Chapter 135: Ming Ning Returns from the Dead, Soul Unlocked

"Why are you looking at me like that? How could I bear to let you die? It was so hard to finally have you." Jiang Xun couldn't help but laugh when he saw the stunned expression on Ming Ning's face.

He then took out a Soul Returning Pill.

Ming Ning: "Soul Returning Pill!?"

Si Yuyan: "You still have some!?"

Only at this moment did Si Yuyan realize that back when Jiang Xun was in front of the Void Sect's treasury, he had tossed a Soul Returning Pill to trick her out of a technique, and she had even told him how stupid his actions were.

Every time Jiang Xun had eaten a Soul Returning Pill, he had simply held it in his hand and put it into his mouth; Si Yuyan had never actually seen what the pill looked like, assuming it was just a pill for recovering Spirit Power.

If she knew those were all Soul Returning Pills, who knows what her expression would be right now.

"You die, then I use a Soul Returning Pill to resurrect you and purge that Formation. That way, you might be able to recultivate, and even if you can't, there won't be any loss."

Jiang Xun nodded.

"Isn't wasting a Soul Returning Pill a loss?"

Ming Ning said.

"What a thing to say. Using a Soul Returning Pill for Senior Sister, how is that a loss? Senior Sister could even shove the Soul Returning Pill up her ass to play with it if she wanted."

Jiang Xun laughed.

"Disgusting."

Ming Ning gave Jiang Xun a coquettish glare, yet in her heart, she felt happy at Jiang Xun's words.

"Senior Sister, I've come to... see you..."

Suddenly, Tu Qing pushed open Ming Ning's door, and seeing Jiang Xun and Ming Ning sitting on the bed without a stitch of clothing on, she froze in place.

At this moment, Tu Qing's world collapsed.

The first time Senior Brother returned to his youth, he actually gave it to Senior Sister Ming Ning?

But, didn't Senior Brother refuse to engage in Dual Cultivation with anyone who wasn't a virgin?

And, didn't Senior Sister Ming Ning usually just drain people to death?

"A, A Qing..."

Ming Ning looked at Tu Qing, feeling a sudden panic as if she had been caught in the act: "Listen to my explanation... no, there's nothing to explain!"

Halfway through her sentence, Ming Ning remembered her persona: "Want to join in?"

"Excuse me! I'll come back another day!"

Tu Qing hurriedly closed the door and ran off at full speed.

"I forgot to tell you, A Qing was coming here today to discuss the relocation."

Ming Ning said to Jiang Xun with some embarrassment.

"Let's handle the important business first." Jiang Xun nodded, looking at Ming Ning with a burning gaze.

"You're going to kill me?" Ming Ning thought for a moment, then looked at Jiang Xun and said.

"Uh, I can't bring myself to do it. Why don't you just die yourself?" Jiang Xun said, stunned for a moment.

"Sigh." Ming Ning sighed: "You must look carefully; the most obvious sign on that Formation is three chains. Don't make a mistake."

Although Ming Ning really wanted to say that there would be another soul at that time, and to ignore her and let her die, she was afraid that if she said that, Jun Tianling would immediately seize her body.

So, she decided against it.

"Mm." Jiang Xun nodded solemnly.

Ming Ning then channeled her energy to her dantian, preparing to shatter her own meridians. Just as she was about to act, she blinked her eyes at Jiang Xun.

"What's wrong?" Jiang Xun asked upon seeing this.

"It hurts..." Ming Ning's eyes were slightly red.

Jiang Xun was speechless at the sight; he had truly never seen Ming Ning show such an expression before.

But having had the experience of interacting with the pure-hearted girl Qin Miaoyin, Jiang Xun quickly realized what was happening.

Ming Ning now saw herself as his woman, and there was a bit of coquettishness in her; having never been intimate with a man before, Ming Ning felt a bit like a fragile bird at this moment.

She also had moments where she wanted to be protected.

For all these years, she had been threatened by Jun Tianling to protect Jiang Xun, suffering many injuries, and she was afraid of pain, but who could she confide in?

Confiding in Jiang Xun now, that should be fine, right?

"Senior Sister." Jiang Xun reached out and rubbed the corner of Ming Ning's eye: "Bear with it for a moment. If it really hurts, you can bite my ar..."

Jiang Xun extended his arm toward Ming Ning's mouth, and before he could finish his sentence, Ming Ning bit down hard.

"Ow!" Jiang Xun let out a pained howl.

Then, a loud boom was heard; Ming Ning had directly severed her own meridians.

The strength in her bite also loosened.

Her soul began to slowly drift away.

Seeing this, Jiang Xun immediately fed Ming Ning the Soul Returning Pill and began channeling his energy to help her recover.

The shattered soul also began to return to Ming Ning's body under Jiang Xun's control. When he saw the piece of the soul with the chains, Jiang Xun slashed it apart with his sword.

This time, unlike the last time at the Baihua Sect, Jiang Xun saw Ming Ning's soul very clearly. First, a soul emitting a pale purple light merged into a complete soul and entered Ming Ning's body.

Then, there was a piece of a black soul. Although Jiang Xun found it strange, there were no chains on that black soul.

After a moment of hesitation, Jiang Xun decided to restore that black soul as well.

He had thought it was something produced by Ming Ning's cultivation technique, but to his surprise, Jiang Xun watched as that soul also formed a complete soul, and then, without waiting for Jiang Xun to act, it actively dove into Ming Ning's body.

"Huh?" Jiang Xun was stunned: "What the hell is this?"

'You're the one who's a hellish thing.' Jun Tianling muttered to herself.

But now was not the time for hesitation. Jiang Xun continued to drive the Soul Returning Pill, and a moment later, Ming Ning's brows furrowed slightly, and her fingers moved gently.

Seeing this, Jiang Xun stopped channeling his energy, held Ming Ning's hand, and looked at her with concern: "Senior Sister?"

"Mmhmm~?" First came an alluring hum, and then Ming Ning, her brows tightly furrowed, slowly opened her eyes.

"It hurts so much..." Ming Ning looked at Jiang Xun, a somewhat unnatural look of grievance on her face.

Seeing this, Jiang Xun pulled Ming Ning into his embrace: "It's already over."

Ming Ning also gently hugged Jiang Xun, closed her eyes, and rested her chin on Jiang Xun's shoulder, sensing her own Spirit Power.

"No need to test it, the Soul Lock is gone, your realm can continue to improve," Jun Tianling said.

Upon hearing this, Ming Ning was overjoyed.

"Didn't you say there was no other way besides starting over?"

Ming Ning asked.

"That's right, you died and were resurrected, which also counts as a form of starting over; it's just that who could have imagined he would be able to produce a Soul Returning Pill? And to be able to produce two of them—do you think Soul Returning Pills are just common cabbages?"

Jun Tianling said.

She had never even suggested the method of dying and then resurrecting with a Soul Returning Pill to start over, because the Soul Returning Pill is inherently very, very, very, very difficult to obtain.

Let alone her, even the Imperial Clan, and even those few Supremes, find it harder than ascending to heaven to obtain a Soul Returning Pill; under such circumstances, she naturally would not have thought that Jiang Xun possessed two Soul Returning Pills.

"Senior Sister, how is it?"

Jiang Xun gently pushed Ming Ning out of his embrace and looked at her as he asked.

"I can cultivate again." Ming Ning looked at Jiang Xun, a long-lost smile appearing on her face: "Thank you, little... Jiang Xun."

The two of them had already engaged in Dual Cultivation; from now on, she couldn't call him by that younger brother title anymore, could she?