Chapter 85: Can the blood of the Cinnabar Fragrant Sacred Body be refined into a pill?

Li Xun patiently listened to Xing Rong's account, his brows slightly furrowed.

Being able to plot these things is enough to prove that Xing Rong's ambition and methods are sufficient, yet he somewhat underestimated her ambition.

What Xing Rong wants is not merely the position of head of the Xing family.

"Having ambition is good, but too much ambition will choke you." Li Xun said lightly, then stood up again: "Go ahead. Consider other matters after you become head of the Xing family."

After bringing Fang Xu out of the restaurant, Li Xun's steps paused slightly, he turned to look at Fang Xu and asked: "What benefits did she promise you?"

Fang Xu hesitated not, clasped his hands and said: "Ten percent of the profits from the blood food business in Maple Forest Town."

Regarding his honesty, Li Xun was somewhat surprised, immediately nodded and said: "Compared to her, your ambition is too small."

Fang Xu laughed.

"Young Master, as the saying goes, greed that's insufficient tries to swallow an elephant; you know your own abilities."

Everyone has ambition; he, Fang Xu, naturally has ambition as well.

But like Xing Rong, openly displaying one's ambition is unwise; desire is a human weakness, and as soon as you show it before others, you are easily exploited.

"Alright, this Young Master will take his leave first; remember your father's words and cultivate diligently." Fang Xu's performance left him satisfied, so he didn't want to pursue the matter of Fang Xu accepting benefits from Xing Rong.

After parting with Li Xun, Fang Xu glanced at his friend list, which now had six vacancies, and immediately bought some wine from the tavern, heading for Ti Lan Shan.

During this period, he kept his friend list full each day, yet the newly added friends rarely survived more than three days.

From this, Fang Xu concluded that the relic deep in Ti Lan Shan must be extremely dangerous!

On the virtual panel, the arrows indicating inheritance directions were thickly clustered; a rough count showed sixty or seventy of them.

Most of these arrows pointed to the depths of Ti Lan Shan, with only a few pointing to other locations.

He didn't know whether inheritance had a time limit or quantity cap, so he could only keep accumulating; whether he could obtain it was secondary, preparation was never wrong.

The number of martial artists in Maple Forest Town kept increasing; on the mountain road from town to the Ti Lan Shan relic, there originally stood some stout trees.

But many major powers simply drove wagons up the mountain, gradually clearing the obstructive trees along the road, forming a broad thoroughfare.

Fang Xu lugged the wine, expending great effort to find a low-grade ferocious beast on the outskirts of Ti Lan Shan, killed it, then lit a fire and roasted meat beside the road trodden by countless people.

Friends soon arrived.

Seeing his friend list restored to full, Fang Xu didn't linger long on the mountain and returned directly to the Hall of Reaching Far.

Before even entering, he sensed something amiss.

At the gate of the Hall of Reaching Far were tethered several unusually tall fine horses!

Cloud-stepping Steeds!?

Seeing several remarkably divine horses, Fang Xu instantly recognized them as the Cloud-stepping Steeds ridden by Mu Xuan and his two companions from the Ascension Immortal Society back then!

Could it be that people from the Ascension Immortal Society have also come?

Filled with curiosity, he slowly entered the Hall of Reaching Far and found that several people were indeed seated before the stone table in the inner courtyard, with Lu Qingluo standing to one side, listening to a middle-aged martial artist's questioning.

Hearing the commotion, a familiar figure among them slowly turned around.

"Fang Xu, you've come at just the right time." The speaker was Mu Xuan, with whom he had a brief acquaintance.

The others also turned their heads to look at Fang Xu.

Under everyone's gaze, Fang Xu stepped forward, bowed to Mu Xuan and said: "Senior Brother Mu, may I ask who this senior is……"

Mu Xuan hurriedly introduced: "Eldest Senior Brother Su Cheng."

"Eldest Senior Brother?"

