Cultivation: From Servant to Revered Immortal

Chapter 36: Chapter 36: Farewell, Miss Lin

Leaving Yuxiang Tower, Zhou Xun went straight back to Pill Treasure Pavilion.

Someone looking for him was not just a rumor, but indeed true.

Pill Treasure Pavilion, in a certain pavilion.

A beautiful woman was drinking tea alone, her skin fair as snow, her eyebrows gracefully arched.

”Miss Lin!” Zhou Xun greeted calmly and gently.

”Alchemist Zhou is here, sit!”

The girl’s voice was like a lark, revealing her delicate and white hand, slightly pointing to the stone stool opposite.

Zhou Xun nodded slightly and then sat down opposite the girl.

”Try this Spiritual Mist Tea!”

The girl raised her delicate hand slightly and poured a cup of Spirit Tea for Zhou Xun.

As the tea was poured into the cup, mist rose, sometimes transforming into a fierce tiger, sometimes a Flood Dragon, solid yet distinct, with various expressions.

Zhou Xun was slightly taken aback and immediately praised:

”Good tea!”

”Please enjoy!” Seeing Zhou Xun’s reaction, the girl smiled slightly, as if the flowers themselves shied away in embarrassment.

”Thank you!”

Zhou Xun reached out, took the cup, and gently took a sip.

As the tea entered his mouth, it instantly turned into pure Spiritual Qi, entering the Dantian through the abdomen.

Zhou Xun operated the Nourishing Essence Technique, instantly converting it into mana.

This sip was equivalent to the effect of one Energy-Introducing Pill.

Without wasting any, Zhou Xun drank all the remaining tea.

It took him a little time to refine it completely.

When Zhou Xun opened his eyes, he saw the girl looking at him with some curiosity and said:

”I have never tasted such good Spirit Tea!”

”This is Spiritual Mist Tea, which has the effect of enhancing mana!” the girl explained.

Zhou Xun nodded, thinking of going to the Hundred Treasures Pavilion to buy some for consumption.

Then he brought up the main matter:

”I wonder why Miss Lin sought me out?”

”Alchemist Zhou has been in Pill Treasure Pavilion for just a few years, your alchemy skill is exquisite, and your foundation is very solid; Senior Brother Zhishan has praised it many times!” The girl didn’t answer directly but first praised Zhou Xun.

”I am seeking Alchemist Zhou today for a favor!”

”I wonder what it is?” Zhou Xun asked cautiously.

”I was entrusted by the family to be in charge of refining Fireproof Pills; however, the family requires too many, and I cannot refine them all by myself, so I specifically invite Alchemist Zhou to participate in the refining!” the girl replied.

”Fireproof Pill, I have never refined this pill, I’m afraid it’s difficult to fulfill Miss Lin’s request!” Zhou Xun shook his head, politely declining.

Miss Lin of the Lin Family was of unparalleled beauty and a legitimate daughter of the Lin Family, with many keeping an eye on her.

As they say, beauty brings trouble, and Zhou Xun, being merely an alchemist, did not wish to get involved in such trouble, so he decisively declined.

The girl was a bit surprised upon hearing this, seeming not to expect Zhou Xun to refuse.

So she continued:

”I have already spoken to Senior Brother Zhishan, during the refining of the Fireproof Pills, you don’t have to worry about regular alchemy tasks,”

”And for each successfully refined genuine Fireproof Pill, our Lin Family will provide a subsidy of ten Spirit Essence and a Contribution Point from Pill Treasure Pavilion!”

Contribution Points from Pill Treasure Pavilion, when calculated by value, are about the same as ten Spirit Essence.

However, Spirit Essence can be earned through many avenues, but Contribution Points can only be gained by completing tasks.

Moreover, Contribution Points can be exchanged for rare treasures unavailable elsewhere.

Therefore, for those in Pill Treasure Pavilion, Contribution Points are much more valuable than Spirit Essence.

As a result, when Lin Xueying offered this price, Zhou Xun couldn’t help but be tempted.

She offered way too much!

