Chapter 16

Back to his small courtyard in the trading firm, Lu Xingzhou sat by the window in a daze.

Thinking of subsequent cultivation in the Elixir Department, thoughts came one after another.

Most people in the world refine elixirs not to treat diseases and save people... The meaning of almost every alchemist refining elixirs is to refine elixirs that allow themselves to break through quickly, or even become immortals directly.

Although elixirs that make people become immortals directly only exist in legends, every person in the world firmly believes that they exist.

Therefore, alchemists don't pay much attention to cultivating themselves, anyway, they rely on taking elixirs to improve. The vast majority of alchemists refine elixirs all day long, and their cultivation is also taken up, resulting in their combat effectiveness not being very good, often requiring servants to protect them.

On the surface, Lu Xingzhou has also been taking elixirs, but he is different from other alchemists. He doesn't use this way to improve, just to treat diseases.

Studying alchemy hard is just to treat his own illness. He doesn't have much interest in alchemy itself.

Don't expect to cultivate well without recuperating your body.

In the early years, he was really a sick military advisor, not only sitting in a wheelchair but also coughing all day long, with a pale face. After so many years of long-term governance and cultivation, he is finally rosy and handsome. The old illness now only has a little tail, and it will be completely solved soon.

His cultivation is not high, but it is very solid. It is his own hard work bit by bit. Even if he uses external objects, it is also the spirit-gathering array laid by spirit stones, absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, not relying on taking elixirs.

So Lu Xingzhou really hasn't refined any breaking realm elixirs.

He has refined countless Yiqi Pills that increase cultivation, but they all went into A-Nuo's stomach, which is A-Nuo's meal.

But such a premise, practicing in the lower three grades is okay, once you want to enter the middle three grades, this broken leg is the biggest obstacle in front of you. If you can't reach the intersection of heaven and earth, you will never be able to break through the sixth grade.

After the accumulation of the Yama Palace over the years, resources are quite rich, high-grade cultivation methods are available, and it is impossible not to have medicines for treating legs. But Yuan Muyu is willing to provide medicinal materials for his treatment, willing to teach him various skills, willing to let him choose cultivation methods, but uniquely refuses to treat his legs.

"Xingzhou, you are my military advisor, you don't need to go out to kill people, cultivation is not that important..."

"No matter what aspect I do, no matter how high cultivation I need. First of all, I am a person... As a person, I want to stand up."

"...I let them look for it, but didn't find the required medicinal materials."

"Isn't it because they said that Lu Xingzhou's mind is treacherous, and now that he is disabled and has low cultivation, it's fine. Once he solves his shortcomings, he will be uncontrollable?"

"I haven't thought about it that way."

"But you did it."

"..."

"Sister, in your eyes, what am I?"

"Your life is mine, that's all."

"I am eighteen years old, already an adult."

"So what?"

"I want to be able to... stand upright... by your side."

"Do you know what you are talking about?"

"Know."

"Then I will give you a clear answer. If you say this kind of thing again, you can leave—it happens to release your doubts. I didn't want to trap you by my side with your legs, because whether you are here or not is not that important."

"Since that's the case... this is my token, so I will resign. For the rest of my life... Yama, take care."

"You!"

What was her expression at that time?

Already turned around, can't see anymore... and it doesn't make sense.

Whether it's the words that have reached this point, it doesn't matter. She refused to help treat the legs, which is a fact after all. No one can wait like this forever.

Time flies like an arrow, and it has been years since we parted, and she didn't send anyone to look for him. I think whether there is Lu Xingzhou or not really makes no difference to her.

After all, it's the same for anyone to live without anyone... not to mention her strength is the only one Lu Xingzhou has ever seen in his life.

The so-called military advisor... ashamed, it is really not as important as imagined. As long as there is Yuan Muyu alone, the Yama Palace is enough to make people hear the wind and fear, and others are just icing on the cake.

"Master, Master, what are you thinking about?" A-Nuo's voice came, Lu Xingzhou turned his head to look, the little girl shook her chubby hands and shook them in front of his eyes: "Dazed after coming back from the Elixir Department, could it be that you are thinking of Sister Fish?"

"No." Lu Xingzhou straightened his face: "I am thinking about how Liu Qingcang will deal with me, eight out of ten is looking for the City Master. Xu Bingkun wants to deal with Shen Tang, Liu Qingcang wants to deal with me, the two sides are like dry firewood and raging fire, I and the gentleman untie the battle robe..."

A-Nuo didn't expose him either, and said with a smile: "But the City Master can't openly deal with Sister Shen, what's the use of sending assassins, it's not enough for Sister Qingli to practice sword."

"There are many angles for a City Master to deal with people... unless Shen Tang dares to get on the line with the royal family now, otherwise it is difficult to carry a City Master."

"Didn't she say that she would dare after clearing the inside?"

"That's just a premise. She can only start to test contact at most now. The cause of the extermination hasn't been figured out. Where would she dare to be so silly and sweet."

"Since the City Master knows, can she hide it from the imperial court?"

