Fairy, please step aside, I've taken a liking to your man.

Zhou Zhi's body stiffened instantly. He hesitated for a moment and said in a low voice, "Although Master is single, she has a blind date that her parents quite like."

"Oh? Tell me more about it?"

Shen Bai's eyes lit up immediately.

I absolutely do not like flirting with girls who have love rivals; I just want to watch the drama unfold.

Zhou Zhi thought for a moment and said, "My master is a disciple of Master Hu Fangkun, and her family can be considered a family of alchemists. This year, after she broke through the Foundation Establishment stage and successfully advanced to the third-level alchemist, she was entrusted with an important task by Master Hu to continue to develop new pills at Kunbai Pharmaceutical."

Before the New Year, her parents found her a blind date. The other party was a third-level Foundation Establishment stage array master. He originally thought his master's cultivation level was a bit low, but now that his master has entered the Foundation Establishment stage, his attitude has immediately changed. He comes to pursue her every day, which annoys his master to no end. In the future, if you meet him, no matter when, you must tell him that his master is not here. This is something his master arranged.

Both of them were apprentices, not formal disciples, so they couldn't call Hu Fangkun "master" but only "grandmaster".

After listening for a while, Shen Bai began to understand why Zhou Zhi was telling him this. This guy was full of bad intentions and was clearly trying to make this newbie play the villain.

Shen Bai seriously doubted that Zhou Zhi's ability to become a first-level alchemist was purely due to luck. How could someone with such a low intelligence have cultivated to this level?

He was enthusiastically explaining things to me, seemingly making things difficult for me, but actually making me offend that suitor, the array master. If I don't fleece this guy completely, I'll really be letting my cheat code down!

"Don't worry, Senior Brother Zhou, if I happen to run into him, I will absolutely not let him get close to Master!"

Shen Bai pretended to be a young man filled with righteous indignation and passion, while already plotting how to take advantage of this love rival he had never met.

The previous blind date, Wang Dong, had given him two advanced low-level spells and experience as an array apprentice. Now that he had another good opportunity, he absolutely couldn't let it slip by!

Seeing that Shen Bai had taken the bait, Zhou Zhi patted him on the shoulder with satisfaction and left the alchemy room.

Shen Bai then took out the herbal medicine catalog jade slip that Si Qing had just given him, placed it on his forehead, and began to use his mental power to look it up.

Without spiritual awareness, he could only use crude spiritual power, and the spiritual power of the innate realm was not very strong, so Shen Bai could only watch for a while and then rest.

He quickly flipped through the herbal medicine catalog and compared it with his existing knowledge as a first-level alchemy apprentice. He found that there wasn't much he didn't know, which immediately made him happy.

Upon entering the Innate Realm, one's spiritual power increases significantly, and memory also improves at the same time. These herbal medicine catalogs may seem complicated, but as long as one memorizes them diligently, one can memorize them all in a little over half a month at most. Si Qing gave one month, which is actually quite lenient.

However, what Si Qing didn't know was that Shen Bai had a cheat code, and had already used it to advance to the first-level alchemist. Therefore, he could completely master this herbal medicine catalog in at most three days.

Soon, it was lunchtime.

Employees below the Foundation Establishment stage cannot completely abstain from grains and must eat. Great cultivators above the Foundation Establishment stage can abstain from grains, but sometimes they still need to satisfy their appetites, so Kunbai Pharmaceutical has its own canteen.

Because it was too far from home, and Shen Bai had already prepared lunch for Shen Wenwen, he did not go home at noon but went to the cafeteria instead.

As soon as Shen Bai stepped down from the alchemy building, he saw his beautiful master standing downstairs. When she saw him come down, she greeted him and said, "Come on, I'll take you to the cafeteria."

Shen Bai quickly walked a few steps to Si Qing's side: "Thank you so much, Master."

Shen Bai wasn't about to turn down his beautiful master's kindness, so he happily followed her around, and then, unsurprisingly, received a notification sound.

[Ding! Jealousy from the well-known source +5, current level 70!]

It seems that Senior Brother Zhou has a strong possessive streak.

Shen Bai had assumed that Kunbai Pharmaceutical wouldn't have many employees, but after entering the cafeteria and seeing the huge crowd of diners, he realized that he was a bit out of touch with reality.

As far as the eye could see, thousands of people were queuing up, getting food, and eating, and the entire canteen was bustling with noise.

Most importantly, everyone here is at the Qi Refining stage, or at least at the first level of Qi Refining. Shen Bai felt his heart pounding wildly.

How can I possibly accept so many leeks in the refining stage?

Following behind his beautiful master, Shen Bai walked past several food windows and looked inside. The standard meals included spirit rice, spirit spring water, spirit porridge, and spirit beast meat.

Some windows even sell medicine instead of food.

One first-tier fasting pill costs 1 spirit stone and will keep you full for three days. It doesn't provide much nutrition, but it won't make you hungry either.

One second-tier fasting pill costs 10 spirit stones and lasts for five days, meeting the daily nutritional needs during the Qi refining period.

One third-tier fasting pill costs 30 spirit stones and lasts for ten days, meeting the daily nutritional needs of the Foundation Establishment stage.

In addition, there are some commonly used medicines, such as Blood-Replenishing Pills and Body-Tempering Pills.

The price is not high, cheaper than outside, and it is only supplied to employees and sold in limited quantities. This can be regarded as a benefit that Kunbai Pharmaceutical gives to its employees.

As Si Qing led Shen Bai along the way, the employees immediately turned their attention to them. All of them were Qi Refining stage cultivators with good memories, and they easily recognized that the young man following the genius alchemist was a stranger.

"This new guy is really handsome! Following Si Qing, could he be a new alchemist?"

"Probably an apprentice. She's half as good-looking as me. Looks like a lot of factory girls in the early stages of Qi Refining will be smitten again!"

"Don't talk about factory girls, haven't you had your eye on Si Qing? Don't think I don't know what you do in bed in the dorm every day!"

……

The discussions were so clear that even Shen Bai, a martial artist at the Innate Realm, could hear them clearly, let alone Si Qing. He was surprised that these people would say such blatant things in such a public place. Then he realized that these people were just from the bottom of society. Their treatment was much better than that of martial artists, but in the cultivation world, they were the lowest of the low.

For employees in the Qi Refining stage, the salary paid by Kunbai Pharmaceutical seems quite decent, but it is estimated that it can only cover the most basic cultivation resource needs after covering food, clothing, and housing.

There's a saying among working people: "You earn money in Beijing and spend it all in Beijing; don't even think about taking a single penny home."

For a Qi Refining cultivator to advance to the Foundation Establishment stage, the sheer amount of Gathering Yuan Pills required is beyond what an ordinary employee could afford.

Si Qing seemed to be used to the various discussions among these people. She led him to a less crowded window and said to him, "The spirit beast meat here is delicious and very helpful for your cultivation. Today, it's my treat. Eat as much as you like."

Shen Bai glanced into the window, and his eyes immediately lit up.

"Master, then I won't stand on ceremony!"