Chapter 1407: Must Rescue Them Tonight!
She could not help but glance at Di Fuyi. Though he bit his lips subtly, he looked rather calm. The moonlight shined naturally in his eyes even though their surrounding was dark. He did not look at her but looked up at the sky.
In the starlight sky, how many of them were still shining and how many had died? If each star represented a person, how many stars had fallen without anyone knowing?
Gu Xijiu knew that Di Fuyi was feeling unhappy though he did not show it. She held his hand and realized that his fingers were slightly cold. He seemed distracted, and so he did not hold her back like he usually did.
Gu Xijiu tried pleasing him by leaning her head on his shoulder. "Fuyi, I will refine the medicine for you." Di Fuyi patted her hand and just nodded without saying anything.
They went to Di Fuyi’s former refining room. Gu Xijiu tried cheering herself up and prepared to refine the antidote. As they were running out of time, she needed to concentrate on refining the cure thoroughly. Di Fuyi created a wizardry barrier outside the refining room so that no one could see the light and sounds coming from inside the refining room.
An hour passed, two hours passed.
Gu Xijiu had spent a full day inside the refining room. She had not come out from the room ever since she entered, which meant that she had not gotten any sleep at all.
She could not remember how much medicine she had wasted. It was not until the next evening that she saw ten glittering pills inside the furnace when she opened it.