21: Chapter 21: The smooth, hot spring water washes away her delicate skin, completely conquering the aloof and cold master!

The morning sunlight slanted through the clouds and mist atop Guhan Cliff, sprinkling onto the steaming hot spring pool.

Gu Yi did not dodge, allowing Fei Yuechan's ashamed and annoyed little fist to land on his chest. This feather-light punch didn't even count as a tickle; he took the opportunity to close his arms, pulling the soft yet slightly stiff delicate body in his embrace even tighter.

The familiar cold fragrance mixed with the scent of morning dew drilled straight into Gu Yi's nasal cavity.

"Impudent..."

Fei Yuechan buried her face in Gu Yi's chest, her voice as thin as a gossamer thread, devoid of the majesty she usually held as a Peak Revered Master issuing orders. She struggled symbolically a couple of times, but her hands didn't know where to go, eventually resting weakly on Gu Yi's shoulders.

"If this Disciple were not impudent this once, I fear the cold poison in Revered Master's body would resent this Disciple for a lifetime."

Gu Yi lowered his gaze, looking at the earlobes of the beauty in his arms that were red enough to drip blood, his tone carrying a touch of overbearingness that brooked no refusal.

He did not give Fei Yuechan another chance to refuse, bending down directly, passing his hands through the back of her knees and under her armpits, lifting her entire body horizontally.

With her feet suddenly off the ground, Fei Yuechan let out a short cry of surprise, instinctively extending her hands to wrap around Gu Yi's neck. By the time she realized how inappropriate her current posture was, Gu Yi was already carrying her, stepping onto the warm jade steps by the hot spring pool one step at a time.

White mist swirled on the pool surface, the warm scent of sulfur tightly enveloping the two.

Gu Yi carried Fei Yuechan, walking steadily into the waist-deep pool water.

The warm spring water instantly soaked through their clothes. After absorbing the water, Fei Yuechan's cloud-white long dress clung tightly to her skin, outlining graceful curves that would make any cultivator's Dao Heart lose its composure.

The buoyancy of the water made Fei Yuechan's struggles completely lose their strength; she was forced to lean into Gu Yi's embrace, feeling the scorching body temperature of a young man transmitted through the soaked clothing.

"Revered Master, calm your heart and spirit, guard your spiritual platform."

Gu Yi put away his earlier playful thoughts, his voice becoming deep and focused.

He helped Fei Yuechan sit on a smooth warm jade stone in the pool, while he sat cross-legged behind her. The two were pressed tightly together in the water, Gu Yi's broad chest against her slender back.

With a slight movement of his mind, the ten-thousand-year mysterious ice box containing the earth heart green lotus fire appeared in Gu Yi's palm.

Accompanied by the "click" of the lock opening, a wisp of heaven and earth fire-attribute energy, pure to the point of being heart-stopping, overflowed from the gap in the jade box. The temperature of the surrounding pool water climbed at a visible speed at this moment, and fine bubbles even began to churn on the surface.

Gu Yi dared not be the least bit careless; this was a heaven and earth wonder capable of easily incinerating even those at the Soul Transformation Stage.

He operated the Yin Yang Great Compassion Sutra, the Origin of his Primordial Limitless Creation Immortal Body gushing out without reservation, wrapping and domesticating the wisp of green lotus fire's aura layer by layer, finally transforming it into a gentle yet incomparably overbearing warm current, slowly injecting it into her body through his palms pressed against Fei Yuechan's back.

"Ugh..."

The moment the strange fire entered her body, Fei Yuechan let out an unbearable muffled groan.

That warm current seemed to have eyes, heading straight for the stubborn cold ice that had accumulated in her extraordinary meridians for hundreds of years. The collision of ice and fire ignited a war without smoke inside her body.

A tearing stinging sensation arrived simultaneously with a long-lost feeling of comfort. Fei Yuechan bit her lower lip hard, not letting herself make that kind of suggestive painful cry. Her hands gripped the edge of the jade stone under the water tightly.

Gu Yi sensed her tension, his arms passing under her ribs, wrapping her entire body into his embrace.

