Chapter 786 - 778: Sensitivity (First Update)
Teng Lixuan watched Su Muyao dodge so fast and sighed inwardly, thinking he should have pulled at his clothes a bit faster.
Seeing his clothes being firmly pressed down by Su Muyao, he could only lift his sleeve and say, "Miss Su, don’t be afraid, I only want you to look at the whip wounds."
He had them on his arm as well.
Only when Su Muyao looked at his arm did she realize his injuries were very severe.
The wounds really did look like they had been sliced open by scales, heavy and deep.
Su Muyao placed her hand on his wrist and began using her Wood Element Ability to heal him.
When Su Muyao’s fingers brushed him, Teng Lixuan was very unused to it.
He had never had this kind of contact with a female before; even his wrist had never been touched.
Teng Lixuan’s wrist trembled slightly.
Su Muyao said, "Don’t move around, let me heal you first."
"Alright."
Teng Lixuan endured that strange sensation and forced himself to stay still.
Su Muyao channeled the Wood Element Ability into his body, guiding it through his meridians to treat his injuries.
When Su Muyao had just taken his pulse, she had already seen that he not only had external wounds, but also severe internal injuries.
That so-called Xuanlin Whip should be an extremely formidable weapon from the looks of it.
Teng Lixuan’s internal injuries were indeed very serious, and very painful.
But he could endure it, so aside from his face being a bit pale, nothing else showed.
Yet when Su Muyao’s superpower flooded into his body, he felt those pains seemingly smoothed away in an instant, his whole person wrapped in an indescribable comfortable warmth.
He couldn’t help but carefully savor this warm aura.
It was a feeling he had never experienced before.
As time went on, there was even a hard-to-describe tingling, numb sensation.
His body actually became sharp and sensitive, completely unlike him.
He felt he ought to stay calm and rational, must never sink into this, must not harbor any other thoughts toward a female.
Being willing to be a Beast Husband was one thing; catching feelings was absolutely not.
He felt he ought to refuse and resist, but it was too comfortable, even his internal injuries felt like they were slowly healing, no longer aching, and he couldn’t bring himself to say anything rejecting her.
He lowered his head to look at his arm; those wounds were rapidly closing up.
This was far too miraculous.
No medicine had ever had this kind of effect.
She truly was a wondrous female; no wonder some forces wanted to protect her, while others hated her so much they would kill her at any cost.
While Su Muyao was healing him, Shen Ci’an and Yue Wuhen both knew better than to go up and disturb or interrupt her.
Once Su Muyao had almost finished repairing Teng Lixuan’s injuries, she asked, "By the way, what’s with that Dragon Clan Xuanlin Whip you mentioned just now?"
She had never heard Di Fu Yuan mention such a thing.
Teng Lixuan explained, "It’s a Magic Artifact made from Dragon Clan scales."
"The sharpness of Dragon Clan scales is nothing ordinary blades can compare to."
However, Su Muyao’s expression hardened as she asked, "Then who was wielding such a weapon, and why did they attack you?"
Teng Lixuan said in a deep voice, "If my guess is right, they should be people from the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion. The reason they attacked the Vine Clan was probably to get the Vine Heart Pearl."
"But they never would’ve imagined that the Vine Heart Pearl had already been given to you by me."
This was the first time Su Muyao had heard of the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion.
Seeing the confusion in Su Muyao’s eyes, Teng Lixuan continued, "The Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion controls the Beast Collection here and holds a good number of men and power."
"They want the Vine Heart Pearl for the Vitality within it; they probably intend to use it to save someone."
"Or perhaps the Vine Heart Pearl has some other function that we simply don’t know about."
If this item had been refined by a powerful Artifact Refiner, it might have an even more formidable use.
"We just don’t know what Beastman they’re trying to save."
Su Muyao suddenly felt like a lot of information was bursting out at once.
