Fairy, Please Listen to My Explanation

Chapter 20: Cultivation

“Take off my clothes?” Xu Yuan asked unconsciously.

Ran Qingmo’s expression remained calm, and she softly replied, “My injuries are severe, and my control over qi has significantly declined. If you wear clothes, it might hurt you.”

Upon hearing the woman’s words, Xu Yuan didn’t hesitate and directly took off his robes.

For the first time, he took off his clothes, and under the dim light of the night pearls on the stone wall, Xu Yuan finally noticed how thin his body had become.

With a height of over 1.8 meters, he probably weighed just around 110 pounds, so thin that even his ribs were clearly visible.

Years of indulgence in wine and women had completely hollowed out his body.

Xu Yuan withdrew his gaze and calmly looked at Ran Qingmo, saying, “My pants, should I take them off too?”

Ran Qingmo looked up at him, her eyes coldly watching him silently.

Alright, it seems unnecessary.

Xu Yuan sat cross-legged across from Ran Qingmo, about to speak.

“Lie down,” she softly ordered.

Xu Yuan silently adjusted his position and laid flat in front of the woman.

Ran Qingmo raised a slender jade finger, and a faint blue light appeared at her fingertip.

“My qi will enter your body,” she said.

Xu Yuan glanced to the side and asked, “Will there be any problems?”

He remembered that Ran Qingmo had mentioned that if her qi entered his body, it would directly tear apart his narrow entrance.

Ran Qingmo, who had grown accustomed to the foolish questions of this “Qi Attainment Initial Stage” powerhouse, paused for a moment, then shook her head and explained, “The qi will only stay at the surface and won’t enter your meridians.”

Xu Yuan nodded, giving her the signal to continue.

In the dim cave, the woman’s slender fingers moved slightly, and the blue light at her fingertip instantly dispersed into thousands of light spots, gently falling on various parts of Xu Yuan’s body like fireflies.

The sensation was somewhat icy.

And in the next moment,

These light spots directly penetrated his skin and entered his body like mud cows into the sea.

In an instant,

In Xu Yuan’s vision, his own body became a transparent human anatomy model.

Those light spots connected, and clear meridians and acupoints appeared before his eyes.

Soon, Xu Yuan felt that as these light spots entered, his body gradually fell into a numb state.

However, this numbness also brought a wave of tingling sensations. Her qi was icy and cool, very comfortable.

“Ah~”

Ran Qingmo’s gaze swept over.

Xu Yuan closed his eyes.

Ran Qingmo withdrew her gaze and said in a clear voice, “I will first teach you to recognize the acupoints.”

“Acupoints?”

“Acupoints are important nodes between meridians,” she explained.

“Oh, okay.” Xu Yuan nodded.

“Next, there might be a bit of pain.”

As she spoke, Ran Qingmo extended a slender finger and gently tapped Xu Yuan’s neck.

Her fingertip was not warm; on the contrary, it was somewhat icy.

“This is the Huixuan acupoint.”

As her words fell, with the touch of her fingertip, a sudden pang of pain pierced through the comfortable tingling.

The pain on the right side of his neck caused Xu Yuan’s body to tremble uncontrollably.

However, he was able to bear this kind of pain reluctantly.

And Ran Qingmo’s finger did not stop. It continued to lightly tap on Xu Yuan’s supine body every five seconds.

Every time she tapped, Ran Qingmo would announce a corresponding acupoint, and a pang of pain would be felt somewhere beneath the skin where her fingertip lightly touched.

Time quietly passed by,

Two hours later,

Hundreds of acupoints in the human body had been touched.

Ran Qingmo slowly withdrew her hand and looked at Xu Yuan, saying in a clear voice, “Have you remembered all of them?”

Xu Yuan opened his eyes.

As they locked eyes for a second, he opened his mouth and said, “Huh?”

Did she really expect him to remember all of them in one go?

Ran Qingmo remained silent.

Without saying anything, she silently extended her finger once again and continued to lightly tap:

“This is the Huixuan acupoint.”

“…”

“…”

Time seemed to pass for a long while. The tutorial on identifying acupoints repeated countless times, perhaps a morning, perhaps an afternoon.

Ran Qingmo withdrew her hand again and looked at the man lying in front of her.

“This time, have you remembered them?” she asked.

Xu Yuan closed his eyes and carefully felt the remnants of Qi that Ran Qingmo had left inside him. He nodded slightly and said, “I have remembered them roughly.”

“Roughly?”

“About seventy to eighty percent.”

“…”

Ran Qingmo stared at him strangely, her eyes full of incomprehension.

How foolish.

She couldn’t understand why this man in front of her was so foolish.

“…”

Xu Yuan roughly understood the meaning behind the perplexed gaze of the icy beauty in front of him and opened his mouth to explain.

In his past life, as a study god in the eyes of others, he believed that he was already fast enough in memorizing these acupoints.

But in the end, Xu Yuan swallowed the words that were about to come out of his mouth.

Compared to the other person, maybe he, as the “study god” in his previous life, was really just an ordinary person.

He remembered that at this point in the storyline, the black-clad girl in front of him seemed to be only seventeen years old.

And at seventeen, her cultivation had already reached the realm of Grandmaster, just one step away from reaching the Source Initial Qi.

The gap between two is truly larger than the gap between humans and dogs.

Ran Qingmo didn’t say anything else and silently raised her finger, saying, “Let’s continue.”

“Mhmm.”

Xu Yuan nodded and once again focused his attention.

Time passed by once again,

Inside the cave, where no sky could be seen, it was impossible to discern how much time had passed.

Another session ended,

Xu Yuan felt as if his entire body was about to transform into the ethereal blue appearance of Ran Qingmo’s Source Qi.

At this moment, Ran Qingmo spoke up:

“If we continue, your body will be harmed.”

“…”

Xu Yuan slowly opened his eyes, hesitated for a moment, and then nodded, agreeing to Ran Qingmo’s suggestion.

Although Ran Qingmo’s Qi was gentle, it was still an external substance, and prolonged entry into his body would eventually cause burden.

At this moment, he had already felt a hint of nausea and dizziness.

And the long period of concentrated mental focus had also made his body feel an unprecedented exhaustion.

Willpower is certainly important for a person, but physical function is paramount, and no amount of willpower can change that.

After finishing a day’s training,

Ran Qingmo did not rest and continued to sit and regulate her injuries.

Meanwhile, Xu Yuan climbed onto the only jade bed in the cave, rested his head on the pillow, and fell into a deep sleep.

In his dreams,

It was still the scene of her teaching him how to identify acupoints.

Ran Qingmo seemed to not need rest.

When Xu Yuan was awake, she taught him the basic knowledge of cultivation.

When Xu Yuan was resting, she silently sat in the corner to regulate her injuries.

There was no food in the cave, but the pool of water seemed to be formed by some sort of precious natural material, providing enough energy for Xu Yuan with just a sip to sustain him for a day.

Life here seemed to have no concept of time, and the days passed by like this, regardless of day or night.

And in these days of unknown daylight and darkness, Xu Yuan gradually mastered the obscure and difficult cultivation knowledge.