Boundless gloom devours the heart; a lonely young girl weeps within it.
As Su Ran's Soul landed in the Supreme Pontiff's spiritual sea, he immediately felt the invasion of darkness.
Bibi Dong's spiritual sea was actually a grayish-black, with a swirling gray mist like ocean waves, and two spider-shaped star patterns reflected in the sky; only the very center shone with a speck of light, which seemed to be the radiance of a blooming Peach blossom.
Before Su Ran could observe closely, hands reached out from the gloom, grabbing at his clothes; they were helpless, naive, spirited, and filled with terror, fear, and mad voices:
"Wuwuwu~"
"Save me."
"Can you stay here with me? Dong'er is so lonely."
"Please, kill me. I don't want to live anymore."
"Child? My child! Why, why? She is a sin!"
"Ahhh! Die, everyone must die!"
"Go!"
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The Peach blossom immortal Qi on Su Ran was about to spread out to dispel the darkness.
Then, a noble figure emerged from the gloom, and the fluctuations from her body directly dispersed the dark women around her who resembled her by seventy to eighty percent, or even eighty to ninety percent. Bibi Dong bowed slightly to Su Ran:
"Teacher Su, welcome to my spiritual sea."
"It may not be beautiful here; please don't mind it."
Bibi Dong looked a bit ashamed, even inferior.
The spiritual sea is a part of her inner World, hiding her past states. The color here also represents her Heart-Nature.
Grayish-black, very grayish-black.
So dark that even Su Ran was a bit surprised.
"It's alright, everyone has darkness in their heart; it's just that yours is more thorough."
"Actually, I… I wasn't dark before, just like this Peach blossom, pink and tender."
Bibi Dong pointed to the brightest spot in the spiritual sea and said.
Su Ran was a bit startled; he hadn't expected that decades in a dark room, a single flower could illuminate.
Under the Peach blossom petals, Bibi Dong of all ages gathered, resting there, becoming the warmest place in Bibi Dong's spiritual sea.
This indicated a problem: Su Ran had become Bibi Dong's greatest solace deep within her heart, which was why she insisted on staying at Peach Garden Academy, even if it meant giving up a hundred-thousand-year spirit ring and Spirit Bone.
Perhaps, only at Peach Garden Academy could the darkness in her heart be illuminated, allowing her to temporarily set aside everything outside and forget those unbearable past events.
…
"Your Holiness, time is precious; let us begin."
Su Ran took a deep breath and said, this Soul-drawing and Bone-carving'surgery' was a challenge for Bibi Dong to let go of herself, but for Su Ran, it was a huge drain.
"Mm." Bibi Dong nodded.
At this moment, in the sky of Bibi Dong's spiritual sea, the pattern of one of the spider star lines shone, revealing nine spirit rings that exceeded the standard spirit ring configuration, and the ninth spirit ring was a red hundred-thousand-year spirit ring.
[Jadeite Nether · Soul-Drawing Method!]
Su Ran stood amidst the gloom, his hands quickly forming a seal, an imprint similar to a purgatory flower.
The Soul-drawing seal seemed to construct a passage, connecting to the hundred-thousand-year spirit ring, actually attracting the Origin and Soul from within.
It was a figure that sometimes looked like a gentle beautiful woman, and sometimes like Xiao Wu's Soft Bones Rabbit Spirit, a white rabbit. The Soul was indistinct, as if it could dissipate at any moment; that was Xiao Wu's mother's remnant Soul.
"Hiss~"
As the color of the hundred-thousand-year spirit ring faded and its cultivation flowed backward, Xiao Wu's mother's remnant Soul slowly covered the Soul-drawing seal, leaving Bibi Dong's spiritual sea. Bibi Dong's brows furrowed, and a look of pain appeared on her face.
The hundred-thousand-year spirit ring separating from the body was no less painful than a severe mental trauma.
But very quickly, Bibi Dong felt a gentle power nourishing her and healing her Soul wounds.
It was Su Ran!
Su Ran was multitasking, using his divided Soul to perform the Soul-drawing technique. Although his Soul had already entered Bibi Dong's spiritual sea, he was still controlling his body. His left hand held an Ice Dragon carving knife to engrave the external Soul-drawing seal. The Ice Dragon, being Yin, guided the remnant Soul and preserved the Soul.
A fire Dragon appeared in the palm of his right hand, directly refining a Sacred Soul Grass and transmitting it into Bibi Dong's spiritual sea to repair her depleted spiritual Origin.
"Next, it will be more painful and more difficult. I need to probe the shape of your torso bone."
Bibi Dong was already a bit weak and asked, "What do I need to do? Is it like feeling the bone, or...?"
When she asked this, Bibi Dong felt both a bit ashamed and a little excited.
To feel out the torso bone, wouldn't that mean Teacher Su would touch her entire body?
"Direct contact naturally yields the best results, but there's a difference between men and women. I will use Soul power to internally examine your torso bones, trying to keep clothes on, and use the Ice Dragon carving knife and Fire Dragon carving knife to extract the power of the hundred-thousand-year Spirit Bone."
"This will consume a great deal of my Soul power and spirit power. You must not offer any resistance to prevent the Spirit Bone carving, otherwise, it might all be for naught, understand?"
Su Ran explained his next intention.
Bibi Dong nodded, but her face showed visible disappointment.
It was strange; even though they were doing something very serious, very important, and very painful, she felt her Soul was in pain yet happy, especially after Su Ran's Soul entered her spiritual sea. She yearned intensely for physical contact with Su Ran, yearned to be touched!
"Ah!"
Just as Bibi Dong was trying hard to suppress this urge, Su Ran had already suspended the Nine-Grade Green Lotus Root above Bibi Dong's body, and a Soul-drawing flower was growing on it.
The carving knife in his hand also began to move over her clothes. Although the speed was very slow, every millimeter of movement felt to Bibi Dong as if her bones were being cut by a knife, and being peeled out at the same time.
In just a moment, Bibi Dong's exquisite face was incredibly pale, her entire body trembling, and she was gritting her teeth to endure.
Su Ran's face also showed some fatigue, and drops of sweat slid down his exquisitely defined features.
"Teacher Su…"
"Teacher Su, it hurts so much!"
"This way, this way you should be able to carve a bit faster, right?"
Rip~
A purple-white skirt belt was quickly unfastened.
Beneath the skirt, her proud peaks, flat and toned abdomen, and skin as white as jade, like an exquisite work of art, were reflected in Su Ran's eyes.
Su Ran merely took a deep breath, steadied his mind, and slowly moved the Ice and Fire Twin Dragon carving knife across the Supreme Pontiff's body, gently pressing it onto her softness.
Even with the knife tip near the pink Peach blossom pistil, there was no profanity or defilement in his eyes, only concentration and respect. He silently chanted in his heart:
A healer's heart is a parent's heart, a healer's heart is a parent's heart… Su Ran, have no other distracting thoughts!
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