Chapter 66
The bright morning light poured into the valley. Xinghe and the other three came to the foot of the cliff where Gu Fan's cave was located, and prepared to say goodbye to her before leaving.
Lu Ya activated his flying boots and landed.
Meng Lianying: "Where's Fanfan?"
Lu Ya's expression was as blank as ever: "She seemed to have some realization last night. She might need to go into seclusion for a few days."
Meng Lianying: ...
Fenghuo: "This is a good thing. Didn't Fanfan say before that if a cultivator has a sudden enlightenment, the effect is better than meditating for several years? Let her go into seclusion, and we'll go."
Xinghe nodded to Lu Ya and left with his companions.
Lu Ya watched the four people fly around a forest before flying back to the cave.
Gu Fan was still lying on the bed, maintaining the state she had just entered into cultivation. Lu Ya was afraid that his movements would wake her up, so he simply lowered the gauze curtain to cover her sleeping figure on the bed.
The deep mountains and old forests were quiet everywhere. Lu Ya sat on the sofa outside, looked up, and saw the lonely pot of flowers.
Gu Fan slept for half a month.
Lu Ya stayed outside to guard her for half a month.
But Gu Fan was unaware of the time. She absorbed all the Yuan Yang storm that Lu Ya sent her in just one night. She spent the rest of the time consolidating her realm, because it could be consolidated immediately after her cultivation level was improved, so it did not take longer.
When Gu Fan opened her eyes, there was an unconscious smile on the corner of her mouth.
Fifth level. After practicing "dual cultivation" with Lu Ya once, her cultivation level actually increased by five levels. Now she has reached the sixth level of the Foundation Establishment Stage.
Gu Fan had previously compared the attack power of an S-level psychic to that of a Jindan-stage cultivator. He hadn't expected Lu Ya's yang energy to be replenished in this way. With such a replenishing effect, it's no wonder some scum in the cultivation world specifically capture unskilled cultivators or even ordinary people to harvest their essence. A single night's sleep can equate to a few years of cultivation, a truly incredible feat.
However, it is almost useless for high-level cultivators to absorb the energy of low-level cultivators, and it is very risky to capture those with higher cultivation levels, so only a few people choose this evil method of absorption.
When she withdrew her consciousness from her dantian, Gu Fan suddenly discovered that she was still naked. Because her cultivation had greatly improved, the spiritual energy had refined out some impurities in her.
Gu Fan quickly used a dust removal technique to clean the entire cave.
Lu Ya realized that she was awake, so he waited a little longer before heading towards the training room.
Gu Fan happened to walk to the door, and when Lu Ya lifted the curtain, the two of them bumped into each other.
Gu Fan blushed slightly and subconsciously avoided his deep eyes.
"How does it feel?" Lu Ya took her hand and squeezed it.
Gu Fan looked at the two people's hands clasped together, unable to hide his joy: "The sixth level of the Foundation Establishment Stage."
Lu Ya smiled knowing that he could help her so much. He pressed her into his arms and whispered in her ear, "I'm not asking about cultivation."
If it’s not cultivation, then what else does it feel like?
The rise and fall of the wind and waves and the interlaced breathing before entering into meditation appeared in his mind. Gu Fan quickly killed the thought and said deliberately: "I don't understand what you are talking about."
Unexpectedly, this sentence caused trouble. Lu Ya suddenly picked her up and brought her back to bed again.
Lu Ya wanted to help her practice, but he didn't want her to be only focused on practice at that moment. He wanted her to have him in her eyes and to still have him afterwards, rather than her consciousness being immersed in practice before their bodies were separated.
The first time’s energy cannot be wasted, and the subsequent effects are average, so it doesn’t matter whether it is wasted or not.
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Gu Fan fell asleep for the first time in his life.
His spiritual power was full and his mind was nourished, but because he had no strength and was too lazy, he fell asleep in the comfort of the hot spring.
When he woke up again, it was already early morning of the next day. The sky was just getting light. Lu Ya carefully got out of bed and went outside.
Gu Fan has already practiced fasting, but Lu Ya has not, and he still has to solve some physiological problems.
Still feeling lazy, Gu Fan just lay on the bed, recalling some scenes that were not suitable for children. With a sudden thought, she glanced at the storage jade bracelet on her wrist, and the black ring flew into her hand.
There may be good things in the ring, or there may not be. Gu Fan’s previous attempts to erase the spiritual barrier of his unlucky fellow disciple were all ineffective. The mere act of opening the ring made Gu Fan excited.
