Explosion of the Furnace

Huo Ze was slightly startled, remembering the fear in his heart when he had just been reborn. He still secretly felt that Ye Xing Zhi had bullied him. Especially those few instances of the Purification Art that sent shivers down one's spine; truly maliciously interesting, wicked.
He picked up the glass cup and took a sip of Coca, his expression unchanged: "Actually, I don't care about them either."
Ye Xing Zhi didn't know what Huo Ze was muttering in his heart. He raised an eyebrow and asked, "You don't care at all? Not even your father?"
"Yes."
Huo Ze obediently nodded, smiling faintly. He looked like a gentle, harmless young man, even overly gentle.
But Ye Xing Zhi always felt something was off.
Huo Ze mentioned his parents and younger brother with a hint of indifference, as if recounting someone else's melodramatic story.
But he didn't mention his younger sister. In the original novel, he was very caring and attentive towards that younger sister.
Ye Xing Zhi didn't intend to ask directly; if the young man wanted to speak, he would do so naturally. Besides, time was long; he could meet this Huo family sister himself later.
To uncover the secret the Heavenly Dao hid behind Huo Ze, listening only to his account was unreliable. Ye Xing Zhi trusted what he saw with his own eyes more.
"If you don't care, then don't interfere with their life and death. Let's just live our own lives." After speaking, Ye Xing Zhi took another spoonful of rice.
In fact, this sentence could be interpreted in many different ways. What did "living our own lives" even mean... Huo Ze blinked uncomfortably, casually replying, "Yes, I will obey you."
Then, he also lowered his head to eat, his long eyelashes trembling slightly under the light, his expression unclear.
Ye Xing Zhi couldn't help but look at him a few more times, always feeling that the atmosphere at the dining table was gradually becoming strange, but he couldn't quite put his finger on what was strange about it.
This young man must be hiding many secrets; truly, he wouldn't let anyone worry less.
Fortunately, there were currently too many secrets he wanted to uncover. The simultaneous appearance of Dragon Qi and Demonic Qi was enough for Ye Xing Zhi to ponder for a while, and Huo Ze's matters weren't lacking either.
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However, the very next day, after just saying they would live their own lives.
Huo Ze was jogging by the stream when a deafening explosion suddenly echoed from the courtyard house.
He was startled and quickly ran towards the sound, discovering that the roof of the main hall had been blown open with a large hole, and black smoke billowed out.
Marshal Rooster and Jin Wu frantically ran out of the room, one clucking wildly as it ran, the other barking "woof woof woof" incessantly, creating a chaotic scene.
Immediately after, Yu Long also slowly emerged. This chubby white dog was completely stained with patchy gray-black soot, as if someone had deliberately defaced it...
Huo Ze froze for a moment. After snapping back to reality, he immediately grabbed a fire extinguisher and rushed in: "Mr. Ye, are you alright?!"
Ye Xing Zhi felt he was not quite alright.
He was spotless; the smoke and fire couldn't even approach him, but at this moment, his mood was very heavy. He held a piece of charred black metal in his hand, speechless for a long time.
Huo Ze said nothing, pulling him out of his chair with one hand and quickly extinguishing the nascent flames with the fire extinguisher.
After confirming that there were no more burning spots, Huo Ze panted and drank a large bowl of tea, then asked again, "Mr. Ye, what exactly happened?"
Ye Xing Zhi looked at the piece of metal in his hand, his expression also very heavy: "My alchemy furnace, it exploded. Now only this fragment remains."
Huo Ze was silent for a moment upon hearing this, then gloomily asked, "Why did that happen? What exactly did you do to it?"
"I wanted to refine chocolate-flavored Spirit Replenishing Pills, that's all. I don't know what happened." Ye Xing Zhi's eyes were vacant, his voice stiff, clearly not fully coherent.
The air in the room was terrible, filled with smoke. Huo Ze couldn't help but grab his wrist, pulling him out to sit at the stone table in the courtyard. Ye Xing Zhi didn't resist, letting Huo Ze pull him around like an emotionless statue.
In fact, Huo Ze felt a little like laughing. He tried to suppress the rising corners of his lips, turned to boil water for tea, and then poured Ye Xing Zhi a cup.
Even the cup itself was stained black with soot; a light wipe could remove a lot of ash. Huo Ze washed it several times, but the bottom of the cup remained black, showing how terrifying the alchemy furnace explosion had been.
Seeing this scene, Ye Xing Zhi's expression grew even heavier. He silently drank several cups of tea before speaking: "Huo Ze, do you know, from childhood to adulthood, the number of times my alchemy furnace exploded was no more than three... No more than three times!"
Huo Ze was torn between laughter and tears, coaxing him like a child: "Yes, yes, you are amazing, truly wonderful."
"Exactly, why is that?" Ye Xing Zhi didn't notice Huo Ze's coaxing skills. He stroked the fragment of the alchemy furnace, unable to figure it out, "I was clearly refining pills, not cooking. Why did it explode when I added a little seasoning?"
Huo Ze thought for a moment and ventured a guess: "Perhaps in the eyes of the alchemy furnace, what you were doing was also like cooking?"
"That makes sense," Ye Xing Zhi suddenly enlightened, his spirit and aura immediately recovering to their original state. He patted Huo Ze's shoulder, "Next time, you refine the pills; I'll teach you!"
Huo Ze: ...???