After Zhuifeng's seventh "beating dragon", Li Shiyin and Long Qiqi finally came back. The two girls were away for about forty days, going out when spring was in the air and returning when early summer was just beginning.
At that time, Qin Ran was applying medicine to Zhui Feng under the old locust tree when he suddenly heard a clear and loud shout: "Master! We are back!!"
He looked up at the familiar voice and saw a girl in a white dress flying towards him in the colorful sunset glow. She opened her arms and before he could react, she grabbed him from the air and held him in her arms.
She jumped down while standing, and he was squatting to be held. In the girl's soft and fragrant, yet passionate embrace, Qin Ran's nose and lips were between her neck, he could smell the girl's fragrance, see her snow-white skin, and pale blue veins. He felt that he was being held very tightly, so tightly that he couldn't breathe... Fortunately, he didn't need to breathe.
After a long while, when the girl's excitement had subsided, he called out softly, "Shiyin?"
"Hmm?" Li Shiyin responded with a sweet nasal tone, but did not let go.
Qin Ran had no choice but to let her continue to hold him.
But at this moment, Zhuifeng suddenly cried out in pain: "Li Shiyin! It hurts! It hurts, it hurts!!"
Li Shiyin finally came back to her senses, looked down, and found that she was stepping on Zhuifeng.
She stuck out her tongue embarrassedly, then let go of Qin Ran, put her hands on Qin Ran's shoulders, and jumped off Zhuifeng.
"Wow! Stupid Tiger, what happened to you? Why were you beaten so badly?" She only noticed Zhuifeng's miserable condition at this time and asked in surprise, "I was away from home for a few days, and you were bullied like this?"
"Hehe! I'm not being bullied!" Zhuifeng refused to admit it. He only said, "I was practicing martial arts with my big brother."
"Big brother?" Li Shiyin looked down on him even more. "How can you be so useless? And you still acknowledge me as your big brother?!"
Zhuifeng was a little embarrassed, but fortunately as a tiger, he was thick-skinned enough, so he said, "My eldest brother is a dragon, very powerful."
"Dragon?" Li Shiyin became interested. "Is it the kind that can grow big or small, ride on clouds and mist, and make clouds and rain, with great magical powers, a snake body, fish scales, tiger paws, eagle claws, cow ears, deer horns, and shining gold?"
"What are you talking about? I don't understand." Zhuifeng asked in confusion.
"Oh, it's the clothes the emperor wears that have dragon patterns on them! They're shining with golden light and look very majestic!" Li Shiyin added.
"No..." Zhuifeng shook his head. He remembered that his boss was a dark dragon, and suddenly felt very embarrassed.
"Then what dragon are you talking about?" Li Shiyin curled her lips.
Zhuifeng closed his eyes and pretended to be dead, not saying a word.
"There is a dragon in Daojianmen's mountain protection formation." Qin Ran saw this and explained to Li Shiyin, "Zhuifeng has been playing with him these days."
"Jiaolong?" Li Shiyin murmured, "Although not as handsome as a dragon, it's still okay."
"Have you ever seen a dragon?" Zhuifeng suddenly came back to life.
"There is a dragon pattern on the Eighth Prince's clothes..."
Li Shiyin had been here for so long, but Qin Ran hadn't seen Long Qiqi yet. He couldn't help but think of something bad happening, so he asked, "Where's Qiqi?"
"I left her behind after entering the mountain gate..." Li Shiyin then remembered Long Qiqi and felt embarrassed, "I missed my master!"
She grabbed Qin Ran's shoulders again and shook him gently.
Qin Ran looked at her helplessly, shook his head, and could not scold her. He just said, "How could you leave her behind?"
"Qiqi has learned how to control the wind, but she is not yet proficient. She needs to practice more..."
Li Shiyin came back in the sunset, and Long Qiqi came back in the dark. A little girl of six or seven years old, unfamiliar with the wind, flew in the air, swaying. It was really heartbreaking to see and to cry to hear.
Especially, when she passed through the Danfeng Mountain Protection Formation, she saw Qin Ran, Li Shiyin and Zhuifeng happily eating hot pot on the lawn...
It’s really too much!!!
Her wind-controlling skills instantly improved by several levels. She rushed over angrily and ate three large bowls of food!
"You've been gone for over a month. What kind of alchemy fire did you get?" After dinner and cleaning up, the group looked at the stars on the lawn. Qin Ran asked Long Qiqi.
Long Qiqi lay on the soft body of Zhuifeng. She looked up at the sky and said, "Netherworld Soul Flame!"
This name sounds like Long Qiqi's style, but...
Qin Ran asked in doubt: "There is no such flame on the list I gave you?"
"Alas! You didn't get what you said!" Qin Ran sat on the lawn, Li Shiyin slept on the lawn, her little head resting on Qin Ran's old waist, she said angrily,
"Master, let me tell you, Qiqi is so stupid! We went to each fire that appeared, but she just didn't dare to go! Especially once, it was that Bone Spirit Cold Fire. I helped her block seven people and bought her a long time to absorb it, but she couldn't absorb it. It really pissed me off!"
"If Qiqi is a little braver, we will be back in seven days."
Qin Ran looked at Long Qiqi, who looked evasive. She coughed and said, "Who, who knew there would be so many people? Some are practicing body skills, some are practicing sword skills, they are all so powerful, and I can't even see the alchemists.
"I don't know what kind of evil skills they are practicing. They also need these strange fires from heaven and earth."
"There are many techniques that require external help..." Qin Ran shook his head. "Even though Shi Yin's Nine-Turn Star Sword Technique is so authentic, it still needs the help of star power. There are even more techniques that require fire, ice, wind, thunder, and water."
He paused, then asked Long Qiqi, "So? How did you get the Nether Soul Flame in the end?"
"When Xuan Qin was waiting for the Black Lotus Earth Fire to reignite, we were robbed by someone. But the robber didn't beat Shi Yin, and we got a map." Long Qiqi said, "The map shows the Netherworld Soul Flame, in Dayan Pianbai."
“So you went to the Great Yan Kingdom?” Qin Ran asked in surprise, “So far?”
"Hehe! If I hadn't driven them all away this time..." Li Shiyin said, "Maybe we would have to go to the even farther Yanhan!"
Long Qiqi acquiesced in silence. Although she was an old hand, she still had to say that this trip was all thanks to Li Shiyin. No matter how useful the conspiracy was, at the last moment, it was still a matter of hard power...
During this trip, she finally realized how powerful Li Shiyin was.
She and Li Shiyin had been in the cultivation world for no more than two months, but the gap between her and Li Shiyin could indeed be described as a world of difference. If the two of them fought head-on... well, she was not qualified to fight Li Shiyin head-on.
"Okay, I know you're awesome!" Qin Ran praised Li Shiyin, then looked at Long Qiqi and said, "Release your Netherworld Soul Flame and let us see."
Long Qiqi then showed Qin Ran her dark and sinister fire.
"It looks good, and the quality is quite high." Qin Ran nodded, "That's right, if I use this fire to refine pills, it might be easier to refine poison pills..." He suddenly stopped talking here because he thought of the super poison pill he had refined.
"It's just a poison pill! It's fine as long as I can use it." Long Qiqi sighed.
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