Outside the window, the silver moon had risen to the top of the city, and the streets and markets were bustling as usual. Pei Lengxue held her senior brother like this from sunset until now, and she had finally completely removed the mysterious “miscellaneous energy” from his meridians. After double-checking to ensure her senior brother’s condition had stabilized, she slowly released him and laid him flat on the bed.

“Phew… It’s finally over.”

Pei Lengxue wiped the cold sweat from her forehead and then peeked into her senior brother’s pants, leaning over his chest to take a look.

“The swelling is gone here too… Hmm.”

After devoting three consecutive hours to infusing her senior brother with her aura, Pei Lengxue felt utterly exhausted. She even considered lying down and taking a nap right there.

A nap…

Sleep…

Together with her senior brother…

But a string of keywords suddenly connected in her mind, and Pei Lengxue leaped off the bed like a startled rabbit, her cheeks turning bright red. She had been so focused on saving her senior brother that she hadn’t realized she had been holding him for three hours.

Moreover, her senior brother appeared to have fallen asleep now…

Pei Lengxue glanced at Ye Anping, who had his eyes closed, and pursed her lips. She twiddled her fingers, feeling the two delicate and creamy hands.

When she was three or four years old, she used to bathe and sleep with her senior brother, but she hadn’t done so since she was six.

The senior brother was still sound asleep, and Pei Lengxue nestled close to him, laying her head on his shoulder. She couldn’t help but feel a strange warmth in her heart, her thoughts wandering to the concept of the bridal chamber and the significance of such a moment in a woman’s life.

“Senior brother…” she whispered, her voice barely louder than a breath, as she gently held his hand. Despite her shyness and uncertainty, there was a certain comfort and safety in being close to him like this.

“Mmm… Senior brother?” Pei Lengxue leaned down to her senior brother’s ear, gently calling his name. After waiting for a while and noticing he had no response, she softly pushed him inward a bit. She then lay down next to him, resting her shoulder against his, holding his hand in hers.

“In that case… I guess I’ve had my wedding night with Senior Brother, huh? Hehe…” Pei Lengxue giggled softly. She had originally intended to leave, but when she looked at the peacefully sleeping Ye Anping, she suddenly felt a sense of reluctance.

She seemed to be in a struggle with a sense of guilt and lightly bit her lip. “Well, Senior Brother is sleeping soundly. Just a bit more in the ‘wedding night’… I can leave before he wakes up…”

“Leave before he wakes up…”

With that thought, she gently turned the deeply sleeping Ye Anping to face her and then carefully slipped into his embrace. She placed her hands on his chest, pressed her nose against his collarbone, and gazed at his face with her head slightly raised.

At that moment, she suddenly realized…

’Did I take away Senior Brother’s innocence? He’ll be angry when he wakes up, won’t he?’

As if her inner voice had been urging her, ‘Hurry up and leave. If you don’t go now, Senior Brother will definitely be furious when he wakes up!’ Pei Lengxue felt a bit timid, contemplating leaving.

However, she felt like Ye Anping was a magnet, constantly pulling her closer to him.

After hesitating for quite some time, she took a deep breath and made up her mind, saying, “Just a little while longer… I’ll count to fifty, and then I’ll leave…”

One…

Two…

Three…

…

Forty-nine…

Fifty.

“Just a little while longer… I’ll count to forty this time…”

One…

Two…

Three…

…

Thirty-nine…

Forty…

“One last time, I’ll count to thirty…”

One…

Two…

Three…

Four…

Four…

Five…

“Five… Hmm…”

“Phew… Phew…”

“Zzz…”

Pei Lengxue fell asleep in Ye Anping’s arms.

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Ye Anping dreamed a vivid dream. In this dream, he felt like he was in the sixteenth layer of hell in the eighteenth layer, thrown into a volcano, surrounded by lava. The unbearable burning sensation made him instinctively open his mouth to scream, but this action allowed lava to pour into his mouth, scorching his tongue, throat, and even his organs.

