"Hmm?" Mo Yan frowned, anger instantly appearing on her horse face. She finally realized that she had been played for a fool by Fang Yuan.
"Heh, truly having dog guts that reach the sky, to actually dare deceive your family's grand-aunt!" As she spoke, she stretched out her right hand, about to enter and grab Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan did not retreat a single step, holding his head high and laughing loudly: "Mo Yan, you must think clearly!"
Mo Yan's movements suddenly halted. She still stopped outside the door, her extended right hand hovering in midair, but a trace of hesitation and anger flashed across her face.
There were related explicit stipulations in the clan. Students were protected within the academy, and no one was allowed to trespass into the dormitories to capture students without authorization. Mo Yan only wanted to slightly teach Fang Yuan a lesson today, letting him know and taste some suffering. She absolutely did not want to take the risk of violating the clan rules.
"It would be fine if it were just me alone violating the clan rules. But I am afraid of implicating the family and involving grandfather." Thinking of this, Mo Yan resentfully withdrew her hand.
She looked at Fang Yuan inside the room, her eyes widening round. If the anger in her gaze turned into flames, it could burn Fang Yuan to ashes in an instant.
"I never deceived you. I said I would lead you to find Fang Yuan, and now you have already found him. It seems you have words to say to me." Fang Yuan stood with his hands behind his back, smiling slightly, not fearing the prestige of a Rank 2 Gu Master in the slightest, fearlessly meeting Mo Yan's angry gaze with a stern and imposing manner.
The distance between him and Mo Yan was merely one step away. One person was inside the room, and one person was outside the room.
But it was exactly this kind of distance that became as far away as an uncrossable chasm.
"Hehehe, Fang Yuan ah Fang Yuan, you have certainly researched the clan rules very thoroughly." Mo Yan suppressed her anger, her face completely filled with a cold and sinister smile, "A pity that relying on the clan rules, you can only delay temporarily. It is impossible for you not to exit the dormitory. Your grand-aunt really wants to see exactly how long you can hide!"
Fang Yuan let out a clear laugh, looking disdainfully at Mo Yan: "Then I want to see even more, how long you can block me. Ah, it is already night, I have a bed to sleep in, and you? If my figure is not on the next day's classroom, and the academy elder investigates down, what do you think I will say?"
"You!" Mo Yan flew into a rage, pointing her finger at Fang Yuan, itching to make a move, "Do you truly think I dare not come in to apprehend you?"
Creak.
Fang Yuan completely opened the dormitory door wide. The corners of his mouth outlined a trace of a smile, his eyes as deep as quiet pools. His tone was filled with a certainty of having the situation entirely in his grasp, saying to Mo Yan seemingly provocatively yet seemingly frankly: "Then you make your move."
"Hehehe…" Mo Yan instead calmed down. She narrowed her eyes, looking at Fang Yuan, "You think I will fall for your goading method?"
Fang Yuan shrugged. He had already seen through Mo Yan's disposition.
If he closed the room door, or half-covered it, there was at least half a possibility that Mo Yan would forcibly barge in. But when he intentionally opened the room door completely, it would instead make Mo Yan calm down and have more scruples, making the possibility of forcibly barging in already extremely slim.
Five hundred years of experience had long allowed him to see clearly the weaknesses of human nature.
He grandiosely turned his body around, completely exposing his back in front of Mo Yan. If Mo Yan came to grab him at this moment, it was extremely likely she would succeed in one strike. But Mo Yan stood outside the door without moving, as if there was an invisible massive mountain obstructing her ahead.
Until Fang Yuan sat cross-legged onto the bed, Mo Yan constantly watched resentfully, gnashing her teeth, never making a move from beginning to end.
"This is the pitiable part of humans." Fang Yuan sat cross-legged, looking at Mo Yan standing foolishly outside the door, sighing emotionally in his heart, "Sometimes, what stops people's actions are often not material difficulties, but the shackles of the mind."
In terms of cultivation, Fang Yuan was absolutely not Mo Yan's match at this moment. But she held a Rank 2 cultivation in vain, only able to helplessly watch Fang Yuan, not daring to make a move.
She was only a few steps away from Fang Yuan, the room door wide open, without any obstruction. What truly entangled her hands and feet was herself.
"People try by every means to study, to cognize the world, to know the rules, all to utilize the rules. If one is entangled by the rules, and instead becomes bound hand and foot because of what they have learned, this is the true tragedy." Fang Yuan cast a final glance at Mo Yan, then slowly closed his eyelids, sinking his mind into his primeval sea.
"This Fang Yuan is actually conducting cultivation right in front of my face! Simply not putting me in his eyes at all!!" Seeing this scene, Mo Yan felt a burst of vexation in her chest from anger, almost wanting to vomit blood.
She wished she could charge straight up and immediately give Fang Yuan a few punches!
But she knew she could not.
Mo Yan suddenly felt a trace of regret. Standing outside the door, she had the awkwardness of riding a tiger and finding it hard to get off.
