Immortal Mansion: With mediocre qualifications, I have no choice but to live forever

"Hahaha! Good! Very good!"

After hearing Zhou Yiqiao's answer, Ouyang Guangming seemed to have thought of something. His expression suddenly became extremely happy, and he even became three points closer to Zhou Yiqiao.

He flashed in front of Zhou Yiqiao, raised his hand and patted the latter's shoulder, soothing him with a slightly encouraging tone.

“Don’t worry, you can refine the light-condensing agent. Just based on this fact, I will not let you die immediately at the hands of Luo Fengmo.”

Zhou Yiqiao was overjoyed when he heard this and quickly bowed to express his gratitude.

"Thank you, senior!"

Ouyang Guangming nodded again, then told the guest to leave.

"Okay, you go back first."

"After I use this bottle of light-condensing agent of yours to seek out Luo Fengmo to obtain the remaining black gold, that will be the time when you will need to exert all your strength."

Zhou Yiqiao nodded in agreement, as if he had accepted Ouyang Guangming's instructions.

"Yes, senior, I will take my leave now."

After he finished speaking, he immediately turned around and left, but he was counting down silently in his heart.

"Three, two, one!"

"and many more!"

Sure enough, at the moment when Zhou Yiqiao counted to zero, just as Tielan predicted, Ouyang Guangming called him.

"After refining this light-condensing agent in large quantities, you need to distribute it to the monks on the front line."

"After all, this medicine is nominally made by you. Only when you, the one who made it, come forward will they feel at ease to use it."

Zhou Yiqiao laughed secretly in his heart, but showed an unwilling expression on the surface.

"This... Senior, can't you just find someone else to do the distribution? Why do you have to let me do it?"

Ouyang Guangming said seriously.

“Don’t you know that the monks on the frontline have long lost their trust in Luo Fengmo and high-ranking officials like me because of the war that has been going on in the Source Realm for months and months without an end?”

“If I were to give them this light-condensing agent for no reason, they would probably become suspicious and refuse to use it.”

"But you are different. You are the savior who brought the Dragon Ganoderma Paste from Tiansheng City on the orders of Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess. If you come forward in person and tell them that this is the elixir you made, they will definitely feel at ease using it."

Zhou Yiqiao understood clearly that Ouyang Guangming was doing this to leave a way out for himself. Once the matter of the light-condensing agent was exposed, he could shift all the blame to himself.

However, Ouyang Guangming would never have expected that this was exactly the result Zhou Yiqiao was pursuing.

On the surface, he pretended to be helpless and sighed.

"In this case, Zhou naturally has no reason to refuse."

But my heart was already filled with joy.

Ouyang Guangming was immersed in the joy of Zhou Yiqiao's creation of the light-condensing agent over ten days, and was completely unaware of Zhou Yiqiao's emotions.

"This matter is of great importance. You must act with caution and not be careless."

Zhou Yiqiao nodded again, then turned and left at Ouyang Guangming's wave.

After Zhou Yiqiao walked away, Ouyang Guangming finally revealed a sneer of self-righteousness.

"Humph! You are just a mere Void Refining cultivator. Do you really think you can escape from my grasp?"

"If I didn't need a scapegoat like you who came from the imperial capital, I would have crushed you to dust long ago."

He raised his hand and a small black bottle flew out from his sleeve. It was the jade bottle containing the light-condensing agent.

Ouyang Guangming held it in his hand, a glimmer of greed in his eyes.

"The effect of this light-coagulating agent is so powerful. If it can be mass-produced..."

Thinking of this, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

......

On the other side, Zhou Yiqiao returned to the alchemy room and took advantage of the time when Ouyang Guangming went to find Luo Fengmo to activate the jade talisman given by Tie Lan.

"Senior, it has been done. Ouyang Guangming has now gone to Luo Fengmo's tent to ask for the remaining 'Xuan Jin'. It won't be long before your plan is realized."

The jade talisman flashed again and again, and after three breaths, Tielan's voice was heard.

"I didn't expect that you have such a terrifying talent for alchemy. You succeeded in refining the light-condensing agent in just over ten days."

The slightly hoarse female voice was full of approval.

"Before you arrived at the Source Realm, Ouyang Guangming had asked low-level alchemists on the front lines to try to refine light-condensing agents, but they all failed without exception. You're going to become famous on the front lines next."

Zhou Yiqiao chuckled and said self-deprecatingly when he heard this.

"After what happened with Zhao Qianli, everyone at the frontline knows about this."

Tielan laughed out loud and it took her a long time to calm down.

"No matter what, Ouyang Guangming should speed up his actions next. You just need to keep a calm mind and go with the flow. Don't rush into anything and expose your true intentions."

"Of course, I will also have people assist you secretly to help you win over the soldiers on the front line."

After hearing Tielan's instructions, Zhou Yiqiao did not hesitate and directly said what help he needed.

