Jiangshan Fengwuzhi

Chapter 240 is out!
"Gulu."

Gu Jingnian tilted his head back slightly, his Adam's apple bobbing as he swallowed the pill.

It was like drinking a cup of warm wine; a surge of heat rose from his abdomen and flowed to every part of his body, making him feel comfortable and then full of energy.

Ren Shuangfei was still alive, floating there watching, and saw Gu Jingnian's flesh and blood repairing itself at a visible speed, his hand, which was now just bones, beginning to fill out little by little.

"Do not."

He could not accept this outcome; yet, another drop of blood had already dripped from his heart, congealing into a bead.

Even more frighteningly, Gu Jingnian twitched his hands and feet a few times, and then struggled to stand up, intending to pick this one again.

It was clear that Gu Jingnian was also in pain; more and more crystals were forming on his face, and it took him a long time to stand up. Finally, the blood crystals solidified, and he gently and skillfully removed them with two fingers.

With a gurgling sound, another pill fell into Gu Jingnian's stomach.

Ren Shuangfei couldn't take it anymore. He would rather be refined by Liu Yuchuan, since Liu Yuchuan was a strong person, while Gu Jingnian was just his prey at first.

He can lose, but he cannot be eaten by his prey.

So he shouted towards the outside of the furnace, "Liu Yuchuan, where are you? Why aren't you stopping him?"

He shouted with all his might, but he was too weak to know if his voice could reach outside the furnace.

"Liu Yuchuan, you must have heard that. Come on," Ren Shuangfei murmured. "I'm very strong. How can you let him devour me?"

He was indeed very strong, Gu Jingnian could feel it. In fact, after the second blood bead spread in his abdomen, it even seemed to overwhelm Gu Jingnian's own abilities and was about to burst out of his body.

Gu Jingnian had no choice but to sit cross-legged and guide the warm current through his body.

Gradually, he could feel the changes after his strength improved. He could almost see the raging fire outside the furnace and control it more easily.

After calming down a bit, he reached out and plucked the third drop of blood from Ren Shuangfei's heart, feeding it to Yingyao.

"you……"

Ren Shuangfei was completely unable to resist and found the scene somewhat unbelievable.

Gu Jingnian's change of attitude was infuriating, but not entirely unexpected, given that too many people abandon their principles and devote themselves to practicing magic.

On the contrary, Gu Jingnian's ability to exercise restraint after tasting the benefits of alchemy was even more unexpected and frightening to Ren Shuangfei.

He wanted to say something more, but his life had withered away; his skin had become dry and pale, and his full head of red hair had drooped down.

But by the last moment of his life, he had actually let go of all attachments.

When Gu Jingnian fed the blood bead to Ying Yao, he realized that Gu Jingnian was not a weak person. How could someone who could not be defeated by greed be a weak person?
He could accept it if it fell into the mouth of someone like that.

That's just how the world is, the strong prey on the weak. He eats others, and others eat him in return. Ren Shuangfei is willing to accept defeat.

The fourth and final blood bead condensed in Ren Shuangfei's body. After Yingyao swallowed it, she was finally able to stand up and sit cross-legged with Gu Jingnian.

They closed their eyes to rest, and when they opened them again, they were surprised to find that Meng Xiaopo's body was floating there.

To be precise, it was a corpse.

There was a very obvious bloodstain on Meng Xiaopo's neck.

Hu Jingnan was standing there, holding a silk thread in her hand, which was stained with some blood.

She glanced back at them, plucked a drop of blood from Meng Xiaopo's body, put it in her mouth and swallowed it. Her movements were calm and elegant, as if she were taking an ordinary tonic.

If someone takes her small bottle of medicine, she can take a few pills from them in return, as if it were perfectly natural.

Gu Jingnian had hoped that Meng Xiaopo would lead him to Gu Caiwei and her daughter. Seeing Meng Xiaopo dead here, he frowned but didn't say anything.

The most important thing right now is to get out of here and survive before we can talk about anything else.

He looked at the crack in the furnace wall, conjured a fire blade, and chopped at it forcefully, one strike after another.

Immediately, Yingyao walked over and punched the crack hard.

"Oh!"

Her punch was so powerful that it shook the entire furnace, yet her seemingly small and delicate fist remained completely unharmed.

"Oh!"

"Oh!"

"..."

Punch after punch, first the entire furnace was knocked down, then the furnace wall was dented, and the cracks grew larger and larger.

Ignoring everything else, Yingyao grabbed the crack with both hands and pulled it open with all her might.

