Among all the heavens, I, Xiao Yan, did not use any cheat codes.

Chapter 53 Nalan Yanran: Why does it feel like someone's about to self-conquer?

Inside the cave, amidst the flickering firelight, a rich aroma wafted from the large cauldron within.

Xiao Yan sat cross-legged in front of the cauldron and stewed the third-tier magical beast Phoenix-tailed Spirit Feather Chicken that he had just caught along with a certain kind of mushroom that he and Little Fairy Doctor had taken from the Poison Master's Cave.

The Fire Lotus Pill left behind before the retreat lived up to its price. Even though it was only detonated remotely, it severely injured and drove the Amethyst Winged Lion King into a frenzy, directly ordering the beasts of the Monster Mountain Range to surge and search for Xiao Yan all over the mountains.

Yun Yun was no longer even the number one enemy of the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King; the grudge over the broken horn was nothing. What truly enraged him was Xiao Yan.

Then Xiao Yan seized a large batch of ingredients and materials.

Even if he's weakened, he's not someone that some third or fourth-tier magical beast can easily fool.

At this moment, he was in a multitasking state, simultaneously brewing a soup to replenish Yun Yun's energy and help her recover, while his own body was automatically recovering. He was also busy processing ingredients to prepare for the next batch of Buddha's Wrath Lotus.

The Buddha's Wrath Lotus itself requires breaking the existing balance to unleash its power, placing the flame at a point between stillness and movement. It is far more violent than the Buddha's Wrath series of pills that are made in imitation of it, and only Xiao Yan in the world can refine it.

Even if Xiao Yan possessed the Divine Refinement Technique, which allowed him to refine materials and elevate ordinary materials to their original state, replicating the pill would still require a considerable amount of resources, especially since a single Grade 5 Buddha's Fury Lotus Pill, capable of harming a Dou Huang, would be extremely expensive.

Here Xiao Yan has to complain that gold coins are not like spirit stones, which have inherent value, and it is difficult to buy good things. However, fortunately, he can refine them in batches.

To my shame, I, Xiao, not only intend to dominate the market for high-grade pills, but also to destroy the market for low-grade pills.

The low-level alchemists have gone mad! How can there be so many cheap and high-quality low-grade pills appearing in large quantities?!

Even with some business cooperation from the Nalan family, Xiao Yan felt that simply having the Xiao family handle the mass production of pills was still too small. He wished he could have a high-level power in the Central Plains under his control.

Looking down at the ancient ring that had been sealed again, Xiao Yan pondered to himself.

I wonder if the old man can still generate some gold coins. All I know is that he had quite a few romantic entanglements when he was young. I'll find out more when I go to Zhongzhou.

However, this old man was really a chatterbox, and just thinking about it made Xiao Yan's forehead crease with annoyance.

After rescuing the female Dou Huang from the Yunlan Sect and placing her on the bed to allow her to recover, before he, Xiao, could even lift the seal on her own initiative, this old man started spouting nonsense in the mental world.

It was all nonsense about being a lecherous womanizer and having many romantic encounters—things Xiao Yan couldn't understand.

He simply locked her in a small dark room, took out his spare robe and covered Yun Yun with it, then went about making soup on his own.

Although he, Xiao, is a womanizer, he takes things in a proper way. It is always the other party who takes the initiative, so why would he stoop to taking advantage of someone in distress?

If he really wanted to take advantage of someone in distress, why didn't he wait for the Lion King's fatal blow to hit before trying to save them?

The combination of the seal, the fatal wound, and the life-saving grace allows him to create an exceptionally romantic atmosphere with perfectly legitimate reasons, without even needing to do anything.

But Xiao Yan disdains to do that, and would never do it.

If it just happens to happen, then there's nothing that can be done. But if he could have saved them in advance, yet he put his friends' loved ones at risk of death because of his own motives, Xiao Yan would never do such a thing.