"This matter is very mysterious now. Xu Bingkun should also be confused about the situation. He doesn't know which side wants her to die and which side wants to protect her. If he reports it rashly, what if the other side wants to protect her? Then Xu Bingkun is sending his head himself. He doesn't dare."

"Spread the news directly to the outside that the remnants of the Profound Heaven Sword Sect are here, attracting enemies to come?"

"Then he, the City Master from the Profound Heaven Sword Sect, will be the first to have his head removed as a protective umbrella. Not only does he not dare to spread it, but he has to help hide it."

A-Nuo: "..."

Shen Tang's laughter came from outside the door: "Mr. Lu is indeed as clear as a mirror. Xu Bingkun really doesn't dare to tell the outside world."

Lu Xingzhou knew she was coming, and said faintly: "Didn't you say let's live our own lives? What is Miss Shen here for?"

"First of all, congratulations to Mr. for passing the seventh-grade alchemist certification." Shen Tang entered the room and smiled: "Secondly, to send something to Mr."

As she spoke, she handed over something wrapped in a handkerchief. Lu Xingzhou took it in confusion, sniffed it at the tip of his nose, and his expression moved: "Five-Element Grass..."

Shen Tang smiled: "Just now I went to the Elixir Department to communicate some follow-up matters about sword talismans, and heard Manager Chen praise you endlessly. Manager Chen heard that I lived with you, so he talked about the elixir formula you listed for your own illness, and I asked about the general medicinal materials, thinking you would need this."

Lu Xingzhou was silent.

Five-Element Grass is indeed an important main ingredient for refining Fansheng Pill.

The main ingredients required for seventh-grade elixirs are already considered relatively high-end in Xiazhou, and it is not easy to find them in general stores. Lu Xingzhou's previous recuperation hadn't reached this step, so he didn't deliberately look for it.

Never thought that an outsider would care about this...

Shen Tang asked: "Is it useful to Mr.?"

Lu Xingzhou came back to his senses and whispered: "Yes... Miss Shen, you have spent your heart."

"This is nothing to spend heart, because the Elixir Department has a collection, I bought it directly." Shen Tang smiled gently: "If you asked Manager Chen one more sentence, you could buy it yourself."

Lu Xingzhou pursed his lips and said nothing.

What is rare is not whether things are easy to find, but that someone will listen to your needs and want to find them for you.

Even if it's just a dog's tail grass, this heart is rare... especially under the spread of the memories just now, it's like a heavy hammer, knocking the picture into pieces.

"Mr. don't have to worry. Even if it's an ordinary village, if you make dumplings, you will send a bowl to your neighbors." Shen Tang turned the wheelchair directly and left: "It won't affect Mr.'s living our own lives."

Lu Xingzhou didn't speak, didn't even say thank you, and watched Shen Tang go away silently.

After a long time, he suddenly said to A-Nuo: "Search the memories of the remnant souls in the Ten Thousand Soul Banner to see what's going on with the demon energy, and whether it is related to the City Master."

A-Nuo blinked: "You clearly didn't want to care before, and didn't want to create extra branches when the Huo family was about to come."

Lu Xingzhou looked down at the handkerchief in his hand. The handkerchief exuded a clear fragrance, and I don't know if it was medicinal fragrance or what fragrance...

After a long time, he whispered: "This is not a branch."

A-Nuo sighed and turned away.

She said what she said, but she knew better than anyone how much this kind of thing touched her Master.

A-Nuo herself is also very grateful... Sister Shen is really good...

Lu Xingzhou thought quietly for a while, rowed his wheelchair out, and found Dugu Qingli: "Miss Qingli, can you please help with something?"

Dugu Qingli sat cross-legged in her small courtyard practicing, opened her eyes when she heard the words, and said faintly: "I am neither your subordinate nor a friend."

"What if it is related to Miss Shen Tang?"

"Shen Tang just went to find you, why don't you talk to her directly about related matters, why come to me?"

"She is not very convenient." Lu Xingzhou handed over a few prescriptions: "Please sneak into the alchemy workshop of Danxia Mountain tonight, and give these prescriptions to the apprentices who refine elixirs. Give them to anyone, don't be discovered by the Danxia Gang guards. Only you have such a traceless strength. Shen Tang herself and other people of the Profound Heaven Sword Sect are probably not very good."

Dugu Qingli took the prescription, puzzled: "Is there anyone refining elixirs in the alchemy workshop late at night?"

"If there is no accident, not only will there be tonight, but it will also be very lively."

Dugu Qingli frowned slightly, as if thinking very hard: "What does this matter have to do with Shen Tang?"

"The Shen Clan Trading Firm and the Danxia Gang have formed a grudge. Liu Qingcang also came to attack that night and was blocked by Sheng Yuanyao. He will definitely connect with the City Master to do things again... Therefore, dealing with the Danxia Gang is also breaking an arm of the City Master, making Miss Shen easier."

The little white hair is not stupid: "...The Danxia Gang is your own enemy, you don't have to say it's for Shen Tang."

Lu Xingzhou was silent for a moment, and said slowly: "You can think so."

Only he knows clearly, if it were only for himself, he would have followed other ideas and wouldn't want to be so impatient. Now that he wants to do something... it's just for the heart wrapped in the handkerchief.