“Perhaps it’s a unique secret recipe from some reclusive Alchemist in the Jia Ma Empire.”
Ling Ying respectfully placed the Medicinal Pill back on the table.
“But it is only a first-grade pill after all.
While it might be called a divine medicine by the people here, in the eyes of the truly powerful, it is nothing more than a child’s toy.”
Xiao Xun Er nodded, not paying much mind.
Indeed, for the Young Miss of the Gu Clan, this thing was merely a novelty.
“Where is Brother Xiao Yan?” Xiao Xun Er suddenly asked.
“Young Master Xiao Yan…
seems to have gone to the back mountain.” Ling Ying’s tone became a bit strange…
The Xiao Family’s back mountain was steaming with heat.
The hot spring here was a treasure of the Xiao Family, and few people came here on ordinary days.
Xiao Yan whistled, hands behind his head, as he leisurely walked through the forest.
Today, Xiao Zhan had successfully bid for the beast power pill and was in high spirits, giving him plenty of pocket money.
He was pondering whether to find a place to take a bath and relax.
Just as he turned past a giant boulder, the sight before him made him stop in his tracks instantly.
Those were two legs.
Very long, very white, and very straight.
Amidst the swirling mist, a young girl was facing away from him, splashing water to wash her long, jet-black, silky hair.
Those iconic long legs were faintly visible in the water, making one’s head spin.
“Holy cow…”
Xiao Yan subconsciously swallowed his saliva, and two words popped into his head: so white.
As a transmigrator, what kind of scenes hadn’t he seen on Blue Star?
But this was a real-life live broadcast, and these legs…
it would be a pity if these legs didn’t pedal a tricycle.
Just then, the girl seemed to sense something and suddenly turned around.
Their eyes met.
It was Xiao Yan’s cousin, Xiao Yu.
Space froze for a moment.
Immediately after, an ear-splitting scream echoed through the back mountain.
“Ah!!!”
“Xiao Yan!!!
I’m going to kill you!!!”
Xiao Yan shuddered all over, turned, and ran, putting in every ounce of strength he had.
“A misunderstanding!
Cousin!
This is a misunderstanding!
I didn’t see anything!
Really, the mist was too thick!”
“You little hooligan!
Stop right there!”
Xiao Yu was in no mood to listen to his explanation.
Wrapping herself in an outer robe, she rushed out of the water, clutching an unsheathed longsword, and chased after him with a flushed face.
The two of them, one in front and one behind, played out a “speed of life and death” in the forest.
“Stop chasing!
I’m at the eighth stage of Dou Zhi Qi, and you’re only at the seventh.
You won’t catch up!”
While scurrying away with his head in his hands, Xiao Yan didn’t forget to look back and talk back.
“You still dare to speak!” Xiao Yu was so angry she almost fainted.
After finally escaping back to his small courtyard, Xiao Yan burst through the door panting, just in time to see Xiao Xun Er sitting in the courtyard reading.
“Brother Xiao Yan?”
Xiao Xun Er put down her book and looked at the disheveled Xiao Yan with some confusion.
“What’s wrong?”
“N-nothing, just exercising.” Xiao Yan wiped his sweat guiltily.
At that moment, Xiao Yu’s angry roar came from outside the courtyard gate: “Xiao Yan!
You bastard, get out here!”
Xiao Xun Er was exceptionally clever.
Glancing at Xiao Yan’s dodging eyes and listening to the commotion outside, she understood most of it instantly.
She sighed, stood up, walked to the door, and blocked the aggressive Xiao Yu.
“Cousin Xiao Yu.”
Xiao Xun Er’s voice was gentle, yet it carried a sense of aloofness that brooked no refusal.
“Brother Xiao Yan is already resting.
If there’s anything, let’s talk tomorrow.”
“Xun’er, move aside!
This bastard was peeping at me bathing in the back mountain just now!”
Xiao Yu stamped her feet in anger.
