Ch64 - I'm Not Leaving

Lin Shu cleaned Ling Xiao’s wound, applied medicine, and bandaged it. After he finished, his heart beat a few times faster.

Cousin bears the mark of Northern Xia’s Witchcraft.

Is he related to Northern Xia?

Lin Shu thought it was impossible.

Ling Xiao was an upright person, and just now, he even apprehended Lord Kun Shan.

He’s afraid that Ling Xiao was hurt by Northern Xia in the fight just now!

It was still fine if that mantra was truly the Mantra of Truth, but if it was some other insidious mantra with a similar pattern, then the consequences would be disastrous.

Lin Shu was a little anxious. He frantically thought about what to do now.

He didn’t know anything about Northern Xia’s Witchcraft and couldn’t do anything.

Ask for help?

No, if they used this cursed seal to assert that Ling Xiao was related to Northern Xia, it would be impossible to argue against the evidence.

Then there was only one choice.

I have to look for Big Miss.

Big Miss can definitely solve this properly.

However, he immediately realized that he did not have Big Miss’s contact information. If he used a messenger pigeon to send the message, he would at least need to know Big Miss’s current location — yet he didn’t know that.

He could only use the Dreamscape to communicate with her. In the Dreamscape Martial Arts Arena, even if the disciples were thousands of miles apart in reality, they could still appear there at the same time, so they could naturally meet each other.

But he also didn’t know Big Miss’s account name in the arena.

Big Miss may not even have an account at all.

He was a little distressed, but then he suddenly thought of someone.

Xiao Shao.

They know each other, and he remembered that Big Miss had even said that Xiao Shao was a trustworthy person, and the two of them might even be related by blood.

He only needed to find Xiao Shao in the martial arts arena, then ask him if he had Big Miss’s contact information.

Lin Shu entered the martial arts arena.

The news updated on the stone wall at a crazy speed.

Folding Bamboo invites Xiao Shao for a battle.

Folding Bamboo invites Xiao Shao for a battle.

Folding Bamboo invites Xiao Shao for a battle.

The disciples who saw the news made a lot of noise and looked towards this side one after another.

The elder martial brothers of the Immortal Institute were very excited: “Folding Bamboo Fairy has finally come to the martial arts arena!”

Lin Shu was uncomfortable with their eager gazes and only hoped that this year would pass sooner, so that he could get rid of the female fairy appearance.

At this time, a crisp woman’s voice sounded behind him: “Good, very good. Folding Bamboo, you’re finally here!”

He turned to look, only to see a beautiful pink-clothed girl staring at himself with a Frost Flower Sword on her waist.

Lin Shu: “…”

He didn’t know the person, but he recognized this Frost Flower Sword—it was the weapon originally worn by Folding Bamboo’s account. Later, when he fought with Xiao Shao and broke the sword, he replaced it with the Folding Bamboo Sword.

Therefore, the girl in pink in front of him was the girl who had exchanged bodies with him at the very beginning when the Dreamscape broke down. That is, she was the original owner of Folding Bamboo’s appearance.

The High Officer of the Academy punished him with a female body for one year before he could go to Mr. Meng and change it, so he could only maintain the form of Folding Bamboo, but this girl did not commit any crime, so there was no need to do this. Now he’s afraid that she had to make another face again.

Then, today, she caught him.

Lin Shu felt unable to breathe.

“What Junior Martial Sister Folding Bamboo, huh! You’re obviously a Junior Martial Brother!” The girl waved her hand and placed a soundproof barrier around them, and said, “You are so shameless!”

Lin Shu had nothing to say and felt very ashamed.

The girl continued: “I will tell everyone today that the Folding Bamboo Fairy they admire most is not a girl!”

Lin Shu: “…Don’t say it.”

The girl asked: “What? Don’t tell me you’re addicted to it?”

Lin Shu said: “I destroyed the Dreamscape last time, and the High Officer punished me with having to use this body for one year.”

When the girl heard that, she was not as fierce as she was just now. Instead, she chuckled: “This method of punishment is wonderful!”

Lin Shu: “……”

“If I say it, others will know that Folding Bamboo Fairy is actually a Junior Martial Brother who has a habit of crossdressing. You certainly don’t want this.” the girl’s eyes turned. “In this way, if you give me the hush fee, I won’t say it. How about it?”

Lin Shu asked, “What do you want?”

The girl said, “You have excellent martial arts skills. Now, because you’re outside on Huandang Mountain, this matter must be easy to accomplish. My father was seriously injured two years ago. Right now, the only medicinal material that he still needs is the White Bone Flower in Ten Thousand Ghosts Abyss. Please go there and pick one, then put it in the Treasure Pavilion for consignment. I’ll buy it when the time comes. I won’t skimp on your jade souls. In this way, you’ll have given me a favor, so I won’t care about you using the body that I meticulously molded!”

Lin Shu felt that the Ten Thousand Ghosts Abyss’s White Bone Flower sounded familiar. On second thought, Big Miss took the task of “Going to Ten Thousand Ghosts Abyss to pick up the White Bone Flower” before.

