The little flame refined three batches of pills.
For a moment, he even doubted whether the purpose of his escape was simply to refine pills for this pair of adulterers.
After all, the Cloud Realm Sect wasn't famous for pill refining; their flying sword crafting was top-notch. Each sect had its own specialties. Once, when Qiu Wuji needed a potion to recover from his exhausted soul, he had to find an insider to switch it. It was only thanks to Chu Ge's mechanical intervention that Elder Yang of their sect suddenly had a burst of inspiration and refined a new batch of pills…
Anyway, in general, when it came to pill refining and medicine making, Yan Qianlie could easily crush the entire Cloud Realm Sect.
He never imagined that his prized skill would now be used as drudgery…
He was refining pills with his own body, while that adulterer was watching others kiss on a strange screen hanging on the wall, each eating a candy with relish.
Unbelievable! He, the Supreme Being, had actually been defeated by such two scoundrels.
Heaven is unjust! Oh, he is Heaven itself…
The little flame, filled with grief and indignation, was refining pills when Chu Ge seemingly casually asked him, "Hey, Qianqian..."
"Don't call me Qianqian!" the little flame cried out indignantly.
"Oh, and Miao Miao?"
"Even if you were the Heavenly Dao, I'd still curse you."
"Alright, Little Flame, why were you in the dark room? Because you sensed a concentration of spiritual energy there?"
"Those people have no spiritual energy at all!" Little Flame said resentfully, "I accidentally saw Zhong Yi having a private conversation with someone, and I felt he had some secret, so I followed him. If I'd known… never mind."
"Secret?" Chu Ge turned his head in surprise, "What private conversation?"
Little Flame recounted Zhong Yi and Du Lianfeng's conversation verbatim, adding her own commentary: "This fart-like spiritual energy, is it even worth investigating? I think even Father God would be better off going into our book world to cultivate himself, and then he'd crush these trash!"
Chu Ge dared not tell him the fact that he couldn't go in… Actually, he wasn't thinking about that right now. What truly concerned him was—Zhong Yi and that Du Lianfeng both believed the spiritual energy resurgence originated in Nanjiang? Or at least, that the recent concentration started in Nanjiang?
What had happened recently that was related to spiritual energy?
"Wasn't it just Yan Qianlie who escaped?"
Thinking along those lines, what happened when Qiu Wuji felt the spiritual energy become denser last time?
She escaped on her own!
Chu Ge's heart skipped a beat, and he turned to look at Qiu Wuji, who was also looking at him.
Both of them had surprise and a certain degree of understanding in their eyes.
Could the spiritual energy revival be related to the world in the book? Each time she emerged, she brought some spiritual energy outflow, causing the spiritual energy in this world to become denser?
But her supernatural abilities were discovered many years ago; Chu Ge hadn't even written the book back then!
Or perhaps the spiritual energy revival itself is unrelated to Chu Ge, but the world in Chu Ge's book is one of the various reasons that cause the spiritual energy to become denser.
If this is the case, then there should be multiple reasons for the spiritual energy revival, and multiple reasons for its increasing density, and the country should be exploring various avenues. And for some reason, Zhong Yi set his sights on Nanjiang many years ago.
Zhong Yi alone was one thing, but other unorthodox individuals had also arrived in Nanjiang… Those people from the anvil were his advance scouts.
"You've done a great job, Old Yan." Chu Ge finally addressed Yan Qianlie with relative solemnity: "Perhaps this is the greatest significance of your escape." Seeing their seriousness, Yan Qianlie seemed to realize that this was likely a crucial clue in the Heavenly Father God's search for the reason why the world in the book could be constructed, and he had inadvertently uncovered a corner…
He felt speechless; this was destiny.
"Go back." Chu Ge picked up the bead containing the small flame and whispered, "Once you get there, you are forbidden from revealing anything about this world. The Heavenly Dao is merely unseen… If I discover any leaks, I will truly erase you."
