Chapter 11 Spiritual Fruit
"No, what are you guys doing?" Lu Huai was confused. "You're keeping it secret from me alone."
There was a hint of grievance in his tone.
Jiang Xia: "Junior Brother, the pill you just ate was made by Junior Sister."
Lu Huai's eyes widened, "Wow~"
"So I'm the guinea pig for that experiment?"
"Don't give it back to me." Nan Xiao wanted to take the medicine bottle back from Lu Huai's hand, but Lu Huai dodged it.
"Hey! What's given to me is mine, there's no way I'm going to take it back..."
"Xiaoxiao, you know what, this pill of yours is the same as the one given to me by Senior Brother before, and I even feel that it's more effective." Lu Huai said
Hearing this, Jiang Xia also took one. After a long silence, he said, "Junior sister, this is a top-grade spiritual tonic." Although the smell was a little worse, he was sure that the medicinal effect was that of a top-grade elixir.
Pills are also divided into low, medium, high and top grades.
Normally, when a novice refines the alchemy furnace, he either explodes it or is on the way to exploding it, and it is rare for him to succeed in one go.
Although he didn't know how to refine pills, seeing how rare alchemy practitioners were, he knew that refining pills must be very difficult, let alone refining top-grade pills.
Jiang Xia asked, "How many times have you refined this to get the finished product?"
"I succeeded every time, never once. One furnace yielded three pills." Nan Xiao stretched out his finger, made a gesture to indicate the number three, and answered with pride.
"It seems that our Xiaoyao Sect is about to produce a genius in alchemy." Seeing her smug look, Jiang Xia couldn't help but laugh. "Master and the others will definitely be happy when they know."
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Nan Xiao found that he was suitable for alchemy, so he spent this period of time in the alchemy room, refining a lot of soul-replenishing pills, soul-gathering pills, etc.
Her speed in refining pills also increased a lot. She successfully broke through from the second level of Qi training to the third level.
She will be promoted faster than if she worked hard and got beaten for a month.
During this period, Lin Jingyuan also found Nan Xiao once, said a lot of encouraging words, and gave her a lot of elixirs, asking her to make the elixir well.
There are only a handful of alchemy practitioners in the Xiaoyao Sect, and including Nan Xiao, there are exactly five of them. This ratio is pitifully low.
In the world of cultivation, elixirs and talismans are very popular.
However, the few alchemists in Xiaoyao Sect could not afford to supply the elixirs for all the disciples of Xiaoyao Sect, and they had to spend a huge amount of money to purchase them from Huanhai Sect every year.
Now Nan Xiao's high success rate and high quality of alchemy have given Lin Jingyuan hope of saving crystal stones.
Xiaoyao Sect has many hilltops, so it's better to plant spiritual medicines instead of empty ones. Although they don't have some high-level spiritual medicines, they have more basic spiritual medicines like the Soul-Replenishing Pill and the Soul-Gathering Pill than they can use up.
After all, there are only a few alchemists, and they can never use up all the pills even if they refine them day and night.
Every year, Xiaoyao Sect sells the excess spiritual medicine to Huanhai Sect at a low price, and then buys the finished elixirs from Huanhai Sect at a high price.
What a complete injustice.
But there was no other way, otherwise the spiritual medicine would rot in the fields, which would be a waste. The other small sects couldn't consume so many spiritual medicines, so selling them to the Huanhai Sect at once would at least make some money back.
Nan Xiao didn't know how long she had been in the alchemy room. When she emerged, her steps were weak and her eyes were dim, as if she had been drained of her vitality.
She was holding a round jar and staggering towards Lin Jingyuan's yard.
“Master…Master…”
Nan Xiao put the jar on the ground and shouted at the top of his voice.
There was no way. There was a restriction in his yard, and she couldn't break it with just a little Qi training.
I don't know who to guard against.
Nan Xiao was too lazy to waste any more energy, so he found a clean place and fell asleep.
