Chapter 174 Pay
Upon seeing this, Shan Zhongfeng was immediately overjoyed. He transformed into a celestial being, accepted the wine offered by Ji Rong, and drank it heartily.
Seeing that he was drinking happily, Ji Rong asked, "Godfather, how often does our Kun Dan Room have such a thing happening today?"
Shan Zhongfeng put down his cup, politely wiped his mouth, and replied, "We're alright, we only get into fights three to five times a year."
Today, I went to greet an old servant from the medicine shop. The medicine shop houses the Department of Spiritual Plants and the Garden of Rare Plants, so they have the most servants there.
These servants were not highly cultivated, many only at the mortal demon realm, and their animalistic nature remained. Therefore, many of them could not resist the temptation of the spiritual herbs and would steal them.
But these elixirs are limited in quantity, and it's easy to find out who stole them. So, the pharmacy receives victims almost daily who are then executed by dismemberment.
Ji Rong exclaimed in astonishment, "Won't Jade Void Palace's reputation be ruined by such a method of punishment? Soon no cultivators will be willing to come here!"
Shan Zhongfeng laughed and said, "Daughter, what we in Zhongzhou have the least shortage of is spiritual energy and cultivators. This batch is not behaving properly, just skin them and replace them with another batch."
“But,” Ji Rong said, “don’t they know that our Jade Void Palace has strict rules and that it’s easy to die there?”
"So what if the rules are strict? We get a lot of money, girl. Not to mention that we have no worries about food and clothing all year round in the Jade Void Palace, when the payday comes, you will know the real benefits once you take the jade token to collect the money."
"Then, the pharmacy staff should know all this, right? Why do they still go and take it?"
Shan Zhongfeng thought about it carefully for a moment, then said, "Huang Da is smart. She never eats or takes things indiscriminately, so she has raised you all to be smart too."
But daughter, look at me, how many of the myriad races can keep their mouths shut? Even I still steal Master's pills.
Luckily, my master personally rescued me, otherwise I would have been skinned alive long ago.
Twelve days later, it was time for Jade Void Palace to distribute wages. Ji Rong received ten thousand spirit crystals by presenting her identity jade token.
Having received 10,000 spirit crystals without doing much work, Ji Rong felt that the treasures of the Jade Void Palace were really easy to earn.
Shan Wu's cultivation was higher, so he received more than Ji Rong, including 15,000 spirit crystals and some spirit materials!
But before Ji Rong could even enjoy the money, Shan Zhongfeng blocked her doorway and said, "Daughter, you've been paid, haven't you? Your father has brought you some pills. Take a look."
At Shan Zhongfeng's eager gaze, Ji Rong took Shan Zhongfeng's storage ring. She glanced inside and found that besides the pills, there were only a few thousand spirit crystals. She couldn't help but say, "Father, why is your storage ring so empty? Besides the pills, there's nothing left. And aren't you going to collect your pay today?"
Upon hearing this, Shan Zhongfeng's tail, which had been swinging merrily in the air, instantly fell to the ground. He lowered his head dejectedly and said in a low voice, "I was picked up by my master. The whole tiger belongs to him. I destroyed so many of his possessions. Where would I get the money?"
"These spirit crystals were something I scavenged."
Alright, let's loot! Ji Rong rolled her eyes. This godfather was truly a shameless tiger. No wonder as soon as she came in, there were so many cultivators who couldn't understand why they wanted to trip her up.
"Then I'll share some with you?" Ji Rong said to the mountain.
Shan Zhongfeng immediately nodded happily and said, "Daughter, I won't take it for nothing. Look inside, pick one of the pills."
Ji Rong sighed inwardly and said, "Godfather, give me one that you didn't refine."
Upon hearing Ji Rong's words, which implied that she didn't want the pills he had refined, Shan Zhongfeng's neck hair stood on end, and he fiercely demanded, "What do you mean!"
Now that Ji Rong had entered the Jade Void Palace, received her identity jade token, and even made an appearance before the old Taoist Gu Lin, she was no longer inclined to indulge Shan Zhongfeng.
To prevent Shan Zhongfeng from having wild ideas and one day making him and Shan Wuwei test the elixir for him.
She immediately flapped her wings three times, raised her neck, bared her beak at Shan Zhongfeng, and pointed at him with her wing claws, howling: "That year, you fed Qingqing two pills, one big and one small. Think about it yourself, were there any pills that you refined yourself in them?"
Do you know that our treasure is all in Qingqing's mouth? But after she ate your elixir, she slept for nearly ten years before waking up.
Do you know how we survived in Ligu City during those ten years? At first, we couldn't even get a proper meal of spiritual food!
I don't want your pills, and don't yell at me! I'm at the King level now, I can get by anywhere.
If I hadn't been thinking of Aunt Huang before she died, would I have been so bored as to go through all this trouble to ask my uncle to come and see you?
"If you dare treat me badly, I'll go back to the Canglan Mountains and waterways with my uncle. The Arrogant God will surely give me a way to make a living!"
"Sigh, Big Yellow." Shan Zhongfeng rarely leaves the mountains, focusing solely on alchemy, and has very little contact with the outside world.
Seeing Ji Rong so directly flipping through the ancient records, it stirred up some of the few but vivid memories in his mind. He quickly flipped through his storage ring and said, "Don't cry, it was my fault. I don't want your money anymore."
These are pills the old man refined; they're all for you.
Ji Rong simply took the pill that Shan Zhongfeng handed her, then stopped her half-serious, half-fake wailing and sat down on the ground, saying, "So, what kind of pill did you feed Qingqing that year?"
Shan Zhongfeng quickly pulled Ji Rong into the room, made a soundproof barrier with his claws, and whispered, "It should be a pill made from the essence of a mortal demon realm dog cultivator. I didn't intend to use her as a test subject, but that was all I had on me at the time."
Ji Rong rolled her eyes at Shan Zhongfeng, snatched the storage ring still hanging from his paw, and dumped the other five thousand spirit crystals she had obtained that day into it, saying, "There's a big problem with your pill. After Qingqing ate it, it smelled terrible."
Back then, my brother and I were at a low level of cultivation. After working outside, we had to cultivate while taking care of Sister Qingqing.
After Qingqing woke up, she was able to walk, but her memories of her actions were confused.
We could have had it less tough, all because of your Dan, all because of your Dan!
Upon hearing this, Shan Zhongfeng became even more disheartened.
Looking at the mountain center forward who seemed to have suffered a defeat, Ji Rong felt that the tiger-beating stick had been used enough.
She thought to herself that the gods must think that the Mountain and Water God had completely collapsed. Who would have thought that she would bring the Mountain and Water God into the Jade Void Palace so quickly, making a fool of herself in the dark.
We still need to win over this adoptive father; they will eventually have to stay in the Jade Void Palace to plan for the future.
Thinking this to himself, Ji Rong then said to Shan Zhongfeng, "Your pills always have side effects, it must be because you haven't learned enough. The 'Pill-Making Method' I brought back was carefully listened to by the Ancient Alchemist Saint Gu Lin; it should be something that doesn't exist in the Jade Void Palace. Would you like to learn it?"
Upon hearing this, Shan Zhongfeng's eyes showed a struggle, and then he said, "No, I haven't completed my apprenticeship, so I can't learn other schools of thought."
Ji Rong replied, "I've acknowledged you as my father, so what if I teach you? I'll explain this to Gu Lin Dan Sheng next time."
Upon hearing this, Shan Zhongfeng was deeply moved. He had always cherished the memory of Huang Pinjie, and now, looking at Ji Rong, he felt a genuine connection to her.
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