Mo Wuyu accompanied Ruoruo to the academy to seek medicine.
To make things easier for Ruoruo and Qingmu, Mo Wuyu didn't go in, but waited outside. If Ruoruo needed him, he would have Kunlun call him.
Upon seeing Ruoruo, Qingmu first gave her a thorough examination: "I sent so many pills to the Divine Palace, and thankfully they weren't wasted. I've managed to raise a complete person."
"Huh?" Ruoruo was taken aback. Did her master give her a lot of medicine?
But she didn't get to eat a single one!
Kunlun nervously closed the leaf, shrank back, and pretended that he was just an ordinary wooden sword.
Ruoruo grabbed Kunlun angrily: "It's you again, isn't it? Those were medicines Master gave me, how come you didn't leave me a single one?"
Kunlun fawned over her by weaving her vines into a bow: "I'll help, Master, eat."
"You little rascal! You're not allowed to steal my pills anymore, or I really won't give you any more pills! You can only eat them with my permission, understand? Being a thief is wrong." Ruoruo wasn't buying it at all and tied the bow into a tight knot.
Kunlun used vines to spell out a crying emoji: "I know, I understand."
Aoki examined Kunlun for a while and nodded slightly: "Not bad, it is a good divine artifact, which will greatly benefit your alchemy. In that case, it won't hurt to feed it a few pills."
Speaking of elixirs... Ruoruo blinked and gave a naive smile: "Master, can Ruoruo ask you for a favor?"
"Speak freely." Aoki stroked his beard, not taking it to heart.
"I heard that Master has a Nine-Turn Golden Pill. Ruoruo wants to ask Master to give the Golden Pill to Ruoruo so that she can save her father," Ruoruo pleaded.
Aoki's hand trembled and he accidentally plucked a hair from his beard, his face contorting in pain.
He waved his sleeve and said, "What Nine-Turn Golden Elixir? I don't have any!"
Ruoruo's eyes immediately reddened, and she pitifully tugged at Qingmu's clothes: "I know, Master must have it. You were forced to form a contract with the academy back then because you were refining the Nine-Turn Golden Pill. Ruoruo really needs the Nine-Turn Golden Pill. If Father doesn't have the Nine-Turn Golden Pill, he will die."
“Mo Yong is already a God-King, how could he die! Once he achieves perfect merit, he can even break free from the constraints of the Heavenly Dao and leave this realm. Why would he need my Golden Core?” Qingmu didn’t believe it at all.
Ruoruo bit her lip, but finally revealed the truth: "Because Father is afflicted with the cursed poison, he paid a heavy price last time to defeat that wicked demon lord..."
As she spoke, the little girl, whose eyes were already red, was on the verge of tears: "Master, Ruoruo begs you, Ruoruo will definitely study alchemy more diligently in the future and refine many golden pills for you, but Father can't wait for Ruoruo anymore..."
Aoki looked at his little disciple, whose nose was red and whose round eyes were filled with tears, looking pitiful and adorable. He couldn't help but sigh, "It's not that I don't want to give it to you, it's just that I really don't have any."
Tears streamed down Ruoruo's cheeks. She sniffed, her face full of disbelief.
"Alright, come with me." Aoki led her to the alchemy room, made a hand seal with his fingers towards the alchemy furnace, and the next moment, a bottle slowly squeezed out of the void above the alchemy furnace.
Through the slightly transparent bottle, one could still vaguely see the golden and black striped pills inside constantly impacting the bottle's surface.
The number of sealing runes on the bottle was unprecedented for Ruoruo. Even when Qingmu simply held the bottle in his hand to show Ruoruo, she could feel a strange sense of impact.
The pill, permeated with deathly aura and filled with despair and resentment, made Ruoruo's heart flutter slightly.
Even Kunlun, who was so greedy for elixirs, couldn't resist shrinking his own body a bit, and the vines clung tightly to Ruoruo's hand.
A green aura entered Ruoruo's wrist, sweeping away the negative emotions. Ruoruo breathed a sigh of relief, but couldn't help clutching her chest, still shaken.
Aoki glanced at Kunlun with surprise; this divine artifact seemed to be more useful than he had thought.
"What is this?" Ruoruo asked.
"The Nine-Turn Golden Elixir, or rather, a half-finished product of the Nine-Turn Golden Elixir." Qingmu told Ruoruo about the past.
He was too obsessed back then, in order to pursue the highest point of alchemy and break through the existing predicament of alchemy.
In an attempt to refine the Nine-Turn Golden Elixir that could defy fate, he killed nine thousand fallen immortals from the Fallen Immortal Cliff, extracted their immortal roots for medicinal use, and altered their destiny.
But not all of those nine thousand fallen immortals deserved to die. He couldn't suppress the karma of the innocent, nor the obsessions and resentments of the heinous.
In the end, this was the result of a semi-finished product.
"Taking this pill will probably not only fail to save your father, but will also harm him." Qingmu handed the bottle to Ruoruo. "I can't refine this pill. You can take it if you want, but you must promise me that you will not open the bottle until you reach the level of an Immortal, and you will not attempt to refine the pill until you ascend to the level of a God."
Ruoruo pursed her lips and took the bottle without any hesitation or evasion: "I promised my master that I would never open the bottle to refine medicine unless I was sure of success."
Aoki then refined the jade slip containing his life's insights into a string of jade beads, strung them into a bracelet, and put it on Ruoruo's wrist: "Your father's decision to exclude demons from the academy has already broken the academy's principle of equality for all beings, allowing them to observe the world's chessboard from afar."
The academy is closing, and I can't help you much with your cultivation from now on. If you have any questions, please refer to the jade slip I gave you.
Ruoruo had only come to ask for medicine, but she never expected to have to say goodbye to Aoki. In her astonishment, she reluctantly hugged Aoki's leg and said, "Master."
"Cultivate diligently. When the Six Realms return to peace, we will meet again. At that time, your master will surely test your cultivation!" Aoki concealed all the reluctance in his eyes and said with a serious face, "Also, my gatekeeper boy Asakusa is a spirit that I enlightened. With the academy closed, he has nowhere to go, so I entrust him to your care."
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