Chapter 36

Li Banfeng held a candle and searched around for the corpses of the man with gold-rimmed glasses and the Tiger Bai Bai Gaozi.

He didn't find the corpses, only finding some miscellaneous items in the corner.

He found their shredded clothes; judging from the degree of damage, these clothes were forcibly torn off their bodies by some external force.

The items inside the clothes were still there; Li Banfeng found their wallets.

The cloth bag containing the snake-spotted lotus was also there, and the lotus flowers inside were all intact.

Li Banfeng also found the pair of gold-rimmed glasses next to the copper lotus, a wooden spectacle case next to the glasses, and an iron cigarette case next to the spectacle case.

But one thing was missing: the folding fan of the man with gold-rimmed glasses.

Li Banfeng was very interested in that folding fan with a strange fragrance. The material of the folding fan was very special, and the workmanship was also very special. Closing the fan face could be used as an iron rod, and unfolding the fan face could be used as both a knife and a shield.

Where did the fan go?

Was it eaten by the copper lotus?

What about the corpses?

Were they also eaten by the copper lotus?

It swallowed two corpses and snatched the weapon of the man with gold-rimmed glasses.

What did the copper lotus need a weapon for?

Could it be that this lotus could hold a weapon and fight?

Also, before, the copper lotus ate snake-spotted chrysanthemums and refined snake-spotted elixir.

Now it swallowed corpses and weapons, why didn't it move the snake-spotted chrysanthemums of the man with gold-rimmed glasses and the Tiger Bai Bai Gaozi?

Could it be because it had meat to eat, didn't want to eat vegetarian, and then ate a fan to pick its teeth?

This idea was quite reasonable.

Then what was inside these three lotus seeds?

Could it be that it also refined the man with gold-rimmed glasses and the Tiger Bai Bai Gaozi into elixir?

Li Banfeng carefully peeled the three lotus seeds off the seven-holed lotus heart, and the lotus flower immediately closed.

Two lotus seeds expanded in his palm; after about ten seconds, the two lotus seeds cracked, each exploding into a red bead.

The size of these two beads was slightly larger than the snake-spotted elixir, the color was pure, and they looked very crystal clear under the candlelight.

What kind of elixir was this?

While thinking, the third lotus seed also exploded; inside was only one bead, rust-colored.

Not only did it look like rust, but it also felt like rust; holding it in his hand gave a sticky feeling that made people very disgusted.

Not only was there a sticky feeling, but there was also a stinging sensation. Li Banfeng threw the rust elixir aside and discovered a red mark on his palm; between the stinging, there was some numbness.

Poisoned?

Li Banfeng didn't know how to deal with it, but suddenly saw the red mark crack, and some blood flowed out.

After the blood flowed, the stinging and numbness disappeared.

Residential Cultivators had strong self-healing abilities in their own houses; the bleeding just now should be the process of actively detoxifying.

But Li Banfeng didn't expect that just a short contact would cause such great damage to himself from the rust-colored bead.

If the contact time was longer, or even if he ate the rust-colored bead directly, would there be any salvation?

Even if a Residential Cultivator was in his own house, he probably wouldn't be able to be saved.

Based on the spirit of seeking truth from facts, should I do an experiment myself?

Thinking of this, Li Banfeng suddenly sneered and said to himself: "Am I crazy?"

Li Banfeng emptied the wallets of the man with gold-rimmed glasses and the Tiger Bai Bai Gaozi, padded his hands with the shredded clothes on the ground, put the two elixirs into two wallets separately, and squatted on the ground to begin studying the characteristics of the copper lotus.

Red bead and rust-colored bead, let's call them Red Elixir and Rust Elixir.

Red Elixir should come from the corpses of the man with gold-rimmed glasses and the Tiger Bai Bai Gaozi.

Rust Elixir should come from that missing folding fan.

The copper lotus turned them into elixir; Li Banfeng couldn't understand the specific principle, and Li Banfeng temporarily had no way of knowing what the uses of these two elixirs were.

The question Li Banfeng was most concerned about now was, according to what principle did the copper lotus choose the materials for refining elixir?

Before, it chose snake-spotted chrysanthemums; why was it not interested in snake-spotted chrysanthemums now?

Would it develop some kind of interest in me another day and turn me into elixir directly?

