After Forcibly Taking The Beautiful, Powerful, And Tragic Demon Lord As A Concubine - Chapter 21

Chengtian Valley.

The Back Mountain.

Hidden within the undulating ridges and lush, verdant mountain ranges were several small caves overflowing with spiritual energy.

These grottoes were prepared for the inner sect disciples. Only those at the Foundation Establishment stage or higher, like Lin Feng and Lin Hai, had the right to select a small cave in the back mountain for secluded cultivation.

However, such rules naturally did not apply to Lin Xueqing.

When Feng Ruyu mentioned needing a cave, Lin Xueqing spoke to the managing elder, and the elder immediately arranged a prime location in the back mountain.

“There are no other disciples around this small cave. It is absolutely secure and secluded, and the spiritual energy is abundant and pure. It is an excellent place for cultivation!”

Hearing this, Lin Xueqing was delighted. He thanked the elder and took possession of the cave.

Upon arriving to scout the location after taking over, Lin Xueqing discovered that there was actually a hot spring eye inside the cave. The water flowing from the spring was warm, and the crystal-clear water emitted a faint scent of sulfur.

Setting aside whether it could aid in cultivation, just soaking in this spring would be incredibly comfortable.

But at this moment…

The clear spring water had completely changed color.

Feng Ruyu stood by the edge of the spring. First, he used a barrier to stop the flow of water, then he pulled a gourd from his person and began pouring prepared medicinal ingredients into the spring.

The herbs had been pre-ground and processed by him. Currently, they were in the form of a black powder.

As soon as the powder entered the spring, the water instantly turned black. As Feng Ruyu poured more and more, it wasn’t long before the originally clear water had turned entirely deep black. Not only was the bottom invisible, but the water was also bubbling with huge, dense bubbles.

How to describe it? Lin Xueqing felt like Feng Ruyu was like a potioneer from Harry Potter, concocting a giant cauldron of magic potion.

“Lord Ghost Physician, are you sure this is medicine?”

Not some ghost stuff that turns you into a frog if you jump in?

Feng Ruyu glared at him. “Yes. If it wasn’t medicine, would I have gone to all this trouble to prepare a gourd of poison just to harm you?”

Lin Xueqing: “How can you say it’s harming me? Isn’t it for the Venerable One?”

Feng Ruyu said, “Aren’t you going to carry him in? If you carry him in, you have to get in too, unless you plan on just kicking him in?”

Lin Xueqing: “…No, can’t I just carefully move him in while staying on the shore?”

Feng Ruyu said, “You can try.”

Lin Xueqing: “…”

Feng Ruyu: “But let me tell you in advance: the moment you enter this pool, you must take off your clothes. Don’t bring the filth from your garments inside and contaminate my medicine.”

“….”

Imagining the scene of himself naked, carrying a naked Ye Mingjing into the pool, Lin Xueqing felt as though the sky were falling.

Was there really no other way? He was a Foundation Establishment cultivator!

Although he wasn’t as powerful as Feng Ruyu or his own mother, he was still at the Foundation Establishment stage. Didn’t he defeat the seventh-layer Foundation Establishment Rong Yaowei last time?

Sending Ye Mingjing into the medicinal pool should be easier than defeating Rong Yaowei!

However, after repeated testing and simulation, Lin Xueqing realized—good heavens—this matter was actually harder than defeating Rong Yaowei.

To fight Rong Yaowei, he only needed to find his weaknesses and blow him away. But to send Ye Mingjing into the pool, there was one very important point: he couldn’t make a mistake, and he couldn’t do anything to upset Ye Mingjing. Otherwise, there was a “falling into a demon on the spot” warning.

On that basis… think about it. Was Lin Xueqing supposed to use spiritual energy to levitate the naked Sword Venerable?

Setting aside whether his current control of spiritual energy was stable enough to prevent dropping the Lord Venerable midway, just the scene itself… would probably be quite unseemly, wouldn’t it?

Lin Xueqing immediately pulled a bitter face. It seemed Feng Ruyu was right.

Feng Ruyu likely realized the crux of the problem early on, which is why he proposed the optimal solution for this situation. Lin Xueqing should have realized it sooner. If there were a better way, would Feng Ruyu not have said so? Feng Ruyu was so clever, after all.

