Madam, please ascend.

Chapter 38 Pulling
The two of them were pulling each other, adhering to the principle of only saying half of the words and leaving room for negotiation in the remaining half.

Yun Yi learned that Su Qing was in urgent need of a medicinal herb called Hualong Fruit, the older the better, but what he needed was her as a person... to be more precise, her alchemy skills.

The two of them were refining the same batch of pills, and they started at almost the same time, but it only took Su Qing half an hour to finish refining his batch of pills. After opening the furnace, he could see that there were at least a dozen Qi-replenishing pills inside, and the quality was extremely high.

On the other hand, Yun Yi took another hour to open the furnace, and there were only two medium-grade Qi-replenishing pills inside.

The difference between the two is huge. For Yun Yi, who is in the early stage of Qi Refining, one mid-grade Qi-replenishing pill can last him for a day of hard training, while one top-grade Qi-replenishing pill refined by Su Qing can last him for seven days.

The key point is that they produced twelve grains in one furnace.

This made Yun Yi even more determined that he must not let Zhi Laoer's medicinal herbs be destroyed in his hands!
Su Qing, who was standing beside him, seemed to have a very sensitive heart. She saw Yun Yi's dilemma and asked tentatively, "Junior brother, are you interested in alchemy?"

Yun Yi thought about it and felt that he was not just refining pills to improve his cultivation. Refining pills itself was very interesting. To be honest, in his previous life, he was suddenly forced to practice cultivation, and he didn't feel any joy at all.

This life is different. He really likes practicing sword and refining medicine from the bottom of his heart.

So he replied, "I do have some interest, but alchemy is much more difficult than I imagined, so my progress is slow."

Su Qing asked again, "So, Junior Brother, are you so eager to improve your alchemy skills because you're worried about wasting the rare flowers and herbs you have?"

"What Senior Sister said is right."

"I have a way to have the best of both worlds."

"Please speak, Senior Sister."

"I will assist you in refining the elixir. Although the quality of the resulting elixir won't be as good as if I were to help you directly, you can gain extremely valuable experience and minimize the possibility of the furnace exploding and failing."

Yun Yi was a little surprised by this suggestion, because this method could be said to allow him to get all the benefits.

He asked, "What does Senior Sister Su want?"

Su Qing replied: "A dragon fruit of suitable grade."

"That's it?"

"That's all."

This made Yun Yi feel a little embarrassed. In his impression, the price of the Dragon Fruit sold at the Tianyuan Chamber of Commerce would not be too high, because there were actually very few recipes using it, and this thing was extremely difficult to obtain, so basically no one traded it.

But if Su Qing is willing to assist Yun Yi in refining the elixir, he can not only help Yun Yi refine the right elixir, but also improve his alchemy skills, killing two birds with one stone.

Yun Yi asked softly, "Can I ask what Senior Sister wants the Dragon Fruit for?"

"This is not a secret." Su Qing patted the pocket of her apron, and a small red snake poked its head out obediently. "This little fellow needs the Dragon Fruit to break through and transform into a Flood Dragon."

Yun Yi's eyes widened upon seeing this: "Red Snake?"

"Junior brother, do you know him?"

"I've read in a book that it's extremely rare in the current world of cultivation. It takes five hundred years to become a Jiao, a thousand years to become a dragon, and eventually you can become a Scarlet Snake Dragon."

"Well, that's about right. But a breakthrough is not that simple. It requires a lot of natural treasures."

Yun Yi asked, "Is it Senior Sister's pet?"

The little red snake opened its mouth and breathed out air towards Yun Yi, looking extremely dissatisfied with this sentence.

Su Qing quickly comforted him, "It and I are not in a master-servant relationship, but a cooperative one."

"cooperate?"

"I helped it find the materials for its breakthrough, and it promised to give me some of its blood after it transformed into a dragon." Yun Yi suddenly realized that the blood of the Red Snake Dragon was extremely valuable and a necessary ingredient for several rare elixirs. In recent years, due to the near extinction of the Red Snake, the Red Snake Dragon was also hard to find. Therefore, many ancient recipes lacked this key ingredient, making it difficult to refine.

