Su Jiu merely nodded once, then walked off to one side.
Xia Jue settled down to regulate his breathing alongside her.
Su Jiu had only just closed her eyes and had yet to enter meditative absorption when Xia Jue lifted her hand away from her knee.
Then her palm met a warm surface...
Su Jiu opened her eyes and looked at their joined palms, a flicker of surprise crossing her gaze. "Senior Brother?"
She remembered that their spirit roots were completely different. Would regulating their breathing like this cause problems?
As though sensing the worry in Su Jiu's eyes, Xia Jue gave a soft chuckle. He offered no explanation, only saying, "Do you think I would do something I wasn't confident about?"
Su Jiu fell silent. She had long known that Xia Jue harbored many secrets, but she also knew that unless her Senior Brother spoke of them himself, no one would ever uncover them.
Feeling the spiritual qi begin to circulate slowly within her, Su Jiu thought she might already have glimpsed a corner of her Senior Brother's secrets.
Or rather, a corner he had deliberately revealed to her.
As her thoughts wandered, that gentle voice sounded beside Su Jiu's ear again. "Little Junior Sister, I can't accomplish this through my efforts alone. I need your cooperation too."
Realizing that she had let her mind wander and that her Senior Brother had caught her red-handed, Su Jiu felt blood rush to her face. She hurriedly reined in her straying thoughts and swiftly entered meditative absorption...
What Su Jiu did not know was that although she had entered meditative absorption, Xia Jue still had not closed his eyes.
Simply because he thought the blush on the young woman's face looked lovely...
Feng Qi turned his face aside, looking as though