Xiao Xun Er looked back at Xiao Yan, who was shrinking back in the room, shook her head helplessly, and turned back to remain blocking the door.
“Cousin, Brother Xiao Yan is not that kind of person.
I think there must be some misunderstanding.
Perhaps he just took the wrong path?”
“Misunderstanding?
His eyes were practically popping out of his head!”
“That’s enough, Cousin.”
Xiao Xun Er interrupted her, her tone becoming slightly heavier.
“It’s so late; making a scene wouldn’t be good for your reputation either, Cousin.
I believe Brother Xiao Yan will be more careful in the future.”
Under Xiao Xun Er’s indifferent yet oppressive gaze, Xiao Yu gnashed her teeth.
In the end, she could only glare fiercely at the room and leave indignantly.
Inside the room, Xiao Yan let out a long breath and patted his chest.
“Xun’er is still the best…”
While Xiao Yan was still trembling at the thought of those two white legs, Lu Heng was in his own room, undergoing an even more dangerous transformation.
On the table were the Materials he had just purchased from Ya Fei; the gold coins were, naturally, an advance on his future dividends.
Five rank-two fire-attribute monster cores were neatly arranged in a circle, emitting a scorching temperature.
Ten rank-two fire-attribute medicinal herbs—Sunlight Grass, crimson flame fruit…
each was worth a fortune.
Of course, this was by the standards of Wutan City; after all, a Family like the Xiao Family only had an annual profit of eighty to ninety thousand gold coins.
(The original work’s Xiao Yan said so himself.)
“Cultivating is just burning money.”
Lu Heng complained and then took a deep breath, sitting cross-legged in the center of the bed.
The guidance of the Book of Destiny surfaced in his mind once again.
“Swallow.”
Lu Heng did not hesitate, grabbing a crimson flame fruit and stuffing it into his mouth.
The moment the juice burst forth, a scalding hot current rushed down his throat straight to his stomach, as if he had swallowed a piece of red-hot charcoal.
Next, he picked up a fire-attribute monster core and, using the special method of the Five Elements Chaos Art, began to guide the violent energy within.
In the next moment, the Qi in his body instantly boiled.
In the center of the originally green cyclone, that originally weak sliver of crimson Dou Qi flared up like a flame that had received a massive amount of fuel.
The fire-attribute Dou Qi rampaged through Lu Heng’s Meridians, as if someone were scraping them with a dull knife.
Wood produces fire.
The Green Wood Dou Qi in his body served as the best fuel at this moment.
Lu Heng grit his teeth and held his mind steady, guiding that violent fire-attribute energy to rampage through his Meridians before finally flowing into his Dantian.
Time passed minute by minute.
The system panel on Lu Heng’s body turned a bright crimson, and sweat was evaporated into white mist as soon as it appeared.
The temperature in the entire room rose sharply, even the window paper became somewhat scorched.
After an unknown amount of time.
A crisp cracking sound came from within Lu Heng’s body.
That burning sensation receded like a tide, replaced by an unprecedented sense of fullness.
Lu Heng opened his eyes.
Inside his Dantian, the original cyclone had undergone an earth-shaking change.
If before it was dominated by a green cyclone with a hint of red, now, the green and red were completely equal, forming a perfect Taiji dual-fish pattern.
Green and red intersected, endlessly generating each other.
Lu Heng let out a long sigh of relief, intending to strike while the iron was hot.
Since the Vermilion Fire Body had successfully awakened, it was also time to upgrade the Azure Wood Body!
Immediately, Lu Heng no longer hesitated and, following the same pattern, took out five wood-attribute monster cores and ten rank-two wood-attribute medicinal herbs.
Swallow the herbs, refine the monster cores!
After an unknown amount of time, the Physique section in the Book of Destiny changed.
[Physique: Azure Wood Body (Rank Two), Vermilion Fire Body (Rank Two)]