Chapter Ten: Healing Injuries

  Just as Jin Ping'er's purple awn blade was about to chop down, Zhang Yufan secretly thought that he couldn't die like this. He forcefully raised a mouthful of true energy and his body flashed sideways. The purple awn blade chopped down fiercely on the ground, leaving behind a deep gash. This move obviously used up all her strength, it seemed that Jin Ping'er really had made up her mind to kill Zhang Yufan.

  Zhang Yu Fan secretly cried out in pain, but he couldn't let her attack again. With a flick of his wrist, he used the true energy to execute the Dragon Subduing Hand technique. The move was weak due to its hasty execution, and even Zhang himself didn't know if it would be enough to subdue the reborn Jin Ping Er. However, his actual strength far exceeded his own imagination, and he managed to grab her hand that held the Zi Mang Blade, not caring about the consequences of "Lian Shou Cai Hua" (a move that could cripple one's hand). The Zi Mang Blade fell to the ground with a clang.

  Jin Bier was shocked and wanted to resist, but her body inexplicably floated into Zhang Yufan's arms.

  Zhang Yu Fan stretched out his arms from behind and tightly restrained Jin Ping Er, not allowing her to struggle free. He then hastily used the Jiu Yang Shen Gong's Zhong Yang Qi to attempt to recover a bit of his energy, hoping to restore one or two tenths of it in the shortest time possible. However, just as he was about to succeed, Jin Ping Er, who was not one to be trifled with, exerted all her strength and broke free from his grasp. Moreover, due to the severe pain in his chest, Zhang Yu Fan's hands had loosened slightly. Alas! It seemed that today's situation was truly irretrievable.

  Jin Ping'er stretched out her hand, and the purple awn flashed by. The purple awn blade was already grasped in her hand, and she shouted loudly: "You scoundrel, come and take my life!"

  "Brother Miao, you really want to take action and make it clean, I, Zhang Da Fan, am not a person who fears death, but dying like this is really unjust!" Zhang Yu Fan said slowly, this time he spoke with a serious tone.

  The purple blade swooped down, stopping abruptly just an inch from his neck. Suddenly, Jin Ping'er shouted: "You saved my life, and I should repay you, but a woman's chastity is of the utmost importance! As for me, Jin Ping'er, I can only die embracing the virtue of a chaste widow!" With that, she was about to take her own life with the knife.

  Zhang Yu Fan was greatly shocked, let out a loud roar, and pounced forward without regard for anything. Unexpectedly, Jin Ping Er was caught off guard, and the two of them fell to the ground together. Although Zhang Yu Fan wasn't particularly large in stature, he was still several times bigger than Jin Ping Er. With one pounce, he completely covered her weaker body, causing Jin Ping Er to let out a mournful cry as she nearly fainted away, her purple mang blade slipping from her grasp and falling to the side.

  "Don't be gentle with me, I wasn't meant for this world anyway, just go ahead and kill me!" Zhang Yufan exclaimed in a hurry, but didn't expect that this sudden movement would stir up his injuries, and he spat out a mouthful of blood from his chest, unable to support himself anymore. His body rolled over to the side, and he continuously coughed up several more mouthfuls of blood, unable to move another inch.

  Jin Bier was both ashamed and angry, this time it's really not good to die, she crawled up, her hands gently tidied up her clothes in front of her chest, a hint of pain flashed across her face, apparently Zhang Yufan's body must have hurt her somewhere. She took a look at Zhang Yufan who was lying on the ground panting heavily with blood all over his body and once again picked up the Zi Mang blade.

  "This time I touched where I shouldn't have, it's my fault for being careless, and I'd rather die than blame you. You can hit me now!" With that, Zhang Yufan closed his eyes slowly without looking at Jin Ping'er, waiting for the two girls to say what they always said: "One slash, two halves!"

