Chapter 129: The approach of the wedding date! Xu Qinghuan

Jin Chen Peak.

"Sigh..."

Xu Qinghuan looked at the ceiling with dull eyes and sighed softly.

There was not a trace of sleepiness in her eyes. That pretty face, which always carried an enchanting charm, was now full of anxiety, and even her eye sockets were a bit dark, with faint green marks hanging under her eyelids.

The insomnia was getting more and more serious.

Thinking carefully, the last time she was able to have deep sleep...

Was when she was tossed around by that old thing until she had no strength left...

"What should I do?"

Thinking of the wedding date getting closer, Xu Qinghuan couldn't help but sigh again, and the anxiety in her eyes grew even stronger.

Calculating the time, there was only a little over a month left until her wedding date with Jin Hai.

By then, it would be the final moment that determined her fate.

She wasn't a fool; she had been secretly inquiring about Jiang Ye's background during this period.

The results of the inquiry were half joy and half worry...

The joy was that Jiang Ye had been in the limelight recently, and his feat of destroying the Black Wind Stronghold had quite a reputation among the elders of the Embracing the Pill Realm.

The worry was that Jiang Ye's strength seemed to be at most the mid-stage of the Embracing the Pill Realm, while Jin Hai had been attacking the late-stage of the Embracing the Pill Realm recently.

It was highly likely that he would break through before the wedding date.

One is the mid-stage of the Embracing the Pill Realm, and the other is the late-stage of the Embracing the Pill Realm. This gap...

She really couldn't think of what chance Jiang Ye had of winning.

Where did that old thing's confidence come from?

Could it be that he really had some hidden trump card, or was it that... he was just lying to her?

What made her even angrier was that that old thing came and went as he pleased.

What did he take her, Xu Qinghuan, for?!

"That hateful old thing..."

Xu Qinghuan bit her silver teeth and cursed angrily in a low voice.

The voice was suppressed extremely low, so low that only she could hear it, but in that tone, besides annoyance, even she didn't notice that there was a trace of hidden longing.

Just as she wanted to close her eyes and force herself to sleep, her beautiful eyes shrank suddenly.

Beside her bed, a thin, withered figure with gray hair appeared at some point.

He just stood there quietly, like an old tree that had merged with the night, and those aged eyes were looking down at her, carrying a bit of playful amusement.

"It's you..."

Xu Qinghuan almost let out an exclamation, but fortunately, her reaction was fast enough to cover her mouth with her jade hand in time, forcibly blocking the scream that was about to come out.

"What... what are you here for again..."

She loosened a finger and spat out a soft hum from her throat that sounded like anger and joy.

The voice was light and thin, as if squeezed out from between her teeth, and as if overflowing from the depths of her heart.

Although she tried her best to stabilize her mood and the expression on her face, her violently heaving chest had completely exposed the waves in her heart.

Those enchanting eyes were even more uncontrollably seeping with hazy water, glowing with a lustrous sheen under the dim candlelight.

Jiang Ye sneered: "What are you pretending for?"

When the sky was slightly bright.

Jiang Ye's figure left Jin Chen Peak silently.

The morning mist was like gauze, covering the mountain path, and his pace was light and calm.

"The endlessness of this water-attribute true qi plus the endlessness of this wood-attribute true qi... is truly wonderful."

Jiang Ye breathed in the cool morning breeze, his eyes still bright, without a trace of fatigue.

He moved his bones slightly, and his joints made a faint "clack" sound, which was crisp and powerful, like bamboo joints being pulled up.

The corners of his mouth curled up slightly, and he walked toward the herb garden on Tianyang Peak at a leisurely pace.

On the bed, Xu Qinghuan slowly opened her eyes. In those enchanting eyes, hazy water light overflowed directly, sliding down the corners of her eyes and soaking into her temples.

Her complexion was frighteningly rosy, as if she had a high fever, revealing a sense of lethargy after exhaustion, but under that rosiness, there was an indescribable satisfaction and laziness.

"Am... am I still alive..."

Xu Qinghuan muttered in a daze, her eyes unfocused, as if she hadn't come back to her senses yet.

As soon as the voice came out, she was startled herself.

This faint, almost inaudible murmur was actually hoarse, like sandpaper grinding on rough pottery, dry and rough.

Only then did she wake up belatedly that her throat was as dry as if it were about to smoke, and every swallow carried a stinging pain.

She wanted to raise her hand to wipe her eyes, but was horrified to find that every bone in her body seemed to have fallen apart, and she couldn't squeeze out a trace of strength.

Her arm fell weakly halfway up, and her fingers didn't even have the strength to clench into a fist.

She was, after all, a martial artist with Hidden Force strength.

Now she didn't even have the strength to raise her hand...

This was how exaggerated it was.

However, although her body was already so tired, there was not a trace of annoyance in Xu Qinghuan's eyes, but rather a sense of indescribable pleasure.

Even the anxiety that had been pressing on her heart like a stone slowly dissipated.

"This damned old thing..."

Xu Qinghuan bit her moist red lips and let out a hoarse hum.

There was no hatred or annoyance in that voice, only a kind of helpless, chiding tone.

"The wedding date in a month..."

"You'd better be this fierce too..."

"Otherwise, both of us will be finished..."

After returning to the herb garden.

