8: Chapter 8 Master feeds with his mouth

A fierce wind suddenly rose, swirling into the room.

That carved wooden window wasn't blown open by the wind, but was shattered by an indescribably terrifying aura.

Wood chips flew, turning into powder before they could even hit the ground.

A snow-white figure appeared in the center of Listening to Rain Pavilion without any warning.

She was barefoot and suspended in the air, her feet seemingly treading on invisible lotuses of Dao charm.

Her snow-white clothes were untainted by dust, and her skirt fluttered and snapped even without a breeze.

Her face was extremely beautiful.

It was a beauty that transcended all living beings, without a hint of mortal worldliness, like a goddess from the Nine Heavens who had strayed into the mortal Realm.

But at this moment...

This peerlessly beautiful face was covered with a layer of heart-palpitating frost.

Peak Master of Purple Bamboo Peak.

Su Ye's Revered Master.

The Tenth Heaven of the Tribulation Crossing Stage Great Power—Nangong Li!

If one didn't count those old monsters in secluded cultivation, she was one of the power ceilings of the Taichu Holy Land, and even the entire Eastern Desolation.

At this moment, she was surrounded by faint purple lightning, which was the manifestation of the Laws of heaven and earth unique to a Tribulation Crossing Stage Cultivator.

"Zzzz..."

The faint sound of electric current even came from the air.

The originally ambiguous and flirtatious atmosphere in the room was instantly crushed into pieces and vanished under this majestic heavenly might.

In its place was a bone-chilling cold and a suffocating sense of pressure.

Su Ye lay on the bed, and although his eyes were closed, his powerful Divine Sense (even though it was only at 25%) allowed him to clearly perceive all of this.

"Is this a Tribulation Transcendence Stage Great Power?"

Su Ye was secretly amazed in his heart.

"Even without intentionally targeting me, just a sliver of leaked aura makes me feel as if a great mountain is pressing down on my chest."

"If I didn't have the foundation of the Ancient Desolate Sacred Body, and if the System hadn't just repaired part of my Divine Soul, I'm afraid this pressure alone could have sent me, a vegetative state person, straight to the afterlife."

But he didn't panic.

Because he knew that this anger was not directed at him.

Nangong Li landed.

Those eyes, which were originally as deep as a ten-thousand-year-old cold pool, instantly melted when they touched the lifeless figure on the bed.

All the majesty, coldness, and killing intent dissipated at this moment.

In their place was endless tenderness, guilt, and deep pain.

She restrained all her aura and walked carefully toward the bedside, like a mother afraid of waking a sleeping child.

One step, two steps.

With every step, her heart felt like it was being twisted by a knife.

"Ye'er..."

A soft call, trembling beyond recognition.

Nangong Li reached the bedside.

She slowly reached out her hand; that slender jade hand, which had once covered the sky and slain countless demons in the Eastern Desolation, was now trembling violently.

She wanted to stroke Su Ye's face, but stopped in mid-air, as if fearing the cold on her hand would hurt him.

Finally...

Her hand still landed on Su Ye's forehead.

Cold and delicate.

But Su Ye could feel that within that palm, there was an extremely pure life Origin, which was being continuously transferred into his body.

"Revered Master... is late."

Nangong Li's voice was a bit choked up.

If those Cultivators outside who feared her like a god saw this scene, their jaws would probably drop.

That decisive and ice-cold Nangong Fairy would actually have a time when she shed tears?

Su Ye's heart also stirred slightly.

"It seems that the original host, this villain Senior Brother, holds a very high position in Revered Master's heart."

"True."

"Although the original host was arrogant and domineering to the outside world, a total villain, he was always extremely filial to Purple Bamboo Peak and to Revered Master."

"This kind of contrast is the most fatal."

Nangong Li sat on the edge of the bed, her eyes greedily tracing Su Ye's eyebrows and eyes.

Her Divine Sense instantly swept across Su Ye's entire body.

The next second.

Her face suddenly turned pale, then turned livid.

"Meridians shattered..."

"Golden Core broken..."

"Even the Sea of Consciousness is in a closed state..."

Although she had known the news for a long time, seeing Su Ye's tragic state with her own eyes still made Nangong Li feel the world spinning.

Three days ago.

She was in an ancient Secret Realm looking for an Opportunity for Su Ye to Breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Stage.

She received an urgent message from the Sect saying that Su Ye had been crippled by Lin Feng.

Ignoring the backlash from the Secret Realm, she forcibly broke out, tore through the Void Realm all the way, and crossed tens of millions of miles to rush back to the Holy Land.

She didn't expect to still see this scene that broke her heart.

