Cold Clouds

Lin Xiaoxiao pulled out five ginsengs as thick as white radishes and stuffed them into a basket. Why not use a basket? Because the basket couldn't hold such large ginsengs......

So Lin Xiaoxiao put on a hat and let Xuanming lie on her shoulders before going out.

After walking for about half an hour, Lin Xiaoxiao arrived at Jinlan City. Lin Xiaoxiao walked to the auction house and took down the basket.

"Little girl, not everything is sold at the auction house..." The professional fake smile on the receptionist's face froze after Lin Xiaoxiao slammed the basket on the table and displayed the five ginsengs.

"Miss... the amount you get is high-quality spirit stones... if possible, please establish long-term cooperation with our auction house... eh?" After the auction, the president of the auction house wiped the sweat from his forehead, and when he looked up, Lin Xiaoxiao had already run away with the mustard seed bag.

I should wear a mask next time, or buy a robe, Lin Xiaoxiao decided in her heart.

Then, after Lin Xiaoxiao spent less than one high-quality spirit stone to buy clothes and other daily necessities, she realized that she seemed to have made a fortune!

Now I don’t have to worry about food and clothing anymore.

Lin Xiaoxiao returned to the valley, changed out of her coarse linen clothes and put on a light blue silk dress. It was indeed a lot more comfortable to wear.

Pulling out a cabbage that looked like jade, Lin Xiaoxiao took a big bite and sat in the wooden house to read the alchemy book.

Lin Xiaoxiao, who traveled through time, was an excellent student before she traveled through time. Although she was not as exaggerated as someone who could remember everything she saw, her memory was still relatively good.

After tossing and turning for a whole day, Lin Xiaoxiao didn't feel very hungry. Perhaps it was because the abundant spiritual power in the cabbage was really filling.

The next day, Lin Xiaoxiao started to refine pills. In just two months, she had refined all the pill recipes stored in the wooden house. This does not mean that Lin Xiaoxiao has already refined all the pills, because some of the pill recipes stored in the wooden house are incomplete. Lin Xiaoxiao mixed some of them according to the incomplete recipes and made some low-end versions of high-level pills. There are also some pills in this wooden house that only exist in records. But for now, Lin Xiaoxiao has already refined most of the pills that will be used.

......

On the day when Lin Xiaoxiao sold the five ginsengs, in the Yunjian Sect's medical hall, Sect Master Qin Feng walked in with five ginsengs as thick as white radishes. He placed the five ginsengs on the small table beside the bed of Song Hanyun, who was now fine but was still forcibly detained in the medical hall.

"Hanyun, this is something I saw by chance in the auction house when I first went to Jinlan City to look around. Come, eat it. It's good for your health." Qin Feng patted Song Hanyun's shoulder and said earnestly.

"Master, my injury has healed..." Before Song Hanyun could finish his words, Qin Feng raised his hand to interrupt him.

"It's good for your health. Is there anything wrong with your injury?" Qin Feng waved his hand, then got up and left.

Song Hanyun picked up a ginseng and examined it.

Seriously, is it against the law of heaven to refine the elixir and then give it to me to eat?

"Ah..." Song Hanyun took a bite of ginseng and widened his eyes. This thing... is so bitter!

However, the spiritual power in it was really sufficient. Song Hanyun ate half of it with a distorted face and almost vomited it out.

"Third senior brother, the sect master asked me to help you refine those five bitter ginseng into pills..." Lu Renjia, the fifth disciple of the Yunjian sect, walked into Song Hanyun's ward and was stunned when he saw the scene in front of him.

"Brother, you are really fierce..."

Song Hanyun silently put down the half-eaten ginseng, looked out the window and sighed.

Must find a chance to go out and relax.

......

"Hmm, this tastes good." Lin Xiaoxiao took a bite of the spiritual plant that looked like a cucumber and lay on Xuan Ming.

What is this called? It looks like a cucumber but is red... It seems to be a red melon... Lin Xiaoxiao looked at the red melon she had taken a bite of and thought about what to do next.

Why don't we go for a walk in the forest?

Lin Xiaoxiao did what she said. She let Xuanming lie on her shoulders and walked into the forest. Although the original book did not mention what was in this forest, it was just a waste of time.

Lin Xiaoxiao looked around but didn't encounter any monsters. Instead, she found a lot of strange plants, such as a flower with a big mouth and thorns on its head that twisted around. She always felt a strong sense of déjà vu... This flower was even purple... It was just so small that it didn't look like it could swallow the iron bucket and the zombie in one gulp.

