Agonizing pain radiated from Ying’s back, staining his blue robes with blood. Yet the blood in his body was boiling strangely.
The wounds landing on him seemed like switches activating some inexplicable sensation. Rather than making him suffer unbearably, they…
Ying felt as though he had gone mad.
At a time like this, his mind was filled with nothing but the sensation of Yuan Shu holding his chin and giving him the fragrance of pear blossoms.
His body had even developed a conditioned response.
Whenever Yuan Shu stopped, he would unconsciously lift his head and stare fixedly at her as she approached.
Then, the moment she leaned down, he would take the initiative to raise his head and meet her.
Only after Yuan Shu seemed tired did she put away Zhuohua and step forward. She took some healing medicine from the divine tree’s space and held it out to him.
“Take it.”
Ying glanced at the healing medicine in Yuan Shu’s hand. Only then did he belatedly realize how humiliating his behavior just now had been.
Had he… actually been beaten into submission by Yuan Shu?
When he saw her put away Zhuohua and stop attacking him, an inexplicable sense of disappointment even rose faintly in his heart.
While despising himself, Ying tried to salvage what little dignity he had left. He pressed his thin lips together and turned his head away.
As though doing so could erase the humiliation of having just responded to her.
Yuan Shu had no idea what was going through his mind. She only knew that tomorrow, she would need to repeat everything she had done today.
If he refused to take the medicine, how would she beat him tomorrow?
Seeing him reject it, Yuan Shu raised an eyebrow and simply tossed the medicine into her own mouth.
Then she grasped his chin, turned his face toward her, lowered her head, and kissed him.
The medicinal fragrance mingled with the scent of pear blossoms and was slowly passed into his mouth.
Ying reacted. At first, he resisted, struggling desperately to pull away, but Yuan Shu held him fast.
After the medicine had been passed to him, he no longer had the strength to push her away and could only swallow it obediently.
When it was over, he felt stifled by his own humiliation. How could he possibly yield to Yuan Shu’s tyranny?
With a sudden burst of force, he fiercely turned the tables and held Yuan Shu tightly, refusing to let her leave.
The immense strength made Yuan Shu let out a muffled groan.
Wasn’t this guy under the influence of the drug?
The thought had barely crossed Yuan Shu’s mind when the pear-blossom fragrance between their lips was largely seized away.
Yuan Shu struggled, but failed to pull back. Instead, her resistance seemed to provoke him.
Ying increased the force of his kiss. Yuan Shu immediately felt pain at the base of her tongue, leaving her no choice but to ease her resistance and follow his lead.
Sensing Yuan Shu’s capitulation, a glimmer lit up in Ying’s slightly narrowed eyes, and he became even more forceful.
Only after a long while did he finally release Yuan Shu, breathing slightly unevenly.
Meeting Yuan Shu’s faintly knitted brows, Ying smiled smugly.
“Sis, you’ve kissed me so many times and beaten me so many times. Is it really too much for me to kiss you once?”
Yuan Shu lowered her eyes, reached out, and stroked his exquisite, fair face. Her expression remained calm and almost emotionless as she spoke.
“Not at all. Now that I know how much you like your big sister, I can rest easy. Tomorrow, remember to be just as obedient as you were today…”
Ying’s expression stiffened. “What did you say? Tomorrow? You…”
Yuan Shu caught his chin, kissed him on the cheek, and looked down at his flustered face with a meaningful smile.
“That’s right. This game has only just begun…”
Ying had thought Yuan Shu was merely taking revenge on him for scheming against her. He assumed that after today, even if she refused to let him off, she would not use this method against him again.
He had never imagined…
Zhuohua came crashing down, and his body suddenly jolted.
Yuan Shu’s kiss followed immediately.
Again and again, the cycle repeated.
Days like this continued for three whole days.
His body seemed to have developed a conditioned response. The moment he heard that sound, he would react.
After the pain came the pear-blossom fragrance that felt like sweet rain to him.
Ying’s lashes trembled. He savored it as though it were nectar.
Life passed peacefully, painful yet blissful.
…
“The Bloodline Compass is pointing here, so this must be the right place. Why is there no entrance?”
Deep inside the cavern on Medicine Cloud Peak, Helan Zhao held the Bloodline Compass of the Heavenly Dragon Dynasty in one hand and tapped at the stone wall blocking his way with the other, desperately trying to find an opening nearby.
The Bloodline Compass was a treasure of the Heavenly Dragon Dynasty, used to search for people and objects. When he had left the dynasty, he had casually taken it from the treasury.
He had never expected that it would actually lead him to his older brother’s contracted spirit beast, Bai Ze.
After losing track of Bai Ze that day, Helan Zhao had dripped some of his own essence blood into the Bloodline Compass and begun searching the Fallen Immortal Sect for traces of his elder brother.
When he approached this cavern, the compass had reacted, and he immediately entered.
However, even after walking through the cavern for a long time, he still failed to find the person he was looking for.
Then, not long ago, the compass had suddenly pointed toward the other side of this stone wall.
It was the steadiest direction the compass had indicated in the past few days. It had not trembled in the slightest.
Overjoyed, he had searched the surrounding area for a long time, but could not find a suitable entrance.
Just as he was racking his brains, he somehow touched something. Suddenly, a white light appeared on the stone wall before him.
Then, a tremendous force pulled him inside.
By the time he realized what was happening, he had already landed in an unfamiliar cavern.
Soft flowers and grass lay beneath him, so the fall had not hurt much.
He sat up and looked around in confusion. Then, wisps of unusual sounds reached his ears.
His heart jolted. Fearing that some danger might be lurking in the cavern, he quickly held his breath and parted the flowers and grass in front of him to look ahead.
The instant he saw what lay before him, his eyes widened, his face filled with disbelief.
…
The Ling Chi in Yuan Shu’s sea of consciousness had absorbed enough vicious, baleful energy. The red light surrounding its body had grown so dense that its serpentine form was no longer visible.
Yuan Shu no longer attacked Ying.
In fact, when she saw Ying sitting obediently before her with his eyes lowered, a trace of pity rose in her heart. She took out some medicine for external injuries and personally applied the ointment to him.
Several days’ worth of wounds, old and new layered together, looked rather horrifying.
The healing medicine Yuan Shu had given him could only heal part of them.
For a complete recovery, both internal and external treatment were necessary.
Ying seemed to have resigned himself to his fate.
Whether it was the pain of Zhuohua earlier or the kisses afterward, he endured everything obediently.
At that moment, his clothes had been removed completely, exposing his back to Yuan Shu’s eyes. He lay quietly on his stomach, allowing Yuan Shu to apply the ointment without moving an inch.
“If it hurts, say so. I can be gentler,” Yuan Shu said.
Ying’s lowered lashes trembled, but he said nothing. Yet when Yuan Shu rubbed the ointment into the skin of his back, the corners of his mouth trembled uncontrollably.
He bit down on an unusual breath of sound and forced it back down his throat.
After finishing with the wounds on his back, Yuan Shu told him to sit up and began treating the injuries on his legs.
When she had attacked him earlier, Yuan Shu had not deliberately aimed for any particular spot. Wherever Zhuohua landed was where it landed.
Ying’s legs were also covered in wounds.
“Lean back.” Yuan Shu gave the order and pressed a hand against his chest, pushing him backward.
Then she rolled up his pant leg and began applying the medicine along the wounds, inch by inch.
However, there was only so far she could roll the fabric.
Yuan Shu looked at the wounds extending all the way up his thigh and frowned. Then she suddenly raised her head.
“Get up. Take off your pants.”
