The Seven Meridians Converge: The Method to Revive the Master

"Heartless man!"

As soon as he returned to the courtyard, Lin Qingxue, who had been waiting under the tree for a long time, stumbled over. She immediately began checking Ye Shu all over, patting him here and there.

"Are you alright? I heard that Senior Sister and the others made things difficult for you, and even a Peak Master attacked you!"

Lin Qingxue stared at him with lingering fear.

After sending her grandfather to the border, she had taken teleportation arrays all the way back. She originally thought that he would at least be safe within the sect. Who could have imagined that her Senior Sister and Master had become so insanely unhinged!

Terrified, she rushed to the disciple acceptance ceremony the moment she heard the news.

But she arrived too late; everyone was already gone. There was no news of Ye Shu at the Medicine Peak either, so she had no choice but to hurry back to the Profound Heaven Sword Vein and wait for him here.

After waiting for a full half hour, she finally saw him.

"Injured? I don't think so."

Seeing her anxious demeanor, Ye Shu's mouth twitched.

Realistically speaking, she should be worrying about those people from the Purple Heaven Peak instead.

After patting him down, she found no wounds on Ye Shu's body.

Only then did Lin Qingxue suddenly realize that her reaction had been a bit too extreme.

She abruptly pushed Ye Shu away, blushing and turning her head aside.

"T-that... don't misunderstand. I'm not caring about you because I like you. It's just... just that you still owe me so many things. You haven't fixed and returned my sword, and you haven't repaid me for saving your life. I was afraid that if you died, no one would pay me back. This lady never does business at a loss."

"Don't you dare get any ideas."

Looking at her saying things she didn't mean, Ye Shu felt an inexplicable surge of emotion in his heart.

It turned out that, without him realizing it.

His side was already filled with people who loved and cared for him. He was no longer that lonely person in a dilapidated little house, constantly worrying about who might come to kill him.

He suddenly reached out and pulled Lin Qingxue into his arms.

Caught off guard, Lin Qingxue completely froze, stiff as a zombie dead for three hundred years, though her body temperature was burning hot as if she had a high fever.

"You! Lecher!"

"Let me go!"

Ye Shu held her, resting his head on her shoulder. Smelling the faint fragrance of her hair, he said softly, "Thank you."

Lin Qingxue was instantly stunned.

"W-what are you thanking me for?"

"Thank you for giving me the Male Mandarin Duck Sword, thank you for traveling thousands of miles to the Dangur Desert to save me, thank you for letting go of our past grudges, and thank you for waiting for me here."

"I-I wasn't waiting for you."

Lin Qingxue muttered softly, "It was only half an hour. That barely counts as waiting."

However, the corners of her lips couldn't help but curve upwards.

Being praised by this heartless man...

It wasn't like she was extremely happy about it or anything!

The wind blew through the parasol leaves, sending them fluttering down. The two embraced quietly under the tree, and time seemed to stop at this very moment.

Chu Jinghong and Lu Shouzhuo had tactfully left long ago.

Nearby, Xiaobai stood on Ye Shu's shoulder, watching the embracing pair, almost grinding her teeth to dust.

In the distance, Xiao Qingli stood under a tree as a vibrant green leaf slowly drifted down and landed on her head. Xiao Qingli brushed the leaf away and tilted her head in confusion.

Sister Qingxue and Big Brother are hugging...

My heart feels a little sour.

How strange, am I sick?

After a long time, which could have been an eternity or just a fleeting moment.

Lin Qingxue finally snapped back to reality. She shoved Ye Shu away, took two steps back with a flushed face, forcefully raised her snow-white chin, and stammered:

"I-I only let you hug me because I took pity on you."

"It was just like hugging a dog, so don't get the wrong idea."

Haji-Xue, you rascal.

Ye Shu's mouth twitched. Why did Lin Qingxue always have to bring dogs into this?

A sudden silence fell between the two of them.

They didn't really have any common topics to chat about, until Lin Qingxue suddenly pulled a storage ring from her robes.

"T-this is for you."

"For me?" Ye Shu was taken aback.

"Yes, you don't have any cultivation resources in the Profound Heaven Sword Vein, so I'm reluctantly lending you mine. You have to remember to pay me back in the future."

"You need to cultivate diligently so you can protect me later."

Blushing intensely, Lin Qingxue shoved the storage ring into his hands and then fled as if running for her life. Along the way, she tripped over a rock and took a massive tumble, getting a mouthful of dirt, but she didn't even dare to wipe it off before scurrying away out of sight.

Wait, am I really that scary?

Ye Shu scratched his head in confusion, then put away the storage ring and walked toward his own little hut.

Returning to his hut, he closed the door.

Sitting cross-legged on the bamboo mat, he took out a ring with his right hand and tried channeling some spiritual energy into it. However, it was like a clay ox entering the sea; there was basically no reaction.

"Still not working?" Ye Shu sighed.

Ever since he returned to the Profound Heaven Sword Vein, he had been constantly channeling spiritual energy into the ring, but there had been no response.

Back then, his master had absorbed his spiritual power for fifteen years.

Now that she had fallen into a deep slumber again, did he have to provide for her for another fifteen years before she woke up?

That would be way too slow.

"Xiaobai, is there any quick way to wake up Master?" When in doubt, ask Xiaobai. After pondering for a long while, Ye Shu decided to start advancing the plot.

"Hmph! In the end, you still have to rely on this Heavenly Dao, right?"

Xiaobai immediately sat up straight with pride, tilting her chin up. "According to this Heavenly Dao's design, if you want to awaken Danxia, your current spiritual power will never be enough."

"Therefore, you need the help of your exclusive divine sword."

"And that is the Azure Profound Sword!"

"Although no one can wield this immortal sword, it inherently possesses the ability to comprehend the laws of heaven and earth, as well as gather the world's spiritual energy. Cultivating around it is three hundred times faster than normal; it's practically like cultivating for a year in a single day!"

"How about it? Amazing, right?"

She crossed her arms smugly and hummed a light tune.

"Amazing, truly amazing."

Ye Shu replied in a very perfunctory manner, then rubbed his hands together and asked flatteringly, "So, Lord Heavenly Dao, how exactly can I get my hands on such an amazing Azure Profound Sword?"

"Hehe! That's super simple!"

Xiaobai smugly dangled her little feet, shaking her head side to side, and said like an old sage, "First, you need to enter the Azure Profound Sect's All-Peak Grand Competition. Then, relying on your unmatched strength within the same realm, you just go in there and punch the South Mountain Nursing Home and kick the North Sea Kindergarten."

"After that, you'll earn the right to enter the forbidden grounds, get close to the Azure Profound Sword, and comprehend the rules of heaven and earth. How about it? Isn't it simple?"

Her eyes were sparkling brightly.

Who would have thought that upon hearing this, Ye Shu would point at his own nose with a weird expression:

"Are you trying to say..."

"You want me, a Foundation Establishment cultivator, to duel a Golden Core stage villain who is two major realms above me, right?"

"Uh..."

Xiaobai's smug expression instantly froze.

She lowered her head somewhat embarrassedly. Her expression was no longer as arrogant as before, and she feebly squeezed out a single word.

"Y-yes."