Hearing Xiao Jing’s voice, Xu Ping’an glanced over and saw that Li Yu’er was already dressed, but she kept her head down and remained silent.
“Now, please lie down, Miss Yu’er, and I will perform the acupuncture.”
Xu Ping’an placed the brocade needle pouch on the small table beside him.
He also put the two boxes aside, finally took out a brocade bag, and handed it to Xiao Jing.
“Go get a bowl of water and have your young lady swallow this. Don’t chew it, okay?”
“Hmm~”
Xiao Jing blushed and nodded, took the brocade bag, poured a cup of water, and handed it to Li Yu’er.
Li Yu’er didn’t even dare to look at Xu Ping’an.
With a red face, she stretched out her hand, and a small, fiery red sphere, like cinnabar, about one centimeter in diameter, fell into her palm.
The moment she touched the small sphere, Li Yu’er felt an incredibly strong sensation of heat suddenly radiate from her palm!
This heat even began to dispel the cold energy within her body.
Yet, there was nothing wrong with her palm, but there was a burning sensation, as if hot oil had been poured on it.
“Hiss~ Sir, what is this?”
“This is the inner elixir of a mountain lord. You feel hot because the mountain lord is a pure yang body, and it’s beginning to merge and counteract the yin energy produced by the Nine Yin Severed Meridians within your body. During this process, the excess yang energy will manifest as heat.”
Xu Ping’an explained while spreading out the needle pouch.
The moment the needle pouch was opened, the candles in the room suddenly began to flicker.
The tightly shut room inexplicably became breezy, and from the needle pouch, streams of colorful light appeared on each silver needle.
“Sir… what… what is this?”
Even the well-informed Li Yu’er was very curious.
“Just silver needles, very ordinary silver needles.”
Li Yu’er looked up at the colorful swirling light in the room, then at the shimmering, colorful silver needles.
“This… you call this ordinary? I’m afraid even the treasures collected in the imperial palace can’t compare to this.”
“I told you these are just ordinary silver needles. Are you going to get treated or not?”
Xu Ping’an glared at Li Yu’er, annoyed.
I’ve already told you these are ‘ordinary’ silver needles. Can’t you just treat them as ordinary silver needles?
If it weren’t absolutely necessary to use acupuncture to treat her illness, Xu Ping’an really wouldn’t want to take out this needle pouch.
Seemingly understanding Xu Ping’an’s implied meaning, Li Yu’er quickly quieted down and nodded hastily.
“Sir is right, these are just ordinary silver needles.”
“Hmm, eat the inner elixir first. Don’t chew it; if you bite it, there’s nowhere to fix it.”
“Okay.”
Li Yu’er cooperated throughout the process.
Although the inner elixir in her palm was as hot as boiling oil, she still suppressed a few fears in her heart, swallowed the elixir whole, and then quickly drank a large gulp of water.
As the inner elixir traveled with the water from her throat to her stomach, Li Yu’er suddenly felt a strong wave of dryness and heat sweep through her entire body!
“Oh… Sir, this… what is this?”
“Don’t speak. Lie down.”
Li Yu’er endured the sensation of dryness and heat, looked at Xu Ping’an, and finally lay obediently on the bed.
Even though she had already put on clothes, in her haste, she couldn’t make them perfectly neat.
As Li Yu’er lay down, the thin blouse faintly revealed the sharp points of her chest, like lotus leaves.
Xu Ping’an couldn’t help but picture his wife.
Comparing them, each had her own charm.
One was full and rounded like jade, the other pure and pretty.
Truly a beautiful girl, no loss at all.
He just pretended not to see anything.
Xu Ping’an calmed his mind and closed his eyes.
When he opened them again, there was no longer any trace of unwholesome thoughts.
Thousands of years of study in the system had allowed him, once he entered the state of a healer, to remain unfazed even under immense pressure.
With a muffled ‘bang,’ the lid of the pure vase was lifted, and instantly, a dense surge of malevolent blood qi spewed out from the opening.
The blood qi appeared with specks of dark red, and even ordinary people could clearly see the blood energy overflowing from the bottle’s mouth.
“What is this?”
At the sight of the malevolent blood qi, Li Yu’er and Xiao Jing, both mere mortals, couldn’t help but tremble.
The fierce and malevolent energy contained within a mountain lord demon, at least near the Soul Transformation stage, was unimaginable to ordinary people.
Even regular people would stiffen and have their hair stand on end upon hearing a tiger’s roar.
What was contained within this pure vase was the vital blood from the heart of that thousand-year-old tiger demon.
“Don’t make a sound.”
Xu Ping’an’s voice came, and then the two witnessed an astonishing scene!
Xu Ping’an moved like lightning, deftly holding a silver needle.
He lightly touched it to the mouth of the pure vase, then quickly inserted it into Li Yu’er’s abdomen.
In an instant, Li Yu’er felt that the scorching fireball she had just swallowed, which had caused her entire body to feel dry and hot, suddenly plummeted, breaking through numerous obstacles and reaching the location of her Dantian.
Xu Ping’an held the needle in one hand and placed the other on her stomach.
The silver needle continuously pierced, and each needle carried specks of blood.
That was not Li Yu’er’s blood, but blood adhering from the pure vase.
She gazed at Xu Ping’an’s serious and captivating face, momentarily forgetting that she was still undergoing treatment, and fell into a daze.
At this moment, Xu Ping’an was fully concentrated on monitoring the flow of yang energy within Li Yu’er’s body.
The Nine Yin Severed Meridians cannot produce yang energy; therefore, the only source of this yang energy was that mountain lord’s inner elixir.
The reason it’s called Nine Yin Severed Meridians is because all her normal meridians are pathways for yin energy.
In simple terms, her body lacks pathways for yang energy to circulate.
What Xu Ping’an was doing now was opening meridians for her, while also sealing off a few yin meridians, to temporarily stabilize the yin-yang balance within her body.
Besides opening, guiding, and sealing meridians, he also needed to slightly contaminate this pure yang inner elixir of the mountain lord.
One being Nine Yin and the other pure Yang, if they directly clashed, although they could dissolve each other, Li Yu’er’s body simply couldn’t withstand such a powerful conflict.
Therefore, only by allowing this inner elixir to be imbued with some of Li Yu’er’s aura and carry some of the Nine Yin’s impure energy could this pure yang inner elixir adapt to this environment.
“Open your mouth.”
Li Yu’er was slightly stunned.
Before she could speak, a finger suddenly slipped in, instantly filling her tongue.
The young girl’s small, delicate tongue trembled slightly and wrapped around it.
Like a snake, like a rope, tightly entwining and slowly sucking.
Even her eyes involuntarily closed.
Feeling Xu Ping’an’s aura emanating from his fingertip, at this moment… Li Yu’er’s heart was unusually calm.
The next second, Xu Ping’an’s finger suddenly withdrew, and an inexplicable sense of emptiness instantly invaded the young girl’s heart.
The sickly beauty opened her eyes, gazing at the glistening thread still adhering to her lips, her vermilion lips slightly parted.
Her face was flushed.