Chapter 34 Chapter 34 The man who pursues failure is the most...
"So you just chased Wu Jie away like that?"
"...Isn't that a bit inhumane?"
"It has nothing to do with you. He is the one who is obsessed with you. Since gentle persuasion doesn't work, why not use violence?"
The bronze mirror was propped up on the table. In the picture, a man in black was sitting on the bare gravel ground. The mountains in the distance were covered with snow and the cold wind was bleak.
"Don't worry about it. If he goes to complain to the teacher, you can go too. Who is afraid of who?" Gu Jingyun comforted.
"Okay..." Jiang Yan responded.
In the bedroom, the crucible next to the desk was bubbling with steam.
The table had been cleared, and on it were tools for making potions—a silver knife, a wooden chopping board, a scale for weighing, several measuring cylinders, and various processed or unprocessed herbs...
Jiang Yan was cutting the rhizomes of Feishuangxian leaves and grinding them into powder. While pounding the medicine, he responded to Gu Jingyun's words without even looking up.
He said tactfully, "I think this is just a quarrel between the two of us. There is no need to report it to the teacher. Besides, reporting it is too childish. Senior Brother Wu is a face-conscious person, so he probably won't go."
Gu Jingyun raised his eyebrows: "That's hard to say."
He openly showed Jiang Yan his pettiness and fussiness, and boldly expressed his conspiracy theory:
"Ayan, be careful that he is slandering you behind your back. Men who have failed in their pursuits are the most narrow-minded. You have to be careful."
"Pursue?"
Jiang Yan stopped what he was doing in a daze and looked up at the bronze mirror facing him.
"When did Senior Brother Wu Jie pursue me?"
Jiang Yan and Gu Jingyun looked at each other.
"He's courting you in various ways every day, always trying to stick to you and even waiting for you on your way home from get out of class. If that's not pursuit, then what is it?" Gu Jingyun asked back.
"..." Jiang Yan smiled awkwardly, "I, I thought--"
"?"
"I thought he was just bored and wanted to cause trouble," Jiang Yan said frankly.
Gu Jingyun almost laughed out loud.
Poor Wu Jie, he still doesn't know what impression Jiang Yan makes of him, that he is a troublemaker.
But when I think about it...
If he had not met Jiang Yan by chance in the forest and taken him home when he was injured, the two of them would have become friends from then on.
I'm afraid that at this moment, he and Wu Jie are treated exactly the same.
Gu Jingyun couldn't laugh anymore.
Several months passed, and the Chinese New Year was almost approaching, but he still hadn't caught up with the girl.
The relationship between the two was maintained at the level of "good friends" who occasionally communicated with each other through bronze mirrors and sound transmission notes. If it weren't for the bronze mirror that allowed them to see each other, they would be no different from pen pals.
Seeing that the potion was about to reach the most critical moment, Jiang Yan had no time to talk to Gu Jingyun.
He poured the powdered Frost Fairy Leaves into the crucible, took out his wand, slowly and evenly injected magic power, and stirred it clockwise for two and a half turns.
The bubbles coming out of the crucible grew larger and more numerous in an instant, and the liquid in the pot boiled and began to change color as it churned.
Seeing that it was about to boil completely, Jiang Yan seized the opportunity, quickly took the silver bowl beside him, and poured the purple spirit dew in it into the pot.
In an instant, the medicine in the crucible made a slight "bang" sound, and white smoke rushed towards him.
Jiang Yan was well prepared. He covered his mouth and nose to avoid inhaling gas, and quickly stirred the potion with his magic wand.
Jiang Yan did not draw out his wand until the white smoke slowly dissipated and the speed at which bubbles emerged from the surface of the potion became stable.
He grabbed a handkerchief beside him and wiped the wet wand dry, then pointed the tip of the wand at the bottom of the crucible and turned down the flame on the rack.
The potion in the crucible changed from a plain brown color to a fluorescent purple and blue color, which was very strange.
"……call."