Finally I took it back and planted it.

"From now on, you will be called A Zi." Lin Xiaoxiao patted A Zi's head... No, it should be called calyx, right?

The next day, Lin Xiaoxiao went to buy a flower pot.

Looking at A Zi swaying in the flowerpot, Lin Xiaoxiao began to seriously wonder whether there were such things as exploding potatoes in this forest.

Xuanming came close to Ah Zi, a centipede and a flower were staring at each other... How could I have such an idea? Lin Xiaoxiao looked at Xuanming and Ah Zi, chewing a piece of Yingshui grass in her mouth, sitting on a chair beside the table in front of the wooden house with her chin in her hand.

Should I practice a little? Lin Xiaoxiao looked inside her own spiritual roots. She had three spiritual roots: wood, fire, and water. Her talent was not particularly bad, but her cultivation speed was definitely not fast. Although the spiritual energy in Medicine King Valley was very abundant, and there were many natural treasures and elixirs that could provide spiritual power, there was no technique to practice...

Forget it, just put it aside. I'm not going out to fight anyway.

Speaking of fighting, Lin Xiaoxiao suddenly remembered that there would be a seven-sect competition in five months. At that time, the Medicine King Valley would seem to be briefly connected to the secret realm used in the competition due to spatial fluctuations.

It seemed like they still had to fight... Lin Xiaoxiao had a helpless look on her face as she went to refine several furnaces of elixirs that were effective for cultivation. If she ate the high-level ones, even the inheritance of Medicine King Valley might not be able to save her life, so Lin Xiaoxiao only ate the lower-level ones, and threw the high-level ones to Xuan Ming, and also fed a few to A Zi.

Then Lin Xiaoxiao found the only thing in the box in the cabin that was not a pharmacopoeia of elixir prescriptions - "The Book of Spells".

This thing was mentioned in the original book, but it didn't work.

Lin Xiaoxiao opened it with curiosity. On the page of the catalog, it said: Make a little man out of straw, stick a talisman with the name of the person being cursed on it, and then hammer the nail into the little man. (Please note that this method of casting a spell is not 100% effective. If you want to increase the success rate, you can drop a few drops of the person being cursed's blood, and please make sure that your mental strength is higher than that of the person being cursed.)

Isn't this... just a voodoo doll? Lin Xiaoxiao raised her eyebrows. Could it be... this isn't something serious? No, the book says that people with bad intentions cannot enter Medicine King Valley...

Lin Xiaoxiao took a look at the author of "The Book of Spells" and was shocked. This book that didn't look like a serious thing was actually written by Lu Ping, who was supposed to be a medical practitioner.

Then it's okay for me to learn it, right? Lin Xiaoxiao's eyes flashed with a gleam of light. She remembered the names of all the people mentioned in the original book in the Seven Sects Competition.

Go buy some things you need.

On the other side, Song Hanyun was finally let down the mountain by Qin Feng, and Lu Renjia went down the mountain with him.

He had no idea where the magical place he had fallen into when he was being chased was, nor did he know where his savior was. The only thing he knew was that the person who saved him was a woman with black hair and twin ponytails, and she seemed to have a centipede.

Forget it, let’s talk about this later. Now just relax.

Song Hanyun, who had not gone down the mountain for more than two months, finally felt a little relieved at this time. He went to the tea shop, ordered a cup of tea, and looked at the bustling crowd on the street.

Men, women, young and old, tall and short, fat and thin, all kinds of people were walking on the street. There was a little girl with pigtails running around, and there was also a girl with two ponytails strolling leisurely with a centipede lying on her shoulder.

Ah, what a beautiful and relaxing scene...

No, a black-haired girl with twin ponytails and a centipede? Song Hanyun turned his head and happened to meet Lin Xiaoxiao's eyes.

Lin Xiaoxiao, who just wanted to have a cup of tea, saw Song Hanyun staring at her.

What are you doing? You don't have any money for tea? We are not familiar with each other. We are really not familiar with each other.

Lin Xiaoxiao took half a step back, and Song Hanyun stood up in a flash and walked over in two steps.

Lu Renjia, who was having tea opposite Song Hanyun, looked up in confusion and saw Song Hanyun walking towards Lin Xiaoxiao.

What's going on? Never mind. It has nothing to do with me.

"Miss, a few months ago..." Song Hanyun had just opened his mouth when Lin Xiaoxiao waved her hand.

