"Ha! Su Li, you're really something! Now you're even resorting to tactic like threatening to walk out of court?"

"Take me there now. It's just a medicinal herb field; I want to see what it's like without Su Li."

Half an hour later.

"Fourth Senior Brother!! Fourth Senior Brother, someone come quick! Fourth Senior Brother is dying!!"

Everyone who was cultivating was startled and came out.

Ding Wei, who was once tall and strong, was now emaciated, as if he had been drained of his life essence by a monster.

"Fourth, Fourth Senior Brother, what exactly happened?"

Luo Zhirou's face turned pale with fright, making her even more pitiful.

The outer disciple cried as he spoke.

"Yes, yes, the No. 3 medicinal field needs to absorb spiritual energy today. Fourth Senior Brother has never done this job before."

I hadn't even had a chance to teach him how to operate it before he started channeling spiritual energy into the entire medicinal field.

"That medicinal herb field has become sentient; it's used to bullying strangers, and it actually drained all of Fourth Senior Brother's spiritual energy."

The disciple was almost in tears. Su Li knew the medicinal properties of those herbs best, and spiritual energy couldn't be transferred all at once.

It was usually supposed to be delivered every hour, but Fourth Senior Brother didn't even wait for him to finish speaking before...

Everyone:....

Ling Changfeng frowned, unsure of what to say.

A true disciple, reduced to this state by a medicinal herb field...

"Bang!!!"

Just as everyone was checking on Ding Wei's condition, a loud bang suddenly came from afar.

Immediately afterwards, Cheng Ming, disheveled and covered in dust, stumbled out of the alchemy room.

He used both hands to lift up two ignorant outer disciples.

"Cough, cough... Um, I... Pfft..."

Cheng Ming suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, his eyes bloodshot.

There was nothing else that didn't make sense to everyone: the furnace had exploded, and it seemed that the herbs and the alchemy furnace inside were completely destroyed.

Cheng Ming didn't want to lose face in front of his junior sister Zhirou, so he quickly explained to everyone.

"It's all the fault of those two good-for-nothings! The medicinal herbs they extracted had far too many impurities, cough cough..."

Senior Brother Ling Changfeng couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

"What are you all standing there for? Hurry up and help Ding Wei back into the house!"

The others should help Cheng Ming tidy up the alchemy room, and not tell anyone about what happened today.

The outer disciples all nodded and went to work.

After everyone left, Ling Changfeng couldn't help but speak.

"Where's Su Li? Where is she? With such a huge mess, does she really have the mind to cultivate???"

Lu Liuyun snorted.

"Ha! Isn't this exactly what she wanted? She's probably hiding in the shadows, waiting to see us make a fool of ourselves!"

Luo Zhirou's eyes were red, and she couldn't help but say aggrievedly.

"Senior brothers, it's all Zhirou's fault! If it weren't for standing up for Zhirou, Senior Sister Su Li wouldn't have pretended to be sick and ignored you all."

Now that my fourth and fifth senior brothers have been injured, I can't bear it. Let me go and apologize to Senior Sister Su.

Luo Zhirou bit her lip and continued.

"As long as my senior sister is willing to assist my senior brothers in refining pills, I can endure any grievances."

Seeing Luo Zhirou like this, Ling Changfeng felt a pang of heartache.

"What nonsense are you spouting? Do you really think the sky will fall down for the Earth Pill Hall without her?"

"You just focus on refining your pills; you don't need to worry about anything else."

Second Senior Brother Sun Yiming nodded in agreement.

“I am so disappointed in Su Li. Starting tomorrow, we will take turns taking care of the medicinal herb fields. In a few days, she will come crying and begging for mercy.”

Everyone knows that she joined the Earth Pill Hall for the sake of her senior brother.

Hmph! When has she ever been angry for more than two days?

She has absolutely no self-awareness whatsoever; without us, she's probably not even qualified to be one of the "Two Palaces."

Lu Liuyun wanted to defend Su Li, but he also felt that Su Li had gone too far.

She really needs to be taught a lesson.

The sky was high in the night.

Xiao Jiuge sat alone on the roof beam and took a big gulp of wine.

