Chapter 67: One Aperture-Opening Pill, and she gains the strength of an ox

Lin Meng strolled about boredly in a place with few people.

Here she knew no one; besides the four women who had just come to pick a fight with her, nobody would specially come over to chat with her.

Everyone present was a shrewd person; Lin Meng, an unfamiliar face dressed so plainly, no one would associate her with the words "honored guest", they all merely regarded her as a peripheral figure, not a seated guest of the Ye family.

Lin Meng also happened to seek some quiet, so she didn't have to deal with these people who had nothing to do with her.

Just then, the second space stirred with movement.

On the table Lin Meng used to place things, suddenly it was completely covered with small porcelain bottles.

Before Lin Meng could use her mental power to examine it, she heard Ye Fan's youthful voice ring out.

"Immortal sister, are you there? Senior Brother Song's Aperture-Opening Pills have arrived, so many, so many!"

Lin Meng glanced and saw exactly a hundred porcelain bottles.

The Song family actually produced a hundred bottles of Aperture-Opening Pills at once, truly worthy of being an alchemy aristocratic family.

But what Song Yun gave was far more than this.

Immediately after, five more boxes appeared in the space, each half a person tall.

Ye Fan sensed Lin Meng's mental power probing, and immediately spoke in an excited tone:

"Immortal sister, have you come? I gave those few drops of cola to Senior Brother Song; besides these three hundred Aperture-Opening Pills, he also gave five boxes of herbs."

Ye Fan scratched his head, somewhat unsure whether Lin Meng would like them, but he had seen all those herbs; although they were not spiritual grasses or medicines, in the eyes of mortals they were all precious medicinal materials.

Ye Fan thought, perhaps the immortal sister wanted to study the Aperture-Opening Pill because she was interested in mundane things; these herbs she might also like.

Upon hearing this, Lin Meng's eyes instantly lit up.

Three hundred Aperture-Opening Pills could be eaten as food, let alone these five large boxes of herbs.

The price paid for these things was merely seven or eight drops of cola!

Lin Meng could hardly wait to try the effects of the Aperture-Opening Pill.

She thought for a moment and then said to Ye Fan:

"The Aperture-Opening Pills are enough for now; keep those cola drops for yourself, use them to boost your cultivation or trade them for whatever training resources you need—after all, that cola is already yours, you can dispose of it freely without needing my permission."

Upon hearing this, Ye Fan's eyes reddened; this was the immortal sister's trust and grace, he would surely cultivate diligently and not disappoint her expectations.

"Ye Fan understands, immortal sister, please rest assured; I plan to enter secluded cultivation for a period, and will not emerge until my cultivation reaches at least the fifth layer of Qi Refining."

Seeing that the three generations of the Ye family had not yet come out, Lin Meng really did not want to wait any longer, so she quietly left the private manor.

Returning to the hotel, she first entered her space to inspect the five boxes of medicinal materials.

After comparing with online data, Lin Meng was greatly shocked by the five boxes of medicinal materials.

This seemed not to be those artificially cultivated herbs on the market, but entirely wild.

Cordyceps and ambergris were nothing special; there were also many wild ginseng, wild iron bark dendrobium, and even snow lotuses with their sepals fully intact.

Even though Lin Meng didn't understand herbs, she felt the quantity of these five boxes was truly top-notch.

If she were to directly take this to market and sell it, such a large stock appearing all at once might not bring her great wealth, but rather a prison sentence.

Even if these were not illegally obtained and their source was legitimate, she still could not tell others that they were obtained through a spacetime transaction in a cultivation world.

As for how to handle these five boxes of precious herbs, Lin Meng still needed to think it over carefully.

Moreover, she wasn't in a hurry; she currently had no external debts and had accumulated a little wealth, so she wasn't rushed to monetize the herbs.

Afterwards, Lin Meng organized the hundred bottles of Aperture-Opening Pills, placed them into a storage box, and took one bottle out of her space.

