Chapter 68: Third Miss: This isn't right

"Abaka Bebecado... *&&~"

In the small cultivation room attached to the dormitory, as Lu Xun chanted the spell, his aura began to rise.

「Boom! 」

Lu Xun struck the energy tester with one blow.

「Sure enough, it doubled. 」

This strike of Lu Xun's changed nothing else, but its power doubled.

All of this is thanks to that spell of Barbara.

「Eh, finally learned it. 」

Barbara sat squatting to one side, wearing a small red flower on her head, looking somewhat cute.

「If I want to stack combat power, can I just keep casting the spell? 」

Lu Xun asked.

「That's right. Each stack doubles the consumption. My blood is precious; you can stack at most three times each time. Don't overdo it, otherwise your mental power won't be able to take it. 」

Barbara warned.

When casting the spell, it indeed imposes some burden on mental power.

Lu Xun cleverly used Barbara's blood; it wasn't obvious at first, but if cast continuously, the pressure would become great.

「This is a very powerful meditation method. When you're free, you can meditate a bit to boost your mental power. 」

Barbara had at some point carved a meditation method onto the floor.

Meditation is a required course for mages' cultivation.

For mages, two indicators are most important.

One is mental power, two is magic power.

The early-stage cultivation of mages is simply the process of continually increasing mental power and accumulating magic power.

In that case, magic must be highly developed on Barbara's planet.

After drawing the meditation method, Barbara's waking time this time came to an end.

Soon, her consciousness fell back into sleep, turning into the little white that liked to curl up in Lu Xun's arms the most.

Lu Xun took out his phone and photographed the meditation method Barbara had carved.

「Can she still write Chinese characters? 」

Lu Xun discovered that the characters Barbara used were actually Chinese characters.

Lu Xun wasn't particularly surprised, after all, Barbara's spoken language with him was also Chinese.

Barbara's own strength should be very strong, with a high degree of brain development; learning other characters is not difficult for her.

I don't know how long she stayed on Lan Xing, nor how she came from the West to the East.

The story behind this will only be known later.

The next day, Lu Xun went to Qingbei Jie again.

Qingbei Jie was still crowded with people, and the promotion of Jia Shi's medicines was still ongoing.

The medicines of Spirit Pill Pavilion were becoming harder and harder to sell.

Fortunately, with Lu Xun's backing, Bai Ling could maintain a certain amount of alchemy output each day, preventing her medicine veins from being completely ruined.

Lu Xun also worried that if her medicine veins were completely ruined, the binding rewards from the system would be useless.

「Boss, these are the pills refined yesterday. 」

Bai Ling, upon seeing Lu Xun, proactively gave him all the pills she had refined yesterday.

Everything she is doing now is actually to preserve and restore her medicine veins, not to make money.

「Bai Ling, from now on, put out the newly refined pills and take back yesterday's pills to give me. 」

Lu Xun suggested.

「Why, boss? 」

Bai Ling didn't understand.

「Qi Qi opposite. 」

Lu Xun's words made Bai Ling's eyes light up.

「Mm! 」

She nodded heavily.

Lu Xun didn't leave, but continued to help Bai Ling.

Such actions won Bai Ling's favor.

Her favorability toward Lu Xun was increasing every day.

「It's been half a month, and she's actually still able to persist. Manager Li, could someone be secretly selling her raw materials at a low price? 」

One week later.

At the Jia Shi Medicine Shop, the Third Miss's voice sounded.

「Third Miss, there's definitely none. I've greeted all the material merchants in the capital; they wouldn't pass up good money to deliberately sell cheaply to Spirit Pill Pavilion. 」

Manager Li guaranteed.

「Or maybe she found another sales channel? 」

A maid of the Third Miss asked.

「That's also unlikely. Spirit Pill Pavilion's highest is only second-rank Heaven-tier pills, while we can offer those great clans higher-grade Earth-tier and Heaven-tier pills. They wouldn't offend our Jia Shi Group over a mere Spirit Pill Pavilion. 」

Manager Li had full confidence.

