"It's all my fault for making Zhu Gongfeng worry." Su Lingshuang said lightly.
"What are you talking about? It's a matter of loyalty to others. Since I promised your grandfather to take good care of you, of course I can't break my promise." Zhu Gongfeng said righteously, and finally asked with concern, "By the way, this time
Did you encounter any danger during the training?"
"Fortunately, we encountered a little trouble, but with the help of Sister Qingxi, nothing major happened." Su Lingshuang said, introducing the two of them:
"Sister Qingxi, this is our senior Zhu Zijing who is enshrined in our house. Zhu Zongzong, this is Taoist friend Gu Qingxi."
"It turns out to be Fellow Daoist Gu. I'm disrespectful." Zhu Zijing glanced at Gu Qingxi and saw that she was young, so he obviously didn't take her seriously.
He said a casual courtesy, then looked at Su Lingshuang worriedly, "Lingshuang, what kind of trouble have you encountered? Are you injured? Do you want me to check you out?"
"It's nothing, it's really just a little trouble. I'm not injured, so I won't worry about it."
It's getting late, so I'll take Sister Qingxi back to her room to rest, and Zhu Gongfeng will also have an early rest." After Su Lingshuang finished speaking, without waiting for Zhu Zijing to say anything more, she led Gu Qingxi straight into the courtyard.
"Lingshuang, wait!" Zhu Zijing called to Su Lingshuang.
"Zhu Gongfeng, is there anything else?" Su Lingshuang paused slightly at her feet.
"Lingshuang, you'd better think carefully about what I said, procrastinating like this is not an option after all." Zhu Zi said respectfully and thoughtfully.
"I know, I will think it over carefully." Su Lingshuang nodded, her expression becoming even more indifferent.
Walking along the gravel path through the garden, Su Lingshuang no longer had the previous briskness. She remained silent all the way, her face getting colder and colder.
"Lingshuang, who is Zhu Gongfeng and what did he just say?" Gu Qingxi asked after returning to Su Lingshuang's yard.
As soon as they met, she discovered that Zhu Zijing was not at all happy about Su Lingshuang's safe return, and was really surprised.
The concerns and worries that followed seemed hypocritical. The last advice was even more vaguely threatening.
Su Lingshuang's silence and cold expression along the way also proved that she and Zhu Gongfeng were not that close at all, and that they were completely conceited.
Gu Qingxi was a little surprised: How could a family head and a family worshiper be so incompatible with each other?
"It's all the trouble caused by Xiang Chaozong." Su Lingshuang said through gritted teeth, closed the courtyard door, and told Gu Qingxi the whole story:
"Zhu Zijing was originally a citizen of Xishui City and had known my grandfather since he was a child. Because his family was poor, his grandfather often gave him some financial aid. When he first entered the path of cultivation, he relied on the elixirs given to him by his grandfather to build his foundation.
Later, he went to the Haoqi Sect to study under his master, which was also paid for by his grandfather. Otherwise, with his cultivation in the foundation-building period at that time, he would never have climbed to the Haoqi Sect.
However, his talent is quite good. Not only did he successfully pass the examination of Haoqi Sect, he was also accepted as a direct disciple by an elder. After years of hard training, he has achieved the cultivation level of the early stage of integration.
A few years ago, my grandfather knew that his life was about to end, so he happened to return to Xishui City to visit relatives, so he asked him to serve as the Su family's worshiper, entrusted me to him, and gave him tens of millions of spiritual stones as a reward.
It's a pity that my grandfather, after all his hard work, invited a white-eyed wolf back.
A few days ago, Chaozong forced me to hand over the Five Fire Qingyuan Cauldron. Instead of helping me, he took the opportunity to threaten me and asked me to join the Haoqi Sect, and the Haoqi Sect would protect me.
The condition is to hand over the Su family's ancestral spirit mine.
He actually had a good plan, if I really become a disciple of Haoqi Sect, not only the ancestral spiritual mine, but also the Five Fire Qingyuan Cauldron will never be able to keep it."
Speaking of this, Su Lingshuang was angry and contemptuous at the same time.
Don't talk about her, even Gu Qingxi was outraged.
Let’s not talk about the fact that Su Lingshuang’s grandfather paid tens of millions of yuan to invite Zhu Zijing to serve as the Su family’s enshrinement. Let’s just talk about his kindness in his early years. Zhu Zijing should be grateful and do his best to protect Su Lingshuang.
