Chapter 976

Good news: Su Qingli has been awakened.

Bad news: Su Qingli's condition is... slightly off.

"Eva, what's going on now?"

Watching Su Qingli, her eyes glazed, rise from the bed and begin stripping off her battle suit, Xu Jingming's eyelids twitched violently as he hurriedly asked.

"I don't know either! Normally, even if the Spirit-Nourishing Elixir doesn't work, it can't turn into an aphrodisiac!"

Eva looked equally baffled, but after noticing Su Qingli's chaotic spiritual force, she suddenly slapped her forehead and exclaimed:

I understand! The Void Being's spiritual force has taken root in Su Laoshi's spiritual sea.

Your Spirit-Nourishing Elixir didn't just enhance Su Laoshi's spiritual force—it also indirectly nourished the Void Being's spiritual force!

That's why, although Su Laoshi has awakened, she's still trapped in a hallucination—she's mistaking reality for the illusion!!"

"Mistaking reality for the illusion?!"

Xu Jingming's sword-like eyebrows lifted.

That means the hallucination Su Laoshi is currently experiencing is probably... not suitable for minors.

Then again, it makes sense.

Hallucinations are constructed to exploit the weakest points in an adept's spiritual force.

For the vast majority of adepts, lust is one of the hardest impulses to abandon.

The same holds true for him.

In fact, due to the dragon-class beast blood in his body, his lust is even stronger than that of other adepts.

"So what do we do now? Keep using the Spirit-Nourishing Elixir?"

Although Su Qingli had awakened, she remained trapped in the illusion and couldn't control her spiritual force, leaving Xu Jingming with no way to eliminate the abnormal spiritual force.

"Wait, let me think."

A torrent of data flowed like a waterfall through Eva's clear eyes.

Her database was too vast—even with her formidable computational power, finding the optimal solution would take considerable time.

Meanwhile, across from them, the form-fitting battle suit that had previously covered her entire body had now been pulled down to just above her chest.

The two full, snow-white mounds were fully exposed, and near the center, a faint blush could barely be seen...

He hadn't noticed before.

Only now did Xu Jingming realize that Su Qingli, usually so cold and aloof, had a figure that matched Ling Shuang's perfectly!

"If we wait any longer, Su Laoshi's going to be completely naked!"

He muttered a silent curse, then unleashed his spiritual force in a violent surge, preparing to re-enter Su Qingli's consciousness sea to assess the situation.

But before he could act further, Su Qingli's previously glazed eyes suddenly cleared!

"Teacher, you're awake?" Xu Jingming's face lit up with relief.

"What... what's going on?"

Su Qingli looked around, bewildered.

Wasn't she in Jingming's room? How...

The next instant, memories flooded back—she instantly understood everything.

"I was dragged into another hallucination?!" Su Qingli's expression flushed with shame and fury.

Once was bad enough—how could it happen again?!

But before she could think further, she suddenly noticed her own state.

"What... what is this?!"

Su Qingli's face turned instantly crimson, and she even forgot she was a formidable adept.

She forgot to summon the Pure Qing Divine Thunder, frantically covering her vital areas with her hands.

"Su Laoshi, there's still a cluster of the Void Being's spiritual force in your spiritual sea—you need to cooperate with me."

Forgetting propriety, Xu Jingming spoke quickly as soon as he saw Su Qingli regain clarity.

But the moment he finished speaking, Su Qingli's clear gaze turned glazed once more.

"Damn! Su Laoshi is being dragged back into the hallucination!" Eva cried anxiously from midair.

The Void Being's spiritual force in Su Qingli's spiritual sea is the source of the hallucination—if it isn't destroyed,

even if she briefly regains awareness, she'll be pulled back in.

"Jing... Jingming, I... I can't hold on much longer—what do I need to do?"

Su Qingli pressed her long legs tightly together in an inward V, her face flushed, breathing lightly as she asked.

"My spiritual force needs to enter your consciousness sea—just keep your spiritual force from attacking me."

Xu Jingming hurriedly spoke, forcing himself not to look at her sensitive areas.

"N... no, I can't control my spiritual force right now.

If I let even a sliver of it slip, I'll be dragged back into the hallucination.

Is... is there any other way?"

Su Qingli bit her red lip tightly, pausing between each word.

"Can't control your spiritual force?!" Xu Jingming frowned.

If she couldn't control her spiritual force, this situation was still a dead end.

At that moment, Eva suddenly spoke from midair:

"Su Laoshi, you're resisting the hallucination—that's why you can't manipulate your spiritual force.

If that's the case, why not resolve the hallucination first?"

"H... how?" Su Qingli dared not relax her awareness for even a moment.

"It's better to divert than to block, Su Laoshi—your illusion isn't just desire, is it?"

"Go discuss it with an S-rank; do exactly what happens in your illusion, and it should resolve the illusion."

Eva said thoughtfully.

"This...?!" Su Qingli's beautiful eyes widened suddenly.

Although she had experienced it more than once in the illusion, it was still just an illusion.

How could she actually do such a thing in reality?

Xu Jingming spoke with a strange expression: "Is there any other way?"

"There isn't."

Eva shook her head seriously: "And you two had better decide quickly.

If you delay too long, Su Laoshi, you won't be able to tell the illusion from reality.

Even if that mass of spiritual energy is eventually resolved, it will leave permanent damage."

"This..."

Su Qingli instinctively looked at Xu Jingming.

"Solving desire doesn't have to rely on someone else, Su Laoshi—why don't you try doing it yourself first?" Xu Jingming said.

"Do it myself?"

Su Qingli's fair, delicate face turned crimson as blood; she lowered her head and whispered, barely audible:

"I know of such a method, but I've never tried it—I don't even know how to do it..."

"I see..."

Xu Jingming paused, surprised that Su Qingli was so pure.

He had plenty of video recordings saved with Ling Shuang and the others, but there was no time for Su Qingli to learn from them now.

"If that's the case, then Su Laoshi, I'm sorry—I can't let you sink into the illusion forever. I must be forward."

Xu Jingming took a deep breath and said gravely.

He couldn't truly watch Su Laoshi perish like this.

"It's... it's fine."

Hearing this, Su Qingli actually sighed in relief.

Having gone through so much with Xu Jingming, she had already developed inexplicable feelings for her student.

But perhaps because of her status, or perhaps because of pride, she couldn't voice them.

This situation, ironically, was granting her release.

Thinking of this, Su Qingli ceased resisting the illusion; her beautiful eyes grew hazy once more.

She extended her slender, jade-like hands, wrapping around Xu Jingming like an octopus...

PS: Afraid of the black box again, so I could only write something simple...