Leveling Up by Kissing My Disciple - chapter 12

“Master, is the heat within your body about to erupt?” Mu Chenxi’s voice carried a hint of urgency.

Bai Yue nodded gently. “Yes.”

“Then let me help you dispel the heat inside you now.”

As Mu Chenxi spoke, she reached out and took Bai Yue’s jade-like hand in hers.

Feeling Mu Chenxi’s cold little hand enveloping her own, a trace of surprise flickered in Bai Yue’s eyes.

“Why is Chenxi’s hand so cold? She clearly isn’t using any Spiritual Qi.”

“Because I have the Ice Spiritual Root, and also possess the Mysterious Ice Body. With both constitutions combined, my body temperature is naturally lower than most people,” Mu Chenxi explained softly.

“So that’s how it is.” Bai Yue suddenly understood and nodded slowly.

As soon as she finished speaking, Mu Chenxi raised her hand and slowly channeled her own cold Spiritual Qi into Bai Yue’s body, gradually dispelling the scorching heat surging in Bai Yue’s Dantian.

While controlling her Spiritual Qi, she asked softly, “Master, have you ever sought out any elders from Medicine King Valley to examine your strange illness?”

“I have, but even the elder could not find the cause,” Bai Yue replied helplessly, shaking her head.

“Don’t worry, Master. I will definitely find a way to cure you in the future,” Mu Chenxi said with unusual seriousness.

Bai Yue responded with a soft “Mm,” though she did not hold much hope in her heart.

She only wished that it would not continue to worsen, and that it could remain within a controllable range.

Her strange illness was growing more severe by the day-her body burning hot as fire at night, and chilled to the bone during the day. If this continued, she feared she would not last much longer.

Fortunately, Chenxi was by her side to protect her, and with the Warm Sun Jade for daily protection, she could at least hold on for a while longer. Perhaps, in time, a solution could truly be found.

“Master, since you can’t cultivate right now, just lie down and rest well.”

“Mm.”

Seeing Bai Yue nod, Mu Chenxi helped her lie down on the soft mat.

“Chenxi, I’m sorry to delay your cultivation time again,” Bai Yue said, her tone tinged with apology.

“It’s nothing, Master.” Mu Chenxi sat down beside her, still gently holding her hand. “In fact, holding your hand like this, I feel my cultivation progresses even faster, because my heart beats quicker than usual.”

She spoke earnestly, not just to comfort her.

“Does it really have such a miraculous effect?”

Bai Yue was stunned again, then suddenly realized something.

Her Disciple’s feelings for her seemed to have long surpassed that of Master and Disciple. Even such a simple act as holding hands could stir her emotions.

Thinking this, Bai Yue’s delicate face suddenly grew warm, and the heat within her body surged up once more.

“Master?”

Mu Chenxi keenly sensed her change, a look of confusion appearing in her eyes. “The heat inside you seems to have grown stronger again. You were fine just now…”

“I don’t know what’s happening either.”

Bai Yue herself did not notice, only meeting Mu Chenxi’s gaze as she followed her line of sight.

When Master and Disciple locked eyes, both saw bewilderment reflected in each other’s gaze.

“It’s fine. I can suppress it.”

Mu Chenxi was not a healer, so she did not pursue the matter further.

She channeled another thread of cold, pure Spiritual Qi into Bai Yue’s body, dispersing the newly rising heat.

A long-lost sense of comfort spread through her limbs and bones, and Bai Yue finally relaxed completely, lying on the soft blanket as drowsiness gradually crept over her.

Mu Chenxi lay down beside her as well, her fingertips always infused with Spiritual Qi, attentively sensing the changes within Bai Yue’s body.

If that heat were to flare up again, she could suppress it immediately, so she had stopped cultivating altogether.

Such behavior was truly unusual for someone as obsessed with cultivation as she was.

However, Bai Yue’s emotions had calmed, and the heat within her body also stabilized, no longer fluctuating violently.

As a result, the Spiritual Power Mu Chenxi infused became steady as well, and such a gentle flow required little of her attention.

