Qingshan Town.
An ordinary town close to the Magical Beast Mountain Range, mainly relying on hunting Demonic Beasts to maintain its operation.
Wan Yao Pharmacy, one of the four largest forces in Qingshan Town, like the three major mercenary groups in the town, all had Dou Master powerhouses holding down the fort.
Wan Yao Pharmacy started by selling medicinal products.
Not only did it have no conflict with the three major mercenary groups, but on the contrary, it had a good relationship with them, and its status in the entire Qingshan Town was vaguely transcendent.
However, today, Mr.
Yao, the owner of Wan Yao Pharmacy, was humbly receiving a young boy at this moment.
“Young Master Xiao, these are all the huanglian essence of our Wan Yao Pharmacy, feel free to take them away!” Mr.
Yao said with utmost enthusiasm.
Xiao Yan nodded indifferently, his gaze sweeping over all the huanglian essence in the warehouse of Wan Yao Pharmacy, a hint of disappointment appearing in his eyes.
Suddenly, he thought of something and said to Mr.
Yao: “This isn’t all the huanglian essence, right?
Weren’t the ones placed in the display case not brought over?”
Mr.
Yao was stunned, then said: “Oh dear, it’s my fault.
Young Master Xiao, you wanted all the huanglian essence.
How could I forget the ones in the display case?
I’ll have someone send them over right now.”
After finishing, Mr.
Yao shouted outside: “Someone come, go and get all the huanglian essence in the display case for Young Master Xiao!”
Mr.
Yao’s words were very authoritative.
As soon as the words left his mouth, everyone started to move.
After a short while, three figures came to the warehouse holding some huanglian essence separately.
The three figures were two men and a woman.
Needless to say about the two men, they were wearing the yellowish-brown clerk uniforms of Wan Yao Pharmacy.
That young girl made Xiao Yan unable to help taking a few extra glances.
The girl’s appearance was slightly inferior to Xiao Xun Er, wearing a simple white skirt, her temperament was elegant and ethereal, with a polite light smile on her face, and her eyebrows curved.
Most worth mentioning was still her soft and slender willow waist, making people unable to help wanting to embrace her into their arms, adding a lot of charm to her.
Xiao Yan staring at her naturally wasn’t because of beauty.
In the Xiao Family, Xiao Mei and Xiao Yu were beauties not inferior to Xiao Yi Xian before the Awakening of the Calamity Poison Body.
But…
the girl was Xiao Yi Xian!
The owner of the Calamity Poison Body, the biggest escort for Xiao Yan in the Middle Stage of the original work.
Now actually seeing her, his heart inevitably fluctuated somewhat.
Seeing Xiao Yan staring at Xiao Yi Xian, Mr.
Yao rolled his eyes and smiled mischievously: “Young Master Xiao, this is Xiao Yi Xian, she is the most powerful physician of our Wan Yao Pharmacy, and she is the goddess of almost all mercenaries in town.”
Xiao Yi Xian shyly stroked her hair and nodded towards Xiao Yan: “Hello, my name is Xiao Yi Xian.”
Xiao Yan returned the greeting: “Hello, my name is Xiao Yan.”
After speaking, Xiao Yan no longer looked at Xiao Yi Xian, and began to observe the huanglian essence just brought over.
When he saw a certain piece, joy appeared in his eyes.
That was precisely a piece of blood lotus essence!
One of the main ingredients for refining a Tier 5 blood lotus pill!
Seeing Xiao Yan no longer looking at Xiao Yi Xian, Mr.
Yao was slightly disappointed, but seeing the brilliance appearing in Xiao Yan’s eyes, joy immediately spread across his brows: “Young Master Xiao, do you fancy all these huanglian essence?”
“Mn, they are all pretty good.”
“Then look, what you promised earlier…” Mr.
Yao stopped talking mid-sentence.
Xiao Yan raised his head and glanced, not to the point of reneging on a debt, casually took out a Tier 2 Medicinal Pill from the storage ring, and threw it to Mr.
Yao.
Mr.
Yao was startled, hurriedly and carefully caught the Medicinal Pill, and breathed a sigh of relief.
He carefully examined the Medicinal Pill, smelling a strange fragrance, its color and luster were round and smooth, truly a top-grade Tier 2 Medicinal Pill.
Exchanging a pile of huanglian essence for a Tier 2 Medicinal Pill, he simply made a huge profit.
