Hearing that scream made Feng Yuanyi feel relieved, and it made him feel much better after all the anger he had been feeling these past few days.
The ink on this whip can increase the pain, and the damage will be more severe than that caused by a regular bone whip.
Feng Yuanyi then struck the whip a second time, his gaze falling on Zhang Ruosheng, who seemed to be drawn in by the sounds coming from there.
Feng Yuanyi felt a chill run down his spine and quickened his movements with the whip in the tree. Before Zhang Ruosheng could react, he had already delivered all ten lashes of the bone whip.
Feng Yuanyi felt much better. He fed Bai Yilian, who was lying on the ground, a pill to help her recover from her injuries, and then said to Zhang Ruosheng, "Junior Brother Zhang, do you want to take Junior Sister Bai back?"
Zhang Ruosheng then snapped out of his daze and went forward to support Bai Yilian.
Feng Yuanyi said, "He has already taken the medicine, and he should be fine in a little while." As he spoke, he looked at Bai Yilian with some displeasure, as if to say that such a small matter was not worth making a fuss about.
Everyone felt that Bai Yilian had gone too far. Compared to Zhang Ruosheng's hundred lashes, her ten lashes were nothing.
Moreover, this was her own fault. She could have completed the task, but she deliberately delayed doing so, wanting Zhang Ruosheng to suffer the consequences for her. People didn't have much affection for her.
Zhang Ruosheng took Ran back to Bai Yilian's residence, but for a moment he couldn't find the right words to comfort her.
Bai Yilian's bones were still aching, and there was no sign of improvement, but in order to maintain Zhang Ruosheng's goodwill towards her, she said softly, "Ruosheng, I'm in so much pain."
Zhang Ruosheng remembered that he still had the ointment that Qi Zhiheng had given him, so he quickly took it out: "I, I have ointment here. It was given to me by my master. It's very effective. I..." He wanted to say, "I'll help you apply it," but then he remembered the difference between men and women and lost his words.
In the end, Zhang Ruosheng went to a female disciple he knew well and asked her to help apply the medicine.
The female disciple didn't like Bai Yilian to begin with, and what's more, she knew that the ointment Zhang Ruosheng gave her was made by Qi Zhiheng using rare spiritual herbs. There was no need to waste such a treatment on Bai Yilian's injuries from the ten lashes.
She used the bare minimum amount of ointment to apply to Bai Yilian's back, muttering that Bai Yilian was wasting things.
Bai Yilian was already in pain all over, and being bullied like this by a maid made her feel even worse. She even felt some resentment towards Zhang Ruosheng. If Zhang Ruosheng hadn't called this young girl in, she wouldn't have been able to suffer like this!
This was truly unfair to Zhang Ruosheng. He had to ask several female disciples before one was willing to apply medicine to Bai Yilian. The other female disciples also disliked Bai Yilian, and refused one by one when they heard that it was to apply medicine for her.
After seeing Bai Yilian's condition, Zhang Ruosheng went back to refining pills.
Today, Bai Yilian was sent back, and Qi Zhiheng had Zhang Ruosheng summoned back to the alchemy room for formal disciples.
To highlight the difference, Qi Zhiheng taught the formal disciples the next level of alchemy techniques during Zhang Ruosheng's absence.
When you first start learning alchemy, Qi Zhiheng teaches you the techniques, but only the first part. He will teach you the second part when you reach the second level of alchemy master.
He only revealed a portion of the methods for cultivating soul power and the techniques for alchemy, which was also to prevent these disciples from betraying him later or having other motives.
When Zhang Ruosheng returned to the alchemy room, he felt a bit unfamiliar with it. All the other disciples in the alchemy room had already learned the new alchemy techniques, but he was the only one still standing in the same place.
Even in the art of alchemy, the newcomers have surpassed him. Qi Zhiheng did not intend to personally teach Zhang Ruosheng. After the first alchemy session in the morning, Qi Zhiheng said to the disciple with the best performance, "You are responsible for teaching Zhang Ruosheng the techniques you have been practicing during this period."
"Yes, Master." The disciple who was called upon by Qi Zhiheng first handed over the incantation to Zhang Ruosheng in written form, and then demonstrated how to use it while refining pills.
However, without Qi Zhiheng's guidance, Zhang Ruosheng found learning more difficult. In addition, his back injury slowed down his cultivation considerably.
Only then did Zhang Ruosheng truly realize how much he had missed by not refining pills with the other formal disciples these past few days.
Qi Zhiheng said, "You can practice alchemy in this room for the next few days. You can go back after you've become familiar with the techniques."
Zhang Ruosheng naturally agreed.
On the second day, Bai Yilian was summoned back to the alchemy room by someone sent by Feng Yuanyi to continue the assignments for the next lesson.
Bai Yilian's injuries had only been a day old and were naturally not yet fully healed. Feng Yuanyi had given her such a severe beating, so she naturally wouldn't let it go. The next day, she stayed in the alchemy room until very late, until all the disciples had left.
Her stated reason for staying was simple: she hadn't finished her homework and needed to continue refining medicinal herbs.
