"That's probably because the soul is about to dissipate!" Ye Wuxia cooperated with the act, asking with her eyes if that was the case.
Fang Ruotang smiled approvingly at him. The two didn't communicate in their minds, and he set up a stage for her.
"Probably! No, I need to throw this jade pendant out quickly and lure the people of Medicine King Valley to find it, so that they can meet before Xunzhu disappears."
As Fang Ruotang spoke, she roughly wrapped the jade in spiritual energy and threw it out.
"Yeah, I threw it far away. Hopefully, someone will find it soon!"
After Fang Ruotang finished speaking, she couldn't help but laugh.
Whether the people of Medicine King Valley were blinded by concern or simply lacked common sense, no one suspected that she had done it on purpose.
The few pairs of eyes that had been lingering in the room disappeared the moment she threw the jade pendant away; their probing gazes vanished instantly.
[Could I place Xunzhu inside the Emperor's Banner to nourish her soul?]
Having had this experience before, Fang Ruotang immediately thought of this again.
The little mirror gave an affirmative answer.
[Is the master going to raise ghost soldiers?]
【Oh, no need for that, let's wait a bit longer! I just think Xunzhu has such good talent, it would be great to recruit her for our own use, we happen to be short of alchemists.】
"I don't lack anything. I learn things very quickly. I can already refine entry-level pills. Give me a little more time, and the level of pills I can refine will also increase." Ye Wuxia immediately replied.
The others eagerly spoke up, with Gu Nancheng even wishing he could show off his skills to Fang Ruotang on the spot.
They couldn't accept that a man was living in Fang Ruotang's sea of consciousness, which they considered an extremely intimate thing.
He could be involved in almost every aspect of her life.
The mere thought of this possibility made the six men feel like they were drowning in a sea of vinegar.
"You guys are a bit slow," Fang Ruotang said with a hint of displeasure.
The six men gritted their teeth and said.
We can be faster.
【But you can't just focus on this in the future. Our Tianyi Sect needs its own skilled alchemists. If we can save Xunzhu and get him into our Tianyi Sect, it would be a great blessing. Most importantly, his master is the Valley Master of Medicine King Valley.】
Fang Ruotang felt that saving Xun Zhu was a good thing, as it would not only do her a favor to Medicine King Valley, but also add a powerful general to Tianyi Sect.
"Do you want him to live in your sea of consciousness?" Cui Shixu asked gently.
Fang Ruotang was startled by his question.
"What kind of ghost story are you telling? He's a person—no, he doesn't have a physical body anymore, he's just a soul. How could I let him live in my consciousness? Are you trying to scare me to death?"
The thought of other people's souls inside her body terrified her!
The little mirror had mixed feelings.
See!
This is why she always gave evasive answers whenever adults asked her what her true identity was.
You can't even handle one ghost?
What about the countless worlds and living beings, large and small?
[That works too. I can talk to the Valley Master about it later.]
Knowing that no one would be allowed to stay in his sea of consciousness, Gu Yanjin immediately changed his tune, and five other people did the same.
However, Fang Ruotang didn't care what the six of them were saying or what they were opposing. She went to the little mirror and asked for the ghost cultivation technique.
[I think so?]
【have! 】
"That's good. With this, I can negotiate with Medicine King Valley. Judging from how highly regarded Xunzhu is there, I should be able to negotiate a better deal."
Unbeknownst to Fang Ruotang, while she was pondering these things, a group of elders from Medicine King Valley were in the Scripture Pavilion, their books almost worn out from reading them.
They were all in a state of panic, watching helplessly as the spirit of Xunzhu within the jade pendant grew fainter and fainter.
This caused Fang Ruotang, who was originally full of confidence, to wait in her room for three days. It was only because the scenery of Medicine King Valley was so pleasant that she treated it as a vacation.
However, Medicine King Valley is only so big, and besides, most of the valley is planted with spiritual herbs and medicines, so visits are not allowed.
Therefore, there are not many places she can actually go.
After three days, even the most beautiful scenery becomes tiresome.
[Little Mirror, look what the Valley Master is doing! Why is he moving so slowly? He doesn't seem like a master who knows his disciple is gone and is secretly crying in his room.]
[Breaking through the formation.]
【Um? 】
Fang Ruotang raised a question.
Then, through the retrospective mirror, they saw the Valley Master and a group of elders busy at work.
Whether it was her imagination or not, the people she saw in the retrospective mirror looked noticeably older and more颓废 (颓废 is a difficult word to translate directly, but it implies a state of listlessness, apathy, or dejection) than they had three days ago.
[Is it because they can't break the formation inside the jade pendant?]
[Yes! They can't break through it, Xunzhu can't get out, and they can only watch as Xunzhu's soul grows weaker and weaker until it disappears.]
"Is it that difficult?" Fang Ruotang asked, somewhat surprised.
They have already contacted the Heavenly Evolution Array Sect. Their sect leader and grand elder have arrived in the valley.
【Tianyan Array Sect?】 Fang Ruotang blinked, took out a jade pendant, and tapped it hard on the table.
Are the people inside still there? Can they please say something?
After discovering that among the things left behind by Master Wei Ren was a living soul, Fang Ruotang had Xiao Jingzi conduct an investigation that very night.
Sure enough, besides Xunzhu, there were many other jade pieces that contained souls.
Unfortunately, many of the jade pieces did not react.
Jade absorbs all of a person's cultivation, making each piece of jade extraordinary. Absorbing it is equivalent to possessing that person's cultivation.
Fang Ruotang couldn't quite get over that mental hurdle, so she kept all the jade pieces in a separate storage ring with the small mirror, and didn't touch them.
A jade pendant can cost a life.
She was under too much pressure.
Even if she wasn't the one who did it, she didn't dare absorb those soul cultivations.
"Huh, wasn't there a faint sound coming from here the other day? Why is it so quiet today? Could it be that the person is dying?"
Just as Fang Ruotang was about to tap it again, a sound came from the jade pendant.
"What's wrong?"
Fang Ruotang raised an eyebrow in surprise, "How come you suddenly speak more clearly? You can even have a conversation with me?"
"...I'm not entirely sure either, but these past few days, I've become more and more lucid each day. Even though I'm still trapped in the great formation, the spiritual energy my body absorbs completely covers the spiritual energy absorbed by the formation, and I'm gradually becoming more lucid."
Fang Ruotang didn't understand, but the six men immediately realized what was going on.
This is similar to Xiao Mei's situation; as long as she stays by Fang Ruotang's side, her cultivation speed will increase exponentially.
Fang Ruotang couldn't accept that these jade pendants contained living creatures, and she would never put them in the little mirror's treasure bag.
For the past three days, Fang Ruotang had packed them all into storage bags. Instead of leaving the storage bags lying around in the corner of the room, she casually hung them on her waist and used them as decorative pouches.
"Then do you remember who you are?"
Fang Ruotang knew who he was from the small mirror, otherwise she wouldn't have knocked on his head to wake him up as soon as the people from the Tianyan Array Sect arrived.
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