78: The heart of an ice beauty!

The Three Grand Elders were helping Lin Bingqing heal her injuries.

Su Yang couldn't help, so he just watched from the side.

After about half an incense stick's worth of time, the Three Grand Elders finished their work.

"How are her injuries?"

Su Yang asked.

Grand Elder Xuan Qing said, "Her injuries are stable, and her life is not in danger."

"However, her Golden Core is shattered, and we cannot help her repair it. She can only wait until she wakes up and slowly repairs her Golden Core through Cultivation."

"In the short term, twenty years, in the long term, fifty years, her Cultivation will likely find it difficult to make any further progress."

"Even if her Golden Core is completely repaired, whether she can successfully Breakthrougn to Nascent Soul in the future is an unknown."

"It's a pity for such a good seedling."

Su Yang didn't have such deep feelings for her and wasn't interested in whether she could Breakthrougn to Nascent Soul. He just said, "It's good that her life is saved. As long as she's alive, there's always a chance. Since she's fine, then I'll trouble the Three Grand Elders to send her back, or have someone pick her up. I'll head back first."

"Revered Master, please wait."

Grand Elder Xuan Qing said, "Lin Bingqing's injuries are only stable now, not fully healed. The best way to help her recover quickly is to let her recuperate in Revered Master's Immortal Cave."

"Huh???"

Grand Elder Xuan Qing explained, "Lin Bingqing has an Innate third-grade Water Spiritual Root, with a natural affinity for water, and the Water Spiritual Qi in Revered Master's Immortal Cave is extremely abundant, which will greatly benefit her recovery. The faster her injuries heal, the faster her Golden Core will repair, and the smaller the impact on her future Cultivation."

"If she is sent back to the Sect to recuperate, this girl might truly be crippled."

Su Yang glanced at Lin Bingqing and sighed helplessly.

Since Grand Elder Xuan Qing had said so, then he would see it through to the end, helping her completely.

"Alright, alright, then let her heal her injuries at my place first."

"But I'll say this upfront: once her injuries are healed, I won't keep her here."

It would take twenty to fifty years to repair her Golden Core. Who would want to look at such a cold woman every day, kept by his side, and unable to be used?

"That is natural, that is natural. Revered Master being able to take her in to heal her injuries is already benevolent and righteous enough."

"Once her injuries are healed, we will pick her up and return her to the Sect."

Grand Elder Xuan Qing said.

"Then that's that."

"You all Cultivate."

Su Yang picked up Lin Bingqing and left Xuanqing House, flying towards his Immortal Cave.

At this moment, Lin Bingqing opened her eyes with a pained expression.

The first person she saw was Su Yang, and then she realized Su Yang was holding her. A blush appeared on her pale face.

Her last conscious thought was that she seemed to have fainted in his arms.

"Su Yang... where... where are you taking me?"

"You're awake..."

Su Yang looked down at her and said, "You just fainted. I sent you to the Three Grand Elders here to heal your injuries. Grand Elder Xuan Qing said your injuries were too severe, and healing in my Immortal Cave would be most effective, so... you have to go back to my place now."

Lin Bingqing silently looked at Su Yang.

Su Yang's indifferent expression towards her now made her feel a hint of warmth.

Lin Bingqing said, "It's okay, why don't you send me back to the Sect? I know you definitely don't want to see me every day."

Su Yang's speed did not decrease. He said, "The Grand Elder said that returning to the Sect is not conducive to your injury recovery. If your injuries recover slowly, your Golden Core repair will be slow, affecting your future Cultivation. It's possible you won't even be able to Breakthrougn to Nascent Soul in the future."

Lin Bingqing was a Cultivator.

And she was an exceptionally talented Cultivator.

Hearing that this matter would have such a great impact on her, she finally stopped agonizing.

"Thank you, Su Yang..."

Lin Bingqing whispered.

She never expected that the person she disliked the most would end up helping her the most.

Looking at Su Yang, who didn't seem to care much for her, Lin Bingqing felt quite emotional.

"Speaking of which, what happened at the Merit Pavilion? Why did it come to the point of crippling your Cultivation?"

Su Yang asked curiously.

Lin Bingqing fell silent.

Recalling her admiration for Xiang Shaobo now, it was not only laughable but also pathetic.

