Their trip to the hospital had delayed them, leaving no time to buy groceries and cook, so they each had a bowl of beef noodles out before going home.
Once home, they both forgot that they had apparently been learning to play a game before going to the hospital. Chu Ge dutifully went to write, while Qiu Wuji unlocked the apartment across the hall and went to refine pills.
Clearly, Qiu Wuji had yet to grasp the fun of gaming at all. Apart from remembering that Bristleback looked a lot like Chu Ge, she had long since forgotten everything else, as if it had vanished into the Nine Heavens.
Several days had passed, and they had nearly finished the batches of pills Little Flame had refined earlier. This mattered more...
As Chu Ge's cultivation improved over these days, the quality of the things he could bring out had gradually risen a tiny bit, allowing them to refine slightly higher-grade pills.
Qiu Wuji chose a new pill that was relatively difficult to refine, called the Three Souls and Five Aggregates Pill. This was a pill used only at the Golden Core stage. Its main purpose was to help Golden Core cultivators practicing Soul Tempering unite their bodies and souls, so tricks that pursued and seized souls could not easily separate the two. Its effects resembled those of conventional Soul Tempering pills that solidified the Soul Sea, but were not entirely the same.
If one broke the Immortal Dao down into its finer distinctions, there were still plenty of intricacies... Chu Ge could not learn them all for now. In any case, having Qiu Wuji oversee things was enough.
She had also chosen this pill because of the method of killing through chess they had learned about today. In Qiu Wuji's understanding,