"Allow me to remove the silver needles for you first..."
Seeing her about to get out of bed and dress, Wan Yunting told her to stay still and went to remove the silver needles from her body.
"Xuan Huo Acupuncture Technique!"
Jin Yu Shitai looked down at the arrangement of silver needles on her body and recognized the extraordinary nature of this acupuncture method.
Wan Yunting nodded and said, "This Xuan Huo Acupuncture Technique can only suppress the cold poison within your body, but it cannot completely expel it. Because your cold poison has already entered your bones, it is very difficult to remove!"
Jin Yu Shitai remained silent. She knew her own body's cold poison symptoms best. She slowly lay down and said, "Please remove the needles for me."
"You must be the Fourth Elder of the Emei Sect, Jin Yu Shitai, right?"
Jin Yu Shitai got up. With no trace of emotion on her face, she casually put on her robe in front of Wan Yunting, concealing the scene that drove all men to madness. She asked, "Who are you?"
Wan Yunting naturally gathered the silver needles into his sleeve, turned around, and said, "I am from Wuliang Daoist Temple, named Wan Yunting. I apologize for my rudeness just now. I hope Jin Yu Shitai does not take offense!"
Jin Yu Shitai, who had tied her robe, paused and looked up at Wan Yunting's back. She said, "You are the Master of Wuliang Daoist Temple, Wan Guan Zhu?"
Wan Yunting glanced back slightly and, seeing that she had put on her robe, turned around and asked doubtfully, "Does Jin Yu Shitai know me?"
Jin Yu Shitai sighed softly. With the cold poison in her body suppressed, she had recovered to normal. She stood up, walked to a table made of bamboo, picked up the teapot, poured a cup of hot tea, lifted her robe slightly, sat on a stool, and took a sip from the teacup before speaking calmly, "Sit down."
Wan Yunting nodded, walked over, and sat on another bamboo stool. Jin Yu Shitai, with her delicate hands, picked up another teacup from the tea tray, placed it in front of Wan Yunting, poured him hot tea slowly, and said plainly, "I've only heard of you. I didn't expect that at such a young age, you not only know the Xuan Huo Acupuncture Technique but also possess such profound inner strength. It seems Ruoxi didn't misjudge you!"
"Thank you..."
Wan Yunting took the teacup and thanked her, but her words caused his expression to falter.
It seemed she had heard about his and Zhou Ruoxi's affairs from Jiang Ting Xia.
"The cold poison in Jin Yu Shitai's body should be congenital, right?" Wan Yunting asked, taking a sip of tea and slowly putting down the teacup.
Jin Yu Shitai's expression was cold, without any fluctuation of emotion. She nodded and said, "Yes, tonight was supposed to be my final day. I didn't expect you to save my life. Thank you."
Wan Yunting shook his head slightly and smiled, "Jin Yu Shitai, you are too kind. Since I encountered it, I couldn't just stand by and watch."
Jin Yu Shitai's clear, cold phoenix eyes glanced at him. "Speak, why have you come to my place tonight? What do you want?"
Her words startled Wan Yunting. Just as he was about to explain, a voice from outside called out, "Junior Sister Jin Yu, are you asleep yet?"
Recognizing the voice as that of Jun Xuan Shitai, Wan Yunting immediately stood up, his expression anxious, looking around for a place to hide...
Upon hearing her senior sister's voice from outside, Jin Yu Shitai was also puzzled as to why she would come to her so late.
"Jin Yu Shitai, don't let Senior Sister Jun Xuan discover me!"
Seeing that the bamboo hut had no windows to escape from and no place to hide, Wan Yunting was truly anxious.
Jin Yu Shitai didn't know why he was so flustered, but on a whim, she said, "Come to my bed."
Wan Yunting looked at her wooden bed, nodded, immediately went over, got into bed, and pulled up the covers. A faint scent of peach blossoms entered his nostrils...
"Junior Sister Jin Yu, you're not asleep yet?"
At this moment, Jun Xuan Shitai walked in. Just as Jin Yu Shitai put Wan Yunting's teacup back onto the tea tray, she turned slightly to face Jun Xuan Shitai and said expressionlessly, "I was about to sleep. I wonder what brings Senior Sister to visit so late at night?"
"Hehe..."
Jun Xuan Shitai chuckled, but her sinister old eyes surveyed Jin Yu Shitai's simple bamboo hut. The space was not large; a wooden bed was placed on the north side, a desk on the west, and next to it, a bamboo bookshelf filled with various books.
The desk also had all the implements for calligraphy and painting, and an unfinished brush calligraphy piece. The neat regular script indicated that Jin Yu Shitai was a person deeply devoted to calligraphy.
