Chapter 40 Chapter 40 Fighting.
Su Cheng shook his head and nodded.
"I'm a little afraid I'll mess up," she said distressedly. "Time-limited tasks put pressure on me. Normally, if I fail, I can just start over, but this kind of thing requires a certain environment and weather, and it can't be done quickly. Besides, it will waste your time—"
"No need to do that. It's just better on a moonless night, and it's not a rare phenomenon."
He smiled. "Don't worry. Although I've never taught anyone, I promise I won't get angry if you don't succeed quickly."
Su Cheng looked up at him.
He actually had the audacity to promise her something.
It seems that he really trusts her.
She believed them only through the original book, knowing that they would not easily harm her -
But no matter what others do, the team leader seems to rely on intuition to make friends, which is quite interesting to think about.
"Focus."
The man squeezed her fingers.
Su Cheng quickly collected his thoughts.
"Well, that's it. Then breathe in and out at the rhythm I tell you to. Imagine a black flame in front of you. It's connected to you, and you're breathing it in."
The following descriptions are extremely detailed.
Su Cheng heard it clearly and didn't even have a question. He had basically said everything she could think of.
She simply did as she was told.
"If you can feel it ignite and burn inside you, remember to capture that feeling—"
Kai straightened up. "Then take it a step further, experience it, amplify it, let it occupy your sensory world, but maintain your sanity and make sure you are always aware of it."
Su Cheng began to sketch relevant images in his mind, and then tried to make it dynamic, and give it warmth and breath.
This is not easy either.
She tried to imagine the existence of the flame and the connection between it and herself, while also breathing according to the rhythm he said.
“…What time is it?”
Su Cheng opened his eyes and wanted to see the sky outside.
But all I could see were windows covered by heavy curtains.
Kai walked in front of her, his tall and strong body blocking her view and closing the curtains behind him tightly.
"Don't worry," he said helplessly, "it doesn't matter if you miss it, you can just continue tomorrow."
Su Cheng sighed, "What if there's a moon tomorrow?"
Kai thought about it, "...or maybe not."
Su Cheng: “?”
He raised his hand and covered her eyes lightly, his palm almost touching her eyelashes.
"It's okay, go on."
Su Cheng blinked and could even feel the warmth radiating from his skin.
She closed her eyes silently and continued to immerse herself in fantasy.
In the beginning, there were still all kinds of failures and distractions from time to time.
She didn't know how long it had been, but for the first time she was able to coordinate her thoughts and physical activities to achieve the required state.
Then I could really feel the burning heat.
She could hardly distinguish between imagination and reality, and even thought that it might just be an illusion.
But whether it was true or false, she subconsciously strengthened that connection.
Until the fire completely bursts out in the chest.
It was like a stream of fire gushing out of the heart, which was emitted to every limb and bone with every beat, and wrapped around the whole body along all the blood vessels.
"……here."
She heard a man's low voice in her ears, and then her forehead felt cold, and smooth, strong fingers slid upwards along her eyebrows.
"And then here."
His palm dropped down, holding her hand, his thumb rolled over the thinnest skin on the center of her wrist, pressing heavily on the radial artery.
"besides--"
Su Cheng could almost feel the shadow in front of him swaying, and the obscured candlelight fell into his eyes again.
She couldn't help but open her eyes, just in time to see the black-haired man squatting down.
The latter was too tall. Even when he squatted, he was not much lower than her when she was sitting. At this time, he held her ankle with one hand, and even used only two fingers.
The tiger's mouth was holding her ankle, and with a light circle of the thumb and index finger, it was completely encircled, with the fingertips even overlapping.
The skin between his fingers was smooth and cool, like the scales of a cold-blooded animal.
However, the wrist guard feels rough and causes a slight pain when it rubs against the skin.
She moved her legs subconsciously.
The girl's ankle trembled slightly in the man's palm, like a young bird being held in a cage. The veins winding on the back of her bare feet looked like light blue chains.
Kai's hand paused for a moment, "...relax."
He slid his index finger along the shin, watching the thin gastrocnemius muscle unconsciously tense, forming a beautiful arc.
Su Cheng remembered every place he touched, and tried hard to control the "fire" in his body to circulate along the same route.
forehead.
Right wrist.
Left foot.
Because of her sitting posture, the three points formed an irregular triangle.
——This process is still very troublesome.
Those flames, or fighting spirit, are not easy to control. If you lose focus for a moment, they will shatter and scatter to various parts of the body.
Not only did she need to concentrate on doing this, she even had to fight against it.
I don’t know how long it took before I completed my first complete cycle.
Su Cheng opened his eyes with sweat all over his forehead, breathing slightly with fatigue.
It was dawn, and the sky outside the window was tinged with white. The gray-blue morning mist hung low, covering the lush flowers and trees in the courtyard.