Because of this, Mu Chenxi was able to spare a bit of focus to feel the hand of Bai Yue held in her palm.
That hand was warm and soft, delicate as if boneless, its fine touch stirring Mu Chenxi’s heartbeat.

She raised her eyes to look at Bai Yue, seeing that her Master had already fallen asleep, her sleeping face serene, her breathing shallow and long.

“Master falls asleep so quickly,” Mu Chenxi murmured in her heart.

Her sleeping Master seemed less enchanting than usual, and instead possessed a tranquil beauty untouched by worldly dust.

Her gaze unconsciously fell upon Bai Yue’s tender, dewy red lips, and a sudden urge to lean forward and kiss them welled up inside her.

As soon as this thought emerged, Mu Chenxi hurriedly withdrew her gaze.

She had always been disciplined and proper, and would never commit such a transgression while her Master slept, without permission.

Besides, Master had once said that her first kiss should be reserved for her future Dao Companion…

Thinking of this, a wave of sourness rose in Mu Chenxi’s heart.

But then she recalled that Master had also said she would consider the matter of kissing her.

She just didn’t know when this “consideration” would yield a result.

As she thought about this, the sourness gradually faded, replaced by a hint of anticipation.

As her emotions fluctuated, Mu Chenxi suddenly sensed a disturbance in her Spiritual Power.

The Sword Formula was operating on its own again, striking at her bottleneck a few times before slowly calming down.

She hadn’t done anything-hadn’t deliberately cultivated, only held Master’s hand and, at most, stolen a few glances at Master’s sleeping face-so how could there be such a noticeable improvement?

Mu Chenxi truly couldn’t understand the reason, feeling utterly confused.

Since she couldn’t figure it out, she simply stopped dwelling on it and refocused her attention on the jade-like hand in her palm.

She slowly adjusted her posture, letting her fingertips gently slip through Bai Yue’s fingers, intertwining their slender, translucent fingers, her own ten fingers gradually locking with Bai Yue’s.

This gesture of interlocking fingers inexplicably made her heartbeat quicken again.

The soft sensation from her palm grew clearer, and the warmth between their fingers seemed to seep into her heart.

But for some reason, her heartbeat suddenly accelerated, the fluttering in her chest growing ever stronger.

Mu Chenxi’s eyes widened in surprise.

In the next moment, she felt the bottleneck that had troubled her for so long slowly shatter amid this heart-throbbing sensation.

She was about to break through! This time, she was truly about to break through!

The surrounding Spiritual Qi instantly surged madly into her body, almost drained in an instant.

Fortunately, Mu Chenxi had already set up a Spirit Gathering Formation here, using top-grade Spirit Stones as the formation’s core. The depleted Spiritual Qi was quickly replenished, maintaining the balance.

With the Sword Formula’s bottleneck broken, Mu Chenxi’s cultivation, which had already broken through once before, soared rapidly again. Spiritual Qi poured endlessly into her Dantian, circulating and settling madly within.

Mu Chenxi’s cultivation improved at an astonishing pace, quickly advancing from the Core Formation Middle Stage to the Core Formation Late Stage, and the momentum did not stop.

As her own Spiritual Power surged wildly into her body, her cultivation continued to climb, pushing all the way from the Core Formation Late Stage to the Core Formation Peak Stage.

Mu Chenxi realized she was about to trigger the Thunder Tribulation and attempt to break through to the Nascent Soul.

She hurriedly calmed her mind, forcibly suppressing the surge in her cultivation, and stopped absorbing Spiritual Qi from the outside world.

She couldn’t break through here; if she triggered the Heavenly Tribulation, it might alert powerful Monster Beasts outside, or malicious evil cultivators.

If that happened, both she and Master Bai Yue would be in danger.

In fact, if she were alone as usual, she might have risked breaking through directly.

After all, even if she encountered powerful Monster Beasts or evil cultivators, she was confident she could handle the Heavenly Tribulation while fending off enemies.

But ever since Bai Yue was by her side, she cared especially about Bai Yue’s safety, and would never want her Master Bai Yue to be endangered because of her own breakthrough.