As her expression grew increasingly agitated, the crack widened until, finally, it snapped open completely.

Outside, the sky was ablaze with fire, the forest was still burning, and the flowing river shimmered with silver light.

But Liu Yuchuan was not seen.

"Watch out for Liu Yuchuan." "Fly higher and see where he is."

"Take me with you." Hu Jingnan coughed a few times, unable to open her eyes in the flames.

Gu Jingnian and Ying Yao then unfolded their fiery wings and flew into the high sky with Hu Jingnan.

They looked around and saw that the forest stretched as far as the eye could see, with no end in sight.

I chose a direction and flew there. I flew for a very long time, until I was out of the fire's range, but below was still a vast forest, as if I could never fly out.

They flew until they were almost in despair before finding a place in the forest to land, rest, and recuperate.

After expending a lot of energy, Gu Jingnian realized that he had not fully digested the two blood beads before, and they had been continuously providing him with energy, physical strength, and power.

The occasional chirping of cicadas echoed through the woods, making the environment seem safer. He sat under a tree, focusing more intently on the surroundings.

This was the first time he had taken the initiative to refine someone else, so he was extremely cautious. He discovered that after refining Ren Shuangfei, he not only gained abilities, but also certain personality traits that originally belonged to Ren Shuangfei, such as frivolity and arrogance.

Especially when he thought of his past enemies, he felt an urge to refine them, and a ruthless intent kept rising in his heart.

At that moment, he realized that refining was addictive and that he needed to use his own strong will to control himself.

Occasionally, when I opened my eyes, I saw Yingyao and Hu Jingnan sitting cross-legged with their eyes closed.

The three of them sat there for an unknown amount of time when Gu Jingnian suddenly had a thought and sensed that a large fire was flying towards them.

He then flew high into the air, raised his hand, and tried to control the fire, but the fire was controlled by another person and was not easily swayed by his will, until Yingyao flew to Gu Jingnian's side and began to cooperate with him.

The two were of one mind and had an unspoken understanding. With their combined efforts, a fire dragon gradually rose from the forest, leaving behind a scorched and withered forest.

The enormous fire dragon hovered in the air, but at one point it stopped moving.

It hovered below the clouds, roaring.

"Who started my fire?!"

Gu Jingnian and Ying Yao exchanged a glance, surprised that the fire could speak.

They joined forces again to control the fire dragon, while the mysterious man controlled it in another direction. It was like a tug-of-war between them. Finally, the fire dragon split in two, turning into two that hovered and confronted each other in the air.

"Who are you?"

Yingyao, controlling a fire dragon, awkwardly uttered a question.

These three simple words, yet they used flames to construct the dragon's mouth, tongue, and abdomen, a feat of extreme precision and complexity. It was the ultimate control over flames, something they certainly couldn't have done before.

The other fire dragon quickly replied with four words.

"The fire-starting boy".

"Wha...what?"

"You've overturned the master's furnace, you're all dead!"

Yingyao stopped letting the fire dragon speak, raised her hands, and appeared somewhat agitated. The fire dragon, which she controlled, then rampaged wildly.

Gu Jingnian cooperated with her.

The fire dragon flew around in the sky for a while, then gradually locked onto a certain direction. So, Gu Jingnian and Ying Yao also flew in that direction.

By assessing the difficulty of gaining control of the fire dragon, they determined the location of the "fire-starting boy."

It was a lake deep in the woods, with a small hut built on its shore. Several men dressed as servants were adding firewood and fanning the hut.

A person sat cross-legged next to him, eyes closed, with a solemn expression.

He claimed to be a "fire-starting boy," but he was quite old, looking to be in his forties or fifties, with a dark complexion.

Suddenly, he opened his eyes, and in his pupils, two figures flew closer and closer, which were Gu Jingnian and Ying Yao.

"I don't know how to fight."

The boy tending the fire muttered something, then shouted, "Let's go!"

He left without a fight, running towards the lake. He ran all the way to the lake's surface, but instead of falling into the water, he glided across the water until he finally disappeared from sight.

The other servants followed suit, one after another, disappearing in the same spot.

"quick!"

"Get out of the area immediately!"

However, when the last servant reached the lakeside, he suddenly stopped and looked up at Gu Jingnian.

"What are you doing? Get out of here!" someone shouted, turning around.

The servant refused to leave, instead waving his hand repeatedly at Gu Jingnian and shouting, "Young Master Gu, it's me!"

(End of this chapter)