Peerless Bodyguard of a Stunning Beauty

After Huazi left, Zhao Rong stood his ground, holding a pressure cooker in his left hand and controlling a vigorous fire with his right. The herbs for the Chicken Heart Elixir aren’t too difficult, and the speckled chicken is easy enough to find. I just need to go to the poultry market and buy one. But what about the rest of this stuff? Lord Lao Zi of the Great Monad Garlic, Queen Mother’s Ginger, and Barefoot Immortal Onion… What on earth are those, and where am I supposed to get them? While he waited anxiously for Huazi to return, he was subjected to the scoffs and derision of the surrounding crowd.

The Orthodox Ghost Catching Taoist Priest continued his mockery. ”Ran out of tricks, have you, kid? If you can’t concoct elixirs, just admit it. If you can’t cure diseases and save people, just say so. Stop pretending to be something you’re not. You think we’re all idiots, easily fooled by you? If you can actually bring this beautiful woman back to life, I’ll go to the bathroom and eat shit!”

Hearing this, Zhao Rong thought to himself, You idiot. Just you wait. You’ll be eating shit soon enough.

No sooner had the Orthodox Ghost Catching Taoist Priest finished speaking than the Quanzhen Ghost Catching Taoist Priest came over. Upon hearing that Zhao Rong intended to concoct an elixir to revive the woman, he immediately sneered, ”Kid, if you can actually whip up some kind of antidote, I, the Quanzhen Ghost Catching Taoist Priest, will drink my own piss!”

Hearing this, Zhao Rong just smiled faintly. Idiot. You’d better get ready to drink piss, then.

Just as the surrounding crowd was ridiculing Zhao Rong, certain he was a fraud, Huazi finally returned with the herbs.

When Zhao Rong took the packet Huazi handed him, he looked at the onion, ginger, and garlic inside. ”Huazi, where did you get this Lord Lao Zi of the Great Monad Garlic, Queen Mother’s Ginger, and Barefoot Immortal Onion?” he asked. Zhao Rong truly couldn’t imagine where one might find such bizarre varieties.

Still smiling, Huazi explained, ”In Wang Family Village, there’s a temple dedicated to Lord Lao Zi of the Great Monad, and the garlic that grows in the temple’s soil is called Lord Lao Zi of the Great Monad Garlic. In the same village, there’s also the Queen Mother’s Hermitage, and the ginger that grows there is called Queen Mother’s Ginger…”

Zhao Rong interrupted him. ”I get it. There must also be a place in Wang Family Village called the Barefoot Immortal Temple, and the onions that grow there are called Barefoot Immortal Onions, right?”

Huazi nodded. ”Exactly.”

Having received the ingredients, Zhao Rong immediately began the concoction. He killed the speckled chicken, scalded it with boiling water, and began plucking its feathers. After that, he gutted the bird and removed its innards. Once the chicken was prepared, Zhao Rong peeled the garlic, chopped the scallions, and sliced the ginger.

Although Zhao Rong was concocting an elixir, to the onlookers, it looked like he was simply making chicken soup.

After preparing the aromatics and the chicken, Zhao Rong tossed them all into the pressure cooker. As he controlled the vigorous fire beneath it, the rich aroma of stewing chicken began to permeate the entire venue. When the ghost-catching students nearby caught the scent, they hurried over.

One gluttonous girl, watching Zhao Rong at work, said to a student beside her, ”Your class is so lucky! You get to have chicken stew during class…” She licked her lips and added sheepishly, ”Excuse me, classmate? When the chicken is ready, could I have a little bit of the soup? I don’t even need any of the meat.”

A nearby student explained to her, ”Miss, our classmate Zhao Rong isn’t stewing a chicken; he’s concocting an elixir. He’s making a Chicken Heart Elixir to revive the woman on the ground, who was injured by a fierce ghost.”

When the gluttonous girl heard he was concocting an elixir and not stewing a chicken, she burst into tears. ”So I’m a little greedy and wanted some chicken and soup! Do you have to lie to me like I’m an idiot? This student is clearly making chicken stew, yet you’re trying to tell me he’s concocting medicine?” With that, she ran off, wiping her eyes.

Just then, a starving male student who never ate breakfast and was on the verge of developing gallstones ran over. Drawn by the aroma, he asked a student, ”Hey, classmate, I woke up late and didn’t have time for breakfast. When the chicken is done, could I have a little bit of the meat?”

The student shook his head. ”You’re mistaken, classmate. He’s concocting an elixir, not stewing a chicken.”

Hearing this, the breakfast-skipping boy immediately punched the other student in the eye. ”Damn it! All I wanted was a bit of the chicken your class is stewing! Do you have to be so stingy?”

The student clutched his eye and threw a punch back. ”I already told you he’s concocting an elixir, but you just wouldn’t believe me!” With that, the two of them started brawling.