The Ten Thousand Ghosts Abyss was an extremely dangerous and evil place, and it was also not helpful for cultivation. Few disciples were willing to go, and other people in the Immortal path were also the same, so the White Bone Flower was an extremely rare spiritual herb.

He thought that the girl’s proposal was feasible.

He was already feeling very guilty about occupying another person’s body. Northern Xia had also suspected that Folding Bamboo Fairy may have something to do with Sword Pavilion, so they were already looking for her. He couldn’t expose the fact that “Junior Martial Sister Folding Bamboo” was actually a boy.

Lin Shu: “Okay.”

The girl said: “Then we have a deal!”

Lin Shu: “En.”

There was a look of joy in the girl’s eyes: “Thank you!”

Lin Shu said: “You’re welcome.”

When the girl saw that her father’s injury could be cured, the girl almost jumped up and said, “You can definitely get it!”

Lin Shu thought for a moment. Now, relying on the ancient artifact, the Ice Stringed Zither, he already had strength close to the Yuan Ying Realm. Among the music scores handed down by Sword Pavilion, there were many songs that could break through evil and kill evil spirits. It was possible to venture into the Ten Thousand Ghosts Abyss.

If Cousin could follow after his injury recovered, his chances of success would be even higher.

He said, “Yes.”

The girl’s face was so happy that she couldn’t hide it: “You’re so kind!”

——Just now, she was still fierce and vicious and wanted to blackmail him. Now that she had achieved her goal, she became this happy. She was also a little cute. She was a strange girl.

Lin Shu looked at her and felt a bit strange.

In his previous life, he did not deal with outsiders, and he had never helped others, let alone be appreciated by someone else.

So that’s how it feels.

Looking at the girl, he felt his mood improve quite a lot.

However, remembering that Cousin was still in a coma and was likely injured by Northern Xia’s Witchcraft, he became anxious again and said, “Young Lady, I have something else to do. I’ll go first.”

“You go ahead!” The girl said, “I will definitely keep my mouth shut.”

He gave an “En” sound.

The girl withdrew the sound proof enchantment and happily stepped on the water to go elsewhere.

Lin Shu looked up at the stone wall. There was still only the news that he invited Xiao Shao to a battle. Xiao Shao did not reply.

It seemed that this person was also busy and had no time to look at the jade talisman.

Lin Shu thought of Ling Xiao’s injury and went offline in the Dreamscape, returning to reality.

Ling Xiao was still unconscious, and the cat was huddled on his chest. It seemed to be sleeping.

Lin Shu took the cat and carried it to the side, not letting it suffocate Ling Xiao–it was really unaware of its own weight.

The cat continued to sleep on the quilt beside Ling Xiao.

Cousin’s breathing was steady right now, so there should be no serious problem.

He put the jade talisman connecting the Dreamscape in a conspicuous place so that he could go immediately whenever Xiao Shao responded to his battle request.

After finishing this, he stood by Ling Xiao’s bed. Just as he was about to start learning 《Extinction》, there was a knock on the door outside.

He walked to the door, opened it, and saw Cang Min outside.

Cang Min: “How is Senior Martial Brother Ling’s injury?”

Lin Shu: “He hasn’t woken up yet. I’m keeping watch.”

Cang Min said: “Everyone is grateful to Ling Shixiong for seeing through Northern Xia’s conspiracy and taking action to defeat the Northern Xia traitors, so they asked me to deliver medicine.”

He put a brocade bag in Lin Shu’s hand and said, “Junior Martial Brother must accept it.”

Even though he had a lot of medicine here and didn’t need anything else, Lin Shu didn’t know how to refuse, so he accepted it.

Cang Min smiled happily: “We will trouble Junior Martial Brother to take care of Ling Shixiong.”

Lin Shu: “No trouble at all.”

Cang Min asked Ling Xiao’s situation again, then left after expressing the disciples’ admiration and gratitude again.

Seeing Cang Min off, a few men with blades came over.

Lin Shu also recognized these people. They were the disciples of Cloud Guide Sword Sect. They greeted Ling Xiao at the inn when they first arrived at the foot of the mountain. Ling Xiao also came from Cloud Guide Sword Sect and called them his elder martial brothers.

Lin Shu: “Elder Martial Brother.”

Several senior martial brothers also came to see the injured Ling Xiao.

After making sure that Ling Xiao’s injury was not life threatening, the first Elder Martial Brother said, “When he was in the sect, he always said that he could not achieve ‘Nirvana Life’. At present, it seems that he has already accomplished it. It’s very fortunate that he has done it, or else there might be a river of blood flowing on Huandang Mountain today.”

Several people sighed, leaving behind a lot of medicinal ingredients and spiritual pills before leaving.

Lin Shu explained the situation to them and spoke a lot of “Thank you”, “No problem”, and “I will watch”, feeling that he had already used up an entire year’s worth of speaking quota today. He was very exhausted.

