Chapter 73: Looking at it this way, he actually seems quite handsome!

On a small hill belonging to the Nalan family, Xiao Yan came here due to the lack of guest rooms.

"It truly lives up to being a hill used for scenery; it is indeed quite nice," Xiao Yan remarked with some emotion, then chose the bank of a pond and sat down cross-legged. This book is first published on TTKS. TW, providing you with an error-free and non-disordered reading experience.

"You are staying here tonight?" Nalan Yanran, who had followed behind, asked in disbelief.

"Yes," Xiao Yan answered affirmatively. "You don't need to feel guilty; when I was out training in the past, I slept in places even worse than this quite often."

"Training? Right, speaking of which, you seem to have been out training for over two years. Where have you been for such a long time?" Nalan Yanran asked with some curiosity.

"Hmm, well, most of that time was in the Magical Beast Mountain Range. Afterward, I took a trip to the Tagor Desert, where I managed to find some good things, then I returned to Wutan City, and then here we are now," Xiao Yan briefly summarized the events of the past few years.

"The Magical Beast Mountain Range!" Nalan Yanran looked at the surrounding scenery and said in surprise, "Could it be that you have been living in the mountains the whole time!"

Xiao Yan nodded: "That is the case."

Upon hearing this, Nalan Yanran gasped: "No wonder you have such cultivation at such a young age; this is truly something you have earned."

Xiao Yan smiled and did not continue on this topic, saying: "Alright, it is not early anymore; you should head back first. You must be impatient to take a bath by now, right?"

"Mm." Nalan Yanran nodded and promised Xiao Yan: "Tomorrow, tomorrow I will definitely have a room ready for you. If I can't, I will stay here with you for the night!"

"No need," Xiao Yan shook his head and said: "Tomorrow morning we will set off for the Misty Cloud Sect. I have already delayed quite a bit of time; if I don't hurry, I fear I won't make it in time for the start of the Canaan Academy."

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"I see." Nalan Yanran only then remembered Xiao Yan's desire to join the Canaan Academy, and she nodded in agreement: "Fine, I will come to pick you up tomorrow morning."

Saying this, Nalan Yanran turned to walk down the hill.

Suddenly, Nalan Yanran seemed to remember something, turned back around, and asked Xiao Yan with suspicion: "Right, how did you know I was impatient to take a bath?"

"Uh—" Xiao Yan was stunned, then secretly thought it was bad. He was used to getting along with Little Doctor Fairy and the others and hadn't considered the difference between them and Nalan Yanran.

"This—I, I guessed. After all, don't you girls all like to bathe every day? Hahaha." Xiao Yan laughed somewhat awkwardly.

Stare———— (—One)

Regarding Xiao Yan's answer, Nalan Yanran looked completely unconvinced.

"Alright." Xiao Yan finally gave in: "Actually, an alchemist's nose is generally quite good."

Xiao Yan's answer was rather cryptic. Nalan Yanran didn't understand at first, but once she reacted, she immediately blushed and roared: "Xiao Yan! You bastard!"

Then she quickly covered her chest with both hands, ran back to the courtyard where she lived, and scrubbed herself fiercely twice.

At night, lying on her bed, Nalan Yanran hugged her pillow, tossing and turning, unable to sleep.

After struggling for a long time, Nalan Yanran got up, put on her favorite moon-white long dress, and cast her gaze toward a bottle of perfume on the vanity.

She usually didn't use these things much; after all, the focus of her life had always been on cultivation, and she also considered herself beautiful enough as she was.

However, remembering what happened just now, Nalan Yanran's pretty face flushed again. She gave a light huff, picked up the perfume bottle, and sprayed it on herself twice quite heavily.

It's your lucky day! Nalan Yanran thought to herself. Afterward, she quietly walked toward the small hill.

But when she arrived at the spot where Xiao Yan had been sitting cross-legged earlier, the scene before her eyes completely shocked her.

Under the bright white moonlight, a thin figure sat cross-legged by the clear water's edge.

One by one, blue-red lotus flowers, emitting a glaze-like luster, rose from the ground around Xiao Yan, gently circling his body.

Gradually, what rose from the ground were no longer whole lotus flowers, but petals that gathered beneath Xiao Yan, lifting his figure up.

At the moment this blue-red fire lotus rose, Nalan Yanran could feel a powerful flame force beneath the ground surging toward the blue-red lotus flowers.

But strangely, the gathering of such massive fire-attribute heaven and earth energy did not cause the surrounding temperature to rise; instead, it dropped by a few degrees because the heat was being drawn away!

And Xiao Yan, who was at the convergence point of all this power and sat upon the lotus platform, appeared to have a miraculous beauty under the illumination of the blue-red firelight!

Nalan Yanran found a random piece of gravel, sat down gently, rested her chin on her hands which were propped on her knees, and watched quietly.

Looking at it this way, he actually seems quite handsome! Nalan Yanran's lips curled up slightly as she suddenly thought.

————？？！！！！！∑（A°ノ）

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait! What, what, what was I just thinking about!!

Nalan Yanran jolted awake, but a different kind of emotion had already uncontrollably taken root in her heart.