CH 17

Yan Hui exited Zhenren Qi Yun's room just in time to see a topless Tian Yao sit up. Bandages were wrapped around his body.

As if he could sense someone entering, Tian Yao lifted his eyes. His gaze met Yan Hui's eyes without any surprise.

For a split second, Yan Hui felt her heart "thump" and skip a beat. She saw a strange sight, gold light emitting and flowing around Tian Yao's body. She could see the outline of his skeleton. It was the same golden light she saw emitting from the dragon bones in the icy lake back when she was in the cave.

However the strange thing was, it seemed like only she could see this brilliance. The snake demon who was off to the side packing up the medicine box didn't even look up.

Yan Hui also didn't say a word. She just sat by the table: "Since you're awake, you should hurry up and treat Zhenren Qi Yun. Don't delay." She poured herself a cup of cold tea. "After all, none of us can stand the sight of each other."

Tian Yao's gaze was dull. Although his voice was hoarse, he actually spoke with a placid tone: "The words you just spoke are incorrect."

Was he implying he was going to screw her over, or was it......he had other plans for her?

Yan Hui heavily set down the teacup and looked at Tian Yao.

The snake demon finished packing the medicine box back up. He stood up and said: "His inner breath is still chaotic. I'm afraid he'll have to continue resting tonight." Of course, the snake demon wasn't really worried for Tian Yao. He was just afraid that with Tian Yao's chaotic inner breath, he wouldn't completely heal Zhenren Qi Yun. That would be problematic.

Yan Hui simply stopped talking, turned her head, and left the room. She leapt and twisted her body in midair, landing on the roof which she laid down upon. She might as well do: out of sight, out of mind.

Looking at the moon from the rooftop, Yan Hui idly recalled the past few days' events. However the last two days had exhausted her. With the addition of her wounds, it wasn't long before she started to become drowsy. However, the matter troubling her mind prevented her from completely falling asleep.

Therefore, her eyes continued to struggle, constantly blinking.

She didn't know how long she was in a daze when she suddenly heard the sounds of water splashing.

She sat up. She saw that the snake demon was in the courtyard. He was drawing water to wash clothes.

A snake demon washing clothes......

Yan Hui looked curiously for a while. She discovered that the clothes he was washing were Zhenren Qi Yun's clothes. Yan Hui was baffled. She rolled over onto her stomach. She softly asked in the quiet night: "A Purification Technique would make it clean. Why are you hand-washing?"

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The next day, early morning.

Tian Yao was sitting on the daybed. Although he was still wan, his energy seemed one hundred times better than yesterday's. Yan Hui glanced at him and raised an eyebrow.

After retrieving his item, it looked like his healing speed had changed by a lot.

The snake demon led Qi Yun out of her room and sat her down in front of Tian Yao. Tian Yao didn't waste any words. He bit his finger until it bled, and then he grasped Zhenren Qi Yun's hand. The snake demon worriedly asked: "You can really heal her?"

"Expelling the Hoarfroast Technique with fire is the most common way to treat it. You ought to have known that."

The snake demon frowned deeply: "Then will she feel pain?"

Tian Yao raised his gaze and looked at the snake demon: "I don't know."

The snake demon clenched his teeth. In the end, he took a step back: "Heal her."

Tian Yao drew a blood sigil on her wrist. Then he tapped her on the forehead with his finger. A flaming light instantly rose from her baihui point near the top of her head. It instantly vanished, but not long afterwards, that brilliance started to flow from her stomach.

Chen Xing Mountain would often have Technique drills. Occasionally, they would also analyze how to break a Technique. Among those was a class on exactly how to break the Hoarfrost Technique. The disciples would cast the Hoarfrost Technique on a respected elder. Then while the respected elder explained how, he would also break it. By using his body as a demonstration, the disciples could carefully watch and learn.  

Yan Hui remembered that the respected elder dispelled the technique like this. It started in the baihui. By adding more fire qi, the Fire Phase would encompass the body.

From head to toe, it would slowly expel the cold and frost.

Although the Hoarfrost Technique cast on Zhenren Qi Yun's body was powerful, the technique to break it ought to be the same. Using an equal amount of fire qi of the Five Phases would be enough.