"If it hurts, scream it out. There are only the two of us here; there is no need to maintain the airs of a Peak Revered Master."

Gu Yi lowered his head, his chin resting gently on Fei Yuechan's wet hair, while using his Immortal Body Origin to protect her heart meridian, soothing her softly.

This sentence seemed to break the last line of defense in Fei Yuechan's heart named "dignity."

The loneliness of enduring the cold poison's torture alone for many years, the exhaustion of forcefully maintaining the majesty of a Xuantian Sect Peak Revered Master—at this moment, in this Rebellious Disciple's broad embrace, it was completely released.

She let go of her lower lip, which she had bitten until it bled, tilted her head back, and leaned powerlessly on Gu Yi's shoulder. A moan, mixed with pain and unspeakable pleasure, overflowed from her slightly parted red lips, dissipating into the dense water mist.

As time passed, the overbearing power of the green lotus fire, neutralized by the Creation Immortal Body, bit by bit peeled away and melted the cold poison entrenched deep in her heart meridian.

Large drops of fragrant sweat slid down Fei Yuechan's smooth forehead, merging with the hot spring water. Her face, originally as pale as paper, was now flushed with a breathtaking, sultry red.

"Last step, Revered Master, bear with it."

Fine beads of sweat also seeped out on Gu Yi's forehead. Forcibly controlling heaven and earth strange fire to heal someone was a huge drain on his Divine Sense and true essence.

He took a deep breath of the air carrying water vapor, and his palms suddenly exerted force.

A green firelight, several times larger than before, carrying the gray Immortal Body Origin like a sharp sword breaking through bamboo, pierced straight through the core ten-thousand-year cold ice deep in Fei Yuechan's Dantian.

"Crack."

A crisp sound, as if some shackle had been completely broken, resonated between their pressed bodies.

The cold poison that had tortured Fei Yuechan for hundreds of years completely disintegrated under this strike, turning into a wisp of black turbid Qi, which was forcibly expelled from her body along her extraordinary meridians.

The moment the turbid Qi touched the water surface, it was incinerated into nothingness by the residual power of the green lotus fire.

The instant the toxins were completely gone, a massive amount of spiritual power, suppressed for countless days and nights, surged like a flood escaping a dam, running crazily inside Fei Yuechan's body.

The Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi at the bottom of Guhan Cliff was strongly drawn, turning into a visible spiritual vortex, crazily gathering towards the hot spring pool. The pool water was forced away by this massive pressure, forming a brief vacuum zone around the two.

The Bottleneck of the Peak of the Nascent Soul Stage was easily pierced like window paper in front of this power of breaking out of a cocoon and becoming a butterfly.

Gu Yi withdrew his palms, watching quietly as the woman in his arms underwent a earth-shattering change in her aura.

The vast pressure unique to a Soul Transformation Stage powerhouse had just taken shape, but in the next breath, it was extremely stiffly retracted by its owner.

The surrounding pool water that had been pushed away fell back, making a "splash" sound.

Fei Yuechan slowly opened her eyes.

In those eyes, the coldness, arrogance, and majesty of ordinary days had all disappeared, replaced by a tenderness like spring water and a bit of unmasked scorching heat.

The cold poison was removed, and her cultivation had reached a Breakthrough.

But she did not get up to meditate and stabilize her Realm as usual.

Under the intertwining of the complete recovery of her body's functions, the huge pleasure brought by the Breakthrough in cultivation, and the feelings accumulated over these few days of being pushed step by step and carefully cared for by Gu Yi, this high-and-mighty icy Revered Master welcomed the dam-breaking of emotions belonging to a Mortal woman.

She turned around, facing Gu Yi in the waist-deep water.

Neither of them spoke, only rapid breathing crisscrossed in the water mist.

Fei Yuechan raised that slightly trembling hand, her fingertips carrying the temperature of the hot spring water, gently stroking Gu Yi's face, which was within reach. From his eyebrows and eyes, to the bridge of his nose, and then to those thin lips that could always say things that angered her but also made her heart beat faster.

"Wicked Disciple..."

She parted her red lips slightly, her voice hoarse beyond words, as if she had used up all her strength to spit out these two words.

