Ultimate Detection Technique

"Qin Yi... isn't this... a little improper?"

The girl was shy, after all. In all her life, she had never been so intimate with any boy.

Although Qin Yi had stolen a kiss from her back at Emerald Bamboo Peak, now they were a man and woman alone in one room, under the same quilt, with her held in his arms.

Her cheeks burned like fire.

"Junior Sister Yiyi, don't be scared. We'll just hold each other like this. I promise I won't do anything." Qin Yi behaved himself, keeping his word about doing nothing.

He simply held her, perfectly well-behaved.

With a man's body warmth beside her, Gu Yiyi did not know whether the warmth gradually spreading through her body came from her racing heartbeat or Qin Yi's body heat.

In any case, she was much more comfortable than before.

After staying tense for a while, Gu Yiyi felt that he really was behaving himself and gradually let down her guard. "Qin Yi, why do you think it's suddenly snowing so heavily? It never snowed when we came here before. Sometimes it rained, but this mountain range should be warm and humid overall."

It was precisely because the Nine Turns Mountain Range was warm and humid that thick fog shrouded it year-round. That fog was also poisonous miasma, making it unsuitable to fly high overhead.

Rain was perfectly normal in a warm, humid environment, but hail like this was definitely abnormal.

Qin Yi chuckled inwardly, but said, "Who can say for sure how the weather will change?"

As soon as the thirty-five-second cooldown ended, he immediately activated Winter Has Arrived for the third time. Huge hailstones came clattering down from the sky again, burying the turtle-shell grotto-heaven beneath layer after layer.

"Heavens, it's still coming down! If it keeps going, won't we be buried alive in here by tomorrow?"

"Don't worry. Hail goes as quickly as it comes. It'll definitely have melted by tomorrow morning," Qin Yi said.

"Oh, I hope so."

Gu Yiyi nestled in his arms. Although she was warm now, she could not fall asleep with a man holding her like this.

Besides, the slightest movement from either of them brought their bodies into contact.

Gu Yiyi was a bundle of nerves. "Qin Yi... could you stop moving around?"

"Oh, all right."

Qin Yi smiled and obediently stayed still.

Meanwhile, feeling that the time was about right, he accepted the system's mission to steal Xu Xinran's affections.

His main purpose in accepting the mission now was to receive an advance on the divine skill, Hand of Nüwa.

[Host, you have chosen to accept the mission to win Xu Xinran's affection. Is that correct?]

"Yes."

[Mission accepted successfully. You have received a three-day advance blessing of the divine skill "Hand of Nüwa." Would you like to use it immediately?]

"Yes."

[All right. "Hand of Nüwa" has been issued. The trial period begins now. Time remaining: 55:59::59!]

The moment he read the system's notification, Qin Yi felt another spell appear in his mind!

-Hand of Nüwa!

(When this spell was cast, both hands became like Mother Earth, giving others a sense of closeness and comfort.)

It truly was a spell with profound implications!

Qin Yi immediately applied the spell to his right hand, then gently rested his palm around Gu Yiyi's shoulder.

"Mmm~"

In that instant, Gu Yiyi felt as though an electric current had passed through her body. An unprecedented tingling seemed to shoot from her jade-like feet straight to her brain.

"Qin Yi, I... feel so strange..."

"Where do you feel strange?"

"I... it's just... you... could you let go of me first?"

Qin Yi put on a concerned look. "Where do you feel uncomfortable? Let me take a look."

Gu Yiyi bit her lip. "I... I..."

She stammered for ages but could not summon the courage to say it, because that strange sensation was all over her body.

Seeing that she could not speak, Qin Yi smiled and kissed her cheek.

This time, unexpectedly, the girl did not refuse. She merely accepted it passively and nervously.

With that first step taken, Qin Yi naturally proceeded to the next.

After the next step came yet another.

And so, beneath the drifting wind and snow, warmth and sweetness filled the turtle-shell grotto-heaven.

An hour later,

the wind and snow gradually stopped.

Inside the turtle-shell grotto-heaven, Gu Yiyi hugged his arm and gazed at him, entranced. "Qin Yi, you're so bad! If my father finds out, he definitely won't let you off."

Qin Yi beamed at the affection score above the girl's head, which had already reached 100, and felt utterly satisfied.

Sure enough,

for a girl with relatively conservative, old-fashioned views, once he had her body, he basically had her whole heart as well.

With her affection at 100, Gu Yiyi would have room for only one man in her heart from now on: him.

"Didn't your father say he would betroth you to me? It was only a matter of time."

Qin Yi brushed aside the hair at her temple and kissed her forehead.

Sweetness filled the girl's heart.

"The snow has stopped."

"See, what did I tell you? Can you sleep without worrying now?"

"Mm."

They slept in each other's arms. By dawn, the ice and snow outside had indeed melted.

Gu Yiyi was still quite shy after waking. She asked Qin Yi to get up first, and only after he went outside did she hide beneath the quilt and put on her dress.

Once she came out, she tucked the turtle-shell grotto-heaven into her pocket.

The two exchanged a smile. This time, Gu Yiyi took the initiative to reach for his hand, and they continued searching for mission materials beside the stream, hand in hand.

While they searched, Qin Yi began calling the system.

He had been so tired last night that he had fallen asleep holding Gu Yiyi afterward.

But he had not forgotten the system's earlier promise: once he obtained 100 affection points from Gu Yiyi, it would give him a mysterious special reward.

Now, he called loudly to the system in his mind, demanding his reward.

The system's gentle, mature feminine voice wasted no time and said directly:

[Congratulations, Host, on successfully obtaining 100 affection points from Gu Yiyi and perfectly completing your first mission. You have been awarded an exclusive spell-"Ultimate Detection Technique." Would you like to accept it?]

Ultimate Detection Technique?

Qin Yi skimmed the description. Once he mastered this Ultimate Detection Technique, he only needed to think of anything, and as long as it was within a hundred li, casting the spell would definitely locate it.

Well now, just what I wanted, right when I wanted it.

With this Ultimate Detection Technique, wouldn't finding these materials be a piece of cake?

Delighted, he immediately chose to accept. The next second, just like Hand of Nüwa, the Ultimate Detection Technique was instantly imprinted in his mind, becoming an exclusive spell of his.