Fairy, help me cultivate.

Thinking about it, he couldn't help but take out a bottle of pills and look at it.

Are you sure there are no hidden dangers associated with these things?

Just then, three virtual cards appeared before his eyes.

Through our interactions along the way, we can now extract Jiang Bailian's talent attributes.

Chen Yao randomly picked one.

[Congratulations, host! You have obtained the female cultivator's green attribute - Insightful Eyes (Accuracy in identifying alchemy materials +10%, Alchemy aptitude +50)]

Hui... Hui what?

Chen Yao glanced strangely at Jiang Bailian, who was sitting on the ground smelling flowers and had twisted her ankle, and thought to himself, "What kind of insight is that..."

【Daoist Alchemy (50)】

Regardless, his eyesight was not poor, and when he looked at the Soul Burial Flower, he could even see the wisps of light blue substance flowing on it.

These bluish substances likely represent the quality of this flower in terms of alchemy; the thicker and denser the strands, the higher the quality.

The alchemy skill has progressed from 0 to 50, which is actually quite good.

Chen Yao was quite satisfied with Jiang Bailian's talent attributes, but not so much with the eccentric Jiang Bailian himself...

He silently walked over, wanting to open her delicate white hands and help her up, but unexpectedly Jiang Bailian wrapped her arms around his neck and buried her face in her full, overflowing chest.

?

Chen Yao could feel her cheeks being teased by two protruding points, and her nose and lips were deeply encased in the deep groove.

"I...I'm scared..."

Jiang Bailian trembled, her voice trembling, and even the bulge covering Chen Yao's cheeks trembled and rubbed.

Chen Yao sensed that she was perfectly safe around her, and at that moment she realized that it was the so-called Soul Burial Flower that had affected her.

"..."

Was she trying to trick me into smelling it?

After a while, Jiang Bailian released Chen Yao, stole a glance at him, and said awkwardly, "I didn't expect... the Soul-Burial Flower could also have a bewitching effect... but it only lasts for a short while..."

She glanced at Chen Yao timidly.

Chen Yao pursed her lips, got up, and walked down the mountain. She thought to herself, "Do you really think I'd believe you only just found out?"

“Junior Brother Chen…”

"how?"

Chen Yao stopped in her tracks.

"I...I twisted my ankle..."

Chen Yao sighed, walked back, and grasped her slightly swollen, white-stockinged ankle.

Jiang Bailian let out a soft "oh" as if she had been burned, her delicate cheeks flushed red, and her listless eyes stared blankly at Chen Yao.

"Senior sister, you're supposed to be a Foundation Establishment cultivator who's reached a high level, how could you possibly sprain your ankle like that?"

As Chen Yao spoke, he took out a bottle of fine ghee from his pocket.

The ghee used by the immortals naturally has a cooling and swelling-reducing effect.

The bottle was tilted to the side, and thick ghee dripped from his fingertips, piling up in a layer before overflowing into his fingers and palm.

"Do...do I need to take off my stockings...?"

Jiang Bailian seemed a little embarrassed at this moment, and mumbled in a low voice.

"Need not."

White stockings... um, especially white stockings under pants, they're really nice...

Chen Yao coughed and pressed his hand, which was covered in thick ghee, onto his cool, smooth, white ankle that revealed tender, jade-like skin.

Jiang Bailian's cheeks flushed, and she let out a soft "hmm." Her small feet, hidden in flesh-colored high heels, suddenly clenched her toes.

Chapter 41 Jiang Bailian, the Man in White but Black

Chen Yao carefully applied ghee to Jiang Bailian's feet. Although he was extremely interested in her small, white feet in high heels and pink stockings, his gaze kept drifting to her bare pink and white stocking heels while he was applying the ghee.

But since the two weren't close enough... uh, no, the timing wasn't right, so it wasn't appropriate to force the oil onto her feet.

"Try it, can you leave now?"

Chen Yao helped Jiang Bailian up. Jiang Bailian leaned forward slightly, her two large, round breasts pressing against his forearm. Suddenly, through the fabric, she kissed Chen Yao's arm.

Jiang Bailian gasped for breath, quickly stood up straight, and secretly glanced at him. When she saw Chen Yao turn his head to look at the green mountains, she breathed a sigh of relief and felt her ankle.

