by Feng Yise
Quan Xingzi heaved a sigh and said, "Divine soul ailments are the most dangerous. Furthermore, spirit physiques are born from heaven and earth, and there's completely no way of using medicinal strength to change it. Unless the heaven can take back one of her spirit physiques, otherwise, it's incurable!"
Zhou Yan's expression changed, and he said unresignedly, "Lord Chairman's alchemy cultivation is exceedingly high. Could it be that even you are helpless too?"
Quan Xingzi said helplessly, "No matter how strong one's Alchemy Path cultivation is, it's also not omnipotent. There are always terminal illnesses that can't be treated. Sigh, these two types of spirit physiques, any one of them would be exceptionally formidable. But gathering onto one body, it's true fate making a mockery out of people! Li-er must not utilize soul force in the future. Or else, the consequences would be too ghastly to imagine."
As he said, he looked at the Ye Qing by the side, his expression easing up slightly as he said, "Azure Spirit Trees are exceedingly rare. I believe that your father expended a considerable price in order to obtain him, right? It's just that even with the Azure Spirit Heart Fusing Fluid, it can only treat the symptoms and not the root."
Zhou Yan's expression suddenly changed, and he asked Quan Xingzi, "Lord Chairman, if even you can't cure this illness of Li-er's too, is there still anyone who can treat it in this world? Chairman Jing he …"
The Chairman Jing from Zhou Yan's mouth was precisely the Divine Realm's Alchemy Path's pinnacle existence, the Alchemist Association's chairman, Jing Fengtian!
Quan Xingzi shook his head and said, "As far as I know, Chairman Jing probably won't cut it either! Moreover, even if he's able to, it's likely very hard for Li-er to be able to wait for him to take action as well."
Zhou Yan suddenly said with Yue Mengli with a cold smile, "Li-er, did you hear that?! Even Chairman Jing can't. Could it be that you think a lower realm's aboriginal can cure your terminal illness?"
Yue Mengli cracked a smile and said, "Since even Chairman Jing can do nothing to help, then why not let him give it a try?"
"You! I think that you're thinking about that aboriginal in your heart, right?!" Zhou Yan said furiously.
"So what if yes?" Yue Mengli said neither obsequiously nor haughtily.
"You!" Zhou Yan's entire person was about stomp off in a rage.
"Li-er! Honorable Nephew did not stint to invite Lord Quan Xingzi here to diagnose your pulse with the best of intentions. What's with your attitude?!" said a dignified middle-aged man by the side.
This middle-aged man was precisely the lord of Bright Moon City, Yue Nantian!
Previously, he did not speak the whole time. At this time, he finally could not refrain from opening his mouth.
"Aboriginal? Huhu, pardon this old man for speaking bluntly, but how can a lower realm's aboriginal possibly treat such a terminal illness?" Quan Xingzi suddenly said with a laugh.
When Zhou Yan heard these words, his spirit was immediately greatly excited. Like putting on a display of power, he said to Yue Mengli, "Li-er, did you hear that or not?"
Yue Mengli gave him a disdainful glance and said with a cold smile, "Looks like Zhou Yan very much hopes for me to let go of this world!"
Zhou Yan's expression turned stiff, and he hurriedly said, "I … I didn't mean that!"
In the end, it ended on a sour note. After everyone left, Yue Mengli's face appeared slightly haggard as she muttered under her breath, "In a blink, it's already over a year. It's been a long time. I wonder if have you been well?"
Chapter 766 - Backlogged Orders
Initially she thought that the longing for Ye Yuan was just because he was very similar to that person.
But after Yue Mengli returned to the Divine Realm, she discovered that Ye Yuan's figure kept on lingering in her mind and not leave.
The present Yue Mengli had deep yearning written all over her face.
"According to Ye Yuan's cultivation speed, he has probably already ascended to the Divine Realm now, right?" Ye Qing suddenly said.
Yue Mengli nodded her head, but she said worriedly, "What I'm worried about is also precisely this! Zhou Yan planted a Vastsun Flameheart Pupil imprint on Ye Yuan's body. If he's really bent on dealing with Ye Yuan, with his present strength, he's definitely not a match!"