Ye Fan had said before that medicinal pills all have pill toxicity, which is roughly the same as the saying that medicine is three parts poison.

She naturally could not possibly eat all three hundred Aperture-Opening Pills herself, so she would first take a few to test.

After thinking, Lin Meng poured out one pill and swallowed it with her head tilted back.

The pill smelled bitter and astringent, but upon entering the mouth it was sweet, with a clean, refreshing aftertaste.

The sensation of melting instantly in the mouth made Lin Meng feel a strange wonder, feeling more refined than when she had previously taken the Youth-Preserving Pill and Jade Marrow Pill.

In just a moment, Lin Meng felt warmth beginning around her navel, with streams of warm flow emanating from her dantian and beginning to wander throughout her body.

Those blood vessels and meridians that she normally could not perceive at all suddenly seemed able to breathe.

Lin Meng, without a teacher, instinctively directed her mental power, and actually clearly saw the distribution and course of the meridians within her body.

Among them, a flame-like energy cluster was moving regularly through each meridian.

This must be the energy cluster generated from the medicinal power of the Aperture-Opening Pill, right?

Lin Meng did not attempt to control that medicinal power, but let it move within her body as it wished.

When the medicinal power was exhausted, Lin Meng suddenly felt a comforting ease throughout her body.

She had the feeling that she had indeed become different from before.

As for exactly what had changed, perhaps she could try a test.

Lin Meng thought for a moment, then walked to the hotel's coffee table, grasped a table leg with one hand, and lifted upward with force.

Originally, it required the strength of suckling to barely lift the table an inch with both hands, but now in her hand it was as light as paper, and she easily hoisted it up.

Tens of kilograms of weight were thus lifted single-handedly by her; at this moment even Lin Meng was stunned into speechlessness.

Lin Meng simply dared not imagine; if she took a few more, wouldn't she be able to uproot trees with one hand and effortlessly win a weightlifting championship?

After thinking it over, Lin Meng did not rush to take a second pill.

After all, this stuff really couldn't be taken as food; she planned to go to the hospital tomorrow for a full physical examination to see whether, after taking three medicinal pills these past days, there had been any effect on her kidneys and liver.

After all, it had been hard-won to finally get ahead, and she now had a little money in hand but hadn't yet had a chance to enjoy it; she couldn't afford to ruin her body.

Over at the Ye family's private manor, the three generations arrived late; after searching the entire estate they could not find Lin Meng, and Old Master Ye was extremely anxious.

The guests only saw that the Ye family seemed to have lost something important, and Old Master Ye, anxiously pacing back and forth, prompted someone to ask curiously:

"Old Master Ye, what are you looking for?"

"Looking for a person." Old Master Ye replied offhandedly, and the steward and others summoned for questioning also failed to notice when Lin Meng had left.

Only after they found the doorman did they learn that Lin Meng had already been gone for a long time.

Only then did everyone realize that Old Master Ye was actually looking for a girl.

Xie Zhiyun and her companions had always been keeping an eye on Lin Meng's movements.

Seeing her leave of her own accord, they were still quite pleased.

But now, seeing Old Master Ye so anxious to find her, his expression so tense, several of them couldn't even manage a laugh.

"Yun Yun, just what is that girl's background? She seems out of the ordinary—even Old Master Ye is personally asking about her whereabouts."

"What are we to do? Did we offend her? Will the Ye family find out?"

Xie Zhiyun's expression grew inscrutable, and she eventually slipped quietly away from the three of them.

She never directly mocked Lin Meng; from start to finish, only those three had belittled her.

As for this side, once Old Master Ye confirmed that Lin Meng had already left, his interest in hosting the banquet vanished, and he sent all the guests away.

For a moment, the whole capital was abuzz with curiosity about that day's mysterious woman.

Some speculated that she might be the granddaughter-in-law whom Old Master Ye had picked as one of the Ye family's prospective daughters-in-law.