Hua Qingyan opened her eyes, feeling the best she had ever felt in a long time.
Hmm, wait, what is this?
Hua Qingyan felt weird. She tried to figure out what this weirdness was.
This was similar to how he and I practiced the first stage of dual cultivation.
Hua Qingyan thought, reminiscing.
Wait, why am I having this feeling?
Hua Qingyan felt complicated and focused her attention on the qi inside her body.
Hua Qingyan closed her eyes, and a smaller version of Hua Qingyan, which rested in her dantian, floated out of her body following the flow of energy, but what she saw stunned her.
Wa-wait, th-this can't be real?!
Hua Qingyan did not know what was going on.
Her nascent soul floated outside, and she saw herself embracing Bai Shuying, but what shocked her was the qi sharing happening between them.
This should be impossible! She only has Yin energy while I practice the Yin-Yang Fusion Scripture.
Hua Qingyan tried to make sense of what was happening.
Hua Qingyan noticed the lotus with three petals open beneath the two of them.
This?!
Hua Qingyan was speechless.
The lotus is taking Shuying's Yin qi and converting it into Yang qi, then the Yang qi is injected into my body, forcing me to unconsciously run the Yin-Yang Fusion Scripture, then my Yin qi is ejected out of my body into the lotus, which feeds it to Shuying.
Hua Qingyan felt her mind become dizzy.
Wait, that's not important now!
Hua Qingyan shook her head.
What should I do now?! I half expected to take a daughter-in-law and joked about adopting her, but both were flipped upside down. I just took my daughter's prospective partner!
Hua Qingyan felt complicated, so much was going on that she did not know what to do.
A long time had passed since Hua Qingyan killed her dao companion, let alone remembering his appearance, she does not even remember his name. Hua Qingyan only remembers the pain from his betrayal.
Hua Qingyan was a woman who expressed love and hate clearly. If you do good by her, she is sincere; if you wrong her, you're practically dead to her.
Now that she had expressed her suppressed emotions, she felt that it was childish of her to continue carrying on with this pain, stopping herself from interacting with others, and always expecting a betrayal from them.
Hua Qingyan's nascent soul flew back into her body, and her eyes opened. She looked at the meditating Bai Shuying.
Screw it whatever happens, happens.
Hua Qingyan felt tired, too many things were happening, so she decided to leave it to her future self to deal with it.
She bit her lower lip and said in a low voice, "I'll just leave it to Shuying, she'd better take responsibility for me!"
Hua Qingyan decided to throw everything to Bai Shuying. She hugged Bai Shuying tighter and closed her eyes, thinking.
It feels pretty good.
Bai Shuying's Blooming Lotus cultivation art stopped operating, the lotus slowly vanished; the energy exchange ceased. She opened her eyes, seeing milky white skin and feeling the warmth on her face.
Why do I find myself in these types of situations?!
Bai Shuying thought, feeling the urge to cry.
Bai Shuying felt Hua Qingyan's arms loosen and leaned back. Bai Shuying looked up at Hua Qingyan's face and froze.
Who the hell is this?!
Bai Shuying screamed in her mind.
Bai Shuying stared at the unknown woman. The unknown woman opened her eyes. Her bright emerald eyes looked at Bai Shuying.
"You're finally awake, Shuying?" Hua Qingyan said with a smile.
"W-who are you?" Bai Shuying asked vigilantly.
Hua Qingyan was stunned and tilted her head in confusion.
Hua Qingyan held Bai Shuying with her right hand and conjured a mirror formed from water. Looking at her reflection, she was surprised. Hua Qingyan brought her left hand and pinched her cheek, stretching it; the figure in the mirror mimicked her behavior.
Could it be because of Shuying…
Hua Qingyan blushed, thinking of the energy sharing they did.
"Uh, excuse… me?" Bai Shuying hesitantly asked, trying to get Hua Qingyan's attention.
Hua Qingyan looked at Bai Shuying's innocent expression, having no clue what had happened before, and felt the urge to tease her.
Hua Qingyan made her eyes fill with water and bit her lower lip, looking extremely wronged. "After everything you did to me, you forget who I am? Am I just a fling to you?"
"What did I do?!"
Bai Shuying asked, flustered.
"Hmph, you toyed with my heart and body, now I can't live without you." Hua Qingyan said pitifully.
Bai Shuying gulped nervously, her mind in chaos.
What did I do to this charming woman?! When did I turn into such a scumbag?!
Bai Shuying did not know what was going on, but seeing this wronged woman, she resolved herself and thought.
As a ma… cough woman, how can I be so heartless!
Bai Shuying lowered her hands around Hua Qingyan's waist and pulled her closer.
"Ah." Hua Qingyan yelped at the sudden action and looked at the sky blue eyes that stared into her emerald eyes with resolve, making her body heat up and stiffen.
"I don't know what happened, but I'll take responsibility for you." Bai Shuying said with a calm voice.
Hua Qingyan never expected such a reaction and felt her heart was pierced by an arrow. Suddenly, she blurted out, "Do you promise?"
After realizing what she had said, Hua Qingyan blushed furiously.
Bai Shuying giggled at the woman's childish behavior. Bai Shuying took her right hand and extended her pinky finger, hooking the woman's left hand's pinky finger and seriously said, "Yes, I promise."
Hua Qingyan was stunned at being treated like a child, but she did not dislike it.
Hua Qingyan smiled at getting Bai Shuying's promise. What Bai Shuying did not notice was, behind her back in Hua Qingyan's right hand was a recording crystal, which she quickly placed in the spatial ring, which was on her right hand. Then she laughed out loud, clutching her stomach and rolling side to side.
