Stepping on the Demoness to become the strongest

Chapter 559: Chapter 55 Playing Hot Potato

Xie Ruoxi transferred so much Spiritual Energy that Su Yunjin simply couldn’t bear it and hastily began circulating her mental method, passing the excess overflow to Lin Ning on her right.

Lin Ning’s brow also furrowed, as she had never accepted such a vast amount of Spiritual Energy before. However, her constitution was better, and her endurance stronger, so she didn’t say much, keeping a large part of the Spiritual Energy to perform Breathing Exercises in her Dantian, converting it for her own use, and silently transferring the remaining part to Yan Yu.

The rush of Spiritual Energy into his Dantian was so intense that Yan Yu couldn’t help but be deeply touched.

He had long known that Xie, the Immortal Venerate, possessed exceptional talent but had never expected her to be so domineering!

Is this the power of showboating?

If we’re not talking about talent, just constitution, no one present stood a chance against Yan Yu. After all, in his past life, he had touched the pinnacle of a Mortal Warrior with just his mortal body… But even so, his body in this life hadn’t been trained, and couldn’t stomach so much Spiritual Energy from Xie Ruoxi, and he had no choice but to transfer the leftover part to Zhao Yuanzhen on his right.

Zhao Yuanzhen’s right palm was opposite Xie Ruoxi’s left palm, receiving the massive amount of Spiritual Energy she was transferring. She was struggling to digest it when suddenly, a formidable amount of Spiritual Energy from Yan Yu on her left hand startled her pale.

Even when eating, one doesn’t take in so much in a single breath—might as well stuff me to death!

Determined, she didn’t care anymore and retained whatever part she could digest. She then mobilized the String-Pulling Technique and forced the rest back towards both sides.

The beaded curtain was rolled up backwards, and the rivers flowed in reverse!

Yan Yu on her left was shocked and hastily joined the mutiny, passing the Spiritual Energy towards Lin Ning.

Xie Ruoxi, receiving the large amount of Spiritual Energy passed from Zhao Yuanzhen, was also confused because Yan Yu had previously stated, “You’re punished to only transport Circulating the Heavens and can’t retain a trace of Spiritual Energy for yourself.”

With that in mind, why return it to me?

Oh, it must be because they want more Spiritual Energy.

With that thought, she said nothing further and once again ferociously transported Circulating the Heavens, sucking in a large breath of Spiritual Energy from the world, holding none back for herself, and transferring all of it to Su Yunjin.

Su Yunjin couldn’t take in so much Spiritual Energy and could only inwardly apologize to Ningning, passing it all to Lin Ning.

Lin Ning’s left hand received the profound Spiritual Energy from Su Yunjin, and her right hand was penetrated by Yan Yu’s massive Spiritual Energy. She couldn’t sustain it; her meridians swelled, her Dantian was overflowing, and she felt unbearably uncomfortable as if she might explode at any second.

But she had a robust constitution after all, and had learned the art of Dual Sword Control. She thus focused intently on multitasking and performed the Great Shift of Universe:

The Spiritual Energy (from Xie Ruoxi) given by Yun Jin was more, so she directed it through the Taiyin line to the Central Mansion; a portion went downwards past the stomach and large intestine into the Dantian, with the remainder flowing to her right arm, emerging from the Shaoshang point on the thumb, into Yan Yu’s palm.

The Spiritual Energy (from Zhao Yuanzhen) given by Yan Yu was slightly less; she arranged it through the Shaoyin line to the extreme spring, then down to the lungs, a portion still entering the Dantian, the remainder going to her left arm and out through the Shaoshang point on the little finger, all transferred to Su Yunjin.

Essentially playing a game of hot potato!

Yan Yu and Su Yunjin had no other options, remaining as indecisive as grass on a wall, taking in a mouthful of Spiritual Energy, and allowing all they couldn’t digest to flow with the current.

So the problem came back to Zhao Yuanzhen and Xie Ruoxi.

Zhao Yuanzhen had the nature of an enchantress—she was meant to torment others, not to be tormented. Now that Yan Yu was back-feeding her Spiritual Energy, she couldn’t restrain herself any longer and cursed inwardly:

The scoundrel knew I couldn’t take in so much Spiritual Energy but insisted on force-feeding me; he clearly wanted to make me a laughingstock!

This deep grudge needed settling; if she ever got the chance, she would repay the favor a hundredfold!

As for how exactly to extract her hundredfold revenge, Zhao Yuanzhen couldn’t figure it out—she didn’t have Xie Ruoxi’s exceptional talent, so she could only temporarily note it down, considering it a debt.

Once again, she fully activated her mental method, violently spewing out the leftover True Yuan on both sides—if Lin Ning’s technique was the Great Shift of Universe, then Zhao Yuanzhen’s was the uncompromising, might-overpowers-all Eighteen Palms of Descending Dragon!

