Yan Yi discovered that something seemed to be wrong with the pharmacy these days.
In fact, it was not just these few days. Ever since he was severely injured that time and came back to take up his post, he discovered that something was slightly wrong with the Pharmacy Hall. To be more precise, the Pharmacy Hall had changed since that Chief Qin had taken over as the elder.
However, when Yan Yi looked at the handsome young man sitting in the main seat of the pharmacy, it was hard to believe that he was the one who did those things. That harmless face really did not have any aggression or lethality.
As he was watching, he suddenly noticed that the young man adjusted himself a little in his seat and then stood up. He quickly looked away.
After a while, the young man walked up to his desk and said to him, "The Pharmacy Hall is short of staff recently, so I want to recruit some people from the outside. Spread the word that on the first day of September, the Pharmacy Hall will hold a selection for deacon disciples and menial disciples at the Wendao Square. For now, we will select... well, seven people, three deacons and four menial disciples."
Hearing this, Yan Yi was shocked and secretly looked at Ke Yue opposite him. Sure enough, the cute little girl had a serious look on her face.
This is where something is wrong with the pharmacy.
Originally, the pharmacy had sufficient staff, including many medicine slaves and servants; but over the past two months, the pharmacy gradually ran out of staff.
It’s not that the affairs of running a pharmacy have increased, but that the number of people running the pharmacy has decreased.
The people in charge of the pharmacy, those subordinates of Jian Yuanjie, disappeared one by one!
"Yes, Master!" Yan Yi retracted his gaze, quickly agreed, and asked, "What do you want, Master?"
"Since you are going to work at the Pharmacy, the first requirement is to have a certain understanding of alchemy." Qin Ran said.
"At that time, I will assess some knowledge related to alchemy and select the best candidates. Then, those who are willing to make alchemy and have alchemy talent can be given priority. And because it involves account records, it is best for them to be literate and understand arithmetic."
Yan Yi wrote down Qin Ran's requests one by one, and then asked, "Does the Master have any other requests?"
“That’s all. Pass it on as soon as possible and give them more time to prepare.” Qin Ran replied.
After he gave his instructions, he walked straight out of the pharmacy.
...Another day of leaving early.
Qin Ran has a handsome appearance and a reserved temperament. Standing there, he looks like a harmless boy next door who does not give people any sense of oppression.
But when he walked out of the pharmacy, in the blink of an eye, the entire pharmacy became different because of his disappearance.
When he was there, the pharmacy was in perfect order, everyone was doing their job, and it was a harmonious and friendly scene; after he left, the pharmacy suddenly became gloomy and cold, as if the light and shadow had dropped by two degrees, and the temperature had dropped by more than ten degrees.
Yan Yi then realized that a person's dignity and bearing had nothing to do with his appearance or behavior.
Even though he had already clung to Qin Ran's thigh, Yan Yi, who had been excluded and oppressed for a long time, still did not dare to make any move. As soon as Qin Ran left, he immediately lowered his head and just did his own work at the desk, pretending not to see or hear anything happening in the hall.
And because Qin Ran just said that he would recruit three more deacons, the horror of being in charge of the pharmacy is even more terrifying than before.
For the sake of his own life, Yan Yi completed the task assigned by Qin Ran as quickly as possible, and hurriedly ran out of the pharmacy holding the conscription order as if escaping for his life.
But unlike Qin Ran, he was doing the promotion seriously, so it couldn't be considered leaving early.
After Yan Yi left and there were no outsiders around, the atmosphere in the pharmacy became not only cold and eerie, but also murderous.
Everyone stopped what they were doing and gathered in the hall.
Ke Yue moved a stool and sat in the middle of the crowd. Ishihara stood behind her chair. She looked around, frowned, and said in a deep voice:
"You all heard it, he is declaring war on us! Giving us an ultimatum!
"Sister Feiyan was brutally murdered by him two months ago. I said at that time that he would not let us go. Sure enough, in the past two months, he secretly killed countless disciples. He is insidious, cunning, cruel, and outrageous!
"He just said that he wants to find three more deacons... We are also on his assassination list! We are on the same boat!
"He won't let us go until we're all killed!
"It has come to this point. We must unite and we must resist."
"How can we resist?!" a bearded man asked, "He is the master of a peak, with profound cultivation, great strength, and cruel methods. How can we resist?"
As soon as this person spoke, many people immediately responded to him. After all, Qin Ran was the master of a peak, a high-ranking Jindan cultivator, and an existence that they were unable to contend with.
Ke Yue raised her hand to stop their quarreling and continued, "No matter how powerful he is, he is only one person. There are so many of us. It's up to us to choose whether to fight or flee."
"If you want to resist, if you want to kill him..." She suddenly took out a long box from her Qiankun bag and said in a cold voice, "It's not that there is no way."
"You have another trump card?" Ishihara frowned. How come he didn't know?
Ke Yue glanced at him and replied, "This is not my trump card, it's Elder Jian's trump card."
She said, opening the box.
Everyone in the hall looked inside and found two things in the box, a sword and a porcelain bottle. The sword was a broken sword covered with runes; the porcelain bottle was a small white jade porcelain bottle.
She first raised the porcelain bottle and said, "This is the Immortal Killing Pill! After taking it, you will have the power to kill immortals and exterminate gods."
"So, what's the price?" someone asked.
"It will burn all the cultivation and potential of the cultivator... After using it, he will become an ordinary mortal." Ke Yue said with a cold face.
"Where is the sword?" Ishihara asked.
"This rune sword is what is called a one-time magic weapon. When activated with full power, it is comparable to a mid-grade magic weapon." Ke Yue replied.
She looked around at everyone in the hall with a cold face and said loudly: "Either we are killed quietly by him one by one; or we escape in the night; or we kill him, so what does it matter if we lose the golden elixir?"
Everyone in the hall was silent for a while, and then someone said, "How about we escape tonight?"
"Can you outrun him?" Ke Yue asked.
"He won't catch up with us all." Someone hiding in the crowd said. ...The slow runners can serve as shields.
After these words were spoken, the hall fell silent again.
"How many Immortal-Slaying Pills do you have?" Ishihara asked after a while.
“One.”
"Who takes it?" Ishihara asked again, "Who takes the elixir and who uses the magic weapon?"
"Of course it is taken by those with the highest level of cultivation." Someone said.
Who has the highest level of cultivation here?
Shi Yuan had the highest level of cultivation, having been in the late stage of foundation building for several decades. The next was Ke Yue, who had just entered the late stage of foundation building.
"I'm afraid I can't beat him on my own." Ishihara said without any expression on his face.
"He is just an alchemist. As we all know, the combat power of alchemists is extremely low. With the blessing of the Immortal-Slaying Pill, you may not be invincible." Ke Yue said.
The bearded man in the crowd walked out of the crowd, came to Ke Yue, and said, "We can set up a trap."
Ke Yue looked at him and asked, "How do you set up the trap?"
The big man said loudly:
“First, there are so many elixirs in the pharmacy hall, we can find a chance to feed him some, either poisons or tonics;
“Second, we can set up a trap outside the sect, either a formation or a mechanism will do.
"Finally, we arranged for someone to lead him to the trap, and then we surrounded and killed him with the person who took the Immortal Killing Pill as the main force and the others as the auxiliary force."
"Very good!" Ke Yue approved his plan and asked, "What's your name?"
"Youshi!" the bearded man responded.
"Pills are secondary. He is an alchemist after all. His main focus is on formations, mechanisms, and magical weapons..." Ke Yue said.
"I'm taking out the formation plate!" Someone took out a formation plate.
"I will use my magic weapon..."
"...I will release the spirit beast..."
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