When Xu Yi returned to Long Cui Peak, he was surprised to find Xuan Lengyan awake and reading. He stared at Yan Zi in puzzlement. Yan Zi sent him a voice transmission. "Sister Xuan woke up a while ago. When she didn't see you, she was a little restless at first. I gave her a book to read, and she settled down."
Before Yan Zi could finish her transmission, Xuan Lengyan spotted Xu Yi and clung to him again. Xu Yi had no choice but to sit with her and read for a while. Then she no longer wanted to look at the book and asked him to read aloud instead. As he recited it to her, Xuan Xuan gradually nestled in his arms and fell asleep again, forgetting to grab his clothes.
Xu Yi quietly laid Xuan Lengyan back on the soft couch and told Yan Zi to prepare the Calming Soup. He was going into seclusion for a while.
The Calming Soup Xu Yi prepared for Xuan Xuan used the most precious ingredients. Even if a healthy person drank it and fell into a deep sleep, it would only nourish their spirit and gently replenish their qi and blood, doing them no harm at all. For someone like Xuan Xuan, whose body had yet to recover, it was all the more beneficial.
If the ingredients weren't so hard to come by and in such limited supply, Xu Yi would have given her as much as she could drink. As things stood, he could only give it to her when he needed to go on a mission or be away from her for a long time.
After enjoying the sumptuous dinner Yan Zi served, Xu Yi entered the refining room and began his seclusion.
On the first day, he