The pink-robed maidservant declared righteously, “Yes! The Feng Family originally belonged to master. You brought this upon yourself—you were born a good-for-nothing!”
Feng Wu frowned and stepped forward, wanting to shield Feng Luan behind him in case anything happened.
Feng Luan raised her head and stopped him, smiling lightly. “Not good enough? Born a good-for-nothing? Then I’ll show you exactly what a good-for-nothing is.”
Before Feng Luan could even make a move, a fat little sparrow flew over aggressively and viciously pecked at the pink-robed maidservant’s face.
“Where did this stinking sparrow come from? Get out of my way!” The maidservant reached out to swat the sparrow, but missed and slapped Bi Yan across the face instead, producing a loud smack.
Bi Yan took the slap head-on, her eyes blazing as she glared at the Chubby Chirper that wiggled its butt and flew around provocatively.
Ye Chi circled back and forth among the maidservants, his sharp beak carrying spiritual power as it pecked their faces, hair, and clothes. The neatly dressed maidservants now looked as though they had rummaged through a pile of rags, their garments tattered and worn.
“Ahhh! My face is bleeding!”
One maidservant tightly clutched her slipping clothes, panic-stricken. “My clothes! My clothes!”
If Ye Chi had not cared about his reputation, he probably would have taken a dump on them.
“Ahhhhhh! Stinking sparrow, I’ll kill you!”
“Catch it!”
In an instant, the courtyard descended into utter chaos.
Feng Luan stood beside Feng Wu, the two of them expressionlessly watching the maidservants being toyed with by Ye Chi and spinning around in confusion.
Ye Chi seemed to have had enough fun. He fixed his gaze on the pink-robed maidservant and delivered one final attack, pecking her directly in the eye before turning around and flying back to perch on Lin Yu.
The pink-robed maidservant immediately let out a shriek.
“Ahhhhhhh—”
Feng Luan watched the farce before her, the corners of her lips curling upward.
“Feng Luan, I will definitely make you regret what happened today!” Bi Yan supported the pink-robed maidservant while glaring at Feng Luan with venomous eyes.
Feng Luan smiled lazily. “Regret? Who do you think you are? You’re nothing more than a maidservant under Feng Qingqing.”
“Are you even worthy of addressing me by name, you toady who relies on your master’s power?”
“Go back and tell Feng Cheng that if he wants to see me, he can come and invite me personally. If anyone else comes, I’ll beat them every time I see them.”
Bi Yan issued a vicious threat. “Fine. Don’t come crawling on your knees and begging us to spare you later. Let’s go.”
They had arrived in a grand and imposing manner, but now they slunk away in disgrace, utterly humiliating themselves.
After Bi Yan and the others left, Feng Luan called out softly.
“Ye Chi.”
Ye Chi, who was grooming his feathers, jolted all over. He suddenly remembered the three conditions he had agreed to with Feng Luan when he left the token.
“Come here.”
Ye Chi flew over, flapping his wings dejectedly. With his little head lowered, he looked somewhat aggrieved.
“What do you think you’re doing....”
Ye Chi sighed. “I just couldn’t stand watching them bully you, so I stepped in..”
Feng Luan found it somewhat amusing. “I never said I was going to punish you.”
Only then did Ye Chi relax.
“You scared me to death. I thought you were going to lock me back inside the Phoenix Token.”
Feng Wu stood beside Feng Luan without saying a word. His deep eyes were as still as an ancient well. If Xuan Yi had been here, he definitely would have understood that expression: someone was about to suffer.
Feng Luan raised her brows. “I’m going out for a while.” She turned toward a secluded corner. “Lin Yu, do you want to come with me?”
Lin Yu walked out, the fur along his back flattened because of Ye Chi.
Feng Wu said, “I’m going too.”
Feng Luan cast him a sidelong glance, sizing him up. “You’re going too?”
Feng Wu nodded. “I can protect you.”
The words were indeed rather touching, but Feng Luan had never been swayed by such things. After all, in her Past Life, even her father had been capable of ruthlessly hunting down his own daughter. Her heart had long since become ice-cold.
Ye Chi swayed his little head. “What are you going out to do?”
Feng Luan answered honestly, “To buy some medicinal herbs...”
Wait, she seemed to have run out of money. She had no way to buy medicinal herbs anymore.
If only she had known, she would have made Ye Chi snatch a few bags of spirit stones from those maidservants just now. At present, Feng Luan was the very definition of penniless.
Ye Chi asked in confusion, “Aren’t there plenty of medicinal herbs in the Token Space?”
Hearing this, Feng Luan furrowed her brows slightly.
Feng Wu instinctively tried to retreat, but Feng Luan grabbed him. He lowered his eyes to look at Feng Luan’s slender hand.
“There’s no need to leave. Since you can help me with my cultivation, you naturally know about the token’s existence.”
“Besides, the token has already formed a contract with me. Even if I were killed, the token would not appear. It would only follow my soul into reincarnation.”
Ye Chi had said this to her when they were in the first-floor library pavilion.
Feng Luan looked at the lazy Chubby Chirpy sprawled on Lin Yu’s back and asked, “Did you just say there are medicinal herbs within the token?”
Ye Chi answered, “Yes! There are still most ordinary medicinal materials, just like the weeds outside—they’re everywhere.”
It could be said that it was extraordinarily extravagant.
He actually compared weeds to medicinal materials.
Feng Luan nodded. “That’s good, then.”
She then turned to Feng Wu and said, “Set up a barrier. Don’t let anyone disturb me.”
Then she lowered her eyes toward Lin Yu. “Are you willing to enter the Token Space? The spiritual power there is ten times denser than outside, making it suitable for cultivation.”
Lin Yu was naturally very willing. He nodded.
Feng Luan waved her hand, and the small Silver Wolf disappeared along with the fat little sparrow.
Ye Chi: “!!!!”
Ye Chi: “Why did you lock me in here too!”
“If you have the ability to lock me in here, then you’d better have the ability to let me out!”
Feng Luan smiled lightly. “Stay in there. Lin Yu will keep you company. You can come out later.”
Ye Chi knew Feng Luan had important matters to attend to, so he did not continue asking to leave and obediently stayed within the token.
Feng Luan raised her eyes. “Then you’ll stay here?”
Feng Wu nodded. “All right.”
Feng Luan knew that Feng Wu’s cultivation realm was very high. Even if he went a month without closing his eyes to sleep, it would not matter. Once she reclaimed what belonged to her, she would arrange a place for Feng Wu to stay.
After returning to her room.
Feng Luan raised her hand and waved lightly. The medicinal materials Ye Chi and Lin Yu had gathered appeared on the tabletop. The dark green medicinal materials still glimmered with light; compared to ordinary medicinal materials, those within the token were of much better quality.
Although she had not been an alchemist before, she could still recognize medicinal materials.
Every single Medicinal Material here was at least ten years old.
Feng Luan took out the alchemy formula. The pills she was about to Refine were an elementary foundational type: the Marrow-Cleansing Pill.
For an ordinary human, the Marrow-Cleansing Pill was a miraculous medicine. It was the threshold for an ordinary human to become a cultivator; for a cultivator, it washed the marrow and tempered the bones, expelled impurities from the body, purified spiritual power, and reinforced cultivation.
Feng Luan raised her right hand, and an ancient yet mysterious alchemy furnace floated in the air. It grew from small to large until it was about the size of the table.
The process of alchemy was largely the same as talisman crafting.
Her spiritual power was vast and boundless. As long as she did not make a mistake in the steps and controlled her spiritual power properly, refining pills was exceedingly simple.
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