  He waited for a while, but Jin Bao'er still didn't make any noise. He couldn't help but look over and saw that under Jin Bao'er's eyes, which originally had a hint of flirtation, were actually two lines of tears. Her clothes had been tidied up once, but they were still very disheveled, clearly the result of careless actions.

  "Let's get started!" Zhang Yufan said slowly again.

  Just as she finished speaking, Jin Bao'er suddenly said: "Why did you want to save me?"

  Why should I save her? Zhang Yufan asked himself the same question, and the answer was certain. He didn't even bother to think about it and casually replied: "I don't know!"

  Jin Bier turned her face and secretly wiped away tears, then said: "Then you're still coming!"

  "I just pitied and cherished you!" Zhang Yufan heard that the tone of this sentence had a slight margin for maneuver, and felt a little comforted. At least now neither of them would die, and it was a good opportunity to explain: "It seems you misunderstood me!"

  " Misunderstanding?" Jin Biaoer pulled her clothes and didn't believe it anywhere.

  Zhang Yu Fan shouldn't have been careless at all, and hastily said: "You were seriously injured just now, originally you should go to the Snake Valley, but suddenly fainted. I was afraid that you would be in danger, so I brought you to this creek, fed you water, and used the Buddhist secret technique Jiuyang Shen Gong to expel the cold poison from your body. However, the Jiuyang Shen Gong is a pure Yang method, and you are a purely Yin body. If you were wrapped in clothes, you would not be able to withstand the powerful Yang energy, otherwise, the imbalance of Yin and Yang would cause you to burn to death!"

  Jin Ping'er was stunned, there's such a wonderful technique in the world, vaguely feeling that not only the internal injury from fighting with the evil dragon but also the cold and dampness invading her body every day had disappeared. A thick and warm true energy circulated inside her body, as if infinite power was accumulating inside her. Just now, when she activated the Purple Mang Blade, its chilliness was twice as strong as usual, and she believed Zhang Yu Fan's words.

  Zhang Yufan coughed violently twice and tried to sit up to meditate, but after moving for a while, his chest hurt so much that he couldn't exert any strength.

  Jin Ping'er seemed like a person who didn't care about anything, and she didn't bother with him. She looked up at the sky, let out a cold snort, and Zi Meng's purple awl pressed against his neck once again.

  Zhang Yufan cursed and scolded, this woman is really a snake-hearted person, she has been saved twice but doesn't care about other people's lives or deaths. She knows that you won't take action this time, so I'm not going to say anything.

  "I didn't just pass out for that long, hurry up and tell me what else you did to me!" Jin Ping'er said coldly.

  Zhang Yu Fan couldn't help but laugh secretly, wasn't it said that this Jin Ping'er was clever and intelligent? How could she not even know if someone had touched her or not? It's really infuriating to the point of death. Taking a deep breath, he said: "This... ask yourself, aren't you the most real answer? I'm really blind and regret why I saved you, making myself neither human nor ghost. You might as well just kill me!"

  Jin Bier was taken aback, she naturally knew about this kind of thing too. She carefully sensed that Zhang Youfang hadn't done anything out of line, and in this regard, he was indeed very similar to Zhang Xiaofan. The more she looked at him, the more she felt like he was a carbon copy of Zhang Xiaofan. Was it really possible for there to be someone so similar in this world? She stared at Zhang Youfang, lost in thought.

  "Hey——hey——hey——" Zhang Yufan shouted three times, unable to figure out what was wrong with this little girl, who was sometimes passionate like fire and sometimes cold as ice, and now she seemed a bit dazed when he called her.

  Jin Bier's body shook, and she came back to her senses. In the dim light, a flirtatious intention flashed, and it was still that clever young man.

  Zhang Yufan secretly thought that he wouldn't die for the time being, but his mouth said: "I say, Master Miao, what are you thinking about? You wouldn't be thinking of taking advantage of me first and then killing me, would you? I'm a good person's child, an innocent!"

  Jin Bier didn't get angry either, and naturally heard that the other party was being sarcastic again. She glared at him fiercely and said, "You're thinking beautifully!"

