My Fiancée is Thoroughly Impressed With Me

Xie Jian was baffled. How was Lan Xiang practicing the Spiritual Pill Refinement Technique? What's more, it seemed to be more polished!

Lan Xiang opened his eyes as he stopped. "Jian'er, what are you staring at? My handsome face?"

Instead of her usual rebuttal, Xie Jian stayed silent.

"Hello? Earth to Xie Jian?"

"How are you practicing the Spiritual Pill Refinement Technique?" Xie Jian walked closer.

"Oh, this?" Lan Xiang started it again, this time with Xie Jian watching more closely.

A thin, liquidated substance surrounded the furnace, flowing through its paths on the outside of the furnace. Inside, a whirlpool generated, heat fuming through the transparent lid.

Xie Jian widened her eyes once more!

Water element? But I thought...

She recalled the fight that Lan Xiang had just recently. He utilized an unknown combat technique which, to her, was an amazing technique. Unfortunately, it was of the fire element, meaning she couldn't really use it even if she had asked Lan Xiang for it.

The Celestial River Stream was water element, after all.

As such, she concluded that Lan Xiang was cultivating using a fire element cultivation technique.

But now, with his skillful use of the water element to practice what seemed to be a better version of the Spiritual Pill Refinement technique, Xie Jian now had two questions in her mind.

One: how is Lan Xiang able to utilize both the water element and the fire element?

Two: how is he able to practice the Spiritual Pill Refinement technique, which he was not in possession of, after reading it for only 13 seconds?

Yes, she counted...

Breaking Xie Jian out of her daze was Lan Xiang suddenly talking. "This isn't the Spiritual Pill Refinement technique. I'm practicing according to Grandpa Xie's notes."

"Grandpa's notes? But..."

Lan Xiang grabbed the notebook from his desk. "Look at his notes. They're nonsensical, and seem to have no connection in any way to pill refinement, right?"

Xie Jian nodded.

"But what you don't notice is that... these actually tackle the crux of the problems! The insight filled within these notes were enough to tell me, directly, the right way to refine pills!" Lan Xiang was full of passion as he lied his way through.

What was he going to say? He had memorized the Spiritual Pill Refinement technique in just one glance?

Naturally, Lan Xiang simulated the Spiritual Pill Refinement in his mind and noticed the similarities between it and the Pill Refinement Notes Revised ver.

That was why he had rehearsed the moment when Xie Jian questioned him about it.

"Eh, really?" Xie Jian seemed convinced, but she couldn't help but think that there was something wrong with his explanation...

"Can I read the notes?"

Xie Jian had read her grandfather's notes before, and she thought that everything was utter rubbish. However, right now, she wanted to read them again.

Lan Xiang had no excuse. He handed her the original notebook.

When Xie Jian read the first note, her eyes widened. "So that's what it means...!"

What? She comprehended it? Lan Xiang was amazed.

"That was a lie, I've no idea what insight this is supposed to have." Xie Jian couldn't believe that Lan Xiang was able to derive a better version of the Spiritual Pill Refinement from those notes!

"Ahem, what does the first point say?"

"1. Don't make the furnace explode. PS: I have no idea how to not make it explode." Xie Jian almost laughed while reading it. Wasn't this common sense? Moreover, knowing how to prevent an explosion is vital to being a pill refiner!

"You see, the insight here is... there is no way to not make it explode! That is why, you must make it explode, like so!"

Lan Xiang did an "explosion" inside the furnace.

Xie Jian peeked through the furnace. "That's... why has the water become clearer?"

What? That bullcrap really worked?

Then, all the things I've been taught in school are wrong?

Xie Jian's worldview was being severely challenged right now.

"The second one." Lan Xiang was kind of enjoying fooling Xie Jian into thinking the notebook was valuable.

"Um, 2. Do NOT eat the pill while refining."

At first Xie Jian wanted to laugh, but now she was thinking deeply about what kind of meaning it had.

"That's simple. See, the normal pill refining process involves nothing but mixing the ingredients together and solidifying them into a sphere. And in the middle of the process, the so-called pill is nothing but a blob, right?"

"Y, yeah?"

"This note means that you cannot let the water 'eat' up the blob, or the pill's effects will be diluted, or at worst, it wouldn't work at all!" Lan Xiang was also convinced with his own explanation.

Truthfully, as he had not attended any classes related to qi or cultivation, all the information he had about pill refining was either from webnovels, the Pill Refining Notes Revised ver., or just straight out of his ass.

Xie Jian thought for a bit. "This seems..."

Lan Xiang clicked his tongue. Too farfetched, huh?

"...like it would improve the pill's effects! So that's what I've been doing wrong!" Xie Jian's eyes widened in realization.

She now looked at her grandfather's notes in a different light. What profound insight, straight to the crux of the matter! Only a genius would be able to decipher such a thing.

Lan Xiang almost burst out laughing. She really believed him, huh? But she had no choice to, for the evidence was right in front of her. The way he practiced pill refining was solid proof.

Xie Jian continued to question Lan Xiang about the rest of the notes while he practiced the pill refining technique. She put aside the question about the element of his cultivation for now.

.....

Monday.

Lan Xiang arrived at the classroom, his eyes sinking deeper into his face.

He plopped down on his chair and closed his eyes. Not long after, a snoring sound came out of his mouth. Before his drool could drip, he suddenly sprang up.

"Stop poking me..." Lan Xiang looked displeased.

Ren Weiwei stuck out her tongue. "Geez, why do you look so exhausted?"

"I'll tell you honestly, I was practicing pill refining all night."

"Pill refining? What for? You want to take that elective?"

"Nothing, I just wanna make pills, sell them to rich people."

"Aren't you one of the rich people?" Ren Weiwei had seen Lan Xiang's house before. Although she hadn't been inside, just the exterior was enough to make her gasp. And from what she knew, he lived there alone!

"Uh, I don't have that much money. I only have a big house, my father doesn't give me much allowance." Lan Xiang lamented the fact that half of his money was gone, no thanks to the old man that tried to scam him in Fanzhu Street. Thankfully, he reaped a great harvest of techniques in exchange.

"How's your progress then?" The Lan Xiang that Ren Weiwei remembered always complained that he wasn't good at anything. She was worried that he was disheartened because of his lack of talent in pill refining.

"Hm, I'm doing pretty good."

"Oh, you're confident this time?"

"Well, I haven't actually tried making a pill yet, but my control of the technique is pretty good."

As the two talked, Lu Xifa walked in, covered in what looked like sweat.

"Xifa? Why're you so sweaty?" Ren Weiwei was confused. Lu Xifa didn't look that exhausted.

"Huh? Oh, nothing..."

Lan Xiang glanced, and saw some fine white powder on Lu Xifa's shoulder, before it melted into water.

"...Snow? There's no snow in this area."