She probed into her spiritual consciousness again.
The invisible barrier still tried to stop her, but this time, Gu Fan easily broke the barrier.
Inside the ring is another layer of space.
What disappointed Gu Fan was that the space was not big. Her storage ring could hold a football field, while this ring could hold five or six football fields at most. The space difference was not that big.
Unless they are high-level cultivators who regard spirit stones as dirt, most low-level cultivators will stockpile spirit stones. This space is no exception. There are several small hills of spirit stones piled up, which are divided into three categories according to the three grades of spirit stones: high, medium and low. Each category is further divided into five small piles according to the five elements of spirit stones. There are not many of the most precious high-grade spirit stones among them.
Such a family background should be considered relatively shabby among the Foundation Establishment Stage disciples. This also confirmed Gu Fan's initial guess that the other party was still using the standard flying sword issued by the sect to the Foundation Establishment Stage disciples when the sect encountered a disaster and was in a hurry to escape. This shows that he was either a low-level Foundation Establishment Stage disciple who had just established the foundation for a long time but did not have much family background due to his low aptitude.
But no matter what, the other party's family background is definitely richer than Gu Fan who is in the Qi Refining Stage.
Spiritual stones are just the most obvious form of wealth. Perhaps the other party has been constantly exchanging spiritual stones for other good things.
As an alchemist, Gu Fan first went to look through the other party's medicine inventory.
There is a note of the elixir's name at the bottom of each medicine bottle. This fellow disciple obviously values his life very much, perhaps because he needs to go out on missions frequently, so he has stockpiled a large number of healing elixirs, such as flesh-growing and blood-replenishing elixirs, bone-renewing elixirs, and life-renewing elixirs that are directly for the body and hair. There are hundreds of each kind, and there are also elixirs for removing toxins, detoxifying, breaking illusions, and other auxiliary training.
Just these pills can be exchanged for so many spirit stones that they are almost equivalent to the liquid assets of the people on Earth.
His spiritual sense gradually scanned over these pills, and the quality was basically low- and medium-level among the inferior pills. Suddenly, Gu Fan found a brocade box made of precious wood.
The other pills are placed in ordinary classification boxes, only this box is special.
Inside the brocade box was a bottle of green marrow cleansing pill and a letter.
Gu Fan took out the letter and read it.
It turned out that this unfortunate fellow disciple came from a small family of immortal cultivators. He was able to build a foundation and was already a favored child of the family. So, at the request of the family elders, he bought five marrow cleansing pills from the sect and sent them back to the family to be used to train future disciples.
Unfortunately, before the gift was returned, something happened to this fellow disciple.
Gu Fan was in need of the Marrow Cleansing Pill. If he didn't know the identity of this fellow disciple, he could have taken everything here for himself with peace of mind. However, since they were fellow disciples and he knew where the other person came from, Gu Fan couldn't take the other person's good things for free.
If she could return to the cultivation continent, she would definitely find this fellow family and provide some help.
She is already an alchemist at the sixth level of the Foundation Establishment Stage. If you give her the medicinal materials, she can make as many Marrow Cleansing Pills as she wants.
In addition to elixirs, the ring also contains some magic weapons, spiritual tablets, and corpses of monsters that can be sold for money.
The magic weapons are very ordinary, which is better than nothing for Gu Fan who is on Earth. Gu Fan hopes to find a skill suitable for her in the spiritual tablet.
Unfortunately, this fellow disciple has three spiritual roots, one of which is strong and the other two are weak. In order to ensure the speed of cultivation, he only cultivates the strongest earth spiritual root, and the exercises and spells he cultivates are all pure earth-based.
Although the martial arts skills are useless, you can learn the earth-based techniques.
She took a quick look and saw Lu Ya coming back, looking handsome and refreshed.
Gu Fan put on his clothes and sat up.
"What is this?" Lu Ya noticed the black ring in her hand and a bottle of pills.
Gu Fan briefly explained the origin of the black ring, then took out a Marrow Cleansing Pill and said to him, "The Marrow Cleansing Pill can improve the quality of your spiritual roots. I don't know whether it will be useful for your crystal cores, but even if it is not, the pill will not harm you. At least it can guarantee a few decades of longevity."
