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Su Yan picked up the bowl listlessly and went back to the kitchen to tidy up the island. After putting away all her experimental formula books, she transformed back into her fox form and lay down in the courtyard, deep in thought, basking in the sun on her back.

"Brother Su, what's on your mind? Come and have a drink to cheer yourself up."

As Zhou You sat in the pavilion making his decision, he saw Su Yan's pensive expression and couldn't help but chuckle, inviting Su Yan over to have a couple of drinks to ease his worries.

"I wasn't thinking about anything, it was just some dead memories attacking me in my head, it was so embarrassing that I could dig a manor out of the ground with my toes."

When Su Yan saw Zhou You calling him, he shook his head to clear his mind of those strange memories and waved his hand to indicate that he had no interest in drinking.

Although Su Yan was sunbathing, he was also waiting for Qingya, who was busy at work, because there were some things he wanted to ask her in person.

Qingya claims to be a broad-eared fox, but she can see the ghost of the Emperor Wusheng, which proves that she also has the bloodline of a nine-tailed fox. However, she cannot fully observe the existence of the hidden Ai'er.

She was very likely a follower of the Nightmare Town, but after Qingya introduced herself, Sister Ai'er probably felt that everyone belonged to the same camp, so she didn't continue to make a move.

Su Yan's impression of the Nightmare Town followers was that they might be extremely powerful and their methods mysterious and unpredictable, but in the end, they all met a terrible end. This was a statement made by the former leader of the Nightmare Town sect in the Central State.

Even the Holy Mother who nurtures all spirits and all directions said so, which shows how deep the waters of the spell of nightmare suppression are.

If Qingya had truly practiced this method, Su Yan felt he should persuade her to abandon the evil spirits who caused her to suffer a terrible death, citing scriptures and the words of the Holy Mother of Nurturing All Spirits and Ten Directions.

Your leader of the Nightmare Suppression Cult said that those who practice Nightmare Suppression will die a horrible death, so why are you still foolishly practicing it!

Su Yan also had doubts and curiosity about the Nightmare Suppression Technique, but the answers he wanted to know were with Emperor Wusheng, and Su Yan obviously couldn't ask Emperor Wusheng directly.

Because Su Yan could clearly hear the sorrow in Emperor Wusheng's words. Besides Emperor Yu of Xia and Empress Yousu, something else must have happened between them before.

Although Su Yan was a fox, he wasn't stupid and had absolutely no intention of courting death. Throughout history, it seems that very few people who like to reopen old wounds can live to a ripe old age.

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Su Yan rested on the lawn until evening, when she finally saw Qingya come out of the dressing room.

Su Yan, still in fox form, caught up with Qingya, who was heading towards her dormitory, in a few steps.

"Is Qingya free?"

Su Yan moved closer to Qing Ya, keeping a distance of about half a meter, afraid that Qing Ya might accidentally kick him into the air and make him fly like a flying fox.

"You want to ask about the Nightmare Suppression Technique, right?" Qingya glanced at the fox beside her and immediately saw what Su Yan wanted to ask. She said, "I haven't practiced the Nightmare Suppression Technique. Never mind, I'm just about to take a bath to refresh myself. You can take a look at it for me."

Qingya initially wanted to explain, but then thought that simply stating it verbally might not be clear enough. So she simply picked Su Yan up from the ground and took him back to her dormitory to explain things to him more clearly.

The demon race is extremely wary of the Nightmare Suppression Technique. They are so ruthless that they will fight to the death if they see anyone who uses Nightmare Suppression. They will even call on their friends and relatives as soon as they see a Nightmare Suppression thief, determined to kill the entire family of the Nightmare Suppression thief.

When Senior Ai'er identified her as a follower of the Nightmare Suppression, Qingya knew that Su Yan would definitely ask questions. Considering that Su Yan's background might not be simple, Qingya did not want to create unnecessary trouble.

After Qingya returned to her dormitory, she placed Su Yan on the dressing table, then sat on the dressing chair with her back to Su Yan and began to untie the sash around her waist:

"There are some things I cannot tell you for the time being, because the imperial court requires us to keep them secret indefinitely. But the reason why Senior Ai'er thought I was a follower of the Nightmare Suppression is actually here."

Qingya folded the sash and placed it on her lap, then took off her coat, revealing her back covered by a bodice. Her back, which should have been snow-white and flawless, presented a wondrous botanical scroll to Su Yan.

On Qingya's back, there was a plant pattern that Su Yan had never seen before. The bluish-purple and reddish root pattern was rooted in Qingya's coccyx, and the bluish branches with thorns grew along the spine until they stopped growing on both sides of Qingya's shoulder blades. Two flower buds, one black and one white, grew on the left and right of the shoulder blades.

