“Miss, Ye Fan opened a pill shop in Spiritual Medicine Valley,” Qing Li said to Mu Xue.
Since Mu Xue arrived in the secret realm, she had been searching for the flame of life, but unfortunately, there had been no progress.
“Miss, what is that guy Ye Fan thinking? He lived in the bamboo forest for a while, and now he’s gone to Spiritual Medicine Valley. Is that guy not interested in the flame of life at all?” Qing Li asked.
Mu Xue shook her head and said without thinking, “Impossible!”
In Mu Xue’s opinion, since Ye Fan chose the wood-heart flame, he must be interested in the flame of life, but Ye Fan’s delay in taking action made Mu Xue suspicious.
“Miss, that guy opened a pill shop in Spiritual Medicine Valley, and he refines several medicinal pills every day. Won’t he be exhausted?” Qing Li said, puzzled.
Mu Xue secretly thought: If Ye Fan understood the Pill Pagoda’s soul power alchemy technique, he could use his soul power to refine pills. In that case, as long as Ye Fan’s soul power was strong enough, he could refine dozens of pots of pills a day.
Mu Xue shook her head and said, “I don’t know.”
“That guy seems to have made a lot of money. If you open a pill shop here, Miss, you will definitely make a lot of money. There are still a lot of spiritual herbs in this secret realm.” Qing Li said.
Mu Xue shook her head and said, “We don’t have the time.”
If she really opened a pill shop, it would not be as good as Ye Fan’s. Her alchemy efficiency was not as good as Ye Fan’s, and the success rate of alchemy was not as good as Ye Fan’s. Even if she could concoct alchemy as well as Ye Fan, she would be afraid of being robbed. Ye Fan contracted five puppets, and his combat power surpassed hers, plus the other party seemed to be proficient in formations.
Qing Li frowned, secretly thinking that it was a pity. During this time, they had been looking for the flame of life, and they had no time to break the restrictions to obtain spiritual herbs. After coming in for so long, they didn’t have any results to show for it.
“Miss, don’t you plan to advance to Golden Core yet?” Qing Li asked.
Mu Xue shook her head and said, “I’m afraid I won’t be able to advance to Golden Core here. The secret realm is a restricted space, and it can’t attract lightning* tribulations.”
Golden Core cultivators needed to face heavenly lightning tribulations to temper their bodies in order to form a golden core. There were no lightning tribulations in this place, so naturally there was no way to form a golden core.
Mu Xue frowned. Before coming to the Heavenly Wood Secret Realm, Mu Xue did a lot of research, but after entering, Mu Xue realized that she knew too little. There were many amazing and brilliant foreign cultivators in this place. These foreign cultivators all looked down on these “indigenous people”, and their attitude toward them was also very casual.
Many cultivators she knew had been killed. Mu Xue used to wonder why the survival rate during previous openings of the Heavenly Wood Secret Realm was so low. After seeing those people from outside their area, Mu Xue knew the reason. The news about foreign cultivators should have been deliberately blocked.
“Miss, if you can’t form a golden core, then we won’t be able to gain an advantage,” Qing Li said.
Mu Xue smiled coldly and said, “Actually, it should be a good thing that you can’t form a golden core here.”
Among the foreign cultivators, there were many cultivators who were at the peak of Foundation Establishment. If it was possible to form a golden core here, then she would not be the first one to form a golden core.
Qing Li looked at Mu Xue and couldn’t help but feel a little puzzled.
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Pill shop.
Bai Yunxi held his chin and secretly thought: It had been more than half a month. Ye Fan had collected a lot of spiritual herbs, and he was about ready to stop.
Bai Yunxi recently felt that there were a lot of cultivators watching secretly, and there was always a feeling that there was a target on his back. They had earned too much money recently, and if they continued to earn so much, the cultivators in the entire secret realm would be jealous.
Ye Fan turned his head, saw Bai Yunxi’s worried expression, and asked, “What’s wrong?”
“It’s nothing. We should prepare to close the shop,” Bai Yunxi said.
Ye Fan nodded and said, “That’s right. We have collected so many spiritual herbs, enough for us to cultivate to Golden Core. Recently, many people keep coming to our store to buy things, and they keep saying that our store is a black shop. How can such an upright person open a black shop? Since they’re saying that the shop I opened is a black shop, it would be better if I didn’t come! I really don’t know what these guys are thinking.”
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Bai Yunxi: “…” This was the same as buying a house. People kept complaining about rising house prices, but continued to buy!
Ye Fan looked at Bai Yunxi with bright eyes and asked, “Should we still go to the Heavenly Thunder Bamboo Forest?”
Bai Yunxi hesitated for a moment and said, “If you like it, fine.”
