After giving her instructions, Mu Ran planned to go and recuperate.
Qi Zhiheng asked, "Senior, are you confident that you can recover from your injuries?"
Mu Ran said, "I really can't guarantee that. I don't have any suitable healing pills on hand. My injuries require the Three Yuan Pill, but ordinary Three Yuan Pills are hardly enough to treat my current injuries. I need top-grade pills, but given my current condition, I'm afraid the people from the Heavenly Gang Mansion have already made arrangements to prevent them from selling me any pills. That's why, after this mission was posted, you were the only one who accepted it."
Qi Zhiheng: "...Isn't it because your pay is low?"
Mu Ran choked, then forced a defense: "My reward may be low, but are the books I gave you worthless? Do you know how much those guys from the Heavenly Gang Mansion covet what I have? And you're complaining about it, aren't you?"
Qi Zhiheng said somewhat helplessly, "I wouldn't dare."
Before Mu Ran could say anything more, Qi Zhiheng interrupted, "Senior, you should go and rest. I'll take good care of the herb garden."
Mu Ran had no choice but to shut up and go back to her cultivation.
After Qi Zhiheng saw the people off, he released the Spirit Devouring Insects. The Spirit Devouring Insect King seemed to be about to break through, and after it came out, it looked at Qi Zhiheng with its two big black eyes.
Qi Zhiheng wasn't such a stingy master. He first gave him some immortal spirit stones: "I'll go buy some immortal spirit herbs to refine beast immortal pills later, and refine some pills. But you're not an immortal spirit beast yet, so you can only eat a little bit, understand?"
The Devouring Insect King readily agreed, "Don't worry, I'll do whatever you say." It didn't matter that he couldn't consume the Beast Immortal Pill now; once he transformed into the Devouring Sky Insect, wouldn't the Beast Immortal Pill be his own? So, naturally, he agreed to everything.
Qi Zhiheng instructed the spirit-devouring insects to take good care of the herb garden, while he went out to buy some immortal herbs.
Besides the immortal herbs needed to refine the Beast Immortal Pill, he also bought some materials for a second-level immortal spirit pill. If he could find them, he could help Mu Ran heal her injuries.
As for whether or not to help Mu Ran refine pills, we'll wait until the end of this month to decide.
Qi Zhiheng first refined several batches of Beast Immortal Pills, then used his spiritual power to cut one into ten pieces, throwing one piece to the Spirit Devouring Insect.
Having obtained something valuable, the Soul-Devouring Insect entrusted its subordinates to its mate for management, while it found a place rich in spiritual energy to begin refining the Beast Immortal Pill.
Qi Zhiheng set up an array around it to prevent any damage to the herb garden when the spiritual energy surged.
He then began refining the Level 2 Immortal Elixir.
The difficulty of refining the second-level Immortal Spirit Pill is slightly higher. Qi Zhiheng successfully refined the pill, but only two top-grade pills were produced from one batch.
To refine higher-quality pills, one needs to familiarize oneself with the pill-refining process.
After he finished refining the three sets of immortal herbs he bought, almost a month had passed.
That day, Qi Zhiheng went out to check the situation, and the Soul-Devouring Insects had not yet undergone their final mutation.
"Let's stop for a bit. The master here should be coming out soon. We'll break through again once we find the location." After the Soul-Devouring Insect King came out, Qi Zhiheng gathered up all the Insects that were scattered in the herb garden.
The next day, Mu Ran estimated the time and came out.
The two went together to the general manager's office in the first heaven to hand in their mission.
After handing over the task, Mu Ran said, "Go and find out some information first. This is my communication jade slip. Contact me again after you have confirmed everything."
Qi Zhiheng accepted the communication jade slip; his trip shouldn't take too long. Mu Ran also recommended a few places to gather information, and Qi Zhiheng immediately flew to the nearest one.
The faction closest to selling information is called Xunlongxuan.
Their main business is sending people to search for treasures in some ancient ruins or to capture rare immortal beasts in their territories.
Of course, information is also sold.
Qi Zhiheng walked into Xunlongxuan and got straight to the point: "I want to buy someone's information. Do you have any here?"
The person in charge said, "We usually have them. Give me some information and I'll see if there are any backups in the building."
Qi Zhiheng opened his mouth, but couldn't come up with a coherent answer. He originally wanted to say Yang Yitian's name, but then he realized that if the other party came under the name of Hanqing Immortal Lord, it was uncertain whose name he would use.
After thinking for a moment, he said, "I want information on an ice spirit root cultivator who ascended sixteen years ago."
The other person asked, "Do you have a name?"
Qi Zhiheng shook his head.
"Then let me find out which ice-spirited cultivators ascended sixteen years ago." He stood up, found a celestial artifact, and began searching by inputting celestial spiritual power.
Soon, relevant information appeared: "Sixteen years ago, four cultivators ascended to immortality, but I don't know which one you are looking for."
Qi Zhiheng asked, "May I see the name?"
"Didn't you say you didn't know the other person's name?" The other person looked at Qi Zhiheng with some confusion.
Qi Zhiheng said, "I remember some, but my memory has been altered, so I've forgotten. Maybe I can remember it if I take a look."
The immortal in charge nodded and said, "Okay, take a look for yourself."