Although it's unclear what the relationship is between this woman and Nalan Yanran, as the sect leader's disciple and a Dou Huang within the sect, their relationship is certainly not distant.

With a slight pout, Xiao Yan frantically scurried away at the medicinal dust, and seeing that the pot was almost ready, he gently selected a bottle from the pile of jade bottles beside him. He poured out three pale blue Grade 5 Rejuvenation Pills and added them to the soup. In an instant, they shone brightly, and the aroma of the medicine mingled with the fragrance of the chicken soup.

The woman from the Yunlan Sect wasn't seriously injured, but strangely enough, Xiao caught the Lion King's heaviest claw, leaving her only with a seal and some deep-seated, persistent internal injuries. Drinking some medicinal food to stimulate her body's potential and heal those injuries was the perfect solution.

"It smells so good..." A cool voice rang out beside Xiao Yan. Turning his head, he saw Yun Yun, wrapped in a crimson-gold robe, gently sitting down next to him.

"Oh, you're awake. The surgery was a success. You're a boy now."

As was his habit, Xiao Yan chuckled and ladled out a bowl of chicken soup, handing it to her. However, to his surprise, Yun Yun didn't say anything else, nor did she engage in her usual banter with him like some old man. She just stared at him blankly.

"……Thank you."

hiss?

With a twitch at the corner of his mouth, Xiao Yan touched his nose and mentally complained about Yao Chen a few more times.

This is the demeanor of a true strongman. He's like a playful old man all the time, and even Xiao himself can't quite win an argument with him.

I didn't expect the other person to have such a good temper.

However, what Xiao Yan didn't know was that Yun Yun was mostly just exhausted; she had never truly fallen into a coma from the beginning. Xiao Yan, sensing her active spirit, assumed she was trapped in an illusion due to the seal.

But in reality, apart from being hit by the amethyst seal, Yun Yun didn't suffer any external injuries at all, especially since he used all sorts of pills to heal her as if they were free.

The subconscious mind can still perceive everything in the outside world, but it cannot consciously wake up on its own.

Having been protected within the sect since childhood and having little experience venturing out, Yun Yun felt a strange, indescribable feeling as she looked at the handsome young man before her.

Without any deliberate concealment, Xiao Yan's cultivation level was perfectly clear to her. She never expected that Xiao Yan's cultivation level was actually not even that of a Great Dou Master.

But how could a mere Dou Shi be able to contend with a sixth-tier magical beast! The power within Xiao Yan's body was completely beyond her comprehension.

Yun Yun had never seen any genius who could compare to the person in front of her.

Perhaps it was because Xiao Yan's face left an indelible impression on her when she was in despair and he barged into her world so wildly.

And then, with an extremely tough stance, he directly and severely defeated the ferocious and powerful Purple Crystal Winged Lion King, making Xiao Yan's impression on her even more profound and firmly imprinted in her heart.

So much so that when Xiao Yan held her tightly in his arms, she felt no resistance or discomfort, and even had a somewhat indescribable feeling.

Inside the cave, Xiao Yan did not do anything inappropriate. He simply placed her on the jade bed and put a crimson-gold robe over her slightly tattered plain dress.

Logically speaking, she should have felt some resistance and aversion to being touched so intimately for the first time, but for some reason, Yun Yun did have some inexplicable feelings.

Scratching his head, Xiao Yan was a little confused by Yun Yun's gaze. Seeing that she hadn't accepted the chicken soup for a while, he twitched his lips, thinking that she was still a little exhausted. So he took out a spoon from his storage ring and gently scooped up a spoonful.

"You're not seriously injured. I've added some specially made Grade 5 pills to this soup to help your body recover from exhaustion."

What are you standing there for? Drink up!

Blinking, seeing that Yun Yun was still standing there in a daze, Xiao Yan had never experienced this situation before. On a whim, he simply imagined his older brother Xiao Ding's actions when he went to play in the back mountain in his youth and fell half to his death.

