“No, do we really have to strip completely naked? You’re comfortable with it, but I’m a bit…”
Su Aoxue said awkwardly, resting a hand on his face. He didn’t know why a sense of awkwardness was blooming in his heart. Perhaps that feeling was shame? After all, stripping completely in front of someone else was a very private matter!
But thinking back to their collective training, they had all used large public bathhouses. There shouldn’t be a difference, right? Had he felt this way before? Maybe?
In any case, Su Aoxue’s current mood was very strange.
Shen Yan looked at Su Aoxue’s awkwardness and curled his lip to tease him. “What, are you actually shy? We’re both men, and there are no women here.”
“What’s there to be shy about? Do you have something I don’t?”
Perhaps because the effect of the medicinal bath was so powerful, Shen Yan’s facial expression looked slightly distorted. “While the medicinal effect is at its peak, get in here quickly. Don’t waste time.”
“Something big is going to happen in a few days. If you’re a bit stronger now, you’ll have an easier time then.”
“Tsk…”
Since Shen Yan put it that way, Su Aoxue had no choice but to turn his back to the other man and begin taking off his clothes.
‘Old Shen is right. We’re both guys, so what is there to be ashamed of?’
‘Forget it, I’ll keep my underwear on. As expected, I still can’t be as open as Old Shen, not even leaving himself a pair of trunks.’
With a surge of determination, Su Aoxue’s speed in undressing increased.
However, Shen Yan, who had been soaking in the tub for a while and was feeling a bit lightheaded from the rush of the medicine, froze for a second as he saw Su Aoxue’s delicate, snow-white back. He blinked and looked at Su Aoxue again, then blinked once more.
‘That’s strange. That back, those legs… why does it feel like a woman is undressing with her back to me?’
Feeling that he was being nonsensical, Shen Yan quickly turned his head away. He stopped looking in Su Aoxue’s direction to prevent idle thoughts from disturbing his cultivation. At the same time, he began to circulate his Visualization Concept within his mind.
If Shen Yan hadn’t known the person in front of him was his good brother, Su Aoxue, he really would have suspected the person was actually a woman.
Su Aoxue, who had only left himself a pair of trunks, kept his body still but turned his head to look back. He saw that Shen Yan had already closed his eyes and was silent. Seeing this, Su Aoxue hurriedly slipped into the small bathtub.
The water level was exactly level with his neck. Almost his entire body could be perfectly immersed in the medicinal liquid. Because the liquid was dark green, his body below the surface could not be seen clearly.
“Hiss, it feels like my bones are being pulled out and kneaded ruthlessly.”
The moment he soaked in, Su Aoxue gritted his teeth and complained.
On the other side, Shen Yan responded with a pained expression. “Close your eyes and focus on the Visualization Method. Don’t even think about coming out. You can only leave when the medicinal effect ends and the pain stops. Remember that, otherwise it’ll all be for nothing.”
“The value of this batch of medicinal ingredients is very expensive.”
Regardless, Shen Yan wouldn’t be able to afford a third batch. These two portions of medicinal bath had exhausted all his savings, and he had even gone into debt.
“Nonsense, do you think I don’t know it’s expensive!”
Su Aoxue replied through gritted teeth. If this stuff couldn’t be drunk directly, he would have considered chugging it after the soak just to not waste a drop! Besides, whether Shen Yan’s pot of liquid actually worked was still up for debate!
After speaking, Shen Yan closed his eyes and began to cultivate the Visualization Method with all his might. A large amount of white steam began to rise from his body.
Seeing this, Su Aoxue stopped talking and closed his eyes to circulate his own Visualization Method. However, he did not use the same one Shen Yan was using.
What Su Aoxue didn’t know was that as his body began to absorb the medicinal liquid, it was also undergoing a certain change.
……
Just as Su Aoxue and Shen Yan both soaked in their respective tubs, Ling Feng stood outside the small house. She closed her eyes and carefully sensed the scent wafting from the house, her eyebrows slightly raised. “This medicinal scent, the sound of water… are those two little guys taking a medicinal bath?”
“Speaking of which, why is this medicinal scent so familiar? It’s like I’ve smelled it somewhere before, but it doesn’t seem like a common type of medicinal bath…”
Ling Feng fell into deep thought.
She had timed her arrival to find Su Aoxue, but she hadn’t expected him to be dragged away by Shen Yan. In the end, she had chosen to silently follow them. She didn’t expect to stumble upon this.
Ling Feng was certain that, based on her years of research experience, the concentration of the scent from the combined ingredients in that house was far from simple.
“A remote Base City like this actually has a master-level Pharmacist?”
Although surprised, Ling Feng had soaked in even more efficient medicinal baths, so she didn’t have any ulterior motives toward the liquid inside.
Just as Ling Feng was about to wait for Su Aoxue, an invisible force suddenly broke through the sky, immediately catching her attention.
“This is… a Highest Level Encrypted Message?”
“Sending an encrypted message of this scale would probably consume nearly 1 year of this Base City’s energy reserves, right?”
“Could it be that someone with S-rank Talent Potential has appeared?”
“This remote little Base City is truly full of surprises…”
“I wonder who it could be.”
……
After soaking in the medicinal bath for nearly 1 hour, Su Aoxue opened his eyes before Shen Yan. The pain was completely gone, replaced by a sense of lightness throughout his body.
Then, his eyes widened. “Holy crap, this feeling… this long hair…”
The moment he realized something was wrong with his body, Su Aoxue immediately shrank into the deepest part of the tub. The murky medicinal liquid covered him up to his chin. He covered his mouth to prevent any sound from escaping, and his body began to tremble uncontrollably.
That exclamation had actually been in a very feminine tone!
At this moment, Su Aoxue huddled most of his body inside the tub, leaving only a head above the water. He tremulously looked back toward Shen Yan.
Seeing that the other man was still soaking in his bath with steam rising from his skin and eyes tightly shut, showing no signs of waking, Su Aoxue relaxed a little—but not much.
A look of misery gradually appeared on her face. She wasn’t sure if Shen Yan had opened his eyes during this time.
‘Think on the bright side. Maybe Shen Yan really didn’t open his eyes?’
‘Even if he did, this medicinal liquid is so thick. It wasn’t clear to begin with, and now it’s turned black. He definitely can’t see my body under the water. Yes, that’s right!’
As Su Aoxue thought this, her small hand under the water tremulously reached toward her chest—so large, one hand couldn’t even hold it…
Realizing it was true, Su Aoxue felt completely numb!
Su Aoxue then tried to change back into a male form, but a look of bafflement immediately appeared on her face.
“This… this…”
Seeing that Shen Yan showed no signs of waking up anytime soon, Su Aoxue steeled her heart and immediately climbed out of the tub. She hurriedly threw the clothes that had been set aside onto her body. “Tsk, why did this happen…”
“Why did I completely turn into a girl just from taking a bath? And I can’t change back!”
Su Aoxue’s mind was now entirely focused on getting dressed to hide her body!
However, halfway through dressing, she remembered the proud existence on her chest.
“This is too obvious. This won’t work!”
She hurriedly grabbed bandages from the place where the emergency medical kit was kept in the room.
‘Maybe this will work?’
Thinking this, Su Aoxue didn’t hesitate for a second and began to wrap the bandages around her body. Her face was full of determination, her only goal being to compress the volume of her chest as much as possible…
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