"Senior, there are tens of thousands of cultivators on the front line. Even if I have the identity of a light-condensing agent refiner, it is impossible for me to meet every cultivator in person."

"I wonder if you know any influential monks, so I can follow their lead, so I won't be confused and fail to meet your expectations in the end."

Tielan was silent for a moment after hearing this.

"Your worries are justified."

"How about this, you go meet a man named 'Li Yuan' first. He is the legitimate son of the Li family business in the imperial capital. He is generous but friendly, and is highly respected among the frontline monks."

"Of course, the most important thing is that this person is loyal to His Majesty the Immortal Emperor. As long as you can tell him the truth, he will definitely join your army."

"If you can win him over, he should know the distribution of the frontline monks better than I do. Then you can use his information to win over other monks, which should be twice as effective with half the effort."

Zhou Yiqiao was overjoyed when he heard this.

"Thank you, senior!"

Tielan chuckled, gave a few more instructions, and then cut off the connection with the jade talisman.

Ouyang Guangming's movements could be said to be extremely fast. It took only half a cup of tea for Zhou Yiqiao to end his contact with Tielan, and he had already taken the initiative to find the alchemy room with two storage rings filled with "Xuan Jin".

Ouyang Guangming first looked around the alchemy room intentionally or unintentionally, and after confirming that there were no objects or restrictions beyond his memory, he strode in front of Zhou Yiqiao.

"These two rings contain all the black gold that the frontline monks have collected so far. I am giving them to you now. I hope you can use them well."

At the end of his words, Ouyang Guangming emphasized the words "use it well", and it was obvious that he did not yet fully trust Zhou Yiqiao.

However, Zhou Yiqiao didn't care. After taking the two rings, he probed his spiritual sense into them to check.

"Good fellow, if all the black gold in these two storage rings were used to refine the light-condensing agent, it would be enough to kill the frontline monks ten times."

Zhou Yiqiao sighed in his heart, and then quickly put on a humble smile on his face.

"Senior, you are joking. At this point, I don't have any other thoughts."

"Better not!"

Ouyang Guangming snorted coldly when he heard this.

"In the next period of time, you will stay in the alchemy room and concentrate on refining the light-condensing agent. As for when to go to persuade the monks on the front line, I will inform you after I have made all the arrangements."

Zhou Yiqiao nodded and respectfully watched Ouyang Guangming leave the alchemy room.

"Old man, you won't be so arrogant for many more days!"

Zhou Yiqiao sneered in his heart, and then began to refine the light-condensing agent.

Because he had mastered the general process, Zhou Yiqiao was able to refine the coagulating agent several times faster than before. All the medicine cauldrons in the alchemy room were activated by him alone. With his multitasking, he used up all the black gold in the two storage rings in just five days.

During this period, Ouyang Guangming never appeared.

Zhou Yiqiao was not in a hurry about this. After finishing refining the pill, he returned to his daily practice routine.

Although Tielan asked him to do his best to advance the process so that Ouyang Guangming could be arrested as soon as possible, Zhou Yiqiao thought that being too enthusiastic would arouse Ouyang Guangming's suspicion, so he decided to proceed step by step and wait for Ouyang Guangming to come again.

Finally, after seven days of regular practice, Ouyang Guangming finally returned.

As soon as the old man entered the alchemy room, he walked towards the corner where Zhou Yiqiao piled up the jade bottles of light-condensing agent.

Seeing the full jade bottle, Ouyang Guangming's eyes flashed with joy.

"I didn't expect you to be so fast at refining the light-condensing agent! In less than half a month, you have already used up all the black gold I gave you."

Zhou Yiqiao did not tell Ouyang Guangming that it actually only took him five days. He chuckled and said modestly.

"Thank you for your praise, Senior. Since it is your request, I will naturally do my best."

Ouyang Guangming nodded, put all the jade bottles containing light-condensing agents into the ring, and threw them to Zhou Yiqiao.

"Very good. The latest round of offensive on the front line has temporarily ended. Most of the monks have returned to the camp. I will take you to meet them now. Are you ready?"

When Zhou Yiqiao heard this, he laughed in his heart, but on the surface he pretended to be in pain, as if he was struggling between an inner struggle and a desire to stop.

"Senior, I really don't want to meet those monks..."

Ouyang Guangming's face turned cold, but his suspicion of Zhou Yiqiao was indeed much less.

"I know you don't want to be the bad guy, but this matter is of great importance. If you don't go, the monks on the front line might suspect that I have ulterior motives."

Zhou Yiqiao felt that Ouyang Guangming's attitude towards him had indeed softened a lot. He was secretly happy in his heart, but nodded helplessly on his face.

"Since the senior said so, I can only try my best..."

The two then left the alchemy room and, under the guidance of Ouyang Guangming, flew towards a large open space behind the tent.

Many monks who had retreated from the front lines had gathered on the open space. Some were setting up tents, while others were meditating and resting on the spot. The scene was in a mess.