"It's all my fault. I made Zhu Gongfeng worried." Su Lingshuang said calmly.
"How can you say that? I have to be loyal to the person who entrusted me with the task. Since I promised your grandfather to take good care of you, I can't break my promise." Zhu Gongfeng said righteously, and at the end he asked with concern, "By the way, did you encounter any danger during this training?"
"Fortunately, I encountered a little trouble, but with the help of Sister Qingxi, nothing serious happened." Su Lingshuang said, and introduced the two people by the way:
"Sister Qingxi, this is my family's senior Zhu Zijing. Zhu Gongfeng, this is Brother Gu Qingxi."
"So it's Brother Gu, I'm so sorry." Zhu Zijing glanced at Gu Qingxi, and seeing that she was so young, he obviously didn't take her seriously.
After a casual polite remark, he looked at Su Lingshuang worriedly, "Lingshuang, what kind of trouble did you encounter? Are you injured? Do you want me to check you?"
"Nothing, it's really just a little trouble. I'm not injured either, so don't worry about it, Zhu Gongfeng.
It's getting late, I'll take Sister Qingxi back to her room to rest, and Zhu Gongfeng should also go to bed early." After Su Lingshuang finished speaking, without waiting for Zhu Zijing to say anything more, he led Gu Qingxi straight into the courtyard.
"Lingshuang, wait!" Zhu Zijing called Su Lingshuang.
"Zhu Gongfeng, is there anything else?" Su Lingshuang paused slightly.
"Lingshuang, you'd better think about what I said. It's not a solution to drag it on like this." Zhu Zijing said earnestly.
"I know, I'll think about it carefully." Su Lingshuang nodded, and her expression became even more indifferent.
Walking through the garden along the gravel path, Su Lingshuang was no longer as lively and cheerful as before. She was silent all the way, and her face became colder and colder.
"Lingshuang, what is the origin of Zhu Gongfeng, and what did he just say?" Gu Qingxi asked after returning to Su Lingshuang's yard.
As soon as they met, she found that Zhu Zijing was not happy at all about Su Lingshuang's safe return, but was really surprised.
The concern and worry that followed seemed hypocritical. The last piece of advice even had a hint of threat.
And Su Lingshuang's silence and cold face along the way also proved that she and Zhu Gongfeng were not that close at all, and it was completely a pretense.
Gu Qingxi was a little puzzled: How could a family head and a family priest be so incompatible?
"It's all the trouble caused by Xiang Chaozong." Su Lingshuang said gritting her teeth, closed the courtyard door, and told Gu Qingxi the whole story:
"Zhu Zijing was originally a citizen of Xishui City and had known my grandfather since he was a child. Because his family was poor, my grandfather often gave him some financial support. When he first embarked on the path of cultivation, he successfully established his foundation with the elixirs given by my grandfather.
Later, he went to the Haoqi Sect to learn from a master, and it was also my grandfather who gave him the money for his journey. Otherwise, with his foundation-building cultivation at that time, he would not have been able to climb to the Haoqi Sect.
However, he was quite talented. Not only did he successfully pass the assessment of the Haoqi Sect, he was also accepted as a personal disciple by an elder. After years of hard training, he also reached the initial stage of fusion.
A few years ago, my grandfather knew that his life was coming to an end, and he happened to catch up with him. When I went back to Xishui City to visit my relatives, I asked him to be the Su family's priest, entrusted me to him, and gave him tens of millions of spirit stones as a reward.
It's a pity that my grandfather had such painstaking efforts, but he invited an ungrateful person back.
Some time ago, Xiang Chaozong forced me to hand over the Five Fires Green Yuan Ding. Not only did he not help me, but he also took the opportunity to blackmail me and asked me to join the Haoqi Sect, and let the Haoqi Sect protect me .
The condition is to hand over the Su family's ancestral spirit mine.
He has a good plan. If I really become a disciple of the Haoqi Sect, not only the ancestral spirit mine, but also the Five Fires Green Yuan Ding will not be kept in the end. "
Speaking of this, Su Lingshuang was angry and contemptuous.
Not to mention her, even Gu Qingxi was indignant.
Let alone the fact that Su Lingshuang's grandfather invited Zhu Zijing to be the Su family's priest with a reward of tens of millions, just talking about his kindness in his early years, Zhu Zijing should be grateful and do his best to protect Su Lingshuang.