Li Banfeng brought the bag of snake-spotted chrysanthemums to the copper lotus, but the lotus flower had no reaction.

Then why did the snake-spotted chrysanthemums I picked back before turn into snake-spotted elixir?

Think about it, when I came back last night, what was different about the situation?

While thinking, Li Banfeng's head started to feel dizzy again.

This was a normal reaction after inhaling poisonous fog; after the dizziness, he also wanted to vomit.

Vomit!

Li Banfeng remembered one thing: the first thing he did when he returned to the Suishenju was to vomit. Because he couldn't find a suitable place, he vomited directly into the cloth bag containing the flowers.

Before this, Li Banfeng poured the snake-spotted chrysanthemums in the bag directly out.

Could it be that through a cloth bag, the copper lotus had no sense of the snake-spotted chrysanthemums?

Li Banfeng opened the bag and poured the forty-plus snake-spotted chrysanthemums picked by the man with gold-rimmed glasses near the copper lotus.

The moment the snake-spotted chrysanthemums landed, the petals of the copper lotus started to tremble.

Hiss~ Hiss~

The sound of metal friction rang out, and the seven petals of the lotus flower unfolded one by one.

Li Banfeng was once again conquered by this exquisite machine; he couldn't understand now whether modern civilization or these weird technologies were more advanced.

After the seven petals unfolded, Li Banfeng clearly saw the seven-holed lotus heart.

Li Banfeng felt the air in the Suishenju flowing in an abnormal direction.

The air was rotating, forming a vortex, and the center of the vortex was exactly the seven-holed lotus heart.

The forty-plus snake-spotted chrysanthemums on the ground gradually left the ground with the vortex, dancing up and down in the room.

Last night, this scene must have appeared, but I slept too soundly and didn't notice it at all!

Li Banfeng instinctively moved two steps away from the copper lotus; he was worried he would be sucked into the lotus heart.

A total of forty-three snake-spotted chrysanthemums were sucked into the lotus flower, and the petals closed again.

It really had to be directly exposed to the copper lotus's field of vision for the copper lotus to have a reaction.

Field of vision?

This word seemed a bit inappropriate; could the copper lotus see?

While thinking, Li Banfeng suddenly heard a crisp sound. He held a candle and looked down for a long time, finding that the Rust Elixir had actually fallen to the ground.

Didn't I put it in the wallet?

Li Banfeng picked up the leather wallet and looked; there was an extra hole at the bottom of the leather wallet, and the area around the hole was covered with blue-black scorch marks.

Was this corroded?

Did the Rust Elixir actually have corrosive ability?

If he ate the Rust Elixir, what would happen?

Let alone a Residential Cultivator, even a Poison Cultivator probably couldn't take it!

Li Banfeng became more and more curious!

He padded his hands with the broken cloth on the ground and carefully put the Rust Elixir into the iron cigarette case.

Could an iron box withstand corrosion?

It couldn't!

The corrosive effect was even more obvious than the wallet.

The iron cigarette case came into contact with the Rust Elixir and started to rust rapidly. By the time Li Banfeng took the Rust Elixir out, the cigarette case was already covered in rust, and he couldn't see its original appearance.

The iron box didn't work, would a wooden box work?

Li Banfeng put the Rust Elixir into the spectacle case and observed for a moment, discovering that the Rust Elixir didn't corrode wood, so he felt relieved and put the spectacle case in the corner of the room.

Li Banfeng waited silently beside the copper lotus, estimating that half an hour had passed, and the lotus petals opened again, with one more lotus seed inside.

Li Banfeng held the lotus seed in his hand, and the lotus seed leaving the lotus heart expanded rapidly.

Bang! After a muffled sound, the black and white elixir exploded out.

This was snake-spotted elixir!

Li Banfeng counted them; there were ten elixirs in total.

Before, he refined eight elixirs from thirty-seven flowers. Calculated this way, the copper lotus's ratio for refining elixir was one elixir for every four and a half flowers, which was more brilliant than the methods of the major pharmacies.

This time, fewer snake-spotted chrysanthemums were consumed, and the output rate was higher, which should be related to the fact that the snake-spotted chrysanthemums picked by the man with gold-rimmed glasses were larger in size.

