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"The essence of the talisman is the different operation methods of spiritual energy, the birth of different structures, and thus the different release methods of spiritual energy-I say this is a bit abstract, but spiritual energy is like the flour that everyone eats. Processing spiritual energy Yes, it is to make flour into different foods.”

"A general cultivator incorporates spiritual energy into the body, into the dantian, and processes it by himself, so that he and the spiritual energy can adapt to each other. In essence, it is similar to exercising the body. Let's use flour as an example. For a cultivator, the sugar and carbohydrates in the flour What, directly absorbed into the body."

"Character arrays and magic weapons are like making flour into steamed buns, buns, noodles, and pancakes. Different structures are different methods. Adding different natural materials and earthly treasures is like cooking and adding seasonings. Use psionic energy in a curved way, and eat it in the end, and the energy is still there."

I don't think I've seen anyone in the history books make such a vulgar comparison to such a great energy source as psionic energy. I almost blurted out a shit joke just now, but thinking that this is a live broadcast, I still hold back. Even so, my The metaphor still made the live broadcast room almost stuck-there were too many bullet screens, and the administrator came out to clean up, which was better.

"So everyone, don't have any psychological burden. Learning talisman is like going out to learn how to cook. Learning how to operate one talisman at a time is like learning a dish. Some are easy and some are difficult. Some people learn more. Just draw inferences about yourself.”

"And don't worry everyone, I have also negotiated the platform for the recording and broadcasting. I will give you a platform to submit homework and communicate with each other. The forum has specially opened a new section for everyone, which is the section on Fuzhen learning. I will talk about it after class is over. Send the courseware of the first class to everyone."

"And I see someone asking, so what is comprehension?"

"Cultivation is nothing more than an advanced level of physical training. Martial arts exercises the body, and cultivation tempers the soul. The soul and the body become stronger together, and finally break through, trying to change from quantitative to qualitative, and finally find the possibility of evolution."

My senior sister said that she saw two gray-black bare flagpoles erected at the end of the desert from a distance, and guessed that there might be someone there. Ordinary people are almost the same, not the firm-hearted son of heaven as Xi Yi said...

In the context of my senior sister, I am a regular gym visitor, nothing special, Xi Yi's bragging makes my senior sister think that Xi Yi has been soaked in soy sauce for a long time, and he can't speak human words when he comes out.

"Evolution? Then you say, we are your evolution, or you are our evolution?" Xi Yi caught the key words in the senior sister's words.

There is a hypothesis of evolution in Huaxia Star, which believes that human beings have evolved to different degrees from drinking blood to civilized society to the cultivation of psionic energy. If they can have a higher level of evolution, they may be more powerful than practitioners.

But this kind of argument finally became untenable with the research of the census of spiritual development by the Academy of Cultivation, because there is no physiological difference between cultivators and mortals, and not having spiritual roots is more like an isolated disability , is not a characteristic of the ethnic group.

"We are not a group, maybe the evolutionary route is not one, you are you, we are us."

"I can become a human. I have everything I should have in my body, but I can adjust a little bit of fun when I need it, and put my tail..."

My senior sister felt Xiyi's fluffy tail hooked up like a tickle on her back, and remembered that the fox was about to go into heat when she touched the tail, so she hurriedly dodged, wrapped her cloak tightly and walked straight forward.

Sure enough, the neckline was lifted by the wind with evil intentions by the fox.

My senior sister seemed to be having trouble with myself in the sandy environment. Her clothes were too damaged to be worn. My senior sister, a proud man of heaven, began to mend her clothes by herself, but the clothes at the neckline became very loose. My senior sister wrapped her cloak tightly not for sun protection and wind protection. , mainly because he didn't want to show half of his shoulders... not dignified, and behind him was Xi Yi who always had bad intentions.

The wind lifted the senior sister's cloak, Xi Yi was about to tease her again, the senior sister turned her head and looked at her frankly and fearlessly, with a questioning expression that said "what do you want to do under the sun", Xi Yi put her tail away and gave The senior sister picked up the cloak: "I really like this dress."

"Can you take out something from your Qiankun ring?"

"I said that there are only three sets of armor that your junior sister asked me to keep, and they all have tails. I don't mind. I'm also excited about your long tail." Xi Yi gestured to take it out. Didn't the senior sister put on armor in the desert? The lunatic refused sharply and quickened his pace.