“I like body refining the most,” Ye Fan said.
Bai Yunxi looked at Ye Fan’s eyes and knew that Ye Fan’s mind was probably full of waste again. He was struck by lightning all day. What was there to like?
The Taotie ghost glanced at Ye Fan and said, “Ye Fan, your spiritual roots are so poor that if you don’t meditate and cultivate all day, and you only know how to refine your body, be careful that you stay in the middle stage of Foundation Establishment your whole life.”
Ye Fan glared at the Taotie ghost, and said angrily, “Go, go. What do you know!? I am a person who wants to reach God Transformation.”
The Taotie ghost giggled and said, “Your goal is quite lofty!”
Ye Fan smiled and said, “Of course.”
“Daydreaming!” The Taotie ghost lay down lazily, exposing his belly.
Ye Fan said proudly, “A dead ghost like you will not understand the aspirations of living people.”
Ao Xiaobao: “…”
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Taking advantage of the cover of night, Bai Yunxi and Ye Fan closed the pill shop and left Spiritual Medicine Valley.
As soon as Bai Yunxi and Ye Fan left, several cultivators chased after them.
Several cultivators continued to chase Bai Yunxi and Ye Fan for dozens of miles.
“Someone is chasing us,” Bai Yunxi said.
Ye Fan nodded and said, “En. Let’s find a secluded place and kill them all.”
Bai Yunxi: “…”
Ye Fan wanted to find a secluded place, and the people who were chasing the two of them obviously followed.
Finally reaching a secluded wasteland, Ye Fan stopped, bowed his head and looked back, waiting for the few people behind them to catch up.
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Under the night sky, Ye Fan and Bai Yunxi stood side by side, calmly facing the six cultivators who chased after them.
“What do you want to do?” Ye Fan asked coldly.
“Ye Fan, do you still remember my senior brother who died in vain?” Shen Weiping asked coldly.
Ye Fan looked at Shen Weiping and asked inexplicably, “Your senior brother? Who is your senior brother?”
Shen Weiping showed a look of righteous indignation. “Who is my senior brother? You stole my senior brother’s teleportation token, but you don’t even know who my senior brother is?”
Ye Fan suddenly understood and nodded, saying, “So your senior brother is that guy. You want to avenge your senior brother?”
“That’s right,” Shen Weiping said.
Ye Fan blinked, smiled and said, “That pirate is very popular! Someone will still come to avenge him when he dies. He is a pirate and your senior brother, so are you also a pirate?”
Shen Weiping looked at Ye Fan angrily and said, “Everyone, come on…”
Ye Fan curled his lips in displeasure, and said, “Getting annoyed after just a few words. Your temper is really bad!”
Ye Fan waved his hand, summoned five puppets, and said loudly, “Fuck them!”
The five puppets rushed toward several people at once. Zhao Yuxiong’s eyes were red when he saw the five puppets that Ye Fan took out.
The five puppets attacked flexibly under Ye Fan’s control.
“Entangle Ye Fan,” Shen Weiping said sharply.
Several cultivators bypassed the puppets and launched an attack on Ye Fan.
Ye Fan took out the Profound Dragon Seal and smashed it with a bang.
Before Zhao Yuxiong could sink his soul power into one puppet’s soul bead, another puppet kicked Zhao Yuxiong away.
Zhao Yuxiong was very angry, but in addition to his anger, he was also a little horrified. It took a lot of soul power to control five puppets. If it was him, just controlling the five puppets would be a little difficult. Ye Fan was entangled by several cultivators, but still had the spare time to control the puppets. It seemed easy for him.
Bai Yunxi’s spiritual sword was incomparably sharp, and the twelve swords came together at different times, penetrating with every move. Fan Zhongping’s spiritual weapon had cracks under Bai Yunxi’s repeated attacks.
Fan Zhongping originally thought he could deal with Bai Yunxi, but he was actually suppressed. Fan Zhongping was at the peak of Foundation Establishment, and was the foreign aid that Shen Weiping spent a lot of effort to invite.
“Explode.” Bai Yunxi smashed a stack of talismans toward Fan Zhongping.
Seven or eight talismans were activated at the same time, and the lethality was astonishing.
Fan Zhongping had to step back and avoid the edge. Bai Yunxi saw that the stack of talismans had failed, and smashed another stack of talismans.
Fan Zhongping was a loose cultivator, and most loose cultivators were poor. Although Fan Zhongping was powerful, he was often in short supply of spirit stones. He wished that one spirit stone could be broken into two. Seeing Bai Yunxi’s wasteful behavior, he couldn’t help vomiting blood.
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Ye Fan was controlling the puppets to fight back. A cultivator under Shen Weiping was hit by Ye Fan with the Profound Dragon Seal, and then was attacked by a puppet and died.
