Chapter 146

Chapter 146: Yu Zhao, You Are My Real Elder Sister
After learning this news, Mu Ye felt even more depressed.

Once Wang Qian got his hands on the pill recipe, he must have already studied the alchemy method inside and understood it completely. His alchemy skills would definitely improve.

The odds between the two of them had originally been fifty-fifty. Now that Wang Qian’s strength had grown and she had been maliciously interfered with, as one rose and the other fell, Wang Qian’s chances of winning increased greatly.

“Phew.”

She let out a long breath, as if trying to expel all the anger in her heart.

She was Mu Ye. She would not give up easily.

She adjusted her mood, turned her head, and gave Yu Zhao a smile: “Let’s not think about unhappy things. I’ll take you around Pill Peak again.”

Yu Zhao had come from so far away. She did not want her own troubles to ruin Yu Zhao’s mood.

“Can I go take a look at your alchemy room?”

“No problem. I just happen to have rented an alchemy room. I can take you inside to see it.”

On the way to Pill Peak, Mu Ye and Yu Zhao chatted and laughed. Nothing unusual could be seen on Mu Ye’s face.

Under Pill Peak there was a superior fire vein. Greenwood Sect’s Ancestral Patriarch had chosen to found Greenwood Sect here back then precisely because of this fire vein.

Later, as the generations continued to improve things, the fire vein was gradually divided into one hundred and eight branches. Each branch corresponded to one alchemy room.

Unlike Herb Peak, whose climate was mild and pleasant, the moment you stepped onto Pill Peak you could feel a clear wave of heat rushing toward you.

“There are one hundred and eight alchemy rooms on Pill Peak. The firepower increases from bottom to top according to intensity. The alchemy room I usually use is number sixty-six. The one Wang Qian uses is number sixty-three. See that stone cave there? That’s an alchemy room.”

Mu Ye pointed at a closed stone door as she explained to Yu Zhao.

Yu Zhao listened carefully.

After all, maybe before long, she would be borrowing an alchemy room herself.

Alchemy room sixty-six was located halfway up Pill Peak. The two of them walked and talked, and soon arrived outside the room.

Mu Ye took out a stone token and placed it into the hollow beside the stone door.

Click.

The stone door opened automatically. The two entered the alchemy room one after the other.

The alchemy room was actually just a stone cave hollowed out of the mountainside. The only special thing about it was that there was a bottomless hole in the center of the floor, and the stone surface around the hole was covered with intricate and mysterious array patterns.

Yu Zhao stared at it a few more times and felt as if her very soul was being pulled in.

“The hole connects to the underground branch of the fire vein. Through the spell formation, you can control the underground fire source.”

Seeing that Yu Zhao was very interested in the spell formation, Mu Ye took the initiative to demonstrate it once for her.

She placed her hand on the spell formation and pushed her spirit power. The array patterns lit up one by one, the temperature rose, and a faint light shone up out of the hole.

Right after that, the light grew brighter and brighter. A half-foot-tall blue flame shot out from the hole, its scorching heat filling the entire space.

A few breaths later, Mu Ye pulled her hand back. The blue flame disappeared, and the spell formation returned to its earlier low-key, dim state.

Yu Zhao’s eyes lit up.

This was exactly the effect she wanted: with no need for a fire spiritual root, she could control flames through the spell formation.

However, before she asked to borrow the alchemy room, she wanted to help Mu Ye solve her current problem first.

“Mu Ye, do you want pill recipes?”

“Huh?”

The topic had changed too quickly, so Mu Ye did not react for a moment.

“As long as you say the word, I’ll send pill recipes over to you.”

Mu Ye threw her arms around Yu Zhao excitedly: “Yes, yes, yes! I’ll take anything that comes!”

Whether the pill recipes Yu Zhao provided were useful or not, Mu Ye would still accept this kindness from Yu Zhao first.

Yu Zhao smiled slightly and took out seven, eight, maybe even ten pill recipes from her storage space, stuffing them all into Mu Ye’s arms at once.

“See if there are any pill recipes in here that you can use.”