Li Banfeng poured out all the snake-spotted chrysanthemums, including those of Qin Xiaopang, Oil Peach, Mao Caoye, Old Lao Yanpao, the Tiger Bai Bai Gaozi, the bald man and his followers...

A total of three hundred and thirty-two flowers were all sucked into the lotus heart by the copper lotus.

Still half an hour later, the petals bloomed again; this time there were three lotus seeds in the lotus heart.

Li Banfeng peeled off the lotus seeds and waited quietly for the lotus seeds to explode one by one.

A few minutes later, Li Banfeng picked up the lotus seeds that had exploded all over the ground, harvesting a total of seventy-six snake-spotted elixirs.

Counting the eighteen snake-spotted elixirs he and the man with gold-rimmed glasses had refined before, it totaled ninety-four elixirs.

Money!

This was stack after stack of money!

Li Banfeng bought two cloth bags at the grocery store, but actually only used one of them to hold the elixirs; the other was used by him to hold vomit.

He put the elixirs into the remaining clean cloth bag and took the opportunity to tidy up the legacy of the man with gold-rimmed glasses and the Tiger Bai Bai Gaozi.

The man with gold-rimmed glasses had over two thousand six hundred and thirteen yuan in cash, and the Tiger Bai Bai Gaozi had three thousand five hundred and twenty-eight yuan and fifty cents on him.

The current Li Banfeng didn't care about this little money; keeping this money was out of respect for the two deceased.

After all, they had met and even formed a partnership, so he must keep their belongings safe!

After resting for another two hours in the Suishenju, Li Banfeng left Bitter Fog Mountain and walked to the gathering place of the various pharmacies.

The cultivators carrying snake-spotted chrysanthemums were still arguing with the pharmacies; they claimed not to sell, but they hadn't walked far.

If they didn't sell to the pharmacies, who else could they sell to?

They only hoped that through such resistance, they could strive for a little more price for themselves, just as a middle-aged cultivator said: "Even thirty would be fine; twenty-five is too bullying."

Li Banfeng had no intention of watching them tangle; Xiaopang and the others were still waiting for him to return in a quiet place.

Li Banfeng had been gone for nearly three hours, which made Xiaopang anxious!

"I shouldn't have let him go alone! This mountain is vast, where can I find that old lady! He also stayed on the mountain for a whole night, this is going to cost him his life!"

Xiaopang paced back and forth, rubbing his hands.

Mao Caoye lowered her head and said: "If Brother Bai Sha can really trade for elixir, I only need half..."

Oil Peach muttered to herself: "An old lady, what kind of old lady is it? Could it be that we met a lucky star..."

Seeing Li Banfeng's figure, everyone was very happy. Li Banfeng had no intention of listening to their thanks and had no time to be polite with them; he directly distributed the elixirs.

"Oil Peach, you have thirty-eight flowers, traded for four elixirs."

Oil Peach was startled: "Isn't that two flowers short?"

Li Banfeng said: "I made up the difference for you, just to round it up."

Oil Peach looked at Li Banfeng, feeling both grateful and guilty.

Li Banfeng took out six more elixirs: "Mao Caoye, you have sixty-one flowers, the number is too far off, I can't make up the difference for you, I can only round down."

Mao Caoye was very happy and quickly checked the authenticity of the elixirs.

Next was Xiaopang.

His account wasn't easy to calculate; Xiaopang originally had twenty snake-spotted chrysanthemums, which could trade for two elixirs.

Splitting the snake-spotted chrysanthemums of Old Lao Yanpao and the bald man's group equally, Xiaopang had eighty-four flowers.

Adding them together, one hundred and four flowers, plus Xiaopang's care along the way, Li Banfeng gave him eleven elixirs.

Xiaopang held the elixirs, his hands trembling uncontrollably.

"One is ten thousand, let's go, let's go sell the medicine now!"

Mao Caoye stopped Xiaopang and said: "Brother Fatty, where do you want to sell them?"

"Sell to the pharmacy, aren't they right here!"

Mao Caoye shook her head and said: "You can't sell to the pharmacy, the origin of this elixir is unclear."

Xiaopang frowned: "How is the origin unclear? Isn't this, isn't it, that..."

The matter was indeed unclear; even if it were clear, no one would believe it.

Mao Caoye said: "I was an apprentice in a pharmacy. Pharmacies won't accept elixirs with unclear sources. If they dig to the bottom of it, it will bring us trouble instead."

