36: Chapter 36 So this is what healing feels like?

Inside Listening to Rain Pavilion, the red candles had burned down, leaving only a room filled with dim yellow light and suggestiveness.

The bed curtains were like a cloud wall isolating the secular world, wrapping this tiny space airtight.

At this moment, the scenery atop the bed was exceptionally beautiful.

Jiang Liuli lay on her back upon a brocade quilt embroidered with Mandarin Ducks Playing in Water. Her waterfall-like black hair spread out in disarray, making her palm-sized face appear even more pale and fragile.

She kept her eyes tightly shut, her long eyelashes trembling violently like the wings of a startled butterfly. Her hands unconsciously gripped the bedsheets beneath her, her knuckles turning white from the exertion.

She was afraid.

That fear of the unknown, combined with the panic of her impending loss of chastity, made her whole body as tense as a fully drawn bow.

"Relax, Liuli."

Xu Chen's voice sounded above her, carrying a reassuring warmth.

He was in no hurry to advance. Instead, as if treating a rare and precious treasure, he leaned down with great patience and placed a gentle kiss on her trembling eyelids.

"Don't bite those beautiful lips of yours until they bleed."

Xu Chen reached out with his fingers and forcibly pried open her tightly clenched pearly teeth, his fingertips pressing gently against the soft tip of her tongue. "If it hurts, bite me."

Jiang Liuli opened her eyes, looking at him through a misty haze.

At this moment, Xu Chen had shed his outer garments. His lean, muscular upper body had smooth lines, brimming with masculine tension. Especially those deep eyes, which seemed to contain two burning flames, threatening to consume her whole.

"Xu... Husband..."

Her voice trembled with a hint of pleading. "Gen... Gently..."

"I... My body is weak..."

This weak and helpless appearance was simply the most potent aphrodisiac.

Xu Chen's Adam's apple bobbed. He took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the violent urge to ravage her that flared in his heart.

"Don't worry."

"I am a doctor; I have medical ethics."

Xu Chen spoke serious-sounding nonsense before giving Jiang Liuli no further chance to retreat.

"Mmph—!"

A cry of pain and suppression instantly shattered the silence of Listening to Rain Pavilion.

Jiang Liuli suddenly threw her head back, her slender neck tensing into a graceful arc. Two lines of clear tears slid from the corners of her eyes, instantly wetting her hair at the temples.

"It hurts... It hurts so much..."

She instinctively tried to push Xu Chen away, her hands pressing against his burning chest, but she couldn't muster even a bit of strength.

"Endure it for a bit; it'll be better soon."

Xu Chen was also covered in sweat.

"System, Hongmeng Purple Qi, surge for me!"

Xu Chen let out a low shout in his heart.

Boom!

"Ah!"

Jiang Liuli's body gave a violent shudder, and her previously pained expression instantly became somewhat dazed.

This heat current was too overbearing!

Unlike the previous golden needles that stopped after a light touch, it was like a prairie fire, instantly sweeping through her entire body.

The Cold Poison that had resided in her body for eighteen years, like maggots on a bone, seemed to meet its natural enemy before this golden flame, making a sizzling sound as it dissolved.

The pain was still there, but within it, a trace of a never-before-felt... tingling sensation began to rise.

That feeling was like frozen hands and feet suddenly being soaked in hot water, or like a parched riverbed finally welcoming spring waters.

It was both uncomfortable and... yearning for more.

"Do you feel it?"

He lowered his head, his nose brushing against hers, his voice raspy:

"This is the true 'Golden Needle Acupoint Crossing'."

"My Yang Qi is helping you melt the ice within your body."

Jiang Liuli panted heavily, her previously pale cheeks now as red as a cooked shrimp.

She could clearly feel that heat current gathering in her Dantian, forming a golden vortex that continuously devoured the surrounding coldness and converted it into vibrant spiritual power.

That feeling of her body gradually warming up and her strength slowly returning made her feel a bit dazed.

"Is... Is this... treatment?"

She looked at Xu Chen with blurred eyes and murmured to herself.

So, that kind of shameful thing really can cure an illness?

And...

Why, besides the pain, was there also a strange sensation that made her unable to resist wanting to... hold him tight?

"That's right, this is treatment."

Seeing her cute and seductive look, Xu Chen couldn't help but chuckle.

"However, this is only the first step."

"Next, we will begin the 'unblocking'."

Having said that, Xu Chen no longer held back.

"Nn..."

Jiang Liuli bit her lip, letting out soft, broken moans.

"Xu... Xu Chen..."

Jiang Liuli unconsciously called out his name, her hands having wrapped around his neck at some point, her fingernails leaving faint red marks on his back.

"Call me Husband."

Xu Chen coaxed her in her ear.

"Hus... Husband..."

Jiang Liuli's voice was so soft and sweet it could almost drip water.

This call completely ignited the fire in Xu Chen's heart.

He was no longer satisfied with this lukewarm treatment; he wanted more possession, more conquest.

"Good girl."

Xu Chen kissed her red lips, swallowing all her cries of surprise.

...

Inside Listening to Rain Pavilion, the spring scenery was boundless.

The bed swayed, making sounds that made one's face flush and heart race.

Jiang Liuli felt like she was going crazy.

Is this really medical treatment?

Why did she feel like she was flying through the clouds, yet also sinking into a sea of fire?

Under this extreme pleasure and the impact of spiritual power, her originally flawed Seven-Aperture Exquisite Heart actually began to emit a seven-colored glow.

Thump! Thump! Thump!

The heartbeat grew stronger and more powerful.

The previously blocked meridians were completely cleared under wave after wave of impact!

"Boom!"

A muffled sound that only she could hear exploded within her body.

The Severed Meridians were broken!

Long-lost spiritual energy surged in like a tide. The feeling of being reborn brought tears of excitement to Jiang Liuli's eyes.

"I... I've come back to life..."

She held Xu Chen tightly, as if holding her only salvation.

"Husband... thank you..."

She cried out in his ear, her voice filled with gratitude and love.

"Thank me?"

"Liuli, your illness is cured."

"But my fire has only just started."

Jiang Liuli's pleas for mercy soon turned into broken moans, drowned out in the room's lingering charm.

This night.

A withered tree met spring.

Under Xu Chen's "special therapy," the sickly goddess finally blossomed with her most dazzling brilliance.

And for Xu Chen.

This was not just a treatment, but a dual enjoyment of body and mind.

The feeling of watching a dying flower regain its vitality beneath him and develop an extreme dependence on him was even more addictive than breaking through a cultivation realm.

"System."

While Xu Chen was toiling, he marveled in his heart.

"This 'Ancient Medical Canon' of yours is really a damn good thing!"