Chapter 386: Uncontrollable Impulse

Junior brother...

Ran Bing called out softly, the water light in her eyes shimmering.

She suddenly leaned forward, her cherry lips slightly parting, and just like that covered him without any warning.

This kiss came suddenly yet fiercely, like pent-up emotions finally bursting through a dam.

Her lips were soft and scorching, as they moved together they carried a hint of inexperienced urgency, yet also revealed an unstoppable resolve.

The warm, soft tongue tip tentatively touched, then like a butterfly lingering on flowers, it entwined unwilling to leave, pouring all her feelings into the meeting of lips and teeth.

This kiss directly ignited Lu Xun's desire.

Thinking that the formation nearby provided cover and protection, Lu Xun no longer held back, and together with Ran Bing they launched into a life dance.

"Not right, she's not Ran Bing!"

At that moment of intense passion, Lu Xun suddenly sensed something odd—he slightly raised his gaze and met Ran Bing's eyes.

Those eyes were still clear as water, yet deep in the pupils a faint strand of unfamiliar dark light flickered, like a sinister shadow suddenly gliding across a moonlit lake.

Lu Xun's heart sank sharply, as if a cold snake's tongue had licked his neck.

As expected, Gu Yao that had lain dormant for long could no longer restrain itself, taking advantage of this moment of submersion to silently erode Ran Bing's consciousness.

Junior brother...

But the next second, that strand of odd dark light receded like a tide, and Ran Bing's gaze turned soft and bewildered once again.

She panted slightly, her cheeks flushed crimson, her wet eyes staring straight into Lu Xun's depths.

It was as if that brief abnormality had never existed.

Afterward, Ran Bing showed no further abnormality.

This left Lu Xun somewhat puzzled.

Could it be that, when Gu Yao was stirring, it had been suppressed by the Nine Tribulations Lock Demon Array?

Otherwise, why would she have done nothing?

Lu Xun didn't think it was his eyes playing tricks on him.

Ordinary people might see things.

One whose realm is at the fifth realm, a martial cultivator whose actual combat power far exceeds the fifth realm—how could his eyes be fooled?

Moreover, Lu Xun's vision was exceptionally sharp.

"Senior sister, did you just feel any abnormality? Has Gu Yao's will come out again?"

After the wind and waves calmed, Lu Xun decided to ask Ran Bing.

At this point, Ran Bing had already returned to normal.

Just thinking about how proactive she had just been, a blush rose unbidden to her pretty face.

"No, junior brother, I didn't feel her."

Ran Bing shook her head slightly.

"No?"

Could it really have been suppressed by the Nine Tribulations Lock Demon Array?

Last month, don't think that just because Lu Xun taught Murong Wan swordsmanship by day and discussed life with her by night...

but Lu Xun also hadn't forgotten Ran Bing.

Every few days, he would set aside some time to strengthen the Nine Tribulations Lock Demon Array for Ran Bing.

The current Nine Tribulations Lock Demon Array is becoming ever more stable.

After thinking it over to no avail, Lu Xun simply didn't worry too much.

Meet force with force, meet water with earth—just like that.

Gu Yao's will has already been locked away, the biggest problem is solved—what is there to fear?

Lu Xun continued to refine pills.

As for Ran Bing, she began cultivating beside Lu Xun.

Even she herself didn't notice, but from time to time she would glance at Lu Xun, her gaze gentle and lingering, as if she could never get enough.

"Why are you thinking of her again?"

On Lu Xun's side, he suddenly felt somewhat unsettled.

As he kept refining, he began to miss Ran Bing a little.

This longing was not yearning, but pure desire.

Lu Xun slowly raised his head, and unexpectedly collided with Ran Bing's gaze.

In her pupils, there were actually two clusters of flickering flames.

At the moment their eyes met, an intangible warmth between them surged suddenly, like sparks falling into dry tinder, igniting the long-suppressed heart-fire completely.

Thus,

This pill could no longer be refined.

Together with Ran Bing, they embarked on a journey of harmony.

"Something's off."

Three days later, Lu Xun felt increasingly that something was off.

These three days, he and Ran Bing were as if bewitched, going over and over again.

Ran Bing's nature belonged to the tranquil and aloof type, clear and self-possessed like a late-autumn frost chrysanthemum.

After becoming entangled with Lu Xun by chance over the matter of Gu Yao, Ran Bing showed no trace of coyness.

She accepted this unexpected turn as naturally as accepting a sudden spring rain.

Afterward, even though she frequently became dazed from absorbing Gu Yao's will, in her interactions with Lu Xun she could still maintain this composure and elegance.

In every gesture, the measure is just right.

Between them it seemed as if a sheer veil, barely there, separated them—neither overly distant nor too intimate.

Just like a gentle breeze that sweeps through a bamboo grove in early spring, it makes one feel extremely comfortable yet with clear boundaries.

Just like now,

It's very abnormal.

"Could it be that someone has drugged us again?"

Lu Xun recalled how Chu Youqing and Murong Yan had drugged him before.

But here it's just him and Ran Bing—who would have drugged them?

Their symptoms are also not quite like those of being drugged.

Moreover,

Lu Xun's chaos cells can devour any foreign substance that enters his body, naturally including drugs.

Even if he encounters drugging again, no matter how potent the drug, Lu Xun need not fear.

So, Lu Xun racked his brains but could not figure it out.

He even specially spent time carefully examining his own body's interior, yet found nothing abnormal.

Lu Xun also activated his chaos cells, but they likewise detected nothing.

This left Lu Xun unable to understand the situation.

"Senior sister... how could this happen..."

"Junior brother, I don't know either."

In the blink of an eye, another half a month passed.

Ran Bing also noticed the abnormality.

But she also didn't know the cause.

Not only did she not know the cause, she also couldn't control herself.

It's not just her.

Lu Xun clearly knows there's a problem, yet he simply cannot control his impulses.

Now the matter has become somewhat difficult to resolve.