Fighting: Practice makes it real, start with a poisonous body.

Chapter 190 Medicine Spirit: I Want More!

"No need to shout so loudly, I can see you."

Yao Ling turned around, a serene smile playing on her lips, but a faint, almost imperceptible coldness flashed across her brows, like thin ice covering warm jade.

While taking medicine, she noticed something was amiss. Her cousin's attitude seemed colder than usual today. What was going on?
No, absolutely not!
As I took the medicine, a warning bell rang in my mind: this cannot continue!

He immediately banished his distracting thoughts, forced what he thought was a handsome and sunny smile, and said, "Sister, I'm so happy to see you!"

Yao Ling's smile softened, as if the coldness she had just felt was just an illusion.

"I'm very happy that you could come as promised."

He was excited when he took the medicine, and was instantly overwhelmed with joy, all his unease vanishing.

Sure enough, she has feelings for me!

Yao Ling asked casually, "You didn't tell anyone else in the clan about our private meeting, did you?"

"Of course!"

Yao Shi patted his chest and assured her, "How could I forget what you told me, sister? This is our secret; I haven't told a single word to anyone else!"

"That's good."

Yao Ling's smile became more genuine: "It's not that I don't want to make our relationship public."

As you know, for someone like me, my future husband will most likely be a ninth-rank prodigy assigned by my family.

At the very least, if it's a marriage alliance with a foreign tribe, the spouse must be a ninth-rank descendant of another imperial clan.

"I can understand."

Yao Shi said with shame, "Our family has always done this to ensure the continuation of our bloodline, but my bloodline is too weak."

Yao Ling took half a step forward, her voice becoming even softer, like a feather gently brushing against one's heart.

"Don't be discouraged. Once I take over the family, no one will be able to force me to do anything. At that time, we can be together openly and honestly."

Yao Shi looked delighted, moved by this promise that seemed like a vow as firm as the sea and as solid as the mountains: "I believe in my cousin! I'll wait for that day!"

"Thank you."

Yao Shi scratched his head sheepishly and said, "Given our relationship, there's no need for thanks."

"No, of course I should thank you."

Yao Ling spoke slowly, her tone gentle yet strangely sticky. The crimson in her eyes intensified, and she extended her delicate tongue, the tip of which swept across the curve of her lips, carrying a chilling eeriness.

"Sister?"

The sight of her while I was taking medicine gave me the creeps.

The unease that had been suppressed resurfaced, and he subconsciously shrank back, his tone tinged with confusion and wariness.

Yao Ling realized her lapse in composure, the crimson in her eyes quickly faded, and a serene smile returned as she changed the subject.

"Let's not talk about that. By the way, do you remember I told you I was going to prepare a surprise for you today?"

"Of course I remember!"

He nodded repeatedly as he took the medicine, instantly forgetting the strange feeling he had just experienced.

He was still wondering how to bring it up when Yao Ling took the initiative to mention it... It seems that his elder sister has been looking forward to it for a long time!
"Come."

With a flick of his fingertip on the storage ring, a sandalwood box carved with intricate patterns appeared out of thin air.

She opened the box, and a dazzling ring lay quietly on the velvet lining. The gemstone set in the ring face shimmered with light, and it looked quite exquisite.

Yao Ling picked up the ring and looked at him tenderly: "Do you like it?"

"This...this is the surprise?"

The smile on Yao Shi's face froze instantly, her heart filled with disappointment.

He thought the surprise Yao Ling mentioned was something else, but it turned out to be just a ring.

But then I thought, most girls like these romantic things, maybe this is a token of love that my cousin carefully prepared?
Thinking it over, Yao Shi suppressed her disappointment, cheered herself up, and forced a look of surprise and joy: "I like it."

"nice! You love it."

Yao Ling's smile softened further as she took a step forward, her warm fingertips gently grasping Yao Shi's wrist.

"Come, let me put it on you myself."

"Ah~"

The delicate touch of the girl's palm sent a shiver through Yao Shi, making her feel a tingling sensation all over her body. Her earlier slight disappointment vanished instantly, leaving only pure joy. She couldn't help but nod with a silly grin.

"Okay, okay!" Yao Ling smiled sweetly at him, but a subtle glint flashed in her eyes as she looked at him.

Instead of putting the new ring directly on his bare finger, she took off the ring he was wearing on his index finger and then slipped the new ring onto the base of his finger.

