Cultivation Starts with Rejuvenation

Chapter 313: Chapter 142: Introduction to Puppetry

Half a month later, an elder from the Qin Family personally delivered a cold jade bed to them.

He mentioned that Qin Chuan intended to deliver it himself, but suddenly felt inspired and entered seclusion to break through the bottleneck to the middle stage of Foundation Establishment.

With the cold jade bed now here, Li Ji’an immediately sent a message for Ning Yutan to come over.

During this half month, Ning Yutan continued her daily greetings. However, aside from subtle probing in her words, she made no reckless moves that could backfire.

”Yutan pays respects to Senior Li.” Not long after, Ning Yutan arrived.

Seeing Ning Yutan wearing new clothes again, Li Ji’an subconsciously raised his eyebrows slightly.

An emerald gauze dress, white stockings, and a faintly visible blue dudou at the chest... exactly what Ning Sujin wore the night before she was taken away by the Immortal Master in her third life.

Glancing at Ning Yutan who was kowtowing, Li Ji’an’s face suddenly broke into a smile, staring directly at the void above Ning Yutan’s head.

There, his Divine Sense detected nothing.

But his intuition told him that Ning Sujin should be watching him!

If such a premonition were true, it would also inversely prove the previous speculation—that Ning Sujin’s Divine Soul strength was terrifyingly high now!

Thus, Li Ji’an no longer minded if she knew his secret that he might be a ”Divine Favored”.

After all, being able to observe him so closely without being detected meant her Divine Soul must have reached the Primordial Spirit level.

And throughout the entire Celestial Cyan Domain, almost no one could Soul Search such a Divine Soul.

As for revealing secrets voluntarily, given her own tragic experiences, she naturally understood what being a Divine Favored meant.

At the moment when Li Ji’an’s face showed a smile unbefitting his current status, Ning Yutan’s body, still touching the ground, suddenly trembled slightly.

”Sister Jin!” Li Ji’an’s smile deepened, slightly opening his mouth, but without making a sound, only forming the word.

Then, Li Ji’an reverted to his dignified senior image, his voice indifferent: ”Rise!”

Ning Yutan awkwardly stood up, looking at Li Ji’an. She felt slightly disappointed because the indifferent man made no reaction to her wearing what Ning Sujin had advised her, still maintaining his aloof demeanor.

”The cold jade bed is here. From today on, I will guide your meridians for a quarter of an hour daily. First, take this Essence Blood Pill, refine it, and then lie on this bed!” Li Ji’an spoke no more, handing over the Essence Blood Pill he had prepared two days ago to Ning Yutan, and then turned around to enter his secret chamber.

Ning Yutan accepted the Essence Blood Pill, feeling an inexplicable reluctance at the blood-colored specks on its surface.

She glanced at the tightly closed door of the secret chamber and immersed her Divine Sense into her Sea of Consciousness.

”How is it? Did you notice any unusual emotional fluctuations?”

”... None!” Ning Sujin’s Divine Soul trembled, and after a long while, she spoke two words.

The behavior of Li Ji’an just now was like showing his hand to her. Besides feeling surprised and excited, she also felt endless sadness and desolation.

When she followed Liu Clan members to this Cultivation Realm, she actually still held hope that perhaps if she ascended to immortality, she might have the chance to return to the Immortal Dynasty and bring Brother Li to the Immortal Realm as well.

Because at the moment she left the Immortal Dynasty, she asked herself sincerely and realized that the one she cared the most about was, unknowingly, the calm and composed Li Lang dressed in white.

Simultaneously realizing that her life’s pursuit of ascension and finding her cousin was merely to prove she was not lying.

Trying to prove herself to those who distrusted her was foolish. Moreover, wasn’t there already a Li Lang who believed in her every word?

Yet what happened after reaching the so-called Immortal Realm caught her off guard and utterly despaired her.

Were it not for Ning Yutan, her half-sister, she might have already perished in the Underworld.

In the long years that followed, she inadvertently found hope for revenge and a new, powerful method, sustaining her till now.

Thinking she and Li Lang were separated forever, leaving only a cold, numb heart, he appeared so suddenly again, catching her unprepared once more.

Unfortunately, the current her was neither human nor ghost, without even a body to embrace Li Lang.

”No? Hmph, I told you it’s a fantasy. Even if it’s Brother Li, how could he remember what you wore back then? Better if I wore what I used to always wear,” Ning Yutan pouted at these words.

”Perhaps...” Ning Sujin did not argue further with her.

”Then look at this pill...”

”At this point, you can completely trust... the senior. Even if he isn’t an old acquaintance, his actions show he is certainly an upright and kind-hearted senior expert.”

Before being certain, Ning Sujin would reveal some speculations to encourage more interaction with Li Ji’an, but after confirmation, she no longer wished to inform him of definitive information.

After all, it was because of Ning Yutan’s Soul Search that allowed Old Thief Liu to target her in the Immortal Dynasty.

How could she lay a mine for the Li Lang who chose to show his hand voluntarily, showing trust?

”Hmm?” Hearing Ning Sujin’s words, Ning Yutan scratched her head involuntarily, feeling something amiss. Yet, having her Divine Soul injured from the Soul Search and relying on Ning Sujin’s soul to nourish her, avoiding soul fragmentation, she didn’t have much Soul Power to think deeply.

Subsequently, she swallowed the Essence Blood Pill and began refining it.

Once the medicinal power was completely refined, Li Ji’an appeared at the right moment.

”Disrobe!”

”Yes.” Though subconsciously still influenced by the thoughts from the Immortal Dynasty, with Ning Sujin’s prior affirmation, Ning Yutan, albeit shy, gritted her teeth and removed the emerald long dress.

Watching Ning Yutan lying on the cold jade bed, not sure if due to the stimulation of the chill or her shyness as she closed her eyes tightly, Li Ji’an swept his gaze over her white stockings and blue dudou.