Xi Yi is very calm and fearless, she is a beast, how can a beast buy clothes for herself, when she is in a hurry, she can just turn into a fox, which fox wears underwear?She didn't mind being looked at by her senior sister at all.

Her Qiankun Ring has a bright red dress, which was given to her by my senior sister, but she generously presented it to her senior sister before, but the senior sister said that it is not proper to take back what she gave away, so she walked all the way to this day in rags.

The two were like two small stones in the desert, being blown by the wind and rolled to the flagpole.

"Temporarily staying in the village..." Xi Yi read the words written on a boulder under the flagpole, very puzzled, "How can there be a village?"

As soon as she finished speaking, her complexion changed suddenly, and she lifted her senior sister's arm, and the demon could spread out her shield, and dragged her senior sister to fly backwards.

A large expanse of sand under the flagpole suddenly rose high, and the quicksand fell down like a river.

The place where the two were standing was replaced by a huge three-story sand dune, and the quicksand flowed down one after another, and a section of black giant was peeled off from the sand... Xi Yi was still in a daze, but the senior sister had already drawn her sword, like a silver ray The light appeared in the air, and fell on the black mountain in an instant, the dunes continued to rise, and an unimaginable giant snake drilled out of the sand. The giant snake had scales, and each piece was as big as half a senior sister.

Keeping commandments out of the sheath——

A piece of scale was lifted up, raised high, smashed into the desert, and bang—rolled up billowing smoke and dust.

The sharp cold light stared at a man in black on the giant snake, and the tip of the sword pressed towards his throat. Xi Yi smiled as soon as the senior sister moved, wishing to applaud the senior sister.

Much stronger than when I first saw it.

The giant snake stopped rising, and now it seems that only a few parts jumped out of the sand, but it was still like a huge train carriage suddenly wrinkled into two carriages, which was extremely terrifying.

The man was stunned by the senior sister's actions, and raised his hands high to show his surrender: "Welcome to Juliu Village, the scenery in the sand is so beautiful, the land is good, here, holiday travel, business trip... I... I am from Juliu Village The deputy village chief... saw tourists outside... and came out to greet them."

Xi Yi and my senior sister thought of Ah Hao in Ningshuang City at the same time.

Xi Yi smiled: "Your tongue is not as sharp as others."

The senior sister said, "They are all young."

Senior Sister withdrew her sword, the person in front of her was around the Foundation Establishment Stage, not a threat.

Xi Yi said: "How dare you say that he is young, look at you are only 21..."

My senior sister doesn't like to think of the same person as Xi Yi tacitly, so she smiled: "Junior sister is only seventeen this year, I said she is young, what's the problem?"

Xi Yi: "I thought you said Ah Hao."

My senior sister turned her face away, she was indeed referring to Ah Hao, but who would admit it.The tip of the sword was turned upside down, lifting the man in black off the giant snake, and standing next to the scale she lifted off.

Xi Yi was quite content, squatting down, and looked at the man's face in the shadow of the snake scales.

It was a somewhat weird young man, his chin was covered with fine black scales, his short black hair was extremely soft, like a mass of dark seaweed, his eyes were slender, and his golden vertical pupils gave off some uneasiness. The feet were long and shapely under the black cloak.

"Snake demon?" Xiyi and the snake didn't get along very well, goosebumps arose, if my senior sister wasn't by her side, she might want to bite the young man by the throat and throw him five hundred miles away.

"I'm not a demon!" said the young man, his tongue shrunk and became thinner, and gradually forked, and when he opened his mouth again, he spit out the letter faintly, and when he lifted his cloak, he suddenly turned into two snake tails swimming on the sand, opening his mouth wide and pounced Senior sister—the poisonous glands produced two cold golden venom, the senior sister dodges with a horizontal sword, but before she had time, two big holes were burned in the cloak, and finally merged into one, the senior sister quickly took off the cloak.

The snake man felt his eyes go dark, he quickly swung his tail, let the cloak thrown by his senior sister, and when his vision became clear, he was stunned for a moment.

A huge red fox like a flame soaring into the sky lay before his eyes, its nine tails unfolded slowly behind him like a beautiful woman's fan, and its front paws pressed down like a mountain with an irreversible will.

The female monk who was successfully attacked by his venom fell into the soft fur of the fox and sank deeply.

