupted from every pore on his body.

Mixed with grey-black impurities, the sweat streamed down his cheeks, arms, and back, only to be quickly washed away by the rainwater still dampening the ground.

Lin An was gasping for breath as well.

His constitution was naturally frail, and channeling his soul power into another person while enduring the impact consumed far more energy than he had imagined.

An unnatural flush rose on that exquisite face.

Sweat beads gathered at his temples, trickling down the clear curve of his cheek and dripping onto his already soaked collar.

Gu Yue stood three steps away, staring fixedly at that flush on Lin An's face.

Her throat bobbed, and she subconsciously licked her parched lips.

The surrounding students were already stunned into silence.

The sound of someone swallowing saliva seemed exceptionally clear in that moment.

Tang Wulin did not open his eyes.

But he could clearly perceive the earth-shaking changes occurring within him.

His soul power surged wildly through his meridians, spinning faster and becoming more condensed with every rotation.

The threshold of level twelve, which had blocked him for so long, trembled violently under the continuous scouring of the seven-colored soul light.

And then—

Crack.

Boom!

The gate shattered.

An unprecedented sense of power surged suddenly from his limbs and bones.

The quality of his soul power completed a leap at the very moment of the breakthrough.

He opened his eyes, looking at his own hands in shock.

Level twelve.

It wasn't a hollow level stacked up by pills.

It was a true level twelve, with a solid foundation and condensed soul power.

The surroundings fell into an even more bizarre silence.

"Level twelve?"

"Half a quarter of an hour... to go from level eleven to level twelve?"

"This is even more potent than pills? And without a digestion period?"

Someone pinched their own thigh hard, grimacing in pain.

It wasn't a dream.

Leaching off someone else's cultivation boost was one thing.

Directly helping someone break through a bottleneck was an entirely different matter.

This meant that Lin An could not only increase cultivation speed by thirty percent, but he could also assist in breaking through barriers.

The students who had been stuck at their bottlenecks for months, or even half a year, saw their gazes toward Lin An change in an instant.

Envy, jealousy, disdain... all of it faded away, replaced by a single emotion—

Desire.

Naked, unadulterated desire.

Lin An ignored the gazes that had suddenly turned scorching hot.

He was breathing heavily, the flush on his face had yet to fade, and sweat beads kept reappearing on his forehead as soon as he wiped them away.

He raised his hand and wiped the sweat from his chin with the back of his hand.

Then, he bent down and pulled another syringe from the metal box at his feet.

The needle tip glinted with a cold, sharp light.

"Wait—" Tang Wulin had just started to speak.

The needle had already been cleanly and decisively plunged into his arm.

"Hiss—"

Tang Wulin sucked in a sharp breath.

A life force even more ferocious than before exploded within his body.

His muscles tensed uncontrollably, and veins rose beneath his skin, knotted like dragons.

Lin An reached out with an expressionless face, his fingers resting lightly on Tang Wulin's wrist as he closed his eyes to carefully investigate.

Meridians intact.

Blood vessels intact.

Not even the slightest, most microscopic tear could be found.

The Dragon Blood Boiling Potion was refined from the juices of various dragon-attribute plant soul beasts and contained an immense amount of life essence.

However, its medicinal properties were extremely violent.

An ordinary soul master could gain massive vitality from a single injection, which could be used to repair injuries and increase their level.

The price was excruciating pain, the potential for torn meridians, or even death by bodily explosion.

Yet, Tang Wulin had taken two injections in a row, and his meridians didn't show even a single crack.

Lin An withdrew his hand, his expression remaining blank.

He silently made a note: Good reaction. The dosage can be doubled next time.

Tang Wulin was stared at by Lin An for a moment.

The residual medicinal power in his body resonated with his bloodline.

An uncontrollable, feverish heat surged from the deepest parts of his bone marrow, burning through his limbs and bones, rushing straight to the top of his head.

He hunched over abruptly, clutching the metal medicine box tightly against his knees, trying to hide his body's strange reaction.

His ears were burning bright red.

Even his neck was flushed with a crimson hue.

He gritted his teeth, his gaze darting away, not daring to look at Lin An for even a second.

The surrounding students' expressions also became subtle.

"This reaction... the Dragon Blood Grass really does seem to have that kind of effect," someone whispered in a low voice.

