Volume 4: Phoenix Crying in the Ninth Heaven
**Section 1: Merit Points Exchanged for a "Time Washing Machine"**
Bonds from the "Pacifier Gold Bank" circulated across the four nations faster than a spring breeze. Ashina Jinlang's recitation of "Ode to Peace" even began selling for a fee in border teahouses (half of the ticket revenue went to the "Pacifier Gold Bank" to pay off its debts). The land, promised by Heaven, also performed well. The newly sown seeds burst into lush green almost as soon as they emerged, growing so prodigiously that one might wonder if they were given hormones. Su Li's family enjoyed a life so comfortable that even the venomous system started humming a tune.
Yet, Su Li keenly sensed that beneath this thriving facade lay hidden, unseen scars. Those veterans who had emerged from the sea of blood and corpses, those civilians whose homes had been destroyed and their loved ones separated, even now with food and clothing and hope, a lingering shadow still occasionally flickered in their eyes. It was the lingering poison of war, the pain frozen in time, a wound that could not be easily healed by the promised "good weather and good harvests."
"System," Su Li called out in her mind, "Is there any medicine in the Merit Point Mall that can cure 'heart disease'? The kind that... can make people forget painful memories, or at least feel less uncomfortable?"
[Ding! The host has finally remembered the core value of this system!] The Venomous Tongue System immediately took to the stage, its tone filled with the pride of "You finally asked the right person." ['Heart disease' is a highly complex form of mental trauma. Conventional medications (such as 'Qingxin San') can only alleviate the symptoms. But! Who is this system? It's a super system that has defied gods and recorded miracles of milky snot-covered faces! The latest unlock in the mall (thanks to the Eye of Nirvana campaign data and a Heavenly Dao-level computing power upgrade) is the **'Sumeru Mustard Seed Time-Tracing Medicine Cauldron' (Youth Nostalgia Limited Edition)**! Only 9.98 million Merit Points! You won't be shortchanged, you won't be fooled!]
"Puff!" Su Li nearly choked to death on her own saliva. "Nine million nine hundred and eighty thousand?! System, are you robbing me? I worked so hard to save up the merit points. Wouldn't it be great to buy a few candied sweet potato family buckets?"
[Host is superficial!] The system is heartbroken. [This tripod is the crystallization of the laws of time and space and the essence of medicine! The functions are as follows (please hold your breath):]
1. **Refining Target**: Not metal, stone, or grass, but **the intangible 'past'**! Specifically: **negative emotional memory fragments** (such as war trauma, the pain of losing loved ones, despair and fear) deposited in individual or collective consciousness.
2. **Refining Principle**: Using the host's 'Medicine Saint' talent as a guide, drive the medicine cauldron to extract the "time fragments" from the target's subconscious and put them into the cauldron.
3. **Refining process**: Add special "medicine guides" (needed to be configured by the host, it is recommended to include the cute babies' 'childhood chaos energy', 'emotional resonance', etc.), and simmer over low heat (not physical flame, but the entropy reduction force of the law of time).
4. **Refining products**:
* **Main product**: Purified and harmless "time dregs" (the shape is uncertain, it may be a wisp of green smoke, a crystal, or even a vague but no longer painful memory image).
* **By-product**: Pure "power of release" or "glimmer of hope" that can be fed back to the original owner or spread into the environment.
5. **Core Advantage**: It doesn't forcibly erase memories! Instead, it strips away and refines the "toxins" (negative emotional energy) within painful memories, leaving behind a relatively neutral "memory carrier." It's like turning thorny bushes into smooth charcoal—it can't be used as firewood, but at least it won't prick your hands.
Su Li's heart surged upon hearing this, but the terrifying price tag still made her heart ache: "9.98 million... System, can you give me a discount? Considering our friendship in confronting gods together? Or... pay in installments?"
[…Since the host provided significant emotional value (referring to cuteness) to Tiandao during the 'Cute Baby's Promise' campaign, this system is enabling a 'Merit Point Loan'! Down payment: 100,000! Annual interest rate…depending on the cute babies' mood (guaranteed minimum of an auspicious 8.88%)! Collateral: 20% of the host's Merit Point earnings over the next ten years!] The system offers a solution reminiscent of a "Pacifier Gold Bank" scheme.
"Deal!" Su Li gritted her teeth. For the sake of those people whose eyes were filled with pain, she agreed to the loan! "A down payment of 100,000 merit points! Bring me the cauldron!"
[Ding! Purchase of 'Sumeru Mustard Seed·Time-Tracing Medicine Cauldron' successful! Down payment of 100,000 merit points deducted! Loan contract generated (needs confirmation by President Hengbao's pacifier)! Medicine cauldron transmission in progress... Host, please pay attention to receive!]
As soon as he finished speaking, the space before Su Li distorted, and a small, palm-sized bronze tripod of quaint and unique shape appeared out of thin air, suspended in mid-air. Its body was covered in mysterious spatial and temporal patterns, with three legs and two ears. Within, there was no solid object, but rather a swirling, deep vortex like a galaxy, emitting a faint, soothing medicinal fragrance and a subtle sense of the passage of time.
Second child Su Heng happened to be passing by, clutching his golden pacifier (a wind-adjusted printing plate). Seeing the new toy (?), his eyes lit up. He stood on tiptoe and pressed the pacifier against the cauldron: "Stamp! Hengheng's!" A faint golden light flashed, and a small, clear imprint of the pacifier appeared on the cauldron near its foot! The loan agreement was officially in effect!
Sanbao Su Yu curiously scanned the small tripod with his dragon horn: "Mother...it smells so good...it's so warm...like...like a quilt in the sun!"
Sibao Su Qi also came over, her strawberry birthmark (the Feng Rang version) slightly warmed up: "Qi Qi likes this little pot!"
Su Li carefully held up the treasure, valued at 9.98 million yuan (with a down payment of 100,000 yuan), feeling the warm touch of the cauldron and the strange fluctuations of time and space. Her heart was filled with a sense of mission: "Alright, my dears! Mother is going to start refining medicine! But this time, it's not medicine to cure illness, but medicine to heal my heart! I need your help!"
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