Ji Yun was very strong. His arms tightly encircled Yuan Shu's body, as if he only wanted to press her into his embrace.
Yuan Shu raised an eyebrow, recalling his green reaction and sensitive body from that night.
She guessed that he simply didn't know what to do.
Within her sea of consciousness, the whimpering of the Hehuan Divine Tree grew weaker and weaker.
Frowning, Yuan Shu directly hooked her arms around Ji Yun's neck, flipped over to sit on his lap, and then reached out to proactively untie her own sash.
Snow-white scenery faintly peeked out from beneath her loosened bodice. Ji Yun's eyes widened, his Adam's apple bobbing uncontrollably.
Yuan Shu simply reached out and held his head.
...
Ji Qingyan held a spirit bug cage in his hand.
But inside was not a spirit bug; rather, it was a type of red venomous bug he had just ordered someone to dig out from the crimson sun sand of the medicinal herb garden.
The reason he knew it was venomous was that the two young disciples who dug it up had both been poisoned, now barely clinging to life relying on some antidotes.
Ji Qingyan's research into venomous bugs was not thorough, and he didn't know what kind of poison this was. The others were equally bewildered.
After thinking it over, he brought this venomous bug to the Ziyang Hall.
Only Ji Yun lived in Ziyang Hall, making it very quiet.
The only sound present was perhaps the rustling of the venomous bugs Ji Yun raised as they crawled about.
But today seemed somewhat unusual.
A cat-like whimper leaked through the crack of the door, mingled with wisps of extraordinary sounds.
It didn't sound like venomous bugs crawling, much less like them gnawing on food.
It sounded more like... the noise of dual cultivation!
But as soon as this thought arose, Ji Qingyan rejected it.
Ji Yun, like him, disliked female cultivators getting close, and those senior and junior sisters were terrified of Ji Yun, not daring to come within three paces of him!
Let alone... dual cultivating with him?
This guy must be doing some venomous creature breeding experiment again to make such a noise, right?
Ji Qingyan's expression remained as usual as he dangled the bug cage in his hand and stood firmly in the courtyard.
"Ji Yun, come out, I need to see you about something!" he called out.
He and Ji Yun were half-brothers. Although they weren't close normally, and this guy had never once called him big brother, the relationship existed nonetheless.
Therefore, Ji Yun only dared to drug him with aphrodisiacs, not lethal poison.
If he had a problem, Ji Yun might be annoyed, but he wouldn't just sit by and do nothing.
The commotion inside the door paused for a moment, but soon started up again.
Following closely was Ji Yun's intermittent voice, "If, if there's something, we'll, we'll talk about it later!"
"It's a matter of life and death, it can't wait until later! If you don't come out, I'm coming in!"
Ji Qingyan frowned. Ji Yun's voice sounded very wrong, lacking energy, as if he were enduring some kind of pain.
"Ji Yun, what happened? What are you doing in there?"
Doing what?
Ji Yun tilted his neck back, looking at the woman in front of him who had pinned him to the bed and taken charge herself, speechless for a moment.
He wasn't doing anything, he was just being done!
However, Yuan Shu seemed to know exactly how to break through his defenses, and trembling sounds slipped uncontrollably from his lips.
He was almost losing the willpower to even speak a complete sentence!
"Don't, don't come in! Ji, Ji Qingyan, I'm busy, don't come in!"
He endured and endured, then gritted his teeth and said, "Antidote, antidote herbs are in the left side hall, highly toxic drugs are in the right side hall. Whatever, whatever you want, go, go get it yourself!"
By the end, he was practically roaring.
Outside the door, hearing Ji Yun's exasperated voice, Ji Qingyan frowned but obediently walked toward the left side hall.
There was a Poison-Suppressing Immortal Lingzhi in the side hall, which was usually Ji Yun's most treasured possession. Since he had spoken, Ji Qingyan wouldn't hold back.
Saving lives was more important!
Ji Qingyan went to the left side hall, opened the spiritual energy protective barrier of the Poison-Suppressing Immortal Lingzhi, carefully cut off a small piece from the Lingzhi with a jade knife, and carefully packed it in a jade box.
Only then did he return to the courtyard and bow deeply toward the direction of Ji Yun's room.
"Many thanks."
The only response was the rustling cold wind and that cat-like whimpering sound.
Ji Qingyan frowned. Could it be that Ji Yun was... playing with himself?
He hadn't expected that someone as moody and eccentric as Ji Yun couldn't escape the laws of human nature either.
To think he could have so much fun all by himself?
Ji Qingyan sighed in his heart, his mind involuntarily wandering to Yuan Shu.
He thought of the gazebo in the medicinal herb garden earlier, and then of the study in Chiyang Hall.
Her kiss, mixed with the scent of pear blossoms, entangling and leaving him unable to stop.
If no one had interrupted them that day, perhaps he and Yuan Shu would have...
Ji Qingyan's Adam's apple bobbed uncontrollably twice. He took a deep breath to suppress his surging emotions, then turned and quickly left Ziyang Hall.
He had to finish dealing with the matters at the herb garden quickly, and then... go find Yuan Shu!
...
A long time later inside Ziyang Hall, Ji Yun lay flat on the bed with a dazed expression, looking completely hollowed out.
Even now, he was still somewhat bewildered.
He and Yuan Shu, just got together just like that?
Beside him, Yuan Shu was meditating.
She circulated her spiritual energy, channeling all the energy she had just obtained into the Hehuan Divine Tree.
The Hehuan Divine Tree, whose green light had been sluggish, felt the long-absent energy and immediately perked up, radiating brilliant green light.
In its struggle against the spirit body of the Xiushe, it finally had the strength to fight back!
But...
"Shushu, it's not enough, I need more!"
Yuan Shu raised an eyebrow and opened her eyes almost the instant the Hehuan Divine Tree finished speaking.
Before the nearby Ji Yun could react, Yuan Shu pinned him down again, tossed him an aphrodisiac fruit, and kissed him.
"Mmph."
Ji Yun had seen her looking over and originally wanted to say something, but his words were blocked before he could speak.
Then came the sweet and refreshing scent of heavenly treasures.
His eyes widened slightly as Yuan Shu rolled over and pressed him down, her fair, warm fingers unceremoniously touching his chest.
Ji Yun's body tensed, his hands uncontrollably wrapping around her smooth, slender waist.
A kiss devoid of emotion and full of technique quickly made his breathing heavy and elicited a reaction.
...
An unknown amount of time passed in a daze before the divine sense of the Hehuan Divine Tree finally suppressed the Xiushe.
It began to absorb back the power that had been drained from the divine tree.
Feeling the increasingly rich vitality of the Hehuan Divine Tree, Yuan Shu finally breathed a sigh of relief.
She truly hadn't known before that the divine sense of the Xiushe was this formidable; even in an unconscious state, it could actually make a move against the Hehuan Divine Tree?
Moreover, the Hehuan Divine Tree had almost lost to it!
It seemed she had to find a way to kick the Xiushe out of her body, otherwise, if this happened again, it would be troublesome.
Just as Yuan Shu breathed a sigh of relief, a scorching hot chest pressed against her back.
Young, slender fingers, going from unfamiliar the first time to practiced the second time, naturally slid up along her waist.
They landed in a place they shouldn't have.
By her ear, Ji Yun's low panting quickly sounded.
Imitating Yuan Shu, he kissed her neck, brushed over her shoulder, and slowly moved forward...
Yuan Shu glanced at the person in front of her who had fallen into lust, and allowed him to hold her waist and kiss her.
