Chapter 85: Chapter Eighty-Five: In Any Case, He

Luo Changfeng was furious, jumped up and flicked Shi Ran hard on the forehead: "I only said one sentence, and you have a thousand or ten thousand replies waiting for me—I'm your eldest senior brother, you know that the elder brother is like a father, right?"

"I don't know!" Shi Ran rolled her eyes familiarly, "So senior brother, don't meddle—I'm not getting naked and soaking in a tub with him!"

Qi Chengshuang glared: "Shi Ran, you.... you...." Is she even a girl?

Ruan Xinli helplessly covered her forehead: "Can you wait until I finish speaking before you argue?" She feared that if she waited a moment longer, Shi Ran would dare to say something shocking.

The three stopped arguing and gave Ruan Xinli face, looking at her: "Speak!"

"I'm saying I need Weilong's blood and a person, and that person must have fire spiritual roots!" Seeing Shi Ran about to stretch her neck to argue, he continued with a headache, "It's to help me draw the fire spiritual power out of Junior Brother Gu's body—no need to get naked, no need to soak together!"

Ruan Xinli looked speechlessly at the three: "Now do you understand?"

The two nodded obediently, Shi Ran embarrassedly tugged at her collar: "I still have a question—does the Weilong's blood need to fill the bathtub? I'm afraid I'll die before the Fantian blood is finished!"

Ruan Xinli, rare for her to be exasperated: "Just three drops, three drops—I need it as a medicine primer, not to bathe in blood!!!"

"Fine, fine, three drops, five drops are fine!" Shi Ran shrank her neck, "Oh my, when a gentle person gets angry it's terrifying!"

Ruan Xinli took a deep breath, restored her gentle smile: "Well then, everyone, let's begin!"

To keep it warm, after Ruan Xinli took the tub out of her Qiankun bag, Luo Changfeng placed it over the fire, then stripped Gu Yusheng's upper clothing, put him in the water, added angelica, ginseng, seven-leaf grass, multiflorum, camel-bell flower, etc., and began to simmer... simmering until Gu Yusheng's face turned ashen....

When the water temperature rose, it was clearly visible that Gu Yusheng's left and right chest were one ice and one fire, one white and one red; only then did Ruan Xinli let Shi Ran release Fantian to draw blood. Seeing Gu Yusheng's sorry state, she should have felt pity, but for some reason she really wanted to laugh.

But she couldn't laugh too extravagantly, so she trembled while releasing the miniaturized Fantian. Fantian looked dazed; seeing Shi Ran tremble like that, it thought she was going to sacrifice herself, and with a stomp of its four hooves it prepared to avenge its master. Fortunately, Shi Ran was quick-eyed and quick-handed: she grabbed a dragon claw, found a soft spot, took out a gold needle, pricked it several times, releasing five drops of dragon blood, then patted the still-dazed Fantian: "Sorry, I'm borrowing a few drops of your blood—I'll explain later."

Then she immediately tossed Fantian back. Fantian: "What happened? What's going on………"

Now everything was ready, only lacking the east wind—but the east wind was clearly unwilling. Luo Changfeng, with a stiff face, directly grabbed Shi Ran's hand and placed it on Gu Yusheng's chest.

Shi Ran: "Wuwuwu, this is the first time in two lifetimes I've touched a man's chest, and we're both unwilling—who can understand my sorrow!"

No one understood Shi Ran's sorrow; Ruan Xinli, with a solemn expression, applied the needles, gradually forcing the fiery spiritual power from Gu Yusheng's chest out of his body and toward Shi Ran's interior.

Shi Ran only felt the alien heat entering her body, scorching her dantian; she closed her eyes and let out a soft hum. (Reviewer, is this what you had in mind?)

Luo Changfeng clapped a hand over Shi Ran's mouth: "Shh!" He blushed slightly, pleading, "Please don't make those weird noises!"