Shen Weiping couldn’t help being a little agitated when a junior brother died. “Fellow Daoist Zhao, have you succeeded yet?”
Zhao Yuxiong blushed. Shen Weiping bought him time, but Ye Fan’s soul imprint on the puppet was impregnable. As soon as Zhao Yuxiong’s soul force touched the soul imprint, it was as if he had encountered a wild beast. After a long time trying, it could be said that Zhao Yuxiong had made no progress at all.
Zhao Yuxiong saw that one of Shen Weiping’s subordinates died, and Fan Zhongping was forced to retreat by Bai Yunxi. He immediately said, “I don’t want the puppets anymore. I will not interfere with this matter.”
After Zhao Yuxiong said this, he immediately activated his spiritual weapon and fled.
Zhao Yuxiong’s behavior of escaping from the battle made Shen Weiping almost vomit blood.
Bai Yunxi looked at Zhao Yuxiong who was running away, and suddenly had a deeper understanding of his opponents who were not afraid of god-like opponents, but pig-like teammates.
Fan Zhongping originally thought that it would not be very difficult to deal with a sword cultivator in the middle stage of Foundation Establishment with his cultivation at the peak of Foundation Establishment. But he didn’t expect Bai Yunxi’s spiritual weapon to be astonishingly powerful and he even comprehended sword intent. Bai Yunxi also had many talismans. When it came to fighting, it was even more difficult to deal with than cultivators at the peak of Foundation Establishment.
Seeing that Zhao Yuxiong was about to escape, and Shen Weiping’s junior brother had died, Fan Zhongping immediately retreated. “Brother Shen, the goal is difficult. I will not take this business.”
Zhao Yuxiong and Fan Zhongping left one after another, and Shen Weiping could only call for his junior brothers to retreat.
Bai Yunxi watched several people retreat, but did not pursue. Bai Yunxi could feel that there were still a lot of prying eyes around. Once they showed fatigue, they might be taken advantage of.
“Let’s go,” Ye Fan said.
Bai Yunxi nodded and said, “Alright.”
…
Ye Fan and Bai Yunxi returned to the Heavenly Thunder Bamboo Forest.
Ye Fan still set up a protective formation outside the bamboo forest, and took medicinal pills to refine his body every day.
Ye Fan took the five puppets out. Bai Yunxi looked at Ye Fan and asked, “What are you doing?”
“There was something wrong with the puppets, so I fixed them. I also added a little lethal weapon to them.”
Bai Yunxi looked at Ye Fan and asked, “What destructive weapon?”
Ye Fan glanced at Bai Yunxi and smiled ostentatiously.
“I’ll show you.” Ye Fan brought a puppet to the ground, “Launch.”
The puppet waved his arm, and a Heavenly Thunder Bead was released. There was a loud “bang” sound, and a deep pit appeared on the flat ground in front of the puppet.
Ye Fan smiled and said, “I modified this puppet, and he can make ten such attacks. If we encounter this group of cultivators again, I can blow them up.”
Bai Yunxi nodded and said, “It’s a very good thing. What about after ten times?”
“After ten times, the Heavenly Thunder Beads need to be refilled. There might also be a problem with the barrel after ten launches, and it might also need to be replaced.”
Bai Yunxi nodded and said, “It’s a little troublesome, but there’s nothing we can do about it.”
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Ye Fan put away the puppet and returned to the cave residence.
Several cultivators who were hiding in the dark and watching, saw Ye Fan and Bai Yunxi leaving, and whispered.
“Senior brother, I think we should go, Ye Fan has a lot of benefits, but in this secret realm, opportunities are everywhere. We don’t need to waste time on him!”
“Yeah, yeah!”
“I didn’t expect Zhao Yuxiong’s puppets to be so powerful in Ye Fan’s hands.”
“That’s right! Zhao Yuxiong is a puppet master, but he can’t even look after his own puppets.”
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Shen Weiping approached Ye Fan and wanted to avenge his senior brother, but he lost the bride and his troops*. There were a lot of rumors going around the secret realm, and Zhao Yuxiong, who escaped from the battle, was also discredited.
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T/N: *Character used is 雷 (lei), which I’ve been translating as thunder, but in this context thunder tribulation doesn’t make sense since tribulations involve lightning strikes, so I’m translating this as lightning tribulation. I’m keeping thunder for other terms that use the 雷 (lei) character though (heavenly thunder bamboo, etc.).
*The idiom is actually to give away a bride and lose your army/troops on top of it. The bride is meant to be bait to trick the enemy as your army attacks, but you end up losing both. Idiom means to suffer a double loss after attempting to fool the enemy.
So he made a rocket launcher on the puppet. Oh god