In Nangong Li's eyes, two substantial beams of killing intent suddenly erupted.

The temperature in the room instantly dropped to the freezing point.

Even the red candle at the head of the bed was frozen at this moment, the flame maintaining its jumping posture but no longer emitting a shred of heat.

"Lin Feng!"

These two words were squeezed out from between Nangong Li's teeth.

With a thick smell of blood.

Su Ye silently lit a candle for Lin Feng in his heart.

"Great Protagonist Lin, you'd better pray for yourself."

"Being targeted by a crazy Tribulation Crossing Stage Revered Master, the path of you, the Child of Luck, is probably not going to be easy."

Nangong Li took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the urge to immediately go and tear Lin Feng into ten thousand pieces.

She lowered her head, looked at the "unconscious" Su Ye, and said softly:

"Ye'er, don't worry."

"Revered Master will never let go of the person who harmed you."

"Whether it's that bastard named Lin Feng, or whatever bullshit guardian behind him, or even the Sect Head of the Taichu Holy Land..."

"As long as they dare to stop me, I will kill everyone in the world!"

Dominating!

Su Ye praised secretly in his heart.

That's right.

These are the lines a villain Revered Master should have.

However, Su Ye was also a bit curious.

Since Revered Master is so strong, why didn't she directly slap Lin Feng to death in the original work?

Just then.

Nangong Li seemed to see through Su Ye's doubt.

She gently stroked Su Ye's cheek, a complex look flashing in her eyes, as she explained in a low voice:

"Ye'er, are you blaming Revered Master?"

"Blaming Revered Master for why I don't go and kill that Lin Feng right now to take revenge for you?"

Su Ye: I'm not blaming you, I'm feeling very good right now.

Nangong Li sighed and continued to talk to herself:

"That Lin Feng possesses great Luck."

"Senior Brother Sect Head said he is the one Destined by Fate. If I forcibly kill him, it will draw the backlash of the Heavenly Dao and even implicate the entire Purple Bamboo Peak."

"Heh..."

Speaking of this, Nangong Li gave a cold laugh, her eyes full of disdain.

"What destiny? In my eyes, since he harmed my disciple, he is an outcast of the Heavenly Dao!"

"The reason I don't kill him now is not because I fear any Heavenly Dao backlash."

"But because of Wan Shuang."

Mentioning the name "Wan Shuang," Su Ye's heart stirred.

Ji Wanshuang.

Fourth Junior Sister of Purple Bamboo Peak.

Also the first female lead in the original work.

She has a Top-Grade Ice Spiritual Root and a personality as cold as snow; she was also the fuse that led to the conflict between the original host and Lin Feng.

Back then, it was precisely because the original host was jealous of Lin Feng and Ji Wanshuang being close that he targeted Lin Feng everywhere, eventually ending up being crippled.

Nangong Li's finger gently brushed across Su Ye's brow, and her voice became somewhat low:

"Wan Shuang, that girl, has a stubborn nature."

"She always felt that you were the one who provoked Lin Feng first, that you were in the wrong."

"If Revered Master were to strike and kill Lin Feng now, Wan Shuang would definitely develop a Heart Demon and even resent me, and resent you."

"She has a Top-Grade Ice Spiritual Root, and her future achievements are limitless."

"If her Dao Heart is ruined, our Purple Bamboo Peak's Legacy will truly be broken."

Hearing this, Su Ye understood.

So that was it.

This is the side effect of the villain halo.

Even after being crippled, in the female lead's eyes, it was "well-deserved."

But...

"Resentment is just resentment."

Su Ye sneered in his heart.

"When I make my comeback, the first one I'll cripple is that green tea female lead who can't tell right from wrong!"

Nangong Li paused, her gaze suddenly becoming incomparably determined.

She looked at Su Ye as if making a solemn promise:

"However, Ye'er, don't worry."

"This is only temporary."

"I have already made a bet with Wan Shuang."

"When she breaks through to the Golden Core Stage and sees that Lin Feng's true face, and resolves the knot in her heart regarding you..."

A cruel blood-light flashed in Nangong Li's eyes.

That was a look that only someone who had truly seen mountains of corpses and seas of blood would possess.

"At that time."

"Regardless of whether that Lin Feng is some Child of Destiny."

"And regardless of how Senior Brother Sect Head tries to stop me."

"Revered Master will personally take action to skin Lin Feng alive, refine his Soul, and light a lamp with it!"

"I will use his head to sacrifice for the suffering my disciple has endured!"

Every word was powerful.

Killing intent was awe-inspiring.

