"I was wrong!"
"I really know I was wrong!"
"Master!"
...
However, no matter how hot he was or how much pain he felt, Murong didn’t dare to get out of the big iron pot by himself. He could only stay put, constantly using his voice to "bother" Mu Qiuniang.
And Mu Qiuniang, sitting on the other side of the screen, holding a scripture, slowly reading.
In front of her, Zhan Jingshu was kneeling straight-backed on the other side of the tea table, earnestly copying books. It wasn’t that he was really that focused, but that his ears were plugged with earplugs, truly achieving the state of "hearing nothing outside the window."
"Master, you don’t love anymore..."
Murong was stead to the point where his face turned as red as a tomato.
His breath also gradually weakened, and his eyes started to turn white.
Mu Qiuniang lifted her gaze slightly, glanced at him, moved her fingers, and flicked an elixir into his mouth.
Murong imdiately felt a sweetness in his mouth; sothing surged into his internal organs, and the fiery heat imdiately subsided. It was as if he’d drunk a glass of ice water in the middle of sumr, his whole body feeling comfortable.
"Phew..." Murong let out a big breath, "Master, what did you give ? I feel so comfortable now..."
"Recite the mantra, ’Ice Heart’ of the ’Fire Character Secret.’
"Yes, Master!" Murong didn’t have the energy to be distracted anymore; he silently sat cross-legged in the big iron pot, reciting the ’Ice Heart’ mantra of the ’Fire Character Secret.’ He vaguely felt sothing circulating in his dantian, and upon looking inward, it turned out to be a small fla in his dantian.
However, now it seed to have shrunk a bit, but there was a faint blue presence around it.
That thing, could it be water?
Murong continued reciting the mantra while maneuvering this small fla through his four ridians and eight vessels. The previous warm sensation where the fla passed was no longer there; instead, there was a slight chill.
Moreover, he discovered that the faster he maneuvered, the more and thicker the blue beca around the small fla. And this blue substance seed to be able to convert into the small fla, causing its size to swell further.
Murong was delighted.
Great! The small fla that had no movent after half a day’s cultivation, grew chubby with just one intervention from the Master?
Quickly grow, the fatter the better!
Unknowingly, Murong imrsed himself in the sense of achievent from cultivation, completely unaware of the external heat. His skin seed to be freezing, with a hint of blue ice crystal erging on its surface.
Mu Qiuniang instructed Zhan Jingshu to stop his copying work and add so more wood under the pot for his junior brother. She also added so Fire Mark Elixir into the big iron pot, continuing to simr.
The originally boiling water unexpectedly emitted so illusory flas, swirling around Murong’s body.
Faintly, one could see traces of wind defending so phantom fires, seeming to bear the shadow of a phoenix.
"You go rest; I’ll keep an eye on things here."
"Master, I can rest here just the sa," Zhan Jingshu refused.
Mu Qiuniang didn’t insist either, leaving a trace of spiritual sense to monitor Murong and then sat down, ditating.
Zhan Jingshu imitated her, sitting cross-legged in ditation as well. However, unlike Mu Qiuniang, he couldn’t yet condense sothing like spiritual sense.
The night grew deeper.
The night wind blew, lifting the green window flowers, bringing the sound of a woman’s screams and lants.
"Ah... no... please, no more..."
"Spare !"
"I won’t dare do it again!"
...
Outside the room, Tong Raosheng paced anxiously, but he didn’t dare barge in.
Although he knew that the person hadn’t set any array, and he could enter with a push of the door, he knew—as soon as he pushed the door open, the outco for Xu Ruoxuan would be beyond explanation.
The "Seventh Senior Brother," wearing Qiao Zhichuan’s face, didn’t say a word, just kept lashing, for almost an hour before stopping. His back was spotless, pure venting.
When he finally threw the whip away, Xu Ruoxuan shrank her neck in fear, staring at him in terror.
"Ha! You thought I’d touch you?" he sneered coldly, mockingly saying, "A furnace touched by who knows how many n, touching you is filthy to !"
Xu Ruoxuan’s tears fell like rain, desperately wanting to shout back: "It wasn’t who wanted to beco like this! Wasn’t it you who made this way?"
But she didn’t dare; if she dared to shout back, she’d get beaten again.
Anyhow, Seventh Senior Brother just hit her once and wouldn’t do anything else to her, even though he despised her and was too lazy to collect her, it was still better than her hypocritical Second Senior Brother who said he loved her but always used her.
The Seventh Senior Brother left Xu Ruoxuan and walked out of the room, seeing Tong Raosheng waiting outside, unsurprised, letting out a sneer: "Oh, is it necessary? Making it look like I’m so villain breaking up a couple. Get it straight, it’s not that I wanted to sleep with your woman, Master gave her to . And I don’t even know why you like her, such a dirty woman, slept by so many, you’re still willing to take her. Oh, no, wasn’t it you who slept with her first?"
Tong Raosheng’s face turned livid, saying nothing.
"Tch! Like this, I don’t know why Master liked you back then!" he said disdainfully, then turned and left.
That irritation clogged in Tong Raosheng’s chest, keeping him standing at the door for a while before calming his anger, his expression sinister.
Isn’t it because you completed recent tasks well? What’s there to be proud of?
Just wait, once I complete this task, let’s see how you can still show off!
When he went inside to face Xu Ruoxuan again, he turned back to that warm neighborly boy, looking pained and guilty at her miserable state: "I’m sorry..."
A gentle apology, he caressed her wounds, unable to bear looking directly.
"Second Senior Brother, when will such days ever end?" Xu Ruoxuan cried despairingly.
"Xuanxuan, you mustn’t think like that. You have to live well, understand? Only by living well can you have hope and a future..."
"Really? Is there any aning to this life worse than death? Can I still have hope, have a future?"
"Yes! Definitely!" Tong Raosheng hugged Xu Ruoxuan, speaking with determination.
In fact, he hardly knew if he was comforting her or himself.
In this cruelly built cage, who isn’t a bird with tied feet and wings, no matter how they flap, there’s always a massive iron chain clattering. No matter how high they fly, they can’t escape the chain’s length.
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