It really couldn't be sold to the pharmacy.

Li Banfeng didn't speak, watching everyone's plans quietly.

Xiaopang was very discouraged upon hearing this: "Then what should we do? Even if we traded for elixir, it's still stuck in our hands."

Oil Peach smiled: "How could it be stuck in our hands? There are many people who want elixir, and they are all rich people. Ten thousand yuan might not even be enough to buy one.

You earn their money, and they have to remember your kindness. Such good business is hard to come by even in dreams."

Li Banfeng's brow relaxed; there were still ways.

It's just that this way isn't very suitable for me.

Oil Peach meant selling to people who wanted to buy through private channels.

Li Banfeng was a stranger here and couldn't find a suitable buyer, so he would see if Xiaopang had any channels to sell.

The fatty scratched his scalp: "But this can't be sold in a day or two."

Oil Peach was surprised: "What are you in a hurry for? Elixir won't go bad in a day or two!"

"That's what I'm saying..."

Oil Peach had no intention of grinding teeth with Xiaopang and turned to Li Banfeng, cupping her hands: "Great kindness doesn't need thanks. I owe you this elixir, and I owe you my life.

In the future, if you go to Mazhu Village in Waigou, ask for You Xuetao, and you will definitely find me. If you need anything, just speak up; even if it's a mountain of knives or a sea of fire, this girl won't blink!"

You Xuetao, Oil Peach; her nickname and name were somewhat similar.

She gave her address; if Xiaopang couldn't find a way to sell, it wouldn't be too late to find Oil Peach then.

Mao Caoye bowed to Li Banfeng: "Brother Bai Sha, my name is Xue Yingying. Ask for the old Xue family in Sanpu Village in Waigou, and you will find me."

Oil Peach took out two elixirs and said: "We sisters can't repay this kindness for a while. Please accept these elixirs as a token of my sincerity."

Mao Caoye also took out two elixirs: "Little sister also has a token of sincerity."

Li Banfeng waved his hand and didn't take their elixirs.

The two women thanked him profusely, but if they knew Li Banfeng still had sixty-five elixirs in his hand, they didn't know what they would think.

Oil Peach looked at Li Banfeng and really had some thoughts.

A Joy Cultivator's thoughts were very straightforward.

If she could meet a man like him, he might not be worse than the flat ones.

Mao Caoye's thoughts were more complicated.

Although she didn't see the scene clearly, the bald man's group did indeed die at the hands of him and the little fatty.

This was a person who could do great things!

With him looking after it, the pharmacy could really be opened!

These two women said goodbye one after another. Li Banfeng stood where he was, thinking about the itinerary back to Yuezhou.

Logically speaking, with so many elixirs, money definitely wouldn't be lacking.

But the elixirs hadn't been sold, so they couldn't be counted as money yet.

How could he sell the elixirs quickly?

Li Banfeng looked at Xiaopang; Xiaopang also seemed to be in urgent need of money.

But after sitting silently for so long, Xiaopang, who was anxious just now, slowly calmed down.

He felt Oil Peach's words made sense: "Selling elixir, don't be in a hurry. That woman is right; this is a good thing.

Not only can I sell it for a good price, but I can also make many good friends through this elixir, so there's no need to be in a hurry at all!"

You're not in a hurry anymore?

That won't do!

"I'm in a hurry!" Li Banfeng sat beside Xiaopang, "I'm in a hurry to use money."

Although Li Banfeng had also collected quite a bit of money from the man with gold-rimmed glasses, these elixirs seemed to be of no use when brought back to Yuezhou.

Xiaopang was very curious: "What's the matter that you're in a hurry to use money? Should I lend you some first?"

Li Banfeng waved his hand: "I don't want to borrow money, I just want to sell the elixirs as soon as possible."

"Sell as soon as possible..." Qin Xiaopang could understand Li Banfeng's thoughts. Li Banfeng was from Waizhou and was a stranger in Yaowang Valley, not knowing many ordinary people, let alone making friends with rich and powerful people.

After thinking for a moment, Xiaopang pinched his chin and said: "There is such a place that can let you sell the elixirs as soon as possible, but the price will have to be discounted."

Li Banfeng's eyes lit up: "How much of a discount?"

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