The air in the entire Listening to Rain Pavilion seemed to freeze at this moment.

Su Ye felt his blood boiling as he listened.

Good!

This is my good Revered Master!

This soft rice is eaten with backbone!

After venting the anger in her heart, Nangong Li took a deep breath, and the aura around her became soft once again.

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She looked at Su Ye's bloodless lips, her heart aching beyond measure.

"I've said so much, yet you cannot hear me."

"The most urgent matter is to preserve your life first."

As she spoke, Nangong Li flipped her wrist.

In her palm, an exquisite jade bottle appeared out of thin air.

The bottle's surface shimmered with radiant light, engraved with complex, ancient array patterns. Merely holding it in her hand caused the concentration of Spiritual Qi in the surroundings to instantly increase several times over.

"This is the 'nine-turn spirit recovery pill' that I, your Revered Master, obtained only after slaying a ten-thousand-year-old flood dragon in the depths of a Secret Realm."

Nangong Li unplugged the bottle.

A medicinal fragrance, so rich it seemed tangible, instantly permeated the entire room.

Even just taking a single whiff, Su Ye felt the withered Meridians within his body, as if encountering sweet rain after a long drought, emit a joyful groan.

The System's notification chime rang out at the perfect moment:

【Ding!】

【Detected the aura of a high-grade Medicinal Pill, "nine-turn spirit recovery pill"!】

【This Medicinal Pill is a Saint-grade Low Grade Spirit Pill, possessing the miraculous effect of bringing the dead back to life and regrowing flesh on bones!】

【If the Host consumes it, the repair progress of the Meridians can instantly increase to over 30%!】

Su Ye was overjoyed.

A Saint-grade Medicinal Pill!

This was a treasure that even experts at the Soul Transformation Stage and Void Tempering Stage would break their heads fighting over!

To think his Revered Master would use it to save a useless person like him without a moment's hesitation?

This "soft rice" really tastes good!

However, the next second, Su Ye realized a problem.

"I am a vegetative state person right now."

"My swallowing function is lost."

"Although this Medicinal Pill melts upon entering the mouth, if the medicinal power cannot be guided into the abdomen, I'm afraid it will get stuck in my throat, wasting the medicinal effect."

Nangong Li clearly realized this problem as well.

She held the pill, which radiated a golden halo, and brought it to Su Ye's lips.

She gently pried open his lips, only to find that Su Ye's teeth were tightly clenched, making it impossible to feed him.

"Ye'er..."

Nangong Li's brows furrowed slightly.

She attempted to guide it with Spiritual Qi, but Su Ye's Meridians were currently too fragile to withstand the forced infusion of external Spiritual Qi.

Even the slightest mistake could cause his already shattered body to completely collapse.

"There is no other way."

Nangong Li sighed.

She looked at the Medicinal Pill in her hand, then at the pale yet still handsome face on the bed.

On her face, which was usually as calm as an ancient well, a faint blush unexpectedly appeared.

As an expert at the Tribulation Crossing Stage, for thousands of years, she had been single-mindedly devoted to the Dao and had never had any intimate contact with any man.

Even when taking disciples, she had always maintained the dignity and distance between Revered Master and disciple.

But at this moment, in order to save her disciple, some mundane rules had to be broken.

"So be it."

"I am your Revered Master, and also like half a mother to you."

"To save your life, why care about these empty formalities?"

Nangong Li comforted herself in her heart.

Subsequently, she gently placed the nine-turn spirit recovery pill into her own red lips.

The Medicinal Pill entered her mouth.

She did not swallow it immediately, but held it on the tip of her tongue, using her own warm saliva to slowly dissolve it.

A massive amount of medicinal power permeated her mouth.

Nangong Li leaned down.

Her snow-like hair slid down her shoulders, draping over both sides of Su Ye's cheeks, forming a private little space.

She looked at Su Ye, who was within arm's reach.

Looking at his long eyelashes and straight nose bridge, her heartbeat unexpectedly quickened by a few beats.

"Offense taken, disciple."

Nangong Li whispered softly.

Then, she slowly and firmly pressed down.

Their lips met.

"Boom!"

Su Ye only felt his brain go blank.

It was not because of the medicinal power of the pill, but because of that incredibly soft touch.

It was a completely different feeling from Liu Ruyan.

If Liu Ruyan was fire—passionate, crazy, and aggressive—then Nangong Li was water.

She was the melted snow from the peak of a high mountain.

Clear, sweet, and carrying a hint of sacred, inviolable coolness.

And there was that unique, faint fragrance that belonged only to her.

