Chapter 191 Reputation
Ji Rong walked along the road with her head held high and a smug look on her face. Shan Wu also happily raised his head and held up a soundproof barrier to say to Ji Rong, "Good niece, how can you be so clever and so willing to give!"
Upon hearing this, Ji Rong stopped and laughed, "This is called mutual benefit. No cultivator would really pay a high price for my godfather's pills, and those minor cultivators from Liangzhou who came to us can't afford pills anyway."
They received their adoptive father's elixir, which cured their injuries and illnesses. We've brought fame to the Gulin Alchemist, hahaha...
After laughing, Ji Rong pointed to the cage and said seriously to Shan Wu, "Uncle, you should know that we found this badly injured bear on our way to Shidan."
When we found him, there was an eagle lying beside him, but the eagle was beyond saving. So we fed the bear the pills from Gulin Dansheng and our adoptive father.
As we were diligently recording the bear's movements, a gigantic serpent at the Emperor Realm, leading a group of python kings, charged menacingly towards us.
They're shameless; they attacked me right away. In your haste, you killed that king-level serpent.
As for those snake cultivators at the King Realm, they were all showy but empty-headed, and I pecked them all to death.
Uncle, do you remember? If you do, then tell me again.
Shan Wu nodded and said, "I remember, good niece. That python king was too shameless. He actually dared to hit you. In my haste, I killed him. Sigh, I even chewed up his Dao Pill."
The tiger and the bird looked at each other, then grinned and burst into wild laughter.
Then Shan Wuwen asked, "What do we do next?"
Ji Rong grinned and continued, "What can we do? Of course, we'll take him back to Jade Void Palace for our Pill Saint to see. This bear ate the pills of Pill Saint Gu Lin, but he didn't get better. We can't just leave him outside and ruin our Pill Saint's reputation, can we?"
Shan Wu's eyes lit up, and he said happily, "That's right, I didn't even think of that. If we leave him outside, wouldn't that ruin the reputation of Gu Lin Dan Sheng?"
As Shan Wu and Ji Rong were heading towards the Jade Void Mountain Range, the old Taoist Gu Lin, who was squatting in the alchemy room and personally adding auxiliary materials to the alchemy furnace, was approached by his master, Qing Guangzi.
"When was the last time my master came looking for me?" Old Daoist Gu Lin thought to himself, "It was when I obtained the Flaming Flame and refined a batch of Nine-Turn Blood-Returning Pills with their own pill patterns."
His own master did the same thing, suddenly pushing open the door and entering. He then looked at his pills and laughed with satisfaction. After that, he became the owner of the Kun Dan Room.
But his own batch of pills wasn't ready yet. Just as he was thinking this, Qing Guangzi, with his two horns, stroked his sparse beard and laughed, "Lin, do you know that sending Shan Zhongfeng to Liangzhou to administer the pills has already made you famous throughout the land?"
"The expert in elixirs in the mountains is renowned throughout the land?" Gu Lin paused involuntarily as he placed the medicine, and then a "sizzle" was heard, and the batch of medicine was ruined.
Upon hearing the sound, the disciples nearby knew something was wrong. They immediately stopped what they were doing and knelt down on the ground with a thud.
But Gu Lin had no time to worry about the rare and precious ingredients at this moment. He cried out with a mournful face, "Master, I didn't let him go out, that wretched child!"
Upon hearing this, Qing Guangzi frowned and said, "What's wrong with that? All the major merchants now want to buy your pills, so you no longer need to go out and refine pills for those tribes."
Even if that mountain striker squanders his fortune, he won't be able to ruin you!
You're so old, yet you're still howling in front of your own disciples. What kind of behavior is that?
I came here today because of the trouble caused by your senior brothers and sisters.
They knew you were refining pills and didn't dare to disturb you, so they kept pestering me to come and call you out. They wanted to discuss the purchase of pills with you.
"Come with me. We'll make twenty times the amount of ingredients for this batch of pills, and let your senior brothers and sisters compensate us, how about that?"
Gu Lin was dragged out of the alchemy room by his master in a daze and taken to the Baodantai, the council hall of the alchemy building.
As soon as Gu Lin entered the Treasure Pill Platform, he saw his senior brother, with whom he usually didn't get along in alchemy, his third senior sister, who privately mocked him for raising a spendthrift, and a group of elders from the Pill Pavilion with whom he had little contact. The entire Treasure Pill Platform was packed with people, even more so than when the Pill Competition was held.
They all turned their eager or satisfied gazes toward him, making Gu Lin unconsciously want to check if his fringe was combed properly.
Qing Guangzi spoke up: "Lin, nowadays, you have the biggest reputation in our Pill Pavilion. All your senior uncles, aunts, brothers, and sisters want to put their pills under your name for sale."
These pills will have their properties verified and recorded by the Pill Pavilion before being distributed to various trading companies. After deducting the profits from the ingredients and losses, they get 60%, you get 30%, and the Pill Pavilion gets 10%. How about that?
How can this be? It's like sitting in your room and having wealth fall from the sky!
However, the old Taoist Gu Lin still honestly cupped his hands to Qing Guangzi and said, "Master, in the path of alchemy, I am only good at healing pills. I am not good at other kinds of pills."
If they were all registered under my name, wouldn't that be...? I don't care about saving face, and I'm afraid that some scheming cultivator might expose us and cause our Pill Pavilion to lose face.
Qing Guangzi stroked his chin and said, "You've thought this through. Here's what we'll do: from now on, if you refine any pills that use Gu Lin's name, you must have Gu Lin or one of his disciples observe the process. That way, he'll be involved, and it won't be considered deceiving the outside world."
This is a great boon to our Pill Pavilion, a fantastic opportunity for our alchemy to gain fame. If I discover anyone daring to betray us, don't blame me for being ruthless and personally arresting and sending them to the unloading workshop!
When Gu Lin entered the Baodan Terrace, he was in a daze and didn't know what was going on. When he came out, he was radiant and felt lightheaded.
Then, he walked briskly towards Shan Zhongfeng's small room. When he pushed open the door, he saw Shan Zhongfeng holding a very small alchemy furnace, squatting in the corner, secretly refining pills!
When Shan Zhongfeng saw Gu Lin Dan Sheng arrive, he was so frightened that his legs trembled. Then, his small alchemy furnace went out of control and exploded with a "bang"!
The air was filled with the aroma of roasted tiger meat, as well as the unique cool scent of Qingxindan (a traditional Chinese medicine).
But Shan Zhongfeng didn't care about his injured face. He immediately knelt down and shouted, "Master, I was wrong. I will never do it again!"
Gu Lin wanted to help Shan Zhongfeng up, but how could Shan Zhongfeng dare to do so?
Gu Lin didn't force him. He found a slightly worn futon to sit down and said to Shan Zhongfeng in a friendly manner, "Don't be afraid. I didn't come here specifically to catch you refining pills."
"You've made something of yourself, I'm very pleased. If you want to refine pills in the future, come to me. I won't need to refine pills anymore."
In Shan Zhongfeng's memory, Gu Lin had never been so amiable to him before.
Upon hearing this, Shan Zhongfeng panicked even more. In a moment of panic, he crawled and knelt down at Gu Lin's feet, wailing, "Master, why aren't you refining pills anymore? Are you going to pass away?"
"No way! I haven't even mastered refining pills yet. If you die, who will care about me?"
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