Chapter 175: An Absurd Affair

The two of them finished recording a song together, completed the post-production work, and published it online. By then, it was already one or two o'clock in the morning, so they each returned to their respective rooms to rest.

When Zou Ning returned to her room, she found that He Zhixing and Jiang Ni were still asleep, keeping their eyes closed and regulating their breathing in meditation. Had their breathing not been so even and steady, she would have thought they were dead.

Treating the two motionless figures like the dead as if they didn't exist, Zou Ning took a shower, changed into her pajamas, and went to sleep right beside them. For a moment, she felt a wave of sentimental emotion. Very few people had ever slept in her boudoir before; not even her ex-boyfriend had that privilege. Yet now, she had voluntarily let two injured people, He Zhixing and Jiang Ni, sleep in her room and share her bed. It felt truly surreal. The world was so dreamlike; even she felt that three people sleeping together was a bit crazy. Although the two beside her were like vegetables, this was more than enough to make Zou Ning's little brain spin for a long time and short-circuit.

Glancing out the window through the thin silk curtains, the night scenery was breathtaking. Under the faint starlight, there was a warm beauty that seemed to embrace the soul. She thought of the way these two had performed today. Were there really such formidable martial artists left in this world? Their cultivation levels were so high; after taking so many bullets and hidden fine-needle weapons, the two of them somehow hadn't died. An ordinary person would have long since died from massive blood loss.

Yet they had not died. The two of them had actually persevered, even coming up with the idea to use the miraculous energy of the sarira to heal their wounds. Through the absorption function of the small wooden carved figurine, they continuously and slowly absorbed the potent energy and spiritual qi contained within the sarira.

Zou Ning wondered: Could this man really be that remarkable? Why did both girls around him like him? It seemed as though both of them were happy, without being troubled or jealous over the presence of another rival in love; they got along so harmoniously. What kind of person was this young man, really?

Zou Ning recalled certain things about him: and his singing was quite impressive, too. She remembered how he used to pester her every day a few days ago—could it be that he liked her as well? Thinking along these lines, she slowly drifted off to sleep.

Meanwhile, He Zhixing and Jiang Ni were continuously absorbing the spiritual qi from the sarira. They were entirely oblivious to their surroundings or anything happening around them, aware only that the spiritual qi emanating from the sarira was profound and fierce. They were striving to evolve and transform it, merging and integrating it with their own internal energy and spiritual qi, until they reached a point where they could no longer bear it, as the abundant spiritual energy was simply too much for them to accept all at once.

A human body is fundamentally a self-sustaining energy entity, yet the capacity to receive and absorb energy is limited by the extent of one's cultivation. It is akin to the difference between someone who knows no martial arts and someone who can manifest internal energy, or between someone who has just cultivated internal energy and someone who has broken through to the Xiantian realm and opened the Ren and Du meridians. Aside from He Zhixing, who had reached the late stage of the Xiantian realm, Jiang Ni had only reached the early stage. To look after Jiang Ni, He Zhixing had no choice but to let go of the sarira and stop absorbing.

A breakthrough would likely have to wait until the next time they were properly prepared for absorption. After all, having suffered such severe injuries and blood loss this time, it was unwise to force a breakthrough; the primary focus now was healing.

After stopping the absorption of the sarira's energy, the two of them released their joined hands. Seeing that it was still dark before dawn, they closed their eyes and fell asleep embracing one another. Just when He Zhixing thought Jiang Ni had fallen asleep in his arms, to his surprise, the other beauty, Zou Ning, sleepily crawled over him, squeezed into his embrace, and fell asleep as well.

He Zhixing gave a wry smile, falling asleep with a beauty in each arm. Holding two beauties in his embrace felt utterly unbelievable, but he was too exhausted, so he simply let them be... and then closed his eyes to sleep as well...