Fox Demon: The villain at the beginning

Chapter 456 Old acquaintance

Jin Renfeng looked around and then led the group into a side path.

"Senior Brother, where are we going this time?"

Nalan Yanran asked curiously.

They originally thought that once they left the market, they would head home.

But judging from the direction my senior brother went, it was clearly different from the Xiao family's.

"I'll take you to meet an old acquaintance!"

Jin Renfeng smiled slightly.

"Old acquaintance?"

Nalan Yanran was somewhat puzzled.

In this remote and impoverished place of Wutan, where could one possibly know anyone?
Led by Jin Renfeng, the four of them walked to the end of the street.

Looking at the massive venue at the far end, Nalan Yanran couldn't help but feel somewhat astonished.

"Mittel Auction House?"

. . . . . . . .

Inside the magnificent waiting room!

"What wind blew you two geniuses here today?"

A voluptuous woman in a red dress came out to greet them. Her slender waist swayed, and her full, shapely figure, barely concealed beneath the red dress, was incredibly alluring.

"Didn't I come to see you?"

Upon seeing the woman's voluptuous figure, Jin Renfeng's gaze involuntarily drifted downwards.

"I never knew I had such a great reputation. I am truly honored!"

The alluring woman clasped her hands together, her beautiful eyes slightly narrowed, feigning a flattered expression.

"Miss Ya Fei? So the acquaintance Senior Brother was talking about is you!"

Upon seeing the visitor, Nalan Yanran's face lit up with surprise and delight.

The three of them belonged to powerful families in the capital and were very familiar with each other.

She was naturally delighted to meet an old acquaintance in a foreign land.

"Aren't you working in the capital? What are you doing in Wutan City?"

"There's no other way; it's a family training mission, and I was assigned here!"

The three took their seats in turn, and a hint of helplessness appeared on Ya Fei's charming face.

"Are you sure it's not that guy Mu Zhan hiding?"

Jin Renfeng asked jokingly.

"You already know, why are you asking!"

Ya Fei rolled her eyes at the boy, annoyed.

"That madman is absolutely lawless! He harasses me all day long!"

"I was so annoyed by him that I came here to find some peace and quiet!"

Seeing Ya Fei's reaction, Jin Renfeng couldn't help but smile slightly.

"Speaking of which, what about you guys?"

"How did you two end up in Wutan City?"

Yafei's beautiful eyes fell on the two of them.

"We also have some personal matters to take care of!"

Jin Renfeng made an excuse.

Now that the matter of annulment has been resolved, he can't publicize it too much.

"If I'm not mistaken, you're here because of Yanran's engagement?"

A slight smile appeared on Ya Fei's face.

"You could guess that?"

Jin Renfeng was somewhat surprised.

“Back when I was in the capital, I knew you would have to come.”

Ya Fei gave a soft hum.

"Given your personality, can you tolerate Yanran getting involved with other people?"

Jin Renfeng gave an awkward laugh.

I never imagined that this woman could touch me so clearly when I had lost my memory.

How is it going?

"Fortunately!"

Jin Renfeng waved his hand.
"Three years later, let Yanran fight Xiao Yan, and the problem will be solved."

"If they were to fight, would Xiao Yan have the ability to match Yan Ran?"

Ya Fei was somewhat surprised. Having been here for several months, he had already heard about the reputation of the Xiao family's good-for-nothing young master.

"In order to get Xiao Yan to agree to the bet, the senior brother cured him of his illness."

Nalan Yanran said.

"That's right!"

"If Xiao Yan could recover his talent, it wouldn't be impossible for him to fight Yanran."

Ya Fei smiled slightly, her alluring gaze falling on the young man.

"But he truly deserves to be called the most talented alchemist in the Gama Empire, even curing such a serious illness with ease."

"It's just good luck!"

Jin Renfeng chuckled.

In the end, he didn't do anything special; he just arranged things according to the original route.

"It's a kind of fate that we meet an old friend in a foreign land."

Ya Fei leaned forward, her red lips slightly parted, revealing her alluring curves.

"Shouldn't you, this genius alchemist, do my sister a favor?"

"help?"

Jin Renfeng smiled slightly.
"I wonder what favor Miss Yafei would like me to do?"

"My sister is currently completing the training mission assigned by the family."

"We need a large number of orders to boost our performance."

"But as you know, Wutan City is one of the lowest-ranking cities in the Gama Empire."

"There are simply no good products to sell here, and the auction turnover has never been able to increase."

Ya Fei lowered her eyes and said pitifully,

"With the family's performance evaluation date fast approaching, I'm still far from meeting my target."

"Now that you're here, all I can do is hope you can help me achieve some sales targets."