As life span is extended, the effect of maintaining youthfulness is also achieved. For example, ordinary people start to look particularly old when they reach the age of 40, and people with special abilities start to look old when they are 60. After taking the marrow cleansing pill, they may look like an ordinary 40-year-old at the age of 80.
Lu Ya took the Marrow Cleansing Pill, looked at it, and did not take it immediately. Instead, he returned the Marrow Cleansing Pill to Gu Fan and said with lowered eyes, "You can let one of Feng Huo and the others try it. If the Marrow Cleansing Pill can turn an A-level expert into an S-level expert, then you can keep the remaining four. If needed in the future, you can cultivate an S-level... Taoist companion."
Even if he took the marrow cleansing pill, it would only extend his life by a few decades at most, and he wouldn't be able to stay with her for long.
The Yuan Yang of an S-level strongman is so useful. After he leaves, she can find a few more Taoist partners and perhaps she will be able to form a golden elixir.
Gu Fan never thought that Lu Ya would say such a thing.
She said nothing, but suddenly pinched Lu Ya's chin and stuffed the marrow cleansing pill into his mouth.
Lu Ya looked at her in astonishment and subconsciously wanted to push out the marrow cleansing pill, but the pill melted in his mouth.
Gu Fan pushed him away in disgust, pointing to the ground and said, "The Marrow Cleansing Pill will expel the accumulated dirt from your body. Go sit over there and don't dirty my bed."
Lu Ya wanted to say something, but when he met her clear eyes that contained hidden anger, he swallowed his words back.
The spiritual liquid transformed from the elixir brought a warmth wherever it flowed through. Lu Ya walked away a few steps, looked at Gu Fan again, and unnaturally imitated Gu Fan's meditation posture and sat on the ground.
Gu Fan was originally quite angry, but when he saw him meditating so seriously, he couldn't help but laugh.
Lu Ya closed his eyes, and a slight blush appeared on his handsome face, not knowing whether it was because the medicine started to take effect or because of something else.
Such a handsome Taoist partner, Gu Fan looked at him silently and was no longer angry.
Ultimately, he was thinking about her.
It's just that she doesn't need it.
Even if she could form a pill and live for a thousand years, she would only meet one Lu Ya during these thousands of years.
Some emotions are intense but may not last long, while some emotions seem restrained and peaceful but remain fresh over time.
If Lu Ya reached the end of his life, Gu Fan would stay by his side, letting him take one last look at her, and from then on he would only cultivate his mind and seek the truth.
But as long as Lu Ya is alive, as long as Lu Ya still wants to be her Taoist partner, Gu Fan will not leave.
As his mind turned, a gray-black color appeared on Lu Ya's body surface.
He cared so much about his reputation that Gu Fan no longer looked at his appearance and only put his spiritual consciousness into his body.
The medicinal power of the marrow cleansing pill gradually improved his physical condition and tempered his bones, flesh and tendons, but a large amount of the medicinal power was concentrated around the crystal core in Lu Ya's mind.
The crystal core of the gold-type mutant is golden and small, and even Gu Fan’s spiritual sense cannot penetrate the inside of the crystal core.
No matter how the medicine soaked in, the golden crystal core remained unchanged.
The medicine was effective and could not change the crystal core, so it left automatically and was all used to improve Lu Ya's physique.
Gu Fan was a little disappointed, but he could understand it.
The marrow cleansing pill is specially refined by cultivators for spiritual roots. Without spiritual roots, the most critical medicinal effect will naturally not be exerted. For example, if an earthling takes cold medicine to treat stomach problems, it will of course be useless.
Lu Ya’s fighting ability is already strong enough, she shouldn’t be greedy.
Time passed little by little, and by noon, the effect of the medicine was finally completely absorbed by Lu Ya.
Lu Ya seemed to sense something as well, and his eyelashes moved slightly.
Gu Fan quickly used a dust removal technique on him to avoid embarrassment. He just looked like a little black man.
However, after the dust removal technique was performed, Lu Ya, whose face was revealed again, looked younger.
Gu Fan breathed a sigh of relief. The crystal core had not changed, and its effects of prolonging life and preserving youth were working very well. Otherwise, it would seem like she was fooling him with fake medicine.
Under Lu Ya's gaze, Gu Fan took out a mirror and said with a smile: "Congratulations, you look about the same age as Lian Ying now."
From a 28-year-old cousin, he has returned to his 20s.
Lu Ya glanced in the mirror and immediately looked away, as if he didn't mind the subtle change in his appearance.
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