Chapter 107: More Than Just the Theory of Crossing Breath—Conditions for Achieving Stable and Lasting Friendships…
The coldness seemed to freeze as it was gripped tightly.
Ji Mingran felt the coldness on his lips suddenly turn warm.
Soft, warm, and oxygen-filled. Ji Mingran thought dazedly, "This is wonderful."
She was immersed in the cold seawater and was about to suffocate. Both warmth and breath were her lifeline.
Her lips parted completely, and she kept drawing in.
The tongue also darted out, chasing after another warm sensation, slightly damp, that was contained within the incoming heat.
The warmth realized what was touching it, and jerked back a few steps.
Ji Mingran persevered and continued to explore.
Noticing the pursuit of her tongue, the moist warmth did not recede but instead became proactive, fiercely attacking and intertwining with her tongue, pushing it back into her mouth.
The battleground shifted, and the damp, warm heat thoroughly ravaged every corner of her lips.
Ji Mingran did not back down in the slightest. In order to absorb more breath and heat, she only tightened her grip even more.
As she held him tightly in her mouth, the soft warmth on his lips grew hotter and hotter, and Ji Mingran even felt the cold body pressed against her become scorching.
However, the increased popularity did not affect anything else; although the verbal sparring intensified, the breath blown into their mouths continued uninterrupted.
With his oxygen-deficient condition improving significantly, Ji Mingran's confused mind gradually recovered, and his vision became clear again.
Then she saw those dark, inky eyes reflected in her vision. They were so close that Ji Mingran could even feel the long, thick eyelashes of those eyes gently brushing against her face, occasionally overlapping with her own eyelashes.
He noticed that she was conscious, and his dark eyes, which were fixed on her, were filled with turmoil, like a night pool brewing a storm.
Beneath the seemingly calm surface of the pool, a viscous, damp undercurrent stirs restlessly.
Ji Mingran couldn't understand the emotions in his voice, but she knew that Yu Tianxing was giving her breathing support.
As they continued to swim, the act of breathing, due to her devouring, began to take on a gentle biting and entanglement.
Ji Mingran's mind cleared up, and he slightly loosened his lips from Yu Tianxing's, no longer sucking on them as he had before.
The gentle biting that lingered on the lips and teeth also stopped.
Their lips remained pressed together.
Suddenly, their intertwined lips and tongues turned into nothing more than normal breathing.
Ji Mingran knew that the two of them were exchanging breaths, but because she was not in a good state of consciousness and bit randomly, Yu Tianxing bit back harder.
A gentle warmth wafted from my palm.
Looking down with his peripheral vision, Ji Mingran saw the Lingyun Stone.
After she removed the petrified, shell-shaped spiritual stone, she immediately floated to the surface. Instead of putting it into her exquisite brocade pouch, she held it tightly in her palm.
Once separated from the rock face, the petrified seashells gradually lose their dullness and reveal a bright sheen.
Ji Mingran felt the penetrating power slowly flowing into his sea of consciousness, making it increasingly open and clear. The power of inheritance that had been pressing down on his sea of consciousness suddenly surged.
She even felt an unprecedented lightness emanating from her physical body and spreading to her primordial soul.
At this moment, Ji Mingran finally felt her primordial soul truly and completely merge with this physical body.
Even though the Spirit Stone had only recovered a little, her gains were already unparalleled.
The shell-shaped Lingyun Stone is still gradually losing its petrified state.
Within the prize pool secret realm, all the prizes are sealed, but the Spirit Stone can resonate with the sect's jade tablet, sending guidance to them, and its internal power has already seeped out and been acquired by her. This means that the secret realm's restriction on the prizes has not actually had much effect on the Spirit Stone.
What truly binds it is the natural cliff face of the seabed crevice, which possesses the power to suppress spiritual energy.
Under the suppression of the latter, the effects of the Spirit Stone are suppressed, but the sect jade tablet is born from its own body and will naturally resonate with it, so it can provide guidance to them.
Ji Mingran held the sect's jade tablet in his other hand, conveying the message that he was alright to his senior brother Sanyang, and then closed his eyes to sense it.
