Animal-eared Girl Era: Start by Forming a Contract with an SSS-Class School Belle-Chapter 280: You Can’t Touch, But I Can! (Please Follow)

Chapter 280: Chapter 280: You Can’t Touch, But I Can! (Please Follow)

Yun Bing and Hua Hong both halted in their tracks, turning around with eyes full of confusion.

"What method?" Yun Bing asked.

Xiao Ye replied calmly, "Young Master Hua, you can’t touch my Contractor, but I can."

Hua Hong got it and frowned, saying, "You’re saying, you want to do it?"

Xiao Ye snapped his fingers and grinned, "That’s right!"

"You teach me your Ancient Secret Technique massage method, and I’ll do the massage. Young Master Hua, you just need to brew the medicinal soup."

Yun Bing’s beautiful eyes lit up. *Right! Why hadn’t she thought of that before?*

*Xiao Ye already possessed extremely advanced Massage Skill. Not only could he resolve physical defects, but he could also fix template issues. Learning an Ancient Secret Technique for massage had to be easier than fixing template defects, right?*

Black lines appeared on Hua Hong’s forehead. He shook his head hard, saying, "No way, the Ancient Secret Technique is a Hua Family secret that can’t be passed on. Besides, even if I taught you, without a Medical Dao foundation or Medical Dao comprehension, you still wouldn’t be able to learn it."

Xiao Ye smiled and made an offer,

"A Supreme Level Detoxification Treasure!"

"It should perfectly and quickly resolve the zombie nerve virus on you and your Contractor. So, how about you trade that Ancient Massage Secret Technique?"

Xiao Ye took out a stone glowing red from his system space, something he’d gotten from the Bronze Hall.

A Supreme Level Detoxification Treasure!

Hua Hong swallowed, subconsciously wanting to agree. *With a treasure at this level, exchanging it for the Ancient Secret Technique was a steal for him!*

*But as he remembered the family rules, he fought his desire and shook his head with a bitter expression, saying, "Can’t do it. The reason the Hua Family has lasted thousands of years on Blue Star and is called the oldest surviving Medical Family today is precisely because of these Ancient Secret Techniques. Sorry."*

He was the Young Master Hua, the heir to the Patriarch Hua. He couldn’t break the family rules on his own.

Xiao Ye’s face darkened.

Yun Bing: ...

Yun Bing clenched her fist, making her knuckles crack, squinting with a dangerous glint in her eyes, and said menacingly, "If you don’t tell, and I don’t tell, who’ll know you leaked the family secrets? Just say whether you’ll hand it over or not!"

Her fiery temper flared, and she grabbed Hua Hong by the collar, sneering,

"Don’t push your luck. A Supreme Level Detoxification Treasure is worth two of your Ancient Secret Techniques, let alone just one! You still won’t trade it?"

"Hurry up and agree, or don’t even think about leaving!"

"Uh, well..." Hua Hong got a little flustered. "Wait, Kunpeng Supreme, things like this have to be consensual. How can you force me?"

Yun Bing couldn’t care less about any of that. Squinting, she said, "Hurry up and teach. My patience is limited. Even if I beat you up, your Hua Family can’t do anything about it."

Xiao Ye patted Hua Hong’s shoulder, laughing, "There’s only three of us here. If none of us say a word, no one will know you gave away the family secret. Why be so stubborn? This is a Supreme Level treasure, aren’t you tempted?"

Xiao Ye dangled the Detoxification Treasure in front of his eyes.

"Gulp!" Hua Hong involuntarily swallowed, his eyes filled with longing. After hesitating for a few seconds, he whispered,

"Deal! I’ll trade with you."

"But there’s no way I’ll give you a sample of the Ancient Secret Technique. I’ll teach it in person and only once. If you can’t learn it, that’s not my problem."

Xiao Ye laughed, "Deal. Sister Yun Bing, you can put him down now."

Yun Bing hesitated, "He’ll only teach it once. Will you be able to learn it?"

Xiao Ye pinched Yun Bing’s soft cheek, saying, "Trust me!"

Seeing their intimate gesture, Hua Hong’s eyes widened. *There’s something fishy going on between them!*

*If Xiao Ye can’t learn this, will Kunpeng Supreme let me leave?*

*Of course not!*

*Then I’m going to get my ass kicked.*

Hua Hong took a secret manual from his storage ring and tossed it to Xiao Ye, saying, "This is a massage Ancient Secret Technique that activates human potential. Since I have to treat the patient, I brought it along to avoid mistakes during treatment."

"Just study the manual. If there’s anything you don’t get, come and ask me."

"Kunpeng Supreme, I’ll need the third root of a Thousand-Year Ginseng, the tip of a Magma Straw, Ten-Thousand-Year Unmelting Ice that nurtured a Celestial Snow Lotus, the fang powder of a Demon Whale from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean—four rare and precious herbs. Plus, Dogtail Grass, the heart of the Mother Papaya... eight ordinary herbs. All twelve are needed to brew the medicinal soup."

Xiao Ye waved her off, "Sister Yun Bing, it’s time for you to step up. Go on, I’ll handle things here. This guy can’t beat me, and if he tries to run, he won’t get away."

Yun Bing rolled her eyes at him, "All right, I’m heading out. You better master that Massage Skill, or you’re in big trouble with me."

With a flash of white light, she vanished.

Hua Hong’s face darkened as he thought to himself, *Even if I can’t beat you, did you have to say it out loud? Besides, I never planned to run. The patient’s not healed yet, so why run? As a true Healer from an orthodox Medical Family, he wouldn’t think of running.*

Xiao Ye held the manual, flipping through it page by page. As he kept reading, his brows knit tighter.

Hua Hong shook his head and said, "Secret Techniques are always hard to learn—Ancient Secret Techniques even more so. If you can’t even understand the manual, you won’t be able to learn it from me, either. Back when I had a Medical Dao foundation, it still took me half a year just to grasp the basics."

Xiao Ye burst out laughing, his furrowed brow relaxed completely, and said,

"No, I never said I didn’t get it. On the contrary, this Secret Technique is simple. Super simple!"

Hua Hong’s mouth twitched, not believing him at all. "It’s just us here. You don’t need to put on a brave face. I won’t make fun of you."

*Xiao Ye wasn’t lying. The Massage Skill for resolving physical defects had come from the [Cosmic Origin Level Template Adjuster]. Physical defects caused by template issues couldn’t be fixed by anyone on Blue Star, but the Massage Skill from the Template Adjuster could.*

*That alone proved how skillful, how complex that Massage Skill was.*

*This Ancient Secret Technique for activating potential wasn’t even in the same league as the Massage Skill for template-based defects. Way easier.*

Xiao Ye read through it once, understood it, and even mastered it!

*It was just like a college whiz breezing through elementary school material—no challenge at all. One look, and he had it!*

Xiao Ye tossed the manual and the Detoxification Treasure one after another back to Hua Hong, smiling, "Put these away, I’ve learned it."

Hua Hong’s mouth twitched again as he put the manual away, thinking, *You probably messed it up, didn’t you!*

He took the Supreme Level Detoxification Treasure from Xiao Ye, put it away, and said warily, "You said you learned it, so if you can’t treat the patient, don’t blame me."

Xiao Ye nodded and said, "If the patient doesn’t get better, that means your Secret Technique’s the problem. Don’t even think about leaving, then!"

"..." Hua Hong just wanted to cough up blood.

Half an hour later, Yun Bing returned carrying a big chest.