Chapter 20: Extreme Yin Refined True Gold
The maidservant realized she had misspoken and immediately fell silent.
Li Shun, however, seemed not to notice. He continued rambling, “What you don’t understand is that without the nourishment of essence blood, Lengshan Grass must absorb the radiance of the cold moon to grow. So the closer it is to the surface, the more abundant it should be. There’s no reason for it to extend deeper underground…”
“How annoying!” Le Shi snapped, cutting him off.
She stared at Li Shun for a long while. After careful consideration, she finally took a deep breath and made her decision.
Without warning, she bent down and hoisted the stunned Li Shun onto her back. Her figure shot forward like lightning, racing straight down the steep tunnel toward the pitch-black depths below.
“Aiyo, miss, this really isn’t proper. You’ll wear this old man out…” Li Shun cried out in alarm. Yet his hands moved with perfect familiarity, locking tightly around her neck without the slightest intention of letting go.
Still, as he sensed himself being carried deeper and deeper underground, a trace of gravity surfaced in his eyes.
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Within the Fangcun space.