But instead of standing up for Su Lingshuang, he took advantage of Xiang Chaozong's incident to force Su Lingshuang to hand over the ancestral spiritual mine. He
is so ungrateful, he is simply a scum in the world of cultivation!
"Then why don't you drive him out of the Su family?" Gu Qingxi asked.
"I want to, but after my grandfather passed away, other cultivation families in Xishui City have been eyeing the Su family. Xiang Chaozong is actually quite good. He just wants the Five Fires Qingyuan Ding. At least he didn't think about seizing the Su family's spiritual mine before that.
But other families are different. If it weren't for Zhu Zijing and the Haoqi Sect, the Su family's spiritual mine might have been divided up by them.
So I can only bear it for now, and wait until one day I advance to the fusion stage, and then I will make them look good." Su Lingshuang said.
At first, he was a little helpless, but later he clenched his fists, his eyes full of persistence and determination.
Gu Qingxi realized that this prodigal son was not as comfortable as he imagined. With both internal and external troubles, the pressure she endured was no less than that of others.
However, even so, Su Lingshuang did not give in. She worked hard to practice, wanting to change everything with her strength.
Looking at the slightly chubby little face, Gu Qingxi admired this stubborn and strong girl.
"Come on, let's start refining the elixir." Gu Qingxi said. Do you
really want to refine it? Su Lingshuang looked at Gu Qingxi, hesitant to speak.
She didn't feel sorry for the spirit stones. Anyway, her family had a mine, and she could afford to lose more than one million spirit stones. Besides, she had been a spendthrift since she was a child, and she had long been accustomed to losing money.
But the eleventh-grade spirit herbs like the Moon Dew Flame Heart Flower could not be bought with money. After so many years of squandering, this was the first time she bought such a high-grade medicinal material.
If it was refined to waste, even she would feel it was a pity.
Su Lingshuang wanted to persuade Gu Qingxi again, but seeing that she looked confident, she was worried that saying too much would make Gu Qingxi unhappy and hurt her self-esteem, so the words came to her lips, but she couldn't spit them out.
While Su Lingshuang was hesitating, Gu Qingxi had already taken out the alchemy furnace and started to sort out the herbs.
In her memory, there were several kinds of elixirs with Yuelu Yanxin Flower as the main ingredient. Gu Qingxi chose the one that was most suitable for Su Lingshuang - Qingxuan Shenhe Pill.
This kind of elixir also had high requirements for auxiliary medicines. The lowest medicinal herbs in the elixir formula were all grade eight. Fortunately, she had saved a lot of medicinal materials in Tiancang Continent, and Ling Hanyu also gave her a lot of rare flowers and herbs before leaving, so she didn't have to worry about auxiliary medicines.
But having medicinal materials doesn't mean that Gu Qingxi can sit back and relax.
The most difficult part of refining the Qingxuan Shenhe Pill is not that the medicinal materials are hard to find, but that the grade of this pill is too high, reaching the eleventh grade.
With Gu Qingxi's current great perfection of the transformation of the spirit, refining a tenth-grade pill is the limit. She dared to refine the Qingxuan Heshen Pill because of the trace of fairy power in her body.
Since the fairy power can be used to condense the fairy fire, it can also be used to condense the fairy fire.
On the way to the Wuji Immortal Palace, she tried to refine the pill with the fairy fire, but at that time there was no high-grade medicinal material like the Moon Dew Flame Heart Flower, and of course it was impossible to refine a high-grade elixir like the Qingxuan Shenhe Pill.
Gu Qingxi did not dare to be careless when refining the eleventh-grade elixir with the fairy fire for the first time.
After sorting out the herbs and making sure there were no omissions, she closed her eyes slightly and practiced in her mind.
"Sister Qingxi, why don't we just forget it?
Grandmaster Chen's fee is fair. He only charges three out of ten for helping people refine pills. He is not as shady as other alchemists. Let's go to him for help." Seeing Gu Qingxi stop and close her eyes, Su Lingshuang thought she was not confident enough and began to worry. She quickly seized the opportunity to persuade her.
Three out of ten, that's really not shady. As far as Gu Qingxi knows, most of the famous alchemy masters in Tiancang Continent help people refine pills. Four out of ten, or even five out of ten.
Compared with them, Grandmaster Chen's fee standard is really fair.
But no matter how fair it is, it has to be able to refine it. If he can't refine even one, can he still pay for it?
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