It was the cold scent of a ten-thousand-year-old snow lotus blooming—elegant and secluded—instantly drilling into Su Ye's nostrils, making him intoxicated by it.

Nangong Li closed her eyes.

Her long eyelashes trembled gently, brushing against Su Ye's cheeks and bringing a wave of tingling itchiness.

She cautiously pried open Su Ye's teeth.

Her movements were gentle to the extreme, as if she were caring for a fragile, rare treasure.

Immediately after, a warm flow slowly transferred into Su Ye's mouth along the point where they were connected.

It was the dissolved medicinal liquid, it was Nangong Li's saliva, and even more, it was her unreserved care.

"Gulp."

Under the guidance of Nangong Li's tongue, that warm flow slid down Su Ye's throat and instantly surged into his limbs and bones.

"Mmm..."

Su Ye let out a satisfied sigh in his heart.

Awesome!

This is so damn awesome!

Is this the feeling of being kept by a rich woman... no, wait, being kept by one's Revered Master?

The medicinal power of the nine-turn spirit recovery pill was extremely domineering.

Wherever it passed, the originally severed Meridians began to heal at a speed visible to the naked eye.

That tingling, numb sensation was like ten thousand ants biting, yet it also carried a pleasure of rebirth.

And compared to the physical repair, the mental stimulation was even more intense.

Su Ye could even feel his Revered Master's soft, glutinous tongue, in order to ensure the medicinal liquid fully entered, inadvertently touch him.

In that instant, Su Ye clearly felt the delicate body pressing against him stiffen abruptly.

Nangong Li opened her eyes suddenly.

In those beautiful eyes, a trace of panic, a trace of shyness, and a trace of... strange emotion that even she herself had not noticed, flashed by.

She wanted to get up, but the medicinal liquid had not been fully transferred yet.

If she retreated now, all previous efforts would be wasted.

"I am doing this to save a life."

"I am doing this to save a life..."

Nangong Li frantically recited the Heart-Clearing Mantra in her heart, forcibly suppressing the inexplicable heat in her heart.

She endured the trembling sensation from the depths of her Soul and continued to maintain this posture, even doing so to ensure the medicinal effect was better absorbed.

【Ding!】

【Detected that the Host is passively receiving "Revered Master's feeding".】

【Achievement Unlocked: "Eating Soft Rice Hard (Three)" — Revered Master's First Kiss!】

【System Evaluation: The Host is truly a role model for us all! Even an expert at the Tribulation Crossing Stage could not escape your "clutches". This mouthful of soft rice has been eaten with such Realm and such skill!】

【The medicinal effect of the nine-turn spirit recovery pill is being absorbed...】

【Meridian repair progress is skyrocketing...】

Listening to the System's teasing in his mind and feeling the intoxicating fragrance between his lips and teeth, Su Ye only had one thought in his heart.

"This vegetative state... how much longer do I have to play the part?"

"If I could have this kind of treatment every day, not to mention three days, I would be willing to do it for three years!"

However, just at this warm and romantic moment, Nangong Li suddenly sensed something.

Her movements, which were originally focused on feeding the medicine, paused slightly.

She sniffed gently with the tip of her nose.

Beneath that rich medicinal fragrance, she seemed to smell a... faint, extremely special scent.

It was the unique body scent of a young girl, also mixed with a trace of... the musk of intimacy.

Nangong Li's expression instantly became somewhat subtle.

Although she had not experienced intimate matters, she had lived for thousands of years; she wasn't completely ignorant of what this scent represented.

Moreover, this scent, although very faint, still lingered on Su Ye's neck, right under her nose.

"This is..."

Nangong Li's pupils constricted slightly.

Her feeding action did not stop, but a stormy sea churned in her heart.

"In this Listening to Rain Pavilion, besides Ye'er, has someone else been here?"

"And..."

"They even did that kind of thing?"

"Who is it?"

"Ruyan? Wan Shuang? Or Nianer?"

A bold and absurd thought surfaced in Nangong Li's mind.

She looked at her "unconscious" beloved disciple beneath her.

A complex emotion that was hard to describe surged in her heart.

There was anger, there was shock, and there was a trace of... sourness.

"Very well."

"It seems that in these few days while I was away, Purple Bamboo Peak has been quite lively."

Nangong Li snorted coldly in her heart.

The kiss, which had originally only contained worry and pity, suddenly added a hint of punishment at this moment.

She applied a little force with her teeth and bit down on Su Ye's lower lip.

"Hiss..."

Su Ye sucked in a cold breath in his heart.

What is going on?

She was as gentle as water just a moment ago, why did she suddenly bite?

Revered Master, are you a dog?!