Chapter 356: Yin Yi Yi Lu Na and the Elixir of Life

Turning to look outside from the window, at the back of the crowd, the two indeed saw Yin Yi Yi Lu Na, whom they hadn't seen for over a week.

Everyone in her Ringed Shushi squad had come to the station to pick her up. The men helped carry the luggage, while the brown-haired girl smiled and chatted with the lady beside her whose lips were painted purple.

"She's back."

Having not seen her for over a week, apart from the fatigue brought by the journey, Yin Yi Yi Lu Na didn't look much different.

Xia De and Luweiya sat in the restaurant without moving, waiting for a full twenty minutes before seeing Yin Yi Yi Lu Na hurriedly walking along the street.

The two also walked out of the restaurant to meet her:

"Oh, I'm back!"

She was only seventeen after all; although she had experienced many things, she still looked immature.

Right on the street, Yin Yi Yi Lu Na first gave Luweiya a very enthusiastic hug, then looked at Xia De with a bright smile:

"Good morning, Xia De, how have you been lately?"

The smile on her face was even brighter than this foggy morning.

Xia De would have liked to say that he had been very leisurely lately, with high income and not much to do. But whether it was the exam week a week ago or the Coldwater Port mermaids recently, Xia De couldn't bring himself to say such things.

"Did you encounter anything while I was away?"

The young girl said with a smile, her expression quite understanding:

"Things will always be waiting for us, but we can solve them together. Xia De, Luweiya, now that I'm back, leave everything to me!"

Not knowing what she had encountered at the Holy See, Yin Yi Yi Lu Na was quite confident:

"I obtained more information and secrets from the identity of the Chosen One; some things I didn't even tell the Holy See. But there's no time today; I have to go to the church to report back and handle some delayed work. How about we see each other tomorrow?"

"No problem."

Xia De and Luweiya both said, so Yin Yi Yi Lu Na took two items out of her pocket and handed them to the two:

"Travel souvenirs."

The purple-eyed fortune teller received a bookmark made of leaf specimens, nine in total, each a different leaf.

As for Xia De, he received a book. On the cover of the book, some cats playing with a ball of yarn were printed in ink. The title of the book was "Limt's Cat Care Guide." Opening the table of contents, he indeed found the content about bathing a cat in the third chapter.

Xia De smiled:

"A very good gift, I just needed this!"

The three didn't stand on the street for too long because Yin Yi Yi Lu Na was in a hurry to return to the church to report back, so they soon parted ways. They agreed to meet at Xia De's house tomorrow morning to exchange information.

Luweiya also had work at the Prophecy Association, so she didn't stay long either. After Xia De parted with the two girls, he returned directly to St. Deran Square.

He had an appointment with Priest Ao Gu Si to meet at ten o'clock this morning, but it was not even nine o'clock when Xia De returned home, and the priest was already standing at the entrance of No. 6 St. Deran Square.

On Thursday morning, on the misty square, there were scattered vendors selling spices and small accessories. On the side far from Xia De's house, there was also a group of citizens watching two middle-aged gentlemen in formal wear demonstrating their major invention, the "Color Bubble Maker based on the Third-Generation Civil Steam Engine Principle."

The square was still clean, and not much trash could be seen. The newspaper-selling boy, in the gaps between calling out, would stand by the fountain in the center of the square, watching the pigeons walking lazily back and forth.

This was a very ordinary Thursday. The priest standing at Xia De's door, after the carriage carrying Xia De stopped, almost grabbed the young detective who was lowering his head as he walked out of the carriage.

"Wait, Priest, I haven't paid the carriage driver yet!"

The old priest pulled Xia De, wanting to talk about something, but still waited for him to pay the fare first. The priest was holding a paper bag, and his sweating appearance made him look very hot, but because it rained yesterday, the temperature was clearly not very high.

"Priest, let's go inside to talk. What happened to you?"

The old man looked like he had encountered some major accident, panting heavily and not saying a word. Xia De, who followed closely with the key to open the door, entered the house, slammed the door shut with a "Bang~," and then grabbed his wrist, eyes wide:

"That potion! The potion you asked me to help you identify on Tuesday, where did you get it?"

"Meow~"

The sound of Miya running down could already be heard upstairs. Xia De didn't react at first, but when he saw the priest take the liquid with a purple luster out of the paper bag containing the Prayer Festival souvenirs, he realized it was the one he had gotten from the Fishbone Pirate Ship.

"Won it playing Luo De cards with someone at a tavern not long ago..."

This counted as the most reasonable answer that wouldn't arouse suspicion. Of course, Xia De didn't forget to add:

"... It's not that I wanted to gamble, it's that the other party insisted on gambling with my special cards. His stake was this bottle of potion, but the other party only knew it was related to the Elixir of Life..."

Putting the key in his pocket into the cookie box on the shoe cabinet, Xia De bent down to pick up the cat that had already run downstairs, then signaled the priest to follow him upstairs:

"Priest, is there a problem with that potion?"

Because the Spirit Rune 【Greed】 and those ten coins were too important, Xia De hadn't paid much attention to that bottle of potion. Now seeing the priest's attitude, he realized that the potion the captain took out of his stomach during the second round of gambling was also not an ordinary thing.

Actually, thinking about it carefully, if it were an ordinary thing, it couldn't have been preserved with his own body.

"This is the Potion - Mermaid's Elixir of Life!"

On the stairs, the priest lowered his voice and said, eyes wide as he looked at Xia De. But there was no second person in the house, so lowering his voice was completely unnecessary.

"I know it's the Elixir of Life."

Xia De nodded:

"Isn't that the name I told you?"

"Oh, Xia De, your first-year course 'Basic Potionology' didn't cover this kind of thing, but this is the real Elixir of Life. No one in the Sixth Era can make this thing. Even in the Fifth Era, this was something only the most powerful witches could obtain from alien mermaids as a tribute. In other words, this is a precious potion that only figures at the Witch Emperor level could use."

Xia De turned slightly to look at the old priest. The priest shook the potion in his hand, the purple liquid sloshing slightly inside:

"This is a true master-level potion; even a 13th-ring Shushi couldn't make it. And do you know what the most precious point of this bottle of potion is?"

Priest Ao Gu Si asked. Xia De hesitated for a moment, holding the cat and answering:

"It... hasn't expired?"

"Yes! This bottle of potion actually hasn't expired! Oh, Mr. Dawn, this is simply a miracle! Could it be that someone in the Sixth Era can still formulate this thing? Or was this bottle of potion preserved in a special way?"

The priest became more excited as he spoke. The two had already arrived on the second floor. After pushing the door open, Xia De put down the cat and prepared to hang up his coat:

"Priest, then is it possible to use this bottle of potion to rediscover the lost potion formulation technology?" ===== CHAPTER 357 =====