Chapter 4922 — Seven Nourishing Mystery Pills
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"No." Wei Zhao's answer was crisp and clean. There was no use talking too much with this silly girl, or he would easily lose his temper.
"Th-then... all right..." Ni Caiyue did not really believe Wei Zhao could actually refine pills, but compared to that, she was more afraid of going out on her own. Nourishing Mystery Grass was precious, but using it as traveling fare should not be a problem, right?
If anyone had known what Ni Caiyue was thinking at that moment, they would have been so grieved and indignant they would have rammed their heads to death. A treasure that a whole host of Mystic Ascension stage experts would fight tooth and nail for, and she was actually treating it as traveling fare? There had to be a limit even to squandering heaven's gifts!
But no matter what, this stalk of Nourishing Mystery Grass ultimately ended up in Wei Zhao's hands. Wei Zhao could not help glancing at her in some surprise. The silly girl might be apt to choke a person to death with her words, but she was not entirely without her merits—at least, if she had been an ordinary person, she would not have handed over the Nourishing Mystery Grass so easily.
"You few wait here, and keep watch for me while you're at it." With that, Wei Zhao took the Nourishing Mystery Grass and found a relatively secluded spot. He concentrated his mind and steadied his breath, then opened the furnace to refine pills.
All the auxiliary materials required for refining Nourishing Mystery Pills were already fully stocked in the spirit herb reserve of his jade pendant space. That was precisely why this proposal had suddenly come to him; otherwise, he would never have set his sights on Miss Ni.
"Is that how he refines pills?" Ni Caiyue stole a glance at Wei Zhao from afar, her expression peculiar. "He's not really trying to swindle me out of this stalk of Nourishing Mystery Grass, is he? He doesn't even have a pill furnace—how is he supposed to refine pills? Liar!"
"Heh, he really isn't lying. He carries his pill furnace with him." Wang Xinyan curved her lips into a smile.
"Really? But he's clearly empty-handed!" Before Ni Caiyue could finish, she saw that no one knew when a pill furnace had suddenly appeared before Wei Zhao after he sat down. She was instantly dumbstruck, rubbing her eyes for dear life. "Am I seeing things? Where did that furnace come from?"
Wang Xinyan and Huang Xiaotao exchanged a smile. It was one thing for her to see such a thing, but saying anything about it was absolutely out of the question.
Lu Xiaozhong actually did not understand it either, and with a face full of awe for what he could not fathom, he said, "Master Lin is Master Lin all right. He can even carry a pill furnace on his person, and with such consummate skill—worthy indeed of being the master of Master Qingdanzi!"
"He has a disciple?" Ni Caiyue was even more astonished. "He's so young and already taking disciples—isn't he afraid of misleading the younger generation?"
"Misleading the younger generation?" Lu Xiaozhong shot her a disdainful glance. "Master Qingdanzi is the chief alchemist of our Morning Star Academy, a bona fide seventh-rank alchemist. Even he is willing to take Master Lin as his master—and you call that misleading the younger generation?"
"Ah?" Ni Caiyue's mouth promptly stretched into an incredulous "O" shape. She was stunned for quite a while before she said weakly, "I don't get out much—you mustn't fool me..."
"Whether we're fooling you, you'll know soon enough. Come, let's find a place to sit and chat while we wait." Wang Xinyan smiled gently.
"Oh." Ni Caiyue nodded obediently. Perhaps because Wang Xinyan was naturally warm and approachable, she did not have the slightest wariness toward Wang Xinyan at all; she felt close to her by instinct, nothing like the way she second-guessed everything when facing Wei Zhao.