The man with black hair and golden eyes was leaning against the bay window, concentrating on reading another book. His long legs could not be fully stretched and could only be half bent.
Su Cheng blinked, "...I practiced all night? Or more?"
"Hmm?" Kai turned his head to look at her and said seriously, "It's actually a hundred years from now."
Su Cheng was silent for two seconds. "I hope this is true. After all, it may mean that Camus cured me—"
She felt the fighting spirit in her body for a while and confirmed that it existed, but it was very, very weak, not as vivid as during her training.
Not to mention gathering in one place to launch an attack.
"Normal," Kai closed the book and stood up after listening to her feedback. "Now, as long as I can have fighting spirit, that's enough."
She nodded. "So what should my next goal be?"
"Get familiar with it." He said simply, "As for how to do it, you can explore it yourself. It is essentially a part of you, but you haven't figured it out yet."
Su Cheng: “?”
Where are those long speeches you just made?
The old man with the cheat taught Lin Yun much more seriously than this.
Of course, there are differences between different types of Dou Qi. Some are designed to focus on self-comprehension, but this type of Dou Qi is often not very easy to practice.
"By the way," Kai sat down next to her again, "You said before that if you got into a fight with some strange people, you told us to stay away. Why?"
Su Cheng sighed, "It's not that I look down on your strength. Well, how should I put it? One of them is a vampire and the other is a blood mage, and you are not a pure-blooded human. Who knows if that kind of person will take advantage of this and make trouble for you. I usually don't refuse help from others. I quite like to take advantage of others, but if it may cause great harm to others, then I am not very happy - unless it is someone I hate."
She spoke a long string of words quickly, and even felt her mouth dry, and she couldn't help looking around.
“…Don’t worry.”
The man in front of her suddenly stood up and poured her a glass of water with a deftness that did not match his body shape.
Su Cheng took the glass and looked down to see the water droplets around the wall. "Thank you—wait, you even washed the glass?"
"When I felt you were about to wake up," Kai sat down again, "I understand what you mean. In fact, I don't think you look down on me. Even if you really think I have no strength, it's not a big deal."
A gentle smile flashed in his golden eyes. "But no matter what, I still want to thank you for your kindness."
Su Cheng coughed lightly and was about to say a few polite words.
"Actually," he whispered, "if we really came into conflict with the people of the Divine Inquisition..."
Kai paused as he spoke, seemingly lost in some thought.
After a few seconds, a look of confusion appeared in his shining golden eyes. "...I've lost a lot of my memories, so I don't know what will happen."
Su Cheng: “???”
Su Cheng: "You mean, you don't know who you are or what your bloodline is?"
What kind of protagonist setting is this?
"I know," Kai shook his head. "I just forgot some details. For example, you know where your hometown is, but you forget what you did there, or you only remember part of it."
Su Cheng nodded, not quite understanding.
"Anyway," he smiled, "I still want to thank you. Consider this a thank you gift."
Then he took out a black bracelet.
The chain looked like a series of twisted spines, covered with a thin crystalline shell that shone with a dark red metallic luster in the morning light.
In the middle are several polygonal pyramids, which look bright and delicate. When they are turned over, the light flows, as if there are flames hidden inside.
The chain link is two animal heads devouring each other, some of which look like lizards, or maybe dragons.
"So beautiful!" Su Cheng took a breath, "But—I can't have this. I didn't do anything at all, and you even taught me to fight!"
Kai leaned over and placed the bracelet in front of her, "Don't you like taking advantage? Anyway, I won't be hurt if you accept this."
Su Cheng was speechless after being blocked by him, "...I'm afraid I'll lose it."
He looked at her helplessly and said, "This is an enchanted device for storage. It has a blood contract on it. As long as you drop blood to trigger it, you can always sense its location."
"Is this space equipment?"
Su Cheng was very surprised.
She knew that such things existed in this world, but Lin Yun hadn't been able to get them in the early stages because this kind of equipment was difficult to make and many people couldn't buy it even if they had money.
Only the space mages among the arcane mages have the ability to create similar items.
But there are very few space mages, and not every mage is proficient in refining equipment and is willing to sell the items they make.
Su Cheng: "............This is too valuable, are you sure you want to give it to me?"
Kai looked at her and said, "I hope you can accept it, but I don't want you to be too embarrassed."
Of course Su Cheng wanted it very much, "Okay, I'll take it. By the way, you know I'm a God-favored One, right? If there's anything you need me to do——"
She took a deep breath, "I can use that power to help you, as long as the consequences are something I can handle."
Kai stared at her seriously for a few seconds. "I know the risks are often worth the rewards. I won't let you do that for me."
He curled his lips slightly, "Thank you, but don't make such promises to me again. Don't give the gods behind you any chance to hurt you."
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
