Hearing Li Moxun's questioning words, Gu Yue gave him a deep look.
Looking at the boy's calm face and the purity in his eyes, Gu Yue fell silent for a second before calmly nodding.
"You refined this pill. Since you understand it better, I won't look for anyone else to stand guard."
"Just stay here. I'm going to use this pill now."
Gu Yue's voice was soft. After speaking, she sat down cross-legged, a trace of seriousness appearing on her ordinary face.
As her eyes closed and the pill entered her stomach, a cool, mint-like sensation spread through her.
Gu Yue felt her mind tighten. The strange quality in her eyes vanished, and the hazy feeling from before began to fade.
Li Moxun glanced at Gu Yue without changing expression. He raised a hand and tossed countless spirit herbs into the furnace, then continued refining pills—this time, pills that enhanced cultivation.
These pills were easy to refine. Any usable Thousand-Year Spirit Herb could be used to make them.
As for quality, Li Moxun did not care. As long as there were few enough impurities, that was sufficient.
Of course, even if there were many impurities, it did not matter. He could still use spiritual power to forcibly cleanse the impurities from his bloodline.
As Li Moxun refined pills on one side, Gu Yue sat cross-legged on the other, and the atmosphere between them became somewhat strange for a time.
This state continued for a long while. Li Moxun paid no attention to what was happening outside, nor did he care whether he attended the night's combat training.
So even though he sensed time passing quickly, he did not remind Gu Yue.
Meanwhile, Gu Yue devoted herself wholeheartedly to dealing with her own problem.
She felt the sluggishness within her beginning to vanish. Her thoughts gradually became clear and lively, the confusion in her eyes slowly dissipated, and her expression grew increasingly tranquil.
This feeling lasted for a long time. Only after it had completely faded did she open her eyes again.
There was no longer the slightest trace of confusion in the girl's eyes. There was only calmness.
Her gaze lowered slightly in thought. Then she calmly rose to her feet and tapped several points on her body.
Only after sensing the aura belonging to the Silver Dragon King being rapidly suppressed did Gu Yue let out a long breath.
Yet her brows had already furrowed tightly, and her eyes darkened to the extreme in an instant.
Watching Gu Yue stand up and sensing her aura, Li Moxun did not move.
He had been sitting there all along. With a movement of his palm, the flames in the furnace burned more fiercely, and then the Titan Snow Demon King's freezing power descended, thoroughly cooling the pills in a short time.
When twenty-five cultivation-enhancing pills appeared in his palm, Gu Yue could not help but be surprised as she looked at them and sensed their medicinal fragrance.
"Your pill-refining technique is quite impressive. This whole batch of different pills actually all possesses top-grade quality."
"There should be very little pill toxicity in them, and their effects on the body should be reduced to a minimum."
As Gu Yue spoke, her face carried a look of great interest.
One had to know that top-grade pills like these were extremely difficult to refine. Even among the four major organizations she knew of, no one could refine such pills.
Yet in the face of Gu Yue's slightly curious gaze, Li Moxun merely swept his eyes over her calmly.
He stood and collected the pills into his hand, then silently looked at Gu Yue.
"Have you recovered?"
"If not, I can refine another pill for you with the remaining ingredients."
"Not completely, but I already know where the problem lies."
"It is because Tang Wulin's bloodline affects my body. The connection between our bloodlines makes him naturally favor me because of his Golden Dragon King Bloodline."
"But I naturally develop feelings of love for him because I possess the complete Silver Dragon King bloodline."
As Gu Yue spoke, she let out a soft sigh.
Dragons already had strong needs in that regard. Coupled with the fact that their bloodlines shared the same origin, merely meeting each other or sensing the other's bloodline gave them the feeling of facing the person who knew them best.
Under such circumstances, Gu Yue simply could not make a move against him.
And if Gu Yue at this stage could still retain some rationality, then as time went on, not only would the bloodline's influence deepen, but the deeper her feelings for Tang Wulin became, the stronger the influence between them would be.
However, because of Li Moxun's appearance, Gu Yue's fate had instead been forcibly changed, preventing her from being completely influenced by her bloodline as she had been in the original timeline.
Facing the now-clear-minded Gu Yue, Li Moxun said nothing. Instead, a trace of wariness appeared in his eyes.
After all, compared with love-struck Gu Yue, the version of her whose intelligence was intact was far more troublesome.
So he merely gave a soft "Mm" and said nothing further, instead tilting his head slightly to signal Gu Yue to open the door.
Seeing that Li Moxun had no interest whatsoever in her affairs, Gu Yue's violet eyes quietly studied him.
Only at this moment did she truly develop a hint of interest in Li Moxun.
There was no way he could not see that she was unusual, yet throughout the entire time he had simply not cared. He had even tried to keep as far away from her as possible.
Though she did not know why she had become a source of trouble in his eyes, Gu Yue said nothing.
As the entrance opened, Gu Yue walked over. She glanced at Li Moxun, paused for a second, and ultimately spoke.
"I cannot directly strip Tang Wulin's Golden Dragon King Bloodline from him, nor can I remove it all at once. I can only strip it away piece by piece."
"And if I do that, I will most likely need this kind of pill more than once. So I hope you can refine them for me over the long term."
"Of course, if possible, you can also give me some of these cultivation pills."
Gu Yue spoke calmly, but when she saw the expression on Li Moxun's face that plainly said, Are you insane?, she rarely found herself unable to maintain her composure. She shot him a glare and continued.
"I'm not trying to take advantage of you for nothing. There are Thousand-Year Spirit Herbs and even some Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Herbs on the soul beast side. I can even obtain them through certain special means and give them all to you then."
"What you receive will definitely be far greater than what you give. And if the soul beasts truly succeed in the future, I can promise to spare your life."
Gu Yue spoke and gave Li Moxun a faint smile.
Only now did the girl's face truly carry a trace of the domineering presence of the ruler of soul beasts.
But Li Moxun did not care. This was an era without gods—so what if the Silver Dragon King's complete form had once been at the level of a God King?
The current Gu Yue had been severely injured and was rebuilding her cultivation. She was not much different from an ordinary person.
As for those powerful soul beasts, even the strongest, Di Tian, was merely at the demigod level.
Under such circumstances, once he had grown strong enough, it was still uncertain who would defeat whom—or rather, who would enslave whom.
Thus, Li Moxun merely nodded. Then he raised a hand, and two bottles flew out, which he directly tossed to Gu Yue.
"There are twenty pills inside. Every one of them was refined from a mixture of Hundred-Year Spirit Herbs and Thousand-Year Spirit Herbs."
"With these pills, your Soul Power Level can rise dramatically in a short period of time. The medicinal power within them should also be effective for your dragon race."
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