Shi Xuan said casually, "I will first help you heal your dantian, and then put you in a medicinal garden. You will be responsible for taking good care of the spiritual plants in the garden. After your cultivation is restored, you will need to refine at least ten batches of pills every day to repay your debt."

What? Zeng Mo thought he must have misheard. He remained motionless for a long time, as if frozen in place.

"What did you say? The dantian can be healed?" He used to be a Nascent Soul stage alchemist, and even now that he has fallen to this state, he has never heard of anyone who has healed their dantian.

"You guys aren't very well-informed," Shi Xuan said disdainfully. "Two people from your freshman group went to the auction before and even participated in the bidding for the spot to treat dantian. How come you didn't know?"

Zeng Mo shook his head and smiled bitterly. Even if the news was true, it probably wouldn't reach him. It would easily make him restless and unable to concentrate on his work.

"The spots they bid for, are they yours?" Zeng Mo still didn't quite believe it and asked tentatively.

“What a coincidence,” Shi Xuan steered the conversation back on track, saying, “Treatment of the dantian is not cheap. Since you already owe room fees, let’s pay them together.”

"Any amount is fine!" Only now did Zeng Mo feel a sense of reality. If what she said was true, then was his arrest the greatest opportunity of his life?! It was like a sudden, unexpected surprise, like being jolted awake from a deathbed. His hands trembled with excitement.

Shi Xuan truly took his four-word reply to heart. She continued, "I'll charge you one million high-grade spirit stones for treating your dantian. From now on, you'll manage the medicinal fields and refine pills here. I'll provide the materials, and I'll charge you for those too. For each top-grade pill you refine, one mid-grade spirit stone for first-grade, two mid-grade spirit stones for second-grade, three mid-grade spirit stones for third-grade, and so on. I won't charge you for anything below top-grade..."

This person was captured from an evil organization, and Shi Xuan has no intention of releasing him. It would take forever to repay that million high-grade spirit stones with just a few mid-grade spirit stones.

But that wasn't the end of it.

"I'll only charge you ten high-grade spirit stones per month for your room here, since you'll be using up my spiritual energy to cultivate here."

...

To meet the requirement of ten batches of pills per day as stipulated by Xuan, even if each batch yields six top-grade pills, he would only earn one or two high-grade spirit stones per month, not even enough to cover half of his room fee. His dream of leaving seemed like an eternity.

Zeng Mo was overjoyed by everything he heard. He readily accepted the price Shi Xuan offered him. With his dantian healed, he could now refine pills every day in a medicinal garden full of spiritual plants. He didn't have to worry about anything else. He couldn't believe there was such a good thing in the world!

He excitedly promised, "Master, rest assured, from now on I will refine pills here and never go anywhere else!"

He's quite savvy; knowing he can't pay the debt, he simply moved in. No one's even taught him yet, and he's already recognized the master. I wonder where his former Nascent Soul stage cultivation has gone.

Shi Xuan didn't care. As long as he was on her territory, her life and death were entirely up to her.

"Then you can stay here for now. If you get bored later, I'll try to bring in a few more of your accomplices to keep you company."

"Not at all," Zeng Mo quickly waved his hand and said, "It's fine whether you come or not."

"Well, if you get lonely, you can let me know. I have a few puppets here that can keep you company while you play chess or something." It's good that he can entertain himself; otherwise, he might get bored out of his mind.

Zeng Mo repeatedly said that he was not afraid of being alone and that he was most suited to work here.

After resolving Zeng Mo's matter, Shi Xuan went to find Quan Zi and recounted to Lin Daozi everything Zeng Mo had entrusted to him.

"They actually used evil magic to resurrect an evil god?" Lin Daozi was also surprised. He had considered many possibilities, such as the leader pursuing the art of immortality and enhancing his own power, but he never expected that they would go to such great lengths to resurrect the "god" in their hearts!

A savior? Which god is the savior?

It's said to be a god, but it's probably more like a human cultivator or a demon cultivator.

Shi Xuan suddenly thought of something and asked, "Master, when I entered the sect, I looked for some history books about the Qian Yuan Realm in the library. I found that the earliest history of the cultivation world recorded in the history books can only be traced back to eight hundred years ago. But how could the development of the cultivation world only last for eight hundred years? So what exactly happened eight hundred years ago?"

“Eight hundred years ago…” Lin Daozi seemed to have not mentioned this topic for a long time. After thinking for a moment, he slowly narrated, “I also heard from my seniors many years ago that eight hundred years ago, the entire Qian Yuan Realm experienced a great calamity, which caused widespread death and almost led to the complete annihilation of the entire Qian Yuan Realm.”

"What kind of catastrophe could wipe out the entire Qian Yuan Realm? A natural disaster?"

"I don't know, but I have thought about this question before, and the conclusion I came to is probably that it was caused by human error. Because if it were a natural disaster, there would be nothing that would not be recorded in history. Only complicated things caused by humans, and especially not glorious events, would be deliberately erased and the whole region would be silenced."

Shi Xuan: "So, could this [New Life] organization be related to that disaster? They call the person they want to resurrect a savior, and the word 'savior'... is not commonly used in normal times."

If there was once a "destruction of the world," then the "salvation of the world" would have been born in response.

"Of course, we can't rule out the possibility that they just picked a name randomly, after all, the name is quite grand." Shi Xuan added, raising his eyebrows.

"You little rascal," Lin Daozi scolded her, then added, "We still have too few clues to pinpoint a specific suspect. Let's keep looking."

Shi Xuan shrugged: "That's all we can do. If we continue to investigate, more things will eventually come to light."

Lin Daozi nodded: "As for the resurrection array you mentioned, we can only use an investigation method at present. If we can't find the specific array diagram, we can only rely on luck. The sect leader has already notified the other sects to check if the eye pattern has appeared in their own sects and to monitor the flow of the Soul Nourishing Wood."

These matters were all handled by the sect, and Shi Xuan had already reported what she needed to report. She had turned to leave, but stopped before she even reached the door.

Seeing her stop at the door, Lin Daozi asked with concern, "Xuan'er, is there anything else?"

Shi Xuan breathed a sigh of relief, nodded, and then turned back to sit down in front of Lin Daozi.

"Master, I've heard that we have a senior brother in our sect?"

Hearing Shi Xuan's question, Lin Daozi's eyes dimmed slightly, but he still smiled and replied, "Silly child, of course there is a senior brother, otherwise why would anyone start the ranking from second place?"

At this moment, Lu Shenzhi seemed to realize something and hurriedly spoke in Shi Xuan's consciousness: "You want to tell Master about me? I'm not ready yet. Can he accept this? Please wait!"