Ji Nanhong couldn't help but carefully examine Chen Guan's features.
When she first t Chen Guan, she hadn't been particularly impressed. He had a decent face, but compared to Qin Ziyu's striking handsoness with his sword-like eyebrows and starry eyes, Chen Guan seed to lack that imdiate soul-stirring impact that made one gasp in admiration at first glance.
But upon closer inspection now, she realized each of Chen Guan's facial features was actually exquisitely proportioned - one might even call them delicate. The reason he didn't appear stunning initially was because his eyebrows stole attention from his other features.
His eyebrows were unusually thick and dark, almost suspiciously so, as if drawn on with heavy ink. They were much broader than average, yet their lines weren't sharply defined but rather softly curved.
These distinctive eyebrows gave Chen Guan's entire countenance a gentler, more approachable quality - less striking but radiating a warm, brotherly charm from next door.
Ignoring those bold eyebrows, Ji Nanhong concluded Chen Guan could absolutely be considered handso, not inferior to Qin Ziyu at all. With the eyebrows, while his looks lost so edge, they remained comfortably above average and far from unpleasant.
Placing a finger horizontally an inch before her eyes to block Chen Guan's eyebrows, Ji Nanhong felt her heartbeat unexpectedly accelerate.
The transformative power of those eyebrows exceeded her expectations. Without them, Chen Guan beca soone who could make her pulse race just by looking at him.
A thought crossed Ji Nanhong's mind - having so romantic entanglent with such a man might prove rather pleasant, at least not disagreeable, perhaps even sothing to anticipate.
Yet the mont she lowered her finger, that feeling noticeably diminished.
After repeated observations, Ji Nanhong realized the presence or absence of those eyebrows completely altered Chen Guan's aura into two distinct personas.
Without the eyebrow buffer, Chen Guan's handsoness carried a dangerous allure - not in a negative sense implying wickedness, but rather like a moth fatally drawn to fla despite knowing the peril.
The eyebrows completely neutralized that dangerous charm, replacing it with harmless gentleness that unfortunately also reduced his appeal to won.
This was Ji Nanhong's first realization that re eyebrows could so drastically transform soone's appearance and aura.
"If Chen Guan trimd his eyebrows into sharper, more angular shapes, he might surpass even Qin Ziyu in attractiveness," she mused.
Yet this thought made her sigh softly. While Chen Guan's looks were fine, in their world a man's appearance wasn't the deciding factor.
Especially for soone of her background - unless she found a cultivation prodigy, any relationship would inevitably drift apart over ti, dood from the start.
Not due to character flaws or fickleness, but simply because their life paths would lack intersection points, straining even the deepest affection.
From what Ji Nanhong could tell, Chen Guan's cultivation talent and family background seed average at best. Otherwise, having entered this place at the sa ti as Qin Ziyu, their power disparity wouldn't be so vast.
"Though we could never truly be together, given our current predicant... having mories with such a man wouldn't be unpleasant," Ji Nanhong thought, cheeks faintly flushed as she suppressed her emotions. Aloud she said: "Under normal circumstances, even with dicine, my injury would take ten to fifteen days to heal. In this place, every extra minute ans extra danger. We must find a way to recover quickly."
"Even your good dicine can't cure it? What else can we do?" Chen Guan responded, though a passage from those earlier words ca to mind.
Among the dual cultivation techniques was one called "Ten Thousand Things Rebirth" - describing how all things mutually generate and restrain, how yin and yang complent and nourish each other, achieving miraculous effects like regenerating bones and reviving the dead. Though he wondered if this was exaggerated.
"Is Ji Nanhong planning to use as her dual cultivation tool for this Ten Thousand Things Rebirth thod?" Chen Guan speculated silently.
"Chen Guan, did you morize those words earlier?" Ji Nanhong asked impatiently, frustrated by his unchanged expression. Despite her willingness, as a woman she still hoped the man would take initiative.
"Too many characters, and that shadow distracted . I haven't studied them closely," Chen Guan lied, unwilling to voice his suspicions.
Though Ji Nanhong was undoubtedly beautiful - radiant and athletic - he currently lacked such inclinations. In this perilous situation, who would have the leisure for such thoughts? Chen Guan wasn't so lust-driven fool.
Moreover, he doubted this was truly the Ancestral Emperor's "Epang Scripture" at all - its efficacy remained unproven.
Seeing Chen Guan's reaction, Ji Nanhong adopted an air of composure. "Those words described a thod called Ten Thousand Things Rebirth that could potentially heal my foot injury rapidly. Currently, it's our only option."
"Then use it quickly," Chen Guan said with innocent eyes.
Exasperated, Ji Nanhong continued: "Ten Thousand Things Rebirth requires dual cultivation as foundation. It needs two people. If you're willing to help... I can offer compensation."
Chen Guan thought sarcastically: "Now I'm just a tool to her. I'm not so paid escort - what does she an by 'compensation'?"
As he ntally scoffed, Ji Nanhong produced sothing from her robes: "This is a supre secret technique core called 'Ghost God Steps' - a movent technique. Help this once, and it's yours."
"Ghost God Steps from North Mound Blessed Land?" Chen Guan swallowed his initial refusal.
He'd heard of Ghost God Steps - among supre movent techniques, it ranked within the top ten.
There was a saying: "First step startles ghosts, second step shocks gods, third step baffles both" describing this technique. In unpredictability, Ghost God Steps stood peerless.
Unfortunately, only the Ghost Emperor of North Mound Blessed Land produced these rare cores - so few existed that reportedly fewer than ten cultivators worldwide knew Ghost God Steps.
Most supre secret techniques had similarly limited distribution.
The key was this could be used imdiately after first awakening, without waiting for second awakening.
Chen Guan never imagined Ji Nanhong would possess this. Why wouldn't she use such a precious technique herself? Why offer it just to purchase him as her dual cultivation tool?
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