But…

His face flushed. Thinking about what might happen shortly, his breathing quickened, and his heart inevitably skipped a few beats in chaos.

However, matters had their priorities. Lin Xueqing knew that compared to his own shy and embarrassed thoughts, getting Ye Mingjing into the medicinal pool to begin treatment as quickly as possible was the most urgent task.

Thus, a moment later, he took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down. He then walked out of the cave and approached Ye Mingjing.

As if fearing the two would be awkward, Feng Ruyu had already left after preparing the medicinal bath. Before leaving, however, he left behind a small gourd, saying:

“If anything happens, speak into this gourd, and I will arrive immediately.”

Lin Xueqing carefully accepted the gourd, not daring to be even slightly careless.

Seeing Lin Xueqing finally emerge, Ye Mingjing asked, “Can we begin?”

Lin Xueqing said respectfully, “We can, Venerable One, we can start immediately. It’s just that there is one thing I mentioned before: in a moment, I must help you remove your clothes before you can enter the medicinal bath.”

“We have already discussed this matter.”

Ye Mingjing’s expression was calm, and no abnormal reaction could be seen on his peerlessly beautiful face. This was a silent agreement.

But… Ye Mingjing didn’t yet know that not only did he have to undress, but Lin Xueqing had to undress as well. If he knew, what would his reaction be?

At the thought of this, Lin Xueqing couldn’t stop himself from getting nervous. His palms were soaked with sweat. After a long while, he finally mustered his courage. “Um, there is one more thing.”

“What is it?”

“It’s just that later… um… when I send you in, I might also have to undress.”

An eerie silence began to spread.

The moment Ye Mingjing went silent, Lin Xueqing panicked and hurriedly explained with wild gestures, “I absolutely, definitely don’t mean to take the opportunity to offend you. I don’t have that much courage. It’s just that the Ghost Physician said clothes cannot be brought in to contaminate the medicinal pool, and since my cultivation isn’t high enough, this is a last resort.”

Ye Mingjing still didn’t speak.

Lin Xueqing was so anxious he was losing his mind, grasping at straws. “How about this? In a moment, I’ll use a cloth to blindfold my eyes. Would that be okay?”

Only then did Ye Mingjing show a slight reaction. However, he didn’t say yes or no. He merely curled his lips in a mocking smirk and said, “It does not matter.”

Lin Xueqing froze, his eyes—which were usually bright and clear—filling with a trace of confusion.

“How can it not matter?”

I am the big pervert who forced you into marriage just because I saw a painting! I am the lust-driven, wicked cannon fodder who dared to covet even a hero of the righteous path.

Ye Mingjing. Are you not afraid that all of this is just a devious plot of mine to get my hands on you?

Ye Mingjing, however, simply operated his wheelchair and glided forward on his own. “You will know in a moment. This current body of mine possesses not even a shred of attraction to an ordinary person.”

The wheelchair crunched over the damp earth, leaving two neither heavy nor light tracks on the ground.

Following these two tracks, Lin Xueqing entered the interior of the small cave once again with a complicated heart.

This was already his third time in this cave. Each time, he felt a different mood.

“Venerable One, I think you might still have some misunderstandings about your own body,” Lin Xueqing said, having rehearsed his lines the whole way.

He said, “I don’t mean to say I’m a big pervert—well, okay, I might actually be a big pervert. No, no, no, that’s not what I mean. My point is, not everyone finds your body unattractive. At the very least, I… might not be one of those people.”

Ye Mingjing found it amusing. “You are a big pervert?”

Lin Xueqing’s face turned as red as a shrimp freshly plucked from a pot. He said, “Yes, I am.”

So, please, have some mercy. Just let me blindfold myself! And stop talking that nonsense about no one being interested in your body.

As a result, Ye Mingjing remained unmoved. Instead, as if finding it very interesting, he said with great interest, “Oh? Then, Fellow Daoist Big Pervert, when do you plan to help me undress?”

Lin Xueqing: “…….”

The big pervert is coming—

Not!

So, why had their mode of interaction turned into something so strange? Lin Xueqing wondered as he walked to Ye Mingjing’s side to remove his first outer garment.