Despite having drunk quite a bit, his eyes were clearer than ever before!

Right there in the alchemy room beneath the roof beams, the young girl hadn't yet finished refining the Heavenly Ice Purple Vine.

By evening, Su Li had already extracted the sixth drop of condensed dew! She had passed all the tests of the Yellow Pill Hall!!

But the girl showed no sign of stopping, and Xiao Jiuge began to feel a sense of anticipation.

He looked at the bright moon in the distance and couldn't help but chuckle.

"Master, if I were to take on a talented disciple, would that be considered carrying on your legacy? Would I be qualified to marry her?"

The next morning, inside the Di Dan Hall!

"Second Senior Brother, the No. 1 medicinal field requires 30,000 low-grade spirit stones and 500 mid-grade spirit stones!"

Sun Yiming's lips twitched, and he couldn't help but widen his eyes.

"What did you say? How can so many spirit stones be needed?? Could it be that you pocketed those spirit stones?"

The outer disciple Chen Qing was also a man of temper. Upon hearing Sun Yiming's words, he knelt down outside his master Ge Cheng's room.

Ge Chenggang was furious after reading Su Li's application to withdraw from court, but little did he know that another lawsuit would break out early in the morning.

The outer disciple made a tearful accusation.

“Master Ge, although we are outer disciples, we cannot allow our second senior brother to be humiliated like this.”

The quantity and quality of spirit stones needed for the No. 1 medicinal field each month are all recorded. Why did Second Senior Brother accuse someone so unjustly without even glancing at the records?

After saying that, the outer disciple cried and muttered something under his breath.

"It used to be Senior Sister Su Li who managed the medicinal herb fields, and this never happened before. How come it's Second Senior Brother now...?"

Ge Cheng's face turned ashen! He was just Su Li, so what if he's gone? What's the big deal?!

“Sun Yiming, the second disciple of Didan Hall, has wronged his fellow disciple. He is hereby punished with three days of confinement to reflect on his mistakes!”

Changfeng, you must handle the matter of the spirit stones in the second medicinal field immediately! I don't want to hear any more gossip from now on.

"You can't even handle the smallest chores? Do you expect me to do it myself?"

Ling Changfeng initially thought it was a minor matter, but when he arrived at the outer disciple in charge of spirit stones at the Earth Pill Hall, he was instantly overwhelmed by the huge stack of bills!

"How could that be? Our Earth Pill Hall refines only high-grade pills and has made considerable contributions to the sect!"

Why are there only twenty low-grade spirit stones left in the account?

Upon hearing this, the outer disciple took out a large stack of account books from the cabinet.

"Senior Brother, these are spirit stones that our senior brothers borrowed from the account when they didn't have enough medicinal materials to refine medicine."

I am of lowly rank and insignificant; I truly cannot collect this debt. Perhaps you could think of a way?

As the senior disciple of the Earth Pill Hall, when had Ling Changfeng ever eaten such a soft top?

He gritted his teeth and said.

"Since you didn't have enough spirit stones in your account, what did you do before?"

The outer disciple curled his lip.

“In the past? In the past, when we didn’t have enough spirit stones, we would ask Senior Sister Su Li for help.”

Senior Sister Su Li always said she would find a way, and then she would have enough spirit stones by the next day.

Ling Changfeng frowned. Su Li? She only receives tens of thousands of spirit stones each month. Could it be that all of them filled the gap in the account?

Thinking of this, Ling Changfeng couldn't help but feel a ripple in his heart. No wonder Su Li was so confident and dared to use the threat of withdrawing from the Earth Pill Hall to control them.

So that's what they were waiting for!

However, Su Li really underestimated them!

As long as I refine a few fourth-grade pills and sell them, spirit stones will be a piece of cake, right?

Forced by Ling Changfeng's authority, Sun Yiming, Lu Liuyun, Ding Wei, and Cheng Ming looked at the ledger in their hands. Although their faces were grim, they had no choice but to pay back a portion of the spirit stones.

Ding Wei's face turned extremely grim. When on earth had he incurred a debt of 700,000 spirit stones...?

That damned Su Li, she even kept the account books... Do you think they can get away with it?

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