"Performance? I'm penniless, where would I get that much money?"

Jin Renfeng shook his head.

"Stop it!"

Ya Fei's expression turned serious, and she rolled her eyes.
"Who doesn't know that you alchemists are the richest people!"

"Even just refining a few pills can bring in huge amounts of gold coins."

"So Miss Yafei was after my alchemy skills!"

Jin Renfeng understood.

"Sister, don't take too much!"

Ya Fei waved her hand.

"Thirty or forty of those Grade-Three pills for healing and curing diseases would be enough!"

"Thirty or forty grade-three pills!"

Jin Renfeng was speechless.

"Well, so you're planning to make me do all the hard labor!"

"My sister really had no other choice!"

Yafei put on a pitiful act again and said in a coquettish tone,

"If the family performance evaluation fails, my sister will have to stay in Wutan City indefinitely. Can you really bear to let her stay in this poor, remote place?"

Jin Renfeng rolled his eyes.

He was well aware of this performance evaluation.

The Mittel family's performance evaluations are always conducted once a year, and always at the end of the year.

It's only the beginning of the year, and there's still a long way to go before the next evaluation! Where does the pressure to meet performance come from?
This vixen is clearly just putting on an act! Shaking his head, Jin Renfeng was about to refuse.

"Senior brother, since Miss Yafei is in trouble now, let's lend her a hand!"

Seeing how pitiful Ya Fei was, Yan Ran looked at her with sympathy and said to Jin Renfeng in a sincere tone.

Well! He wasn't fooled, but his junior sister was!
Jin Renfeng looked at Ya Fei with a helpless expression and said,

"I can help, but what can you offer in return?"

"I can't just help you for nothing!"

"How about I compensate you with myself?"

Ya Fei's rosy lips pouted slightly, her waist straightened, and her full breasts bounced.

"Perfect! I'm just missing a concubine to warm my bed!"

Jin Renfeng said calmly, reaching out to embrace Ya Fei's slender waist.

"You really want it!"

Ya Fei took a light breath and slapped the boy's arm away.

"Is Yanran still here? Aren't you afraid she'll get jealous?"

"This is the Dou Qi Continent!"

Jin Renfeng said with a joking smile.

"It's perfectly normal for a strong man to have three wives and four concubines."

"Besides, you're just a concubine, you don't compete with Yanran."

"You little rascal, you haven't even grown all your hair yet, and you've already learned to be a womanizer!"

Ya Fei gritted her teeth and said irritably.

"Men are all the same, just like everyone else!"

"So, do you still want the goods or not?"

Jin Renfeng, the old god, is always present.

"want!"

"Ya Fei said fiercely."

Regardless of what happens next, even if I'm dragged into bed, I have to get the benefits first.

. . . . . . . .

Evening! A spacious, quiet room!
Jin Renfeng gently stroked the storage ring, and a medicine cauldron about half a meter in size landed out of thin air on the stone floor.

The medicine cauldron is dark red all over, and it shimmers with a crimson light. On the belly of the cauldron, there are also many patterns of weapons, which makes it look very extraordinary.

In the world of alchemy, a good cauldron is of great help to an alchemist. It can significantly increase the success rate when refining elixirs.

Jin Renfeng was not careless in this regard either.

The medicine cauldron he used was called the Crimson Blood Cauldron.

It is a fifth-order medicine cauldron treasured in the Yunlan Sect's treasury.

Even in the capital of Gama, such a vessel would be a rare treasure that would cause even fourth-grade alchemists to fight tooth and nail for it.

Once everything was ready, Jin Renfeng placed his hand over the fire.

The fighting spirit within his body swirls, and wisps of fighting spirit burst forth from his palms, surging into the medicine cauldron.

A muffled thud sounded, and the airflow transformed into a deep yellow, solid battle aura after passing through the crater.

"It's a pity there's no beast fire to keep you warm!"

"Otherwise, there would be no need to rely on the cauldron."

Jin Renfeng withdrew his hand and murmured.

Before reaching the level of Dou Ling, alchemists cannot generate Dou Qi into Dou Fire; they can only do so by using a cauldron to transform it.

Jin Renfeng is currently only at the peak of the Dou Shi realm, and there are still two major stages to go before reaching the Dou Ling realm, so he naturally needs the assistance of the medicine cauldron.

This made him, who was used to handling fire himself, feel somewhat uncomfortable.

After summoning the flames, Jin Renfeng flicked his finger on the storage ring, and medicinal herbs immediately flew out from it.

"Four fifty-year-old Ink-leaf Lotus plants, two mature Snake Saliva Fruits, a Spirit Gathering Grass of about twenty years old, and a level-two water-attribute magic core..."