"how is this possible……"

In the huge shock, he had no time to resist. Compared to the giant snake, he was as weak as an earthworm, and was trampled under by Xi Yi's claws.

The snake tail didn't even struggle a bit, it limply stuck to the ground, Xi Yi didn't kill anything, killing anything in front of my senior sister would touch the string in my senior sister's heart, so she waited for her senior sister's voice .

But I didn't hear my senior sister's voice for a long while, Xi Yi drove a gust of wind and blew her senior sister to her eyes, only to find that even if my senior sister threw off the cloak in time, she was still covered by the venom, her face was blue and she couldn't speak.

Xi Yi was furious: "The little lady I just found, you poisoned me to death?" As he spoke, he was about to trample the little snake to death with his paws.

My senior sister didn't know if she was too determined not to be Xiyi's little lady or if she just used her kung fu to force out the toxin, she spat out a mouthful of blue-purple turbid blood, and the blood clot was quickly covered by layers of sand on the sand. His complexion turned better: "Xi Yi."

"I know you're not dead."

The co-author was Xi Yi who deliberately angered the senior sister. The senior sister didn't know whether she was angry or the toxin hadn't been cleaned up. Another mouthful of blood made her weak all over.

The cultivator vomits blood, which involves the dantian inner government. The problem is serious. Every mouthful of blood contains strong spiritual energy. When the senior sister stood up again, her face turned pale. She looked at the fainted little snake, frowned and thought, and turned around Look at the giant snake that is half outside.

"This should be a man-made giant snake... the scales are small cells that can accommodate people." The senior sister climbed onto the giant snake again, trying to pry another piece off.

"Fellow Daoist, show mercy—"

At the critical moment, some people began to ride horses and call for people to stay under the knife, and now some people are interceding with the snake. The senior sister stood holding a sword, and the scales opened on one side of the giant snake, and three or four men in black cloaks flew out. At first glance, he looked nothing like the snake boy, but behind him were two snake-like men, and another one had no snake features like him.

Thick eyebrows and big eyes looked back and forth between the senior sister and Xi Yi, and caught a glimpse of the young boy who was about to suffocate being stepped on by Xi Yi, and hurriedly cupped his hands: "The dog is young and ignorant, he offended fellow daoists, and invited fellow daoists..."

Xi Yi let go, turned around, turned into a human form and stuck behind the senior sister, looking at the four men vigilantly: "Who are you? And who is he? Are you a snake demon?"

"There's too much movement outside, I'm afraid someone will notice it, why don't you two fellow Taoists come to our village—" Thick eyebrows and big eyes folded their hands again, looking worriedly at the young man who was stunned by Xi Yi, but he didn't clean it up, just treated him The senior sister and Xi Yi smiled together, but were still interrupted by Xi Yi.

"Who is your fellow Taoist? Look at this one, this is the cultivation world..."

The way of heaven is reincarnation, and she was interrupted by the senior sister waving her hand. The senior sister looked at this thick eyebrow and big eyes, with the strength of Jindan, and the people behind him were also at the peak level of foundation establishment. It was really troublesome to fight.

"Are you a human or a demon?" The senior sister asked straightforwardly, her thick eyebrows and big eyes were stunned for a moment, she stared at Xi Yi for a long time, and wanted to say something, but finally held back, and just respectfully cupped her hands: "I'm staying here temporarily." The head of the village, my name is Gong, and the one who hurt you is my youngest son, who has no name yet. Although it sounds ridiculous, our village is indeed full of people. If you don’t believe me, why not invite this... ...Nine-tailed fox friend to explore my reality."

The senior sister remembered the matter of the conversion between psionic energy and demon energy, and said nothing: "Since he is a human being, why does your son have a human face and a snake body?"

"It's a long story... Please come to the village to tell fellow Taoists."

The senior sister nodded, and then Gong asked someone to put away the scale that was pried up by the senior sister. The youngest son took it away, lifted a scale, and Gong respectfully let the senior sister go first.

The senior sister thought that there should be a regular hexagonal cabin under the scales, but unexpectedly, there was a wriggling mass of pink flesh under the scales, with no gaps visible, as if the mouthparts of some monster were chewing food.

Xi Yi immediately frowned: "You think we are fools?"