"The bloodline of the fennec fox originates from this."

Qingya looked back at the mirror on the dressing table, watching herself raise her hand to form a hand seal on her back. The plant pattern that was originally lying on her back gradually expanded and became three-dimensional. A black and a white flower bud gradually emerged and bloomed slowly.

"There is no such thing as a spell to suppress evil spirits. The highest level of integration of all medical skills and wood-based techniques allows the grafting characteristics that originally existed on plants to act on the human body, allowing humans to possess the supernatural powers of the demon race in a way that does not harm nature."

"In other words, you are a fox, but if you want to obtain the golden flames of the three-legged golden crow, or the heavenly dog's ability to devour the sky and the earth, you can obtain the possibility of awakening their innate supernatural powers through the grafting method."

After Qingya explained the grafting process to Su Yan, she didn't treat Su Yan like an outsider. Turning around, she looked at Su Yan, who was sitting at her dressing table, dumbfounded, and said:

"Of course, what I just described is a perfect theoretical possibility; in reality, it's not that easy to acquire the talents of other races."

"Moreover, its cost is extremely high. It would take the people in the flower-growing region ten years of working without eating, drinking, or sleeping to produce enough value to cultivate a single grafted plant."

"That concludes my answer."

Hmm, I was planning to add an extra chapter this morning, but my phone's system update was too slow. I stared at the ceiling with wide eyes and eventually fell asleep. But no worries, I won't be updating this morning; I'll update tonight.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 204 Searching for Her a Thousand Times in My Dreams

According to her, the elegant nine-tailed fox bloodline originated from the medical magic of the Fairy Healer. Through the combination of plants cultivated by the magic with the human body, the cultivator's body is slowly altered to gain the innate supernatural abilities of other races.

This is an incredibly powerful skill, but grafting is not without its drawbacks; it is extremely dependent on luck!

Plants can only grant grafters the potential, the supernatural power hidden in their bloodline. Whether or not it can be awakened depends entirely on the individual's fate. A grafter may awaken all the innate supernatural powers of the grafted bloodline, or they may spend a fortune to cultivate a grafted plant but awaken nothing at all.

Besides being extremely dependent on luck, grafters also have to endure the pain of the grafted plant altering their body.

The rootstock of a grafted plant is something that is rooted in the plant's structure and connected to the grafter's nerves. Only in this way can the final, complete grafting of bloodlines be achieved. Furthermore, the grafter needs to carry the grafted plant for life. Once the grafted plant is separated from the grafter, the grafter may die.

"This is the danger of grafting. My master once did research and found that among the five elemental cultivators, only the wood elemental cultivators have the highest survival rate. Other elemental cultivators will be paralyzed at the very least once they lose the grafting plant."

Qingya sighed softly and continued:

"The grafting method is a modification of the body, but my soul is still that of a human. Senior Ai'er must have discovered this problem, which is why she mistook me for a follower of the Nightmare Suppression and interrogated me so harshly, right?"

Su Yan didn't need to ask anything; Qingya simply told him everything she could.

The grafting method should have been a top secret, not to be revealed to anyone, but that is a thing of the past. Since the Fairy Physician joined the Xia Yu Dynasty, she has received secret support from Grand Tutor Jin to conduct experiments with elite troops.

The grafting technique was no longer considered top secret among the ruling class of Xia Yu. With Su Yan's nine-tailed fox bloodline and his extensive network of seniors and older sisters, Qingya believed that Su Yan would soon learn from other channels that Xia Yu's Grand Protector and the Demon Suppression Division were jointly selecting soldiers.

Once the grafted plant of the Fairy Healer is fully cultivated, it can be secretly disseminated to the imperial city on a small scale.

"No, it's really amazing."

After listening to Qingya's story, Su Yan almost blurted out "Awesome!", but considering that Qingya was present, he decided not to mention any organ-related terms and quickly changed his word to express his shock.

The grafting method discovered by the Fairy Physician is so advanced that it's no exaggeration to say it's a heaven-defying method that could overturn the cultivation world.

People's physical constitutions are different. Some cultivators may start body cultivation at the age of three, build a foundation in five years, and reach the Nascent Soul stage at the age of ten. Upon reaching adulthood, they may directly become Earth Immortals on the spot.

Some people practice body refinement until they are thirty years old, or even devote themselves to cultivating demonic arts, but still cannot establish a foundation.

There are quite a few people like this, and the grafting method of the Fairy Healer can not only evolve geniuses into monsters, but also turn useless people into talents. As long as the grafting method can be popularized among the human race, then in the future, the human race will usher in an era where geniuses, monsters, and monsters crawl everywhere.

Although the grafting method is a probabilistic awakening, the human race obviously has the largest population base.