"It's said that Dragon Blood Grass is a plant soul beasts eat in large quantities during their mating season. After being brewed into a potion, that effect is even more potent..."

"Shh! Keep it down!"

The speaker quickly shut his mouth, though his eyes couldn't help but drift toward Lin An in the center of the field.

Under the sunlight following the rain, that face looked almost transparently pale.

A faint flush from his earlier heavy breathing still lingered on his cheeks.

His lips were slightly pursed, and his eyes held the focus of someone who had just finished a serious examination.

The student silently looked away, his Adam's apple bobbing involuntarily.

It wasn't Tang Wulin's fault.

It really wasn't.

If anyone were stared at by someone so beautiful, and had that person's soul power wandering through their body...

Who could possibly hold up?

Some even had a treasonous thought bloom in their minds—

If such a beautiful and noble young lady were willing to spare me a glance, I would gladly trade ten years of my life for it.

Lin An watched Tang Wulin's wretched, hunched-over posture and let out a sigh so faint it was nearly imperceptible.

As expected, those with roots have weaknesses.

To waste such blood energy on something like this just from taking medicine.

However, he didn't say much, merely bending down again to reach out and meticulously check the state of Tang Wulin's meridians.

Fortunately, it was fine.

There were no serious side effects.

It was merely a simple surge of blood energy.

Tang Wulin's face flushed an even deeper red.

Lin An's fingertips were slightly cool, and their contact with his scorching skin stirred up a fine layer of tremors.

He wanted to pull his hand back, but he didn't dare move.

He could only remain stiff in his hunched posture, his face etched with unspeakable shame.

Gu Yue finally reached her limit.

She lunged forward in a flash, yanking the person backward.

Those violet eyes looked down coldly at Tang Wulin, who was curled up on the ground.

Her gaze was like she was looking at a pile of non-recyclable trash.

Pathetic.

Absolutely pathetic.

It was just two medicinal injections.

It was just soul power entering his body to check his meridians.

And yet he was in such a state.

She hurriedly reached out to cover Lin An's eyes, terrified that her Dragon Queen might be defiled by even a single glance at such an unsightly scene.

Lin An, with his head covered by her, felt somewhat helpless.

He expressionlessly pried Gu Yue's fingers apart, revealing his two clear eyes.

He didn't look at Gu Yue; his gaze remained fixed on Tang Wulin as he casually tossed the entire box of medicine over.

The metal box traced a parabola through the air, landing steadily on Tang Wulin's knees.

"Recover well."

Lin An's voice was calm and ripple-free.

"Come to my dormitory tonight."

Tang Wulin looked up abruptly.

"Oh, right."

Lin An thought for a moment and added one more sentence.

His tone was as serious as if he were giving instructions on a matter of life and death.

"Calm your heart first."

"Although I believe you aren't that kind of person, I still advise you not to go to any brothels."

"Losing your virginity will be a massive obstacle to your cultivation in the future."

He was afraid that if Tang Wulin couldn't handle the medicinal potency, he might actually go off to indulge himself and waste all the blood essence he had worked so hard to accumulate.

Tang Wulin gripped the metal box on his knees, his knuckles turning white.

He looked up at Lin An.

The depths of the other man's eyes were clear to the bottom, devoid of any impure thoughts, containing only pure concern.

A sour yet scorching warm current surged up from the bottom of his heart, blocking his throat and rendering him unable to make a sound.

He could only nod forcefully.

"No!"

A sharp voice suddenly tore through the air.

Gu Yue's eyes widened, her silver hair nearly standing on end, and she looked like a ferocious beast that had just had its tail stepped on.

"I don't agree!"

"I absolutely do not agree!"

She grabbed Lin An's wrist, her fingers tightening until they were deathly pale, her voice trembling with agitation.

"It's one thing for you to help him improve his cultivation, but you cannot let him go to your dormitory!"

"What if things get out of hand?"

"What if..."

She choked on her words.

What if the Dragon Queen became pregnant?

The thought was stuck firmly in her throat.

If she said it out loud, she feared she would frighten Lin An.

If she kept it to herself, the pressure in her chest became stifling.

Especially now that she was certain the shadow of the Sea God Tang San loomed behind them, she could not possibly feel at ease leaving the two of them alone.