But after that night, Ye Liuyun suddenly seemed to change his temperament. The boy who originally couldn't sit still barely went out anymore.
He locked himself in his room every day, never stepping outside the door, making it difficult even for Lin Aoxue to see him.
Moreover, he started messing around with Medicinal Herbs every day, seemingly having fallen in love with Alchemy. He had his family purchase many different Medicinal Herbs, confusing the Ye Family greatly.
But as the Ye Family's only son, his status in the household was probably even higher than that of their Old Master; he basically got whatever he wanted.
However, when he was performing Alchemy, he often talked to himself, and no one knew who he was speaking to. But judging by his expression, he seemed quite happy.
In any case, it was much better than the constantly gloomy look he had before.
These days continued for seven years. This year, Ye Liuyun turned twelve.
One day, a loud boom suddenly echoed from Ye Liuyun's room.
Subsequently, a large amount of pink smoke seeped out of the room. Why did this smoke feel so improper?
"Cough, cough, cough... Damn it, what happened? Old Hag, is your Alchemy reliable or not? Why did the Furnace Exploded?"
The door opened, and a very handsome girl, dressed in men's clothes, ran out while cursing.
It was just that no one knew who she was calling the Old Hag.
Actually, this person who looked remarkably like a girl was the twelve-year-old Ye Liuyun. But how had he grown over these years? Why was his appearance becoming increasingly delicate?
"That shouldn't be right? This Palace observed your Alchemy for a long time just now, and there shouldn't have been any problems. Why did the furnace explode?"
Just then, the Copper Ring on Ye Liuyun's right finger suddenly lit up.
Following this, a silver-haired woman in green robes with white hair and an ethereal aura appeared beside Ye Liuyun.
Was this seeing a ghost in broad daylight? Or a female ghost?
"Hey, Old Hag, are you trying to fool me? You said your Alchemy absolutely couldn't cause a furnace explosion, but didn't it just explode?" Ye Liuyun complained angrily.
But as Ye Liuyun spoke, he suddenly froze, because he felt something was wrong with his throat—like something was stuck, making his voice sound strange.
"Cough, cough, cough. Hey, what's wrong with my throat? Old Hag, doesn't my voice sound a bit strange?" Ye Liuyun felt something was off about his voice.
The Mysterious Woman looked at Ye Liuyun before her, and her eyes suddenly trembled, because she seemed to have discovered something very wrong.
Ye Liuyun saw the woman remain silent, his expression growing stranger. Then, as if sensing something, he instinctively reached his hand between his legs.
"Huh? This? What's going on?" Ye Liuyun's expression drastically changed, and he suddenly had a terrible premonition.
He instinctively looked at the woman, who was watching Ye Liuyun with a somewhat sympathetic gaze.
This look made Ye Liuyun even more uneasy.
"Hey, Fourth Young Master, what's wrong? What happened?" Just then, a group of servants rushed over.
But before they could enter the courtyard, they were met with an angry shout from Ye Liuyun, because he was extremely unhappy right now.
"Get lost! Who told you to come here?"
Under Ye Liuyun's angry shout, the servants immediately smiled awkwardly and retreated.
As for Ye Liuyun, seeing that the smoke in the room had dissipated, he quickly returned to his room with a gloomy expression and tightly shut the door.
"Old Hag, you've ruined me! What exactly happened?" Ye Liuyun asked, forcibly suppressing the panic in his heart.
Something major seemed to have happened to Ye Liuyun.
"Huh? Maybe the Alchemy didn't fail; maybe it succeeded. And you accidentally absorbed the Medicine's Efficacy, causing your Body Underwent a Mutation. I think you should check yourself thoroughly," the Mysterious Woman said, slightly embarrassed.
Hearing this, Ye Liuyun quickly returned to the room, took off his clothes, and checked himself in the mirror.
After one look, Ye Liuyun was utterly dumbfounded.
"Oh heavens, how did I turn into this?"
The body reflected in the mirror was not that of a boy at all, but the body of a newly developing young girl.
In other words, Ye Liuyun had no idea what she had concocted while refining medicine, but she had changed her own sex.
This was a colossal joke, an utter absurdity.
As for this woman in green robes with silver hair, her background was extraordinary. She claimed to be an Immortal from the Immortal Realm, named Lin Qingyou.
