This cultivation world was never serious from the start.

"Huh? Didn't you say that?" Su Zhe asked in surprise.

Qinghuan and Chen Feng, standing nearby, were shocked. "No, the sect leader is dead?"

"That's not the point," Su Zhe said casually.

Chen Feng felt like his worldview was being reshaped.

The Heavenly Inquiry Sect, the undisputed number one sect in the cultivation world, kept its sect leader's death a secret—that's the most important point!

"That strange stone is a fragment of the mountain that gave birth to Senior Mountain Spirit. Before Senior Mountain Spirit was born, it received the baptism of the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth day and night, so it contains many Dao principles, but the Dao principles are mixed and there is almost no systematic content."

The Fourth Elder spoke first.

If it is truly a rare and wondrous stone, why has no one else tried to appreciate it all these years?

"But Su Zhe and the others have all comprehended the cultivation technique..." Qing Huan muttered softly.

"Is any of the three of them normal?" the Fourth Elder asked rhetorically.

Qinghuan immediately fell silent.

"No, senior, I don't like hearing you say that," Su Zhe said righteously, trying to defend himself.

"So, when did our sect leader fall?"

  

Chen Feng was still troubled by the matter of the sect leader's spirit in heaven.

"It should be soon. It's been so many years since I've been back, it's probably all rotten by now."

The Fourth Elder thought for a moment and then spoke seriously.

"Huh?" Chen Feng's eyes widened, and he spoke in disbelief.

"You brat, you've made my little disciple so sad for so long, you must make it up to me."

The Fourth Elder ignored the irrelevant question of whether the Sect Master was dead or not, and instead looked at Su Zhe.

"Didn't you already beat me up?!" Su Zhe exclaimed in shock.

"That was me hitting her to vent my anger, it wasn't to vent my anger for Qinghuan!" the Fourth Elder said righteously. "How about this, Qinghuan has been practicing some basic pills recently, you two can go and take a look and give her some advice when you have nothing to do."

Even after Su Zhe emphasized that he had something to do, he was still taken back to Danfeng by the Fourth Elder.

As for Chen Feng, this kid probably hadn't been to Danfeng before, so he readily agreed.

In response, Su Zhe said that Chen Feng was still too young and did not know how to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages.

As soon as Chen Feng arrived at Danfeng, he heard a painful sound, but the sound itself didn't seem to be in much pain.

"Ah! Good... Ah! Well done... Ah!"

Zhang Haizhu's wails echoed across Danfeng.

The two looked in the direction of the sound and saw an old man who looked to be in his sixties or seventies tied to a tree, with several Danfeng disciples punishing him slightly.

Zhang Haizhu also saw Su Zhe and was so excited that he almost crawled over to kill him.

Su Zhe couldn't help but shed tears, "I never imagined that Haizhu would have such a peculiar hobby."

Chen Feng originally wanted to go and save Zhang Haizhu, but when he heard the other man cheering wildly while being beaten, he stopped in his tracks.

"It's rare for Brother Zhang to have such a refined interest, so I'd better not disturb him." Chen Feng shook his head.

I can't bear to look, I really can't bear to look.

I never expected that this old man, who's practically halfway to the grave, would still like this kind of thing, and even cheer wildly when he gets beaten up.

No wonder he liked to stage accidents in Tianwen City; he probably wanted to wait for the other party to make a move...

As Zhang Haizhu watched Su Zhe and Chen Feng walk further and further away, tears welled up in his eyes.

"You bastard! If I hadn't taken painkillers, I wouldn't still be getting beaten up!"

……

At the alchemy pavilion on Danfeng Peak, Su Zhe obtained the Bigu Pill refined by Qinghuan.

This is the first alchemy room that most alchemists come into contact with, because the ingredients of the Bigu Pill are all edible materials, so even if the refining fails, there will be no side effects, at most just a few days of diarrhea.

"Senior brother, please try the fasting pills I made." Qinghuan happily brought over a tray with two bright red pills on it.