"Keep this to yourself, and don't let a word of it get out, or the consequences will be severe." Qingya added, reminding Su Yan after speaking.

"His Majesty the Emperor and the Grand Tutor will investigate!"

The grafting method is not a big secret at some levels, but for cultivators at other levels, this news is no less than a celestial being self-destructing; it is absolutely news that overturns the cultivators' worldview.

She told Su Yan only because the grafting method was something Su Yan could know.

Qingya naturally didn't want to get into trouble by carelessly revealing matters like secret cooperation with the imperial court.

"I'm extremely tight-lipped, I'd rather die than tell!" Su Yan nodded speechlessly in agreement with Qing Ya.

Who is Sister Qingya? She is the Imperial Physician Assistant, the Fairy Physician who is now the Dean of the Imperial Medical Bureau. Su Yan may not know the intricacies of the matter, but he is very clear that the person standing behind the Fairy Physician is Emperor Wusheng.

Su Yan pretended he had never heard of the grafting method and did not want to ask about it anymore.

This is an alternative method of nightmare suppression that does not harm the natural order and will not lead to a terrible death. The forces and interests involved are extremely large, and it can even directly overturn the current cultivation world.

This is clearly a huge pit. Once Su Yan jumps in, he will probably never have to worry about being harassed by the elders of the Su clan or being captured by the North Sea Dragon Clan and forced to reproduce in the Dragon Palace.

His only worry is probably whether he has a tomorrow.

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Qingya concealed the spiritual plants behind her, got up and walked into the inner room of the bedroom, placing her clothes on the screen to wash away the earthy smell of herbs.

After the misunderstanding about the Nightmare Suppression Technique was cleared up, the two tacitly agreed not to discuss the grafting technique again, and those things that were not their concern came to a temporary end.

Su Yan jumped from the dressing table to the ground, then leisurely hopped onto a chair, and climbed out the window. She didn't choose to linger in the elegant room, but instead went outside to clear her head and forget about the grafting method.

"Have they already left?"

After Qingya finished bathing and changing, she emerged from behind the screen, glanced around the dormitory, and muttered, "She said she was going to solve all the problems at once."

Su Yan might not remember that he casually asked Qingya on the street of the Red King's Mansion if he could pinch her ears.

But Qingya remembered it very well, so after clearing up the misunderstanding of the Nightmare Town followers, Qingya very straightforwardly prepared to fulfill her promise from this morning and let Su Yan pinch her pair of long brown and yellow fox ears.

As a result, Su Yan ran away as soon as he turned his head, and he would have to find another time to keep his promise.

Unable to see Su Yan, Qingya didn't dwell too much on the time. She put her black round hat back on and left the dormitory to wait for dinner in the courtyard.

As soon as Qingya opened the door, she saw a white object curled up on the lush green lawn, peacefully basking in the sunset and fast asleep.

"Is she asleep?" Qingya asked, tilting her head in confusion.

It seems that taking a bath and changing clothes by myself would only take a little over three cups of tea's time, which shouldn't be too long, right?

How could someone fall asleep in such a short time?

"Brother Su said that sunbathing is good for making the fur smooth, so he lay on the lawn and took a nap."

Zhou You, who was drinking alone in the pavilion, saw Qing Ya tilting her head and looking at Su Yan. She spoke a few words to Su Yan, explaining that Su Yan was sleeping there to absorb the essence of the sun and moon to nourish herself, and that she did not have any special or strange fetish.

Su Yan was unaware of their conversation, as he was trying to fall into a deep sleep, preparing for his next encounter with the fairy-like woman that Grand Tutor Jin had paid to invite.

Anyway, since I'm just idling around, instead of thinking about grafting techniques and all that nonsense, I might as well go to my dreams and learn some powerful moves from the fairy sister.

It's a good opportunity to ask the fairy sister how much her courses cost, that it could make the Grand Tutor feel the pinch.

Su Yan was also quite curious about this.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 205 "The纨绔子弟" (Wán kù zǐ dì, meaning spoiled and dissolute young men)

night.

Su Yan, who had gone out for a little exercise, opened her eyes groggily in her dream. She felt a familiar caress on her back. Su Yan shook her head, sat up from the fairy sister's arms, and looked back.

The girl with her eyes closed remained as always, showing no change in response to Su Yan's arrival, as still and unmoving as a rock waiting for its husband.

"Senior, can you hear me?" Su Yan asked, looking at the girl with her eyes closed.

When he was young and naive, Su Yan thought that the fairy sister was just petting the fox. However, after being reminded by Grand Tutor Jin, Su Yan felt more and more that the fairy sister was not just petting the fox. She was probably touching his bones and exploring his meridians.

Faced with such a mysterious senior, Su Yan did not jump around as before, but instead asked the senior if he could hear her through the dream.

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