"The medicinal herbs are all ready!"

Jin Renfeng took stock of the types of medicinal herbs.

Although he didn't intend to do hard labor for Ya Fei, he felt he had to lend a hand now that she was in trouble.

However, it's impossible to work yourself to death refining a third-grade pill.

His goal was to refine a fourth-grade elixir called Qi Gathering Powder.

The Qi Gathering Powder was the same pill that Deacon Ge Ye took out when the engagement was called off.

It can allow a person to advance from the Qi of Battle stage to the Battle Master stage with a 100% success rate.

Among pills of the same grade, this type that can enhance strength is the most practical, and therefore the most expensive.

It's perfect for generating revenue.

Jin Renfeng is now a peak third-grade alchemist. If he wants to break through to the fourth grade, he naturally needs to refine fourth-grade pills.

Among the fourth-grade pills, the Qi Gathering Powder is the most expensive and the easiest to obtain.

This is best suited to his current situation.

Having made up his mind, Jin Renfeng unleashed a surge of powerful soul energy from between his brows like a tsunami, directly into the medicine cauldron.

His soul power is very strong, after all, it is a powerful soul brought about by the dual cultivation of body and soul in his previous life.

In terms of soul power alone, even the sixth-grade alchemist, Pill King Gu He, is far inferior to him.

Because of his amnesia, he was worried about revealing his abnormality, so he deliberately concealed his soul problem. That's why no one discovered it.

Under the control of the soul's power, the flames were precisely maintained at a stable temperature.

Sensing that the flames were steady, Jin Renfeng picked up a black lotus and gently tossed it into the flames.

The black lotus leaf, having just come into contact with the fighting fire, was quickly burned into a ball of inky black liquid, slowly rolling within the flames and reflecting a faint glow.

Jin Renfeng was completely focused on controlling the temperature of the flame in his palm. At this moment, if the temperature were even slightly higher, the ball of black liquid would be burned into nothingness.

Fortunately, he was an expert in playing with fire and was extremely familiar with controlling flames.

This level of fire control in alchemy was not a problem for him at all.

After the flame temperature was maintained at a certain limit, a little bit of yellow impurity suddenly appeared in the black liquid.

Jin Renfeng mobilized his soul power, and a small clump of inky black liquid containing yellow impurities was expelled from his main body.

This is a crucial moment for purifying medicinal materials. If it is not done well, the medicinal efficacy will be greatly reduced, or the pill will be ruined and become a waste pill.

Therefore, there is no room for carelessness.

After getting rid of the yellow impurity, some small, light yellow impurities appeared one after another, and he cleaned them all up without exception.

As the flames continued to burn, the jet-black liquid, which was originally half the size of a fist, shrank to the size of a thumb.

The deep black liquid churned slowly in the flames, like a black pearl, mysterious and profound.

After burning the first black lotus to the size of a thumb, Jin Renfeng put the other four into it and refined them all into four pure liquids that looked like black pearls.

The five small liquids gradually merged, and after merging, their volume expanded considerably. However, this phenomenon only lasted for a moment before they shrank back to their original size.

Sensing the right temperature, Jin Renfeng quickly grabbed the snake saliva fruit from the table and threw it into the flames.

As soon as the snake saliva fruit entered the flames, it turned into a ball of emerald green liquid emitting wisps of cold air. After quickly removing the impurities from this emerald green liquid, Jin Renfeng carefully and slowly covered it with the jet-black liquid that was flaming all over.

"Squeak..."

When two liquids with different properties come into contact, a series of strange sounds immediately occur.

Just when Jin Renfeng thought everything was going smoothly, suddenly, with a bang, the liquid medicine exploded.

Hot droplets scattered and splashed everywhere, like sharp swords, across the house.

The power of his soul transformed into a protective barrier, shielding him. Only then did the scorching droplet fall to the ground.

"Failed!"

Jin Renfeng sighed.

He had used too little of his soul power, which gave the medicine the opportunity to break through the seal.

Let's start over!

Medicine making is an extremely precise process; if you make a mistake, you have to start all over again.

Therefore, it consumes a great deal of mental energy, fighting spirit, and materials.

After cleaning up all the droplets in the room, Jin Renfeng released four Ink Leaf Lotuses and one Snake Saliva Fruit from his storage ring.

With the experience from last time, the medicine making went extremely smoothly this time.

The medicinal liquid quickly formed a nascent pill shape inside the furnace.

Looking at the pill that was beginning to take shape, Jin Renfeng carefully put the Spirit Gathering Grass and the level-two water-attribute magic core into it.

Calcining into a liquid, removing impurities, and blending together... several tedious and meticulous steps were completed one by one in his hands.

(End of this chapter)