"What's going on with Little Fire..."

Jiang Ye originally wanted to feed Little Fire some leaves of the Heavenly Sunflower Grass.

After all, this little guy had made a contribution when fighting Yang Han last time, which was enough to show its extraordinary potential.

Little Fire was curled up and lying on the pitch-black bead seized from the Qisha Sect demon at some point, its six legs curled up, its body slightly arched, sleeping soundly as if in hibernation.

Its abdomen rose and fell slightly, its breathing was long, its two pairs of mandibles were gently closed, and even its antennae were drooping, looking like it wouldn't wake up even if thunder struck.

Even the unique fragrance of the Heavenly Sunflower Grass leaves drifting over couldn't wake it up.

"This is strange."

A flash of surprise appeared in Jiang Ye's aged eyes, and he looked at the pitch-black bead again.

Could it be that this bead was specifically for raising poisonous pets?

Jiang Ye observed for a long while, but found nothing new.

Fortunately, the mental connection between him and Little Fire was still there, and he could feel that the other party's aura was still steady.

After thinking for a long while, Jiang Ye shook his head slightly, put the bead together with Little Fire into a jade box, and kept it close to his body.

Afterward, his life became regular, and he returned to his usual cultivation rhythm.

Now that the "Azure Wood Longevity Qi-Nurturing Method" had just entered the entry level, he planned to cultivate this Qi-Nurturing Method to minor achievement, consolidate his foundation, and then find Zheng Feng and the others to borrow contribution points to exchange for the other two Qi-Nurturing Methods.

Time passed quickly.

In the blink of an eye, seven days passed.

On this day, the noon sun was high, and the scorching sun was in the sky.

In the Heavenly Sunflower Grass herb garden, a thin, withered figure sat cross-legged on the ground, eyes slightly closed, breathing long and slow.

He was simultaneously nourishing fire qi from the sunlight and wood qi from the Azure Wood Vine; the two completely different powers ran in parallel in his body without interfering with each other.

Around his body, red-gold light and pale green light were faintly intertwined, like a burning flame wrapped by verdant vines, with light halos flowing.

Suddenly—

The aura around his body shook violently, and the surrounding air emitted a low roar, like muffled thunder rolling underground.

The birds within a hundred meters screamed and flew into the sky, the sound of flapping wings was continuous, and even the chirping of insects in the grass stopped abruptly.

A moment later.

Jiang Ye slowly opened his eyes, his eyes bright.

Host: Jiang Ye

Lifespan: 70/200

Strength: Embracing the Pill Realm (Mid-Stage)

Fate: Ladder to Divinity 【Effect 1: Superb Comprehension!】

Qi-Nurturing Methods Mastered: Great Sun Heavenly Flame Qi-Nurturing Method (Minor Achievement, 3999/5000), Canglan True Water Qi-Nurturing Method (Minor Achievement, 2887/3000), Azure Wood Longevity Qi-Nurturing Method (Minor Achievement, 18/3000)

Wu Gong Mastered: Five Animals Fist (Perfected), Blood Moon Blade (Perfected), Jin Gang Body Refining Technique (Minor Achievement, 3967/5000), True Fire Eye Refining Technique (Entry, 526/1000), Five Elements World-Suppressing Seal (Incomplete), Shadow-Splitting Tracking Steps (Entry, 896/1000)

Intentions Mastered: Tiger Walk Like Illness, Spirit Ape Thousand Changes, Startled Deer No Trace, Riding the Wind Soaring Sky, Blood Moon Illusory Kill

Taking a look at the system panel, Jiang Ye nodded with satisfaction.

After seven days of hard cultivation, he finally cultivated the "Azure Wood Longevity Qi-Nurturing Method" to minor achievement, and seven of the regular meridians in his body were opened up; he was just one away from breaking through to the late-stage of the Embracing the Pill Realm.

Moreover, his other martial arts hadn't fallen behind in these seven days.

The "Great Sun Heavenly Flame Qi-Nurturing Method" and the "Canglan True Water Qi-Nurturing Method" were both approaching major achievement, and the "Jin Gang Body Refining Technique" was also approaching major achievement; his body was already moving from "Copper Clothing" toward "Iron Body".

Except for the slightly slower progress of the "True Fire Eye Refining Technique", the "Shadow-Splitting Tracking Steps" was also about to break through to minor achievement.

In these seven days, his strength had ushered in another refinement.

"Since the foundation of wood-attribute true qi has been consolidated, I can start cultivating the other two Qi-Nurturing Methods next."

Jiang Ye nodded secretly in his heart.

Metal-attribute, Earth-attribute, neither can be missing.

Only when the five elements are gathered will his true qi usher in a true transformation.

By then, he would also be able to exert the true power of the Five Elements World-Suppressing Seal.

"Let's borrow a sum from Zheng Feng first."

Jiang Ye was just about to get up to find Zheng Feng to borrow contribution points.

As a result, speak of the devil and he appears.

Accompanied by a steady and heavy sound of footsteps coming from outside the herb garden, a young man in green sportswear with a handsome and refined face came into his view.

It was indeed Zheng Feng.

"Elder Jiang! Big news!"

As soon as he saw Jiang Ye, a flash of excitement appeared on Zheng Feng's face. ===== CHAPTER 130 =====