He gently blew on the chicken soup and brought the spoon to Yunyun's lips.

"..."

After watching for a while, seeing that Xiao Yan's expression was exceptionally natural, Yun Yun's ears turned slightly red, but she inexplicably parted her lips and let Xiao Yan feed her soup.

The moment the chicken soup touched her lips, Yunyun's eyes lit up; it tasted so delicious.

Whether it was psychological or something else, Yun Yun felt somewhat intoxicated by the soup, something she had never experienced before. She stared blankly at Xiao Yan, who was earnestly feeding her the soup, and drank it down mouthful after mouthful.

The more Xiao Yan looked at the soup, the tastier and more delicious it seemed.

After a while, Yun Yun finished the bowl of soup along with a few pieces of mushrooms and chicken leg meat. She unconsciously licked her lips and felt a warm current flow from her abdomen to her limbs. The power in her body was stimulated. Although her fighting spirit was still dormant, it also revitalized her originally weak limbs.

"That's enough, drink it yourself." After feeding her a bowl, seeing that Yun Yun was still sticking out her big face waiting for him to feed her, and her expression was particularly strange, as if he, Xiao Yan, had added something he shouldn't have to the soup, Xiao Yan smirked and directly took Yun Yun's hand and handed her the soup bowl.

Feeling a sense of danger in the woman's eyes, Xiao Yan decided to remain a virtuous and upright young man and turned to pick through the various pills nearby.

"These things might be helpful for your healing; take them."

Also, you're from the Yunlan Sect, right?

Upon hearing this, Yun Yun's expression froze instantly, and her slightly flushed cheeks returned to their original cold and aloof state.

It turns out he had something...

Feeling a mix of emotions, Yun Yun pursed her lips and simply hummed in response.

"I guessed it was like this. Although I don't know who you are, the fighting techniques you practice are quite similar to those of a friend of mine."

"But she's pretty weak. You can go back and take care of her for me. I don't know how many Dou Huangs your Yunlan Sect has, but you should know her. Give that girl a hard time, just don't kill her."

He tossed a storage bag over and casually lay down on the recliner behind him.

As expected of Nalan Yanran, an elder in the sect, then this favor was well done.

I wonder how that girl is doing lately. After not being exploited for so long, Xiao Yan feels like he's back to his old self.

What is Nalan Yanran? Even if Yun Yun's teacher, Yun something, came at him, Xiao would not be afraid at all!

Ahem, putting those strange thoughts out of his mind, Xiao Yan declared that he was a gentleman and had absolutely no such thoughts.

"Wait a minute, you don't know who I am?" Yun Yun was stunned for a moment, her thoughts immediately becoming disjointed.

She thought that Xiao Yan saved her and didn't take advantage of her earlier because he knew her identity and was plotting something.

This extinguished her indescribable emotions.

It seems she misjudged the situation?

How many Dou Huangs does the Yunlan Sect have? Does this guy actually think Dou Huangs are as common as cabbages?

However, as soon as the thought crossed her mind, Yun Yun swallowed back what she wanted to say, as if the other party truly had the right to think that Dou Huang was as common as cabbage...

Yun Yun's words made Xiao Yan laugh.

Sitting up straight, Xiao Yan looked Yun Yun up and down. Why was this woman acting so strangely?

"No, sister. Although you are very beautiful and have a great figure, ranking among the top in my circle of friends, and you are also very strong."

But why should I get to know you?

Yun Yun: "..."

You've said everything, good and bad!

Yun Yun couldn't catch her breath and felt a tightness in her chest. Her chest heaved violently. Then she saw Xiao Yan's undisguised gaze. He had made his words very clear, without any attempt to hide anything. Yun Yun was both annoyed and amused. She had never seen anyone so frank.

He wanted to reveal his identity, but then he remembered the other party's record of defeating a Dou Shi against a Dou Huang, and immediately fell silent.

For such a genius, the mere sect leader of the Yunlan Sect is indeed insignificant.