Jiang Yan wiped the sweat from his forehead with the back of his hand, looked at the pot of potion with an overly strange color, and couldn't help but smile with joy.
"Just boil it for another eighteen hours, and it will be successful!"
Gu Jingyun, who watched the whole process: "…………"
He hesitated to speak.
It might as well be brown and black, at least it looks like the medicine made by doctors using various herbs.
But now...
Is A-Yan really refining medicine? Is this probably poison?
Good medicine tastes bitter, but Jiang Yan’s medicine seems to be not only bitter, but also tests the psychological quality of the person taking it.
Gu Jingyun carefully considered his words and asked, "Ayan, what kind of medicine are you making?"
"This is a new assignment I have researched and am going to submit to Taoist Wuyun." Jiang Yan explained.
Taoist Wuyun is their teacher of alchemy class and is quite knowledgeable about alchemy.
After teaching pharmacology and alchemy for a period of time, he assigned a task to his students, requiring them to successfully refine an elixir within a month.
The day after tomorrow was the deadline for submitting the homework. Fortunately, Jiang Yan completed the task in time.
"I got an idea while listening to Taoist Wuyun's lecture. This is a new magic potion that I developed by combining the potion formula from my hometown with the local magic herbs - Feishuang Fairy Leaf and Purple Spirit Dew."
Jiang Yan introduced enthusiastically: "These two kinds of spiritual herbs have the effect of calming the mind and concentrating the spirit. When combined with the inspiration potion, the effect is doubled!"
"I named it Mingxin Pill. After taking it, you can enter a state of meditation and practice, which can enlighten your mind and increase your martial arts inspiration, achieving the effect of twice the result with half the effort."
"...But, A'yan, it's a medicine, not a pill." Gu Jingyun hesitated and said, "What Taoist Wuyun asked us to hand over is a pill, right?"
"That's not difficult."
Jiang Yan said calmly: "I'll go to the kitchen and get some flour, mix it with the medicine, roll it into small balls and hand it over."
Gu Jingyun: "..."
Gu Jingyun really wanted to complain.
"Will you really not be scolded by Taoist Wu Yun if you do this?"
"Don't be too rigid in doing things." Jiang Yan actually taught Gu Jingyun a lesson, saying confidently: "I have researched a new elixir. Innovative things are always at the forefront of the public!"
Flour dumplings are so cutting-edge.
But after thinking about it, it is better to hand in a dough ball made from real ingredients than a colorful soup.
Otherwise, Taoist Wuyun would probably think that Jiang Yan was making poison and would not even dare to try it. Jiang Yan might really face the crisis of getting low scores and failing the exam.
It was approaching winter and the temperature had dropped sharply, but Gu Jingyun in the mirror still looked unafraid of the cold and was wearing the same clothes as before.
Jiang Yan looked at him for a long time and couldn't help asking, "Jing Yun, aren't you cold?"
Gu Jingyun said "Hmm?" in slight confusion, then shook his head.
"No. I have strong blood and energy, so I don't feel cold."
Gu Jingyun asked with concern: "Ayan, it is you who should pay attention to keeping warm. Is your cold better now?"
"Well, I took two doses of medicine and I'm fine now."
Jiang Yan rubbed his nose embarrassedly.
Whenever the temperature changed, Gu Jingyun would send him messages to remind him to add or take off clothes, and he would also often care about his food, clothing, housing and transportation.
Jiang Yan asked him how he could accurately learn about climate changes from thousands of miles away. Gu Jingyun simply said that he was worried about Jiang Yan being alone outside, so he arranged for his subordinates to move into Anshui Town.
He was not a disciple of the Sword Sect, but a subordinate of the Yuyuan Chamber of Commerce run by Gu Jingyun himself.
When the seasons changed, Jiang Yan also received new clothes and boots from the Yuyuan Chamber of Commerce. They were all fashionable styles and were all selected by Gu Jingyun himself.
From elegance to luxury, from moon white to azure blue, they have it all.
