Inside the Boudoir.
"Master, how exactly has this disciple offended you? You can just tell disciple! Isn't it going too far to disgust disciple with such foul-smelling pills?" Luo Yaoyao looked resentfully at Hua Yumei, her eyes filled with an aggrieved expression.
Three pills! Just eating three pills made Yaoyao react like this? Just how terrifying are these pills? Hua Yumei looked at the deeply wronged Luo Yaoyao, feeling terrified herself by the Marrow Cleansing Pills Ye Feng had given her.
That's right. Hua Yumei hadn't taken them immediately but had called Luo Yaoyao over first to test the waters.
Should I try too? Recalling Ye Feng's repeated urging that she must eat the full one hundred thousand, even seeing Luo Yaoyao's reaction, Hua Yumei knew she had to eat them sooner or later. Resolutely, she picked one up and put it in her mouth.
Oof!
... ...
After just a few chews, Hua Yumei immediately retched. Just as she was about to spit it out, she abruptly remembered something and forcefully swallowed it down. Two hundred thousand pills, one hundred thousand each – not a single one can be wasted!
"Master! What's wrong with you?!" Luo Yaoyao cried out, truly frantic now. "Is someone threatening you? If so, you can just blink your eyes to tell disciple! What kind of grudge, what kind of enmity requires both of us, master and disciple, to eat such disgusting pills?" Seeing Hua Yumei force one down, Luo Yaoyao was genuinely freaking out. This wasn't a punishment; something must be seriously wrong!
"Yaoyao, these pills were sent by Master," Hua Yumei explained, referring to Ye Feng. "Don't ask anything, just eat!" Saying this, Hua Yumei handed Luo Yaoyao a Space Ring containing the Marrow Cleansing Pills.
"So many! Is Grandmaster trying to mess us both up?!" Luo Yaoyao exclaimed upon seeing the contents.
Uh! Hearing this, Hua Yumei blushed slightly and quickly reprimanded, "What 'messing us up'? Master is doing this for our own good! You have one hundred thousand, I have one hundred thousand, and we must eat every single one without missing any!"
"Master, wait! Let me ask my sister first." Saying this, Luo Yaoyao took out the Sound Transmission Jade Pendant that could contact Luo Qianxue.
"Retch! Retch!""Yaoyao, what is it? Retch!"
Hearing the intermittent dry-heaving sounds coming from the other side, Luo Yaoyao didn't say a word and directly cut off the connection with the Sound Transmission Jade Pendant. She then turned to Hua Yumei, her face grim like a bitter melon, and said, "Master, let's just eat. My sister is over there dry-heaving right now!"
"Right, Master," Luo Yaoyao suddenly remembered something, "I just heard you had the disciples from the Black Demon Cult who came to purchase supplies executed. If the Black Demon Cult finds out, I'm afraid they won't let this rest!" After all, the Black Demon Cult was extremely powerful. It was no exaggeration to say that even if Ten Thousand Flowers Valley tried to exterminate the Black Demon Cult, they would suffer heavy losses and would need to Seal the Valley for at least a hundred years to recover.
"Master is currently on his way to the Black Demon Cult," Hua Yumei replied calmly. "Probably in a few days, the Black Demon Cult will completely disappear from the Xuan Tian Continent."
Stunned!
Hearing this, Luo Yaoyao froze on the spot. The Black Demon Cult, which even the Xingji Sect didn't dare provoke... her sister's disciple was actually going to exterminate them? Are you sure exterminate and not buy them?
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The next day, early morning.
Ye Feng woke up and habitually checked today's Prodigal Item.
Today's Prodigal Item: Way of Artifact Refining Comprehension Fragment x10,000!
Way of Artifact Refining Comprehension Fragment: Even if an ordinary person uses them all, their comprehension of the Way of Artifact Refining can reach an extremely high level, enabling them to forge Spirit Tools possessing low-level Artifact Spirits.
"There's this stuff too?" Ye Feng was startled seeing today's Prodigal Item. He already knew that Spirit Tools with Artifact Spirits basically didn't exist in the lower realm. Like the Nine Dragons Burning Heaven Cauldron's Cauldron Spirit – that was a type of Artifact Spirit, just an extremely high-level one.
