After exchanging names, Murong Qianqian asked Xiao Yan many questions with a curious expression. Xiao Yan answered most of them patiently. As for some questions concerning Xiao Yan Xiao Yan, he either brushed them off or simply skipped them.
After that, Xiao Yan focused his mind on refining the pills in the cauldron in front of him, while Murong Qianqian lay listlessly on the stone bed. Although she wanted to get up, she had no choice but to obediently lie back down when she thought of her injuries.
As time went by, the nearly one hundred kinds of medicinal herbs that were originally in the medicine cauldron in front of Xiao Yan were eventually all turned into various kinds of powders or viscous liquids. For Xiao Yan, refining medicinal herbs was a piece of cake, the only difference was that it took a lot of time.
After a week of continuous refinement, at a certain moment, Xiao Yan, who was sitting cross-legged on the Bluestone Platform, suddenly opened his tightly closed eyes. At the same time, Xiao Yan raised his arm and swung his sleeve, and with a bang, the lid of the medicine cauldron opened. Then, streams of light shot out from the cauldron and, under the control of Xiao Yan's Spiritual Strength, fell into the jade bottles that Xiao Yan had prepared in advance.
"Call..."
After finishing all this, Xiao Yan finally let out a long sigh of relief, stretched his body slightly from sitting for so long, and prepared to enter the next step of the medicine refining process.
However, at this moment, Murong Qianqian suddenly spoke to Xiao Yan, her timid voice carrying a hint of shyness.
"That... Xiao... Xiao Yan, I... I... I..."
She stammered for a long time, repeating "I" three times in a row, but in the end, Murong Qianqian still couldn't say a clear sentence. Instead, her fair and jade-like face was flushed.
Seeing the girl like this, Xiao Yan couldn't help but frown slightly. Turning to look at her, Xiao Yan furrowed his brows, a hint of suspicion on his face, and asked with a slightly impatient tone:
"What's wrong? Is there a problem now?"
During the few days that Xiao Yan was focused on refining medicinal herbs, the girl in front of him was unwilling to settle down and kept asking him countless questions. Xiao Yan Xiao Yan her and continued refining the herbs in the cauldron. However, seeing the girl like this, Xiao Yan couldn't help but feel a little curious.
"I... I want to..."
Murong Qianqian raised her big, bright eyes and looked at Xiao Yan with a blush on her face. The words that were on the tip of her tongue stopped her again.
"If there's nothing else, I'll continue refining the medicine. Don't disturb me anymore, unless you don't want to heal your injuries."
Seeing this, Xiao Yan felt a surge of irritation. He frowned, said a few words to Murong Qianqian, and then prepared to sit down again to continue refining pills.
I want to take a shower!
"Um?!"
However, just as Xiao Yan Xiao Yan around, the words spoken by the girl made him suddenly stop turning, and he was stunned for a moment.
A moment later, Xiao Yan turned around with a displeased expression, looked at Murong Qianqian Xiao Yan, his face slightly somber, and his voice also became somewhat heavy as he said:
"Little girl, listen to me carefully. I don't have time to argue with you here. Once I've finished refining the pills, you can go wherever you want and do whatever you want. If you want to take a bath, you can take it wherever you want, I won't stop you. But right now, don't be unreasonable with me, and don't even think about throwing your little princess act. Right now, here, I'm in charge!"
"Can..."
"Either you quietly wait to recover from your injuries, or you can just leave!"
Before the girl could finish speaking, Xiao Yan abruptly interrupted her, then turned away expressionlessly, sat cross-legged in front of the medicine cauldron, and prepared to begin the next step of pill refining.
Just as Xiao Yan sat down cross-legged, Murong Qianqian, who had regained some strength, appeared on the stone bed. Her beautiful, bright eyes were filled with a little mist, and a look of grievance appeared on her delicate and cute face.
Since entering the Xilin Mountain Range, she had been relentlessly pursued here, without even a chance to catch her breath. Now, half a month later, all she wanted was to take a bath, but she never expected to be treated so harshly by Xiao Yan.
A moment later, seeing Xiao Yan's indifferent expression focused on the medicine cauldron in front of him, Murong Qianqian felt a lump in her throat. Finally, Murong Qianqian gritted her teeth angrily, then forced herself to stand up, her face pale, and walked out of the cave.
As for Xiao Yan, he remained quietly seated before the medicine cauldron from beginning to end, his eyes closed and his expression unchanged.
Only after the girl left the cave and walked into the pitch-black night outside did Xiao Yan slowly open his tightly closed eyes. At the same time, the void beside Xiao Yan slightly distorted, and Gu You's figure slowly materialized. Looking at Xiao Yan, Gu You raised an eyebrow and said:
"Sigh... Kid, you're not really going to just let her go like that, are you? Judging by her current condition, she can't go very far."
Upon hearing this, Xiao Yan shook his head, turned to look at Gu You beside him, and said with a mocking expression:
"Don't you know whether I let her leave or not?"
Seeing this, Gu You chuckled and said no more. He turned and sat on the stone bed, ignoring Xiao Yan.
Xiao Yan withdrew his gaze and slowly closed his eyes. At this moment, as Xiao Yan probed with his Spiritual Strength, Murong Qianqian 'Xiao Yan delicate body appeared in his mind.
Xiao Yan Xiao Yan relatively relieved that Murong Qianqian had left the cave. Because of his habit, any cave he sought out was bound to be a place with mountains and water. Therefore, there was a pool of water outside this cave.
At this moment, Murong Qianqian was slowly walking towards the pool.
Dividing his mind into two, Xiao Yan reserved a sliver of his Spiritual Strength for Murong Qianqian. Then, Xiao Yan sat cross-legged and focused all his attention on the medicine cauldron before Xiao Yan. With a thought, the essence of various medicinal herbs was poured into the cauldron.
The alchemy continued, and Murong Qianqian, dragging her heavily injured body, stayed outside the cave until Xiao Yan finished refining the pills in the cauldron. This process took another month.