Fang Xu blinked slightly, then bowed slightly and said: "Greetings, Elder……"

Before he could finish, the middle-aged man named Su Cheng directly raised a hand to interrupt: "You haven't formally entered the sect; there's no need to worry about these formalities."

"Even if you enter the gate, whether you can pass from the outer door to the inner door and be taken as a disciple by the stewards depends on your ability; only after you become an inner-door disciple may you call me Senior Brother."

Although Su Cheng's words were somewhat polite, his tone's arrogance was still obvious.

Fang Xu resentfully rubbed his nose, and did not dwell on it further.

"You've come at just the right time; I have something I want to ask you." He glanced at Fang Xu and said directly: "Wu Huan was a nominal disciple taken by my master years ago; I've heard you two have some grudge?"

Fang Xu gave a slight bow: "Yes."

Su Cheng continued: "I also heard that you brought people from the Yun family of Huangzhou and killed him?"

This question already carried a strong interrogative tone; Fang Xu could sense a faint pressure emanating from Su Cheng.

"He wants to kill me; why can't I kill him?" Fang Xu replied, neither humble nor arrogant, while staring at the faint pressure.

Seeing this, Su Cheng gave a light smile and rose: "Wu Huan once saved my master's life; he owes my master a great debt. To be killed so obscurely has made my master very unhappy."

Hearing this, Fang Xu's brows furrowed slightly.

He knew that once Su Cheng's words reached this point, the next thing would be to propose conditions.

He just didn't know what conditions the other party would put forward.

"I observe that this girl is a Cinnabar Fragrant Sacred Body……" Su Cheng said, glancing at Chu Mu seated nearby in a wheelchair, smiling faintly: "Although she is naturally disabled, medicinal pills nurtured with a little of her Cinnabar Fragrant Sacred Body blood can increase the success rate of concoction."

Full of himself, he didn't even regard Fang Xu as worth noticing, couldn't be bothered to hide it, and openly declared his intention to use Chu Mu's blood to refine pills!

"You want to take Mu's blood to make pills?" Hearing Su Cheng's words, Fang Xu felt a surge of furious anger, yet his face remained calm as he said:

"Don't refuse first." Su Cheng placed his hands behind his back and said lightly: "Refining pills with blood does not mean taking her life."

"Only a little blood needs to be taken each day; eating more blood food can replenish it."

"You should know that my master is a pill master; although he is merely a steward, his standing in the Ascension Immortal Society is comparable to that of an elder."

"And I am my master's most proud disciple; as long as I speak a few good words for you two before him, you will both surely pass the year-end assessment smoothly."

"Even if you fail to pass the Ascension Immortal Platform at that time, I have a way to rescue your master."

After Su Cheng arrogantly laid out his conditions, his face brimmed with confidence, as if he were certain these terms were impossible for Fang Xu to refuse.

"I've long heard that Executor Xu is a venerable senior; I never expected he would want to use my sister's blood to refine pills." Fang Xu suppressed his anger and said lightly.

"You brat, do not insult my master!" As his words fell, another youth who had been silent suddenly leapt up and glared angrily at Fang Xu.

"Master's Pill Dao has reached the pinnacle of transformation; how could he use such lowly methods to refine pills?" The youth spoke, his eyes flashing with a hint of disdain as he looked at Su Cheng and said: "Senior Brother, you can't blame this on Master."

"You!" Su Cheng suddenly turned and glared at the youth behind him, then flicked his sleeve and said: "I naturally wouldn't act in Master's name!"

After saying that, he turned again to look at Fang Xu and said: "You have no room to bargain on this matter."

"Those who possess the Immortal Sect's Path Token are you and her; that girl doesn't have one. I will take him away, and no one dares to oppose!"

As he spoke, Su Cheng's body suddenly burst forth with a terrifying aura!

Under the pressure of this aura, Fang Xu felt as if a great mountain weighed on his body, his bones all over cracking with a "ka-ka" sound!

How terrifying!

This Su Cheng's aura is even more terrifying than Li Xun's!

Could he be a Martial Sovereign!?

(End of chapter)