But Ye Qing smiled and said, "I don't know about other people, but Ye Yuan that boy is very abnormal! A measly little imprint presumably won't have much effect on him at all."
Yue Mengli's eyes lit up, and she said, "Really?"
Ye Qing nodded and said, "When have you see that boy suffer a loss before? Moreover, if Ye Yuan is really that person you suspect, how would he place a puny little Zhou Yan in his sights? Rest assured, wait until that boy shows up in front of you once more, he'll definitely trample Zhou Yan underfoot!"
These few days, Ye Qing had been following Yue Mengli constantly and also knew quite a bit of secret concerning Ye Yuan, including Yue Mengli's suspicions about Ye Yuan.
Yue Mengli said half-disbelievingly, "Really?"
"If you don't believe me, you just wait and see!" Ye Qing said with a smile.
At the same time, Zhou Yan was currently in a towering rage. "This damn aboriginal! To actually wipe away this young master's Vastsun Flameheart Pupil imprint! Damn it! Damn it! This Young Master doesn't believe that a puny little aboriginal can really cure Li-er's illness! Zhou Yu, according to the coordinates, that aboriginal who ascended from the Endless World should be in the south-west few regions! You send people over right now! You must find that punk for me!"
"Yes, Young Master!" A guard-looking middle-aged man acknowledged.
When Zhou Yan entered the Endless World back then, it was through the coordinates given by that black-robed man, directly shattering the plane and going down. As for where Endless World martial artists were able to ascend to, he did not know either.
There were more than hundreds of millions of small worlds in the Lower Realms. Wanting to check the corresponding region for each small world's ascenders, that was virtually something impossible.
Zhou Yan could only roughly ascertain the region Ye Yuan ascended to through coordinates.
Back then, Zhou Yan leaving an imprint on Ye Yuan's body was in order to find Ye Yuan easier.
But who knew that before Ye Yuan ascended, he wiped away the Vastsun Flameheart Pupil imprint.
Today, Zhou Yan deliberately went to sense the imprint he left behind but discovered that there was no response at all. Only then did he realise that the imprint was already erased by Ye Yuan unknowingly.
How could Zhou Yan know that in the previous life, Ji Qingyun had some friendship with both the Zhou and Yue families? He was even very familiar with the Vastsun Flameheart Pupil's method.
With Ye Yuan's means, wanting to erase the imprint without making it known to gods nor ghosts, it was too easy.
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At present, over half a month's time had already passed since Ye Yuan and the others came out from Xie Lingzi's grotto.
In this half a month's time, the entire Ancient Opulence City appeared very peaceful.
Not long after Ying Tianya came back, he brought Xu Yan's remains back to the holy land.
He Shuming also chose to enter terminal seclusion straight away and no longer appeared in public either.
Ye Yuan and Jun Tianyu similarly chose to enter closed-seclusion. Jun Tianyu's losses in the Starmist Radiantfire Formation was not small either, and he had no choice but to enter a retreat to consolidate his cultivation realm.
Ye Yuan's divine soul likewise had considerable losses. In this half a month's time, Ye Yuan also expended quite a few medicinal pills before fully restoring his divine soul.
Since leaving Ancient Opulence City until Ye Yuan exited seclusion, in-between this had roughly two month's time elapsed. But during this period of time, there was a backlog of a large number of Tier 6 medicinal pill orders.
Ye Yuan had refined a batch of Tier 6 medicinal pills before lea
ving. The final outcome was naturally the same as what he said: the vast majority were superior-grade medicinal pills.
With this, the Fragrant Medicine Pavilion's reputation had a superb start in Ancient Opulence City.
The Boundless Realm martial artists in Ancient Opulence City practically almost trampled the Fragrant Medicine Pavilion's doorsill flat. Every day, there were large numbers of Tier 6 medicinal pill orders.
But Ye Yuan was not around. Qian-er and Li Huisheng looked at this large batch of orders but were at a loss on what to do.
They did not dare to make this sort of guarantee that the Tier 6 medicinal pills given to everybody would all be superior-grade.
Li Huisheng even came up with a rotten idea during this, wanting to let the Meteor Trading Company's Alchemy Ancestor powerhouse come and refine, but this was flatly rejected by Qian-er.
