"Cough, cough."
Xuan Yi gasped for air like someone who had just been pulled from drowning. She felt as if she were about to suffocate and faint from the energy riot, her eyes nearly rolling back.
Xiao Jietian held the woman before him in his arms and gently comforted her.
"Behave yourself! You lied to me, saying it was just a practical exercise and there wouldn't be any problems!!!" Xuan Yi slapped away Xiao Jietian's naughty hand that was wandering while he comforted her. She glared at him with "fierce" eyes, then bit down hard on his neck.
"Ouch, ouch, ouch!!!" Xiao Jietian cried out in "pain."
Xuan Yi bit him for a good while before finally letting go. Seeing the neat teeth marks on his neck, her resentment lessened by more than half.
"Hmph, don't even think about it next time. Don't you know how ridiculous your own thing is?"
Xuan Yi still felt lingering fear when she recalled the sensation of the energy riot. Her face showed a look of lingering shock.
"Hehe, an accident, just an accident," Xiao Jietian said with an awkward chuckle as he hugged her tightly.
Seeing him like this, an idea immediately popped into Xuan Yi's mind. She leaned in to kiss him.
Xiao Jietian's hand, which had been resting on her waist, instantly moved up to pinch her face as he slightly dodged.
"You scoundrel." Seeing his reaction, how could Xuan Yi not understand? She was so angry her teeth itched, and she kept punching him with her small fists.
Xiao Jietian let her light punches land on his body, allowing her to vent. He knew he had been in the wrong earlier—it had been a subconscious reaction, hard to control.
At the same time, the two worlds belonging to Xiao Jietian began to vibrate and collide violently because they were unbound.
Xiao Jietian freed one hand and exerted his strength to firmly stabilize them. However, because the worlds were too vast, he could only gradually increase his power to barely keep them steady.
Xuan Yi also sensed the situation and gave up on continuing to vent her anger on him.
Taking advantage of the moment when Xiao Jietian lacked the energy to stop her, Xuan Yi reached out, pried open his mouth, and inserted her finger inside, messing around mischievously.
"Ugh~!!!" Xiao Jietian was caught off guard by the sudden attack and made gagging sounds.
"Hahahaha~~!!!" Xuan Yi laughed heartily, her voice filled with vengeful satisfaction. She took advantage of Xiao Jietian relaxing his grip and slipped out of his embrace.
With a happy expression, she pulled up the skirt that had slipped down to her waist, then went to the washbasin to simply wash her face and rinse her mouth.
Xiao Jietian hadn't expected the usually mature and steady Xuan Yi to still act like a child and launch a sneak attack.
"Cough, cough." Xiao Jietian coughed a few times to clear his throat.
"How was it? You experienced it, right? I was much more uncomfortable than that!!!" Xuan Yi sat on the chair, smiling as she looked at him.
"Also, cover it up. Don't let it dangle there."
Xuan Yi glanced at the bite mark on his neck, which still had her sparkling saliva on it. Her face turned slightly red as she shyly lowered her head.
She suddenly frowned. She noticed several distinct watermarks on her skirt, probably left from when she had been washing up earlier.
She stood up and, without any shyness in front of Xiao Jietian, changed into another outfit right before his eyes. Xiao Jietian watched with appreciation but chose not to make any moves.
"Oh? So honest this time? That's not like you. Could it be…" Xuan Yi walked over to him, bent down, and said with a smile.
"Are you sure?"
Xiao Jietian looked up at her, a smile playing on his lips. Then he activated the Life God Venus. The moment it activated, his lost essence, qi, and spirit were fully restored.
Xuan Yi saw a faint light flash across his body and felt a powerful life force within it.
"What's going on with you? How do you suddenly have such strong life force?"
"This? It's my spatial body ability. It can heal physical injuries."
Xiao Jietian looked at Xuan Yi, a wide smile suddenly appearing on his face. "However, that's not the focus right now."
Xuan Yi followed his gaze downward, instantly stood up straight, and quickly walked toward the door. "Excuse me, I just remembered I need to guide Ling Ling and Meng Meng in their cultivation."
Then she hurriedly flashed out of the main cabin.
Xiao Jietian watched Xuan Yi, who looked like a flustered little deer, and couldn't help but smile.
Fighting with him—she was still too green. Later, he would let her know what fear truly was.
Now, with the combination of the Indestructible Vajra Body and the Zhe Zi Secret, he was like a perpetual motion machine—never stopping, never having a cooldown period.
Xuan Yi, who had walked out of the cabin, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when she saw that Xiao Jietian hadn't chased after her. Cultivating once was already tiring enough; if it happened again, she would probably go numb.
She opened her mouth and moved it left and right, as if it had been dislocated and she wanted to reset it.
Xiao Jietian tidied his robes, then sat cross-legged on the bed and began to cultivate, because he felt he was about to break through.
…
A day later, a sound like a bursting bubble came from Xiao Jietian's body, and his aura surged accordingly.
Xiao Jietian opened his eyes and exhaled. "Hmm, I'm now a Five-Star Revolutions Dou Zun! And my Earth Thunder has reached seven strands. It seems I need to go to that place."
Xiao Jietian thought of a location where cultivating and absorbing the energy there should allow for a leap-like improvement.
Moreover, it could also speed up his condensation of Spiritual Thunder. Once the Spiritual Thunder was successfully condensed, he might once again enjoy the thrill of rapid realm breakthroughs.
This feeling was like cheating—always refreshing, always satisfying.
"Congratulations on your breakthrough. It seems you'll catch up to me very soon."
Xuan Yi had sensed Xiao Jietian's breakthrough earlier and had been guarding the main cabin door. After all, this was a spatial wormhole, and unexpected dangers could occur at any time.
"Hmm, you've worked hard. Then you'll have to cultivate diligently, otherwise I won't be able to live off you."
Xuan Yi helplessly rubbed her forehead, looking defeated. "You, you, you're just lazy. All you think about every day is how to enjoy life."
"At my current cultivation, breaking through to Half-Saint is not easy. This is a chasm-like obstacle that can stop ninety percent of peak Nine Revolutions Dou Zun experts."
Xuan Yi remembered that she had already been a Nine Revolutions Dou Zun many years ago. With her recent mental recovery, her strength had started to grow again, but she still hadn't felt the threshold of Half-Saint.
Moreover, breaking through to Half-Saint required not only the accumulation of Dou Qi but also external opportunities and insights. Without the help of opportunities, it was even harder than ascending to heaven.
Otherwise, the entire Dou Qi Continent wouldn't have only a handful of Half-Saints.