Yao Shi paused in his silly grin, a hint of doubt rising in his mind. Why did he take off his storage ring? Could there be a reason why the ring was worn?

He didn't think that the spirit was coveting the resources in his storage ring.

There's no reason why a prodigy like Yao Ling would care about such trivial things.

Yao Ling feigned concern and asked, "What's wrong?"

"nothing?"

Yao Shi hurriedly replied, not wanting to spoil Yao Ling's mood.

Yao Ling's smile deepened, and her delicate hand, hanging by her side, quietly clenched, the cool touch of the storage ring still lingering in her palm.

Yao Shi had no idea that the moment he handed over the storage ring, he also gave up his life!
"When taking medicine."

Yao Ling spoke coldly, and the feigned gentleness in her eyes vanished completely, leaving only a cold indifference.

"what?"

Yao Ling's sudden change left Yao Shi somewhat at a loss.

"Close your eyes."

The commanding tone made Yao Shi feel slightly uncomfortable, and she was unwilling to comply.

"Sister, what's wrong?"

The unease that had been suppressed surged back up wildly, alarm bells rang in Yao Shi's mind, and he subconsciously clenched his hands.

"Unwilling? Fine, since you don't even want this last bit of dignity, then I'll let you die knowing why."

Before she finished speaking, Yao Ling moved. She suddenly raised her palm, her fingertips swirling with faint battle qi, and with a sharp whooshing sound, she struck straight at Yao Shi's chest!
"Pfft-!"

With a dull thud, the cold hand pierced through flesh without any resistance!
"Wow!"

He coughed up a mouthful of blood while taking the medicine, the warm liquid splashing onto his clothes and instantly soaking through them.

He looked down in disbelief at the hand that had pierced through his chest, then slowly looked up at Yao Ling, his eyes filled with pain and confusion.

"Why... why?"

"Go ask in the netherworld."

A faint struggle flashed in Yao Ling's eyes, but it was quickly swallowed up by the intense crimson.

She jerked her hand, which had pierced her chest, back. Blood dripped from her fingertips, blooming into glaring flowers on the ground.

As the medicine was being taken, his body went limp and fell backward, his eyes wide open, his pupils still filled with lingering shock and resentment, dying with his eyes wide open.

With a flick of his finger, Yao Ling revealed the storage ring that he had previously taken from Yao Shi's hand in his palm.

A wisp of azure battle qi gathered at her fingertips and gently brushed across the surface of her storage ring. The soul imprint belonging to Yao Shi within the ring was instantly dispelled, turning into a wisp of azure smoke and dissipating into the air.

Yao Ling opened his storage ring, and a crystal-clear token emitting a faint spiritual light floated out from it.

"This thing is really troublesome."

Yao Ling frowned slightly, her tone tinged with impatience. Her fighting spirit surged suddenly, and she slashed fiercely at the void in front of her with her delicate hand!
With a sharp "crack," the spatial barrier was forcibly torn open, and endless darkness and chaos poured out from it.

Yao Ling raised his hand and threw the Soul-Guiding Jade into the rift. After watching it be completely swallowed by the darkness deep in the void, he waved his hand to disperse his battle aura, letting the spatial rift slowly close.

"The time to reap the rewards has finally come."

Yao Ling lowered her eyes to look at Yao Shi's corpse lying on the ground, her eyes surging with crimson.

A dense crimson battle aura rose from her body, coiling around Yao Shi's corpse like a living thing, firmly enveloping it within.

A strange scene happened.

Enveloped in crimson battle aura, Yao Shi's corpse melted away at a visible speed, turning into wisps of dark red blood energy that, guided by the battle aura, continuously flowed into the skull-like Gu within Yao Ling's body.

The moment the blood energy entered the body, the Blood Skull Gu trembled violently and emitted a faint but clear low hum.

In a short while, a bloodline power several times purer than the blood energy itself spread out from the Blood Skull Gu, flowing rapidly along the meridians of the Medicine Spirit, nourishing her limbs and bones.

Feeling the power of her bloodline rising and becoming increasingly potent, Yao Ling let out a comfortable groan, a deep sense of intoxication flashing in her eyes. Then, it was replaced by an even deeper longing.

She raised her hand and gently stroked her lower abdomen, her fingertips trembling slightly with excitement, her voice carrying a hint of greedy moan.

"Not enough... I want more!"

(End of this chapter)