My Beauty-Collecting Obsession Is Acting Up Again!

"Huh? Where did he go?"

Zi Yan blinked her big eyes and looked around.

"I sent him away. You two should both calm down."

Lu Chuan casually tossed the young Fallen Heart Flame to Su Qian.

Nurturing a Core Flame like this to maturity would take years, and he had no time to tend it slowly. Besides, he already had a mature Fallen Heart Flame. He had no need for this young one.

[Ding! Congratulations, host, on completing client Su Qian's commission.

Fallen Heart Flame obtained, copied, and fused. Flame affinity +20%.]

A new Core Flame rose within Lu Chuan, winding around the Green Lotus Core Flame already there and slowly merging with it.

"Elder Su, I plan to stay and cultivate in your Inner Academy for a while."

"Of course! By all means!"

Su Qian cupped the young flame carefully in both hands, grinning from ear to ear.

This man had removed a major threat to the Inner Academy. As far as Su Qian was concerned, he could ask for precious Medicinal Pills and formulas, let alone stay to cultivate.

Lu Chuan patted Zi Yan on the head.

"Once I'm done cultivating, I'll take you to the seaside."

"Oh."

Zi Yan was clearly not in the mood.

When she was unhappy, the medicinal herb stores were probably in trouble.

Lu Chuan reached a quiet mountaintop.

He sat cross-legged and began to cultivate.

Humm—

A low hum sounded. Dou Qi surged in from every direction and poured into his body. Soon, an enormous vortex of Dou Qi formed above him, swirling through the air.

Meanwhile, at Jia Nan Academy,

the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower had closed, and those cultivating in their rooms began to notice something wrong.

Why was the Dou Qi getting thinner?

In the end,