Chapter 373: You're All Bullying Me!

Controlling the heat is like cooking—making a dish is easy, but making it well is hard.

Especially for complex dishes, the control of heat must be extremely precise.

The Haoling Peiyuan Pill in the cauldron was a dish with an extremely complex procedure. To cook it required great effort to control the heat.

Xiao Ruyan had already expended a lot of energy before, and now she was naturally struggling even more.

However, Xiao Ruyan's perseverance earned Ye Yuan's respect. Even when her yuan power and soul power were at their limits, she stubbornly held on.

"Condense the pill!" Xiao Ruyan shouted delicately, and a faint explosive sound came from the cauldron.

"Second Miss!"

"Miss Ruyan!"

As soon as the pill was formed, Xiao Ruyan finally couldn't hold on and collapsed softly. Ye Yuan's figure flickered, and he caught Xiao Ruyan.

"Second Miss, are you all right?" Manager Tong said.

Held by Ye Yuan, Xiao Ruyan seemed unaware, her eyes fixed on the cauldron.

"Manager... Tong..." Xiao Ruyan was already weak and couldn't speak.

Manager Tong understood and quickly went to retrieve the pill.

But when he looked, he was startled. A finished pill lay quietly in the cauldron. Had Xiao Ruyan really succeeded in refining it?

"Second Miss, you really refined it! It really is a Haoling Peiyuan Pill!" Manager Tong said excitedly, holding the pill.

Although Xiao Ruyan was weak, a satisfied smile finally appeared on her face, and then she closed her eyes and fainted.

...

After who knows how long, Xiao Ruyan suddenly woke up with a start and sat up immediately.

"You... why are you here!" Xiao Ruyan exclaimed.

She sat up and saw Ye Yuan playing with the Haoling Peiyuan Pill she had refined, a look of disdain on his face.

For some reason, anger surged in Xiao Ruyan's heart.

Ye Yuan turned around, looked at Xiao Ruyan, and smiled, "Hey, if it weren't for me, you wouldn't be able to go to that Pill Duel Conference the day after tomorrow. Instead of thanking me, you yell at me?"

Xiao Ruyan looked suspicious, not understanding what Ye Yuan was talking about.

But she quickly discovered that not only had her yuan power fully recovered, but her soul power had also reached its peak.

This... how is this possible?

What did Ji Qing do? She had clearly overdrawn her soul power during the pill refining, and it would take days of rest to recover. How was she completely fine now?

"Was... it you who helped me? What did you do? Why are my soul power and yuan power fully recovered?" Xiao Ruyan frowned.

"I didn't do much. I just happen to know a soul technique that uses one's own soul to nourish another's, achieving a harmonious blend. I hadn't tried it before, but today it worked quite well!" Ye Yuan said with some satisfaction.

But as soon as Xiao Ruyan heard this, her pretty face flushed bright red, and a fierce killing intent enveloped Ye Yuan.

What Ye Yuan described was no soul technique; it was defiling her!

Dao partners used this method to dual cultivate and nourish each other's souls.

When Xiao Ruyan heard that Ye Yuan had used this method to restore her soul, her killing intent became overwhelming.

"Boom!"

Ye Yuan flew away, and the table he had been sitting on turned to dust.

"You lecher, go to hell!" Xiao Ruyan's voice trembled.

"Hey hey, just a joke, no need for this, right?" Ye Yuan shouted as he fled.

"A joke? You call this a joke? Don't run! I'll kill you!" Xiao Ruyan was completely berserk.

"Hey, I was really joking! If you keep this up, I won't be polite!" Ye Yuan dodged a palm strike and shouted again.

"Fine, I'd like to see how you won't be polite!"

With her Condensation Crystal late-stage strength, how could Xiao Ruyan fear a Condensation Crystal second-layer threat?

But the next second, she broke down.

Her palm whistled toward Ye Yuan's face. But at that moment, a pill suddenly appeared in front of her—it was the Haoling Peiyuan Pill she had painstakingly refined!

This Haoling Peiyuan Pill was meant to help Xiao Rufeng recover his strength. She would rather exhaust her soul power and miss the battle herself than destroy it. How could she bear to ruin it?

Helpless, Xiao Ruyan had to avoid the pill and attack Ye Yuan from other angles.

But no matter how she attacked, the pill accurately blocked her, making her unable to strike!

Xiao Ruyan trembled with rage, and finally couldn't help but sob quietly.

"Hey... don't cry! If someone sees, they'll think I actually did something to you," Ye Yuan said, realizing he had gone too far when he saw Xiao Ruyan crying.

A man's weakness is a woman's tears, and Ye Yuan was no exception.

He had little experience comforting girls and was at a loss.

His words only made Xiao Ruyan cry even harder.

"Wah... everyone bullies me! The elders of the Xiao family bully me, those two bastards from the Huang and Xue families bully me, and now even you brat bully me, wah..."

Ye Yuan was very embarrassed. He had really only been joking. He didn't expect that although Xiao Ruyan seemed strong, she was still a woman after all!

"Ahem, I... I really didn't do anything to you. I just gave you two pills. Try to refine the medicinal power yourself; it should still be there," Ye Yuan said awkwardly.

Xiao Ruyan's sobbing finally quieted down a bit. She looked at Ye Yuan suspiciously and said, "Really?"

"Ah, just try the medicinal power yourself! One pill restores yuan power, the other restores soul power," Ye Yuan explained.

Xiao Ruyan skeptically circulated her yuan power and soul power and indeed felt two streams of medicinal power flowing inside her.

The medicinal power was very gentle, making her feel very comfortable.

Xiao Ruyan was quite surprised. What kind of pill had such a miraculous effect?

She suddenly remembered the moment when Ye Yuan had interrupted her during the pill refining. She had thought he was deliberately distracting her. Could it be intentional?

He knew there was a problem with her heat control method and was giving her a hint?

This... how is this possible?

The Haoling Peiyuan Pill formula didn't mention how to control the heat, so even her father couldn't refine this third-grade pill.

And this formula was passed down from the Xiao ancestors. No other force knew the formula. How did Ji Qing know?

Looking at Ye Yuan again, Xiao Ruyan suddenly felt she couldn't see through this youth.

"That hand seal, did you do it on purpose?" Xiao Ruyan asked tentatively.

Ye Yuan looked confused and said, "What hand seal? What are you talking about?"

"When I was refining the Haoling Peiyuan Pill, didn't you cast a hand seal?"

"Oh, that? I was actually trying to play a prank, but it didn't work. How boring!" Ye Yuan said with a look of displeasure.