It seemed Dai Yuan had been right about one thing — the Thousand Illusion Liuli was truly immune to the Five Elements. The radiance emanating from her body had pierced straight through his Sea of Consciousness defenses and laid itself upon his Divine Sense. His very Divine Sense Fire showed faint signs of being suppressed.
Fortunately, Dai Yuan was not deliberately targeting Yang Kai, and Yang Kai himself was far from an ordinary person. After a brief moment of shock, he swiftly resisted the intrusion of the Liuli Divine Light. His Divine Sense Fire erupted with tremendous force, enveloping Dai Yuan.
At this moment, Dai Yuan's expression was twisted in apparent agony, making her already plain features look even more unsightly. But what struck Yang Kai as peculiar was that it wasn't just her face that was lacking — her entire body, like her face, was covered in pockmarks and blemishes, utterly unlike the alluring figure of an ordinary woman.
When she'd been wearing her black undergarments earlier, Yang Kai hadn't noticed anything amiss. But the moment she entered the Yin Pool and the soaked fabric clung tightly to her body — combined with his Divine Sense enveloping her — he immediately discovered the problem.
Her entire body, it seemed, was free of blemishes only on her two exposed hands, which were fair and flawless. Every other part bore the same pockmarked, pitted appearance as her face — too unsightly to look at directly.
The harm caused by cultivating that Thousand Illusion Liuli Art was clearly no small thing! Yang Kai immediately understood that her condition was definitely tied to the technique.
"Junior Brother Yang..." Just as Yang Kai was momentarily distracted, Dai Yuan clenched her teeth and called out in a trembling voice.
Yang Kai nodded and said in a low voice, "Let's begin!"
Without a moment's hesitation, Dai Yuan opened an acupoint on her chest, frantically drawing the Yin Pool water into her body. As the bone-piercingly cold water entered her delicate form, she began to tremble uncontrollably. But she bit down hard, her lips turning blue, her beautiful eyes fixed unwaveringly on Yang Kai.
Yang Kai said nothing. His Divine Sense Fire surged into that same acupoint. In an instant, he inscribed several alchemical spirit formations within Dai Yuan's body.
"Divine Sense Fire!" A flash of astonishment lit up Dai Yuan's eyes. She had never imagined that Yang Kai would possess Divine Sense Fire. According to her original plan, Yang Kai would need to press his hand against her chest, infuse his Sacred Yuan into her body, and use her body as a cauldron — employing the various medicinal properties dissolved in the Yin Pool water as ingredients, and applying alchemical methods to expel the Liuli poison from within her.
During their earlier discussions of the details, Yang Kai had never mentioned possessing Divine Sense Fire. But now that she saw it with her own eyes, rather than alarm, Dai Yuan felt delight — because if this was the case, Yang Kai would have no need for any intimate physical contact with her body.
This realization brought her both shock and immense relief. After all, no matter how you looked at it, she was still an untouched young woman, and having another man touch her body would have been extremely difficult to bear.
Even as her thoughts raced, centered on the acupoint she had opened, the Yin Pool water began to swirl rapidly within three inches of flesh. Under the control of Yang Kai's Divine Sense Fire, the medicinal properties of the various herbs Dai Yuan had previously infused into the water were perfectly fused together. A sensation of discomfort spread from her chest, making her breathing grow labored, as though something were lodged there, rendering her power completely unable to circulate.
But as Yang Kai inscribed formation after formation, the conflicting medicinal properties in the water were brought into harmony under their influence, and a wisp of energy emitting an eerie glow was forced out from Dai Yuan's chest, dissolving back into the Yin Pool.
Yet this thread-like substance did not dissipate. Instead, it drifted through the water like a fish, moving without the slightest impediment.
Soon, another identical wisp was forced out, and as time passed, more and more of these luminous threads poured from Dai Yuan's body until the entire Yin Pool brimmed with this strangely glowing substance.
After a full half-hour, Dai Yuan suddenly felt the tightness in her chest vanish. The blocked Sacred Yuan began circulating once more, and the yin cold that had been so hard to resist no longer posed any threat whatsoever.
Overjoyed, Dai Yuan disregarded everything else and immediately released her spiritual sense to inspect her body.
Within the flesh centered on the previously opened acupoint, there was no trace of Liuli poison remaining. Moreover, the surface skin had finally returned to a normal state — fair with a rosy tint, smooth and delicate, no longer the hideous pockmarked mess it had been before.
However, because of the prolonged immersion in the Yin Pool water, the skin still appeared somewhat bruised, forming a stark contrast with the rest of her body.
A mist suddenly welled up in Dai Yuan's eyes. Her emotions surged so powerfully that she nearly let even more Yin Pool water flood into her body.
"Guard your mind! Don't dwell on other things — you can examine yourself thoroughly once everything is done!" Yang Kai's stern voice suddenly rang in her ears, pulling her out of her joyful reverie. She raised her head to look at Yang Kai, who sat cross-legged before her, channeling his Divine Sense Fire into her body to fuse the medicinal properties. She saw that his expression was calm, showing none of the embarrassment she had feared. She nodded and opened another acupoint, drawing the Yin Pool water inside.
Yang Kai immediately coordinated once more, without the slightest hesitation!
Under his Divine Sense, although he could see every part of Dai Yuan's body — essentially standing bare before him — this was a matter of life and death. Yang Kai gave no thought to anything else. His expression was focused and meticulous as he drove the medicinal properties of the Yin Pool with all his might.
This Yin Pool had long been stocked with a large quantity of medicinal ingredients by Dai Yuan, so neutralizing the Liuli poison was not the difficult part. The challenge lay in controlling the fusion of the medicinal properties and managing Dai Yuan's own capacity to endure them.