No matter how high the quality of Bai Ling's pills, she is ultimately just a second-rank alchemist.

This point is Bai Ling's fatal weakness.

There are indeed many noble families in the capital, but none would dare offend the Jia Clan Group, a colossus, over a second‑grade heavenly‑tier pill.

Heavenly‑tier pills can also be refined by the Jia Clan Group's alchemists, but their success rate is low; they cannot match Bai Ling, whose success rate is nearly 100%.

Manager Li's words dispelled the Third Miss's worries.

"Manager Li, continue the half‑price sale."

"Yes, Third Miss."

Manager Li also let it go.

The Third Miss is determined to oppose the Spirit Pill Pavilion; since that's the case, why would he go and make the Spirit Pill Pavilion unhappy?

The Jia Clan Group is huge and powerful, and the profits from pills are astonishingly high; although they have recently offered large discounts and raw material prices have been raised by them, they can still afford to lose money.

Time flew by.

In the blink of an eye, another two weeks passed.

Before they knew it, the Jia Clan Group's half‑price pills had lasted a full month.

This month made the students of Qingbei extremely happy.

Many of them managed to buy the half‑price pills and even stockpiled a lot.

Like Lin Yan, this guy asked his family for a large amount of Dark Energy and stockpiled a huge pile of pills.

Such opportunities will not come again in the future.

The Third Miss did not stop the students from stockpiling.

This is also something she is happy to see.

Because the students' purchasing power has been overdrawn for a long time.

In the future, these students will have no money to buy the pills refined by Bai Ling.

"How can she persist for so long?"

But after a month had passed, the Spirit Pill Pavilion remained open as usual.

Not only was it open, but the pills inside the Spirit Pill Pavilion were updated daily, with new pills displayed each day.

This left the Third Miss puzzled.

Others may not know Bai Ling, but she does.

Bai Ling has hardly any Dark Energy at hand; if her pills don't sell, she will soon be unable to afford the raw materials for alchemy.

In her calculations, Bai Ling could not possibly last a month.

But the fact is.

Bai Ling stubbornly persisted for a month.

If Bai Ling had not refined pills this month, just lazing around would have been fine.

But Bai Ling updates her pills every day.

This somewhat leaves her bewildered.

"Something's off."

The Third Miss sensed that something was off.

"Miss, could that wild girl have found a backer?"

"Her meridians are ruined; where could she find a backer? Besides, this is internal affairs of our Jia Clan Group—others would steer clear."

The two maidservants regarded themselves as members of the Jia family and began to speculate.

"Could it be him?"

A person flashed into the Third Miss's mind.

That person was none other than Lu Xun!

A few days earlier, Manager Li conducted an investigation on Lu Xun.

The results of the investigation surprised the Third Miss greatly.

From the information currently available, Lu Xun's parents died early, he suffered a major setback in his youth, yet he shone brightly in the grand exam and entered Beidou University in one fell swoop.

And after entering university, Lu Xun progressed as if he had cheat codes, advancing by leaps and bounds.

First he opened a second Heaven Earth Meridian, causing a sensation in Qingbei; then his cultivation advanced a thousand miles a day, he instantly took first place on the Newcomer Ranking, and he continually led far ahead in every evaluation.

Last month he even turned the tables on a Third Realm assassin, and on the stage he defeated the Third Realm genius He Jiang solely by his own strength.

Such a Lu Xun is truly dazzling.

More importantly, the Third Miss learned that Lu Xun won a cubic unit of Dark Energy from He Jiang.

Given Lu Xun's cultivation and achievements, the amount of Dark Energy he receives each month from Beidou University is also not small.

Such a Lu Xun, if willing to help Bai Ling, could sustain her for a long time!

"It's most likely him!"

After some thought, the Third Miss felt that it was very likely Lu Xun who was supporting Bai Ling.

She could hardly sit still.