bioinnovel Chapter 106 Brother, what are you thinking?
Chapter 106 Brother, what are you thinking?
Gu Yan: "..."
How should I put this?
Of course he could have dodged it, so why didn't he?
Even though he had no desire for women in this life, he was still a man, and he still had a heart that cherished women. Although Gu Yan had no interest in women like Chen Yujing, Song Yan, Su Ningxue, and Xu Ruolan, he didn't want to embarrass them too much, and sometimes he even felt sorry for them.
Ultimately, they didn't fall in love with him; they were simply captivated by his innate abilities and couldn't help themselves.
He knew, of course, that doing so would create anticipation among them, but it was also difficult to say the heartless words. He was quite firm in rejecting Empress Fuyao back then; was that because his character at the time was Li He?
He feels no psychological pressure in rejecting men; even if they were beaten to death, he would still feel okay about it. It seems like he's being a bit too hypocritical. Perhaps he should reflect on himself.
"Okay, I'll remember to avoid it next time," Gu Yan said.
Dugu Xun looked at him, remained silent for a long while, and then asked, "Besides hugging you, what else did she do?"
Gu Yan: "Brother, what are you thinking about? Nothing, nothing at all."
"Really?"
"real."
"You still call her Sister Yujing."
She's older than me.
"Aren't we not familiar with each other?"
Gu Yan: "..."
Silence fell over the pine forest once more.
Dugu Xun stared at Gu Yan, his attitude one of getting to the bottom of things.
"She told me to call her that," Gu Yan said.
Dugu Xun said irritably, "She told you to call her that, and you did. How can you be so obedient? I asked you to come to Youyun Mountain, and you weren't this obedient then. You clearly promised me, and I've been waiting for you for months without seeing a trace of you."
He had assumed that after the New Year, at most a month later, Gu Yan would come to find him. That would be the most beautiful time of year on Youyun Mountain, with thousands of peaks and valleys covered in a sea of fragrant snow, perfect for admiring plum blossoms. But the flowers had all faded, and she still hadn't come.
Did you agree to it?
Gu Yan thought back carefully and remembered that when they used the teleportation array, he had casually agreed. But wasn't that just a polite remark? To Gu Yan, that invitation was equivalent to "let's have dinner together next time" or "come visit often when you have time." How could he have taken it seriously?
"Brother, have you been waiting for me for a long time? I thought you were just being polite," Gu Yan said innocently.
Upon hearing this, Dugu Xun felt an urge to strangle the person in front of him. However, the moonlight shone through the shadows of the trees, illuminating the young man. His incomparably handsome face was like a flawless flower blooming in the cold mist, breathtakingly beautiful, and Dugu Xun couldn't muster any anger.
"Then, I'm inviting you now, will you come with me?" Dugu Xun's voice was gentle.
Gu Yan looked at him and said, "I'm not going."
Dugu Xun: "..."
Gu Yan said, "I need to go into seclusion for a while."
This sounds like an explanation.
"The Dugu family has plenty of places for you to cultivate in seclusion," Dugu Xun said.
Gu Yan still said, "I'm not going."
Dugu Xun: "..."
What to do? Suddenly, I had the urge to kill him again. But he seemed so perfect, there was no one more perfect in the world, it would be such a waste for him to die.
"I want to go home," Gu Yan said.
Upon hearing this, Dugu Xun was furious and laughed coldly: "Are you a newly hatched chick? Go home, go home! You're nineteen, not a three-year-old anymore. Why do you always want to go home?"
Gu Yan looked at Dugu Xun without speaking, and Dugu Xun also remained silent. The two of them just stared at each other.
Why is Gu Yan unwilling to go to Youyun Mountain?
Gu Yan was actually quite interested in the lair of the Youyun Dugu family, one of the nine most mysterious forces on the Miluo Continent. He figured he could gain quite a bit there. However, the Dugu family's lair didn't just house one old monster at the Spirit Venerable level. What if they harbored ill intentions?
Although he possessed many treasures and trump cards, he could only flee when facing an old monster at the Spirit Venerable level. He could escape from one, but whether he could escape from two or three was another matter.
He was able to successfully seal the evil god Umir entirely because Umir was blinded by lust. He was actually powerless against Umir. He didn't use his own skills to put Umir into the Demon Refining Pot; he used sweet words to trick Umir into crawling into the pot himself, and then sealed him away.
He told Umir that he only submitted to the strong, and if she dared to go into the Demon Refining Pot and come out on her own, he would willingly become her partner.
This fool probably realized that the Demon Refining Pot was extraordinary, but she didn't know that it was more terrifying than she imagined. Blinded by lust, she actually went for it.
Gu Yan seized the opportunity to place a seal on him, but even so, he lost all his cultivation forcibly sealing her. When Umir resisted in the Demon Refining Pot, even a wisp of energy that escaped shattered his primordial spirit, almost killing him completely.
He couldn't expect all the Spirit Venerable level monsters in the Dugu family to be idiots like Wumir, so unless he cultivated to the Integration stage, he wouldn't go to the Dugu family's lair.
After staring at Gu Yan for several seconds, Dugu Xun looked away and said helplessly, "Fine, fine, whatever you want. If you don't want to go, you don't have to."
After saying that, he turned around and looked at Gu Yan again:
"You've already reached the Spirit Emperor realm in just a few months. You're a monster."
Even as he said this, Dugu Xun felt a pang of jealousy. But as he spoke, he quickly realized why Gu Yan was unwilling to go to Youyun. A nineteen-year-old Spirit Emperor—anyone would want to dig out his secrets. If his family's old fogies really had designs on him…
Dugu Xun's expression turned serious. He looked at Gu Yan and said:
"You were right not to go; it was I who was inconsiderate."
Having said this, he looked into the distance, his robes fluttering in the wind, and said:
"It's time for me to go into seclusion and attempt to break through to the Spirit Venerable Realm."
Dugu Xun tossed a mustard seed bag to Gu Yan, who caught it instinctively. Before she could even see what was inside, Dugu Xun turned and vanished into the night.
Gu Yan looked down at the mustard seed bag in her hand, scanned it with her divine sense, and showed surprise.
Inside are 105 Soul-Gathering Grasses, 45 Soul-Nourishing Flowers, 36 Dragon Soul Grasses, 18 Yuan Soul Fruits, and dozens of other rare and precious materials that are beneficial to the soul.
The value of these things far exceeds what Gu Yan has gained during this period. Considering that he made a fortune in Yue Kingdom by taking advantage of the coronation ceremony, and then took advantage of the opportunity to detoxify Shen Lihua and kill Chen Quan, the emperor of Ruohe, he still couldn't compare to the mustard seed bag that Dugu Xun casually threw over.
Youyun Dugu is indeed a man of profound knowledge and experience.
Gu Yan stared at the mustard seed bag for more than ten seconds, then put it into his storage ring. He then returned to the city lord's mansion. Upon seeing him, Chen Yujing nervously asked:
"Where's Dugu Xun? Did he do anything to you? Are you alright?"
Chen Yujing looked Gu Yan up and down and breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that he was unharmed and did not look injured at all.
"Where did Dugu Xun take you? Where is he?" Chen Yujing asked.
"He's gone. Sister Yujing, I have something to tell you," Gu Yan said.
Chen Yujing listened and looked at Gu Yan very seriously: "Go on."