The fastest way to get rich in the cultivation world was to kill people and take their treasures.

On the way here, Yu Zhao had killed three or four dozen assassins alone. Adding in the other cultivators who tried to block and rob her on the road, plus people like Boss Wu, she had long since lost count of how many storage pouches she had taken.

Because there was too much stuff, she had roughly sorted things on her way to Greenwood Sect. After throwing away the useless items, what was left could basically support a small sect for several hundred years.

Naturally, there were pill recipes among them, and quite a lot. Most of them were first-grade and second-grade pill recipes. All the third-grade pill recipes were currently in Mu Ye’s hands.

“Five Venoms Pill, Rotting Corpse Powder, Forget-Worry Pill…”

Mu Ye looked through the pill recipes one by one, and her expression grew stranger and stranger.

“Yu Zhao, you didn’t go to some poison cultivators’ nest and steal all their treasured pill recipes, did you?”

There was not a single proper one among these pill recipes. They were all poison pills.

Yu Zhao did not answer directly. Instead she asked back: “You can’t refine poison pills during the disciple assessment?”

“It’s not that we can’t. It’s just that most of the spirit herbs grown by Herb Hall’s disciples are non-toxic and harmless. It’s hard to gather all the ingredients listed on these pill recipes, especially for this Five Venoms Pill. Even gathering three kinds of poison is very difficult.”

Mu Ye was the disciple most valued by the Grand Elder of the Alchemy Hall. Her talent in alchemy went without saying. With just one look at a pill recipe, she could deduce seventy or eighty percent of the entire alchemy process.

The Five Venoms Pill was indeed better than the Essence Stabilizing Pill and more suitable as her chosen pill, but with such a shortage of spirit herbs, she wanted to refine it yet could not.

Yu Zhao smiled slightly.

She took out a small medicine bottle from her storage space and handed it to Mu Ye.

Mu Ye took it and saw that a line of small characters was carved on the jade vial.

“Twin-tailed Black-headed Serpent.”

One of the Five Venoms.

Before she could even be shocked, Yu Zhao stuffed a second jade vial into her hands.

“Thunder-faced Toad.”

One of the Five Venoms.

Then came the third, the fourth, and the fifth.

The five poisons that had troubled Mu Ye so much were gathered in an instant.

Just when Mu Ye thought that was all, Yu Zhao took out a pile of miscellaneous alchemy materials. Some swam in the sea, some ran on the mountains, and there were even quite a few she had never even heard of or seen before.

In the end, Mu Ye really could not hold them anymore. Everything ended up piled on the ground in a scattered heap, almost covering the entire floor.

“Yu Zhao, Sister Yu, my real Elder Sister, from now on you are like my second parents. I love you to death.”

Mu Ye hugged Yu Zhao and bounced up and down with joy, almost wanting to plant a big kiss on her face.

No wonder Yu Zhao had shown a mysterious smile back on Herb Peak. It turned out she was not mocking her at all. She had been confident all along.

“Hehe, Sister Yu, the next time you go out on a training trip, you have to come to Greenwood Sect and call me. I’ll take care of all the pills you need.”

Mu Ye still remembered that when she had last met Yu Zhao, Yu Zhao did not even have a single decent magical artifact on her. The only powerful primordial treasure she had was used up while saving someone.

In less than two years, Yu Zhao had gotten rich overnight. Mu Ye was so envious she almost had tears of jealousy dripping from the corner of her mouth.

“Those are for you to use in alchemy. These are for you to play with.”

Back in Merfolk Pavilion, Yu Zhao had bought quite a few pretty accessories. She took out the share she had set aside for Mu Ye and gave it to her.

Holding the heavy jewelry box, Mu Ye felt, for the first time, what it was like to be kept in a friend’s heart and remembered. Her eyes instantly turned red.

“Sister Yu~”

“Stop.” Yu Zhao shivered and forcibly cut off the approaching emotional scene. “We have all the ingredients for the Five Venoms Pill now. You can start trying to refine it right away.”

One month.

She hoped that would be enough.

“Okay!”