She was absolutely unwilling to just let it go like this, but on the matter of face it was truly unjustifiable. She mobilized forces to come teach Fang Yuan a lesson, but the result was she made herself look disgraced and covered in dirt.
Especially since there was also a domestic slave watching her.
"Truly damn it! This stinky brat Fang Yuan is truly too uncooperative, too treacherous!" Mo Yan thought resentfully, and began to reprimand and curse bitterly outside the door, attempting to goad Fang Yuan out.
"Fang Yuan, you little bastard, if you have guts then come out!"
"Fang Yuan, since you are a man, you must dare to act and dare to take responsibility. Now you are actually acting like a shrinking-head turtle, truly making people despise you!"
"Don't put on an act for your grand-aunt, be sensible and quickly roll out for me."
"You coward, useless trash!!"
Fang Yuan turned a deaf ear, having absolutely not a single trace of response.
Mo Yan cursed for a while, but had none of the refreshing pleasure of cursing people normally, instead feeling increasingly suffocated.
She increasingly felt that she was like a clown, or a shrew. The act of blocking the doorway was truly somewhat losing face.
"Ah ah ah, I'm truly angered to death!" Mo Yan went crazy, finally giving up on the goading method.
"Fang Yuan, you can hide on the first day of the lunar month, but you cannot hide from the fifteenth." She stomped her foot resentfully and left unwillingly. Before leaving, she tossed down another command, "Gao Wan, you stand here for me and stare fixedly to death! Your grand-aunt doesn't believe he won't come out."
"The little one obeys!" The sturdy domestic slave Gao Wan hurriedly agreed, his gaze respectfully sending Mo Yan off. Though in his heart he secretly complained bitterly. The mountain nights were damp and cold, yet he had to bitterly stand guard all night. If not careful he would catch a designated cold wind. This was surely a hard chore.
Swish swish swish…
In the primeval sea, the tide rose and fell, waves generating and dying out.
The green copper-colored primeval essence converged like water, forming wave after wave of tides. Under the mobilization of Fang Yuan's mind, they washed unceasingly towards the surrounding aperture walls.
The aperture walls of a Rank 1 initial stage Gu Master were all white light membranes. At this time, under the impact of the green copper primeval essence, they revealed brilliant light shadows, giving birth to a hard-to-describe wondrous rhyme.
Time flowed away bit by bit, and the water level of the green copper primeval sea was also slowly dropping.
From the original forty-four percent, it dropped to twelve percent.
"For a Gu Master to raise their realm, they must unceasingly consume primeval essence to continuously nourish the aperture. The aperture walls of an initial stage Gu Master are light membranes, the aperture walls of a middle stage Gu Master are water membranes, and upper stage is stone membranes. If I want to advance from initial stage to middle stage, I must wash and nourish the light membrane aperture walls into water membrane aperture walls."
The memories of five hundred years in his past life allowed Fang Yuan to grasp the cultivation of this period like the back of his hand, seeing as clearly as looking at a fire.
He slowly opened his eyes.
Only to see that at this time, it was already deep into the night.
The crescent moon hung high in the night sky, shedding moonlight as pure white as water.
The doorway was wide open, and the moonlight shining in made Fang Yuan associate it with a famous poem on Earth—The bright moonlight before the bed, I suspect it is frost on the ground.
The night breeze moved gently, blowing over a draft of chilling meaning.
Fang Yuan did not have any Gu insects with warmth-preserving functions. Relying solely on the body frame of a fifteen-year-old youth, he could not help but shiver a bit.
The nights in the mountains were still very cold.
"Stinky brat, you finally opened your eyes. How long are you going to cultivate?! Quickly come out, stretching your head is one knife, shrinking your head is also one knife. You hit our family's young master Mo Bei, being taught a lesson by my family's eldest miss is sooner or later a matter of time." Seeing Fang Yuan finally have some movement, the powerful slave Gao Wan who had been continuously standing at the doorway instantly became energetic.
Fang Yuan narrowed his eyes. From the looks of it, that Rank 2 female Gu Master had already left?
"Stinky brat, did you hear me? Quickly roll out for your father. You have a room to stay in and a bed to sleep on, but your father has to stand in this courtyard. If you still don't come out, believe it or not your father will just barge in?!" Seeing Fang Yuan have no reaction, Gao Wan threatened.
Fang Yuan remained entirely unmoved.
"Bastard thing, quickly roll out and surrender without a fight. You offended our Mo branch faction, you won't have good days ahead in the future. Hurry up and kowtow admitting your mistake to the eldest miss, perhaps there is still a possibility of forgiving you." Gao Wan continued to reprimand and curse.
Fang Yuan turned a deaf ear. He leisurely took out a primeval stone from his money pouch and grasped it in the center of his palm. Then he slowly closed his eyes again.
Seeing Fang Yuan actually continue to cultivate, Gao Wan instantly became anxious and cursed loudly: "A mere C grade aptitude like you, at most you'll be nothing more than a Rank 2 Gu Master, what is there to cultivate? Relying solely on you alone, how can you contend with our entire Mo branch faction? Kid, are your ears deaf? Did you hear your grand-uncle speaking or not?!"