Chapter 2409 — The Mysterious Elder Appears Again
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"Ah..." The girl hadn't expected the old man to come up with such a method.
"Any problem?" The old man didn't give her time to answer, asking directly.
"N-no..." The girl gave a bitter smile and took the restful-grass sleeping pills he handed her, carefully tucking them into her pocket.
"Good. I'll be waiting for good news." The old man rose and left the teahouse first. The girl, meanwhile, let out a sigh heavy with complicated feelings, then beckoned to the waiter: "Waiter..."
Wei Zhao and Han Jingyi finally finished refining the pills. The whole process could be called a great success—at least, it looked like a great success for now, because Han Jingyi had followed her pill-refining formula strictly throughout, and the cauldron had shown no strange phenomena. Later on, bursts of fragrance drifted from the cauldron, meaning the ingredients inside were close to forming into pills...
"Phew..." Han Jingyi let out a breath. "All done—though Jingjing's a little nervous... I wonder how many Meridian-Unblocking Pills we managed to refine?"
"Heh, as long as we get three or more, that's a victory." Wei Zhao was relatively calm. After all, for Han Jingyi to produce more pills than the number of ingredient portions was already a success—far better than most other refiners.
"Mm-hm, Brother Wei Zhao always comforts Jingjing." Han Jingyi carefully opened the cauldron and instinctively counted the pills inside: "One, two, three... seven? There are actually more than the previous first-grade pills?"
Han Jingyi couldn't help blurting out in astonishment. Her best record had been doubling the output, yet this time she had refined more than double—and second-grade pills at that. How could she not be astonished?
"Heh, congratulations, Jingjing. Looks like you've won your first battle and are getting more and more skilled." Wei Zhao didn't show much excitement, but he was actually very happy—Han Jingyi's prowess in pill refining was, in a sense, his own prowess too.
"It's not that Jingjing's getting skilled—it's that Brother Wei Zhao was here helping. Otherwise Jingjing definitely couldn't have done it. Not only would the refining have failed, but there's no way three portions of ingredients would have produced seven pills," Han Jingyi said.
"True. Let's find some time and refine the Minor Qi-Gathering Pills too. Hopefully these five portions of ingredients can work another miracle and produce twelve pills," Wei Zhao said.
"Sure." Han Jingyi nodded.
"Let's recover our true qi and stamina now. Then I need to head back—the pill refining took a lot of time, and I haven't told Yaoyao and the others yet. They shouldn't think I've gone missing," Wei Zhao said.
"Mm-hm." Han Jingyi simply did whatever Wei Zhao said, as if she had no opinions of her own at all.