"I know." Yan Qianlie said calmly, "No need for that last threat. I'm not stupid. In a sense, this is my exploration of the secrets of the Heavenly Dao. How stupid would one have to be to tell others?"
Before he finished speaking, he felt a distorted sense of perspective.
The mere room seemed to distort, magnify, and become an endless, desolate expanse.
The floorboards transformed into blue skies and white clouds, below which stretched the boundless Nine Provinces and ocean.
In the southern part of Nine Provinces lay a volcano, its crater leading directly to the deepest depths of the earth—the location of his Heart of Flames.
When Yan Qianlie regained his senses, he was already within the Heart of Flames, the small bead floating quietly within the flames, as if nothing had ever happened.
Running out into the rain, being tortured, and being captured—it all seemed like a dream.
True Heavenly Dao power. Yan Qianlie admitted that even if he broke through and ascended to the Heavenly Realm, he would be far from reaching this level… This was a Heavenly Dao that even brought the Heavenly Realm under its control. His previous "challenge to the Heavenly Dao" now seemed truly presumptuous—at least within the scope of this world.
But thankfully… Now that I am "patrolling on behalf of Heaven," who dares to peek into the heavens?
What I cannot do, you cannot do either!
...
"If you really let him go back like this, are you confident you can absolutely control him?" Qiu Wuji was asking Chu Ge. Chu Ge smiled: "Sure. Since my breakthrough, I can feel my control... Now I've left a 'Dao Beacon' on him, so I can immediately detect any rash actions."
Qiu Wuji said: "You've left something like that on me before, haven't you? You always see me right away!"
"No..." Chu Ge said: "It's purely because, in that world, you were the one I cared about most..."
Qiu Wuji looked at him for a while, then pouted: "You just want to trick me into kissing you again."
"Ahem." Chu Ge coughed: "Kissing is a given..."
"Can't you think about something serious?" Qiu Wuji said irritably: "What do you think about Zhong Yi and the others?"
You're the one who wasn't thinking about anything serious, yet you can twist a casual remark into tricking me into kissing you. I didn't mean that at all... Chu Ge was both amused and exasperated, and simply said: "Well... first of all, I want to move."
Qiu Wuji was taken aback: "Move?"
"Yes, we can go to the dark room, we can be with Zhong Yi..." "Dating is fine... but I think it's best not to make our residence too public, to avoid trouble. That's the first point." Chu Ge shook Qiu Wuji's hand, "Qiuqiu, you know me, I just want to live a peaceful life with you, I don't want to get involved in too much trouble. The biggest advantage of this information is that it allows us to avoid and stay away." Qiu Wuji pouted, "I think you're just saying that. You've gotten yourself involved in a lot of trouble, you can't sit still like a monkey." Chu Ge smiled awkwardly, "Well, there's always the mask. It's the Calabash Brothers who can't sit still, what does that have to do with me, Chu Ge?" Qiu Wuji: "..."
"Besides, we also need to find out the truth indirectly, I think the current level is just right, not too deep, but still keeping things connected."
"You always have twisted logic." Qiu Wuji said irritably, "That's the first point, what's the second?" Chu Ge pointed to the alchemy furnace on the ground, making the room seem even more cramped.
He gently embraced Qiu Wuji, softly saying, "This house is too small; it can't house a whole litter of piglets." Qiu Wuji's heart fluttered slightly; the thought of arguing vanished instantly.
The rain outside was still heavy.
His embrace was still so warm.
It really was too small here. Even if she wanted to buy a larger piglet toy to play with, there wasn't enough space…
What would she do if she really had a litter of piglets?
No, who wants to have piglets with him!
Chu Ge's murmured voice reached her ears: "Qiuqiu, let's go look at houses when the rain stops, okay?"
Despite inwardly complaining, Qiu Wuji still heard herself subconsciously answer, "Okay." The voice was so gentle that she couldn't believe it was Qiu Wuji speaking.
She felt her face burning, and as if trying to save face, she said, "Even if it rains, we can still go out. Do you think you're some delicate little flame?" Chu Ge chuckled: "Okay, let's go now."