Chapter 426: Dual Cultivation

Seeing Zhang Nuo suddenly move again, Su Haizhen thought he wanted to forcibly rescue Xuan Jin. In her great anxiety, she stopped caring about anything else, hugged Zhang Nuo tightly, and blurted out what was in her heart!

Zhang Nuo was slightly startled. He had only wanted to get closer to communicate because he felt the mental fluctuations of the Mysterious Heaven Spirit Insect. He had not expected to force out the words Su Haizhen had kept hidden for so long; it was truly an unexpected harvest!

"Don't worry! I won't do anything foolish; I just felt Xuan Jin's mental connection a moment ago!"

Watching her ten jade-like fingers clasped tightly against his chest, Zhang Nuo felt a strange sensation in his heart. Since entering the Cultivation World, no one had ever treated him with such sincerity! And that sentence from Su Haizhen just now seemed to have been spoken without any consideration, coming entirely from her heart!

However, Zhang Nuo's words made Su Haizhen blush; it turned out he hadn't been trying to throw his life away at all! Her pretty face flushed red, and she loosened her grip on Zhang Nuo! She let out a long breath and said:

"Hey! You scared me to death!"

Zhang Nuo just smiled and didn't pay her any mind. Instead, he walked forward a few steps and stopped when he was a few zhang away from Xuan Jin. With his eyes slightly closed, he kept calling out through their mental connection:

"Xuan Jin! Xuan Jin!"

"Master! I am fine!"

After a few calls, a faint mental connection came from the frozen Spirit Insect! Upon sensing it, Zhang Nuo nearly jumped for joy! All his previous sorrow vanished!

"You're fine, that's wonderful! Can you come out on your own?"

"I should be able to!"

After Xuan Jin was quiet for a moment, he transmitted this to Zhang Nuo through their mental connection. At the same time, a crack suddenly appeared on the surface of the thick ice sealing Xuan Jin, and then, with a *whoosh*, it shattered like crystal! Taking advantage of this moment, Xuan Jin moved his fingers away from the cauldron wall, flashed, and threw himself into Zhang Nuo's arms!

Reaching out to catch the little fellow, Zhang Nuo felt his whole body jolt. His ten fingers were instantly eroded by the chill, the blood in his body nearly froze, and even the breath from his mouth carried large ice crystals!

If the cold transmitted from Xuan Jin was this overbearing, one could only imagine how Xuan Jin, who had been in direct contact with the cold, must have felt!

"You're still alive! That's just great!"

Zhang Nuo held Xuan Jin tightly in his arms, ignoring the lingering cold radiating from him, his eyes nearly brimming with excited tears! Chunyangzi was also greatly shocked; he had not expected that the frozen Xuan Jin could break the ice seal on his own. Was this the strength of a Mysterious Heaven Grade Spirit Insect? This was too terrifying!

Regardless, Xuan Jin had returned safely, which made him very happy as well!

"Little fellow! You are truly amazing!"

Su Haizhen walked up to Zhang Nuo and, looking at Xuan Jin, who was frozen blue all over, spoke as if coaxing a child. It would have been fine if he hadn't seen the young woman, but the moment Xuan Jin saw Su Haizhen approach, he struggled, wanting to burrow into her arms!

How could Zhang Nuo not understand his intentions? After cursing him as a little lecher in his heart, he forcibly stuffed him into the Spirit Beast Bag! Turning back, he said to Su Haizhen:

"Earlier, you said you had a way for us to quickly improve our cultivation; what method is it?"

A crimson flush flashed across her face; things having reached this point, Su Haizhen had no choice but to say it!

"Dual Cultivation!"

With her head lowered, Su Haizhen tried to keep the volume of these two words as low as possible, but Zhang Nuo still heard them! He was stunned for a moment, and then a look of anticipation appeared on his face!

Even Chunyangzi, inside his body, shouted out:

"Kid Zhang! You're about to have another stroke of romantic luck!"

Ignoring Chunyangzi, Zhang Nuo looked at Su Haizhen with a smile! He asked, pretending to be serious:

"You know the Dual Cultivation Method?"

Not daring to look directly into Zhang Nuo's eyes, the young woman nodded slightly! With a light flip of her jade hand, she took out a Jade Slip and, without raising her head, presented it to Zhang Nuo!

Reaching out to take the Jade Slip, Zhang Nuo submerged his Divine Sense into it. The moment he saw the contents, even a grown man like him couldn't help but feel his face flush with warmth.

So-called Dual Cultivation was the method of men and women practicing together by using yin and yang to complement each other. In the Cultivation World, there were many such techniques; some sects even relied entirely on Dual Cultivation Techniques to practice!

The contents recorded in the Jade Slip were very explicit, even explaining every posture one by one! However, when he reached the end, Zhang Nuo drew a sharp breath! This set of Dual Cultivation Techniques could not only quickly improve one's cultivation but could also provide a simple tempering of the physical bodies of both cultivators.

Although this bit of tempering was of no use to Zhang Nuo at this moment, it was extremely useful for ordinary Dharma Cultivators!

No wonder Su Haizhen had been unwilling to bring out this technique! It was because it was a Dual Cultivation Technique! Although cultivators in the Cultivation World had very long lifespans, suitable partners for Dual Cultivation were not found everywhere! Since the young woman had brought out the technique now, she had clearly decided that Zhang Nuo could be her Dual Cultivation partner!

In truth, Zhang Nuo also liked Su Haizhen very much. Because of Zhuge Qing, Zhang Nuo did not dare to easily trust women again! Especially beautiful women!