He thought and thought but couldn’t find an answer. Lin Xueqing felt a headache coming on and simply stopped thinking about it.

But he quickly realized that it would have been better to keep thinking! At least while he was pondering questions, his attention was on the problem. Once he stopped because of the headache, his attention fell entirely on Ye Mingjing’s body.

After removing two layers of outer clothing…

Only a single layer of thin white inner garment remained, and thus the body beneath the inner garment was already faintly visible.

At this point, Lin Xueqing couldn’t help but be a bit rebellious.

Ye Mingjing, are you blind! How is this body not attractive?

When Ye Mingjing said those words earlier, Lin Xueqing had imagined the body of someone who had been bedridden for years—you know, dry and shriveled, no muscle, pale skin. It would be normal to lack attraction.

But right now, the body beneath Ye Mingjing’s inner garment… was clearly very strong?

It was so strong that after Lin Xueqing accidentally brushed against his muscles, he almost suspected the man was a fake cripple! The muscles were incredibly firm. The physique was superb. Coupled with those Pacific-wide shoulders… it was a body straight out of a Korean Manhwa.

Lin Xueqing didn’t quite understand it. But he guessed that perhaps it was due to the effect of the three life-preserving seals from Ye Mingjing’s master. One of those seals likely used some kind of space-time array to perfectly preserve Ye Mingjing’s body exactly as it was when he was first injured.

Otherwise, given Ye Mingjing’s current status as an ordinary person, it would be absolutely impossible for him to still have such tight muscles a hundred years later.

But then again… even so, why did Ye Mingjing say that earlier?

Soon, when the final layer of inner clothing was removed and Ye Mingjing’s naked upper body was exposed to the air, everything seemed to have an answer.

One hideous scar after another spread across this seemingly strong body.

Looking closely: On the front of his chest was a palm print, about two inches wide and three inches long. The color of the palm print was dark and bruised—clearly an old wound that had not healed for years. On his back were several sword wounds. For some unknown reason, they had not closed. Even now, they were still bloody and fresh.

This wasn’t even counting the old scars that had already healed, or those less obvious minor wounds… The more Lin Xueqing looked, the more shocked and pained he felt, to the point that the hands doing the work trembled.

At this moment, Ye Mingjing, who had been resting with his eyes closed, suddenly spoke and asked him:

“Now, are you still interested?”

Lin Xueqing: “…”

If he said yes, would he be considered a pervert? #About the matter of me only being diagnosed as a pervert at twenty-three after transmigrating into a book#

Lin Xueqing’s lips trembled, but in the end, he couldn’t say those words. Instead, he withdrew his hand and said, “Venerable One, your clothes are mostly done. I’ll take mine off. There’s one last piece; we’ll take that off right before going in.”

This last piece was, of course, the undergarment covering the nether regions.

No matter how bold Lin Xueqing was, he wasn’t bold enough to strip Ye Mingjing completely bare and then undress himself before sending him down. So he thought of a compromise: strip Ye Mingjing until only his undergarment remained, then strip himself until only his undergarment remained.

They were both men, after all. It was common for men to lounge around a room in their underwear, and it wouldn’t be awkward. Finally, Lin Xueqing would just have to be quick-handed and, in the very last second before entering the water, whip off both of their undergarments.

As long as he was fast enough, neither of their privacy would be exposed.

He really was a little genius!

However, while the image Lin Xueqing imagined was perfect, the reality was that after he stripped himself to his undergarment and carried Ye Mingjing into the water…

At first, everything went smoothly. Under his carefully designed sequence of movements, Ye Mingjing indeed successfully entered the medicinal bath, and so did he. The black medicinal bath made both of their skins look exceptionally white, and the speed at which their undergarments were removed was truly swift and decisive!

Lin Xueqing carefully placed the man under the water and prepared to leave. Up until this point, no accidents had occurred.

But who could have guessed that Lin Xueqing would slip while preparing to climb back onto the shore?

Slipping was one thing, but as luck would have it, he fell headlong into the medicinal bath.

Glug glug. Lin Xueqing didn’t know how to swim and struggled out of a survival instinct. Thus, instinctively, he grabbed onto something underwater.

It was very soft. Very thick. Very large.

Holy crap, the sky has truly fallen!