âMagistrate Xu.â Muyan turns to her side, towards Xu Fu whoâs dripping with sweat, âGiving my herbs to other people is you, Xu Fu, going back on your word. Or do you mean to say that Ghost Cityâs promised treatment towards a Shenshu is nothing but a lie?ân/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om
âThis... this... I...â Xu Fu is completely like a cat on a hot tin roof.
He wants to please Shi Lanling, but he also doesnât want to offend the newly named Shenshu-daren.
Especially as the knowing and scornful gazes from the other people of the Ghost City come upon him, further making him feel as if heâs sitting on pins and needles.
Shi Lanling merely bursts into a giggling laughter, âShenshu? There hasnât been a Shenshu in the Ghost City for three hundred years. Who knows if this sudden appearance is real or fake. If someone shows off a fake Shenshu token to commit fraud, scamming a lot of drug ingredients from the Ghost City, who would be accountable for such a crime?â
âItâs that!â Rui Zhu goes along and says, âThe Ghost Cityâs Shenshu, isnât it a person of virtue and prestige, and someone who is equal to a Ghost King? But when you say that itâs a mere girl who is less than twenty years old, someone who canât do alchemy, yet she can obtain a Shenshu token â who would believe that?!â
As soon as these words come out, everyone looks at Muyan with their eyes tinted with suspicion.
Indeed, Muyan is really too young.
Her skin is fairer than snow, features as beautiful as a painting. If she doesnât have a small child beside her, she would appear like an absolutely beautiful but frail little girl.
How could she possibly have a Shenshu token?
A sliver of a smile finally appears on Shi Lanlingâs face. She unhurriedly gets up from her seat, and slowly makes her way before Muyan.
Her voice is gentle, but it has a hint of standoffish disdain, âMiss Jun, you have to know that a lot of these precious herbs can only be utilized in alchemy. You canât do alchemy at all, so it would only be a needless waste of resources if you take these ingredients with you. Why bother?â
âOr maybe...â She suddenly pauses, sending a sidelong glance towards Di Ming Jue, âmaybe itâs because of that time in front of Di Jun, I said that you canât concoct Pills, so you felt unwillingness in your heart and wanted to attempt alchemy?â
Looking at the expressionless face of the girl in front of her, Shi Lanling thinks that this is really the otherâs goal. She feels incredibly pleased in her heart.
Then she canât help but let out a giggling laugh, âDid I really get it right? Miss Jun, I know that your talent in refining medicine is pretty good. However, even though draughts and Elixirs are both medicines, their differences are heaven and earth apart. The value of a draught is far lacking, that it couldnât be placed on par with an Elixir.â
âIs it possible that you think, since you can refine draughts â then you can take some drug ingredients, casually experiment, and be able to learn how to do alchemy? Youâre rather too naive.â
Rui Zhu quickly walks over to Shi Lanlingâs side, supporting the latter. With arrogance and disdain on her face, âMiss Jun, you should know that in the entire Yanwu Continent, there are no more than five people who can do alchemy. Moreover, such a resoundingly famous one like our Miss is totally like a phoenix feather and unicorn horn*, that only Heavenly Road Sectâs Great Master Jian Feng can be mentioned in the same breath as her. You want to just learn to do alchemy and concoct Pills, haha, are you cracking a joke?â
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Everyone around also smiles, shaking their heads.
Thatâs right!
How could alchemy be such an easy thing?
In the Ghost City, there are actually a lot of doctors, and a lot of people who can refine draughts.
But aside from Shi Lanling, thereâs no one who can do alchemy.
This is the reason why Shi Lanlingâs status in the Ghost City could be so high.
Throughout the Yanwu Continent, methods and prescriptions of alchemy are spread everywhere.
But every attempt in alchemy almost always results in furnace explosion and failure.