Chapter 190 Applying Elixir
Baoshengjun cupped his four hands and solemnly bowed to Ji Rong, saying, "The weeds can never be completely eradicated. The two gentlemen have helped us escape our predicament. From now on, we must walk on our own. We were born in Liangzhou, and we are the true masters of this land."
Upon hearing this, Ji Rong stopped trying to persuade her. She took down the cage, opened it, and dumped all the junior cultivators out.
She took out a simple storage ring and placed it in Baoshengjun's cupped hands, then said to Shanwu, "Uncle, is there anything else? If so, please leave two bottles for Baoshengjun to live on."
Shan Wu was somewhat reluctant, but he still took it out.
Baoshengjun accepted the jade bottle, then placed the two bottles of immortal spring water and the storage ring into his clay body. He bowed again, unable to rise from his knees before Ji Rongchang.
Ji Rong said, "Lord Baosheng, we are leaving now. Take care. If you can't make it, take your followers and run towards the Canglan Mountain Range."
Afterwards, Ji Rong handed the cage to Shan Wu. She made a hand seal with her hands and chanted a spell, instructing Shan Wu and Yue Tu to put the unconscious and bleeding Zhan Shi into the cage. As soon as Zhan Shi entered the cage, Yue Tu climbed in after him.
Ji Rong then closed the cage door, made a hand seal and chanted an incantation to shrink the cage, and then hung it around Shan Wu's neck.
At this moment, Ji Rong suddenly felt the Mountain and Water God on her back move slightly, and a soft sigh sounded on her back.
Then, on the vast expanse of yellow sand, specks of golden light rose up, and as if with a purpose, they all entered the body of Baosheng Jun, who was bowing down to him.
As these points of light entered, Baoshengjun's figure gradually became thicker, and an aura capable of shaking the earth began to emanate from his body.
The lesser monks gathered around Him, seeing the God becoming more and more solid, all turned and bowed down before Him.
Wisps of faith flew out from the heads of the believers and entered the clay body of Baoshengjun, making his outer shell shine as if it had been glazed.
The yellow wind that had been looming over from the horizon suddenly swirled around the area and flew off to either side.
"Could it be that the Mountain and Water God is carrying out the imperial decree again?!" Ji Rong was startled and immediately opened the golden leaf slightly to look inside through the gap in the leaf. She saw that the little Mountain and Water God inside had turned over and was still sleeping peacefully.
But Ji Rong was still worried, so she said to Shan Wu in a deep voice, "Uncle, come and water it."
Shan Wuzi noticed the strange phenomenon happening to Baoshengjun. He quickly made a hand seal to create an isolation barrier and then poured the immortal spring into the gaps in the leaves on Ji Rong's back.
Then Shan Wufu, who was lying at Ji Rong's feet, looked up at Ji Rong and asked, "Nephew, what's our next move?"
Ji Rong's beady eyes darted around, and she said, "Uncle, there's no wind right now. Let's dress up nicely and head back to Da Dan City."
Ji Rong then took the cage off and hung it around Shan Wu's neck, and took out the wooden plaque from her storage ring to put on herself.
Then, she transformed into a colorful bird-woman, holding the Mountain and Water God on her back in her arms. Golden leaves sprouted from her wings, covering the Mountain and Water God like a swaddling cloth.
Ji Rong put the storage ring containing the pills on her wing claws, flipped over and mounted Shan Wu's back, saying, "Uncle, let's go apply the pills."
Upon hearing this, Shan Wu immediately understood. He grinned and said, "Nephew, my brother is indeed very thoughtful."
Dressed in this manner, the two of them strolled leisurely into the city of Da Dan. Whenever they encountered a cultivator, they would chase after them, force them to stop, show them their Xuanhuan wooden token, and offer them one or two pills, eventually persuading them to take them.
Ji Rong would occasionally imitate the methods of a sorcerer, transferring some spiritual energy to cultivators who had injured their legs or lost their wings, and while doing so, she would pick up a stone to record the reactions of those who consumed the pills.
Before long, word spread throughout Liangzhou that two attendants of the ancient alchemist Gulin Dansheng of Yuxu Palace were performing alchemy near Liangzhou Dadan City.
Many impoverished cultivators came chasing after them, begging for pills, which made Ji Rong and Shan Wu's progress extremely slow.
