"Alright, let me treat your injuries now!"
"There's no need!" Xiao Yu paused, looking somewhat awkward and embarrassed.
Nie Li frowned. "If you don't get treated, your injuries won't heal on their own! It will severely affect your cultivation!"
"Treatment is too much trouble. I'll just go back to the Soul Palace and revive directly!" Xiao Yu said firmly, shifting uneasily in place.
"Although your injuries look very serious—covering your entire body—treating them isn't troublesome at all. It'll take an hour or two at most!" Nie Li said, still frowning. "Compared to losing an entire rank of cultivation, this is clearly the simpler and more sensible option."
Xiao Yu shook her head with an anxious expression. "Forget it, I really don't need it!"
Her entire body was covered in burns. Recovering from that would mean…
"Don't you trust my medical skills? Relax—I guarantee it won't take two hours before you're back to your handsome, dashing self. When
"That's not what I mean…" Xiao Yu tried to explain hurriedly. She had reasons that were hard to bring up…
"Then what's there to hesitate about? We're both men—no need to be shy!" Nie Li reached out and grabbed Xiao Yu's shoulder, examining the injuries, preparing to treat them. "Besides, you got hurt protecting me. It's my duty to heal you. You can trust my medical skills—I'll make sure your cultivation ends up even better than before."
"I really can't!" Xiao Yu raised her hand with difficulty, trying to stop Nie Li.
Nie Li grew puzzled. What was wrong with this kid? He could clearly be healed, yet he insisted on dying once and reviving at the Soul Palace? Could the dragon flame have scrambled his brains? Xiao Yu had already been seriously injured saving him, and Nie Li already felt terrible about it. Now Xiao Yu insisted on dying one more time? Wouldn't that make him feel even guiltier?
"Regardless, I'm going to heal you!" Nie Li tapped several points in rapid succession, sealing Xiao Yu's acupoints and rendering him immobile.
"Really, you can't…" Xiao Yu said anxiously.
"Don't say anything. I understand!" Nie Li tapped the point on Xiao Yu's neck, silencing him completely.
Xiao Yu could only stare at Nie Li with wide, dark, expressive eyes. Nie Li had sealed her acupoints—she couldn't move at all, and she couldn't speak either!
"Mmm mmm mmm…" Xiao Yu struggled desperately, twisting her body, but it was completely useless. Her clear eyes were filled with anxiety.
"Relax, leave it to me." Nie Li patted Xiao Yu's shoulder. He looked down at the skin on Xiao Yu's body and smiled faintly. These were merely dragon flame burns that hadn't damaged the Soul Sea—they could still be treated.
Whoever had cast that dragon flame was at least a Celestial Star realm expert. Normally, Xiao Yu should have been killed in one hit. But because Xiao Yu had activated the time-space formation on the ring, blocking part of the dragon flame, she had only been severely injured.
Injured by a Celestial Star realm dragon flame attack, a cultivator at the Mandate of Heaven level wouldn't be able to heal on their own. Normally, even a Mandate of Heaven cultivator couldn't treat such injuries, but Nie Li was different from others.
With Nie Li's methods, treating Xiao Yu's injuries was more than within his capability.