She said, "The biggest reason I was unwilling to stay and Cultivate with you was that I had a Senior Brother I admired. He is Xiang Shaobo from the Merit Pavilion, you've met him..."

"Xiang Shaobo? Then your taste is really bad. He doesn't look like a trustworthy person."

Su Yang said bluntly.

Lin Bingqing was visibly stunned. "Are you very familiar with Xiang Shaobo?"

Su Yang shrugged, "Counting today, we've only met twice."

"You've only met him twice and you already know his character is no good?"

"Offering unsolicited favors means either treachery or theft. Just by looking at his overly enthusiastic attitude towards me, I knew he was up to something."

Lin Bingqing stared at him blankly, then gave a bitter smile, "You're really good at judging people!"

She then told Su Yang everything about her visit to the Merit Pavilion and her conversation with Xiang Shaobo after meeting him.

Including Xiang Shaobo asking her to return his past gifts, and her decision to disperse her Cultivation.

After saying all this, Lin Bingqing found that she no longer had any good feelings for Xiang Shaobo, as if she was talking about a stranger, and she felt extreme disgust towards this stranger.

"I didn't realize you were so brave."

To be able to choose to disperse her Cultivation without hesitation in such a situation, this woman, outwardly cold, actually had a very strong and resolute character.

However, Su Yang then added, "Brave is brave, but your brain isn't very functional either."

"You are the woman of the Discipline Pavilion's Hall Revered Master, a noble lady of the Sect, equal in status to Xiang Shaobo. Is your Lin family really short on those few things he gave you? If you had just been a little calmer, returning double what he gave you would have been easy after going home. Why cripple your Cultivation? Now, it's possible you won't even be able to reach Nascent Soul in the future."

Lin Bingqing knew Su Yang was calling her foolish.

But she didn't regret it at all. "I know I could have returned everything he gave me, but I felt disgusted thinking that I used his Medicinal Pills to improve my Cultivation. At that time, my only thought was to disperse all the True Qi that came from him."

Su Yang rolled his eyes at her in exasperation. "I said your brain isn't working well, and it really isn't. Were those Medicinal Pills refined by him? Weren't they all Medicinal Pills from the Alchemy Pavilion! They just passed through his hands to you."

Lin Bingqing said resolutely, "That's still not acceptable! I can't accept them even if they passed through his hands!"

Su Yang: ... He didn't expect her to have such a personality.

"Suit yourself, it has nothing to do with me anyway."

Su Yang was too lazy to argue with her; what she thought was her business.

During their conversation, they had already arrived at his Immortal Cave.

Gu Yue and Wen Yunyao had been accompanying Su Yang in Alchemy for three days and three nights at a time recently. Now, with a rare chance to rest, they were both sleeping in the Immortal Cave.

Feeling Su Yang's return, both of them lazily got up to greet him.

Seeing him holding Lin Bingqing in his arms, both Gu Yue and Wen Yunyao were stunned.

"Why did you bring her back again? Did the Three Grand Elders disagree?"

Wen Yunyao asked.

Even if they disagreed, she could have come back herself, why did he have to carry her back!?

Su Yang replied, "She was seriously injured and needs to recuperate here. She will temporarily stay here for a while. We should continue our Cultivation as usual and not worry about her."

Su Yang carried her into the Immortal Cave and placed her on the stone bed covered with a soft animal skin mat.

Only then did Wen Yunyao notice that Lin Bingqing was indeed seriously injured.

"What happened to you...?"

Wen Yunyao asked.

How could she have sustained such serious injuries in such a short time!?

"It's nothing..."

Lin Bingqing didn't intend to explain too much to Wen Yunyao. She forced herself to sit up, crossed her legs on the bed, and entered a state of Cultivation for healing.

Looking inward at her Dantian, and seeing her Golden Core full of cracks, Lin Bingqing smiled bitterly, yet also felt that this way, she and Xiang Shaobo would have no further entanglement, and she no longer owed him anything.

She absorbed external Spiritual Qi to heal herself.

The internal injuries caused by the shattered Golden Core were not easily healed. Although the Water Spiritual Qi here was very abundant, it would probably take one to two years for her injuries to fully recover.

As for repairing her Golden Core, it would take decades of effort.

Lin Bingqing took a deep breath, not discouraged, nor despairing.

Since there was still a chance, she would heal and Cultivate...