The girl seemed to have noticed Zhou Xun’s interest, and quickly urged:

”For this refining, Erniu and Xun Houqing have agreed to join, plus Alchemist Zhou, it should be just right!”

”If it’s not just me alone, that’s alright!” Zhou Xun thought to himself.

So he nodded.

”In that case, Zhou Mou agrees!”

The girl saw this and smiled slightly, then took out a pill recipe and several portions of alchemy materials from her storage bag:

”This is the Fireproof Pill recipe. Alchemist Zhou can study it and there are five batches of refining materials, you can practice ahead!”

”In five days, we will officially start refining the Fireproof Pills!”

Zhou Xun took them, stored them in his storage bag, and without further chitchat, took his leave.

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Red Leaf Square, Lin Family Residence.

”Ying’er, how is the matter with the Fireproof Pills?” A middle-aged man with a dignified aura, in his forties, asked the young girl in front of him.

This person was none other than the Lin Family Patriarch, Lin Anshuo.

”Father, rest assured, I have already found three reliable alchemists!” The girl shook the middle-aged man’s arm playfully.

”By the way, this Fireproof Pill is so important, wouldn’t it be better to find the family’s own alchemists?” The girl looked at her father with puzzlement.

”The family’s alchemists have other tasks, and the Fireproof Pill is just a Tier One Low-Grade Elixir, you few refining it won’t attract attention!” The middle-aged man looked at his daughter lovingly and explained.

”With this Fire Element Stone Mine, our Lin Family will surely shine brightly!” The girl’s eyes were full of determination.

The Fire Element Stone is a commonly used fire attribute refining material.

Ordinary fire attribute magical artifacts often contain this item.

A fist-sized Fire Element Stone usually sells for over ten Spirit Stones.

Which indicates the value of an entire vein of Fire Element Stones.

Perhaps, it might nurture a True Pill Cultivator for the Lin Family in the future.

However, the location of the Fire Element Ore Vein is abundant in Power of Fire Element, normal cultivators can’t stay long there.

Let alone excavate rocks and mine ore.

Fortunately, the Cultivation Realm possesses such miraculous elixirs as the Fireproof Pill, which, after being taken, forms a protective layer around the cultivator, effectively isolating the invasion of Power of Fire Element.

The effect lasts as long as three days.

Therefore, refining these Fireproof Pills is to protect the cultivators mining the Fire Element Stones, allowing them to wholeheartedly extract the element.

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Five days passed quickly.

During these five days, Zhou Xun had thoroughly mastered the refining of the Fireproof Pill.

Those five batches of materials were also refined by Zhou Xun into Fireproof Pills.

Except for the first batch, which turned out a few defective pills, the other four batches all produced over ten pills each, and they were all genuine products.

”The function of the Fireproof Pills is to isolate the Power of Fire Element; why is the Lin Family purchasing so many Fireproof Pills?”

”Could they have found some Fire Attribute Spirit Ore?” Zhou Xun quickly guessed the reality of the situation.

However, he did not say it out loud, as he only needed to be responsible for refining pills, and what happens to them afterwards was not his concern.

Apparently, over the next two months, life continued as usual.

Zhou Xun also grew familiar with Miss Lin.

In this refining process, Zhou Xun displayed fifty percent of his alchemy skill, coupled with different ideas about alchemy from his past life experiences.

All of this made Miss Lin view Zhou Xun in a new light.

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Two thousand miles north of Red Leaf Square, at the bottom of a tall mountain, numerous Low-Tier Cultivators were raising their Spirit Pickaxes, working hard.

Occasionally, when someone dug out a fist-sized Fire Element Stone, they would cheer excitedly.

What they didn’t know was that, in a place they couldn’t see, a grey mouse was watching them intently.

More than ten miles away, a red-clothed youth was waiting anxiously, soon a mouse returned to his hand, squeaking something.

Subsequently, the man quickly left, rushing towards Red Leaf Square.

If someone had seen, they would recognize that the person’s robe belonged to the Wu Family of Red Leaf Square.