After everyone had left, Bai Yilian quietly slipped into Feng Yuanyi's private alchemy room. Since she was still inside, she couldn't make too much noise.
Bai Yilian released a poisonous insect from her spirit beast pouch.
She is indeed lacking in talent when it comes to alchemy, but she has some talent in controlling poisonous insects, and the poisonous insects she currently has are one of them.
This type of poisonous insect is called a "Disguiser," and it can change color to match its surroundings. Bai Yilian placed two Disguisser inside a box containing a spirit herb, and the Disguisser's color immediately changed to the green of the herb, blending seamlessly with it. Without careful examination using soul power, no abnormality could be detected.
The imposter is extremely sensitive to spiritual energy. As long as he carries spiritual energy in his hands and comes into contact with this spiritual herb, he will inevitably be touched by the imposter.
The imposter's poison takes several days to take effect. During that time, the muscles of the person invaded by the imposter will begin to ulcerate, and three months later, they will melt away from the inside out due to the poison. Just imagining that scene made Bai Yilian's lips curl into a sinister smug smile.
After closing the door, Bai Yilian quietly left.
The next day, Feng Yuanyi assigned Bai Yilian homework as usual. Without Zhang Ruosheng around, Bai Yilian naturally dared not neglect her studies, as the punishment she received last time was enough to make her dare not take any chances.
Yesterday, Feng Yuanyi gave Bai Yilian a powder that would make her sleepy at night, but judging from Bai Yilian's success, she probably managed to pull through. However, Bai Yilian's condition is not very good. Because she is too tired to rest, some dark circles have appeared under her eyes.
Feng Yuanyi was in a good mood. He put his hands behind his back and returned to his private alchemy room to begin refining the first batch of pills for the day.
Feng Yuanyi opened the necessary spiritual herbs one by one. When he was halfway through refining them, he reached out and covered his hand with spiritual energy, grabbing a spiritual herb. Suddenly, his finger stung.
He frowned. The spiritual herb had barbs on it, and his first thought was that he had accidentally grabbed one of the barbs.
After finishing refining the pills, Feng Yuanyi opened the furnace and took out the pills. Seeing the quality of the pills, he subconsciously frowned and muttered, "Not a single top-grade pill was refined today?"
He blamed it on the fact that he had been distracted after being pricked on the finger by the herb.
He packed the pills and brought them to Qi Zhiheng.
As was customary, Qi Zhiheng checked the quality of the pills for his disciples and allocated resources according to the quality of the pills.
When Qi Zhiheng saw Feng Yuanyi's pills, he asked with some surprise, "Not a single top-grade one? Have I been giving you too many tasks lately?"
Feng Yuanyi said somewhat embarrassedly, "No, no, I'm still able to handle the things Master instructed me to do. It's just that I got pricked by Qian Siji's thorns this morning, which distracted me and caused this."
Qi Zhiheng completely distrusted his words: "What nonsense are you talking about? You can't even come up with a better excuse. Didn't you use spiritual power to wrap around Qian Siji when you grabbed it? How could you have gotten pricked?" He picked up a pill and sniffed it, his expression somewhat unusual.
After hearing Qi Zhiheng's explanation, Feng Yuanyi also felt a little strange. He raised his hand and extended it in front of Qi Zhiheng, saying, "But if I am really injured, and it wasn't Qian Siji's barb, what else could it be?"
Qi Zhiheng examined Feng Yuanyi's finger and found a red dot that looked like a wound that had appeared after being pricked by a thorn.
His nose twitched, and Feng Yuanyi sniffed from a distance, then sniffed the pill again, and said, "This pill has a smell that's somewhat similar to the smell on your fingers. Did you add any other spiritual herbs to it?"
Feng Yuanyi denied it, saying, "No, it was all prepared according to the previous ratio."
Qi Zhiheng couldn't recall which kind of spiritual herb this tasted like. He put the pill back into the medicine bottle: "This pill probably has something mixed in with it. It shouldn't be eaten."
Feng Yuanyi never expected such a thing to happen, but what his master said was ultimately true.
Qi Zhiheng then asked, "Has anything unusual happened in your alchemy room lately?"
After thinking for a moment, Feng Yuanyi shook his head, indicating that he had not found anything.
Qi Zhiheng suddenly seemed to remember something and grabbed Feng Yuanyi's arm, startling all the disciples present. Feng Yuanyi himself was also startled.
Qi Zhiheng took out a thin, long silver needle and inserted it into Feng Yuanyi's injured finger! After rotating the silver needle a few times, he picked out a thin, long red worm.
With a flick of his wrist, the silver needle, along with the red worm, was pinned to the table. The red worm wriggled a few times and then gradually disappeared. Upon closer inspection, one could see that the worm had not actually disappeared, but had simply changed its color to match its surroundings.
Feng Yuanyi, however, was quite easygoing and asked, "Master, what is this? Is it a Gu worm?"
Qi Zhiheng glanced at Feng Yuanyi, thinking to himself that this disciple was quite careless! He replied, "It's not a Gu worm, it's a poisonous worm."
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