Chapter 2171 — The Walls Have Ears
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
Inside the office, Wei Zhao was rather surprised. He glanced at Chief Bai in puzzlement. Wei Zhao could sense the faint disturbance at the office door and knew Right-Pan Hu was eavesdropping, but how had Chief Bai noticed?
After all, the man was a cripple with every meridian in his body severed!
Seeing Wei Zhao's confusion, Chief Bai casually swiveled the computer monitor on the desk around to face Wei Zhao, pointed at the screen, and smiled without a word.
Wei Zhao looked at the computer screen and suddenly understood. On the screen was the surveillance feed from the corridor outside the office, and Right-Pan Hu was clearly visible on it, eavesdropping.
"All right, this time I won't go showing it to just anyone!" Wei Zhao nodded and said.
Still, Wei Zhao planned to let Han Jingyi take a look at this material first when he got back. The Xuan Dan Sect, as an ancient sect devoted specifically to the study of alchemy, naturally had its own unique points, and Han Jingyi might learn something from it. As for Wei Zhao, his own enthusiasm for studying alchemy had faded considerably by now.
In the past, Wei Zhao might have been anxious, tried every means to figure out why he couldn't refine pills; but now, with a genius like Han Jingyi at his side, he was not so worried. As long as Wei Zhao improved his own strength and then helped Han Jingyi improve hers, it should be no great problem for Han Jingyi to refine third-grade pills!
"All right, nothing more to discuss. Go back and eat. I've arranged to meet Right-Pan Hu—he's probably already here. That business of you kicking the door earlier was because of him too, wasn't it?" Chief Bai began to say a few things for propriety's sake: "If you two have a private grudge, that's none of my concern, but in this school, in my class, you'll both settle down and behave. Don't let me catch you at anything, or I'll have you expelled!"
"Yes, sir!" Wei Zhao looked at Chief Bai's smiling face delivering such stern words and found it thoroughly amusing, though he still put on a serious expression and said, "Rest assured, Elder Bai, I won't lay a hand on Right-Pan Hu."
"Good." Chief Bai nodded. His words had actually been a warning to Right-Pan Hu—take your lumps and don't go making trouble—not a warning to Wei Zhao.
"By the way, Elder Bai, I have another question." Wei Zhao had meant to turn and leave, but he suddenly recalled what had happened that morning when Han Jingyi was refining pills, and so he asked, "Have you ever heard of refining pills with several sets of ingredients together in one batch?"
"Oh? Why do you ask that all of a sudden?" Chief Bai was slightly taken aback by the question.
"I read about it in a book of strange tales—it seems such a thing exists?" Wei Zhao did not mention Han Jingyi.
"That's right. In ancient times, it truly could be done—several sets of ingredients refined simultaneously in a single furnace. Not only could they all be refined successfully at once, but with luck, one or two extra pills—or even more—might come out of it." Chief Bai said, "But this can only happen when one's mastery of the fire attribute and the wood attribute has reached an utterly terrifying level!"
"After all, the time, temperature, and fire force required to refine a single pill are completely different from those needed to refine several at once!"