"How can I be prodigal with this!" Thinking this, Ye Feng fell into a dilemma.
A moment later.
"Ye Feng, what troubles you?" Chu Hongshan, who was eating breakfast, noticed Ye Feng's worried expression and asked curiously.
"Elder Chu," Ye Feng asked casually upon hearing Chu Hongshan, "as a top-tier Artifact Refiner, have you always been pursuing the highest realm of the Way of Artifact Refining?"
Hahaha!
Hearing this, Chu Hongshan burst out laughing. "Indeed! My lifelong wish was once to personally forge a Heaven-rank Furnace Cauldron. But now, I've seen the light."
"Pursue what Way of Artifact Refining? Enough is enough," he said dismissively. Recalling Ye Feng using a Heaven-rank Furnace Cauldron as a Latrine Pit container, recalling Leng Wufeng using one as a Water Vat, Chu Hongshan's face twitched as he continued,
"All my life, I constantly pursued a higher Way of Artifact Refining, but now I feel tired. Even if an Artifact Refining Secret Codex capable of forging Artifact Spirits were placed before me, I wouldn't even glance at it! I'd tell it to get lost, as far away as possible!"
The pinnacle achievement of artifact refining was absolutely the lifelong glory of an Artifact Refiner. Chu Hongshan would rather fail to forge it than tolerate that glory being defiled!
Wait! Why is this kid suddenly smiling at me? Just then, Chu Hongshan noticed the clouds of worry on Ye Feng's face instantly disperse like mist, replaced by a smile as bright as spring flowers blooming. Yet, that look in his eyes made him extremely uneasy!
"Elder Chu, come with me to the Guest Room for a moment," Ye Feng said, standing up directly and heading towards the stairs.
What should I do? Go or not? I feel so panicked! What is this brat planning now?! After struggling for a moment, Chu Hongshan gritted his teeth and headed upstairs. What is fated will happen!
"Way of Artifact Refining Comprehension Fragment!" Upon entering the Guest Room, Chu Hongshan sensed the aura emanating from a single fragment Ye Feng took out and exclaimed in shock, his expression drastically changing!
Hooo! Taking a deep breath, Chu Hongshan looked at Ye Feng and said, "Ye Feng, I no longer have the conviction to pursue the supreme Way of Artifact Refining. Giving this thing to me would be a waste. It's better left for someone destined for it."
Some things, once abandoned, were very difficult to pick up again. Chu Hongshan knew this very well. Not to mention, this was a Way of Artifact Refining Comprehension Fragment! Even in the Heavenly Dao Battlefield, they appeared extremely rarely. In fact, in his decades of venturing into the Heavenly Dao Battlefield, he had only luckily obtained two.
Waste? You might see it as waste, but in my eyes, it's just being prodigal!
"You are the destined person I perceive!" Ye Feng declared. "If you hadn't discarded your conviction to pursue the supreme Way of Artifact Refining, I wouldn't give it to you!"
???
Hearing Ye Feng's words, Chu Hongshan was utterly bewildered.
"Giving it to me is fundamentally a waste! This isn't being prodigal..." Halfway through his sentence, Chu Hongshan suddenly realized. So, you're being prodigal with me?
"Only one fragment? This prodigal son is finally poor for once," Chu Hongshan thought. Just as he was preparing to agree, he saw Ye Feng start taking out handful after handful of Way of Artifact Refining Comprehension Fragments and placing them on the table.
"These are ten thousand Way of Artifact Refining Comprehension Fragments. As long as you absorb them all, your Way of Artifact Refining will reach a pinnacle. At that time, you might even be able to forge Spirit Tools possessing low-level Artifact Spirits," Ye Feng explained. "From now on, the task of making our sect's pots, bowls, ladles, basins, kitchen knives, hoes, and so on, will be entrusted to Elder Chu. You must ensure that all items possess Artifact Spirits!"
Hearing Ye Feng's words, Chu Hongshan lost his mind!