You are all my wings

"What you truly need to think about first isn't how to strengthen your advantages, nor how to make up for your weaknesses."

"It's how to keep your weaknesses from being caught by the enemy, and how to use your advantages to create even greater advantages."

"Just like I said back in the plaza, what a support-type soul master should learn most isn't how to run away, but how to avoid ending up with no choice but to run."

"Yu Feng, you and Shi Mo should use today to think about how your martial soul traits can be combined with a mimicry cultivation environment."

"Tomorrow, I'll tell you your training plan."

The way Yu Feng and Shi Mo looked at Xia Yuan had completely changed.

At first, they had chosen Xia Yuan only because they had seen him break down the flaws in the Qin Ming Running Training Method.

But they had never expected Xia Yuan's "real ability" to be this real.

Just having Shi Mo change his cultivation environment was something no one had ever suggested to him before.

The two took their leave from Xia Yuan, and only Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling remained in the pavilion.

Xia Yuan looked at Dugu Yan and asked, "Dugu..."

"Just call me Yan Yan," Dugu Yan suddenly said. "It feels strange hearing you address me so distantly all the time."

"Uh..." The sudden change of address left Xia Yuan a little unused to it, so he simply skipped past it for the moment.

"Has Senior Dugu found a soul bone for you?"

Dugu Yan had already learned from Dugu Bo that her martial soul had a flaw.

She shook her head. "How could a soul bone be something so easily obtained?"

"I see..." Xia Yuan fell into thought.

The poison of Dugu Yan's martial soul had to have a vessel to contain it.

And Dugu Bo's Poison Core method clearly would not work. Otherwise, he would have passed it on to Dugu Yan long ago.

Xia Yuan could also use a drop of his own blood as a catalyst to dissolve the toxins in Dugu Yan's body, just as he had done to cure Dugu Bo's poison.

But if he did that, it would create the same problem as directly giving Dugu Bo the ice and fire immortal herbs to eat.

Dugu Bo still had a soul bone to guide the toxins.

But if Dugu Yan did it directly, then while the toxins were dissolved, her own poison arts would also be dissolved along with them.

After quite a while, Xia Yuan finally looked at the two of them. "Your martial souls are rather special."

"Lingling, no matter what soul ring your martial soul absorbs, your soul skill will always be area-wide group healing. The life attribute is the most important thing."

"So, you'll cultivate together with me."

"Wait," Dugu Yan suddenly raised her hand. "Why does Lingling have to cultivate with you?"

Xia Yuan said, "Because my martial soul also possesses the life attribute."

Ye Lingling's eyes lit up.

So Xia Yuan's martial soul had the life attribute too. No wonder that even though it was only a mutated Blue Silver Grass, it could still trigger a reaction from her Nine Heart Begonia martial soul.

"All right, I understand." Her voice was no longer as cool as it usually was, carrying a slight softness.

"What about me?" Dugu Yan pointed at herself. "You're not going to make me cultivate in some viper den, are you?"

"No." Xia Yuan shook his head. "You'll also cultivate together with me."

Ye Lingling looked at Xia Yuan, then lowered her head slightly, making it impossible to see her eyes.

Dugu Yan's face flushed. "I... I'll cultivate together with you too...?"

Xia Yuan said, "At least until Senior Dugu finds a suitable soul bone for you."

"This is what I promised Senior Dugu—to remove the poison of your martial soul."

"Huh?" Dugu Yan asked in confusion. "Then without a soul bone to guide the toxins, how are you going to cure the poison?"

"Very simple." Xia Yuan extended an arm. "When the time comes, you just guide the toxins into me."

"What?!" Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling both looked at Xia Yuan in shock at the same time.

"No!" The two of them rejected Xia Yuan's proposal at the same time as well.

Dugu Yan glanced at Ye Lingling, who had spoken in unison with her. The nervousness on Ye Lingling's face was visible to the naked eye.

But right now, Dugu Yan had no mind to care about that. Somewhat angrily, she said, "Don't say any more, Xia Yuan."

"I'd rather wait until Grandpa finds a suitable soul bone before curing the poison."

"Or I'll beg him to lower the requirements. It only needs to be a thousand-year... no, a hundred-year soul bone."

"Xia Yuan, you can't do this for me and..."

"What are you even imagining?" Xia Yuan's face was covered in black lines.

"Do you really think I'm that stupid, willing to risk my life just to do something like this?"

"Your toxins won't have the slightest effect on me. On the contrary, they'll be useful to me."

Although Xia Yuan had soaked in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well for a year, he had not fully absorbed and digested the medicinal power.

Drawing Dugu Yan's toxins into his own body was a method he had long since thought out.

If Dugu Yan already had a spirit bone, there would naturally be no need for this method.

But Dugu Bo had yet to find a suitable ten-thousand-year spirit bone for Dugu Yan, so this was the only way.

Drawing Dugu Yan's toxins into his own body was indeed beneficial to Xia Yuan.

Because the toxins not only would not harm him, they would instead stimulate the ice and fire immortal herbs' medicinal power inside him to be digested even further.

"So... the two of us will cultivate with you from now on?" Dugu Yan asked hesitantly.

"I'm willing," Ye Lingling suddenly said.

Dugu Yan: ...

"In short, we'll arrange it like this for now. Including Yu Feng and Shi Mo, all of you will first need to adapt for a week, and only after that will the real teaching and training begin."

As he spoke, Xia Yuan walked out of the pavilion.

"Come on. I'll take you to the place where you'll cultivate first."

At the foot of the mountain, inside a dense forest.

After bringing Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling here, Xia Yuan began to release his martial soul.

This place was rich with Blue Silver Grass. Only in a place like this could Xia Yuan's Blue Silver Emperor martial soul better display the characteristics of its life attribute.

At the same time, after Xia Yuan resonated with the Blue Silver Grass, the life energy in the environment became even denser, making it perfectly suited for Ye Lingling to sense and cultivate.

And as Xia Yuan released his martial soul and began resonating with the surrounding Blue Silver Grass, Ye Lingling also felt her own martial soul become extremely active.

She held out both hands, and a pink begonia flower appeared.

The petals, leaves, and vines slid down from both sides of Ye Lingling's palms.

At the same time, two yellow spirit rings also emerged from Ye Lingling's body.

As her martial soul appeared, Ye Lingling increasingly felt an incomparably powerful attraction beside her.

Almost instinctively, she lifted the Nine Heart Begonia in her hands.

A faint, peculiar fragrance spread through the air, and the Nine Heart Begonia also bloomed with white light, as though another layer of white petals had blossomed outside the flower.

"Hm?" Xia Yuan also sensed something unusual about Ye Lingling, but before he could investigate it, Ye Lingling directly hugged him.

Dugu Yan: !!!

The next moment, a pinkish-white radiance burst from Xia Yuan and Ye Lingling.

"Th-this couldn't be..." Dugu Yan stared somewhat dazedly at the two people enveloped in light.