The two of them spoke their minds and confirmed that the other had no ulterior motives, so they hit it off and decided to cooperate.

Su Qing said, "Why don't you come with me to the Alchemy Pavilion? There is a special alchemy room for me there."

Yun Yi did not hesitate and followed Su Qing openly.

Little did they know that Song Xinci had been secretly observing the two of them for a long time, and was now gritting his teeth in hatred.

She frowned, feeling that Yun Yi's suspicion had inexplicably increased. She thought to herself, "He's unwilling to follow me to the Demon Sect, yet he's chatting and laughing with other women in the Fuyao Sect!"

Yun Yi followed Su Qing into a remote alchemy room. In addition to a large number of medicinal herbs and a golden alchemy furnace, there was also a bed with some women's clothes scattered on it.

Su Qing is obsessed with alchemy. Although she is naturally beautiful, she rarely dresses up and always wears a white apron. Compared with those beautiful female disciples in the sect, she looks a little unkempt.

Her face flushed, and she immediately cast a spell to cover her personal belongings. She stammered and explained, "Sometimes refining the elixir takes days and nights, and even just meditating still makes me tired, so I got a bed and placed it here."

Yun Yi said sympathetically, "Since this is where Senior Sister rests, why don't we go outside?"

"No need. I trust Junior Brother Yun's character."

Su Qing had already said so, and Yun Yi would seem unmanly if he continued to worry about it, so he took out some herbs from the Sumeru Ring, and the room was instantly filled with a fragrance.

The little red snake was the most excited. It immediately found the dragon fruit and used its body to form a circle to surround it, as if saying, "This must be given to me."

Su Qing's eyes lit up, and her expression became enthusiastic. She asked, "Are these all yours?!"

Yun Yi was startled, "Senior Sister, calm down."

"Let me see, the thousand-year-old bean fruit, white angelica fragrant leaves, and holy bamboo...are all medicinal herbs that are over a hundred years old!" Su Qing actually started biting his thumb, as if he was suppressing some desire. "If you can refine these into pills, your Spiritual Transformation Realm will be within your reach."

The little red snake stuck out its tongue and touched the dragon fruit, as if it couldn't wait to swallow it up.

Su Qing quickly stopped him: "Be patient, it will be most effective for you if you refine it into a pill... Junior brother, put the herbs into the Xumi Ring first. I have memorized what is inside."

Yun Yi asked curiously, "Why do you want to put it away?"

"If you don't put it away, I'm afraid I'll go crazy."

"Good good."

Yun Yi hurriedly did as he was told, but he still kept the dragon fruit and handed it to Su Qing.

Su Qing was not in a hurry to take it: "Do you trust me so much?"

Yun Yi smiled and nodded.

"Okay, thank you very much, junior brother." Su Qing secretly glanced at Yun Yi and found that he was much more pleasing to the eye than before.

He used to be a novice alchemy expert who wasted medicinal materials, but now he is a novice alchemy expert with a pure heart.

Still a rookie after all.

The whole scene was seen by Song Xinci who was hiding outside the house. She clenched her fists silently. Firstly, she didn't understand where Yun Yi got so many exotic flowers and plants, and secondly, she always felt that the two people in the house were flirting with each other, which was disgusting.

Especially the woman named Su Qing, who actually brought an unfamiliar man into her boudoir. It is really hard to describe.

"Is it so great to be able to refine pills?" Song Xinci didn't understand why Yun Yi seemed to attach great importance to Su Qing. After thinking about it, she decided to kidnap the senior sister of the Dan Pavilion and Yun Yi together after she found the traitor who colluded with the Burial Sword Valley from the Fuyao Sect.

Since you like refining pills so much, what can't you refine in the Demonic Sect or the Orthodox Sect?
(End of this chapter)