Clatter, clatter.

The high heels clicked crisply on the rocks.

"Hey! It doesn't hurt anymore!"

Jiang Bailian smiled, her opinion of this annoying junior brother from Hanyu Peak improved significantly.

"Junior Brother Chen, what kind of magical pill is this? Do you have the recipe? Could you teach me?"

She quickly turned her attention back to her old profession.

Sister, not all medicines are elixirs, okay? And what's wrong with you? Haven't you ever even seen ghee before?

Chen Yao was about to complain when he suddenly realized... wasn't this a perfect opportunity to get her pill formula for free?

"Senior sister is interested?"

Jiang Bailian nodded happily: "Yes, yes!"

She quickly lowered her head, released Chen Yao's arm, twisted her two slender fingers together, and whispered, "Could you teach me...?"

Seeing that she had returned to her quiet and shy demeanor, Chen Yao felt a pang of guilt for deceiving the innocent girl.

"sure!"

"Ah—" Jiang Bailian looked up blankly, feeling that Chen Yao's image had grown much taller in that instant.

Well, just for this moment... if he weren't someone from Han Yufeng whom he disliked, it could have lasted a little longer...

"Please enlighten me, junior brother!"

Chen Yao looked troubled: "However, to be honest, the recipe for this ghee was given to me by my most respected old friend..."

I'm not wrong, it really was taught by my senior sister Yuanhe!

He stole a glance at Jiang Bailian, who was standing there dumbfounded, waiting for her reaction. To be honest, this guy looked a bit dazed; he wondered if he could even understand the unspoken meaning.

Jiang Bailian stood there blankly, but her brain, trained by the high-precision pill formula material research mission of the second meridian of the Danfang, had already analyzed countless possible purposes for Chen Yao's words in that instant.

At the same time, his image in her mind quickly plummeted back to where it was.

Those annoying junior brothers from Hanyu Peak.

She frowned slightly: "Junior Brother Chen, do you want to exchange pill formulas with me?"

!

Chen Yao was stunned for a moment, still somewhat unaccustomed to her suddenly efficient thought process.

"yes……"

He tried to put it more tactfully, but Jiang Bailian silenced him with a pile of pill formulas and jade slips that she took out from her mithril ring.

Jiang Bailian spread the jade slips in the air like a peacock spreading its tail.

"We can only choose another one."

She reminded Chen Yao, and then began to explain.

"This is the Creation Essence Yang Pill..."

"This is the Mysterious Female Rebirth Pill..."

"This is the Transformation and Enlightenment Pill..."

???

Wait... wait, these are top-tier pill formulas that even you can't refine yourself!

What would I do with this thing? It's utterly useless except for attracting people to hunt me down!

Besides, if the elders of your alchemy department find out that I tricked you out of your top-tier alchemy recipe using a common ghee formula, they might secretly poison the pills supplied to Hanyu Peak...

Chen Yao glanced at the "arrogant" Jiang Bailian, and even suspected that she might also have such ill intentions.

Considering her behavior all along, this girl is indeed a wolf in sheep's clothing...

"Senior Sister Jiang, I'd like to exchange for a more practical pill formula, preferably one that I can currently refine..."

Hearing Chen Yao say that, Jiang Bailian, who already seemed dull, became even more so.

Did he guess that I planted a landmine for him?

"Refine? Junior Brother Chen, you mean...you want to refine pills?"

She squinted, trying to see the person in front of her as clearly as possible.

How many eyes does he have?! There's not a trace of alchemy aura about him, which means he's never refined pills before. How dare he say he wants to refine pills in front of me?

"What, you don't believe me?"

Jiang Bailian pursed her lips: "I don't believe it."

"..."

You're quite honest.

Not wanting to waste time, Chen Yao strode down the mountain towards Jiulan Village, saying, "Senior Sister, please consider it."

Jiang Bailian felt even more uncomfortable when she noticed his seemingly confident demeanor.

I am the leader among the new generation of disciples in the Alchemy Room. No other later alchemy master has dared to be so confident in front of me, let alone someone who hasn't even entered the field...

She pursed her lips: "Alright! Junior Brother Chen, when we go down the mountain later, I'll teach you a recipe for a Qi-restoring pill. If you can refine it in front of me, I'll teach you a recipe for a superior-grade pill!"