By this point, Zhao Rong was surrounded by a dense crowd, three layers deep. A small portion of them eagerly anticipated his elixir, a larger portion was hoping for chicken meat and soup, but the vast majority were just waiting to see him make a fool of himself.

As everyone whispered and chattered amongst themselves, Zhao Rong wiped the sweat from his forehead and roared, ”Damn it, I finally succeeded!”

With those words, he opened the pressure cooker. The moment he did, everyone who had been craving chicken and soup lunged forward. However, when they peered inside, they were shocked to find no chicken or soup at all. Instead, there was only a single pill, as red as a rooster’s comb. They stumbled back and fell to the ground in disbelief.

The gluttonous girl from before said, incredulous, ”But a whole speckled chicken and all those spices were thrown into the pressure cooker! How did a single red pill come out? There isn’t even any soup!”

The breakfast-skipping student, his face now bruised and swollen from the fight, stared at Zhao Rong furiously. ”Classmate, I was waiting to eat your stewed chicken and drink your soup! How did it turn into a red pill?”

Seeing the horde of foodies, Zhao Rong explained sheepishly, ”Friends, ladies, I’m very sorry for the misunderstanding. I truly was concocting an elixir, not stewing a chicken.”

At this, the onlookers’ attention immediately shifted to the red pill in Zhao Rong’s hand.

The flatterer, still skeptical, said, ”Even if the kid really did manage to stew a chicken into a pill, I still don’t believe that tiny, unremarkable red pill can save the poisoned woman lying on the ground.”

The show-off also sighed. ”Could this guy be an Alchemist? How else could he have created a red elixir?”

Amidst the sea of doubt, Zhao Rong took the red elixir and walked over to the beautiful Xue Li.

The team leader looked at him, half-believing and half-doubting. ”Classmate, can this red elixir you’ve concocted really save the woman I have a crush on?”

Zhao Rong pried open Xue Li’s mouth and fed her the elixir. ”Don’t you worry,” he said. ”At the very least, I’m a Level 27 cultivator. Concocting an elixir that can cure and save someone is no problem at all for me.”

Before he had even finished his sentence, the beautiful Xue Li, who had been lying on the ground without breath or heartbeat, suddenly opened her eyes and awoke.

When the team leader saw Xue Li, the woman he secretly adored, regain consciousness, he immediately leaned in and pressed his lips to hers. ”Beautiful Xue Li, don’t move! Let me give you CPR!”

However, the team leader had such terrible bad breath that the recently revived Xue Li fainted again from the stench.

Seeing his crush wake up only to immediately pass out again, the team leader rounded on Zhao Rong. ”Classmate, does your elixir work or not? Why did Xue Li faint again right after she woke up?”

Sensing the foul odor wafting from the team leader, Zhao Rong backed away several steps. ”Could you please try brushing your teeth in the morning? And maybe get your cavities and stomach problems treated? Otherwise, you could kill a living person with that stench.”

The team leader was stunned. He cupped a hand over his mouth, exhaled into it, and muttered, ”Everyone around me says I have bad breath, truly foul, but why can’t I smell it myself?”

At that moment, the beautiful Xue Li woke up again. When the team leader saw the girl of his dreams awaken once more, he tried to use CPR as an excuse to take advantage of her again. But no matter how well he disguised his intentions, he was spotted by the quick-eyed Lili.

Lili stepped forward and slapped him hard across the face. ”You filthy rogue! Secretly taking advantage of a poisoned woman!”

The team leader clutched his cheek and argued, ”I wasn’t taking advantage of Sister Xue Li! I was giving her CPR!”

Before he could finish, Yu Lan stepped up and slapped him across the mouth. ”You’re such a pervert! Brother Zhao Rong’s elixir has already revived her, so why would you still need to give her CPR? That’s completely unnecessary!”

The still-unconvinced team leader prepared to explain again, but before he could open his mouth, Xuelian smacked him on the lips with a flyswatter. ”You bad-breathed lecher! Taking advantage of a woman who just woke up and isn’t fully alert by kissing her—that’s just too much!”

After being slapped and berated by three beautiful women in a row, the team leader jumped to his feet, ready to argue with them. However, before he could take a single step, the assistant performed a front flip and landed a flying kick right in the team leader’s stomach. ”Step away from the beauty! Let me handle this!”

After kicking the team leader aside, the assistant rushed forward to help Xue Li sit up. He offered her some water, asking, ”Are you all right, miss?”

This woman is quite attractive, the assistant thought. Why not take this opportunity to get close to her? Maybe we could even find a spark of love…

But before the assistant could finish his thought, Xue Li pushed him away. She looked at Zhao Rong and said, ”Sir, although I believe I was dead just now, my hearing remained exceptionally sharp. You stood up for me against everyone’s objections, and you concocted an elixir to save me despite all the ridicule and mockery. Brother Zhao Rong, thank you for saving my life.”

With that, the beautiful Xue Li sat up fully and knelt to thank him. However, because the neckline of her clothes was particularly wide, she revealed two snow-white spheres as she bowed forward...