"It's been a while since I visited Junior Sister Jin Yu. I happened to be passing by tonight, so I came to see if you've encountered any difficulties in your life..."
Jun Xuan Shitai's gaze fell upon the bed, where the bulging covers seemed to suggest someone was lying there, drawing her attention. Her old eyes immediately narrowed!
"Thank you for your concern, Senior Sister. I have encountered no difficulties in my life, and everything is well," Jin Yu Shitai said calmly, still with an expressionless and placid demeanor.
Jun Xuan Shitai smiled and walked directly towards the wooden bed. Looking at the bulging floral covers, she chuckled, "I didn't expect your cold nature, Junior Sister Jin Yu, to require such patterned bedding. Who sent this to you?"
Instantly, Jin Yu Shitai stood up and moved to block Jun Xuan Shitai from approaching the wooden bed. She said, "Senior Sister Jun Xuan, you've come to my place in the middle of the night just to look at the color of my quilt?"
Blocked, Jun Xuan Shitai narrowed her old eyes. She didn't get angry and smiled at Jin Yu Shitai, saying, "Junior Sister Jin Yu, you seem a bit nervous tonight? Could it be that you're hiding a wild man in your room?"
As soon as she said this, Jin Yu Shitai's eyebrows furrowed slightly, and her phoenix eyes grew colder as she looked at Jun Xuan Shitai.
"Hehe, Junior Sister Jin Yu, don't be angry. Senior sister is just joking."
Jun Xuan Shitai smiled, turned, lifted her robe, and sat on a stool. She then turned her head to look askance at Jin Yu Shitai and said with a smile, "Junior Sister, come and sit for a while. We senior sisters haven't had a heart-to-heart talk in a long time."
Jin Yu Shitai looked at her, paused for a moment, then walked over and sat down. She said, "Senior Sister has been busy with Ruoxi's wedding recently, so you don't need to waste too much time here. Please go back and rest quickly."
Jun Xuan Shitai's old eyes fixed on her, and she smiled, "Junior Sister Jin Yu, are you perhaps hiding someone else in your boudoir that you're so eager to see me leave?"
"Hehe, actually, Junior Sister, if you are hiding a man, Senior Sister wouldn't find it particularly strange. After all, with your beauty, even though you are forty years old, you still look like a girl in her twenties or thirties. Many young disciples in our sect can't walk properly when they see you. Senior Sister truly envies you."
"Also, your innate cold constitution truly needs a man to dispel the cold for you. Perhaps it could even cure your yin and cold body condition!"
Facing Jun Xuan Shitai's words, Jin Yu Shitai remained cold and did not seem angry. She simply said plainly, "Senior Sister Jun Xuan, my cold constitution does not require your concern. Our relationship has not reached the point of confiding in each other. Please return, as I also need to rest."
As she spoke, Jin Yu Shitai stood up, turned, and walked to the wooden bed to sit down, clearly showing her intention to send her guest away!
Jun Xuan Shitai's old eyes narrowed, and she stared at Jin Yu Shitai for dozens of seconds. Finally, she stood up and said with a smile, "Since Junior Sister Jin Yu has said so, Senior Sister will not impose herself where she is not wanted. Junior Sister, get some rest early. Senior Sister is leaving."
"No need to see me out," Jin Yu Shitai did not get up to see her off.
Jun Xuan Shitai reached the doorway and suddenly remembered something. She turned her head and looked askance at Jin Yu Shitai, saying, "Jin Yu, you have always stayed out of sect affairs. With the recent changes in our sect, Senior Sister hopes you will continue to maintain the status quo. Don't worry, as long as Senior Sister is here, no one will disturb you on the mountain in this peach blossom forest!"
"However, if you go against your own wishes, don't blame Senior Sister for not remembering our sisterly bond!"
These words made Jin Yu Shitai raise her eyebrows slightly, but she said nothing, understanding that Senior Sister Jun Xuan meant for her not to meddle in her attempt to seize the position of sect leader!
Jun Xuan Shitai's old eyes glanced at the bulging covers on the wooden bed again, let out a cold snort, and left.
Although she felt someone was lying on the bed, she hadn't detected the presence of a third person in the room just now. That's why Jun Xuan Shitai didn't linger.
Her reason for coming up the mountain was twofold: first, she suspected that the eavesdropper might be hiding at Jin Yu Shitai's place!
Second, Jun Xuan Shitai even suspected that the eavesdropper was Jin Yu Shitai herself!
However, after careful consideration, Jun Xuan Shitai dismissed the suspicion of Jin Yu Shitai, as she still understood her reclusive sister who did not concern herself with worldly matters.
Moreover, the figure of the eavesdropper was clearly that of a man!