Qi Zhiheng looked through all the names and found the name [Yang Yitian] in the middle.
At the same time, he was also somewhat surprised that the other party was still using this name.
Seeing him in a daze, the person who had greeted him asked, "How is it? Do you remember now?"
“Found him.” Qi Zhiheng nodded, then pointed to Yang Yitian’s name. “I’m looking for him.”
"What level of information do you need?" The price varies depending on the level of information required.
Qi Zhiheng answered firmly, "I want it all."
"One hundred thousand low-grade immortal spirit stones."
Qi Zhiheng took out the Immortal Spirit Stone and exchanged information with the other party.
After receiving the documents, Qi Zhiheng opened them and began to examine them.
The record shows the time of Yang Yitian's ascension, his cultivation level as an Earth Immortal after ascension, what missions he took on afterward, and who he became acquainted with. However, this information is very short because Yang Yitian had already gone to the Second Heaven fourteen years ago. For an ascended cultivator, whose lifespan is long, two years is just a blink of an eye in the eyes of these cultivators, so there is not much information.
Upon learning that Yang Yitian had gone to the Second Heaven, Qi Zhiheng immediately decided to go back to find Mu Ran and follow him to the Second Heaven.
Before that, Mu Ran needs to be given a pill.
Give the other party a pill in exchange for a spot—a fair trade, so that no one owes anyone anything.
Qi Zhiheng did not plan to return to Mu Ran's place for the time being. Instead, he found a place and bought some second-level immortal herbs. He wanted to refine the pills first and then negotiate with Mu Ran.
Having obtained the spiritual herbs, he rented an alchemy room and began refining pills. A few days later, the pills were successfully refined, and Qi Zhiheng left.
Just as Qi Zhiheng was about to contact Mu Ran, he received a message from Mu Shui'er.
It's been so long since they've had any contact with these three people. Since they haven't gone to Mu Ran's place yet, they might as well meet up with them.
Qi Zhiheng still has some first-grade pills that he hasn't sold yet, and he can leave a portion for the others.
After making up his mind, he opened the communication jade slip.
The news inside wasn't good. Mu Shui'er said Ren Wenshui was injured and asked if he had time to meet, as they needed Qi Zhiheng's help with some things.
Qi Zhiheng replied to the message, inquired about the other party's location, and then rushed over.
Upon arriving at a small courtyard, Mu Shui'er noticed his arrival and came to greet him.
As Qi Zhiheng followed her inside, he inquired about Ren Wenshui's situation.
Mu Shui'er said, "Didn't we take on a mission last time? It was originally just a mission for Earth Immortals, but after entering the mission location, we got trapped there. There were level two immortal spirit beasts inside. The immortals who went in were trapped for a while. Some of them died because they were unlucky, some were slightly injured because they were lucky, and some were seriously injured because they were unsure whether they were lucky or not."
Ren Wenshui, on the other hand, was the type whose luck was hard to define; he suffered a very serious injury.
Qi Zhiheng nodded: "You said you needed my help with something, what is it?"
"I heard you went to work under Master Mu Dan?" Mu Shui'er asked.
Qi Zhiheng said, "I guess so. I helped him look after the herb garden before."
Mu Shui'er said, "If you know him, I wonder if you could ask him to help Ren Wenshui refine a batch of pills? It's very difficult for alchemists outside to refine pills of his caliber."
"What kind of pills do you need? Perhaps I can help you refine them." Qi Zhiheng thought it was something serious, but refining pills was even less of a problem for him. Mu Ran was still in his hands; even if he wanted to refine pills, he probably wouldn't be able to.
Mu Shui'er was somewhat skeptical. He knew Qi Zhiheng was an alchemist, but he had never witnessed his skills: "The pills you refine this time need to be of the highest quality, otherwise Ren Wenshui may have difficulty recovering this time."
"Will a top-grade pill work?" Qi Zhiheng asked.
Mu Shui'er asked in surprise, "You can refine top-grade pills?"
Qi Zhiheng nodded: "I learned some knowledge from Master Mu Dan, so refining a first-level immortal spirit pill is not a problem."
Mu Shui'er quickly told Qi Zhiheng the name of the pill, and the two arrived at Ren Wenshui's room in the blink of an eye.
Besides Ren Wenshui, Dao Ming was also in the room.
Ren Wenshui was still unconscious, and Dao Ming and Qi Zhiheng nodded.
Qi Zhiheng then stepped forward to examine Ren Wenshui's injuries.
The injuries are indeed quite severe, and there is also a kind of fire poison lingering in the heart meridian. If treatment is rushed, it will only backfire.
"Has this been examined by a master alchemist?" After examining it, Qi Zhiheng asked Mu Shui'er, who was standing to the side.
Mu Shui'er replied, "Yes, the alchemist said that because he couldn't refine top-grade first-class pills, he told us to find someone more skilled."
Qi Zhiheng said, "I'm afraid these alchemists feel they can't cure the disease and don't want to ruin their reputation, so they're using this excuse to fob you off. It has nothing to do with the medicine, but rather that there are risks in using medicine for his injuries. It's not that he can't be cured, but if he's not careful and the patient dies, I'm afraid his peers will laugh at him for not being skilled enough."
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