Yan Yu had no reaction to this, reasoning that a dead Taoist friend does not a poor Taoist make. Whatever came from the left went to the right, and whatever came from the right went to the left.

Xie Ruoxi, however, became increasingly anxious, thinking that so much still wasn’t enough and that they were still being picky. So she worked even harder, absorbed a massive amount of Spiritual Energy and, without any reservation, devotedly offered it to everyone in the team!

No matter how the group tossed the blame to one another, if the five were seen as one unit, then Xie Ruoxi was continuously pumping a substantial amount of Spiritual Energy inside, herself not performing any Breathing Exercises or absorption.

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The other four, having already circulated their energy for several rounds, had absorbed a good deal of Spiritual Energy and converted it into True Yuan. How could they possibly handle so much more Spiritual Energy now? Thus, they had no choice but to play hot potato, passing the increasingly terrifying “bomb” among themselves.

Yan Yu finally realized something was wrong and thought to himself, how could there be even more Spiritual Energy the more I practice my Breathing Exercises?

Ordinarily, the better a person’s talent, the more Spiritual Energy they can absorb, and the higher the capacity of True Yuan they can convert. But the quantity of Spiritual Energy absorbed at once is definitely less than the total amount of True Yuan they can convert. It’s like pouring water from a small bucket into a large pool; that’s why it’s necessary to carry and circulate energy through several rounds of Circulating the Heavens to absorb more Spiritual Energy.

The problem now was that the bucket was large while the pool was small. The pool would overflow with just one bucketful, and the excess water could only spill over into someone else’s pool. As more and more water flooded in, it indicated that their pools would soon be full as well.

Therefore, the biggest suspect was the one with the largest bucket, which was Xie Ruoxi!

Could it be that because she hadn’t received my favor, she was intentionally causing trouble here? Ridiculous, everyone knew we were going to practice together tonight. How could I possibly bestow my favor on you in my room?

Yan Yu also forgot that he once casually remarked something and now only assumed that it was Xie Ruoxi, who was intentionally not digesting Spiritual Energy and was causing trouble for everyone as a prank, which irritated him.

So, you dare to make trouble?

Just when he was about to send a message, he heard Lin Ning suddenly shout:

“Stop passing it! There’s too much Spiritual Energy; I can’t digest anymore!”

Yan Yu and Zhao Yuanzhen’s faces changed slightly, because although the String-Pulling Technique could be stopped at any time, don’t forget that there was a big bomb being passed around! If everyone stopped the joint transportation of Circulating the Heavens, the flow of Spiritual Energy would also cease, and this bomb would definitely stay with one person without being absorbed immediately.

On the optimistic side of estimations, the undigested True Qi would erupt from all the acupoints in the body. But considering the redundant Spiritual Energy was extremely vast, it’s more likely that while erupting, it would also tear the fragile parts inside the meridians, leading to that unfortunate person becoming possessed by the devil, severely injured. Therefore, the String-Pulling Technique absolutely couldn’t stop.

“Everyone stop drawing in Qi from the outside for now,” Yan Yu immediately ordered. “Focus solely on your Breathing Exercises for digestion. Ruoxi! You too!”

“Oh, okay,” Xie Ruoxi sighed with relief, thinking that she could finally cultivate as well.

As she began to exert effort, the redundant Spiritual Energy indeed started to decrease at a visible rate.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. After a short while, they heard Xie Ruoxi again:

“I can’t take any more either.”

Yan Yu’s face darkened instantly. Damn, if you can’t digest it, don’t draw in so much Spiritual Energy, why don’t you?! Don’t you have any sense?

Normally, introducing Qi into the body goes hand in hand with digestion through Breathing Exercises. It’s like serving rice from a communal pot into your own bowl, serving more after you finish, and stopping when you’re full. But Xie Ruoxi’s behavior was like just scooping without eating, and now the rice in her bowl had piled up like a mountain, with nowhere to dump it!

“What should we do?” Su Yunjin asked with a wry smile, as her increase in True Yuan for the day had also reached its limit.

“It seems we can only continue to carry on like this,” Zhao Yuanzhen replied. “By tomorrow night this time, everyone’s bodies should be mostly recovered. Then we can digest the leftover Spiritual Energy completely.”

At these words, everyone was somewhat speechless. The method was indeed feasible, but the time too long, wasn’t it? They would have to sit there for a whole day!

“Ling Yun,” Yan Yu suddenly asked, “you’re watching, right?”

Is Ling Yun there? The girls all paused, taken aback.

“Stop pretending,” Yan Yu continued. “I know you’re watching.”

After a moment, Chen Lingyun really came in from outside the bedroom, feigning surprise as she said:

“Oh my, what happened to you guys?”

“No more nonsense,” said Yan Yu. “Join us quickly.”

“Join what?” Chen Lingyun feigned ignorance. “Your harem?”

“I don’t know if I’m worthy,” she demurred.

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