With a slight shift in his thoughts, the joy that had just appeared on Zhang Nuo's face vanished once more. He said to Su Haizhen very solemnly:

"Fairy Su, this matter of a Dual Cultivation partner is of great importance! Do not do this just because I am the only one here!"

"That's not it!"

Su Haizhen, who had been shyly keeping her head down, became anxious the moment she heard Zhang Nuo say this. She quickly raised her head, a look of determination appearing in her eyes!

"Actually, ever since we left the Mi Hai Vortex, I haven't been able to forget you. In the years you were gone, my heart was never at peace; I always hoped to see you one more time! Furthermore, the fact that my cultivation has been stuck at the Golden Core Late Stage all these years, unable to break through the bottleneck, also has to do with you!"

Zhang Nuo raised an eyebrow; that last sentence had left him confused!

"What do you mean by that?"

"As a cultivator, the most important thing is to have a heart like a clear mirror. Only then will there be no major flaws in one's state of mind, and one's cultivation can improve smoothly! But ever since you were in my heart, my state of mind has never been stable again..."

The young woman's voice grew quieter as she spoke, until finally, she could barely hear herself. Zhang Nuo suddenly realized; it turned out that, without knowing it, he had become the greatest obstacle to the young woman's advancement! This was what cultivators often called a Heart Demon!

Since Zhang Nuo was the young woman's Heart Demon, it meant that Su Haizhen had truly given him her heart!

"It must have been hard for you all these years!"

Zhang Nuo pulled the young woman into his arms and whispered softly in her ear. Inside the Four Spirits Square Cauldron, it was filled with cold, but between these two, a thick warmth erupted!

After a long while, Su Haizhen finally raised her head from Zhang Nuo's arms, blinking her bright eyes, not knowing what to say for a moment! Often, one falls in love without realizing it; she had only recently discovered that the flaw in her state of mind was actually Zhang Nuo!

Everything from her time in the Mi Hai Vortex was still vivid in her memory when she looked back on it now! But she hadn't expected that Zhang Nuo would leave without saying goodbye the moment he arrived at the Immortal Illusion Continent. Now that she saw him again, she felt a sense of sudden enlightenment! The stifled feeling she had carried for decades was finally released!

"With this 'Dragon-Joining Phoenix-Joy' Dual Cultivation Technique, as long as we practice diligently, we will certainly be able to help you make a breakthrough in a short time!"

At this moment, Zhang Nuo was still thinking about that Dual Cultivation Technique!

"En!"

With a light nod, the young woman blushed and gave a soft affirmative sound!

"Since that's the case, let's begin!"

Zhang Nuo picked the young woman up, and just as he was about to act, Su Haizhen struck his chest hard with her small fist!

"What are you in such a hurry for? You haven't fully understood the technique yet, have you?"

Breaking free from Zhang Nuo's embrace, Su Haizhen jumped to the ground and then tossed the Jade Slip to him.

"Read it carefully, and don't start until you've understood everything!"

Taking the Jade Slip, Zhang Nuo smiled bitterly in embarrassment. He had indeed been a bit too hasty just now; facing a presence as enchantingly beautiful as Su Haizhen, it was probably hard for any man to keep his composure!

Three days later, inside the Small Tripod, a man and a woman were entwined together!

"That's not right, your Spirit Power needs to move a little more to the left!"

Zhang Nuo pressed down on Su Haizhen, looking at the stark-naked young woman; the Dual Cultivation techniques he had memorized in his heart earlier had long since been cast to the nine heavens! Ignoring the young woman's guidance, he followed his own impulses entirely! He was like an extremely hungry beast, venting his most primal desires!

At the very beginning, Su Haizhen was still following the circulation path of the "Dragon-Joining Phoenix-Joy" technique, but once she saw that Zhang Nuo was not circulating the technique at all, everything became clear in her heart!

From inside the Small Tripod came the sounds of a woman's delicate gasps and a man's thick, powerful breathing! The small space was filled with an ambiguous atmosphere!

After a bout of clouds and rain, Zhang Nuo held Su Haizhen in his arms, looking at her slightly flushed little face, and felt a wave of joy in his heart!

"How could you be like this! Didn't I tell you to circulate the technique?"

Extending an arm as white as jade, the young woman pinched Zhang Nuo on the nose, then said reproachfully.

At this moment, Zhang Nuo could do nothing but grin foolishly; at the start, he had still been circulating his Spiritual Qi according to the technique's path, but the moment he touched Su Haizhen's soft body, primal desire immediately took over his reason!

After the two rested for a moment, they finally began Dual Cultivation again, but this time was no better than the first! Zhang Nuo considered his state of mind stable, but not long after starting, he abandoned the technique again and entered once more into the self-forgetful moment of carnal pleasure!

"I... I say... Hey! You..."

Pinned beneath Zhang Nuo, Su Haizhen had wanted to remind him a few times, but it was already too late! Zhang Nuo had turned back into a man, not a cultivator! After a few rounds, Su Haizhen also had to give up on circulating the technique, savoring the wonderful matters between a man and a woman in detail!

Two months later, Zhang Nuo finally entered the state of Dual Cultivation! Only at this moment did he discover that the carnal pleasure driven by primal desire earlier was simply dirt compared to the Dual Cultivation Technique! Only by experiencing the benefits of Dual Cultivation could one understand this from the depths of their heart!

Inside the Small Tripod, with the help of extremely dense Spiritual Qi, after a mere month, Zhang Nuo felt his cultivation had improved quite a bit! It seemed that the Nascent Soul Late Stage was already within reach!