Chapter 40.1: Whose Misfortune
"I'm fine" Su Tingyun patted her chest as she exhaled. "This guy shouted all of a sudden and made my head hurt."
Li Xinmei also had previous experience with the spiritual strength of the orchid tongue grass's shout so she didn't find anything wrong with this explanation. She walked behind Su Tingyun to help massage her head and hammer her shoulders while telling her one by one about who she had said goodbye to.
"Oh, you went to see Liu Feizhou?" Su Tingyun nodded. "I should go say goodbye to him too. Back then, I said that I would repay him for that spirit stone and I do have a upper class one now. Spirit stones are useless in the mortal world anyways, so I'm going to go bring it to him."
Su Tingyun then set about to do just that. She got right up and said, "We don't know when exactly the wind season will end so I'll look for him now just in case there's no chances later."
Su Tingyun left right after saying this. Her steps were filled with vigor and as she walked, her lifted chest and face gave her an imposing air. Li Xinmei always felt at ease whenever she saw Grannie like this.
Liu Feizhou's place had arrays set up and he was currently inside a room refining pills so Su Tingyun couldn't enter.
She was in a rush, so she kept slapping on the door to get his attention.
Liu Feizhou was in the middle of refining a pill. Even though he was in control of things enough to pay attention to her, he was irritated due to the fact that he had already failed several times at refining this pill already, so he shouted, "The old one comes right after the little one left? You guys are so annoying!"
Right after he said this, the pill fire in his hand slanted. If it weren't for his fast reflexes, this cauldron of pills would've exploded again.
Su Tingyun couldn't be bothered to respond to that and just slowly expanded her spiritual consciousness. Soon, she was able to see through the array and into the room.
"Make the pill fire a bit smaller. The heat's too high so the pill's compressing too much. It's about to explode!" shouted Su Tingyun when she saw the state inside the pill cauldron.
Liu Feizhou itched to just swat this old woman flying. He was currently refining a fifth rank pill, what the heck with she know? However, he still subconsciously restrained his pill fire a little bit. The last couple times he had also failed just when the pills were about to successfully condense. After making the pill fire a bit weaker, the signs of the pills exploding actually lessened.
"Hurry and use your spiritual energy to flip the pills around!" shouted Su Tingyun.
Liu Feizhou: "…"
He kicked at the mechanism next to the array to let Su Tingyun in. He had to stop himself from shouting, "If you're so good at it, you do it!"
But he held it in and just glowered at her.
"Don't look at me, you need to flip it now. It's just like making pancake." As she spoke, she even made a flipping gesture. When she saw that Liu Feizhou was just staring blankly at her, she stretched out with her spiritual consciousness and flipped the pills inside the cauldron a couple times before shaping her spiritual consciousness into a fist and using it to knead the pills like she was making rice flour balls.
As expected, fifth rank pills were completely different. The cauldron's internal temperature was extremely high. After doing this, Su Tingyun's primordial spirit was shaken by the temperature and it felt as if fire was burning her spiritual consciousness. It even made the hibernating pill fire in her primordial spirit pop out, causing Su Tingyun's palm to burn.
She peeked at her hand found that the mark of the pill fire was now visible. She didn't dare to make any additional moves and carefully clenched her fist.
Bubbling sounds came from the cauldron, then a strong force exploded outwards, causing the lid to clatter loudly. Liu Feizhou lifted his left hand and a counter acting pressure immediately shot out from his palm. His face was slightly flushed so it was clear that this process was quite difficult.
However, this was the crucial step so it was normal for it to be a little difficult.
Liu Feizhou could sense that this batch of pills was about to be completed. He couldn't afford to be distracted anymore and focused all his attention on the pills. After about a minute, an intense medicinal fragrance came from the stove. At the same time, the shaking cauldron finally calmed down. Liu Feizhou sighed in relief. The pills finally formed.
When he saw that the refining was a success, he glanced towards Su Tingyun. He couldn't help but find it weird. Could it be that this old woman's level of alchemy was actually higher than his? No, it was probably just due to luck!
He wiped the sweat off his forehead. After putting the pills away, he asked, "Why were you looking for me?"
Old Madame Wei suddenly reached out and grabbed his wrist tightly. Her hands were like steel, the grip actually made his bones hurt.
Originally, he wanted to just crush her with spiritual pressure and shout at her for being audacious, but when he saw the solemn look on her face, he gave a cold humph and just said, "Whatever it is, be quick with it. And get your dirty hands off."
"Master Liu, please help me send Xiao Mei away." Su Tingyun got straight to the point.
The person that wanted her to stay in Wuliang Sect was the Supreme Elder. Who was the Supreme Elder? He was a Crossing Tribulation Stage cultivator. He could change the entire cultivation world with just a stomp. Everyone in the Wuliang Sect would carry out his commands unconditionally. In addition, the spiritual consciousnesses of Crossing Tribulation Stage cultivators were extremely strong. If he wanted to search, he'd be able to precisely locate even a specific ant within a range of a thousand miles.
That was why, she hadn't thought about trying to sneak away after hearing that news. She still wasn't sure what the Supreme Elder was after, but she was very worried. She had a feeling it wasn't something good.
The Supreme Elder had only mentioned her, so it should be fine to send Xiao Mei away. It was just that it was still very dangerous for Xiao Mei to head out on her own. However, if Liu Feizhou was protecting her, it should be easy for her to get to the mortal world safely.
There weren't many people she could ask. The only person that came to mind was Liu Feizhou since he wasn't a disciple of the Wuliang Sect.
"Didn't Spiritual Master Lingwu say that he would send you two back once the wind season was over?" asked Liu Feizhou in confusion.
"The Supreme Elder has come out of seclusion. I'm worried that Spiritual Master Lingwu won't have time to pay attention to us anymore." Su Tingyun took out a jade scroll and shoved it in his hand. "These are the things I've noticed while refining pills these past years. Hopefully it'll be some help to you."
Based on your level? Liu Feizhou scoffed and looked at her with disdain. However, his hand was quite nimble and immediately shoved the scroll into his pocket.
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Credits: Translated by Chiyomira
[Chiyomira's Corner]
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