"Come with me."
Zhong Yin led Qin Xin to the second floor of Wanbaoge and gave some instructions to the servant, who was the same person who had stopped Qin Xin from entering Wanbaoge. Upon seeing Qin Xin, the servant quickly lowered his head, seemingly worried about something.
"Go and fetch the Jade Marrow Ganoderma, Heavenly Spirit Fruit, Purple Star Grass... for this young brother," Zhong Yin instructed.
Upon hearing this, the servant was very respectful and immediately went to fetch the medicinal herbs as instructed.
A short while later, the servant returned with the medicinal herbs. When he handed them to Qin Xin, his hands trembled slightly. Qin Xin simply smiled and didn't take it too seriously. Although he disliked such bullies, he wasn't combative.
"These medicinal herbs cost 50,000 gold coins per serving. Have you thought it through?" Zhong Yin said with some caution.
"Thank you, senior." Qin Xin glanced at it and then handed the purple-gold card to Zhong Yin.
Zhong Yin also took out a purple-gold card from his pocket. The two cards touched lightly, and the number on Qin Xin's card immediately decreased.
After taking it back, Qin Xin found that his original 72,000 gold coins were reduced to only 22,000, which made him feel a pang of heartache. The money had barely warmed his hands before it was quickly spent.
"Next time you need medicinal herbs, just come to Wanbaoge to find me." Zhong Yin said with a shrewd smile after the transaction was completed.
Qin Xin knew that Zhong Yin had made a lot of money from these medicinal herbs, but Qin Xin didn't care. After all, the person in front of him was a third-grade alchemist. It was already a blessing that he had taken notice of him. Moreover, if he were to buy these medicinal herbs himself, it would take a lot of effort.
After storing the medicinal herbs in his Qiankun Bag, Qin Xin bid farewell to Zhong Yin and left Wanbaoge.
At this moment, Zhong Yin watched Qin Xin's departing figure and muttered to himself, "He clearly has the scent of a strange fire, indicating that he is at least a fifth-grade alchemist. However, this kid hasn't even entered the Acquired Realm yet, but he's already buying the ingredients for the Fusion Spirit Pill. Could it be that he has a highly skilled alchemist behind him?"
"However, besides me, the only other person in Tianyuan City capable of refining the Spirit Fusion Pill is that guy from the Iron Blood Mercenary Group, but he and I are about equal."
Just as Zhong Yin was pondering, Xia Tong was already standing behind him. "Elder Zhong, are you interested in this person?"
“Indeed, there must be a mysterious alchemist behind this kid,” Zhong Yin nodded and said.
"It seems I should try to get to know this person sometime in the future," Xia Tong said softly.
Then, clasping his hands in a fist, he muttered with slight interest, "What an interesting fellow."
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Qin Xin had already returned to the Qin Clan Manor and gently pushed open the gate of his courtyard, quietly walking inside.
"ah!"
Qin Xin's furtive movements startled Zi Ling. "Brother, why are you acting so suspiciously? I thought a thief had broken in!"
"I was just afraid of bothering you."
Qin Xin said somewhat awkwardly.
After leaving Wanbaoge, Qin Xin went to the back mountain to cultivate for a while, only returning as dusk approached. Lanterns were lit in the courtyard; he had entered quietly, worried about disturbing Zi Ling's rest, but he hadn't expected the little girl to be waiting for him.
"Okay, I'm going to rest now."
Zi Ling seemed to be feeling a little unwell. Qin Xin wanted to ask her a few words of concern, but Zi Ling gave a perfunctory reply and was about to go back to her room to rest, so Qin Xin didn't say anything more.
After returning to his room, Qin Xin began to cultivate with his eyes closed.
Having learned his lesson from the last time, Qin Xin is now extremely careful every time he tries to refine pills.
The Supreme Divine Evolution Technique operates automatically, mobilizing the spiritual energy in the Niwan Palace to circulate along a prescribed trajectory, resulting in a slight increase in spiritual consciousness.
After circulating his energy throughout his body, Qin Xin activated his Black Cudgel Martial Spirit. Now that the Martial Spirit had advanced to three stars, its speed of absorbing spiritual energy from heaven and earth was dozens of times faster than when it was a one-star Martial Spirit.