Every day, a steady stream of junior cultivators still come to them. The leaders of those powerful clans even drive their slaves to beg for pills.
After all, with such a dull and foolish alchemist repairing their damaged food and broken tools, why not?
The pills in her storage ring were being consumed at an alarming rate every day. By the time they were almost at Da Dan City, Ji Rong had run out of fresh pills and had to resort to the old pills that Shan Zhongfeng had given them years ago.
Ji Rong didn't want to administer these pills, but there were just too many pitiful, ragged, and smelly little cultivators blocking their way.
So she had no choice but to continue administering the pills while repeatedly emphasizing that the ancient alchemist Gu Lin had already finished administering them, and that the pills she was now administering were those for the children's trials, which had significant side effects.
If they insist on taking these pills, they must find a safe place to do so.
Ji Rong's words deeply moved the poor cultivators. They all swore oaths, saying that they were already extremely fortunate to be able to eat the healing pills for free. Even if they died from eating them, they could only blame their bad luck and it had nothing to do with the two Pill Attendants.
The cultivators searching along the way had seen too much of what the two had done, and had heard too many testimonies from the lesser cultivators who had obtained the pills and the consuls, so they were too lazy to search anymore.
Thanks to the enthusiasm of the Liangzhou cultivators, when they were still ten miles from Da Dan City, and after seeing off the last consul who had brought slaves to collect the pills, Ji Rong only had five aged pills left in her hands.
When they arrived at the gate of Da Dan City, they did not need any travel permits, as the soldiers at the gate recognized them.
The fame of Gu Lin Dan Sheng spread throughout Liangzhou at an alarming speed, and then the news was sent from Liangzhou to the celestial palaces and the lands of various clans by winged cultivators.
Many of the experts immediately recalled the ancient alchemist Gu Lin's nickname, "Beggar Alchemist."
Some of the powerful cultivators who were familiar with Gulin knew that Gulin kept a yellow-skinned, black-striped tiger at the Emperor Realm. They all thought to themselves: So that's how it is!
Good heavens, with such a massive amount of pills, it's no wonder they're poor!
When Ji Rong and Shan Wucai arrived at the gate of Da Dan City, they were greeted by managers of various businesses who came to make friends, all carrying gifts.
They all wanted to obtain the right to purchase the pills from the Ancient Lin Pill Saint through Shan Wu and Ji Rong.
Hong Xiangwan was also among them, but unlike the other managers, she wanted to ask for a pill to cure her brain.
But after she finally managed to squeeze forward and saw Shan Wu's tiger-like face and the bird-man who resembled Ji Rong, she disappeared again and left dejectedly.
Ji Rong refused the gifts from the stewards. She politely explained that their trip out of the mountains was solely for the purpose of administering pills, and they could not make the decision to sell pills on behalf of the Gu Lin Pill Saint.
But she changed the subject and said, "If you have a letter of invitation that you would like me to pass on to the Pill Saint, I can stay here for a quarter of an hour. After you have written the letter, please give it to me and I can take it back."
She said seriously, "The Holy Master Gulin dislikes us servants the most for accepting bribes and ruining his reputation!"
"If you're going to write, then write properly. But if you slip in your own opinions and I find out, don't blame me for throwing you out on the spot."
The managers all bowed and said they wouldn't.
But a quarter of an hour later, the visiting cards that were handed in were all different. Some directly stated that they would send rare and precious treasures, some bluntly stated that their own business was powerful and that they could sell pills at high prices, some claimed to be related to the family, and some even had a large gift package hidden under the visiting card...
Ji Rong pulled out all the visiting cards containing rare treasures and even large gift packages and threw them on the ground.
Then she took out an old pouch, grabbed the remaining visiting cards and threw them in. She tied the pouch around Shan Wu's neck to keep the cage company, and then swaggered out of the city.
The stewards, who had been humiliated by the discarded invitation cards, hurriedly picked up the top card, bowed and scraped as they followed Shan Wu, and said with a forced smile, "We were unworthy. Please trouble the fairy to take this invitation card with you."
Ji Rong then stopped, glanced sideways, took the item, and stuffed it into the pouch around Shan Wu's neck.
The group of stewards escorted Shan Wu and Ji Rong out of the city gate.
The journey was smooth and unobstructed.
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