Dugu Yan listened to their conversation, which was full of polite exchanges, and felt a little goosebumps.
"I say, you two, do you really need to be so polite? Calling each other Miss Ye and Mr. Bai, what's wrong? Are you on a blind date?"
Bai Yu coughed, secretly thinking that this girl Dugu Yan really had a sweet mouth; counting it, she had attacked him twice today!
"Ahem, Yan Yan is right. We are friends now, so there's no need to be so formal. You can just call me by my name, and I'll call you Lingling."
Ye Lingling also blushed a little from Dugu Yan's words. She reached out and pinched her good friend. What did she mean by a blind date? Could she even speak properly?
"Then... then fine, I'll call you Bai Yu!"
Dugu Yan slapped Ye Lingling's hand away, looked at her teasingly, and said, "That's right, we're all friends, why be so formal with our addresses? This is better, it shows closeness, doesn't it, Lingling?"
Ye Lingling gritted her teeth, not wanting to bother her. This was definitely not the Dugu Yan she knew! Her Yan Yan wasn't so unreliable!
As the sun was about to set, the three of them finished dinner, chatting and laughing, and then came to the backyard, preparing for Bai Yu to research the Nine Heart Sea Tang.
In Dugu Yan's room, Bai Yu looked at Ye Lingling and said, "Release your Spirit and cast your Spirit Ability on me or Yan Yan. Remember, keep casting, don't stop!"
"Ah? If I do that, my spirit power won't last long!"
Ye Lingling looked astonished, but still followed Bai Yu's instructions, summoning her Spirit and beginning to cast her Spirit Ability.
Bai Yu didn't directly respond to Ye Lingling. Instead, he reached out and grabbed her left wrist, and his spirit power surged in, replenishing Ye Lingling's consumed spirit power.
His other hand extended an index finger and touched the Nine Heart Sea Tang, beginning to carefully sense every change in the Spirit.
"Keep casting your Spirit Ability on us, don't stop. I will replenish your consumption."
Hearing Bai Yu's words, Ye Lingling opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but held it back and continued to repeatedly cast her Spirit Ability.
In fact, this rapid spirit power replenishment was very uncomfortable for Ye Lingling; she felt her body aching and swollen.
And she was too embarrassed to say it, so she could only endure the discomfort and keep casting her Spirit Ability.
Bai Yu looked at Ye Lingling's unnatural expression, a flash of helplessness in his eyes. He knew it was uncomfortable, but he had no choice but to comfort her softly.
"Just bear with it a little longer. To research the Nine Heart Sea Tang Spirit, I need it to be in an extremely active state, so I can only have you continuously cast your Spirit Ability."
Dugu Yan, standing nearby, also saw that her good friend was very uncomfortable. A look of distress flashed in her eyes, but she could only worry helplessly.
After more than half an hour, Bai Yu's eyes lit up, and the corners of his mouth turned up as he laughed.
"Haha, it's done! Lingling, you can put away your Spirit!"
Hearing Bai Yu's words, Ye Lingling quickly dispersed her Spirit, then swayed and fell forward.
Bai Yu reached out and caught Ye Lingling, only then noticing that the girl's face was as pale as snow and her forehead was covered in fine sweat.
He secretly thought he had been a bit careless. Even with spirit power replenishment, such high-intensity Spirit Ability casting was quite taxing on one's mental force.
Just as he released his Spirit, wanting to use his fifth Spirit Ability to help her recover, he felt that the touch on his arm was off.
Bai Yu paused, looked at Ye Lingling's chest with a strange expression, and then continued to cast his Spirit Ability for her.
During this process, Bai Yu blinked and, with a probing tone, said to Ye Lingling, "Lingling, is it... that hot today? It seems there wouldn't be any problem with wearing an extra small piece of clothing, right?"
Ye Lingling leaned against Bai Yu, and when she heard him ask if it was hot, her eyes were still a bit dazed. Then she reacted, and her pale face instantly flushed with blood.
She didn't know where she got the strength, but she struggled to her feet and pulled Dugu Yan, running into the inner room.
Bai Yu watched their actions from behind, raising an eyebrow, secretly thinking they were quite playful, then called out loudly to their retreating figures: "Yan Yan, take Lingling and rest early. Her mental force consumption is not small and needs to recover. I'll go rest next door too. You can call me if anything happens!"
Then he turned and walked out of Dugu Yan's room, muttering to himself as he walked: "Good heavens, it's empty! I didn't see that coming. Lingling, with her cool and distant demeanor, is actually so open? You really can't judge a book by its cover!"
Meanwhile, in Dugu Yan's bedroom, Ye Lingling was almost crazy, constantly scratching at Dugu Yan, her face crimson. If not for the fine sweat on her forehead, one wouldn't be able to tell she was weak.
"Dugu Yan! You're going to die! It's all your fault! If you hadn't insisted on messing around, how could I have forgotten to wear it!"
Dugu Yan felt a bit guilty. Facing her good friend's attacks, she only defended and didn't counterattack, but she didn't soften her words. "What does that have to do with me? I didn't stop you from wearing it. You forgot yourself, can you blame me? I'd even say you wanted to seduce my man!"
Ye Lingling was anxious, exasperated! She wished she could pin Dugu Yan down and give her a set of Awu's Eighteen Forms!
In the room next door, Bai Yu lay on the bed with a troubled expression, pulling his hair, muttering to himself: "Tsk, reconstructing a Spirit requires massive energy to recover, especially the Nine Heart Sea Tang, which is purely life-attributed. It's a bit tricky!"
"I wonder where that woman Gu Yuena is? Is she in Heaven Dou City? Or has she already returned to the Life Lake?"
"I need to go to her and 'borrow' some resources, get two small pieces of life gold. I'll write some notes to lure her out, otherwise, where would I find her!"
Having made his decision, Bai Yu immediately took action and began his grand writing project.
【Today is another joyful day! I have some good news to share: Gang Zi is rootless! Haha, just thinking about it makes me happy!】
【However, he also benefited from the misfortune. After losing his root, the cultivation method I created when I was bored opened its doors to him!】
【After all, my cultivation method requires self-castration to practice. Gang Zi is a gain and a loss. I just wonder if he'll regret it when he's old? Hmm..., may Gang Zi's next life not have eunuchs!】
Among the audience watching the duplicate, except for the three Shrek girls and Ah Yin, everyone else's eyes were wide. How did he become rootless?
Was Bai Yu's lingering thought from his previous life finally starting to echo? Was the large documentary, 'Gang Zi's Suffering,' already being filmed?
Unfortunately, Bai Yu didn't know their thoughts, otherwise, he would definitely jump up and refute.
What echo? It was all Gang Zi's own doing, he didn't intervene at all!
【Today I also visited an old friend, Old Poison Dugu Bo. There, I met the current inheritor of the Ye family.】
【That's the Ye family with the Nine Heart Sea Tang Spirit. Only one person is passed down per generation, and only two can exist at the same time. Only when one dies can it be passed down!】
【This Spirit..., how should I put it? It's difficult to choose, agonizingly hesitant, forced from both sides into a dilemma!】
【When I heard people talk about these things, I felt quite unbearable! I am kind-hearted and cannot bear to see human suffering, so I decided to help them solve this problem!】
When the girls saw this, they all felt an urge to roll their eyes.