The Hehuan Sect cultivates alchemy; my senior sister helps me refine alchemy throughout the world.

The two fell onto the bed, and Su Yao looked down at him.

The candlelight illuminated her face, making her look as exquisite as if she had stepped out of a painting. But in her phoenix eyes, there was no lust, only calmness! Like a hunter eyeing his prey, calculating where to strike.

Shen Yifei sneered inwardly.

Want to pick me? Then let's see who picks whom.

He rolled over and pinned Su Yao beneath him, then lowered his head to kiss her neck.

Su Yao's neck was long and fair, her skin as smooth as silk. When he kissed her, he could feel the pulse beating rapidly on the side of her neck.

……

……

Su Yao suddenly grabbed his hand.

"etc."

"What's wrong?"

"Get up first." Su Yao pushed him away and sat up. "Before dual cultivation, you need to circulate your cultivation technique and mobilize your spiritual energy. You don't even know that?"

Shen Yifei truly did not know.

In his previous dual cultivation sessions, he was either being taken or taking others' techniques, and it was all done by force, without any rules or methods.

"Senior Sister Su, please teach me."

Su Yao glanced at him and sat down cross-legged.

"Look at me and do as I say."

She closed her eyes, placed her hands on her knees, palms facing up. She took a deep breath, her lower abdomen slightly bulging, and then slowly exhaled.

Shen Yifei did as instructed.

"Inhale, let the breath sink to your dantian. Exhale, let the breath circulate throughout your body. Repeat this three times to mobilize your spiritual energy."

Shen Yifei did it three times. The mist in his lower abdomen began to slowly circulate, spreading along the meridians to his limbs and bones.

Su Yao opened her eyes and looked at him.

"Alright, come over here."

Shen Yifei's dantian. Spiritual energy was gathering power within his dantian, ready to be unleashed at the crucial moment.

Su Yao was also circulating her cultivation technique.

Shen Yifei could feel her spiritual energy flowing around him; the spiritual energy was like a net, slowly opening up, waiting to cover him.

Both harbored their own ulterior motives and neither was willing to make the first move.

Suddenly, Shen Yifei accelerated the circulation of spiritual energy, and Su Yao felt that she should not fall behind.

The two were like two masters exchanging blows, both poised and ready to strike, waiting for the other to make a mistake so they could defeat each other in one move!

However, Su Yao overlooked a very important issue.

Shen Yifei is no ordinary person!

Suddenly, Su Yao realized something was wrong!

It was Su Yao's brief moment of carelessness that allowed Shen Yifei's spiritual energy to surge forward!

If successful, he can use the second level of the Yin-Yang Absorption Technique to uproot Su Yao's talent and skills cultivated over many years and take them for his own use.

Su Yao wasn't one to be trifled with either, and she noticed it too.

A flicker of panic crossed her eyes, but she quickly regained her composure.

"Junior Brother Shen, your cultivation technique doesn't seem like that of a disciple who has just entered the inner sect."

Shen Yifei remained silent.

His Spirit-Locking Technique had already blocked Su Yao's dantian node. If he pushed it forward just one inch, he could cut off the circulation of her spiritual energy.

At that time, Su Yao's years of cultivation and talent will flow into his body.

But he didn't move.

It's not that I don't want to, it's that I can't.

Her heart was beating fast, and so was Shen Yifei's.

But both of them had very calm eyes, so calm that they didn't look like they were practicing dual cultivation, but rather like mortal enemies on the arena.

"Junior Brother Shen," Su Yao suddenly spoke, "do you know why I came to collect the pills myself?"

"have no idea."

"Because I wanted to see what kind of person could refine a top-grade fourth-rank pill." She paused, "Now I've seen it. A mere Foundation Establishment stage youth, possessing extraordinary treasures and skills, is incredibly audacious, and dares to plot against me."

Shen Yifei's scalp tightened: "Senior Sister Su, I don't understand what you're saying."

"Don't understand?" Su Yao laughed, a cold laugh. "I smelled the medicinal fragrance on you as soon as I walked in. This is a sign that you've eaten some rare and precious herbs, or... been modified by some kind of extraordinary treasure."

Shen Yifei thought to himself: Oh no, she guessed it after all! This woman doesn't seem like a good person. I can't keep her around to prevent future trouble!

"Junior Brother Shen, your Breakthrough Pill... ah..."

Suddenly, Su Yao let out a shrill scream!

In terms of cultivation techniques, she was not afraid of Shen Yifei. Even though she felt that Shen Yifei's cultivation techniques were very strange, there was still a big gap between her cultivation level and his. She was confident that she could withstand it!

However, she did not expect that Shen Yifei was no ordinary person, but someone beyond imagination!

"You...you..." Su Yao gritted her teeth, "What exactly did you eat?"

Shen Yifei remained silent, his Spirit Locking Technique still locked on Su Yao's dantian node, and he dared not relax for even the slightest moment.

This woman is at the peak of Foundation Establishment, two whole minor realms higher than him. A slight misstep could lead to utter destruction.

Su Yao was no pushover either.

Her phoenix eyes narrowed slightly, and the spiritual energy net not only did not dissipate, but instead tightened even more.

Shen Yifei could feel that the spiritual energy threads were like countless fine needles, piercing in from all directions. If he dared to move that last inch, these needles would pierce into his meridians.

Shen Yifei remained silent, beads of sweat rolling down his forehead and dripping onto her collarbone.

Shen Yifei wiped away his sweat.

Just for such a brief moment.

Su Yao's spiritual energy net immediately seized this gap and poured in like mercury. Shen Yifei felt as if his dantian was being squeezed, and the wisp of mist began to be uncontrollably sucked out by Su Yao.

Shen Yifei was not about to give in, and desperately used his spiritual energy to seal the gap!

"Senior Sister Su..." he gritted his teeth, "you're not bad either."

Both of them harbored the ambition to take advantage of the other, and they began to compete with each other.

This contest lasted until dawn.

Shen Yifei is still better than Su Yao. It's not that his cultivation level is insufficient, but that his physical strength is lacking.

Although he possessed the talent of the Ironback Wolf's fur and his physical body was far superior to that of cultivators at the same level, Su Yao's spiritual energy net was simply too troublesome.

"Senior Sister Su, shall we end this here?"

"Okay, that's enough."

Both of them withdrew their cultivation techniques at the same time, and at this point, they no longer had the strength to replenish each other's energy.

The room was quiet for a while, with only the sound of two people breathing.

After an incense stick's time had passed, Su Yao spoke first, without mentioning the life-or-death struggle that had just taken place.

"Junior Brother Shen, how about we make a deal?"

Shen Yifei sat up: "What deal?"

"If I need any pills in the future, you can refine them for me. The price is negotiable; I won't try to bargain."

"OK."

The question was direct, and the answer was quick; there was no trace of the tense atmosphere from before.

The danger involved was known only to the two of them.