Innate True Qi

Ye Feng returned from his thoughts to reality. Turning his head, he saw Tina lying there, the long, pale wound on her body still trickling with blood. Ye Feng reached out with his right hand and felt her heartbeat. Tina's heart was beating extremely slowly. At this rate, if she wasn't treated soon, she would die!

Ye Feng hurriedly lifted Tina from the bed and propped her against the wall. He sat cross-legged before her, circulating the pure true qi of the Nine Yang Manual within his body before slowly extending his hand and transferring it into Tina.

Ever since Ye Feng had cultivated the Nine Yang Manual to its fourth level, "Endless Rebirth," years of training had refined all of his internal energy to a point that only ancient martial artists could reach after attaining a certain realm. Only then could internal energy be transformed into the legendary "innate true qi." This required profound cultivation and at least twenty years of practice before it could possibly be converted into such innate true qi.

Tina, who was deeply unconscious, was infused with Ye Feng's pure innate true qi. Although she did not awaken, her heart began beating faster than before.

Seeing this, Ye Feng increased the flow of innate true qi and softly said, "Sigh, I suppose this is what I owe you."

After saying that, he continued pouring pure innate true qi into her body. Once he had finally saved her, Ye Feng collapsed directly onto the bed. He had transferred too much true qi and was now at his weakest; even an ordinary person with a knife could kill him.

However, Ye Feng still forced himself up from the bed, because the treatment was not yet complete. There were still those two bite marks on her neck.

Half an hour later, with dawn approaching, Ye Feng finally used the Blood-Blood Fruit's ability to heal the bite marks on her neck.

Ye Feng weakly got up and pressed his right hand against the center of Tina's forehead. With a thought from Ye Feng, many strange runes appeared on his right hand and entered Tina's mind, sealing away all of her memories from that night.

After finishing everything, Ye Feng secretly thought, This must never happen again. Then he picked up his luggage and the sword leaning by the door, opened it, and walked out.

Ye Feng stood on the deck of the Marine warship, turning to look at the sun about to rise in the east. Just as he prepared to use Wind God Leg to leap onto the roof of the ship, he suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood and fell backward.

Ye Feng hurriedly drove his sword into the deck with his right hand, dropping to one knee as he clutched his chest with his left hand. He cursed under his breath, "Damn it! I can't even circulate my internal energy."

Ye Feng rose to his feet and slowly walked toward the stairs on the ship. He climbed all the way to the roof, sat down cross-legged, planted his sword beside him, and hurriedly began circulating the Nine Yang Manual.

Three hours later, the sky was completely bright. Ye Feng slowly opened his eyes and stopped cultivating, exhaling a stream of turbid air. He opened his mouth and softly said, "I've finally recovered twenty percent. I hope nothing happens over the next few days."

Smoker got up early that morning and saw Ye Feng on top of the cabin. He asked strangely, "Ye Feng, what are you doing up there?"

After hearing Smoker's words, Ye Feng picked up the sword that had been embedded in the deck beside him, stood up, and leaped down onto the deck.

With a completely expressionless face, he said to Smoker, "Nothing," before walking toward the cabin.

Just as Ye Feng was about to open the cabin door, it was opened from inside by a pink-haired woman.

The moment Ye Feng saw her, his pupils contracted, but they quickly returned to normal. He greeted the woman, "Good morning."

Tina saw the young man standing before her greeting her and politely replied, "Good morning." After that, she walked straight past Ye Feng to Smoker and asked, "Tina wants to know, how many more days until we reach the Marine base?"

With a cigar in his mouth, Smoker said to Tina, "At most one more day, and we'll reach Marineford." Then he looked at her again and asked, "Is something wrong? Why are you in such a hurry to get back?"

When Tina heard Smoker say that they would reach Marineford in one day, she nodded and said, "I don't know either. I was perfectly fine yesterday, but when I woke up this morning, I felt as though all the blood in my body had been drained. And my head hurts terribly too." As she spoke, she rubbed her head.

After hearing Tina's words, Smoker looked at her with concern and said, "Are you all right? I remember this warship has a ship doctor. Do you want to go have a look first?"

Tina shook her head and said to Smoker, "I just asked around. They said the ship's doctor took leave a few days ago."

After listening to their conversation, Ye Feng, who was standing by the door, walked toward another empty room in the cabin.

Opening the door, Ye Feng walked in, tossed his belongings aside, and threw himself onto the bed. He secretly thought, Heh. I didn't expect Tina to absorb my pure innate true qi and have her physique transformed.