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Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!Chapter 59. (2/2)
He looked at her, and Gu Fan also looked at him. The surprise in her eyes quickly turned into understanding, his heartbeat quietly accelerated, and his long eyelashes drooped.
He turned off the flashlight. In the hazy vision, her face was white and bright; her lips were slightly open, moist, and attractive.
Lu Ya unconsciously moved closer to her.
Gu Fan felt it. She thought, in this wilderness, alone with a man and a woman, Lu Ya was lustful again. So what if they were S-level strongmen? People on Earth just have no self-control.
But she didn’t resist it. It was just that the strange throbbing made her a little flustered and out of control.
She had lived for a hundred years and had never had a love affair.
With a “dong,” the water droplets gathered above the cave could no longer bear the weight and fell into the water below. The crisp sound spread along the ripples, breaking the silence and the ambiguity lingering around the two.
Gu Fan was already in an unstable mood. She couldn’t help but raise her eyelids when she was disturbed by the sound.
The clear eyes made Lu Ya feel guilty as if to intimidate him, a mortal, and he shouldn’t mess up her path to immortality.
Lu Ya stood up.
Gu Fan also felt that this place and time were not suitable. As expected, Lu Ya was a strong man. After the impulse, self-control quickly defeated lust.
“Let’s go.” He calmed down and walked out first.
After leaving the cave, night had already fallen. Gu Fan looked at the time. It was almost eight o’clock. It took more than an hour to dig ginseng.
Lu Ya turned into the cold-looking young commander of the Lu family again. He asked, “Do you have any other herbs for refining bone-refining pills?”
Gu Fan: “Well, I picked a few in Fairy Peak before. I accidentally found some herbs when I came to you a while ago. I picked them all and cultivated them in large quantities when I returned to the base.”
Lu Ya: “Then rest here tonight. You refine the pill and I keep watch. We will set off again when it’s dawn.”
No matter how strong the cooperation between the two is, they can’t dare to travel at night rashly.
Gu Fan agreed, but a snow mountain layer was above the cave. She was afraid that the pill fire would affect the growth environment of the red ginseng, so the two flew back to the cave, where they rested at noon.
This time, Lu Ya was guarding the cave entrance, and he put on a cold-proof suit outside his armor.
Gu Fan took out the alchemy furnace and five medicinal materials needed to refine the bone-repairing pill.
This was her first attempt to refine a low-grade intermediate pill.
Gu Fan was calm and put aside all distractions. Even Lu Ya sitting opposite her and watching her would not have any impact.
The pill fire rose. Gu Fan strictly followed the recipe on the jade slip, controlled the temperature, and melted each medicinal material in order. Her consciousness was attached to the herbs inside, not missing a single change.
With a “bang,” the first pill failed to condense. Black smoke rose above the furnace, and the smell of medicine spread.
Lu Ya remembered Gu Fan’s instructions and was not allowed to disturb her no matter what happened.
He watched silently, watching Gu Fan staring at the smoking alchemy furnace as if no one was around.
After an unknown amount of time, Gu Fan started refining for the second time.
An hour later, the alchemy furnace emitted black smoke again.
Gu Fan had a frustrated look on her face, but she quickly adjusted herself, took out the jade slip, looked at it, and started again for the third time.
Lu Ya quietly looked at the communicator, and the numbers showed that Gu Fan persisted longer than the previous two times this time.
However, with a “bang,” the black smoke rose again.
Gu Fan was a little excited. She didn’t even condense the shape of the pill the previous two times, but this time, at least, it had a shape.
She was not a genius, and even those inferior pills were refined after days of hard training to improve the success rate.
For mediocre people, failure is normal, and success is a surprise.
Gu Fan has never had any ambitions. If it weren’t for the unexpected breakthrough in her cultivation after coming to Earth, she wouldn’t even dream of building a foundation, let alone hope for it.
The fourth time, Gu Fan persisted longer but failed at the last moment.
It was already half the night since she started refining the pill.
Refining the elixir was laborious, and with the burning fire, Gu Fan broke out in sweat without realizing it. Her hair was wet, and sweat was on her forehead.
Noticing her embarrassment, Gu Fan used the Dust Removal Technique first. Then it looked past the elixir furnace and at Lu Ya.
Lu Ya wanted to say something but was unsure if he could interrupt her now.
After staring at each other silently for a moment, Gu Fan took the initiative to say, “See, my talent is really ordinary.”
Without the elixir fire, only the snow outside cast a glimmer of light into the cave. Lu Ya could not see her face, but the scene of her refining the elixir was still imprinted in his mind, serious, focused, not arrogant, and persevering.
“Geniuses have their own paths, and ordinary people have their own paths. You don’t need to compare yourself with others. You just need to be yourself.”
Gu Fan savored it and suddenly became curious about one thing: “If another cultivator came through, with a higher cultivation level than me, better alchemy skills than me, prettier than me, and willing to selflessly contribute to the base, would you still see me?”
Lu Ya: “Yes.”
Gu Fan: “That’s a nice thing to say.”
Lu Ya: “If an S-level strongman from another base came to win you over, with higher strength than me, stronger personality charm than me, prettier than me, and able to guarantee your safety under any conditions, and not force you to contribute to the base, and even Xinghe and the others were willing to follow him, would you still stay in the Jiangnan base?”
Gu Fan: …
“I’m tired, take a rest, don’t disturb me.”
Gu Fan took the mat and fell to sleep.
Lu Ya sneered, glanced at her, put out his big modern bed, and walked towards Gu Fan.
Gu Fan withdrew her consciousness and closed her eyes.
Lu Ya bent down and held her horizontally.
Gu Fan: “What are you doing?”
Lu Ya: “The ground is cold, go to bed.”
Gu Fan: “I’m not afraid of the cold.”
Lu Ya: “The bed is comfortable.”
Gu Fan: “…”
The next second, Lu Ya threw her on the bed and turned to sit at the cave entrance.