Gong shook his head: "This giant snake is a biochemical weapon passed down from our ancestors to the present... Although it looks scary, you guys go first and demonstrate it to fellow Taoists."

Those who followed him lowered their heads and jumped into the mouthparts. The mouthparts squirmed, and the people were swallowed in. It looked like they were being eaten!

Xi Yi frowned so much that she wished she could squeeze her senior sister in, but she just leaned into her ear: "You really want to enter the village? Please let me..."

The senior sister showed no signs of fear, she took a step forward, and the person went in. Xi Yi grabbed the bow's arm and jumped in too.

There is no feeling of being suffocated by wriggling things as imagined. Instead, it is like jumping into some kind of teleportation array. There is no feeling, and the surroundings suddenly become clear. There are some kind of luminous objects on the surrounding walls, and the left and right sides of the body are tight There are honeycomb-shaped houses attached to the walls. The houses are arranged in a long corridor that can't be seen. There seems to be a room at the foot, but the entrance cannot be found.

Residents crawled out of the honeycomb-shaped room one after another, or they had human faces and snake bodies, or they had all four limbs but their eyes were different, or they were all human-like. They walked together and walked between the honeycomb houses on both sides. There are scattered mobile shops and entertainment facilities, and even a large square. Snakes and people dance with music they have never heard before, with smiles on their faces. There are male snakes and humanoid girls kissing on the "street", and humanoid grandmothers. Qu Shen picked up the crying little snake in the pram and hurriedly coaxed it.

Gong was staggered by Xi Yi, without the dignity of the village head.

"Welcome to the Temporary Village..."

"Monsters and humans coexist." The senior sister summed up the scene in front of her.

It’s okay if I don’t summarize it. I don’t know who heard it when I said it. A passing snake boy retorted loudly: “I’m not a demon! I don’t know you, why are you swearing at me!”

Sister: "I didn't—"

Xi Yi: "Since when has monster become a curse word..."

Xi Yi's words were quickly drowned out, and an old human man appeared on the side of the road. He leaned on the ground with a cane in grief, and pointed at his senior sister: "We are all compatriots. If there are any grievances that cannot be resolved, how can we say that compatriots are demons?" Woolen cloth!"

So many enthusiastic people came from all directions, pointing at the senior sister, but no one opened their mouths to scold her, they just said that if she had any conflicts with the boy, she would fight, and don't call anyone a monster.

It seems that saying someone is a demon here is the highest level of humiliation, no wonder Gong's youngest son suddenly attacked my senior sister, it turned out that Xi Yi said that the snake demon made him angry...

Gong hurriedly stood next to my senior sister.

The old man said: "Village chief! Look at her! Whose little doll is so ignorant..."

Gong raised his right hand, the chattering sound gradually subsided, and everyone quieted down angrily, waiting for the village chief to speak.

"Everyone, these two are guests from outside."

"What! It's from outside! Fight it out! Fight it out!" The crowd became angry, and the voice was so loud that it almost pierced the eardrums. My senior sister couldn't help but wrinkled her face and covered her ears. Qing, guessing that the words were not good, turned his head away, but was dragged behind by Xi Yi, so as not to let someone jump over and spit poison on the senior sister.

Gong raised his hands and clapped hard, the sound waves vibrated with spiritual energy, and the surrounding area was unwillingly quiet.

"These two are of the same kind as us, but the mutated form is different from ours." Gong said something inexplicable, and he turned his face and cupped his hands at Xi Yi, "Please do it, fellow daoist, to show your true face..."

Xi Yi frowned: "What kind of true face? Half-human, half-demon..."

As soon as she mentioned the demon, the surroundings exploded again, Xi Yi probably understood, nine fiery red fox tails swayed behind her, her eyes narrowed, the fiery red demon energy boiled in her eyes, she raised her arm and put it on her senior sister's shoulder , The surroundings suddenly became quiet.

"It's the same kind as a fox!" The reprimands around suddenly turned into cheers, those who should dance stopped dancing, those who should kiss stopped kissing, and those who should quarrel stopped fighting, they flocked to Xi Yi in unison, curious stroking her tail.

The people in the temporary village cheered up like a festival, and many people suggested holding a welcome party.

"What's the situation?" My senior sister showed in front of Xi Yi that she had never seen the world, but to be honest, who has seen this kind of world, Xi Yi has never seen it, but she pretended to know and hummed a few times: "No Do you understand? Now you know how to ask me?"