Because she fought with an enemy in the Immortal Realm and nearly died, only a portion of her soul attached itself to a Bronze Ring, falling into the Human Realm, where Ye Liuyun picked it up.
Ye Liuyun started learning medicine refinement because she listened to her. The woman told Ye Liuyun that her aptitude was poor and she couldn't cultivate immortality, but if she followed her advice and took the Path of Medicine, she might become a Medicine Immortal.
However, the night he first saw this woman, he was nearly scared to death. Who wouldn't be afraid if someone appeared by their bedside late at night?
It could now be confirmed that Ye Liuyun's body had indeed transformed into a female body.
"Damn it, no, I have to find a way to refine an Antidote." Ye Liuyun quickly put on her clothes and rushed to check how many Medicinal Herbs she had just fused.
To refine an Antidote, she first had to figure out the Prescription.
Unfortunately, even though Ye Liuyun found the Prescription she had just refined and then reverse-engineered an Antidote, the result was that she still couldn't restore her body.
Ye Liuyun was going crazy. After struggling for several days without sleep, she finally gave up.
She felt that the Heavens were playing a joke on her.
A few days later, Ye Liuyun lay weakly on her bed.
"It's over, I can't change back. Old Hag, you've ruined me! I hate you. Are you deliberately trying to disgust me?" Ye Liuyun muttered with a mournful face.
"Eh? Well, hehe, kid, you can't blame This Palace for it. You were bored and mixed the Medicinal Herbs randomly yourself. Since things are this way, don't worry too much about it. So what if you became a woman? It's a small matter, a small matter. Besides, your Cultivation Technique succeeded!" Lin Qingyou chuckled awkwardly.
"What good is refining it successfully? I'm a woman now, and you're telling me not to worry about it? What if my family finds out?" Ye Liuyun twitched her mouth.
The day after she changed sex due to refining medicine, she successfully mastered the mysterious Cultivation Technique that woman had taught her.
"Don't worry, with This Palace here, I guarantee they won't find out." Lin Qingyou said seriously.
Ye Liuyun was going crazy; she felt her future was utterly bleak.
"Liuyun, Liuyun, what are you doing? Come out and play with me! Stop fiddling with those bottles and jars all day." Just as Ye Liuyun was getting a headache, the voice of a young girl came from outside the door.
Standing outside the door was a beautiful girl carrying a sword and wearing a white dress.
No need to look further—it was Ye Liuyun's fiancée, Lin Aoxue.
Ye Liuyun's expression changed. The person she feared seeing most right now was Lin Aoxue. What would happen if Lin Aoxue found out she had become a woman?
"I don't have time. Go play by yourself." That was all Ye Liuyun could say.
But Lin Aoxue was no longer the girl she was a few years ago. Her Lin Family established itself through martial arts, so all the Lin Family children practiced martial arts from a young age.
And Lin Aoxue was a martial arts prodigy! At only twelve years old, she was already no weaker than her father.
Bang.
Just then, Ye Liuyun's tightly shut door was kicked open.
Lin Aoxue stormed into the room. Ye Liuyun was startled to see Lin Aoxue suddenly barge in.
"What the—what are you doing now?" Ye Liuyun jumped off the bed in fright.
"Stop dawdling, it's annoying. Come with me, we're going to practice." Lin Aoxue reached out, grabbed Ye Liuyun's collar, dragged her out of the room, and pulled her toward the Lin Family estate.
"Let go! I'm not going! I don't like practicing." Ye Liuyun struggled.
How would Ye Liuyun live the rest of her life? She was still young, and the feminization of her body wasn't too obvious yet, but what would happen when she got older?
However, with Lin Qingyou's help, Ye Liuyun's bodily transformation was not discovered by others.
After all, as an Immortal from the Immortal Realm, she possessed at least this much Illusionary Magic.
It was just that everything became uncontrollable starting from that day.
And so, another difficult three years passed.
And in the month when Ye Liuyun and Lin Aoxue were about to turn sixteen and get married.
An ethereal yet majestic voice echoed across the sky above Qixia Town.
"Floating Cloud Mountain, Yunxia Sect, is opening its gates wide to recruit disciples. All boys and girls under the age of eighteen may go to Floating Cloud Mountain to register and participate in the Entrance Examination."
This was news of a cultivation Sect recruiting disciples. When Ye Liuyun heard this news, her eyes lit up, because her opportunity had arrived.