59: You may rest here.

Leng Ningshuang left Lu Yi's courtyard with a complex state of mind.

As soon as she left, the door shut with a "bang."

Ling'er looked at her Revered Master's "exhausted" appearance.

Distressed, she hurried forward, preparing to help him change into dry clothes.

"Revered Master, you..."

To her surprise, before she could finish her sentence...

Lu Yi's "weak and powerless" hand suddenly grabbed her wrist.

Ling'er was startled, and before she could react, she was pulled down by a massive force.

She then fell onto Lu Yi's bed and was firmly pinned beneath him.

Lu Yi, who had just been pale and unable to stand steadily, showed no sign of weakness now; his eyes were startlingly bright.

"Ma... Revered Master..."

Ling'er was startled by this sudden turn of events, and she subconsciously asked:

"You... you're alright?"

"It's not that I'm completely fine."

Lu Yi smiled, reached out, and gently scraped her petite nose.

"It's just that my spiritual power is indeed a bit depleted."

He lowered his head, leaned close to Ling'er's ear, and whispered in a suggestive tone:

"I need you to help me... replenish it..."

...On the other side, Leng Ningshuang returned to her room and closed the door.

In her mind, she kept replaying the way Ling'er had looked at her...

...with that "admiring" yet "strange" gaze before she left, causing her cheeks to flush.

But soon, she breathed a sigh of relief.

Regardless, since Lu Yi had promised to help her by "circulating his power"...

...the greatest hidden danger within her body was finally resolved for the time being.

She estimated that given Lu Yi's terrifying consumption today, the next outbreak of cold energy should... should be in three days.

Three days should be enough time for him to recover, right?

She made a prediction based on her own experience.

However, the terrifying catalytic power of the "cold marrow precious jade" far exceeded her imagination.

After only two and a half days...

Leng Ningshuang felt with horror that the cold energy within her Dantian was showing signs of erupting once again!

In desperation, she had no choice but to swallow her pride and call for Lu Yi again.

This time, when she saw Lu Yi's "fully recovered" face...

...her heart was filled with seventy percent worry and thirty percent guilt.

She couldn't help but ask in a low voice:

"Is... is your body... alright? Can you still hold up?"

Lu Yi puffed out his chest and patted it heavily, saying:

"Don't worry, Sister Ningshuang, it's no problem at all!"

The second "treatment" arrived as scheduled.

After this outbreak, the intervals became shorter and shorter, increasingly uncontrollable.

From two and a half days, to two days, then to one and a half days... finally, it even evolved to the point where she had to come to Lu Yi almost every evening for this "power-circulating treatment."

Leng Ningshuang could clearly feel that Lu Yi was truly becoming somewhat lethargic.

His pale complexion after each "treatment" was no longer a facade but a result of a genuine, massive consumption of spiritual power.

Yet, she herself had developed an unspeakable "addiction" to the sensation of that cold energy being neutralized and dispersed by the extreme Yang spiritual power, which then turned into a warm current flowing through her entire body.

It was a sense of comfort like returning from Hell to the human world, making it impossible for her to stop.

She knew full well that Lu Yi was suffering a huge "depletion" for her sake.

Yet her body could not stop calling for him... Just as Leng Ningshuang was caught in this complex emotion of guilt and "addiction"...

...inside Wu Yang's bedroom in the State Preceptors Residence, which had been placed under a Restriction.

"Boom—!"

A powerful surge of spiritual power suddenly erupted from within Wu Yang's body!

He opened his eyes, a glint of excitement and ecstasy flashing within them.

During these days, the jealousy and anger he felt toward Lu Yi had been tormenting him every single moment.

He converted all of these emotions into motivation for his Cultivation, and by some stroke of Opportunity, he actually broke through the Bottleneck!

The Cave Heaven Realm was achieved!

Feeling the spiritual power within him, which was several times more surging than when he was in the Purple Mansion Realm, a sinister smile appeared on his face.

He walked to the door, looked at the Restriction Leng Ningshuang had casually placed, gathered his spiritual power, and threw a punch!

"Bang!"

The sturdy Restriction shattered upon impact.

He then opened the door, stepped into the courtyard, and took a deep breath of the fresh air.

Taking a deep breath, he decided to immediately go and report the good news to his Revered Master!

He wanted to let his Revered Master know that he was the man most worthy of her reliance!

He would expose Lu Yi's true face as a hypocrite right in front of his Revered Master!

Excitedly, Wu Yang made his way all the way to his Revered Master's bedroom door.

He was about to raise his hand to knock when he suddenly heard Lu Yi's slightly weak and tired voice coming from inside the room.

"...I can't... Sister Ningshuang, I really can't anymore. (My spiritual power) is completely gone. I need to go back and rest..."

Then he heard his Revered Master's voice, full of concern and a hint of embarrassment:

"Look at you... you can't even stand steadily... It's... it's so late, and the wind is strong outside. I won't see you back."

"You should... just rest here."

Leng Ningshuang simply felt that "carrying" him back in the middle of the night would be somewhat inappropriate.

But these words sounded very different to Wu Yang outside the door.

Hearing this, Wu Yang's hand, which was mid-air and about to knock, instantly froze.

His entire being stood frozen on the spot, as if he had been hit by a petrification Spell.

In his mind, only his Revered Master's words remained.

"You should rest here."

"Rest here."

"Rest."

...How could this be?

How could it be like this?

Wu Yang felt his entire worldview completely collapse at this moment.

He... hadn't he just been in solitary confinement, undergoing secluded meditation?

How many days has it been?! It shouldn't even be a month yet, right?

Filled with joy and excitement, he had Cultivated with all his might, driven by jealousy and anger, and finally broke through to the long-dreamed-of Cave Heaven Realm!

He thought that after emerging from seclusion, he could use a brand-new posture to expose Lu Yi's true face and "save" his deceived Revered Master!

But this was what he was waiting for?!

While he was "enduring hardships to strengthen his resolve" here...

...that bastard had actually... had actually progressed to the point where he could stay overnight in his Revered Master's bedroom at will?!

He didn't even dare to imagine what had happened before that sentence, "I really can't anymore, it's completely gone."

A sense of humiliation and betrayal, a hundred times stronger than when he was publicly shamed before, instantly overwhelmed him.