Three figures appeared in his mind. The three fellow disciples were in the dark seabed, some still and some moving, either hiding from the pursuing monsters or searching for the hollows in the crevices of the cliff.
With the Spirit Stone, she could even sense the location of her fellow disciples in the same region through the sect's jade tablet.
"If that's the case," a thought popped into Ji Mingran's mind.
She tried it immediately.
The three figures in their minds were surrounded by a faint light. The three of them stopped their movements on guard and immediately began to cast spells to resist the array that had inexplicably appeared on them.
"It's me, I've found you, I'll take you back." Ji Mingran sent out his thoughts through the sect's jade token.
The three immediately stopped fighting. They allowed the formation to cover their entire bodies and followed the light.
Ji Mingran sent them back to the cargo ship.
She had set up a teleportation array on the cargo ship's deck, using it as a fixed teleportation point. As long as her spiritual power and cultivation level were within her tolerance, she could teleport people or objects to the teleportation point on the cargo ship's deck.
The principle is similar to the fixed teleportation points within the Dingsheng Sect.
Now, the cargo ships are far away from them, and even their fellow disciples are far away. The only thing connecting them is the sect's jade token.
Under these circumstances, successfully sending them back to the cargo ship was simply a pipe dream.
With the help of the Spirit Stone, the impossible becomes possible.
But this possibility comes at the cost of overspending.
My already exhausted body was emptied out again; my stomach cramped and convulsed from extreme hunger, causing excruciating pain. The little oxygen that had been painstakingly accumulated in my lungs was drained away once more.
Blood flowed from the seven orifices, but it was dissolved by the seawater as soon as it flowed out.
Only the sea of consciousness remained unaffected. With the presence of the Spirit Stone and the blessing of the Spirit Ring, the spiritual veins were widened, and the sea of consciousness was being nourished by a continuous stream of spiritual energy, maintaining its stability and not suffering any impact from the inherited power.
Ji Mingran was completely exhausted. If Yu Tianxing hadn't sensed her and held her tightly, she would have drifted away with the ocean current.
His eyes couldn't be controlled and started rolling upwards again.
She could hold on a little longer and use the teleportation array to send herself and Yu Tianxing back to the cargo ship.
The fingertips holding the Spirit Stone twitched slightly.
A large hand cupped hers, stopping her from making a hand seal.
Ji Mingran was filled with doubt and exhausted, so he could only force himself to lower his eyes and look at Yu Tianxing.
Her brows furrowed, so close to his. Ji Mingran felt that Yu Tianxing was probably unhappy that she had only just recovered a little before silently exhausting herself again.
Having obtained the Spirit Stone, she was not entirely without a backup plan.
A breath imbued with spiritual energy was passed through his mouth.
Ji Mingran didn't know why Yu Tianxing's breath was so inexhaustible, but seeing that he seemed indifferent, she didn't hold back and pressed herself against him again and again to get oxygen.
He took a few sucks. His lips parted, and something was stuffed into his mouth.
Ji Mingran was unable to swallow.
Yu Tianxing clearly understood her situation better than she did.
The soft, warm lips that had been loosened immediately pressed back together, the teeth were pried open, and the moist heat rushed in, pushing the object that had been stuffed into the mouth deep into the oral cavity.
The food instantly melted away. The heat traveled from her throat straight to her internal organs, the stomach cramps immediately disappeared, and the lingering hunger that had plagued her for days gradually subsided.
Ji Mingran instinctively felt his limbs and bones regain strength, and the feeling of exhaustion disappeared almost entirely.
As his upward-rolled eyeballs fell back down, Ji Mingran's eyes regained their clarity.
As he stared into her dark, icy eyes and saw that she had regained consciousness, his tongue, which had been thrusting into her mouth, slowly retreated.
Only their lips remained pressed together.
Ji Mingran stared directly into the dark pupils in front of him.
Their eyes met, clear and bright; both of them knew what they were doing.
Yu Tianxing was saving her.
But they were kissing.
Ji Mingran couldn't help but recall Shi Jinle's words.
Between Daoist couples, there will be close contact and physical intimacy.