Bai Shuying stood up, confused at the woman's sudden odd behavior. Bai Shuying used this moment to calm down and review what had happened before she fell asleep again.
The last thing I remember was hugging… Elder Hua. Wa-wait, it can't be?!
Bai Shuying thought in her mind.
Bai Shuying was unsure if it was Elder Hua after all, the woman in front of her looked as if she was in her late twenties with glossy silver hair. Bai Shuying said in a hesitant voice, "E-Elder Hua?"
Hua Qingyan stopped for a moment and quickly stood up, "Cough, I am Elder Hua, Shuying."
Bai Shuying was shocked. "What happened to your appearance?"
"Well, I'll explain later, but it seems I have become younger in appearance due to an increase in my cultivation." Hua Qingyan calmly explained.
Bai Shuying nodded her head, partially understanding.
"Shuying, how much do you know about spiritual roots?" Hua Qinyan quickly changed the subject, not wanting to dwell on what had happened before.
I am still the Grand Elder of the sect! I must maintain my dignity!
Hua Qingyan thought.
"Uh, master told me about single and mixed roots," Bai Shuying responded after a moment.
"There exist many different types of spiritual roots: fire, wind, water, earth, wood, and metal. These are the six most basic and common elements. Beyond them exist Yin, Yang, death, etc," Hua Qingyan patiently explained.
"There are spiritual roots beyond the six basic ones, Yin and Yang?" Bai Shuying was surprised at this information.
"Have you ever wondered why Yin and Yang spiritual roots exist when women hold primordial Yin and men hold primordial Yang?" Hua Qingyan said, pointing out something that Bai Shuying never thought of.
Bai Shuying's eyes widened, and she said, "Is there a difference between the two?"
"Of course, primordial Yin and Yang are energies, one is born with, not something that could be cultivated, unlike the spiritual roots of Yin or Yang." Hua Qingyan said.
Natal Yin or Natal Yang is the purest form of energy, similar to what is in the cosmos, a higher level than the cultivated Yin or Yang that is below the heavens.
"Then how does the Yin-Yang Fusion Sutra work?" Bai Shuying curiously asked.
"The Yin-Yang Fusion Sutra was meant to be used by pure men and women to form a relationship, only between them. They exchange, the woman takes the primordial Yang while the man takes the primordial Yin. It is stored in the body, and when they cultivate together, the foundation is strengthened and stabilized." Hua Qingyan said.
Bai Shuying was surprised. Even Hua Xiran did not know this, after all, she has been a single dog her entire life, can she compare to the mature and experienced Hua Qingyan?
"What about the practitioners who have multiple partners?" Bai Shuying asked.
"The stored primordial energy in the body is dispersed if you do not cultivate with the original owner of the energy. The members of the Luxuria fraction that had an increase in cultivation, but have poor foundations." Hua Qingyan solemnly said.
"Poor foundations?" Bai Shuying asked, tilting her head in confusion.
"Imagine a Luxuria member at the peak of the nascent soul realm fighting a Pure Love faction member at the early nascent soul realm. Who do you think will win?" Hua Qingyan said with a smile.
Bai Shuying thought.
There are eight stages between them, so it should be…
"Luxuria member." Bai Shuying blurted out.
Hua Qinyan shook her head, "No, it's the Pure Love member."
"Why?" Bai Shuying asked, not understanding.
"A poor foundation means they can not exert as much power as a regular person of that specific realm and stage." Hua Qingyan said.
Bai Shuying felt it all made sense and said, "So it's like building a house on top of mud."
"Yes." Hua Qingyan smiled and nodded in confirmation.
Bai Shuying thought of the conflict between the two factions and asked, "Then why is the Pure Love faction losing to the Luxuria faction?"
Hua Qingyan felt embarrassed having that pointed out and said, "The Luxuria faction has too many members and…"
Hua Qingyan did not know if she should say it or not, but Bai Shuying did not wait for her and said, "Is it because the Luxuria faction members seduce the Pure Love male members, destroying the female members' cultivation?"
Hua Qingyan was surprised by Bai Shuying's accurate guess.
Bai Shuying was not a fool, from what she knew about the two factions, Elder Hua's past, and what Elder Hua just told her. She can see where the issues were.
What a sinister faction, but I guess that is expected of the Yin-Yang Sect witches.
Bai Shuying thought.
Bai Shuying forgot that, to the outside world, any woman from the Yin-Yang Sect is a witch.
"It's exactly as you said. I suffered from such a situation; my cultivation stagnated because I knew if I continued, my foundation would crumble." Hua Qingyan bitterly said.
Bai Shuying silently looked at the bitter Hua Qingyan and curiously said, "Then why did your cultivation increase now?"
Bai Shuying did not know the reason Elder Hua had changed so much. While Elder Hua decided to keep certain things hidden from Bai Shuying and said, "Well, it's thanks to you when you ran you're cultivation technique, it exchanged energy between you and me, leading to my current improvement in my cultivation."
"It could do that?!" Bai Shuying was surprised that her Blooming Lotus cultivation art had such a facet.
Bai Shuying marveled at the cultivation art she chose and thought.
The sixth sense trait is amazing!
Bai Shuying suddenly had an idea and excitedly said, "Wait, Elder Hua, if we continue to practice like this, would it be possible for you to reach the next great realm?"
Bai Shuying wanted to strengthen Elder Hua if she could because it not only helped Elder Hua, but also gave her another strong backer.
Hearing Bai Shuying's suggestion, Hua Qingyan blushed and thought.
Th-this should be okay? It already happened once, and she did make a… promise.
"Let's discuss it later." Hua Qingyan said with a slightly red face.
Bai Shuying nodded with a smile, completely oblivious.