As he couldn’t bear it and his heart was urging the molten lava to end his life sooner, something unexpected happened. Suddenly, the pitch-black surroundings were broken by a stream of deep blue water. A cool stream flowed towards him from a distance. The excruciating pain gradually faded away. He felt that after touching the stream, his charred skin and organs were miraculously recovering.

At this point, he fell asleep in his dream. Upon waking up, he furrowed his brow, pondering the strange dream he just had.

In his dream, he felt that painful sensation, which was truly unforgettable. He felt that perhaps even decades later, he could remember it clearly.

He slowed down for a moment and then felt like a sweet, fragrant girl was hugging him. He nodded and looked at the lovely girl in his arms.

Seeing that it was his junior sister, Ye Anping felt an unusual sense of relief. He quickly released his spiritual awareness to check his own meridians and saw that the excess yang energy that had been blocking them had disappeared. He understood what had happened.

It seemed that his junior sister had arrived in time, used her spiritual awareness to detect his excessive yang energy, and then used her extremely yin spiritual energy to balance and suppress it.

Looking at his junior sister sleeping soundly in his arms, Ye Anping revealed a doting smile.

“You’ve grown into such a big girl… You’ll be of age in just a little over two months.”

He gently poked Pei Lengxue’s cheek with his finger, but Pei Lengxue just murmured and snuggled closer into his embrace.

“Mmm… Senior brother, don’t tease…”

Ye Anping felt a bit helpless and decided not to wake her up. Instead, he put his chin on top of her head and adjusted into a more comfortable position, holding Pei Lengxue in his arms.

At the same time, he began to think about the question he hadn’t had time to ponder earlier.

Why had he suddenly advanced from the fifth stage of Qi refining to the last stage of Qi refining stage? This was far from being a matter of timing, circumstances, or human abilities. In this world, it was practically impossible for anyone to achieve such a feat. This was essentially equivalent to defying the laws of physics.

For some reason, he pressed the F1 key and, with a beep, activated something like a cheat code.

Previously, after returning from the back mountains of the Profound Star Sect, he had suddenly advanced from the third stage of Qi refining to the fifth stage. Based on this, Ye Anping couldn’t help but develop a hypothesis.

In the game, there were basically four ways for players to gain cultivation levels: defeating monsters, idle meditation and cultivation, consuming experience elixirs, and completing quests.

He couldn’t experiment with gaining experience by defeating monsters in this world, as killing monsters here would disrupt the natural environment.

Idle meditation and cultivation might be possible, but they couldn’t possibly cause him to jump five levels to the complete Qi refining stage.

As for consuming experience elixirs, they were usually sold in the late game in the RMB store, known as the “Nine Turns Five Elements Immortal Elixir,” which could directly advance a player from the Qi refining stage to the Void Return Realm. However, there were no reliable reports of such elixirs in this world, making them highly unlikely to exist.

So, the only possibility left was the rewards for completing quests.

The last time he had experienced such a leap in cultivation was the day after he returned from the back mountains of the Profound Star Sect. This time, it had coincidentally occurred not long after the return of Feng Yudie.

“Thinking about it this way, it’s quite possible,” Ye Anping mused.

He had been thinking about this for a while. Due to his dual spiritual roots, the gap between him and his junior sister would likely grow over the years. He worried that in another ten or twenty years, while his junior sister might have formed her Nascent Soul, he would probably only be in the middle or late stages of Foundation Establishment. This would make it difficult for him to continue protecting her and might even become a burden to her.

However, if his hypothesis was correct, and completing quests could grant him cultivation, maybe he could keep safeguarding his beloved junior sister.

With these thoughts, Ye Anping began to feel tired.

“Well… Let’s talk more about it tomorrow,” he said to himself. He gently nodded and kissed Pei Lengxue’s forehead.

“Goodnight, junior sister.”

Shortly after, the senior brother and sister, just like in their childhood, embraced each other and entered the realm of dreams.