As the red symbolizing fire spiritual power inside Gu Yusheng gradually faded, his complexion slowly returned to normal; the abnormality now shifted to Shi Ran—although she had fire spiritual roots, this intense fire was fundamentally hard to integrate.

Luo Changfeng could only help Shi Ran guide the spiritual power from the side, but as a water spiritual root his effect was minimal. Just as Shi Ran was caught between water and fire, Lingxiao's voice suddenly rang in her ears: "Keep the mind at the dantian, guide the qi like a thread, ascend along the Ren meridian past the Tanzhong, enter the Du meridian via the Baihui, descend to the Mingmen to return to the Qihai, cycling endlessly, like a stream returning to the sea."

The restless Shi Ran gradually calmed down, following Lingxiao's guidance to fuse and permeate the incoming spiritual power, making it part of herself.

On the other side, Gu Yusheng also improved greatly; his pallid face finally regained a bit of vigor, reminiscent of how handsome he used to be.

Ruan Xinli pulled out the last gold needle, exhaled deeply, Qi Chengshuang carefully handed her a handkerchief, and she wiped herself bit by bit.

Now it's just a matter of who wakes up first; Shi Ran is clearly smoother, under Lingxiao's guidance digesting all external force and condensing it into her own power,

She was the first to open her eyes, but didn't see the person she wanted to see, and unconsciously let out a deep sigh.

"What's wrong? Feeling uncomfortable somewhere?" Ruan Xinli said, reaching to take Shi Ran's pulse; Shi Ran smiled, opened her palm, letting Ruan Xinli examine her, and she felt fine herself.

Sure enough, Ruan Xinli smiled and nodded: "Looks like you've integrated well—no problems!"

With her heart back in her stomach, Shi Ran looked at Gu Yusheng: "How is he?"

"He's okay!" Ruan Xinli said, "If you're anxious, I can wake him with a single needle!"

"I'm not anxious!" Shi Ran waved her hand, she'd rather not go look for whatever lotus.

But Luo Changfeng and Qi Chengshuang were anxious; Ruan Xinli saw the urgency in Qi Chengshuang's eyes and, for some reason, felt a twinge of discomfort, she plunged the gold needle in her hand directly into Gu Yusheng's brain—clean and swift, faintly carrying a killing intent.

Qi Chengshuang first felt a chill on his back, he inexplicably touched his neck, feeling as if he'd made a mistake.

Ruan Xinli looked at Qi Chengshuang with a cold smile, tossed the gold needle into her Qiankun bag: "You guys hurry up and ask, don't delay!" Having said that, she slowly walked toward the cave entrance.

"You…. where are you going?" Qi Chengshuang asked foolishly.

Ruan Xinli glanced back, gave a gentle smile: "I'm just going out for a stroll, the cave's too hot! Don't worry about me!"

Gu Yusheng had slowly opened his eyes; Luo Changfeng called Qi Chengshuang to help lift Gu Yusheng out of the tub. Qi Chengshuang wanted to follow Ruan Xinli but couldn't tear himself away, so he only turned his gaze toward Shi Ran.

Shi Ran was happily watching the commotion when she unexpectedly caught Qi Chengshuang's pleading gaze; she didn't pretend, held up a finger to signify eight, and said, "Eight hundred spirit stones!"

"Straight-up cannibalistic!" Qi Chengshuang nearly died of anger; he wanted to refuse, but seeing Ruan Xinli's increasingly distant lonely figure, he hardened his heart and produced a thousand spirit stones for Shi Ran: "She seems to be in a bad mood, you…"

Shi Ran accepted the thousand spirit stones, beaming with joy, turned and chased after Ruan Xinli: "Rest assured, I'll bring her back safe and sound!"

"You…. " Qi Chengshuang vexed, wondering if he'd entrusted the wrong person.

However, he couldn't continue pondering; Gu Yusheng grabbed his and Luo Changfeng's hands, urgently saying, "A Xue is in danger!"