Five-Colored Butterfly Gu

After practicing until noon, Jiang Yiming had become thoroughly familiar with his body.

Now, running at full speed for ten seconds, he could cover more than three hundred meters!

That was over thirty meters per second, enough to rival the fastest cheetah!

Besides the huge increase in his running speed, his punches and kicks had also become noticeably faster.

The agility pill was so powerful. I wonder what strength pills and constitution pills are like?

Once I have Gu Refining Points to spare, I'll buy some other pills and try them!

With the sun high overhead, Jiang Yiming, who had been awake all night, was starting to feel tired. He went home, took a quick shower, and fell fast asleep on the collapsed bed frame.

He had spent the past few nights cultivating and hadn't needed to sleep, so he still hadn't bought a new bed and had been making do with this one.

He slept until six in the afternoon.

Jiang Yiming opened his phone and scrolled a few times. Soon, a piece of local news caught his eye.

"Shocking! Rainbow Shopping Mall attacked again, culprit still at large!"

The important thing wasn't the headline, but the picture in the article.

Tu Ming appeared in this one.

It wasn't Tu Ming who caught Jiang Yiming's attention, but a figure behind him.

The figure was strange. Not only was he dressed all in black, he also wore a large hat pulled down to the bridge of his nose. That was concealed enough, yet he was wearing a mask too!

Anyone dressed like that in the heat of summer was either too ugly to show his face or had a guilty conscience.

I'll have to watch out for this weirdo if I want to deal with Tu Ming! Jiang Yiming reminded himself.

After going out for dinner, he didn't return home. Instead, he went back to the grove for some exercise.

Although he had grown familiar with his body, its movements weren't instinctive yet. Only by practicing them over and over could he truly put them to use in a fight.

He practiced without stopping for over an hour, and the sky gradually darkened.

Jiang Yiming was just about to call back the Red Tail Centipede outside the grove when he spotted someone he knew through its eyes.

What's she doing here?

A lovely figure was slowly approaching beneath the streetlight outside. It was Yulan!

Jiang Yiming thought it was a coincidence and hurriedly ordered the Red Tail Centipede, which was keeping watch, to burrow into the ground. He stayed hidden in the grove, holding his position.

Keep walking, keep walking! As she drew closer and closer, he could only hope she was just passing by and that it was all a coincidence.

But right then, Yulan stopped and glanced into the grove.

Don't panic! She can't see me! Jiang Yiming knew that with her in the light and him in the dark, she shouldn't be able to see him.

No sooner had he thought that than Yulan walked straight into the grove!

Only then did Jiang Yiming notice a colorful butterfly perched on her shoulder!

He activated Identify Gu at a Glance.

[Five-Colored Butterfly Gu, Yellow-Rank Gu. Skill: Pollen Tracking. By scattering its own pollen on a target, it can follow the pollen to find them within a hundred li.]

Damn! There's a Gu like that?

After seeing the Five-Colored Butterfly Gu's information, Jiang Yiming understood.

Yulan had most likely scattered pollen on him during their chase last night. She was clearly after him now!

In all his life, this was the first time anyone had chased him like this!

Time to slip away!

After a moment's thought, he immediately ran toward the other side of the grove.

The dead twigs and rotting leaves on the ground crackled underfoot, alerting Yulan.

"Don't run!" she called out, quickly giving chase.

But tonight's Jiang Yiming was like a different person from the one she had chased last night.

His speed had increased severalfold, making it hard even for Yulan to catch up.

After running for just thirty seconds, he had successfully shaken her off.

"Huh... what's going on? It's only been a day, and he's gotten so much faster?!"

Having lost sight of him, Yulan could only let the Five-Colored Butterfly on her shoulder continue tracking him.

Jiang Yiming had already run out of the grove and was sitting on a chair, panting. "She really does have a lot of Gu! Good thing I'm pretty fast."

Catching the smell of sweat on his body, he was puzzled. "I don't even know when she sprayed me with pollen. All I can smell is sweat!"

Knowing he was being tracked, he didn't dare go home. He had to find somewhere to get the pollen off first.

He was just wondering where to go when Yulan caught up again.

"This is never going to end! I'll put up with you one more time, but if you dare chase me again, I'll fight you with everything I've got!"

His plan had been to first get used to his body's agility, then spend two days refining more Gu Essential Essence. Once the Gu Essence in his qi sea had grown denser, he would have a proper fight with the girl.

The reason he didn't want to confront her head-on now was that the Gu Essence in his qi sea wasn't strong enough. The fight wouldn't be evenly matched, so there wasn't much point.

As he fled, he suddenly spotted a bathhouse by the road.

"Hm? I've got it!"

Jiang Yiming hurried back and plunged inside.

This was a legitimate bathhouse, with no extras. You simply took a bath, and it cost twenty yuan.

It wasn't expensive, but this was still the first time in Jiang Yiming's life that he had bathed away from home.

Five minutes after he entered the bathhouse, Yulan caught up.

She hesitated at the sight of the glowing sign. Going into a place like this would practically be the death of her.

In the end, she still couldn't bring herself to go in and could only wait outside.

She waited a full half hour. Several fat, middle-aged men came out one after another, but the person she was looking for was nowhere to be seen.

Jiang Yiming had finished washing by then. He figured the pollen was probably hiding in the hairy places, so he had carefully washed his hair, armpits, crotch, and other such places seven or eight times before changing into a set of disposable clothes and coming out.

As for his old clothes, he had washed them several times too before putting them in a bag.

The one thing he hadn't counted on was that the bathhouse's customers were all middle-aged men over forty. There wasn't a single young man among them.

That made it a little difficult for him to slip out unnoticed.

When he reached the counter, he spotted Yulan outside the entrance at a glance.

She's really patient! Jiang Yiming quickly looked away and said to the owner, "Do you have a back door?"

The owner glanced at him and shook his head. "No."

"Then could you do me a favor?" Jiang Yiming explained, "That's my girlfriend outside. She's very suspicious, and she actually thinks your place isn't legitimate. She's even waiting outside to catch me..."

After Jiang Yiming spent quite a while explaining, the owner was finally persuaded. He left the counter and went outside toward Yulan.

"Miss, are you Yulan?" the owner called, waving when he was still five paces away.

"How do you know my name?" Yulan asked in puzzlement.

"Your boyfriend told me," the owner said with a smile. "Take it from me: suspicion is the biggest barrier between two people. Since you've chosen to be together, you should trust each other. This is a legitimate bathhouse. It's a modest place, with no expensive services. You just spend ten or twenty yuan and take a proper bath, that's all. You really don't need to wait for him at the door like this. You've made him too scared to come out."

The owner had truly believed Jiang Yiming's nonsense and was trying earnestly to persuade her.

Yulan listened in a daze. When she finally realized what was going on, her face flushed red in an instant, and she was so angry she didn't know what to say!