164: Stay true to yourself – Assistant to the President

Netherworld, Bridge of Helplessness

After the auction concluded, the White-Haired Loli took her share of the profits from the Tier 3 Beauty Pills and walked toward Sister Meng's direction.

While passing the banks of the Wangchuan River, she spotted Lin Ran at a glance, sitting cross-legged and focusing intently on her cultivation.

Her eyes were tightly shut, her hands rested naturally on her knees, and her breathing was steady and rhythmic; she seemed to have merged into her surroundings.

The White-Haired Loli walked up curiously, tilted her head, and asked, "Chief Assistant Lin, why do you like cultivating so much?"

Lin Ran did not respond to her question, still immersed in her cultivation.

Seeing this, the White-Haired Loli blinked her big eyes and continued, "Do you need Yu Yu to help?"

There was still no answer from Lin Ran.

Thus, the White-Haired Loli said to herself, "If you don't speak, then this seat will take it as an agreement!"

After saying that, Chen Yu closed her eyes and focused her mind to mobilize the spiritual power within her body. As her will shifted, wisps of spiritual power flowed from her fingertips like soft silk threads, gently intertwining with the spiritual energy manifesting around Lin Ran.

Lin Ran suddenly felt a strange fluctuation and snapped her eyes open, her divine sense trembling momentarily.

Out of instinct, she wanted to disperse the spiritual energy surrounding her.

But Chen Yu's urgent voice came: "Don't move, let this seat help you refine your spiritual energy."

Hearing this, Lin Ran hesitated for a moment but ultimately chose to trust the little loli, slowly relaxing her control over her energy center.

Immediately after, the White-Haired Loli's spiritual power swept up Lin Ran's own spiritual energy, departing from the energy center along a specific route.

This mixed current of spiritual power began to flow through the extraordinary meridians and acupuncture points within Lin Ran's body.

It washed through every corner over and over again. Every time the current passed a spot, the muscles and meridians there would involuntarily tremble slightly.

What followed was a dense, gnawing sensation, as if tens of thousands of tiny insects were biting her.

But Lin Ran knew that this pain was exactly the benefit brought by the scouring of spiritual energy; it could help her further broaden her meridians and strengthen her body.

So, despite the unbearable agony, she gritted her teeth and persevered.

[For the sake of the counterattack, endure it!!!]

...Usually, after Lin Ran completed several Major Orbits on her own, she would feel a sore, numbing pain throughout her body, as if being gnawed by thousands of ants.

With the White-Haired Loli personally leading the way, this feeling became even clearer and more intense.

One by one, the meridians seemed to gain a life of their own, trembling slightly within her body. Every acupuncture point became exceptionally sensitive, allowing her to truly feel them being wrapped layer by layer by Chen Yu's majestic spiritual power, gently touched, and repeatedly washed and soaked.

As time passed, those places that were originally blocked and sluggish began to gradually clear up, and an indescribable sense of relief slowly flowed through her.

However, this comfort did not last long; it was soon replaced by a surge of sharp pain even more violent than before.

The sensation was as if someone were repeatedly branding her bones with a red-hot iron, making it nearly unbearable, almost causing her to cry out in pain.

Fortunately, at the critical moment, the White-Haired Loli was quick to stop her, while lowering her voice to whisper a reminder in her ear.

"You must not make a sound! If you leak spiritual energy at this moment, all previous efforts will be in vain."

"Everything will fall through."

Hearing this, no matter how much Lin Ran suffered in her heart, she could only clench her teeth tightly and endure the ever-increasing pain.

Gradually, she found that her entire body was completely filled with the White-Haired Loli's spiritual power. Her whole being was sore, weak, and numb to the extreme; even moving a finger seemed like an extravagant hope.

At the same time, the spiritual energy in her body was like a flood breaking a dam, frantically trying to overflow.

However, the White-Haired Loli's spiritual power was like a wall of bronze and iron, locking it firmly inside, not allowing even a fraction to escape... At this time, the White-Haired Loli's vigorous spiritual power was like a surging tide, once again violently scouring the meridians in her body.

Every meridian trembled under this powerful impact of spiritual power, as if they would snap at any moment. But it was precisely this impact that helped Lin Ran start a new round of Minor Orbit circulation.

Lin Ran felt as if the majestic spiritual power was like a giant with infinite strength, ruthlessly kneading a ball of soft dough. And her own internal organs became that pitiful dough, being heavily kneaded by this giant force, almost deforming and shattering.

Even her soul seemed to be firmly controlled by this power, unable to break free in the slightest.

Meanwhile, Chief Assistant Lin's own spiritual power involuntarily intertwined tightly with the White-Haired Loli's, forming an interwoven torrent.

This torrent, with the momentum of a mountain-toppling wave, forced the White-Haired Loli's spiritual power deep into her energy center time and again, washing away all kinds of filth and impurities from both the surface and the deep interior of her body.

Before the next round of the Minor Orbit had even completely finished, Lin Ran could no longer suppress her extreme desire for an increase in cultivation.

She unhesitatingly mobilized the spiritual energy throughout her body, tightly wrapping the White-Haired Loli's spiritual power, and with her tenacious will, she once again initiated a more grand "Major Orbit circulation."

At this moment, Chen Yu noticed Lin Ran's abnormal behavior and quickly lowered her voice to warn her anxiously: "Guard your original heart! Chief Assistant Lin, you must not be impatient for success!"

However, Lin Ran had already been submerged by wave after wave of intense pain. Her whole being was like someone trapped in a chaotic and hazy world, completely unable to heed the White-Haired Loli's warning.

"Chief Assistant Lin still has too little experience; she doesn't even have this much self-control." The White-Haired Loli chided softly, her fingertip immediately reaching forward.

Her fingertip lightly tapped the space between Lin Ran's eyebrows, and a cool breath flowed along her forehead into her body, making her mind instantly clearer.

"Concentrate your mind!" The White-Haired Loli's voice rang in her ear.

Lin Ran struggled to steady her mind and followed the White-Haired Loli's guidance, controlling the spiritual power as it circulated through her body.

As time passed, Lin Ran's body gradually adapted to the pain, and her mind became clearer and clearer... Finally, as she completed the last twelve Major Orbits, a surge of spiritual power erupted from her body, sweeping through her entire being.

"Whoosh..."

Lin Ran opened her eyes and looked gratefully at Chen Yu. "Thank you, Lord Prefectural City God, for helping me break through to the early stage of Tier 4."

The White-Haired Loli's eyes darkened slightly as she teased, "Oh! If Chief Assistant Lin wants to repay me, why don't we meet at the open-air hot spring tonight!!!"

(This chapter was written in a way that's quite easy to misinterpret. (u‿ฺu✿))