Guan Jiyu knew that she could not escape. Although Prince Ying gave her the freedom to come in and out at any time in this palace, she knew very well that whenever there was an "out", there must be an "in".
Just like Prince Ying would not promise her to satisfy her any request without any reason, she would have to pay the corresponding price in the end.
Now that this trip is here, Prince Ying will definitely not let her go easily until she finishes practicing the "Wind-Destroying Technique".
The practice was interrupted due to Guan Jiyu's poor condition. The next day, Guan Jiyu rested in his room for half a day. Although he could not clear up his sadness, he could only force himself to continue to cooperate with Zeng Qi in practice.
She weakly walked out of the room. The sun was shining outside and the sun was setting from the eaves. She reached out to grab it and said: "Guan Jiyu, just keep holding on. Even if there is nothing left, there are still people in the military camp waiting for you."
It's about you, isn't it? If it's for nothing else, the honor of "defending the honor and defending the knight" is what you have always longed for, and it is right in front of you."
Guan Jiyu comforted himself gently: "It'll be fine if you get over it."
She walked towards the secret room and saw a group of people gathered in the backyard from a distance. There were servants from the palace, and Xia Mingzhong was directing something from the side. Guan Jiyu walked over, wanting to see what they were surrounding.
What to do, Xia Mingzhong said first: "Are you going to practice?"
His question attracted the attention of others, but the servants just glanced at Guan Jiyu quickly and continued to work. Apart from Xia Mingzhong, there was also a woman in the crowd whose eyes fell on Guan Jiyu, and she never looked back.
Ken left.
When Guan Jiyu got closer, he saw clearly that everyone was surrounded by a lot of wrapped medicinal materials. The woman looking at her was the same one she saw at the door of Xiang Lincheng's house last night - Jin Chan.
Jin Chan kept staring at her. Guan Jiyu was stared at unnaturally, so he responded with his eyes: Is something wrong?
But from the beginning to the end, Guan Jiyu and Jin Chan seemed to be secretly competing with each other. They had obviously met before, but at this moment, neither of them spoke the first words.
Jin Chan was fascinated until Xia Mingzhong called her: "Miss Jin Chan, Miss Jin Chan?"
After calling twice in a row, she came back to her senses and said, "Huh?"
Xia Mingzhong said: "The number of medicinal materials has been counted. You can go to the front yard to get the money."
Jin Chan nodded and said, "Okay, thank you, Mr. Xia, I'll go right away."
After Jin Chan left slowly, Guan Jiyu also planned to go to the secret room, but out of the corner of his eye, he always felt that there was still a pair of eyes looking at her. Guan Jiyu looked in the direction where Jin Chan left, and Jin Chan's back was blocked by the buildings in the courtyard.
Hidden by the trees, she saw nothing.
Guan Jiyu thought for a moment and then entered the secret room.
Master Zeng Qi was already waiting in the secret room. When Guan Jiyu walked in, he opened the square box containing the yin and yang silkworms. A long red light instantly appeared inside. Guan Jiyu said in surprise: "It has changed color!"
Zeng Qi nodded and said, "That's why it's called the Yin-Yang Silkworm. Its color changes depending on its state, sometimes it's ice blue, sometimes it's fiery red." Zeng Qi held the box in his hands.
He stood up and said: "This thing is spiritual. Maybe it didn't get along with you last time and couldn't cooperate, so this time it took the initiative to switch states."
Guan Jiyu felt a little conflicted when she saw the wriggling Yin-Yang silkworm before. Now after listening to Master Zeng Qi's explanation, she looked at the Yin-Yang silkworm with red light in front of her, and felt a little more comfort in her heart.
It feels much more pleasing to the eye.
"Then let's get started." Guan Jiyu was well prepared and walked into the medicine pool. The yin and yang silkworms were placed on the table in the medicine pool. Guan Jiyu carefully read the fourth chapter of "The Wind-Destroying Technique" again to be confident.
After that, formal practice began.
After about a stick of incense, Zeng Qi saw the right opportunity and pricked Guan Jiyu's finger with a silver needle. A large amount of blood came out one by one. This time, the yin and yang silkworms no longer twisted around to resist the feeding of blood.
Instead, he opened his mouth obediently and let the blood on Guan Jiyu's fingers flow into his mouth drop by drop.
After some feeding, the red light emanating from the Yin-Yang silkworms turned darker in color. Guan Jiyu saw the changes in the Yin-Yang silkworms, looked at Zeng Qi doubtfully, and asked, "Is this?"
Zeng Qi breathed a sigh of relief and said happily: "It's successful, Ayu
!" He put away the yin and yang silkworms with satisfaction, and said happily to Guan Jiyu: "Ayu, you are indeed one of the best practitioners in a million!"
Guan Jiyu smiled slightly, but couldn't say anything.
King Ying once said similar words to praise her, but she knew that such praise would not make her happy from the bottom of her heart.
Zeng Qi warned again: "It's just that after feeding the yin and yang silkworms this time, some of your energy will be absorbed. Some changes may occur in your body after you return."
This was expected by Guan Jiyu. Every time she practiced the first three levels of practice, she was dripping with sweat, and blood dripped from the pinholes on her body from time to time, so she naturally asked: "Will she still bleed and sweat?"
Zeng Qi shook his head and said thoughtfully: "I can't say what kind of changes there will be. Ayu, to be honest, as for the contents of "The Wind-Severing Jue", I can only follow what is recorded above
I will guide you in your cultivation step by step, but the secrets are unfathomable. If there are any unexpected changes in my understanding, it is not impossible for such a thing to happen."
Guan Jiyu could only say: "I understand, Master Zeng Qi, then I will go back first."
