Chapter 164: Hands-off Manager

Everyone had their own opportunities. Hua Changxi didn't want to explore how Xu Ling obtained the pills, but she thought of the white-robed monk who used the sound of a wooden fish to lure Aniu and asked: "Uncle Xu, do you still have contact with the Master Konghai that Lingling saved before?"

Pharmacist Xu shook his head: "After Master Konghai left, he never appeared again. For this, Lingling was sad for a period of time."

Hua Changxi: "How is Lingling now?"

Pharmacist Xu nodded with a smile: "Lingling is doing well. Usually, she helps me manage the pharmacy. Now she can handle the affairs of the pharmacy."

As he spoke, Pharmacist Xu shifted the topic to the Qihuang Pavilion. "Ninth Daughter, from now on, I will be working under you. I will have to trouble you to take care of me in the future."

Hua Changxi originally wanted to ask about Xu Ling's return to ancestors, but looking at Pharmacist Xu who shifted the topic, she saw that he didn't want to talk much about Xu Ling, so she didn't ask more: "Uncle Xu, with your seniority, why did you choose to come and be a medicine boy?"

Pharmacist Xu smiled bitterly: "Seniority? The previous seniority doesn't count anymore." As he spoke, he lowered his voice. "The higher-ups have already issued a word: without spirit roots, no matter how powerful the physicians and pharmacists were before, they cannot continue to stay in the Medicine Division."

"In the future, the Medicine Division will only accept people with spirit roots, even if they are servants. I was lucky; I just happened to have spirit roots. Otherwise, you wouldn't see me in the Medicine Division."

Pharmacist Xu looked at Hua Changxi: "Ninth Daughter, how to refine spirit pills, how to treat cultivators, and the knowledge of spirit plants and spirit medicines, I know very little. You must teach me more."

Hua Changxi smiled: "Where can it be called teaching? We are just learning together."

Pharmacist Xu followed with a smile: "You are too modest. Now everyone in the Medicine Division knows that those who can get a wooden tablet are either alchemy geniuses or medical geniuses. You all have extraordinary qualities that ordinary people cannot reach."

"Now people in the Nine Streets all want to come to the Qihuang Pavilion to be medicine boys. I spent a lot of effort to be transferred to Qihuang Pavilion No. 13, using all the connections I could use."

Hua Changxi heard this and laughed: "What geniuses, where are there any extraordinary qualities? They are just rumors, not to be believed."

Pharmacist Xu thought Hua Changxi was being modest and smiled: "Ninth Daughter, we are so familiar, you don't need to be too careful in front of me.

Hua Changxi smiled and didn't take up the topic, instead bringing up something else: "Uncle Xu, I won't stand on ceremony with you. In the future, please keep an eye on the No. 13 Qihuang Hall for me, especially the other seven medicine boys."

Pharmacist Xu was very happy to see her trust him so much: "Rest assured, I will."

Afterwards, they chatted for a few more sentences, and Hua Changxi let Pharmacist Xu go down.

Hua Changxi looked at the eight medicine boys assigned to the No. 13 Qihuang Hall, her eyes flickering incessantly.

"Zhou Bin, Wan Feng..."

These two were the only ones she didn't know.

After mastering the Art of Observation, Listening, Questioning, and Pulse-taking, Hua Changxi could use her eyes to see through the spiritual roots of others. At this moment, the spiritual root conditions of the eight medicine boys were clear at a glance in her eyes.

Hua Shuran and Pharmacist Xu both had single wood spiritual roots; Hua Wanyue, Zhu Yu, Zhou Bin, and Wan Feng all had fire-wood spiritual roots; He Sirong had gold-wood spiritual roots; and He Siqi had gold-fire spiritual roots.

It had to be said that the cultivation talents of these eight people were all quite good, but once she thought about the various forces standing behind them, she lost any desire to cultivate them.

