Uncle Nine: I became Master Qianhe, and my fame resounded throughout the Daoist sect.

Uncle Nine was shocked after seeing it!

What a rich spiritual energy!

He hadn't expected Chizuru to be so willing to part with it.

They actually produced such a pill!

However, he raised an eyebrow, as if he had thought of something.

But he didn't say that he planned to find Zhang Dadan later.

"Thank you very much, Uncle-Master!" Zhang Dadan happily accepted it.

"Alright, Qiu Shengwencai, go and prepare a guest room for your junior brother!" Uncle Jiu called out to Qiu Shengwencai.

"Yes, Master!" The two nodded and left with Zhang Dadan.

Seeing them leave, Uncle Nine said, "Leave the cultivation pills here with me, in case you lose them!"

“Yes, Master!” Zhang Dadan handed the Spirit Gathering Pill to Uncle Jiu.

Uncle Nine took it and put it in the wooden box.

"By the way, junior brother, how do you have such good pills?"

Uncle Nine then asked out of curiosity.

"Hehe, I made this myself! Not much, not much," Qianhe chuckled.

He couldn't possibly reveal the system.

But if you say it was given to you by someone else, then there's no source for it, so it's better to say you made it yourself.

Anyway, with the system, I'll acquire alchemy skills sooner or later.

Their Maoshan sect already included alchemy.

"What? Junior brother, you refined this? It's so powerful!" Uncle Nine was astonished.

He knew that his junior brother was a well-rounded individual, just like him.

However, he felt relieved when he remembered that his junior brother had previously been involved in alchemy.

But I was also shocked.

It's incredible that they were able to refine pills with such abundant spiritual energy.

My junior brother Qianhe is amazing!

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"Haha, thankfully, I just happened to make it. By the way, senior brother, I need to ask you for a favor!"

Chizuru then cleverly changed the subject.

If Lin Fengjiao were to directly provide the materials and let him refine them on the spot...

That would be the end of it; their true colors would be revealed!

How could he possibly know how to refine it?

Let's just wait for the system to reward us with alchemy skills!

Otherwise, if you try to act all high and mighty now, you won't be able to show off; instead, you'll just expose your flaws and become a laughing stock.

As Qianhe had predicted, Uncle Nine's attention was diverted, and he asked with great curiosity, "Hmm? What is it?"

His junior brother actually needed to trouble him; that must be no ordinary matter.

"It's like this, I'd like to ask my senior brother to help me carve this piece of lightning-struck wood into a peach wood sword!" Qianhe said, and as if by magic, took out the piece of lightning-struck wood that was twelve feet long and thirty centimeters thick from the system backpack.

One zhang and three meters.

This is precisely why Chizuru said she could make seven or eight peach wood swords. Of course, this is an understatement; it mainly depends on the carving skill.

Uncle Nine was completely stunned when he saw this large piece of lightning-struck wood.

What is this ghost?

Such a big piece of wood?

Where did you take it from?

However, his attention was completely drawn to the piece of wood.

Seeing the snake-like, winding patterns all over its body, Uncle Nine was utterly shocked: "This, this is a hundred-year-old lightning-struck wood!"

“Indeed, it is a hundred-year-old lightning-struck wood!” Qianhe nodded and gently placed it on the ground.

Uncle Nine couldn't wait to step forward and examined the treasure in his hands.

"Good, good, good! This is really a good thing! Junior Brother Qianhe, this can be carved into at least nine lightning-struck peach wood swords!" Uncle Jiu looked at the lightning-struck wood, which was thirty centimeters thick and twelve feet long, with more focus than when he was looking at a beautiful woman.

Well, even Lin Jiu has never looked at beautiful women this carefully.

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"Oh? Nine?"

"Yes, at least nine!" Uncle Nine nodded repeatedly, his tone firm.

"Then I'll take three, and the rest are yours, senior brother. But I'll trouble you to carve the scraps into small knives for me!" Qianhe said earnestly.

"Really?" Uncle Nine's unibrow trembled slightly, revealing an expression of disbelief.

“Really?” Chizuru nodded again.

“That’s easy to say, but what exactly does the knife you’re talking about look like?” Uncle Nine was delighted, but still asked Qianhe why she had carved the knife.

"Haha, my broadsword, Zhong Fabai, will not harm the old or the young, but I have a smaller knife!"

Uncle Nine: .................

“Alright, I’ll start carving after I return from my appointment at Renfa tomorrow!” Uncle Nine nodded in agreement.

Then Uncle Nine seemed to remember something and said apologetically, "But speaking of which, Junior Brother, you travel all over the country and have met Senior Brother. Do you know how to drink tea in foreign countries?"

“Foreign tea? That’s coffee, I know that.” Chizuru nodded.

"Haha, that's good. Although I'm stationed in Renjia Town, I haven't tried foreign tea yet. Please come with me tomorrow!" Uncle Nine laughed heartily.

His junior brother is indeed reliable.

Sure enough, working for the Qing court broadened his horizons considerably.

“Okay!” Chizuru nodded, without refusing.

He also planned to go to the Ghostly Coffin World to save another Zhong Fabai after he returned tomorrow, lest he die and everything be over.

The reward—the Soul-Chasing Token, the third form of the Seven Killings Order of Gods and Demons—was something he was extremely eager to obtain. [I previously wrote "Earthly Fiend Order," so I'm correcting it. I've also corrected the previous text; this is just to let you know.]

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