Chapter 218 Provoking Trouble
Once Ji Rong finished her dance, the banquet was coming to an end.
At this moment, Ji Rong's senior brothers and sisters began to get up and say goodbye.
Ji Rong stood at the palace gate, seeing them off one by one. He Sui, with his back bowed, head down, and face dark, followed behind Ji Rong, presenting gifts to each of them.
After the thirty-eight gifts were delivered, He Sui placed the remaining ginseng puppet into Ji Rong's arms and said, "Uncle-Master, Sui has not returned for quite some time, so I'm going back now."
Then, she quickly transformed into a large gray gecko, preparing to return.
"Nephew He Sui, don't rush off!" As soon as Ji Rong spoke, Zhan Shi, who was standing to the side, grabbed He Sui's tail with lightning speed, so forcefully that he almost broke off He Sui's tail.
As soon as He Sui was subdued, Ji Rong took out a pouch and personally handed it to He Sui, saying, "Nephew, you've worked hard. This is a small token of my appreciation."
"Wait a little longer. I haven't yet given gifts to the servants and apprentices you brought."
Then Ji Rong called out, "Uncle, Godfather."
Ji Rong summoned Erhu and took out a pile of storage bags, saying, "Everyone has been busy for many days and has worked very hard. Please give these young friends some gifts for me."
Hesui couldn't refuse, so he had no choice but to let the monks below line up to receive the gifts.
After the last attendant finished serving, she led the cultivators from the alchemy room and quickly descended the mountain.
As soon as Hesui returned, he pasted it on the large pillar of his residence.
These past few days, she had been living in fear and hadn't had a proper rest. As soon as she returned to a place where she could feel at ease, she fell asleep within moments.
The next day, after a good night's sleep, she made her usual rounds of the alchemy room, only to find that the cultivators leaving the room all had joyful expressions on their faces.
He Sui was puzzled, but before she could ask, she was approached by the disciple she had appointed to manage the affairs.
The disciple, carrying a large stack of wooden plaques, said with a happy expression, "Master, our grand-uncle yesterday was so generous. He not only gave us five hundred spirit crystals, but also some pill formulas. No one dared to keep them to themselves, so we all handed them over to you to handle."
"A pill formula?!" He Sui immediately took out the pouch that Ji Rong had given her yesterday and saw that it contained a thousand spirit crystals and ten pills of different varieties.
He Sui excitedly held the prescriptions and looked at them one by one, feeling as if he had suddenly become rich.
Although there is still much room for improvement in these prescriptions,
However, some alchemists refined their new pills in one go.
How many alchemists can persevere in wasting spiritual materials and constantly trying and failing?
In the entire Pill Pavilion, only Shan Zhongfeng possesses such a cultivation level.
And what my aunt Kiyohime gave me was such a detailed gift.
After a moment's thought, He Sui guessed that this generous gift package from the alchemy room must be the work of the mountain's top expert.
But Master Qing Jizi gave them all to him, and Junior Brother Shan Zhongfeng and Junior Brother Gu Lin probably knew that as well.
He Sui thought to himself with a smug smile, "Even if my junior brother doesn't agree, he can't do anything to me if he finds out later, because it was Master who said it, and he's the one who told me to accept him."
After that, the cultivators of the Pill Pavilion saw that the Pill Master, who loved to hold banquets, stopped doing so. Instead, she led her cultivators in a frenzy of pill refining.
When a cultivator came to ask, she grinned and said, "After hosting a banquet for my Uncle Qing Ji Zi, I realized that we are alchemists, we should refine more pills and that hosting banquets is too wasteful."
He Sui usually laughed at Gu Lin the most, and ever since receiving the elixir formula, He Sui has been extremely enthusiastic whenever she sees Gu Lin.
Gu Lin looked puzzled by this enthusiastic attitude. He Sui then realized that Gu Lin really didn't know. So, being cautious by nature, she presented these elixir formulas to her master, Qing Guangzi.
Qing Guangzi glanced at the pill formulas that looked like waste, and really didn't know what his disciple was happy about. He said, "If you refine these pills like this, the side effects will be too great, and they won't be able to reach the Nine Revolutions stage."
“Master!” He Sui blinked his bright eyes and said, “This can save us from an emergency. We cultivators all emphasize a calm and peaceful mind when refining pills, but Shan Zhongfeng can refine pills even without the necessary conditions. This shows that these pills do not have high requirements for the illusionary environment. I think we should learn from him.”
"Then you should learn it."
"Disciple obeys."
Inside the alchemy room, the refining of improved pills was in full swing. Meanwhile, in the Guardian Palace, Ji Rong had already closed the door. She then led Ji Zhuang and Gu Qingqing through the pile of recently acquired storage rings, sorting and categorizing them.
They categorized these precious treasures one by one, filling the entire first-floor palace with them. Then, each of them held an empty storage ring and began to appraise the treasures one by one.
At this moment, Ji Zhuang said, "Sister, would you like to give one to Jue Jun?"
Ji Rong nodded and said, "We should give him one. Brother, take another storage ring. If there's one that suits Him, put it in this last storage ring. Then you can take it back to Him."
The two birds and the fox divided the treasure, and each strung the storage rings together and wore them around their necks, grinning at each other.
Then, Ji Rong sat down with Ji Zhuang and Gu Qingqing on the open ground next to the main seat and said solemnly, "Jue Jun must be getting impatient. You should take Zhan Shi back first and do what you need to do. My uncle and I need to find some work first. If my uncle and I start working at the unloading workshop, we will call you to come and congratulate us."
Ji Zhuang and Gu Qingqing nodded, then called Zhan Shi. After a general discussion about the current racial distribution in the Danxue Mountains, Gu Qingqing explained in detail the techniques and structure of the Danxue Mountain Fire Fox lineage before they headed towards the Danxue Mountains one after the other.
Then, Zhan Shi began his happy time raiding bird nests in the Danxue Mountains.
His shameless act of stealing eggs quickly drew the ire of the mountain's old birds, who united to deal with him.
But Zhan Shi was tough and fearless.
Every time he stole a full basket of eggs, he would fly over and hand them to Ji Zhuang, so that he could take them back to the birds to continue incubating them.
Facing the old bird who came to negotiate, Zhan Shi said, "If you want me to stop using my claws, then give me your tribe's weaving method, and I'll leave."
The birds were furious, but they couldn't do anything about the black and white bear.
Zhan Shi, on the other hand, found comfort in raiding bird nests. He thought this kind of life was not bad, so he raided even more enthusiastically.
The birds in the Danxue Mountains then went around pulling strings and seeking connections, hoping that the Golden Cauldron Palace would send some powerful cultivators to drive away the domineering flower bear.
However, the already meager treasures they sent up three times with the combined strength of their entire clan were reduced to almost nothing after each layer of donations.
These birds waited anxiously for many days, but there was no sign of any action from the Golden Cauldron Palace. As the days went by, their hearts grew colder and colder.
So, these birds unanimously offered up their own common weaving techniques, thinking that the bear wouldn't recognize their value and would return the eggs after learning the method.
Unexpectedly, the bear quickly glanced at the techniques and then threw them on the ground, saying, "You're trying to fool me with these scraps."
He broke the jade tablets containing the recorded methods into pieces, and then, carrying the bird eggs he had collected that day, headed towards the Fire Cloud Cave where the Fire Fox Clan resided.
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