For a moment, her cheeks turned slightly red.

A blush still speaks louder than any sweet words.

"I've got it. I'll take good care of things when I get back." After hesitating for a moment, Yun Yun took the storage bag Xiao Yan offered, nodded deeply, took a breath, and then, as if she had thought of something, tentatively spoke.

"I am indeed a high-ranking member of the Yunlan Sect. I wonder what your friend's position is within the sect...?"

After thinking through the entire Yunlan Sect, Yun Yun couldn't think of anyone who could have any connection with the person in front of her.

"She seems to be your sect leader's disciple. She has a rather strong personality. If you have the chance, you could give her some pointers. What's your sect leader's name again? I've forgotten."

After thinking for a moment, Xiao Yan couldn't recall what Nalan Yanran's teacher's name was. He had only heard it once and hadn't really paid much attention to it.

It's just a cricket battle.

Yun Yun's eyes widened immediately. This person was actually Nalan Yanran's friend?

"You seem to know her?" Xiao Yan blinked; Yun Yun's reaction was a little strange.

"I have heard of this person. My name is Yun... Yunzhi. I am a disciple of the former sect leader of Yunlan Sect." For some reason, Yun Yun gave a false name as if possessed.

"Yunzhi, you call me Yao... never mind, there's no need, just call me Xiao Yan." He originally wanted to give the name Yao Yan, but considering that the other party was from the Yunlan Sect, Xiao Yan simply gave his real name.

Anyway, once the other party goes back and settles accounts with Nalan Yanran, their own name will be revealed, so there's no need for an alias or anything like that.

Xiao Yan?!

Like a thunderbolt striking her heart, Yun Yun could no longer maintain her composure.

The person in front of me is actually Xiao Yan? Nalan Yanran's ex-fiancé?

Overwhelmed with mixed feelings, Yun Yun's gaze became increasingly complicated. While Yun Yun was struggling with her inner turmoil, Xiao Yan turned around and began to busy himself with other things.

We need to prepare some more before we go back to cause trouble for the Lion King.

Xiao Yan hadn't forgotten the time the lion dared to hiss at him.

They need to be disciplined severely.

He immediately ignored Yun Yun and began taking out various medicinal herbs to continue refining.

In Xiao Yan's plan, after Nalan Yanran takes over Yunlan Sect, she will definitely incorporate it into his alliance as a core force. Yun Zhi is practically one of his own, so there's no need to hide her.

After he processed a bunch of medicinal herbs and refined a fifth-grade pill for practice, he realized that Yunzhi was still watching him. Her gaze was far more complex than the fan-shaped pattern that Nalan Yanran had initially displayed.

"Why are you still here?" Xiao Yan was taken aback. He looked at the crimson-gold robe on the other person's body and immediately slapped his forehead.

"You need to change your clothes, right? Okay, I'll go out in a bit."

"But I'm just refining a fifth-grade pill, why are you looking at me like I'm a monster?"

"No... um..."

Yun Yun was completely speechless at this point. Xiao Yan was too outstanding. Considering Nalan Yanran's personality and her reactions over the past few days, and judging from the sincerity and grace Xiao Yan had displayed in such a short time...

Yun Yun naturally imagined a scene where Nalan Yanran forcefully came to Xiao Yan's door, but Xiao Yan generously forgave her and repaid evil with kindness.

Even Xiao Yan's open and honest gaze upon her broad chest did not provoke the slightest resentment in her.

Look, that's what you call open and honest. Xiao Yan's gaze was purely one of appreciation for beauty, without the slightest hint of anything that would offend her.

Feeling a pang of shame for not being a strict teacher, Yun Yun breathed a sigh of relief, wrapped herself in Xiao Yan's crimson-gold robe, smiled slightly, and became even more curious about the person in front of her.

Self-guided strategy +1 +1 +1...

……

Yunlan Sect.

As she cultivated, Nalan Yanran frowned, her bad premonition growing stronger.