The training time for the fourth level was very short, but this was the biggest reaction Guan Jiyu had ever had since he started practicing the "Wind Slashing Technique".
Even as soon as she returned to her room from the secret room, she began to feel dizzy and vomit uncontrollably. She ate less and less, and had almost no appetite most of the time. In the end, she was only retching water.
The maid outside the door heard her retching in pain and asked her anxiously: "Girl, how are you?"
Guan Jiyu was exhausted and weak, lying quietly on the table. He opened his mouth to answer but had no strength.
At the same time, King Ying, another person who cared most about Guan Jiyu's health, couldn't help but feel anxious when he learned that she had begun to be unable to eat. King Ying ordered everyone in the house to eat and drink if they saw anything delicious.
I must send it to Guan Jiyu.
He even asked Xia Mingzhong to help him find the best cook in the capital, just so that Guan Jiyu could have a few bites.
Guan Jiyu couldn't eat well or sleep well. It wasn't until Zeng Qi came to visit her that she asked a question she had been wondering about for a long time: Master Zeng Qi, although I have never given birth, in this state, except for me,
My belly is not big, but it is clearly the nausea and retching that only pregnant women have... What is wrong with me?
Zeng Qi thought about her question carefully and said, "I guess the content of this part is not much different from that of pregnant women."
"The yin-yang silkworm gradually grows up by sucking your blood. It depends on you. It is your nourishment that allows it to survive. Isn't this the same as pregnant women raising children?"
After hearing this, Guan Jiyu didn't know whether to touch his abdomen or his fingers.
Seeing her silence, Zeng Qi comforted him and said, "Ayu, although the process is difficult, the result is good. Cultivators will only endure these pains during the period of cultivation, but you have to look forward, there is still half the way.
, you can return to normal, and the prince can also cure the leg disease with the power of yin and yang silkworms."
After Zeng Qi finished speaking, he stayed for a while and then went out. Guan Jiyu looked at the rice soup on the table, which still had residual heat, so he picked up the bowl and forced himself to drink it all.
The feeling of nausea came over him instantly. Guan Jiyu covered his mouth tightly and suppressed the uncomfortable feeling.
After completing this level of practice, Guan Jiyu did not go out for a walk to enjoy the wind like before. If she had not witnessed the process of feeding Yin and Yang silkworms with her own eyes, she would have suspected that the little thing had covered her whole body.
All the blood was sucked dry.
After another night of drowsy sleep, when Guan Jiyu woke up again, he had almost no strength to get up from the bed.
"Is anyone there? Is there anyone outside?" She called out the door twice, but she didn't see any maid outside.
Guan Jiyu had no choice but to grit his teeth and get up, changed his clothes and slowly walked out of the door.
In the yard on the way to the secret room, Guan Jiyu saw that person again, Jin Chan.
This time there were only Jin Chan and a few servants of the palace. I don’t know what they were talking about. Among them, the maid dressed as Guan Jiyu saw her coming and said quickly: "Girl, are you up? Why didn't you call me?"
Guan Jiyu thought to himself: My throat was broken by shouting, but you didn’t hear me.
She moved her mouth, but said softly: "It's okay, I'm just passing by here, there's nothing to do, just go ahead and do your business."
The maid seemed to be afraid that Guan Jiyu would misunderstand that she was not taking good care of her, so she hurriedly explained: "Master Xia is not here today. Last night, Master Zeng Qi said that there was one missing medicinal ingredient. No, the person who delivered the medicine is here, so I can only come and help receive it.
Just a moment."
Guan Jiyu responded and was about to leave, but Jin Chan suddenly stopped her and called her: "Miss Guan."
Guan Jiyu was startled by the sudden sound, and asked half puzzled and half surprised: "Huh? What's wrong?"
Jin Chan responded with a friendly smile and said: "I was very busy here yesterday. There were too many people. I vaguely saw the girl walking over. I thought I had admitted my mistake." She put down the things in her hands and said: "
It's such a coincidence that I meet you again in the same place today. What a fate."
Guan Jiyu said "hmm" and said calmly: "It's me."
Jin Chan's sudden enthusiasm caught Guan Jiyu off guard. Guan Jiyu's feet were frozen in place, neither leaving nor staying. He could only say dryly: "What's the matter?"
Jin Chan said: "No, I just thought it was strange to meet you here." Jin Chan looked around the courtyard of the palace and said with emotion: "Although this place is a bit remote, it is the palace of the royal family after all. If I didn't remember,
Wrong, Miss Guan is from Nanqin, right? How could she have anything to do with the prince?"
"Girls don't need to ask more about this matter!"
The maid on the side interrupted Jin Chan, with a slightly unkind look on her face, and said warily: "Miss Jin Chan, please go back as soon as you finish delivering the medicine. There are many things going on in the palace today, and we may not have time to chat with Miss Jin Chan here."
Jin Chan did not show displeasure when faced with the maid's interruption. She still maintained the smile on her face and said, "I understand, I'll leave now."
Guan Jiyu watched Jin Chan neatly pack her things. Before leaving, Jin Chan stared at her again, took a deep look and said, "Miss Guan, I'm leaving. See you next time."
Guan Jiyu frowned. To be fair, she didn't like Jin Chan. Because of her relationship with Xiang Lincheng, it was almost impossible for her to like Jin Chan.
Guan Jiyu didn't want to go against his heart and said coldly: "Let's talk about it when we have the chance to see him."
Jin Chan raised the corners of his mouth, showing a confident smile, and said: "There will be a chance."
Guan Jiyu felt puzzled by this. He stared at the petite figure who was gradually going away, and was stunned in place for a long time.