The only thing between Young Shiyi, who was seated on my bed, was a tiger-fur rug. Outside of the door behind was a silver orb, and at my feet was a nail board that cost five copper coins.
“Kneel!” Young Shiyi ordered, arms crossed under her rack.
After I treated Uncle Feng Xue and Luo Ming, Young Shiyi dragged back to camp, let eat, then entered my room with . I had no idea her short disappearance was used to go buy a nail board!
“Please spare , Young Shiyi!” I summoned all the tears and snot I could humanly summon. “I’m honestly innocent! It’s all a misunderstanding!”
“Explain yourself.”
“I-I don’t know how to. B-Boss just suddenly puked when I was giving her a checkup.”
“That wasn’t the question.”
“Wh-what’s the question?”
“The question is, when did you do the deed? How is Yiren pregnant?”
I shook my head as if my life depended on it. “I did no such thing - never! It has nothing to do with !”
“Are you sure?”
“Yes… sort of.” Had I not fed Boss Pangu’s heart’s blood, she wouldn’t have suffered those symptoms, so I did play a part, right?
P-p-p-put that sword back in!
No matter what I was interrogated on, I denied it all, so Young Shiyi asked, “All right, next question: what will your child refer to as?”
I scrubbed my head. “Uh, Young Grandaunt?”
“I knew it’s your child!”
That’s just leading into a trap!
“Besides, why Young Grandaunt? Who am I to you?”
“Okay, then… First Mother?”
Caught by surprise, Young Shiyi’s head turned into an active chimney. “I never said anything about marrying you.”
I scratched the back of my head. “I thought you wanted to be main…”
The two of us looked down upon making eye contact, though it didn’t take long for Young Shiyi to glare at again. “If I’m First Mother, then doesn’t that an she is carrying your child?”
No! Stop it! Stop veering everything back to that!
“No! It’s like this…” I figured out in my head where to start and then related it all back, starting from Pangu’s heart’s blood.
Young Shiyi obviously didn’t know nearly as much as I did on dragons since I had been doing extra research beyond Mount Daluo’s materials, not to ntion throwing down with Pangu. In the sa vein, she didn’t know anything about the similar symptoms to pregnancy showing up.
“If you want to get to the bottom of the side effects, you’ll probably have to consult my cousin.”
Great minds think alike. I was 99.9% sure my idiotic shifu wouldn’t know squat about the subject.
“Nevertheless, it’s good that Yiren’s injury is no more. Don’t worry too much. Given the energy has disappeared, the crisis is averted. With that said” - Young Shiyi squinted - “you’re not trying to fool with dragon’s heart’s blood, are you?”
“Absolutely not! I swear on my life!”
Let tell you an irrefutable fact: a stubborn and clever woman is far scarier than a stubborn and stupid woman.
Following another lengthy explanation, I was finally allowed to sit on my bed, although, technically, she only allowed on my bed so that she could inspect my condition.
Whilst checking for scratches and bruises, Young Shiyi queried, “How are you feeling?”
“Nothing in particular. You know Tianhu didn’t hit that hard. Half of it was exaggerating. That said, I didn’t expect I was so weak; even I was shocked when I gasped so much blood. Still, State Preceptor Lai’s healing ability was even more surprising. It’s true when they say there’s no way anyone can know everything about every martial art.”
“I know you aren’t hurt that bad.”
“R-really? You pulled a sword on him and seed pretty serious about it.”
“That’s a different story. It doesn’t matter whether you were pretending or not. I get angry just seeing you spewing blood.” Young Shiyi dressed again. Seeing relish the sensation of physical contact with my eyes shut, she poked on the head. “I was asking about the damage you sustained against Pangu. I know you lost your abilities. I was supposed to dye your hair for you while you were unconscious, but I noticed your hair stayed black.”
“I knew you figured it out when I woke up to see my celestial spider silk outer coat missing. Where is it now?”
“Thanks to you losing your strength, it kept emanating frigid energy, so I hid it in a waterfall outside of Nieyao. Three days later, over thirty kilotres of the water trail had turned to ice, drawing a crowd. Luckily, nobody had spare ti from our side to go investigate.”
I figured Young Shiyi or Hong Jiu had covered for when I woke up to find my outer coat missing. Had they not removed it, I would’ve turned into a humanoid icicle.
“Back on topic. How are your abilities now? If you’ve lost a lot, I’ll write a letter to have your shifu and shiniang co check on you.”
“That won’t be necessary. If word got out that they had returned to the pugilistic world, they’d cause a stir. I’d like to continue enjoying peaceful days.”
In addition, I had a feeling that I shouldn’t et my shifu at the mont. I didn’t know why. Maybe I forgot about sothing?
“But in your current state…”
“Haha, I’m fine. Yes, I’ve lost all my internal energy; however, it’s not like I won’t recover. As long as I follow the correct thod, it’s only a matter of ti.”
“Dual cultivation?”
Trivia
If you’ve forgotten what Ming Feizhen forgot regarding his shifu, here is a hint: Matriarch Zi.
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