After a while, he picked up 《Extinction》 and began to look through it.

Not long after he started reading, the cat suddenly let out a cry.

Lin Shu turned his head to look at the cat.

The cat had woken up at some point. It patted Ling Xiao a few times, looked at Lin Shu, and meowed again.

He immediately threw the book aside and went to see Cousin.

He saw that Ling Xiao’s long eyebrows were furrowed slightly, as if suppressing the pain.

Lin Shu reached out to test his temperature.

Hot.

Terribly hot.

Moreover, the flow of spiritual power in the entire room was abnormal.

Beside Ling Xiao, pale red spiritual power flowed around in chaos. It was conceivable that the situation in his body would only be worse.

The consequences of abnormal spiritual power running amok in the meridians were extremely serious, and it couldn’t be solved by any spiritual pills or miraculous medicines.

What should I do?

Lin Shu frowned for a while, then turned to look at the cat: “Can you understand me?”

Cat: “Meow.”

Lin Shu: “I need the Spirit Gathering Pill from the Tianzi Library to help him, can you give it to me?”

Cat: “Meow.”

After this meow, it climbed onto Lin Shu and looked at the door.

It seemed that it could indeed understand him.

Lin Shu took out several talismans from the brocade bag and asked, “Can you activate them?”

Cat: “Meow.”

A cluster of spiritual power activated the talisman, forming a strong barrier around the bed.

This way, I won’t be afraid that he’ll meet danger.

Lin Shu walked out of the inn holding the cat in his arms.

The cat was very intelligent at this time. It used its powerful post-tribulation cultivation realm and spiritual power to cast a spell to shrink the distance. It was also the “mountain keeper” and could control everything on Huandang Mountain, so it immediately removed all checkpoints. Lin Shu passed unimpeded all the way and soon came to the Tianzi Library in the Floating Immortal Palace.

The cat opened the treasury’s door, and Lin Shu followed his memory to get the Spirit Gathering Pill, then immediately descended the mountain.

He went back to the inn and came to Ling Xiao’s bed. He took out the exquisite and translucent Spirit Gathering Pill and ate it.

Almost as soon as the pill had melted away, severe pain emanated from his limbs and bones.

His hands trembled a little, and he barely suppressed it. He felt that there were strands of spiritual energy coming out of his meridians. He immediately started using his own meditation method to transform that pure spiritual power into his own power.

After transforming part of it, he sat by the bed and held Ling Xiao’s right hand. With his palm against Ling Xiao’s palm, he imbued his spiritual power into Ling Xiao’s body.

Due to different meditation techniques, spiritual power also had differences of mutual development and mutual restraint.

When he realized that Ling Xiao’s spiritual power was out of control, his first thought was to find someone with the same spiritual power to pass on spiritual energy for him and suppress the chaotic spiritual power!

Who to look for?

He didn’t know those people outside, and he also didn’t know what kind of techniques they cultivated.

Then… the only choice was himself.

Ling Xiao’s internal skills were from the same source as Big Miss’s. Both were inclined to the force of Lihuo among the five elements.

Yet Sword Pavilion’s meditation technique contained ice and snow, so it may be feasible to suppress Ling Xiao’s chaotic spiritual power.

The faint white spiritual power overflowed at the palms, like smoke escaping from the ice.

And the effect was actually ten million times better than what he imagined!

Lin Shu originally thought that it would take a lot of effort to suppress that violent spiritual power. He didn’t expect that when his spiritual power touched Ling Xiao’s spiritual power, they mixed together without any hindrance. The two merged and returned to the purest primal chaos state of spiritual power–it was such a coincidence that they could offset each other.

Lin Shu let out a sigh of relief and sent his spiritual power to all of Ling Xiao’s meridians.

A quarter of an hour after the spiritual power had circulated around his meridians, Ling Xiao’s spiritual power had completely smoothened and returned to normal. His frowning brows were also relaxed. He changed from a good-looking person who was ill to a good-looking person who was sleeping quietly

Cat: “Meow.”

It continued to huddle on the quilt, ready to sleep.

Lin Shu saw the black cat’s behavior and knew that Cousin was fine for the time being.

He wanted to withdraw his hand.

——But was unconsciously held by Ling Xiao.

Because the previous scorching heat had just gone down, Ling Xiao’s current body temperature was still higher than normal, making Lin Shu feel a slight burn.

He tried to pull his hand back.

But Ling Xiao held it extremely tightly, as if he was a drowning man grasping at a life-saving straw. Lin Shu couldn’t pull it back.

Lin Shu continued to pull.

He still couldn’t pull back.

Cousin, pay attention to your behavior.

I’m not leaving.

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TL’s Mini Theatre:

Zaki: they’re holding hands  ayieee.. *fan girling*

Cat: Meooww!!

Zaki: awww! pussy cat you wanna hold my hand too?

Cat: Meoww! *reach out paws.. and scratches zaki’s face*