Chapter 20.1

I’ve Unlocked a New Function (1)

Ji Qingzhuo heard it and stood rooted in place, slightly puffing out her cheeks as she attempted to hide her nervousness with such a gesture.

Although she knew it was just a joke, but… it was… Because of this, she seemed a little embarrassed to face Shen Rongyu.

Ji Qingzhuo patted her cheeks. Eventually, she made up her mind and stepped forward to open the door.

Shen Rongyu could hear every movement inside the door clearly while standing outside the door. His ears captured all of Ji Qingzhuo’s tangled and hesitant motions.

He didn’t rush and just waited quietly outside the door.

Ji Qingzhou opened the door. The moon was bright and clear, and he stood outside the door, as noble and unsullied as ever, elegant as a celestial being.

“Xiao Yu-shixiong,” Ji Qingzhou called out to him as if nothing had happened. She tried her best to make herself forget about Dual Cultivation.

But as soon as she greeted Shen Rongyu, his eyes fell on her, deep and intense.

“Have you run out of magic power?” he asked.

By all accounts, Ji Qingzhou had never been in such a situation.

“We had a quiz in Elder Ye’s class.” Ji Qingzhuo replied. She raised her hand and pinched the center of her forehead. Ever since she used up her magic power, she kept feeling dizzy.

“A cultivation base in a state of depletion for a long time can cause damage to a cultivator’s body,” Shen Rongyu said coldly.

After he finished speaking, he grabbed Ji Qingzhuo’s wrist and connected with her vital energy as usual to help her recover her magic power.

Ji Qingzhuo’s current state was like this. Her body was a closed container, and any spirit qi from the outside could not get in. Once she ran out of spirit qi or wanted to absorb some, she needed him to help absorb and cultivate.

It was impossible for mortals to cultivate immortality, but unbeknownst to Ji Qingzhuo, Shen Rongyu has a rather special physique, and only he could help her absorb spirit qi.

If it were spread out that he helped Ji Qingzhou cultivate, it would definitely cause a furor in Xuanyun Sect. Nevertheless, Shen Rongyu was undaunted. Firstly, it was as difficult as climbing up to the sky for Ji Qingzhuo to say something, let alone let her say a word about them cultivating together. Secondly, if she were to accidentally disclose something, the solution was also pretty simple. After all, dead people couldn’t speak.

Ji Qingzhou’s wrist remained in his grasp. She didn’t know that Shen Rongyu’s help in her cultivation was a gift from the devil. When the external spirit qi poured into her body, she felt limp from head to toe and could hardly support herself.

But she is currently standing, and Shen Rongyu has just taken a step into the courtyard.

Her ankle twitched, and she staggered. Shen Rongyu held her wrist with one hand to maintain the connection of their vital energy, while the other hand wrapped around her waist.

Ji Qingzhou fell into his arms, and her right cheek pressed against his solid and flat chest, like a wall.

However, she was powerless to struggle. Hence, she could only maintain her consciousness in this posture, being carried by him.

Shen Rongyu carried her into the courtyard. The courtyard door creaked behind them as it closed, locking out the full moonlight outside.

His footsteps trudged on the waterlogged wooden porch, startling the fish in the stream into a scurry.

Ji Qingzhuo’s consciousness seemed to have taken flight. She could feel a steady stream of spirit qi pouring into her meridians. Shen Rongyu seemed to have opened an entrance and exit in her occluded body, and he was the only channel to let the spirit qi from the outside world enter her body.

She subconsciously grabbed Shen Rongyu’s lapel and rendered the immortal dark clothes on his clothes wrinkled. She was thinking, Do cultivators in this realm possess such an ability?

If everyone had the ability to help others cultivate in this way, why did the elders of Xuanyun Sect say that mortals couldn’t cultivate immortality?

So… Was Shen Rongyu the only one capable of it?

Her long eyelashes trembled slightly. Shen Rongyu’s embrace was undoubtedly warm. His hug could have given her a strong sense of security, but it didn’t work for her. Her heart was empty. It would take an intense and solid emotion to fill it.

Therefore, Ji Qingzhuo’s eyes hidden by her long eyelashes were still calm. Though a little stunned, she wasn’t touched. She just lay quietly in Shen Rongyu’s arms, like an extremely beautiful and delicate doll.

After Ji Qingzhou regained her magic power, Shen Rongyu temporarily let her go. She finally had strength now.

The moment his big palm unfolded, Ji Qingzhuo’s small hand slipped from it, and she quickly bounced off his arms.

Shen Rongyu’s fingers stroked the folds on the front of his clothes, and with some wicked notions, he suggested, “If you want Dual Cultivation, you can get closer than just now.”

His voice rang deliberately soft and seductive, as if scratching Ji Qingzhuo’s heart.

Ji Qingzhou felt as if her body was electrified. She lowered her head and only whispered back, “Didn’t Xiao Yu-shixiong say this morning that you didn’t know how to?”

It had never occurred to Shen Rongyu that Ji Qingzhou would one day render him speechless, but she was so sincere in her question that he could say anything in rebuttal.

He coughed lightly and finally admitted it, “I’m teasing you.”

Ji Qingzhuo reflected on it for a long time, and she decided that Shen Rongyu was a bad person. The system was right; he was a villain.