Tang San's Helplessness?! Liu Erlong's Contribution!

Inside the shield, Gu Qing's consciousness became hazy and feverish under the violent impact of his Bloodline Power.

He felt the soft body behind him pressed tightly against his back. Reason told him he should not lose control at a time like this, but his body's instincts had already overwhelmed everything else.

Gu Qing wrapped an arm around Liu Erlong's waist and pulled her from behind him to his front.

Before Liu Erlong could react, Gu Qing had pinned her against the edge of the shield.

Her phoenix eyes widened slightly, and her lips moved as if she wanted to say something, but Gu Qing gave her no chance to speak.

Gu Qing's movements were forceful and direct. His body radiated scorching heat from the Gold-Grade awakening as his hand slipped beneath the hem of her soaked combat uniform and traced its way up her smooth back.

Liu Erlong's breathing instantly became uneven.

She instinctively tried to push him away, but the moment her hand touched his chest, that scorching Bloodline Power surged into her body along her arm.

Liu Erlong's body involuntarily went limp, and a suppressed moan escaped her lips.

Gu Qing's reason told him he should stop, but his body's instincts had completely taken control.

He lowered his head and kissed Liu Erlong's collarbone, his hand tightening around her waist.

Liu Erlong's body trembled slightly in Gu Qing's embrace. Her long legs wrapped around his waist, and beneath her drenched clothes, her skin was scorching hot.

The surging golden-red radiance within the Blood Essence Shield cast their figures in shifting light and shadow.

Liu Erlong only felt as though her entire body had been wrapped in a scorching blaze, both painful and blissful. Wave after wave of heat shattered her consciousness.

She had lived for over thirty years, yet had never experienced anything like this. Her voice went from restrained to uncontrolled, finally turning into broken gasps and moans!

Her Fire Dragon martial soul began circulating on its own within her body, greedily absorbing the Mystic Jade blood essence overflowing from Gu Qing. Every strand caused subtle changes in her martial soul.

Faint golden patterns emerged across the Fire Dragon's originally crimson scales. Its horns grew thicker, its wings wider, and its body expanded by an entire size.

After an unknown amount of time, the commotion within the shield gradually subsided.

Liu Erlong leaned against Gu Qing's chest, limp as mud and already half-conscious. A lingering flush remained on her cheeks, but a satisfied curve still rested on her lips.

Meanwhile, Gu Qing's consciousness remained immersed in the final wave of tempering from his Gold-Grade awakening, and the golden light around his body slowly receded.

Outside the shield, the two-colored cocoon surrounding Tang San at the center of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well had long begun to crack.

Icy-blue fissures first spread from the cocoon's left side, followed by crimson cracks exploding across its right. Then, in an instant, the entire cocoon burst into fragments, and Tang San shot out from within.

A wisp of reddish-gold flame burned deep within her left eye, while an icy-blue snowflake condensed in the depths of her right eye.

Tang San raised her right hand, and Blue Silver Grass spread from her palm. Flames burned and ice crystals formed simultaneously along its vines, the utterly opposing powers of ice and fire existing harmoniously upon them.

But when her gaze landed on that reddish-gold shield, her brows furrowed.

She could not see through this shield!

At Purple Demon Eye's current realm, she could only discern two intertwining auras inside the shield. One belonged to Gu Qing's Mystic Jade blood essence, while the other carried the aura of a Fire Dragon. It was clearly Liu Erlong.

She could not make out any further details!

Tang San gritted her teeth and swept her gaze across the poolside, where it settled upon an immortal herb that was snow-white all over, its petals covered in glistening droplets of dew.

Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew!

She had seen records of it in ancient Tang Sect texts from her previous life. Consuming it could greatly enhance one's vision, and it was the key immortal herb for breaking through Purple Demon Eye's bottleneck.

Tang San did not hesitate. She walked over, plucked the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, and placed it in her mouth. The herb melted as soon as it entered, turning into a cool liquid that surged toward her eyes.

She sat cross-legged and pushed Purple Demon Eye to its limit. The violet light in her eyes grew denser and brighter, until a brilliant violet-gold radiance finally burst forth from the depths of her pupils.

Mustard Seed Realm, breakthrough.

Tang San opened her eyes again. Violet-gold light flowed in the depths of her pupils as her gaze pierced through the layers of energy obstructing the reddish-gold shield, allowing her to see the scene within with perfect clarity.

Then her expression instantly darkened!

She saw Liu Erlong straddling Gu Qing, her hands looped around his neck, her fiery-red hair scattered over their entwined bodies.

Gu Qing's hands gripped her waist. Liu Erlong's body shook violently as Gu Qing guided her hips up and down again and again.

With every rise and fall, reddish-gold blood essence flowed into her body. That blood essence was slowly altering the fundamental structure of her Fire Dragon martial soul, making the originally violent Fire Dragon aura gentler and more solid.

At the same time, the rampaging pure-yang blood essence within Gu Qing's body gradually calmed. The beads of blood seeping from his skin slowly vanished, replaced by a more restrained and profound golden sheen.

Tang San's eyes widened round as an overwhelming, sour fury surged from her chest straight to her head.

She bit her lower lip, her nails digging bloody marks into her palms, and unconsciously muttered aloud:

"Bastard... I was clearly here first...

"I was the one who followed Brother Gu Qing all the way from Holy Soul Village to where we are now... I should have been the woman inside that Blood Essence Shield... Liu Erlong, what gives you the right?!"

"Ahhhhh!"

Tang San wanted to rush inside, but reason told her that interrupting Gu Qing's awakening tempering now would only make his blood essence run in reverse and damage his meridians.

She could only stand outside the shield and watch helplessly as a woman he had known for less than a day took the place she had guarded for six years.

The activity inside the shield continued for a long time. Tang San stood outside watching for just as long, every second feeling like a blade cutting across her heart.

The surging reddish-gold radiance inside the shield gradually settled, and the rampaging pure-yang blood essence around Gu Qing finally fully receded.

The luster of the Gold-Grade Mystic Jade Body slowly faded beneath his skin, replaced by a more restrained and profound jade-like hue, like a divine weapon tempered a thousand times and finally sheathed.

He looked down at Liu Erlong, who had already fallen half-unconscious in his arms. A satisfied curve still lingered on her lips, while the aura of her Fire Dragon martial soul underwent subtle changes.

Faint golden patterns appeared across the phantom crimson dragon scales. They were the early signs of a beneficial mutation brought about by absorbing his Mystic Jade blood essence.

Gu Qing picked Liu Erlong up in his arms, and under the command of his will, a gap opened in the reddish-gold Blood Essence Shield.

He stepped out of the shield and gently laid Liu Erlong on the stone platform beside the pool. Then he said to Tang San, who stood there with a face as dark as the bottom of a pot:

"Third Sister, help me take care of Teacher Erlong."

Tang San lowered her gaze to the unconscious Liu Erlong, then looked back up at Gu Qing.

She dearly wanted to lose her temper, to question him, to pour out all the grievances she had endured over the past six years.

But when Tang San saw the fleeting guilt in Gu Qing's eyes and the exhaustion still on his face from having just completed his awakening, the words at the tip of her tongue were swallowed back down.

What was the point of getting angry at Brother Gu Qing?

He had been suffering from rampaging blood essence at the time and could not control himself at all.

If anyone was to blame, it could only be Liu Erlong. She clearly knew Brother Gu Qing was mine, yet she still threw herself at him. Tang San took a deep breath, suppressing the bitterness and fury in her heart, and finally nodded.

Gu Qing leaped back into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and sat cross-legged at the junction between the ice spring and the fire spring.