But instead of standing up for Su Lingshuang, he even used Xiang Chaozong's incident to make matters worse, forcing Su Lingshuang to hand over the ancestral spirit mine.
To repay kindness with hatred like this is simply the scum of the world of cultivation!
"Then why didn't you drive him out of the Su family?" Gu Qingxi asked.
"I thought so too, but after my grandfather passed away, other cultivation families in Xishui City were eyeing the Su family. Xiang Chaozong was actually quite good, but he only had the idea of the Five Fire Qing Yuan Cauldron. At least before that, he had never thought of trying to seize the Su family.
Jialing Mine.
But it's different for other aristocratic families. If Zhu Zijing and Haoqizong hadn't put their names there, the Sujialing Mine might have been divided up by them long ago.
So I can only endure it for now, and wait until one day to advance to the fusion, and then I will make them look good." Su Lingshuang said.
At first he was a little helpless, but later he clenched his fists and his eyes were full of persistence and determination.
Only then did Gu Qingxi realize that the life of this prodigal was not as comfortable as she imagined. There were both internal and external worries, and the pressure she endured was actually no less than that of others.
But even so, Su Lingshuang did not give in, and practiced hard, hoping to change everything with her strength.
Looking at the little face with a little baby fat, Gu Qingxi admired this stubborn and strong girl.
"Come on, let's start refining the elixir." Gu Qingxi said.
Do you really want to practice? Su Lingshuang looked at Gu Qingxi and hesitated to speak.
She didn't feel bad about the spirit stones. Anyway, she had a mine at home, so she could afford to lose more than one million spirit stones. Besides, she had already been used to losing money since she was a prodigal.
But eleventh-grade spiritual herbs like Moon Dew Yanxinhua cannot be bought with money. After spending so many years in ruins, this is the first time she has bought such a high-grade medicinal material.
It would be a pity even for her if it was useless after refining.
Su Lingshuang wanted to persuade Gu Qingxi again, but when she saw how confident she was, she was worried that talking too much would offend Gu Qingxi and hurt her self-esteem, so she couldn't say anything.
exit.
While Su Lingshuang was hesitating, Gu Qingxi had already taken out the alchemy furnace and started arranging the herbs.
In his memory, there were several elixirs using Moon Dew Yanxinhua as the main medicine. Gu Qingxi chose the one that was most suitable for Su Lingshuang - Qingxuan Shenhe Dan.
This kind of elixir also has high requirements for auxiliary drugs. The lowest medicinal herbs in the elixir are all of the eighth grade. Fortunately, she saved a lot of medicinal materials in Tiancang Continent. Before leaving, Ling Hanyu paid tribute to many exotic flowers and rare herbs.
No need to worry about auxiliary drugs.
But having the medicinal materials doesn't mean that Gu Qingxi can sit back and relax.
The most difficult part of refining Qingxuan Shenhe Dan is not that the medicinal materials are difficult to find, but that the elixir is too high-grade, reaching the eleventh grade.
With Gu Qingxi's current practice of becoming a god, refining tenth-grade elixirs is the limit. She dares to refine the Qingxuan Heshen elixir, in fact, it is because of the trace of fairy power in her body.
Since the power of the fairy can be used to condense the fairy weapon fire, of course it can also be used to condense the fairy pill fire.
On the way to the Wuji Immortal Palace, she tried to refine elixirs with fairy spirit pill fire, but at that time there were no high-grade medicinal materials like Yuelu Yanxinhua, and of course she couldn't refine high-grade medicines like Qingxuan Shenhedan.
Grade elixir.
For the first time, Gu Qingxi did not dare to be careless when refining the eleventh-grade elixir with fairy fire.
After sorting out the herbs and making sure there were no omissions, she closed her eyes slightly and rehearsed them in her mind.
"Sister Qingxi, why don't we forget it.
Grandmaster Chen's fees are quite fair. He helps people make alchemy three out of ten times. He is not as bad as other alchemists, so let's go to him for help." Seeing Gu Qingxi stop her movements and close her eyes, Su Lingshuang thought she didn't have enough confidence.
I also started to worry, so I quickly seized the opportunity to persuade him.
Three out of ten is really not bad. As far as Gu Qingxi knows, all the famous alchemy masters in Tiancang Continent always use four out of ten or even five out of ten to help others make alchemy.
Compared with them, Grandmaster Chen's charging standards are extremely fair.
But no matter how fair it is, it must be able to be refined. If he can't refine even one, how can he still succeed?