Su Zhe smiled, picked up a pill, and popped it into his mouth. As he chewed, he asked, "It looks a bit red. What did you add when you refined it?"

"Crane's Crest Red," Qinghuan answered honestly.

"Oh, it's arsenic. I thought it was pigment..." Su Zhe was taken aback. "Arsenic?"

He quickly looked at Qinghuan, hoping to hear from her that she was joking, but she looked completely serious.

Chen Feng, who was standing next to him, was already gagging, and Su Zhe followed closely behind. The two of them were lying next to the alchemy furnace, gagging and retching.

"I feel that alchemists' methods of fighting enemies are too weak. We can't always rely on the strength of our seniors, so I developed a fasting pill with the flavor of arsenic and set up a stall to sell it near the enemy's house, eliminating them from the root of the problem."

Qinghuan spoke with an obedient expression.

Su Zhe's eyes widened upon hearing this, staring in disbelief at the charming yet somewhat shy girl before him, unable to believe that such words would come from her mouth.

"You should be the Demon Prince of the Heavenly Demon Sect..." Chen Feng said.

Worried that he hadn't completely expelled the toxins, Su Zhe quickly took out another bottle of pills from his pocket, which was the Invulnerability Pill that Senior Brother Bai Yi had given him at the beginning.

Without any hesitation, Su Zhe gave Chen Feng another one, and the two swallowed them together.

Sure enough, after the pill entered his body, Su Zhe felt warm all over, and the nausea he had felt earlier gradually dissipated. However, his vision was a little red, as if there was an extra filter, which should be a side effect of detoxification.

"Senior Brother Bai Yi is actually somewhat reliable..." Su Zhe breathed a sigh of relief.

He was afraid that he would be poisoned after eating it, but he was in Danfeng, so even if he was poisoned, it should be fine... right?

"Junior Sister Qinghuan, listen to me, don't refine the Bigu Pill anymore." Su Zhe looked at Qinghuan and said with a serious expression.

In his view, Qinghuan's clothes had all turned red, and her whole body was flushed red.

"Senior brother, you..." Qinghuan's expression was complicated, her gaze shifting between Su Zhe and Chen Feng, hesitant to speak.

"It's alright. We took the Invulnerability Pill given to us by Senior Brother Bai Yi, and we're much better now," Su Zhe said.

Chen Feng, standing next to him, nodded, "I also feel like I've recovered, there are just some aftereffects, but it's nothing serious."

Anyway, it's definitely much better than just swallowing arsenic whole.

"But Master said that the Bigu Pill is a formula that every alchemist must master..." Qinghuan hesitated and struggled.

Su Zhe paused for a moment upon hearing this, then looked at Qing Huan with a serious expression, "Are you strong?"

Qinghuan clearly didn't expect Su Zhe to ask that question, but she nodded in surprise.

A cultivator at the mid-stage of Qi Refining must have much greater strength than an ordinary person!

"That makes things easier. Here's what we'll do: go find ten pounds of black sesame seeds, ten pounds of sugar, ten pounds of flour..."

Su Zhe leaned close to Qing Huan's ear and whispered something.

"Okay, okay." Qinghuan didn't ask why, she just went to prepare the things.

Soon, Qinghuan placed the thirty catties of ingredients into the alchemy furnace.

Following Su Zhe's instructions, Qing Huan boiled five catties of water, poured in thirty catties of ingredients, and stirred frantically...

Half an hour later, the thirty catties of ingredients had been condensed into ten dark pills, and Qinghuan beside her was exhausted.

"Senior brother, is it really okay for us to refine the Bigu Pill this way?" Qinghuan asked hesitantly.

"Tell me, if you eat one three-pound pill, who could possibly be hungry?" Su Zhe said confidently.

"No, what I mean is, isn't this all-black color scheme perfect for adding a little arsenic?"

"Senior brother?"

"Senior brothers, why aren't you saying anything?"

"Senior brothers, don't run away..."