"How long have you been out, and you've already hooked up with a girl? Aren't you afraid of starting a fire back home?"
Inside the Storage Ring, Yao Lao gave a strange, cackling laugh that sent a chill down Xiao Yan's spine.
"When did I hook up with anyone... I just saw that Ten Thousand Medicines Shop wasn't exactly a good place, didn't I? Also, Teacher, you haven't been possessed by someone, have you?"
"Ridiculous!"
Yao Lao was somewhat speechless. "Have you even looked at what state this old man is in right now? If there's any possession going on, it'd be me possessing someone else!"
Possess him? How would that even work?
Could a soul possess another soul?
"Don't change the subject! Running all over the place with this girl is extremely dangerous! Although I know you're also a hot-blooded young man, you can't just rise to the challenge, can you?"
Yao Lao sounded exactly like an old father, earnest to the point of bitterness. "She's a poison jar that could explode at any moment. If she gets excited then, or if you're careless..."
"Enough, enough! What kind of person am I in your eyes?"
The more Xiao Yan listened, the darker his expression became. "Do I look like the sort of person who can't control himself?"
"Well..."
Yao Lao's gaze swept over him. "Hard to say."
It was still the same saying: without testing yourself, anyone could think they were a desireless, saintly person.
Judging from Yao Lao's many years of experience wandering the continent, something was absolutely going to happen between this man and woman in the future.
One refined medicine, and one made poison. The one who refined medicine could produce poisonous fire, while the one who made poison also knew how to mix medicines.
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