She had hardly rested during this period. She was either refining pills or on the way to make pills. Now she relaxed completely and soon fell asleep.
Lin Jingyuan was talking to Jiang Xia.
Seeing Nan Xiao lying at the gate of his yard, the two of them were really scared.
"Junior Sister?"
"Xiaoxiao..."
The two men rushed to Nan Xiao's side and heard her even breathing, and their hearts finally settled down.
Jiang Xia's tone was somewhat helpless: "Master, what did you ask me to do? I'm so tired."
Lin Jingyuan put his fist to his lips and coughed lightly, "I'm doing this for Xiaoxiao's own good. I want her to refine more pills so that she can consolidate her alchemy skills."
Jiang Xia took a look at the jar full of pills. What else did he not understand?
Back then, Second Junior Sister was also tricked by Master into drawing talismans. Then her spiritual consciousness was lost and she fainted. She had to lie down for half a month before she recovered.
Jiang Xia handed the full jar of pills to Lin Jingyuan, and then picked up Nan Xiao from the ground.
His movements weren't particularly gentle, but even so, Nan Xiao didn't wake up. Instead, she subconsciously found a comfortable position along his arm and leaned over to continue sleeping.
You can see how tired the child is.
"Master, we'll talk about the secret realm next time. I'll send my junior sister back first."
Lin Jingyuan put away the full jar of pills, then took out a blackened pill furnace and said, "This is for Xiaoxiao. Give it to her when she wakes up. Take her back to rest."
"good"
After saying that, Jiang Xia took Nan Xiao and flew away on his sword.
Lin Jingyuan took the pills and walked towards the yard with a happy mood.
It wasn't that he was cruel, but he was enslaving his own disciples; it was simply because he was too naive. The Xiaoyao Sect was so large, and the daily expenses were considerable. After all, the sect wasn't as prosperous as it once was, so they had to save wherever possible.
Otherwise, the capital left by his ancestors would be squandered in his generation, and he would be too ashamed to see all of them.
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Night slowly falls.
When Nan Xiao woke up, she found herself back in the courtyard. She thought it was her master who had sent her back, but when she was chatting with Lu Huai, she realized it was her senior brother who had sent her back.
Lu Huai saw that Nan Xiao had just woken up and probably hadn't eaten yet, "Xiao Xiao, wait for me for a moment."
"oh."
When Nan Xiao looked up, he could only see a back.
She didn't care, instead looking at her new furnace, liking it more and more. It was worth all her hard work.
After a while, Lu Huai came in stealthily, holding a package in his arms. He looked around and saw everyone around him.
Nan Xiao frowned in confusion: "What are you doing?"
It feels like stealing.
Lu Huai grabbed Nan Xiao's wrist, pulled him into the house, and locked the door from the inside. Only then did he mysteriously open his package.
"This is a spiritual fruit given by the Fifth Elder. It's said that eating it can not only replenish spiritual energy, but also improve your cultivation." Lu Huai took out the largest fruit, rinsed it with water, and handed it to Nan Xiao: "It's very sweet, eat it quickly."
"Tell me honestly, was this given by the Fifth Elder or by you???"
Although Nan Xiao didn't finish her words, Lu Huai understood what she meant and explained:
"Xiaoxiao, who do you think I am? You said it was given by the Fifth Elder. I haven't been willing to eat it these past few days, just waiting to eat it with you, but you doubt me like this. I'm so angry."
Lu Huai was a little angry. Nan Xiao also took a spiritual fruit and stuffed it into his hand, saying, "Junior brother, you are so generous. You will definitely not hold it against me, right?"
"I was wrong."
There's no way around it. It's because he's so secretive that it's hard for people to misunderstand him.
Lu Huai turned his head and took a big bite of the spiritual fruit to express his dissatisfaction.
Nan Xiao was helpless, so he stuffed two more bottles of elixir into his mouth and said a lot of nice things to the child before he could coax him into submission.
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