Central Region Divine Capital City
"Old monster?" Sword Master snorted coldly, "Even if he is an old monster, he should still act in an orderly manner! She has no grudges against my Tianjian Sect in the past or in the present, so why are you holding on to her?
Zhang Lingfeng competed with others for the Nine-Aperture Stone at the auction, but he was inferior in skills and was in the wrong.
You guys are so good, when the younger ones can't beat you, you call the older ones, and when the older ones can't beat you, you call the older ones! You have completely disgraced the Tianjian Sect!"
"Now, everyone who knows about this is probably laughing at the Tianjian Sect!"
The Sword Master's voice suddenly became sharp, and the pressure from his body made Jian Chen's soul become flickering.
"Then... Old Ancestor, are we just going to let this matter go?" Jian Chen asked unwillingly.
"Forget it? The Tianjian Sect hasn't reached the point where it will allow others to bully us and not dare to fight back."
He paused and continued, "But not now. This woman's origins are unknown, her strength is unfathomable, and she acts as she pleases. She doesn't seem to have any ill intentions. It's only because of your repeated provocations that she has retaliated.
We can't act rashly until we understand her background and purpose."
“The world is about to change. The appearance of such a powerful person out of nowhere is definitely not accidental.
I will pass on the order to block the news. You two, reflect on your mistakes in the back mountains. Without my order, you are not allowed to step out of the sword tomb."
"Yes, ancestor." Although Zhang Chengying and Jian Chen were unwilling, they did not dare to disobey and could only obey the order.
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Eastern Region, Tianshu City, Lin Family Jingxin Garden.
"Uncle Lin, I'm leaving the Eastern Region."
“Senior… you…”
Zhong Ling snapped her fingers, and a jade bottle and a storage ring flew in front of Lin Bo: "There are some pills in the bottle, and some spirit stones in the ring. These are my payment for staying here."
Without waiting for Uncle Lin to react, Zhong Ling took Xuanming and Jiuhun in the space and left the Lin family.
Uncle Lin picked up the jade bottle and the ring, probed his spiritual sense into them, and then knelt down in the direction where Zhong Ling left.
Half a day later, Zhong Ling appeared at the junction of the East Region and the Central Region.
"Hidden under the wings of the Tianjian Sect in the Central Region? You ran pretty fast. I hope I can have more fun here." Zhong Ling chuckled and stepped into the territory of the Central Region slowly.
Central Territory, the capital city of God.
This city is one of the seven main cities in the Central Region. Its prosperity and the strength of its cultivators are far beyond the reach of the Eastern Region.
Zhong Ling walked slowly on the street.
She was not in a hurry to take action. She had sensed it as soon as Zhang Chengying left the city. She followed Zhang Chengying here and let him hide for a few days first.
Zhong Ling rented a house in Shendu City for Xuanming to practice. Afterwards, she rented a shop on Danqi Avenue and started her old business - selling elixirs. The name of the shop was "Youjian Danpu".
Zhong Ling put a sign at the door with a line of small words on it: Custom-made pills, please bring your own herbs.
This strange rule attracted the attention of passing monks.
"A newly opened shop? You're so arrogant! You even offer custom-made pills?" A passing cultivator sneered. "You don't even display your own inventory, yet you dare ask customers to bring their own herbs? Are you a swindler?"
"It's hard to say," his companion pointed at the plaque, "Look at the words, they contain sword spirit, yet are peaceful and upright. I'm afraid the owner is not an ordinary person.
Bringing your own herbs might be because you're afraid of taking risks, or perhaps you're really confident and don't bother refining low-level pills."
"Tsk, how can you be so confident? The best alchemists in the entire Divine Capital are all in the Alchemy Pavilion."
Time flies and a month has passed.
"There is a Dan Shop" is still deserted. Except for a few curious monks who occasionally go in for a look and ask some trivial questions, there has been no business.
Zhong Ling also enjoyed her leisure time, reading and basking in the sun every day.
Meanwhile, in the back mountain of Tianjian Sect, Jian Chen and Zhang Chengying were suffering.
They thought that the evil woman would immediately chase and kill them and cause a big fuss in Tianjian Sect, and then the Sword Master would definitely take action.
But he waited for a month!
Everything was calm outside, and the woman seemed to have disappeared from the face of the earth, with no news of her.
This kind of waiting tortured them day after day, especially Jian Chen. He was always wondering where that woman was, what she was doing, when and how she would appear.
Under such circumstances, his spirit recovered very slowly, and there were even signs of regression.
That afternoon, a luxurious animal carriage made entirely of flowing cloud wood slowly stopped in front of a pill shop.
The curtain of the carriage opened, and a middle-aged man in steward's uniform stepped down.
He glanced at the simple wooden plaque, then at Zhong Ling lying in the rocking chair in the shop. There was some doubt in his eyes, but he finally stepped in.
"Shopkeeper." said the middle-aged manager.
Zhong Ling didn't even raise her eyelids, turned a page of the book, and said "hmm" lightly.
Such a neglectful attitude made the middle-aged manager frown, but remembering the elder's instructions, he suppressed his displeasure and said in a deep voice, "Shopkeeper, can you really customize pills here?"
"As long as the quantity of medicinal materials is sufficient and the grade is right, we can customize it." Zhong Ling's answer was very concise.
The middle-aged manager took a deep breath and finally made up his mind to believe it once.
He pulled a jade box from his storage ring and placed it solemnly on the counter. "Shopkeeper, please look here. Here are the ingredients for refining the Nine-Turn Resurrection Pill. The main ingredients, the Immortal Grass and the Samsara Pearl, are both over ten thousand years old."
Our Xiao family would like to ask the shop owner to refine a furnace of Nine Revolutions Resurrection Pills."
The Nine-Turns Resurrection Pill, an eighth-grade elixir, has the miraculous effect of reversing life and death and rebuilding the foundation of Taoism.
The difficulty of refining it is so high that only a handful of people in the entire Central Region dare to say that they have 60% to 70% confidence, not to mention that there is only one ingredient.
The Xiao family invited many alchemy masters, but none of them dared to take the job because the success rate was too low and there was only one batch of medicinal materials.
After the middle-aged manager finished speaking, he stared at Zhong Ling closely, observing her reaction.
However, Zhong Ling was too lazy to raise her eyes, glanced at the jade box, and then shifted her gaze back to the book.
"Good material." She said it in a flat tone, as if she was evaluating a cabbage.
The middle-aged manager was stunned, and all the prepared words were stuck in his throat.
This reaction...that's the material for an eighth-grade elixir!
"I wonder...how confident is the store owner? And how much will the reward be?" he asked tentatively.
Hearing this, Zhong Ling closed the book and sat up straight.
She looked at the somewhat nervous middle-aged steward and suddenly found it a little funny.
"100%."
The manager thought he had misheard: "Ten...ten percent?"
"As for the reward," Zhong Ling pointed at the jade box, "after the pill is completed, I'll keep half."
The middle-aged manager was confused. If he failed once in refining an eighth-grade elixir, the loss would be astronomical.
If an ordinary alchemist dared to take on this kind of job, he would definitely ask for a sky-high reward.
But Zhong Ling said that she was 100% sure and she could get half of it, which meant that she was not only absolutely sure of success, but she was even sure of refining more than one pill in one furnace!
This... this is simply a fantasy!
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