Chapter 42: Being a Man is Difficult

The small alchemy furnace suddenly grew larger. As it was placed down, Li Yang smelled the unique scent of money that belonged to Dan cultivators.

Meng Zhang clumsily arranged the spiritual herbs, refining, mixing…

Li Yang watched while munching on her meat bun.

She was really too tired, she didn’t have the energy to refine pills anymore. Leaving it to Meng Zhang was probably the best choice.

After resting for a while, Li Yang quietly asked, “Fifth Senior Brother, how’s your wound?”

The little girl leaned over and poked him, sniffing his nose.

Ning Shiyan’s cheeks flushed slightly, and he replied in a low, embarrassed voice, “It’s fine now.”

With the spirit pill to save his life, the wound had healed almost completely, but the blood gu was still inside him.

Ning Shiyan hugged the night pearl, his voice muffled: “Little Sister… thank you…”

“No problem, no problem.” Li Yang’s eyes curved into crescent moons: “When we get back, make me a few more Xuan swords!”

She wasn’t one to do business at a loss.

The young man quickly nodded. When he was alone with his junior sister, his social anxiety kicked in again. He buried his head and silently munched on his meat bun.

“Boom!”

Meng Zhang’s first attempt at alchemy failed.

Li Yang pulled out a small table and placed it in front of her and Ning Shiyan. She had bought some buns, flatbreads, and other things she found delicious, and she generously shared them with Ning Shiyan: “We can’t hide in the cave forever. Eat some to recover your strength. When the Bing Qing Dan is refined, I’ll take you both to escape.”

The aroma of the food was incredibly strong.

She even brought out a jar of homemade chili sauce, happily spreading it over her meat bun. With a bite, the cave was filled with a fragrant aroma.

Fine beads of sweat appeared on Meng Zhang’s forehead as he forced himself to calm down.

The first lesson for Dan cultivators was to train each disciple’s mental strength and concentration. Alchemy couldn’t be done with a wandering mind.

It wasn’t fair to blame Li Yang for disrupting him. She had been running around outside for so long, risking her life, saving them, and retrieving the spiritual herbs.

Now that the hero was tired, it was understandable that she wanted to eat something.

Meng Zhang thought so, but he couldn’t control the trembling of his fingers.

The alchemy furnace shook violently, causing the entire cave to tremble.

Li Yang quickly protected her chili sauce. The spiritual herbs in front of the young man instantly burned to ashes.

Now, Meng Zhang’s face not only had sweat but also a layer of soot.

The young man stiffly turned his head and asked in a trembling voice, “Can I… have some to eat?”

Li Yang patted the table: “If you successfully refine the pills, all of this is yours.”

Alchemy failure had a backlash, and Meng Zhang felt a buzzing in his head.

At this moment, the young man was like a hardworking donkey that had been pulling a mill for three days and three nights, exhausted, hungry, and sleepy. Just as he was thinking about giving up and slacking off, the donkey owner hung a fragrant and warm flatbread in front of his face.

Meng Zhang wiped his lips expressionlessly: “I’ll do it.”

The hardworking donkey went back to work.

It had to be said that his talent was good. How could someone who could stand out from thousands of DanWang Sect disciples and become a direct disciple be an ordinary donkey?

The young man’s spirit root was extremely pure, making him a good prospect for a Dan cultivator.

Li Yang quickly stuffed more food into her mouth.

Damn it, she had bitten off more than she could chew. She had to eat quickly, or when Meng Zhang successfully refined the pills, all this delicious food would be his.

She wasn’t satisfied with just eating enough herself. The little girl skillfully picked up a large bun, broke it open, spread some chili sauce inside, and stuffed it into Ning Shiyan’s hand: “Fifth Senior Brother, eat quickly.”

Ning Shiyan: “

It was, well, quite absurd.

The situation outside was urgent, yet they were hiding in a cave, eating and drinking.

As they were eating, Li Yang’s ears twitched. She swallowed the food in her mouth and made a silencing gesture towards Ning Shiyan.

Perhaps the sound of alchemy was too loud, someone had come from outside.

However, Lou Qi’s concealment talisman was also very effective. The Blood Race people reached the foot of the mountain and wandered around for a while.

The Sixth Elder’s voice seemed to be right outside the cave: “Strange, the sound definitely came from here?”

“Search again, we must catch her.”

Li Yang stealthily put the table away into her space and poked Ning Shiyan: “Do you have any attack-type spiritual weapons?”

He thought carefully, unsure what Li Yang wanted, and silently took weapons from his pouch, laying them out in front of her like a stall.

Hammers, axes, swords… and more than ten Yan Lanterns.

The young man’s abilities were limited, and he could only make these things, some of which weren’t even considered spiritual weapons.

Li Yang remained silent for a long time, then noticed a sphere.

It was made of Xuan iron, large and round, the size of a basketball.

Ning Shiyan said weakly, “This… isn’t finished yet, it absorbs objects.”

Li Yang placed her hand inside, and her fingertips seemed to be drawn in, sinking into the sphere.

Inside was an unfinished formation, a simple trick. It was easy to observe and withdraw.

But… it should work.

Li Yang took out the rope she had used to kidnap Fang Yi Zhou and An Yi and tied it to the sphere. She tentatively shook it.

At the same time, a stone at the entrance of the cave was suddenly removed.

Meng Zhang spat out a mouthful of blood, agitated: “What do we do? It’s just one step away.”

Li Yang shook the iron sphere: “Don’t get distracted, you refine your pills, we’ll buy you some time.”

For some reason, Ning Shiyan looked at the girl’s back and felt as if he saw a light.

She whispered instructions: “Fifth Senior Brother, remember the paper I gave you? Take it out now. I’ll tell you when to open it.”

He immediately hugged the paper to his chest, obediently waiting.

The moment the entrance to the cave opened a crack, the Sixth Elder saw someone inside and revealed a villainous smile again: “Hehehe, little thing, you can’t escape.”

Two guards were responsible for clearing the stones.

Ning Shiyan tugged at Li Yang’s sleeve, trying to pull her back, whispering a reminder: “I hid a spiritual weapon inside the innermost stone. Let’s dodge for a moment.”

He had hidden his best spiritual weapon, better than the rest of the junk he had left.

The guard punched, blasting away the surrounding stones.

The concealment talismans attached to the stones flew up into the air and burned to ashes.

The scent of their presence wafted out of the cave.

The Sixth Elder laughed loudly: “Just a few little mice. Capture them alive.”

The lazy guard was really unlucky today. He had been scratching his feet when he let two Dan cultivators escape, was knocked into the sky by Li Yang, and then landed headfirst into the ground, finally crawling out.

His pent-up anger finally had a place to vent.

Without a word, the guard punched the central stone.

As the cracks widened, there was a piercing “hiss” sound.

It was like something was burning.

He was curious and froze, reaching out to grab it.

Li Yang was genuinely curious and whispered to Ning Shiyan: “What spiritual weapon did you put in there?”

“It’s a lantern.”

He blushed slightly and said, “I’m so afraid of the dark, so I wanted to make a lantern that would never go out. But I failed and ended up making this.”

From a lantern that would never go out to a lantern that would explode when opened.

At that moment, the guard pulled out the lantern, confused: “This is… a spiritual weapon?”

“Boom!”

The deafening sound shook the entire valley.

Fang Yi Zhou and An Yi emerged from a cave and saw a lazy star gradually receding into the distance.

This person seemed familiar, and Fang Yi Zhou felt like he heard background music coming from him.

“It’s so hard to be a man, it’s so hard to be a man, it’s hard during the day and even harder at night…”