Although it was a bit unkind to buy back the pills she had just sold, He Jingjing had no choice. Her life was still in Zhou Yuanyuan's hands!
"Oh! This is such a coincidence. I don't have those pills anymore." Yun Shang spread out her hands, helpless.
After He Jingjing left yesterday, Yun Shang immediately had Huang Dalang deliver the elixir to the headquarters of the Loose Cultivator Alliance in Jiyun Mountain. Huang Dalang was the weasel spirit in the "Qingxin" bar, responsible for running errands and delivering messages.
"Miss Yun, can you help me get the pills back?" Although Zhou Yuanyuan was disappointed, she could only think of a way to make amends.
"May I know your name, young lady?" Yun Shang looked at Zhou Yuanyuan and asked with a smile.
Zhou Yuanyuan had been to the "Qingxin" bar once before, and Yunshang, with her sharp memory, had already recognized her. She also remembered He Jingjing's public ridicule of Zhou Yuanyuan that day. This was really interesting: two girls who seemed to be at odds with each other, and yet they came to her together today to buy pills?
"My surname is Zhou, Zhou Yuanyuan." Zhou Yuanyuan introduced herself gracefully.
On her first visit to the "Qingxin" bar, Zhou Yuanyuan immediately recognized Yunchang as a demon cultivator. With Xiaoyu's guidance, she learned all about Yunchang: a golden-haired rat who had only transformed a decade or so ago, a "pure" demon cultivator who had never tasted the flesh and blood of a cultivator. Xiaoyu's explanation also revealed that there were different types of demon cultivators. Some, like Hu Sanniang, absorbed the essence of the sun and moon to cultivate, while others, like the black bear demon, consumed the flesh and blood of cultivators to enhance their own strength. Yunchang, for the time being, still fell into Hu Sanniang's category, and Zhou Yuanyuan had a favorable impression of her.
Zhou? Yun Shang frowned and searched her mind, but she couldn't recall any family in the cultivation world with the surname Zhou.
Zhou Yuanyuan was so young, and her cultivation was countless times higher than Yun Shang's. With Zhou Yuanyuan's deliberate restraint, Yun Shang couldn't detect her true identity as a cultivator. Yun Shang even thought Zhou Yuanyuan was a lay disciple of some sect, specifically coming to buy elixirs for them.
Lin Muchen was astonished when he saw the elixirs Huang Dalang had specially sent back. He knew that "Divine Drunk" was a drug used on cultivators, but the other two were so rare that he had never even heard of them, let alone seen them.
Most of the people who practice Taoism are detached from emotions and love. Who would be so bored as to create an elixir that would make people fall in love at first sight?
In the current world of cultivation, the majority of cultivators skilled in alchemy come from the Yushan Sect. Even Lin Muchen himself is an alchemist. The Yushan Sect's inherited alchemy formulas are the most comprehensive in the entire cultivation world. Precisely because of this, the conflict between the Loose Cultivator Alliance and the Yushan Sect led to a severe shortage of elixirs. Even if Lin Muchen were an alchemist, he couldn't just sit around and do nothing but refine pills, right?
Lin Muchen had been in the Yushan Sect for nearly a hundred years, yet he had never seen the "Thousand Day Drunk" or "Awakening Pill." Could this mean that the alchemist who created these two pills possessed a more complete heritage than the Yushan Sect?
The reason why Lin Muchen asked Yun Shang to find the source of the elixir as soon as possible was that he wanted to follow He Jingjing's line and make friends with this "magical" alchemist.
After Huang Dalang returned from Jiyun Mountain, he conveyed Lin Muchen's order to Yun Shang, asking her to find out the origins of these pills as soon as possible, and preferably find out who made them.
"This... is a bit difficult. The current owner of the elixir is not someone a small character like me can afford to offend." Yun Shang hadn't figured out Zhou Yuanyuan's "identity" and could only apologize. Yun Shang really didn't have the courage to ask for the things that had entered Jiyun Mountain to be taken back.
"Ah? Hehehe... That's... what a coincidence." He Jingjing saw Zhou Yuanyuan's face darken. She wanted to tell a joke, but she got stuck mid-sentence. The murderous intent in Zhou Yuanyuan's glance at her just now was not fake. Now that the elixir was gone, would Zhou Yuanyuan really kill her?
As expected, what you fear will come true. Zhou Yuanyuan immediately turned hostile when she heard that the elixir was not in Yunchang's possession. He Jingjing's current role was merely to show the way. Zhou Yuanyuan was well versed in the Langyuan Secret Realm and did not need He Jingjing as a "burden".
"Follow me," Zhou Yuanyuan ordered He Jingjing with a frosty expression. Since He Jingjing couldn't produce the elixir, she decided to stick to her original plan and eliminate this evildoer.
"Yuanyuan, please let me go. I really didn't mean it." He Jingjing sensed a strong murderous intent from Zhou Yuanyuan. It would be strange if she dared to follow him. At this time, He Jingjing no longer cared about her image. She knelt down with a plop and begged bitterly.
"Didn't you mean it? Just ask yourself and you'll know." Zhou Yuanyuan felt a pang of heartache as she recalled the "idiot" Wen Ziqing from the Chaos Pearl's trial world. She had finally, finally, been moved, and what was the result? It was all ruined by He Jingjing, that utterly selfish woman.
He Jingjing was afraid that Zhou Yuanyuan would kill her without a care in the world, so she quickly got up, grabbed Yun Shang's arm, and pleaded with her, "Sister Yun, I know you're the best. Can you think of a way to buy me back the pills? I need them urgently, so I don't need many. I just need one of each. At most...at most, I can find you some other pills later. Is that okay with you?"
He Jingjing's mind flashed back to the pile of pills Ling Xiaotian had carefully stored away in Xiaoyao Peak's main hall. He Jingjing felt a little regretful. If she hadn't been so afraid of being discovered, she should have taken a few more bottles before escaping last time.
"Do you have any other elixirs?" Yun Shang was overjoyed. She hadn't wanted to get involved in the feud between He Jingjing and Zhou Yuanyuan, but if He Jingjing had another elixir, her weight would be different. The Lord had just given her instructions, and she needed to find out who had made the elixir!
"Sister Yun, I don't have it right now, but I'll have it after a while." He Jingjing decided to trick Yun Shang into getting the pill back first. With Zhou Yuanyuan, such a chilling "evil star" standing before her, He Jingjing was still a little scared. As for the future, we'll talk about it later!
"Miss, could you please give me a favor? I'll help you find a way to get the elixir you want." Yun Shang knew He Jingjing was still useful, so she naturally didn't want Zhou Yuanyuan to take her away. Seeing how afraid He Jingjing was of Zhou Yuanyuan, Yun Shang didn't dare to force her, so she had to use the word "help" to calm Zhou Yuanyuan down.
"Alright, I want to know the results within three days." Seeing Yunshang agree to help, Zhou Yuanyuan had no choice but to let He Jingjing go for now. As for the three-day deadline, Zhou Yuanyuan gave it to Yunshang as well as herself. After three days, there was no news from Yunshang, so Zhou Yuanyuan planned to go to the secret realm.
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