As night fell, the entire Qin Clan Manor fell silent.
Qin Xin slowly awoke from his cultivation and softly called out to his teacher, Danqing.
Danqing yawned and floated gently out of the fragmented map space. His spiritual body had become more solid, but it had not fully recovered. It seemed that he had used up too much of his spiritual power last time in order to help Qin Xin erase that killing intent.
"The medicinal herbs have been collected so quickly."
Danqing was surprised by Qin Xin's speed.
"Yes, teacher, they're all here. These cost me a lot of my savings."
Qin Xin reluctantly took out the medicinal herbs for refining the Spirit Fusion Pill from his Qiankun bag, and said with a pained expression.
"Money-grubber! Oh, right, I forgot to remind you, the White Lotus Root Pills I refine will retain a trace of strange fire." Danqing rolled her eyes at Qin Xin, then suddenly said, as if she had thought of something.
"Uh..." Qin Xin was so surprised by what he heard that he hiccuped.
"It's alright. Ordinary alchemists can't detect it. Even if some alchemists can, they still have some awe towards an alchemist who possesses a different kind of fire," Dan Qingyun said calmly.
Qin Xin thought about it and realized that this might be a good thing for him. The status of an alchemist was extremely prestigious, which might provide him with an invisible protective umbrella. Those who wanted to harm him would have to think twice about who was behind him.
The teacher and student exchanged a few words, just like any other day.
Danqing took out that rather rustic gilded alchemy furnace. Qin Xin thought to himself that he should buy a slightly higher-grade one that day, since he would also be starting to learn alchemy in the future.
With a gentle wave of his somewhat withered hands, Danqing threw a jade marrow mushroom into the alchemy furnace. The life force immediately enveloped the jade marrow mushroom, instantly turning it into a ball of jade-colored liquid. Under the scorching heat of the flames, yellow impurities were continuously expelled.
Danqing focused intently on controlling the temperature of the flames and watching the changes in the jade-colored liquid in the furnace. Once no more impurities were discharged from the jade-colored liquid, Danqing threw the Heavenly Spirit Fruit into the liquid.
Instantly, the jade-colored liquid turned into a pale blue color. The two spiritual herbs seemed to repel each other and were unwilling to mix. For a moment, the liquid split into half blue and half jade.
As the golden flames continued to burn it, the liquid, which was originally half a fist in size and half blue and half jade, shrank to the size of a thumb. The liquid began to thicken and began to materialize.
Seeing this, Danqing threw in the auxiliary herbs, including ginseng, purple orchid, green vine, and green shady root. The moment they entered the furnace, flames surged in rapidly, and the medicinal liquids from the auxiliary herbs quickly separated and merged into the half-blue and half-jade liquid that had already taken on a tangible form.
"Squeak..."
Under the scorching heat of the golden flames, the liquid completely transformed into a cyan color, splitting into two parts by Danqing, both of which carried wisps of golden light. This was a unique characteristic of the Life Flame, and indeed, the spiritual energy of this medicinal liquid was enhanced.
As the flames gradually subsided, the rough-surfaced rudimentary form of a pill emerged.
"The Elixir Refining Technique for Living Beings!"
Danqing changed his hand gestures and gave a soft shout. A huge amount of life energy instantly surged into the nascent pill. The somewhat rough pill instantly became smooth and round, and the green pill emitted a faint golden luster.
When the flames completely dissipated, Danqing conjured a jade bottle in his hand and then put two green pills with a faint golden luster into it.
"It's still not as convenient as when I had a physical body."
Danqing pursed his lips, seemingly dissatisfied with only refining two Spirit Fusion Pills.
However, Qin Xin quickly took the jade bottle. As far as he knew, alchemists had a very high failure rate in refining pills, and it was even more troublesome for such complex pills. The fact that Danqing could refine two pills at once was enough to prove his alchemy skills.
Looking at the emerald green Spirit Fusion Pill with a faint golden glow in the bottle, Qin Xin's face lit up with a smile. He was just waiting to enter the Spirit Cleansing Pool and use its power to break through to the Innate Realm in one fell swoop.
However, just as Qin Xin was filled with excitement and joy, a sudden chill entered the room, making him shiver.
"What happened?"
Qin Xin put away the Fusion Pill, and was puzzled by the sudden situation.
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