"No, I'm wrong. Goodbye." Lin Xiaoxiao said as she backed away, trying to turn around and run away.

Lin Xiaoxiao suddenly felt a pain in her butt. She turned around and saw a magical creature about the size of a sheep, with thick black hair all over its body and a horn on its head standing behind her. It stared at Lin Xiaoxiao with its bright eyes, stomped its feet, then lowered its head and poked Lin Xiaoxiao's butt with its horn.

What is this? Lin Xiaoxiao was confused for a moment, and Song Hanyun spoke at the right time.

"This is Xiezhi, a mythical beast that can distinguish right from wrong, good from evil, loyalty from treachery. If it hears someone lying, it will butt that person with its horns from behind." Song Hanyun looked at Lin Xiaoxiao, his eyes giving Lin Xiaoxiao a feeling of "Do you have anything to say?"

I can't hide it anymore. I'm going to be dragged into the main story. It's really troublesome. Lin Xiaoxiao sighed and admitted helplessly: "Okay, I saved him."

Xiezhi nodded with satisfaction and left.

"Then, may I ask who your master is and what's your name?" Song Hanyun cleared his throat and asked, "I'm sorry, I've gotten used to a more formal environment recently, so my questioning has been affected... I haven't introduced myself yet."

"I am Song Hanyun from the Yunjian Sect. May I ask your name, young lady?"

"Tosaka Lin... it hurts!" Lin Xiaoxiao was about to tell a lie when her buttocks started to hurt again. She turned around and saw Xiezhi, "Okay, you came back as soon as I lied. How come you, a divine beast, are so idle?" Helpless, Lin Xiaoxiao had to tell the truth, "Lin Xiaoxiao, there is no master."

"Okay, let's go. Bye." Lin Xiaoxiao ran away and turned a corner and went straight back to Medicine King Valley.

Song Hanyun chased to the corner and was a little confused when he saw that the person was gone. Although he was a little slow to react and started chasing, it shouldn't be that much, right? He was at least a half-step Yuanying, how could he not catch up with a foundation-building person?

Song Hanyun returned to the teahouse confused. Lu Renjia was eating his tenth plate of snacks and asked, "Who is it?"

"The person who saved me before." Song Hanyun sat down and ordered another cup of tea.

"what is it call?"

"Lin Xiaoxiao."

"Lin Xiaoxiao?" Lu Renjia seemed to remember something. "I've heard that she was the third senior sister of Lingxia Sect. About three months ago, Tang Zhen drove her down the mountain."

"Brother, I'm telling you, don't tell anyone else what happened next. I got this information from their Lingxia Sect's second brother Lu Miyi," Lu Renjia quietly approached Song Hanyun, "Lu Miyi said that Lin Xiaoxiao didn't do anything wrong, she just didn't find a certain herb. The place where the herb grew was not a place for a foundation-building cultivator to go, and she almost died there. Their sect leader has nothing to do all day, and he doesn't go there himself, just to find a reason to drive Lin Xiaoxiao out."

"The medicinal field of their sect was opened by Lin Xiaoxiao, and the walls of the previous sect master's hall were all built by Lin Xiaoxiao. It seems that their sect master also confiscated the mustard seed bag when Lin Xiaoxiao left." After Lu Renjia finished speaking, he put a piece of snack into his mouth.

Lu Renjia glanced at Song Hanyun and said, "Brother, your expression doesn't look very good."

"Of course, Lin Xiaoxiao is my savior, and Lingxia Sect, as one of the seven major sects, actually did such a thing..." Song Hanyun frowned slightly, finished his tea, and stood up, "Let's go back to the sect."

"What's wrong?" Lu Renjia packed up the unfinished snacks and followed Song Hanyun.

"Retreat."

"Why? Don't you want to relax?" Lu Renjia asked puzzledly.

"The senior brother of Lingxia Sect is only in the early stage of Nascent Soul, right?" Song Hanyun didn't turn around, his voice was carried to Lu Renjia's ears through the wind.

"Yes, yes, what's wrong?" Lu Renjia was even more confused.

"I want to kill all the people in Lingxia Sect." Song Hanyun turned slightly and looked at Lu Renjia. The scabbard at his waist was illuminated by the sunlight. His slightly long hair was blown by the wind, fluttering in the wind along with his robe.

Senior Brother... Lu Renjia looked at Song Hanyun's back and said silently in his heart, you looked a bit like the male protagonist in the picture book just now.

But why didn't you pose like this when Lin Xiaoxiao was here? Why are you posing now that the heroine is gone...