Everyone in the sect thought that he had gone down the mountain to buy the things himself.
He Huan Zhenren specially looked through it and was very pleased with Jiang Yan's fashion sense. He exclaimed: "Yan'er has been successfully influenced by the He Huan Sect. He finally no longer wears black, gray and white!"
Jiang Yan didn't dare to say that Gu Jingyun once held up a bronze mirror and asked him which one he liked better, the lake blue or the peacock blue robe.
He weakly replied: "They are all blue, what's the difference?"
The other party was silent for a long time. When he realized that something was wrong and wanted to make amends, Gu Jingyun interrupted him in time: "Okay, no need to say more."
From then on, Gu Jingyun never made things difficult for Jiang Yan again. Instead, he would match the clothes and send them directly to him.
Jiang Yan was not used to it at first and refused several times, but Gu Jingyun always found a way to make him accept it.
Jiang Yan had a hunch that Gu Jingyun seemed to understand him better than he did, otherwise how could he grasp his psychology, put on the most innocent expression, and give reasons that he could not refuse when he repeatedly wanted to say "no".
Later, he gradually adapted and got used to having Gu Jingyun take care of these things for him.
But there are always unexpected things happening.
Some time ago, the weather suddenly changed and the temperature dropped drastically. Gu Jingyun happened to be in meditation and practicing, concentrating on consolidating his cultivation, and did not receive any emergency communication from his subordinates about the "temperature change".
Jiang Yan continued to practice sword-fighting every morning as usual. After finishing, the thin layer of sweat would quickly dry up when blown by the wind.
I didn't pay much attention to it at the time, and I never thought that I would start sneezing the next day.
After Gu Jingyun came out of confinement, he realized something was wrong and immediately contacted Jiang Yan.
Wait for the two people's double-sided mirrors to link successfully.
As expected, Jiang Yan had caught a cold and was drinking medicine with his head tilted back.
Gu Jingyun's request for communication came suddenly. Jiang Yan was taking medicine at the time and was used to answering Gu Jingyun's calls. He subconsciously input his spiritual power directly into the two-sided mirror.
It wasn't until the two-way link was established that he realized that he had taken the medicine secretly because he wanted to not tell Gu Jingyun.
We are all adults, and we still catch colds because we don't pay attention to the temperature difference...
It's really embarrassing.
Jiang Yan still feels very concerned when recalling the embarrassment he faced at that time.
"I actually embarrassed myself in front of you." Jiang Yan was secretly annoyed.
Gu Jingyun: "I don't think there's anything wrong. It's actually a good thing to see you take the medicine consciously."
"Good thing?"
"If you were sick, I would only worry about you and would never do anything ridiculous." Gu Jingyun said, "You need to take medicine when you are sick. Isn't it a good thing that you are healthy?"
"...Oh." Jiang Yan responded slowly: "It seems to make some sense."
The young man's wandering gaze collided with Gu Jingyun's, and Jiang Yan was slightly startled by the man's genuine emotion.
"!"
Jiang Yan quickly looked away, coughed lightly, and said, "Anyway, after I reach the Golden Core stage, my body won't be as weak as it is now."
"Are you going to advance?" Gu Jingyun asked, "Do you have someone to protect you? Do you need me to rush to Xizhou?"
Jiang Yan shook his head slightly: "Master will be watching over you."
And this is not the first time he has advanced to the Golden Core stage.
Before he could harmonize his spiritual power and magic power, he could endure the severe pain of the fight between the two and advance with a clear mind.
This time with the Hehuan technique, advancement is just a natural thing.
If the Mingxin Pill had not been successfully researched and the work had not been completed, he would have been ready to advance long ago.
Jiang Yan refused, so Gu Jingyun did not insist.
Although the Hehuan Sect is small, it is home to many talents, and the instructors there are definitely not ordinary people. There will be no problems in protecting a foundation-building cultivator.
although……
If Jiang Yan needed him, Gu Jingyun would not refuse. He would immediately rush to Xizhou as quickly as possible.
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