Yu Tianxing did this to save her, but Ji Mingran knew very well that she didn't object.
She herself doesn't reject it, but what about Yu Tianxing?
If it weren't for saving her, would he have resisted simply having close contact?
If he doesn't reject it.
Ji Mingran's eyes sparkled. If we round it up, they must be a couple now, right?
She was extremely interested in the "Daoist companion" that Shi Jinle had mentioned.
In her previous life, she never had a companion to walk alongside her.
Later, Yu Tianxing appeared, and later still, she had Boss Jiang, two senior brothers, and fellow disciples.
From nothing to something, and from something to more, Ji Mingran slowly developed desires he never dared to dream of in his previous life.
Perhaps, in this peaceful era, she could seek a more stable and lasting relationship.
The apocalypse is cruel, and betrayal and mutual killing are commonplace among partners in life and death and contractual alliances. She had witnessed many such instances when she was still young.
Of course, when everyone died, the betrayals that at least showed some human characteristics also disappeared with the extinction of humanity.
Only the mutant and she remained.
In the previous life, even if the relationship was not perfect, having a partner who could fight side by side was extremely rare and precious, not to mention the sincere and unwavering friendship that only existed in peaceful times.
That kind of affection, in the apocalypse, is like a fairy tale told to children; it shouldn't be taken seriously.
Now that she lives in a thriving, normal world, can the fairy tales she once heard still be taken as truth?
Having obtained the Spirit Stone, she set her sights on a new goal.
The Daoist couple that Shi Jinle speaks of is a stable relationship bound by the Dao of Heaven, one that will never stray from each other.
She wanted it too.
She might not be able to do everything Shi Jinle mentioned about Daoist partners, but she could at least do 80-90% of it.
Yu Tianxing was her first partner, and now, she has already had physical intimacy with Yu Tianxing, and has further met the conditions for a Daoist couple relationship.
But will Yu Tianxing reject it?
Ji Mingran stared unblinkingly into the obsidian-like pupils in front of him.
Try it and you'll see.
Her slightly parted lips opened, and the tip of her tongue nimbly slipped into her closed lips and teeth, finding the tongue lying behind them and gently touching it.
He froze, his body stiffening as he held her.
He stared at her, his dark eyes clearly showing confusion, gazing intently at her as if trying to discern whether she had fallen into confusion again.
Ji Mingran blinked, his clear eyes looking back at him. He bit his lip, his tongue touching the tip of his other tongue, gently licking it, trying to intertwine.
This wasn't a breath exchange; it was a kiss.
The tongue that was entangled trembled slightly, and not only the tip of the tongue, but also the stiff body holding her trembled violently.
Oh dear, such a strong reaction. Ji Mingran stopped. Was he actually rejecting her?
Well, we can't be Daoist partners after all. Ji Mingran thought regretfully.
Just as she was thinking this, Ji Mingran felt an arm wrapped around the back of her head, and then cupped it.
What is this all about? Ji Mingran's question had barely surfaced when it was immediately answered.
The pressure on her lips suddenly increased, pressing her head back while the large hand behind her head pushed forward at the same time.
The head, which should have tilted back, proactively met the heavy pressure of the lips, and the two pressed together even more closely.
The tongue that had been lying down excitedly coiled around hers, violently swirling and intertwining. Ji Mingran was startled and instinctively tried to pull away, but her tongue was tightly entwined, and her lips were being sucked and bitten lightly and heavily.
Their lips met, her mouth seemed to merge with his.
Yu Tianxing is swallowing her whole.
The barrage of attacks stunned Ji Mingran for a moment. When she came to her senses, she realized that her usually indifferent black eyes were now filled with a storm, and the emotions in her eyes were thick, sticky, and impossible to dissipate.
A tremor I had never felt before shot up my spine, my heart felt like it had been electrocuted, and my limbs began to feel weak and powerless.
Oh no, Ji Mingran thought to herself, Yu Tianxing's way of looking like he wanted to devour her was definitely revenge for her kissing him indiscriminately.
He was so resistant to her.
If we can't be Daoist partners, fine, but surely we can't even be partners anymore?
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