Cold Clouds

Shangguan Pu's alchemy skills are indeed acceptable, so Lin Xiaoxiao can rest assured for now, but... the scene where Shangguan Nanbei was so flustered that the alchemy furnace almost exploded before he managed to refine a pill almost gave Lin Xiaoxiao a myocardial infarction.

Brother, why did you inject lightning-attributed spiritual energy into the pill when you were refining it? It's really a talent that you can make the pill like this...

Shangguan Lan's alchemy was considered to be quite standard, and nothing went wrong, but Shangguan Kui...

She hadn't moved the alchemy furnace, which puzzled Lin Xiaoxiao, so she approached and asked, "Aren't you going to refine it?"

Shangguan Kui was squatting in front of the alchemy furnace. Hearing this, he glanced at Lin Xiaoxiao, shrank back, and said nothing.

Social phobia? So cute~ Seeing this, Lin Xiaoxiao followed Shangguan Kui and squatted in front of the alchemy furnace without saying a word.

The main thing is a companionship.

"It's so noisy..." Shangguan Kui suddenly spoke, but because his voice was a little soft, Lin Xiaoxiao couldn't hear it clearly.

"What?" Lin Xiaoxiao asked in confusion.

"They..." Shangguan Kui frowned and raised his voice a little. Although it wasn't much, Lin Xiaoxiao could barely hear it clearly. Shangguan Kui pointed at the herbs on the ground, pursed his lips for a while and spoke again, "So noisy."

Lin Xiaoxiao:?

When did talking creatures appear in Yaowang Valley?

Lin Xiaoxiao picked up a ginseng and observed it carefully, but she didn't see it open.

"It said it hurts to have its scalp pulled like this..." Shangguan Kui spoke weakly again.

Lin Xiaoxiao:?

She had never seen such a scene before.

Lin Xiaoxiao looked at Shangguan Kui, who shrank his neck and stopped talking.

That's right. No one believed her since she was a child. How could Lin Xiaoxiao believe it so easily? She should just find a place to squat...

Shangguan Kui thought so and planned to change seats. Seeing this, Lin Xiaoxiao asked in confusion: "Hey, wait a minute, first tell me whether the voice of this ginseng is that of a boy or a girl."

Shangguan Kui:?

Lin Xiaoxiao looked at Shangguan Kui's sudden stunned look, and became even more confused. She said to herself, "Could it be that it is ethereal and sacred?"

"No...it's...Grandpa..." Shangguan Kui answered subconsciously, then looked at Lin Xiaoxiao and hesitated for a while, "Master Lin, do you believe me?"

"Why shouldn't I believe it?" Lin Xiaoxiao asked back.

She had seen many geniuses, and it was not impossible for another one to appear suddenly. Since Shangguan Kui said so, there was no harm in her believing it.

"Stop arguing. If you disturb her again, I will burn you all." Lin Xiaoxiao squatted down and pointed at a pile of medicinal herbs. She looked a little weird, but Shangguan Kui felt inexplicably at ease.

Even Pu Ge didn't believe her, but Lin Xiaoxiao did.

"Okay, are they still making noise?" Lin Xiaoxiao chattered a lot about the medicinal herbs and then looked at Shangguan Kui with a smile.

Shangguan Kui was stunned: "Stop arguing..."

"Then let's start refining the elixir!" Lin Xiaoxiao stood up, put her hands on her hips, and smiled.

"Yeah!" Shangguan Kui responded in a rare lively tone.

A quarter of an hour later, Lin Xiaoxiao looked at the furnace full of nine perfect pills and fell into deep thought.

Nine pills in one furnace, of the highest quality. Although they were only third-grade pills, Shangguan Kui said that she had never refined this kind of pill before!

It seemed like I had really met a genius. Lin Xiaoxiao swallowed her saliva and looked at Shangguan Kui as if she was looking at some rare animal.

This description seemed to have appeared somewhere... Lin Xiaoxiao recalled and looked at Shangguan Nanbei who was keen on blasting the alchemy furnace.

It is indeed quite rare... Looking at the top of the alchemy furnace flying into the sky, Lin Xiaoxiao's mouth twitched, and she began to seriously think about how to make Shangguan Nanbei "turn to the light" and give up alchemy to do something else.

Lin Xiaoxiao warned Shangguan Kui again about the medicinal herbs and asked her to refine them herself, then went to find Mu Yingxiao.

"Can you hear the medicinal herbs talking?" Mu Yingxiao, who was trying to pretend to be drunk, raised the Heavenly Demon Sword that Lin Xiaoxiao had placed across her neck. After listening to Lin Xiaoxiao's story, his expression gradually became serious.

