"I want the Spirit-Nourishing Grass."

What do you need this for?

"Never mind that, just tell me if it's here or not?"

A hint of embarrassment flashed across Fan's face, and he answered softly, "No."

"Microcosmic flowers will also work!"

"No!"

"Where is the Soul Fruit?"

Brahma: ...

Fang Ruotang frowned, her fair face crumbling, and looked at Fan with a reproachful expression.

"No, you have nothing, so why are you spouting nonsense to me!"

Fan explained helplessly, "I didn't know you wanted these! Why don't you ask for something else, and I'm sure I'll have it."

Fang Ruotang tilted her head, looking at Fan with a suspicious expression.

I'm trusting you one last time!

"Okay! You trust me!"

"Golden Branches and Sweet Dew".

Fan's eyes flickered, and this time he didn't dare to meet Fang Ruotang's gaze.

Fang Ruotang's cheeks puffed up with anger.

"What's wrong with you! You give me hope, then disappoint me. I had such high expectations, thinking you would give me some unexpected surprises, but there was nothing at all."

Brahma feels bitter in his heart.

“These… I don’t have them where I’m from.”

"Alright! Just tell me, what do you have?"

Fang Ruotang thought for a moment and added a sentence.

"I'm not picky, as long as it works! After all, there's a group of useless novices in my sect, so they have to use even the most ordinary things."

Fan sensed something and suddenly said, "I know a place with a patch of spiritual herbs, which is the main ingredient for making Qi Gathering Pills. Shall we go and gather some?"

"Great! There's a high demand for Qi Gathering Pills. They're useful whether sect disciples use them or sell them. There really is a huge pile of them here!"

Fang Ruotang requested that Gu Yanjin and six others tutor her in alchemy.

However, she herself took a shortcut, but she couldn't resist her good memory. When the six of them were studying, she would glance at the material, and thus remember more and understand more.

"Yes, let's go!"

Fan made a gesture of invitation. Fang Ruotang walked in front, then suddenly looked back and saw Fan turn the gesture back.

The moment I met her gaze, I felt a little guilty.

"What are you doing?"

"No, I'm just moving my wrists around."

Fang Ruotang looked Fan up and down, guessing that He might not be able to remain in human form for long. She also wanted to see His true form, so she said, "It's alright. We're all fellow Daoists now. Do whatever makes you comfortable."

"Okay, thank you, fellow Daoist."

Fan's smile showed a hint of being flattered. Even though it was just a short distance, he rushed over to Fang Ruotang as if he were in a hurry.

Fang Ruotang tilted her head and looked at Fan. After waiting for a while, she was a little disappointed to see that he still hadn't transformed. She hadn't seen his true form, and he hadn't revealed his identity either.

As the two took another step forward, Gu Nancheng's urgent voice echoed in their minds.

【Little Ruoruo, where are you? How did you suddenly disappear?】

Having just seen the larger image, he realized he was closest to Fang Ruotang. He immediately rushed towards her, not even bothering to speak to her in his mind's eye.

He had clearly arrived, but in the blink of an eye, Fang Ruotang disappeared. If the surrounding trees hadn't remained unchanged, he would have thought he had been teleported away.

"What do you mean, 'disappeared'? I've been here the whole time! I'm on my way to gather spirit herbs, and I didn't see you just now!"

As Fang Ruotang replied, her eyes darted around.

There was only one road here, with towering trees on both sides whose names she didn't know. When she looked up, she couldn't see the tops of the trees, as if they had grown into the clouds.

"What's wrong?" Fan noticed Fang Ruotang's expression and his eyes flickered.

Fang Ruotang shook her head, "It's nothing!"

Upon arriving in the Cloud Deep Continent, she hadn't told anyone else about her special way of communicating with Gu Nancheng and the others, let alone Fan, whom she had just met.

"It's alright, let's keep going!"

"Okay!"

Fang Ruotang was multitasking; while following Fan, she was also responding to Gu Nancheng in her mind.

But she didn't know that after she walked away, the road behind her immediately twisted and changed, to the point that if she looked back, she would be utterly astonished.

【I really didn't see you. Are you sure you're not mistaken?】

Fang Ruotang asked the small mirror to display the larger image again, to which she replied with a helpless expression.

Look again, you're so far away from me!

Gu Nancheng's expression froze.

"Impossible! I was already right in front of you. Is there something strange about this secret realm? Could it be some kind of realm within a realm?"

Gu Nancheng admitted that, apart from the initial time when he first met Fang Ruotang and didn't believe he would fall in love with her and didn't take it seriously, once he really fell in love, his attention to her was no less than anyone else's.

So it's absolutely impossible that he was blind and misjudged the distance between the two. The only possibility is that the terrain changed again.

Gu Nancheng's guess.

Fang Ruotang asked, somewhat surprised.

So you mean this tomb is alive? My goodness! This is getting more and more terrifying. First, you said it was my tomb, and now you're saying it's alive. Could it be another version of myself who will eventually come back to life and fight me for three hundred rounds?

【What did you say? 】

[Your grave?]

The six people's shouts cracked.

Fang Ruotang, on the contrary, acted as if nothing had happened. She leisurely broke off a small twig, swung it around in her hand, and answered casually.

"Yeah, Little Mirror just told me. If I had known this was my grave, I definitely wouldn't have led people into the secret realm. What kind of mess is this? I've led people to dig up my own grave."

As Fang Ruotang spoke, she laughed, a faint chuckle escaping her lips.

Fan, who was also multitasking, immediately looked at her.

"What's wrong? Are you happy?"

"I'm so happy, of course I'm so happy! I met you as soon as I arrived in the secret realm, and you're so kind. You found the spiritual herbs yourself and were willing to take me with you to dig them up. I'm overjoyed."

Fan smiled subtly, "...I'm very happy too."

"Oh, whatever makes you happy." Fang Ruotang replied dismissively, not caring about Fan's feelings, because in her mind's eye there were hundreds of ducks having a meeting.

If the six of them hadn't been left with no other choice, they would have already grabbed Xiao Jingzi by the neck and started questioning her.

What happened? How did this become Xiao Liu's grave?

【I didn't know beforehand! I only just discovered it myself. And why are you in such a hurry? There are countless graves like this for adults, big and small. Didn't you build one for her too?】

Since Gu Nancheng and the others had no memory of what happened before, they could only let the little mirror talk nonsense. They all really wished they could just kill him outright.

Gu Jinyan gritted his teeth and spoke through gritted teeth.

[Next time this happens, please let us know as soon as possible, okay?]