"Tch." The senior sister turned to talk to Gong, and let Xi Yi be surrounded by curious snake people.

"It's about the ancestors... I'll talk about it to the two fellow Taoists during the celebration tonight." Gong was still polite to his senior sister.

There are people here and there are monsters, but they all say they are human, but so far, they are all half-human and half-snake, and there is no such thing as a snake walking on the street. Thinking about it this way, Xi Yi is still different from the people here... Senior Sister Thinking secretly, he told Xiyi not to turn into a little fox, and to make plans after learning about the situation in the temporary village.

The senior sister originally planned to continue to go north, but she would not miss the rare adventure, and if she knew the secret of others, but patted her butt and walked away, she would provoke her enemies out of thin air.

The enthusiasm of the snake people soon permeated the senior sister, and even thought she was the same kind.

"It's really not easy to find the same kind outside. You could have mixed with ordinary people directly, but you didn't abandon your first wife. It's the old man who blamed you. I formally apologize to you."

"Whose first wife? Old man, I'm a woman..."

However, the old man showed a look that the senior sister had never seen the world: "Is the sexism outside so serious?"

No, it's not a sexist issue...

A child suddenly said: "Can two sister foxes lay eggs?"

His mother immediately pointed out his mistake: "No, foxes are viviparous animals. They can give birth to foxes, and they don't need to lay eggs."

Is this a matter of life or death?

My senior sister often keeps clever silence in areas she is not familiar with, but the silence at this time seems inappropriate, because the fox has a quick mouth, and has arranged my senior sister to be her first wife, and the two of them have lived together in the desert until now.

My senior sister has 1000 million words to say. At this time, she suddenly thought of me, and thought that I should be able to shoot my complaints at Xiyi and make Xiyi have nothing to say. Unfortunately, I am not here, and I can’t feel that time. How urgent is my senior sister's need for me.

My senior sister was overwhelmed by the enthusiasm of the snake people. Her excuses were useless, and she was praised again and again by the snake people. It was already the welcome ceremony specially prepared for them at night.

"Come on, let's dance together!"

She was pushed into Xiyi's arms again, and Xiyi showed her tail, imitating the snake people's way of twisting their tails, twisting their tails, as if the flames were constantly flickering.The dance steps of the human form are similar, but the snake body is flexible, and the pas de deux is also like a dance/dance, twisting the waist and pushing the hips, so bold that my senior sister's expression is dignified.

"I like it here. Don't you like it, Xiao Shoujie?" Xiyi put her hands on her shoulders. My senior sister's arms were dragged to Xiyi's waist by the snake people. Xiyi covered her fingers with her tail intentionally or unintentionally. , smiling.

"Stop talking nonsense," the senior sister sighed quietly, and said in a small voice that only the two of them could hear, "You clearly know that you are not of the same kind as them."

"People say that we can give birth to fox cubs, but they have never seen a serious fox. Your genes must not be so strong." Xi Yi began to talk nonsense to himself.

"I'd like to see what you and the snake can produce." Senior Sister was annoyed.

"Who wants to be with the snake?" Xi Yi said angrily, "I don't understand the customs, do as the Romans do, everyone jumps up, what's the matter with you standing alone?"

The eyes of all around are focused on the senior sister, it seems that I very much hope that my senior sister can agree with their customs, but the senior sister does not move... Out of the corner of my eye, I caught a glimpse of the sad expressions of a few snake people.

The bow outside the crowd cupped their hands in embarrassment, and the senior sister sighed.

This is what modern monks do. My senior sister is willing to do as the Romans do, and she respects other people's customs... To a certain extent, this is also a kind of seriousness.

The two fox tails were held by the senior sister at some point, and the senior sister tightened her hands and pressed them on Xi Yi's restless buttocks. Xi Yi gasped: "Hiss—what does it feel like... the tail It's about to explode..."

My senior sister actually observes other people's dance steps, it's nothing more than fitting the waist, twisting the waist and pushing the hips——

"Don't be complacent." The senior sister's voice was cool, Xi Yi rolled her eyes and said nothing.

