Supreme Emperor of Mist

"Alright! I'm Qin Lan. Satisfied?" Qin Lan nodded at her with his hand still covering part of her mouth. Luckily, the number of guests on the second floor can be counted with the number of fingers available in a person's hands.

"I'm scared of you now, milady..." Qin Lan gently whispered beside Zhou Mei's ears.

"Em... Emm..." Zhou Mei slightly struggled to move Qin Lan's hand from her mouth. And it was done seductively. The way she moaned while moving her head made it seems like a maiden trying to invite the big bad wolf to behave outrageously.

Qin Lan loosens his grip on Zhou Mei's mouth. He also noticed that the other hand of his was actually on Zhou Mei's waist.

"You've taken too many advantages on me recently, don't you think so?" Zhou Mei lightly hammered Qin Lan's chest like they were a pair of lovebirds.

"I - I should be leaving." Qin Lan excused himself. Being put into such an embarrassing situation made him somewhat speechless. Of course, part of the reason he's behaving this way was due to his virtuous behavior and also because he was a married man.

"Are you trying to create trouble with that Liu Feiyang? Did something happen inside the Cloud Plucking Sect?" Zhou Mei asked. Based on her understanding of Qin Lan's eccentric attitude, she could roughly sense that something is wrong with Qin Lan.

"I must say, Lady Zhou... Your sense is a little too sharp. Had you tried to double-check your physique before? I think what you have is not the Spiritual Sense Body Physique, but Worldly Sense Physique." Qin Lan jokes.

(Ling-Qi Gan Ti - Spiritual Energy Sense Body)

(Fan-Jian Qi Gan Ti - Mortal Worldly Energy Sense Body, a pun used to tease Zhou Mei that her mind still lingers in mortal matters)

"You're teasing me again! Big bully!" Zhou Mei crossed her arms across her chest and turned around, pouting.

"I really have to leave. Let's keep those conversations for the next time we met." Qin Lan gave her a pat on her shoulder before he moves toward the staircase they came from.

"Qin Lan. Don't use the front door. Based on Liu Feiyang's attitude, he will be camping around the front door waiting for you to come out." Zhou Mei's expression became sour the moment Qin Lan is preparing to leave.

"Then..." Qin Lan asked.

"Follow me. I'll bring you out through another route." Zhou Mei led Qin Lan through a different route that brings them out of the Zhou Treasured Pavilion through a textile shop two stores away from the current building.

As they were walking side by side, Qin Lan removes his disguise. The black clothing was kept inside the Purple-Dragon Spatial Jade as he changed into his Azure-colored attire once more.

She guessed correctly.

The moment both of them made their way into the shopping street, several disciples with the armband of (Le) on their shoulder walked past them. They were all gathered outside of the Zhou Treasured Pavilion.

"Listen to me. Don't mess with Liu Feiyang for now. Although he's just a seventh-level Flesh Refining Cultivator, his background is not as simple as you think. His mother is the younger sister of Ouyang Jie, the owner of Le-Xin Dwelling." Zhou Mei reminded him again.

"I know that." Qin Lan nodded. He admitted in his heart that he's indeed a little too reckless a while back there.

"Great. Just pay attention to that before you take action against it... Hey! I haven't finished yet!" Zhou Mei yelled at Qin Lan, who tries to sneak away from her side.

"A**hole!" Zhou Mei stomps her feet on the ground to vent some of her anger away.

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Qin Lan was greeted with a stack of Wooden Request Boards hanging on his door when he returned to the Lower-Xuan Room.

"Look's like I will have to finish my task before I can start working on my own things." Qin Lan chuckled and went to the Pill Request Hall for ingredients. He completed all the orders two days later.

"Please reject all requests except for fellow disciple Shan Xiong Xin's. I will enter a seclusion training session for a week starting from today." Qin Lan said.

"Noted. Good luck, fellow disciple Qin Lan." the female receptionist smiled at Qin Lan as she politely replied to him.

"It's time." the outer robe on his shoulder is thrown aside the moment Qin Lan returned to his Pill-Refining Room. Using the Eight Transformation Treasured Brush in his hand, Qin Lan dabbed the tip into the bottle of Foul Essence Silver Ink.

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Poison and medicine are like two sides of a coin.

The mist of Yin converge in the South, the fog of Yang rises in the north.

With my Spiritual Energy as guidance and my Physique as the root,

Came forth, the formation of Poison Accumulation!

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An inscription based on the Department of Earth Blessing was drawn in the middle of his room as Qin Lan converted his place into a Spiritual Cave. It was a similar concept to how a Spiritual Dwelling was made, but smaller and more flexible.

It was a Xuan-Grade inscription with one core diagram and four minor formations. Then, over ten types of medicinal herbs are taken out and placed in a few specific positions.

(Golden Sparrow Flower...)

Qin Lan whispered. With a wave of his hand, ten sets of this poisonous plant were taken out from the spatial jade on his waist. Coming out along with this plant was the carcasses of the Yao Beast he purchased from the nearby hunter's store.

Flames created from his Spiritual Energy were then guided into a cauldron along with part of the carcasses. The flame burns slowly, turning the bits of flesh, bones, hair, and organs into ashes as Qin Lan gradually mix the medicinal herbs inside to create a standard fertilizer.

Ten sphere ball of fertilizer with the appearance of wet ashes soon sits around Qin Lan. The Golden Sparrow Flower is then planted inside as Qin Lan guided his Spiritual Energy into them to create a miracle.

There was no reaction at first.

If the other Alchemist or Pharmacist saw what Qin Lan was doing, the word "Fool" would immediately come out from their mouth. There might be hope if Qin Lan tried what he's doing on some herbs like Flesh Refining Elderberry, Purple Silk Grass, or Fragrance Root.

But using them on a seedless flower, poisonous on top of that?

He must have thought he's the medicinal forefather Lu for trying to repeat this miracle once again!

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(Note: Oh... Forefather... Readers, you might wanna catch some hint behind the last sentence back at the start of chapter 53 - Pill Test 2)

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