My Gentle and Pure Sect Leader Husband-Chapter 18 - Day of Wearing a Disguise
Two hours later, both of them, completely devoid of sleep, opened their eyes almost simultaneously.
“You……”
“You……”
They spoke in unison.
“I……”
“I……”
Their ill-timed synchronization made the awkwardness spread.
After a long silence, Yan Hongyin sat up first, crossing her legs on the bed while looking down at Yu Luocha.
Yu Luocha also silently sat up, sitting cross-legged facing Yan Hongyin.
The room wasn’t completely dark; moonlight streamed in through the slightly open window. They then realized that neither was wearing proper sleeping garments, but had only removed their outer robes, with their inner clothes still intact.
Yan Hongyin cleared her throat. “Can’t sleep?”
Yu Luocha paused for a moment, nodded, and asked in return. “You can’t sleep either?”
Yan Hongyin nodded silently.
For newlyweds sharing a bed to sit cross-legged facing each other in the dead of night, with clear eyes, seemed somewhat absurd and awkward.
At this moment, Yu Luocha’s qi in his dantian was unstable, and faint beads of sweat appeared on his temples from endurance.
Fortunately, the candles weren’t lit, preventing Yan Hongyin from noticing anything amiss. Otherwise, if she were to check his pulse now, she would surely discover that what troubled Yu Luocha wasn’t internal energy at all, but rather the accumulated qi in his dantian that hadn’t been properly channeled, causing his qi to go astray.
However, Yan Hongyin wasn’t feeling well either.
The gold needle had sealed seven acupoints, which should have unsealed one by one in order as she rebuilt her internal strength. But perhaps due to the internal energy she had gathered from practicing earlier in the day conflicting with the original force of the gold needle sealing, the two energies were now tangling and running wild in her meridians. If she didn’t meditate and regulate her breath soon, the delay could risk her qi deviation.
Yan Hongyin had always been decisive. Her hand tightened on the quilt over her knees, and she said firmly. “I’ll go sleep in another chamber tonight. Ah Yu… don’t think too much of it, just rest well and take your medicine on time.”
After speaking, not daring to look at her husband whom she was abandoning once again, she quickly got out of bed, put on her shoes, grabbed her outer robe, and rushed out the door.
The moment after Yan Hongyin closed the door behind her, Yu Luocha, who had been enduring for so long, turned his head and spat out the toxic blood that had been trapped in his throat. The red liquid dripped slowly and thickly from the bedside footrest onto the floor.
He had no time to think further, and quickly closed his eyes, placing his palms facing upward and overlapped in front of his dantian, beginning to regulate his breathing.
…….
Just as she left the courtyard, Yan Hongyin felt a pain in her dantian, and supporting herself against a nearby bamboo, she couldn’t help but vomit a mouthful of fresh blood, which splattered onto the emerging bamboo shoots.
She dared not delay any longer, and immediately made several leaps, vanishing into the night.
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In the secret chamber, when Yan Hongyin opened her eyes after completing her meditation, three large hourglasses on the wall had already emptied.
This secret chamber was used for her closed-door practice. That day when her internal energy was churning and she nearly went qi deviation, fortunately she managed to enter closed-door meditation in time to pass through the crisis, but unexpectedly three days had already passed.
However, this time it was clearly a blessing in disguise.
According to her original expectations, although the speed of rebuilding her martial arts would be considerably faster than before, it would still take at least a year to rebuild her internal strength to the seventh level.
But because of this chaos of dantian energy, she had accidentally managed to successfully unseal five of the acupoints sealed by the gold needle, rebuilding her internal strength to the fifth level.
Moreover, Yan Hongyin could fully sense that her current fifth-level internal strength could completely rival the seventh-level power she had before the sealing. If the last two acupoints could be successfully unsealed, she might have the possibility of breaking through the seventh-level limitation and reaching above the Grandmaster realm.
However……
She wondered how Ah Yu had been these three days? Had he taken his medicine on time? Had his condition worsened?
Yan Hongyin frowned, sighing somewhat dejectedly.
She now somewhat understood why many martial artists remained single, and why even those with beloved companions or cherished lovers were often unwilling to marry.
If the other person was an ordinary person without any martial abilities, there were truly too many things that couldn’t be explained to them, and under repeated misunderstandings, it was indeed too easy to become a resentful couple……