This kind of thing like public praise must not be ruined!
With no other choice, Qian-er could only push all of these orders back and wait for Ye Yuan to return.
How could Qian-er have expected that Ye Yuan actually entered a retreat immediately after coming back? Moreover, this retreat was half a month's time.
This kind of martial artists who put down an order immediately, most of them needed the medicinal pills urgently.
Backlogging two month's of orders all at once, how could these martial artists not be anxious?
Especially these few days, those martial artists wished that they could tear down the Fragrant Medicine Pavilion's signboard!
Qian-er was anxious until she was pacing around in circles at Ye Yuan's seclusion venue. No idea how long had passed either, she finally caught sight of Ye Yuan exiting seclusion!
"My lord and master, you finally exited seclusion! If you still don't exit seclusion, the Fragrant Medicine Pavilion will really have to wind up for good!" Qian-er carried a resentful tone as she grumbled.
Qian-er actually carried some spoiled-overtones when she said these words, making people unable to get angry.
Ye Yuan smiled when he heard that and said, "If it goes out of business, just open again will do. The sky won't fall! Talk about it, what did you run into?"
Qian-er said anxiously, "You! Why do you not have any score in your heart at all? The fire is already burning up to the eyebrows, and you're actually not nervous at all!"
Qian-er said the predicament the Fragrant Medicine Pavilion faced for Ye Yuan to hear. Initially, she thought that Ye Yuan would be burning with anxiety. But who knew that he just smiled faintly and said, "I was wondering how big a matter it was. Isn't it just some Tier 6 medicinal pills? Give the orders all to me. Latest by two day's time, I'll hand the medicinal pills all to your hands!"
Qian-er stared with wide eyes and said, "T-Two days? You aren't joking with me? I have hundreds of Tier 6 medicinal pill orders on hand. That expert behind you can actually refine finish in two days?"
Actually, Qian-er had surmises long ago. What expert behind? Utter nonsense!
This person who refined the Tier 6 medicinal pills was definitely Ye Yuan himself!
It was just that some words, it was not appropriate for Qian-er to say explicitly. Qian-er was a clever person. She knew that once some words were said, their collaboration with Ye Yuan would come to an end here.
Actually, when Qian-er heard Ye Yuan make that sort of promise back then, she jumped in fright too.
It was just that hearing Ye Yuan said that there was a master behind afterwards did Qian-er set her mind at ease a little.
Yet, Ye Yuan and she, they had been very close. She had never seen before whatever so-called expert.
Therefore, she boldly guessed that the one who refined the medicinal pills was Ye Yuan himself!
At that time, she gave herself a great fright too, feeling that this kind of result was too fantastical. How could an Alchemy Sovereign Realm alchemist possibly refine Tier 6 medicinal pills?
It was fine if refining Tier 6 medicinal pills. But they were even all superior-grade and above medicinal pills! This was too outrageous!
Chapter 767 - Brought Trouble onto Himself
Qian-er did not tell anyone the result of her guesses, including the Meteor Trading Company's people.
It was because she saw a huge business opportunity on Ye Yuan!
Ye Yuan using an excuse that there was an expert assisting behind was because right now, he did not wish for others to know that he could refine Tier 6 medicinal pills.
If she divulged this information, once Ye Yuan knew about it, he would surely fall out with her.
The so-called cooperation would also come to an end here.
But Qian-er was not a short-sighted person. Ye Yuan's alchemy talent was too heaven-defying. If they made friends with him well, wouldn't the Meteor Trading Company soar to the heavens in the future?
Once such a character grew up, they would surely astonish the entire Divine Realm in the future!
It was easy to add flowers to embroidery but tough to deliver charcoal in the snow.
Ye Yuan was rising up from a nobody right now. It was precisely the time he needed support. Therefore, Qian-er decided to build good relations with Ye Yuan at any cost!
It was just that even so, when she heard that Ye Yuan only needed two days to finish refining all of the several hundred Tier 6 medicinal pills, it shocked her until her jaws were wide open.
These several hundred Tier 6 medicinal pills, even if given to He Shuming to refine, it would probably take half a month, even a month's time too.