Even for Pharmacist Xu, she had doubts in her heart. Having had the incident where A Niu was lured by the demon protector monk, she was never fully at ease with Xu Ling.

Hua Changxi did not stay long at the Qihuang Hall. With eight medicine boys watching, even if she could set up concealment and isolation arrays to refine pills, she was unwilling to do so.

Seeing Hua Changxi leave, Hua Shuran couldn't help but step forward to ask: "Changxi, what should we do?"

Hua Changxi looked at her, then at the other seven, and smiled: "The Qihuang Halls were mostly idle in the past and didn't need anyone to manage them at all. The higher-ups equipped each Qihuang Hall with eight medicine boys, and I really don't know how to arrange you. You can find things to do yourselves."

After finishing, she left directly, with an attitude of 'do whatever you want'.

Seeing this, Hua Shuran and the other seven looked at each other in dismay for a while, and then everyone occupied a room and went to do their own things.

Hua Changxi had just come out of the No. 13 Qihuang Hall when she saw Lin Sheng waiting outside.

"Master."

Lin Sheng's attitude was very respectful. Ever since he was rejected last time when he proposed wanting to cultivate the 'Meat Refining Chapter' of the second level of the Nine Revolutions Profound Art, he knew that Hua Changxi would no longer reuse him.

He knew very well that he now had only one purpose: to be the mouthpiece between his godfather and Hua Changxi.

"Godfather is going to take a group of people from the Eastern Depot to the Ghost Market in a few days to purchase supplies. He asked me to ask you if you want to go with them?"

Hua Changxi pondered. Originally, she had planned to go to the Ghost Market after refining fourth-grade spirit pills, but the difficulty of refining third-grade pills was much greater than that of first or second-grade pills, and she couldn't refine fourth-grade pills in a short time.

Now in her cultivation, she had also encountered a bottleneck, and her realm points had been unable to break through one billion. She really should go out and gain some experience.

"Which day exactly?"

Seeing that Hua Changxi actually agreed, Lin Sheng was overjoyed: "The first day of the eleventh lunar month."

Hua Changxi: "Good, I know."

After parting with Lin Sheng, Hua Changxi left the capital and rode a cloud directly to the Lingguang Hall.

Upon arriving at the Lingguang Hall, Hua Changxi's expression fluctuated.

On the red stone square between the palace complex and the archway, there were many figures bathed in fire. These people were cultivators from all over, all wanting to obtain the cultivation techniques of the Lingguang Hall.

When Hua Changxi summoned the 'Zhu Que Army Roster' and found that there were already over seven hundred people on it, she was quite surprised.

Although the road to the Lingguang Hall was still controlled by imperial officials and soldiers, so many people had still broken through the obstacles and arrived at the Lingguang Hall.

From this, it could be seen that human subjective initiative is immeasurable!

Hua Changxi released her divine sense to scan the training hall area, and seeing that the cultivators in the training rooms were all concentrating on their cultivation, she withdrew her divine sense.

Regarding these people, she had no arrangements, nor did she know how to arrange them, so she could only let them develop on their own for the time being.

Hua Changxi entered the main hall, took out her alchemy furnace, and began to refine third-grade pills.

Although she had erased the tricks Eunuch Lin had played on the Ghost Market token, she still had to be extra careful when following the Eastern Depot people to the Ghost Market, and she definitely had to have sufficient pills prepared.

For the next few days, Hua Changxi stayed in the main hall refining pills.

During this period, in the No. 13 Qihuang Hall, Hua Shuran and the others were all somewhat irritable because Hua Changxi had only shown her face once and never appeared again.

They came to be medicine boys, firstly to investigate the secrets of the Qihuang Hall, and secondly to learn something.

But now that Hua Changxi didn't even come to the Qihuang Hall, and let Pharmacist Xu help manage everything in the hall while she acted as a hands-off proprietor with an indifferent attitude, the few people who had spent great effort to enter the No. 13 Qihuang Hall were extremely depressed.