Gu Yi's Adam's apple rolled up and down, his eyes completely darkening. He grabbed Fei Yuechan's hand that was pressed against his cheek with his backhand, just about to speak, but was blocked by her next action.

Fei Yuechan did not retreat again.

She stood on tiptoe slightly, using the buoyancy of the water, wrapped her hands around Gu Yi's neck, and pressed her red lips, which carried water vapor, heavily onto his.

Gu Yi was slightly stunned at first, then intense possessiveness erupted in the depths of his eyes.

He took the initiative, one hand holding the back of Fei Yuechan's head, the other tightly clasping her slender waist that could be held in one hand, continuously deepening and plundering this slightly clumsy kiss.

Between their intertwined lips and teeth, the Pure Yang Qi of the Creation Immortal Body and the pure Yuan Yin of Fei Yuechan, who had just broken through to the Soul Transformation Stage, spontaneously merged together, forming a perfect internal circulation, helping her quickly stabilize the Realm she had just broken through.

But this was no longer important.

The hot spring water rolled continuously under their movements, making a "splash" sound that made one blush.

The troublesome clothing had slipped down the water flow at some point, piling up on the jade stone at the bottom of the pool. The white mist became the best gauze curtain in this world, covering the spring scenery of the pool.

Entangled to death, water and milk blended together.

Fei Yuechan's snow-white skin, which had not seen the sun for years, was covered with lovable blushes. She could not bear Gu Yi's seemingly tireless taking, so she could only bury her face in his neck, breathing heavily.

When that wave climbed to the Peak, she finally couldn't help it, and bit down on Gu Yi's shoulder.

The Physique of a cultivator far exceeded that of ordinary people, but this bite, Fei Yuechan bit extremely hard, even leaving a circle of neat tooth marks on Gu Yi's sturdy shoulder.

"You... Rebellious Disciple who ruined my Dao Heart..."

She whispered in Gu Yi's ear, her voice carrying a trace of imperceptible crying, but also revealing a kind of resigned devotion, "This Seat has... completely fallen into your hands in this lifetime."

The sun gradually rose, piercing through the thin mist at the bottom of Guhan Cliff, sprinkling golden light spots on the water surface.

A breeze blew, and the pool water rippled.

The hot spring pool after the storm returned to tranquility.

Fei Yuechan, like a lazy cat, leaned against Gu Yi's chest. The two soaked in the warm spring water together, enjoying the tranquility brought by the aftertaste.

Her waterfall-like long hair was wet and stuck to her fair back, and a trace of lingering charm remained between her eyebrows and eyes. That high-cold disguise that had been maintained for hundreds of years had been torn to pieces by Gu Yi after the thorough physical and mental fusion just now, and could never be put back together again.

Gu Yi rested one hand casually on the edge of the jade stone, while the other gently clasped her slender waist under the water, his fingertips playing with her smooth hair from time to time.

"Revered Master is now a powerhouse of the Soul Transformation Stage."

Gu Yi leaned to her ear, his tone carrying a bit of teasing of someone who had gained an advantage and was still acting innocent, "In the future in this Xuantian Sect, can this Disciple walk sideways? After all, even the fiercest Peak Revered Master has been subdued by this Disciple."

Fei Yuechan's body stiffened slightly, then she angrily pinched the soft flesh on Gu Yi's waist under the water.

"Stop talking nonsense."

She turned her head and glared at Gu Yi. Although her tone tried to stiffen with a bit of Revered Master's majesty, the spring in her eyes and the uncontrollable slight smile at the corner of her mouth betrayed her true feelings at this moment.

"If you dare to bully others with power outside, this Seat will be the first to not spare you."

She leaned back into that sturdy chest, feeling the powerful heartbeat, and slowly closed her eyes.

"However..." Her voice became very soft, so soft it was almost melting into this steaming water vapor, "In this Guhan Cliff, if you want to walk sideways... then let it be."

The smile on the corner of Gu Yi's mouth bloomed completely.

He lowered his head, gently imprinted a kiss on Fei Yuechan's smooth forehead, and hugged the beauty in his arms even tighter.