As the sun began to set, the exterior door of the wellness center had already been sealed with wooden boards. Ye Anping had just finished practicing a set of sword techniques in the backyard. He was sitting cross-legged on a reclining chair, meditating and waiting for his junior sister to arrive.

During this time, he also started to explore his meridians to see if there might be an easier way to release the excess Yang energy. After scanning his meridians, he began to understand that what Sima Xuanji said might not just be a scare tactic.

Ye Anping originally possessed Dual Wood-Water Spirit Root, and his body should only have Water and Earth elemental energies. However, he could feel an unknown and unorthodox energy within him, similar to a blood clot, clogging various meridian channels.

Currently, it didn’t have a significant impact, at most just slightly slowing down the flow of elemental energy in his meridians. However, if these blockages accumulated, it could eventually halt the circulation of elemental energy altogether. The end result would be the rupture of meridians and, ultimately, his death. The exact circumstances and state of his corpse were something he didn’t dare to contemplate.

After about an hour of breathing exercises to relax and calm his energy, Ye Anping sighed and opened his eyes, gazing at the setting sun. It was almost time for his junior sister to arrive.

He stood up, pulled on his shirt, and realized it was soaked in sweat. He thought it would be wise to take a quick shower to avoid any unpleasant smells when he met his junior sister.

However, just as he took a few steps toward his bedroom, he felt a sudden surge of heat in his chest. “Whoa, what’s happening all of a sudden?”

Ye Anping sensed something amiss and promptly took out two pills from his storage pouch that could temporarily strengthen his meridians. He then returned to the reclining chair, closed his eyes, and continued to meditate.

As he inspected his meridians with his spiritual sense once more, he was astonished.

Just an hour ago, he had a cultivation level at the fifth layer of the Qi Refining stage, but now his cultivation had suddenly advanced to the peak of the Qi Refining stage. A large amount of spiritual energy was rushing chaotically through his meridians, like stampeding wild buffaloes, causing blockages at several key points in his meridians, while the original “Yang energy” resembled a virus, rapidly multiplying and clogging several meridian acupoints.

A severe and burning sensation followed, causing even someone like him to furrowed his brow. “How can this be? My cultivation increased so dramatically…”

Ye Anping immediately used his spiritual sense to control his meridians and contemplated the reason for this sudden breakthrough in cultivation. When he returned from the rear of Profound Star Sect earlier, his cultivation had unexpectedly increased by two small realms, which could be somewhat understood, given the spiritual resonance in that area. However, jumping from the 5th layer of the Qi Refining Stage to the peak of the Qi Refining stage was inexplicable.

Even with someone like his junior sister, who had the purest Singular Water Spirit Root, it took her nearly a year to progress from the 5th layer of the Qi Refining Stage to the Peak Stage, with his relentless supervision. Most ordinary cultivators would need four to five years at the very least.

Was it his unique body constitution that he knew nothing about?

“Ah… If this continues…”

Ye Anping clenched his teeth, feeling extremely uneasy. He quickly stood up from the reclining chair, summoned his flying sword from his storage pouch, and intended to fly to Profound Star Sect to find Sima Xuanji. He had no time for further consideration. In a maximum of fifteen minutes, he would explode and die.

However, just as he summoned his flying sword and prepared to take off, he realized that he couldn’t control the turbulent spiritual energy inside him. He couldn’t steer the sword.

“Whoa…”

At this moment, bloodshot eyes filled Ye Anping’s gaze.

“Sister…”

The only hope he had now was his junior sister. He immediately sealed his own soul and essential acupoints, allowing his body to endure for a little longer.

With a thud, Ye Anping collapsed in the backyard.

On the rooftop of the main building in Profound Star Sect’s Sky Cloud Peak, Pei Lengxue stood, squinting at the sun, which now resembled a bald head behind the mountain peaks.

At noon today, Elder Wang came and personally handed the waist tokens and inner sect robes of Profound Star Sect to Pei Lengxue and Feng Yudie. The moment she received the sect attire, Pei Lengxue planned to wear it later and show it to her senior brother. Feng Yudie also had plans to visit her senior brother as he had asked her to do so after sunset. Consequently, quite some time ago, Pei Lengxue had arrived on the rooftop to wait for the moment the sun would dip below the horizon.

At this moment, Feng Yudie, holding two strings of multicolored rice balls, stood in the courtyard and called out, “Junior Sister Pei, would you like to have some…”

However, at that very instant, the sun finally disappeared behind the mountain peaks. Without a word, Pei Lengxue stepped onto the flying sword that had already been prepared and transformed into a streak of light. In the blink of an eye, she arrived at the entrance of Ye Massage Center in just fifteen minutes.

Seeing that the center’s gate was already closed, she quickly took out a small mirror from her storage pouch to straighten her tousled bangs, then checked the scent of her clothing to ensure she smelled nice. With that done, she jumped onto the rooftop and made her way to the back of the center.

“Senior Brother-”

When she saw Ye Anping lying in the backyard, her initially joyful expression froze, and her pupils shrank to pinpricks.

“Senior Brother!!”

She instinctively wanted to rush forward, but after some consideration, she took a deep breath and calmed down. She used her spiritual sense to scan the surroundings vigilantly, making sure there was no one hiding in the backyard. After confirming it was safe, she jumped down from the roof and ran to Ye Anping, lifting him up and resting his head on her thigh. She calmly examined her senior brother’s condition.

“No external injuries… high body temperature… Huh?”

At this point, she suddenly noticed that her senior brother’s pants were swollen.

“I remember that area…”

Pei Lengxue hesitated for a moment, and a faint blush appeared on her face, but she quickly shook her head to clear her thoughts.

She quickly pulled open the waistband of his pants a bit and leaned in, peering inside.

“Wait, why is it so swollen? I remember that senior brother’s… it wasn’t this swollen before… Is this the reason?”

Pei Lengxue stared for a while, then instinctively reached for a small knife in her storage pouch. However, she quickly realized that it was a part of her senior brother’s body and immediately dismissed the thought of cutting it.

“My senior brother taught me… to mix my spiritual sense into the aura and deliver it to the other person’s body…”

She pondered for a moment, then gently brushed aside Ye Anping’s bangs, closed her eyes, and placed her fingertips on his forehead, using her own aura.

As she probed the blocked meridians in her senior brother’s body, she frowned when she discovered the excessive miscellaneous energy clogging them. However, she found that her aura could dissolve and eliminate the obstructions in his meridians like flowing water.

“Since that’s the case…”

Pei Lengxue focused her concentration and began to infuse her aura into her senior brother. Although it was effective, she soon realized that there was an overwhelming amount of miscellaneous energy in his body. She couldn’t clear it all with her current method, and his meridians might rupture before she could remove it all.

After some consideration, she looked around the courtyard and quickly carried her senior brother into the bedroom, sitting next to him and holding him tightly.

“Senior brother, just hold on a little longer…”