But Ye Yuan this puny little Alchemy Sovereign actually only needed two days?
Ye Yuan said coolly, "That person's strength is not what you can imagine. These medicinal pills are not worth mentioning at all in his eyes. Later, you let them send the medicinal herbs and orders all to my residence. Two days later, you'll naturally have an answer that satisfies you."
Ye Yuan had said all these, but then he seemed to have thought of something again and said, "Oh, right, these Tier 6 medicinal pill orders, got to restrict them a little in the future. Otherwise, there will be no end to it. Uh … If there are martial artists whose medicinal pills are used for saving lives, they can cut the line or something."
"This … Alright then. Oh yes, there's still something. The Heaven's Destiny Trading Company's Chairman, Zuo Xin, has already come to the Fragrant Medicine Pavilion to find you many times. I've already told him that you're in closed-seclusion. But he still comes over every day. I reckon that he should arrive around this time?" Qian-er said.
Ye Yuan was slightly surprised as he said, "Oh? Looks like they almost can't take it anymore!"
Talking about this, Qian-er said with a smug smile, "That goes without saying! These two month, our Meteor Trading Company launched an attack all-round and already beat their Heaven's Destiny Trading Company until they don't have the strength to retaliate at all! Now, in the Ancient Opulence City, our Meteor Trading Company has already leaped to first place as the number one major trading firm, while the market their Heaven's Destiny Trading Company is occupying now is only less than 30%."
Ye Yuan came back hastily and entered a retreat very hastily. He really did not pay attention to the Fragrant Medicine Pavilion's current operation situation.
Now, hearing Qian-er say so, he was very surprised.
That Zuo Xin could lead the Heaven's Destiny Trading Company to firmly occupy the position of number one major trading firm in the Ancient Opulence City, he absolutely had some skill.
Furthermore, the Heaven's Destiny Trading Company was deeply rooted in the Ancient Opulence City. Their relationsh.i.p.s were deeply-entwined together into an intricate mess. It was very hard others to go against them.
Even though Ye Yuan was very confident in his own medicinal pills, he also did not think that the Fragrant Medicine Pavilion could utterly beat down the Heaven's Destiny Trading Company within a year.
He did not expect that Qian-er only used two month to squeeze the Heaven's Destiny Trading Company
dry until they were only left with less than 30% of the market.
This result involuntarily made Ye Yuan view Qian-er in a different light.
In Ye Yuan's impression, Qian-er did not have much capability at all, seeing that she was unable to deal with the situation after being so long in Ancient Opulence City. She should have belonged to the flower-vase type. 1
Furthermore, this lass did not have any foresight at all. The last time, she did not look at his medicinal pills at all and was going to drive people out.
If not on account of their chairman's face, Ye Yuan would probably not even be bothered to work together with the Meteor Trading Company.
Sensing Ye Yuan's gaze, Qian-er could not help turning angry from embarrassment and saying, "What's the meaning of your eyes? If you don't believe me, you can go and take a look at these two months' accounts!"
But Ye Yuan shook his head and said with a smile, "No need. I believe what you say."
"Then what do you mean?"
Ye Yuan withdrew his gaze and said smilingly, "Looks like I underestimated you. I didn't expect that a young lady like you actually has such means. Makes me rather surprised."
Qian-er smiled smugly when she heard that and said, "This young lady has plenty of means! In the past, it's just a clever housewife who can't cook a meal without rice! Borrowing this surge of eastern winds 2 , wouldn't I utterly destroy Zuo Xin that old punk? If not for the headquarters not agreeing to send an Alchemy Ancestor powerhouse over here, our Meteor Trading Company would long have been the Ancient Opulence City's number one trading company! Speaking of which, the one who rendered the greatest meritorious service this time is still you. Even if I had any more methods, it's impossible to bring down the Heaven's Destiny Trading Company too!"
Ye Yuan said smilingly, "It's for the sake of my own cultivation too. You don't have to overthink it. But we already know each other for so long, and I only know that you're called Qian-er. I don't even know your surname and have never seen your real appearance before either. Isn't this cooperation of ours … falling short of reality?"