  "Even if you don't move, I'm not far from death!" Jin Bao'er asked in confusion, and Zhang YuFan said again "These poisonous insects underground will soon take my life, if you still remember the two times I saved you, please help me up and let me cultivate to heal my injuries!"

  Jin Ping'er suddenly came to a realization and hastily lifted up Zhang Yu Fan, apparently also unwilling to let this person die like this.

  The Nine Yang Divine Skill is the supreme Buddhist Dharma, a protective divine skill. A strand of heavy yang true energy rapidly flows through every blood vessel in Zhang YuFan's body. At critical moments, his face turns red like fire and hot air emanates from his hair knot. In less than half an hour, Zhang YuFan feels dry mouth and tongue, with cracked lips that are hard to bear. However, the stubborn cold stagnation stuck in his chest has dissipated by more than half.

  Jin Bao'er watched as Zhang Dafan, who seemed to know many strange and mysterious techniques (or so he thought), deployed this extraordinary protective divine skill. Within a radius of one zhang, the air was filled with rolling heat waves, and it was easy to imagine the state of his internal energy. No wonder he had torn open his own shoulders - it was indeed a misunderstanding. As Jin Bao'er thought about this, he suddenly felt a twinge of guilt, and all he could hope for now was that Zhang Dafan would recover quickly.

  Due to the reversal of true qi, Zhang Yu's injury directly damaged his true yuan, and it took him a full two hours to gradually recover. Although the Nine Yang Divine Art was powerful, when the water energy in his body was almost depleted, he had no choice but to start cultivating again. Today can only end here.

  Jin Bier saw him collect his skills and disappeared into the distance, Zhang Yufan drank some water, thinking that this girl just left like this? However, even if she did, she still had some conscience, after all, during the time of practicing her skills, she patiently protected herself for him. For someone like her who does things her own way, it's already rare to be able to do so.

  Suddenly a strange noise came from the treetops in the distance, and Zhang Yu Fan looked up alertly, only to see Jin Ping Er.

  Although her clothes were torn in many places, her slender figure and snowy white skin made her even more charming. In ancient times, people were so reserved that a single hole in their clothes would cause them to be shocked and flustered, but in this era, many people wore revealing clothing and no one jumped off a building to commit suicide over it; on the contrary, they considered showing some skin to be beautiful.

  "Bang" Jin Ping'er tossed a wild rabbit in front of him, and with the agility of a Taoist cultivator, catching a few wild game was not a difficult task. Not far away, there was a dead tree, and with a few swishes of the Zi Mang blade, a large pile of dry firewood was gathered. Rolling up his sleeves, he began to tidy up the rabbits in an orderly manner.

  One hand grasped the rabbit's head, and with the other hand, he slowly tore open the slit on the rabbit's neck, bit by bit. The rabbit hair stuck to the meat, and that was still the same savage young master.

  Jin Bier tore it a few times, but didn't see any effect, and was somewhat annoyed after holding back her anger.

  "Idiot!" Zhang Yufan said, "No wonder the rabbit leg you gave me was charred. It's no surprise that it had so much rabbit hair on it!" He took the wild rabbit from her and asked, "How are we going to deal with this?" Zhang Yufan had never eaten rabbit meat before, nor had he seen a rabbit run. During the school-organized wilderness survival training, he had learned some basic life skills, including how to clean a wild rabbit. He turned the rabbit over, peeled off its skin from the legs, and slowly tore it open from the head. With a "zip" sound, he ripped off the rabbit's head, which was now mangled beyond recognition, and discarded the internal organs.

  Jin Bier stood by and was stunned, the wild rabbit that she usually spent half a time to deal with, was cleaned up so cleanly in this person's hands in the blink of an eye. She couldn't help but recall the scene where she and Zhang Xiaofan blew night wind in the forest. Although this face and technique still had some differences from his, it was already extremely rare to relive such a memory.