Yun Yun: Marry into My Family

The earthen wall slowly bulged inward and parted. A huge turtle head poked through first, and Yun Yun breathed a sigh of relief.

She recognized the turtle. It was the Earth Nether Rock Turtle under Lu Yuan's control, which meant Lu Yuan had returned, not that danger had arrived.

Once the Earth Nether Rock Turtle's enormous body had passed all the way through the opening, earth rose up and filled the gap completely, leaving it just as it had been before.

A figure in an earthy-yellow robe swung down from the turtle's back.

He tossed aside the robe, revealing a black fighting outfit underneath, and wore a faint smile. "Sister Yun Zhi, I'm back."

That face and that voice sent Yun Yun's heart, which had risen into her throat, plunging back into place.

At that moment, an indescribable sense of reassurance filled her, as though the oppressive cave had suddenly become easier to endure.

Lu Yuan had returned quickly. He hadn't abandoned her.

Once she relaxed, the strange sensation she had felt in her lower abdomen grew more and more pronounced.

Her expression changed slightly, and she instinctively tried to clamp her legs together, but even moving them was difficult.

Lu Yuan noticed the blush and discomfort on her face and stepped forward in concern. "Sister Yun Zhi, what's wrong?

"Is there another wound I haven't treated?

"Or do you have some other injury?"

"It's not... a wound." Yun Yun bit her lip, forcing the words out through her teeth.

It was an opening, but not a wound.

She closed her eyes, the roots of her ears burning, and uttered a few words in a voice so low it was almost inaudible.

"Nature calls!"

Lu Yuan froze for a moment, then realized what she meant. "So you need to... do that. Ahem, so, do you want me to help you take off your underpants?"

Lu Yuan thought it best to be direct, though his tone was still somewhat cautious.

Yun Yun didn't answer.

But her silence was already the best answer she could give.

Never in her life had she been so humiliated. She had to depend on someone else for even the most basic bodily need, and that someone was a young man she had known for less than a day.

She kept her eyes closed, her lips pressed into a thin line, hoping only that Lu Yuan would get on with it.

"All right, here I go, Sister Yun Zhi."

"You're still injured, so I'll be gentle. Bear with the pain."

Lu Yuan was indeed quick about it. He strode to Yun Yun's side, lifted the blanket off her and put it aside, then helped her pull down the necessary part of her underpants to her knees.

He did it quickly, without looking where he shouldn't.

Once he was done, he bent down, slipped one arm beneath Yun Yun's knees and supported her back with the other, lifting her securely into his arms.

Yun Yun had never experienced being held like this before. She could even clearly feel Lu Yuan's heartbeat and body heat.

Her eyes were tightly shut, and even her eyelashes trembled.

"Earth Nether Rock Turtle, use your bloodline Dou Technique to make two or three rock pillars, with an opening in the middle," Lu Yuan ordered, struck by a sudden idea.

The Earth Nether Rock Turtle tilted its head, seemingly understanding what its master meant.

It raised a foreleg, gently pressed it against the ground and injected Dou Qi.

The ground trembled slightly. Then three regularly shaped rock pillars slowly rose from it, reaching exactly to Lu Yuan's knees. A large gap remained between them, and their tops were smooth and rounded.

It was like a makeshift toilet.

Lu Yuan carefully lowered Yun Yun onto the pillars, then supported her back from behind and said softly, "Yun Yun, just sit there and take care of it."

"Mm!" Yun Yun responded softly.

She hadn't expected Lu Yuan to make such a considerate arrangement.

It was far better than the position she had imagined, with Lu Yuan holding her the whole time, like an adult holding a baby to let it...

It was just that Lu Yuan wasn't leaving, so he would surely still... but there was nothing she could do.

"Splash..."

Soon, the sound of water rang out in the quiet cave, so clear it was almost impossible to ignore.

Yun Yun's head buzzed, and she suddenly felt she might as well die.

The most awkward, unbearable and naked side of her entire life had been seen in full by the young man behind her.

At that moment, it felt as though all the blood in her body had rushed to her face. Even her ears were so red they seemed ready to drip blood, and she wished the ground would split open and bury her whole.

She even began to hold something against Nalan Yanran. If she hadn't been searching for ingredients to refine a pill for her disciple, how could she have ended up in such a predicament today?

When the sound of water finally stopped, Lu Yuan still said nothing. He simply waited quietly for a moment, then lifted Yun Yun again and carried her back to the blanket a short distance away.

"All right." Lu Yuan sat down cross-legged and took a grilled fish from his Storage Ring. "This fish was just grilled. I'll tear it into pieces and feed you."

"All right," Yun Yun said, suppressing her emotions. She had already resigned herself to her fate.

She simply felt that she would probably remember this young man called Lu Yuan for the rest of her life.

After she finished the fish, Yun Yun suddenly thought of something and asked, "What's your name?"

"Lu Yuan." Lu Yuan had no intention of hiding his identity. "I'm from the Lu Clan in Salt City."

"Mm." A strange look suddenly entered Yun Yun's eyes. "Once I recover, how about you marry me?"

This was the way Yun Yun had come up with to resolve her inner shame at its root.

She couldn't repay kindness with harm, but whenever she thought of how Lu Yuan had seen her in so many humiliating situations today, it felt as though countless ants were crawling inside her.

But what if Lu Yuan were her Dao companion?

Dao companions were supposed to be open and naked with each other.

If they faced danger, injury or illness, they were also supposed to help and care for each other.

Then everything that had happened today would be nothing at all.

And Lu Yuan was young, could control a Fourth-Order Magical Beast, and was strong in both talent and strength.

Having someone like him as her Dao companion would bring no shame upon her as the Misty Cloud Sect Master.

Lu Yuan: "..."

"Sister Yun Zhi, I'm honored that you think so highly of me." Lu Yuan had no desire to marry into her family. He said earnestly, "I already have Dao companions, two of them, and I can't abandon them."

Yun Yun fell silent at once.

She couldn't bring herself to ask her benefactor to abandon his Dao companions and marry into her family.

Seeing her silence, Lu Yuan didn't come over to speak to her. He sat cross-legged, formed a hand seal and began cultivating the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture.

At the same time, he didn't forget to check the Fortune Catalog.

[Fortune figure: Yun Yun]

[Extreme Wind Sword Canon (High Xuan Tier cultivation method; can reach Low Earth Tier if sword intent is mastered)/Extreme Wind: Meteor Kill (a Dou Technique tied to soul power, initially Mid Xuan Tier)/Setting Sun Radiance (High-grade Profound Tier Dou Technique)/Three-Star Dou Emperor (cultivation)/Middle Mortal Realm (soul power)...]

[Low-Level Copy/Plunder (progress 20/10)]

All that contact today really did bring me a lot of fortune.

If I did that with Yun Yun, wouldn't I be able to go straight to a perfection-level draw?

The thought struck Lu Yuan, but he had no intention of putting it into practice. Instead, he looked forward to the reward.

Low-Level Copy could randomly grant him twenty percent of one of Yun Yun's talents or items.

He wasn't quite as eager to obtain Cultivation Methods and Combat Skills.

If he could get soul power and cultivation, that would be fantastic.

"Copy for me!"