"Innate Dan Body!?" Mu Yingxiao's face turned strange. "Hasn't this body type appeared for six hundred years? Six hundred years ago, the one who was the master of Medicine King Valley was this one. Cultivators with this body type can communicate with plants and trees, and have a high sensitivity to wood-attributed spiritual energy. They can cultivate wood-attributed spiritual power very quickly."

"The most outrageous thing is that the blood of people with innate Dan bodies can bring the dead back to life. As long as the soul is still there, it can be pulled back. It's really like snatching people from the King of Hell," Mu Ying smiled and sighed, "Why do you only meet such gifted monsters?"

"That's a good question," Lin Xiaoxiao nodded, "I want to know why too."

Lin Xiaoxiao herself found this outrageous. She now felt that if she randomly picked two people on the street, they would be geniuses...

"Hey, do you think that maybe the Heavenly Dao deliberately gave birth to this kind of genius to deal with me, but I just happened to bump into him first?" Lin Xiaoxiao thought for a moment and then made this guess, "Ye Yuxie has the power of Heavenly Dao in his body that has been refined into his own strength. Maybe this power vaguely connects me with these people who are supposed to be used against me."

"Hiss... what you said makes some sense," Mu Yingxiao looked at Lin Xiaoxiao, "Why did you suddenly become smart?"

"Are you polite?" Lin Xiaoxiao's eyes twitched, "Go back and drink your wine!"

Lin Xiaoxiao curled her lips, went back to squat beside Shangguan Kui, and watched her make the elixir.

As she watched, Lin Xiaoxiao suddenly remembered something she was very curious about, so she asked Shangguan Kui, "Why did Xu Kui bring you back?"

"Elder Xu said... he knew... someone in our family, named Shangguan Yao. This is... a portrait." Shangguan Kui's voice was still low, but at least they were able to communicate well. She took out a portrait and said, "He said that Grandma Shangguan Yao was... a very good person when she was alive. He took out time to come and find... us, but at that time... the Shangguan family had already..."

"I see..." Lin Xiaoxiao touched her chin, squatted next to Shangguan Kui, glanced at the portrait, changed the subject, and continued chatting casually.

"Master Lin, it's getting late. The sun should have set outside." After an unknown amount of time, Shangguan Pu came over. "I don't have any serious problems, but Nanbei and the others are still in the foundation-building stage. They still need to rest every night."

"Well, okay, let's wait for A Kui to finish refining this batch of pills." Lin Xiaoxiao nodded and replied.

“Hmm…” Shangguan Pu glanced at Shangguan Kui, who was in a much better condition, pursed his lips, and whispered, “Thank you, Master Lin.”

Lin Xiaoxiao glanced at him and said nothing more, just quietly waiting for Shangguan Kui's last batch of pills.

On this day, Shangguan Kui successfully refined a fourth-grade elixir.

Lin Xiaoxiao opened the crack and sent the four people out. Just as she was about to return to the courtyard, she saw a figure suddenly appear behind the locust tree in front of her.

"Master Lin, thank you very much." Xu Kui spoke. The sun was indeed setting and the light was shining on him.

"Yeah," Lin Xiaoxiao nodded. So many people thanked her today. Then she looked at Xu Kui, paused, and continued, "Shangguan Yao, who is he to you?"

Xu Kui seemed to have not expected Lin Xiaoxiao to ask this. He was stunned for a moment, and suddenly showed a bitter yet tender smile: "She is the one I love the most."

Lin Xiaoxiao looked at the illusory figure that was gradually solidifying in the sunset and hugging Xu Kui. It looked exactly like the one in the portrait and she thought for a moment: "She probably loves you too."

Xu Kui lowered his eyes: "If that's the case, that would be great."

"Where is she buried? I'll find a chance to pay a visit to my disciples' elders." Lin Xiaoxiao retracted her gaze and spoke.

"Master Lin is really thoughtful," Xu Kui looked towards the back mountain, "She is buried on the hillside, you can go look for her."

"Well," watching Xu Kui turn around and leave, Lin Xiaoxiao asked Jiuyao in her heart, "Jiuyao, what is she doing..."

"My obsession has not yet dissipated, so I specially allow them to live," Jiuyao was rarely drunk, "It's not because I saw that the relationship between these two people was too tragic that I let them go!"

"Okay, okay, I believe you," Lin Xiaoxiao smiled, "Forget it, it's not something I can control."