Of course, if he knew there was a blood lotus essence among these huanglian essence, his intestines would surely turn green with regret.
The current result was best; both Xiao Yan and he felt they had made a profit.
“Mr.
Yao, what is the identity of this Young Master Xiao?” Xiao Yi Xian asked Mr.
Yao curiously.
Mr.
Yao replied in a low voice: “Acting so generously, directly paying with Tier 1 or Tier 2 Medicinal Pills, either he is an Alchemist himself, or he is a scion of a big Family out for experience.”
“I guess it’s the latter.
Being so young, how could he possibly be an Alchemist.”
Xiao Yi Xian nodded, thoughtful.
Xiao Yan put away all the huanglian essence, among which was the piece of blood lotus essence mistaken for huanglian essence.
Not staying long in Wan Yao Pharmacy, he turned around and left.
After walking a distance out of Wan Yao Pharmacy, he suddenly heard a call coming from behind.
“Young Master Xiao, please stay!”
Xiao Yan came to his senses, discovered that Xiao Yi Xian had chased after him, stopped his steps and said: “What is it?”
Xiao Yi Xian said: “Sorry Young Master Xiao, I just wanted to ask, are you an Alchemist?”
Hearing these words, Xiao Yan understood in an instant.
Although Xiao Yi Xian was of the Calamity Poison Body, a natural material for a poison master, in her bones she yearned extremely for alchemy.
Therefore…
“That’s right, I just became an Alchemist a year ago.” Xiao Yan said generously.
Xiao Yi Xian’s eyes lit up, and she immediately pressed further: “Young Master Xiao, to tell you the truth, my dream is to become an Alchemist.
Could you please tell me some information about Alchemists?
Or even teach me some alchemy techniques.”
Seeming to feel that her words were a bit shameless, Xiao Yi Xian hurriedly added: “Young Master Xiao, rest assured, I won’t take advantage of you for free.
Some time ago, when I went out to gather herbs, I discovered a hidden cave on the outskirts of the Magical Beast Mountain Range.”
“I am willing to tell you the location of the cave.
If there is an Opportunity inside, you can teach me alchemy techniques after you gain something.”
Xiao Yi Xian looked at Xiao Yan eagerly.
Xiao Yan remembered that cave in the original work and immediately nodded: “Of course you can, but wanting to become an Alchemist has overly harsh requirements.
You probably don’t meet them, and learning alchemy techniques would also be useless, so you need to mentally prepare yourself.”
Xiao Yi Xian nodded: “Even without that talent, I still want to try, at least to have no regrets.”
Xiao Yan didn’t say much more.
He didn’t plan to miss the Flight Dou Technique and the remnant map of the Purification Lotus Demon Flame.
Especially the Flight Dou Technique.
Most of his current strength came from his Physical Body, and his cultivation base wasn’t very high.
As a result, flying ability would be his weakness.
Once he had the Flight Dou Technique, this weakness would no longer exist.
Therefore, since Xiao Yi Xian had considered everything clearly, he didn’t need to persuade her anymore.
Xiao Yan said: “You and I will each go back to tidy up, and set off tomorrow?”
Xiao Yi Xian’s eyes shone: “Yes, I’ll go back to prepare right now, goodbye Young Master Xiao!”
After finishing, Xiao Yi Xian happily left.
Xiao Yan didn’t stay long either, intending to find an inn to stay for the night.
However, not long after walking, five figures surrounded him.
“Kid, Xiao Yi Xian is the person our young head likes.
You’d better stay away from her, otherwise don’t blame us for being impolite!” A male mercenary of about forty-something years old said.
Xiao Yan originally wanted to say, “I’d like to see how you can be impolite”, but pulled the words back when they reached his lips.
Saying that, he still felt it was too cheesy.
“Sigh, it seems I’m not very good at talking.” Xiao Yan sighed, then clenched his fists tight.
“Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang!”
Five punches slammed out rapidly in succession.
Before the five mercenaries could even say another sentence, they had all flown backward and fallen into unconsciousness.
With Xiao Yan’s Physical Body strength comparable to a Tier 4 Magical Beast, not beating the five people into bloody mist was already showing mercy.
However, he only gave a chance once.
He had already displayed his strength.
If they still lacked eyes to find trouble with him, he wouldn’t mind making a fatal move.
Of course, slaughtering a mercenary group along the way wouldn’t be impossible either.
Cutting weeds requires eradicating the roots after all.
(End of Chapter)