She focused her mind and extracted the key points. "You’re saying the Xuanlin Whip belongs to the Dragon Clan, yet now it’s in the hands of the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion."
"Then why didn’t the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion make a move earlier? Why choose this moment to strike?"
"Also, with you injured so badly, are your clansmen alright?"
Teng Lixuan had given her the Vine Heart Pearl; she couldn’t just treat all of this as none of her concern.
Teng Lixuan’s lips curled into a strange, vicious arc. "Don’t worry. Since they dared to set foot in my Vine Clan and harm my people, I naturally used the news of a fake Vine Heart Pearl to lure them into the Forbidden Land and killed them all."
Teng Lixuan was never any kind of good person.
It was only because of what the Holy Tree had said that he withdrew all his spikes and killing intent in front of Su Muyao, becoming seemingly harmless.
In truth, when facing others, Teng Lixuan was not nearly so easy to talk to.
When he said he’d kill, he killed.
Looking at the killing intent in Teng Lixuan’s eyes, Su Muyao suddenly recalled that time he had wanted to kill her. She was briefly stunned.
Seeing the look on Su Muyao’s face, Teng Lixuan realized something at once. He quickly shifted his expression, making himself look very harmless, and said gently, "Miss Su, I will never hurt you."
With such a beautiful Healing Power, how could he bear to harm her?
The feeling when she was healing him had been too comfortable.
That warm, pleasant sensation felt like countless dense Spiritual Energy and sunlight pouring into his heart, filling his meridians.
It made him uncontrollably want to draw closer to Su Muyao, closer to this superpower aura that made him feel so comfortable and warm.
Yet even while he was immersed in this feeling, he did not overlook Shen Ci’an’s gaze from not far away.
His eyelashes trembled, and the green tear mole at the corner of his eye seemed to move.
He thought to himself, It’s fine, there’s still a long road ahead.
No wonder Shen Ci’an watched Miss Su so closely, terrified someone would steal her away.
If he had such a wife, he would only be more excessive than Shen Ci’an.
Su Muyao had no idea what Teng Lixuan was thinking. Her mind was full of the Dragon Clan’s Xuanlin Whip as she asked, "You killed all of them and didn’t leave a single one alive to question? And where is that Xuanlin Whip?"
Su Muyao was a bit tense and excited, not knowing what connection the Xuanlin Whip might have to Di Fu Yuan.
She was worried about that Dragon Body of Di Fu Yuan’s.
Teng Lixuan explained, "You can’t get anything out of them. The people from the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion are very strange, all of them bear Restrictions. If their mission fails, they self-destruct; even being interrogated triggers mechanisms in their bodies and they die."
"So it’s better that I simply killed them."
"That Xuanlin Whip disappeared the moment their leader died. It very likely automatically returned to the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion."
Teng Lixuan also wanted to get his hands on that Xuanlin Whip.
Su Muyao pondered, knitting her brows. "We just don’t know what race those Beastmen were."
A cold, sharp light flashed in Teng Lixuan’s eyes. "They were all from the Insect Clan."
Su Muyao’s expression changed, her gaze darkening. "What did you say, the Insect Clan?"
"That’s right. Don’t be fooled just because they’re from the Insect Clan; their methods are many, and they wield plenty of Magic Artifacts. Otherwise they never would’ve been able to break into my Vine Clan."
The defenses of his Vine Clan were very strong, thank you very much.
"Besides, if they weren’t all Insect Clan, with some capable of changing their forms, how could they have been sent here to establish the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion and gather treasures?"
A blood-tinged chill flashed in Shen Ci’an’s eyes. "How could there be Insect Clan here?"
Their understanding of the Insect Clan came only from those in the Nine Nether Secret Realm. There were no Insect Clan on the Fusang Continent, so how could there be any here?
This shocked Su Muyao to the core.
The impression they had of the Insect Clan was far from good.
Of course, in Su Muyao’s view, Sang Yao was an exception; the Golden Silkworm Beastman did not count.