The senior sister's dance steps are active, she raised her waist and approached Xi Yi, like a snake with thousands of joints, twisting and twisting, she couldn't find a single bone, as if the water was flowing, and the torn clothes were rubbing against each other lightly, Like a superficial touch, pointing at Xiyi's body intermittently.How should Xi Yi cooperate with her? It's a demon fox, with a swaying fox tail like a fluttering skirt, and a flexible waist. It's not that the senior sister is guiding her with her waist, but she is looking for the senior sister.

The core of the dance of the snake man is the waist. The more twisted, the more passionate, the closer the closer, the more lingering and unrestrained, the lighter and more charming.

The senior sister had no place to rest her hands, and when she landed on her buttocks, she pinched her twice as if in revenge. The fox's tail almost burst into fur, and then returned to her waist, rising and falling softly and lightly, and finally landed on Xiyi's neck, slightly With force, Xi Yi's face was pinched and slightly lifted——

The music gradually weakened, and everyone around shouted: "Dancing really well! It's the first time I can dance so well!" Those sad eyes disappeared, replaced by eagerness and pride.

Xi Yi stuck to her senior sister's ear: "Are you really a righteous monk..."

The senior sister let go of her lightly, and bowed slightly: "Please ask the village chief to speak."

Xi Yi pressed the back of her hand to her face, feeling a dry heat, but looking at her senior sister with her arms folded, she didn't look like the person who pinched her butt passionately just now, as if the one who danced so charmingly just now wasn't keeping the precepts.

Gong began to contemplate the next speech, Xi Yi suddenly grabbed the senior sister's waist from behind, just now, she felt this soft and boneless body rubbing against her, now she has a spine, straight and solid.

"I told you not to make the fox go into heat..." Xi Yi's voice trembled as if the best velvet had been torn into fluff.

The senior sister wanted to open the hands that were pinching her waist, but she couldn't do it. Many people were paying attention here, and Gong's speech hadn't started yet.

"I just follow the Romans." My senior sister's voice was very light. In fact, my senior sister didn't want to admit it. She seldom let Xiyi be so embarrassed. Today Xiyi made her unhappy, and now she is causing trouble for Xiyi... But my senior sister I don't want to admit that I am sometimes so naive.

"Please, give it to me..." Xi Yi was about to cry, the senior sister couldn't tell the truth from the fake, she turned her face back in surprise, and couldn't see that Xi Yi was molesting her.

"To be honest, we modern monks don't care about this. I can help you, but I think the best way to solve the estrous period is yourself. After all, I have no experience." My senior sister is really honest, she can directly call Xi Yi a monster Then I turned my head and ignored it, but after all in modern society, my senior sister is not old-fashioned, even if I get involved with Xi Yi now, it will not damage my practice, it's just a bad reputation, but my senior sister is a wanted criminal, what is the reputation? It has already fallen to the bottom.

The refusal was purely because she felt inappropriate and weird, and she felt that she... didn't like women, let alone female foxes.

Beast's rut ​​is really indiscriminate, and Bow is already talking.

Xi Yi rubbed her face against her senior sister's back: "You are my desire."

"I'm really sorry..." The senior sister was very embarrassed, she thought it was Xi Yi who played with fire first, so let's burn it, it has nothing to do with her.

What makes modern monks more ruthless than ancient ones is that even if my senior sister has sex with her once, twice, thousands of times, it is not out of love.

What's more, my senior sister doesn't plan to have sex with her, even though my senior sister can dance and seduce people.

But it's just a meeting, she doesn't like it.

It's just that my senior sister knew for the first time today that a fox is in heat and forcibly endures it, and will cry.

Previously Xiyi was not guilty of death, my senior sister was fair and let Xiyi go, and today Xiyi took advantage of her, the crime would not be enough to cry...

"Then...be patient," the senior sister coaxed the fox, freed herself from the fox's arms, lowered her head and took Laxiyi's hand, "you can do it."

"You are so cruel." Xi Yi was filled with grief and indignation, retracted his tail, and refused to let go of his senior sister's hand, his hands were cold and cold. When the senior sister was surprised, Xi Yi approached her and kissed her forehead.

The senior sister wanted to let go of her hand, but was held tightly.

She could only sigh: "Don't tease me in the future, I won't respond to you."

"I want to dance thousands of times with you wagging tail."

"dream."

The senior sister stepped on the little bit of shame that she had just smothered her biological instinct and the distress of seeing Xi Yi's hard work and patience.