“Qin Ning, this is the Qin family’s Pill Street. Everything here is decided by me, Xu Yuan. Don’t even think about causing trouble here.”
An irritated voice rang out.
Outside the gate, Xu Yuan looked at Qin Ning and Qin Xin-xin, saying arrogantly.
He was originally a high-grade alchemist, an elder-level guest of the Qin family.
Even if Qin Chang-sheng were here now, he would have to treat him with respect.
“Young Master Qin Ning!” At this moment, Chen Feng also spoke, “This is Pill Street, the foundation of the Qin family. It’s not a place for you to cause trouble. Go back to your manor.”
Cause trouble?
Qin Ning looked at the two of them, finding it ridiculous.
“I’m here to refine pills, not to cause trouble!”
“Refine pills? Do you even know what refining pills is? I’m afraid you don’t even know what pill fire is!”
Seeing Xu Yuan’s gloomy expression, Qin Ning waved his hand, and a red flame appeared at his fingertip.
Seeing this, Xu Yuan and Chen Feng were both astonished.
The reason the alchemist profession was so rare was that many martial artists couldn’t even condense pill fire by the end of their lives.
Before, they had never heard that Qin Ning could succeed.
But now he could condense it with just a wave of his hand?
Xu Yuan calmly said, “Even if you can condense pill fire, you can only refine ordinary-grade pills. There are four grades: low-grade, mid-grade, high-grade, and supreme-grade, and countless types. If you’ve never studied, how could you know?”
“How do you know I can’t do it? How do you know I’ve never studied?”
Qin Ning was too lazy to explain further, only asking in return, “I want to ask you two… what is this?”
“What do you mean, ‘what is this’?”
“The medicinal ingredients I asked Steward Song Wei to prepare, the Shu Lin Grass and Huang Ye Zi, are here, but all the root branches of the Gu Dou plant have been chopped off, and even the Bai Hua fruit is withered…”
Qin Ning asked coldly, “Can the two of you in charge tell me what exactly is going on?”
Medicinal ingredients are the foundation of pills. Every year, the Qin family spends a large sum of money to import them. Could it be that all the purchased ingredients are like this?
Looking at those medicinal ingredients, Xu Yuan and Chen Feng’s expressions stiffened.
Xu Yuan said, “What do you know? Shu Lin Grass and Huang Ye Zi are most effective. The useless root branches of the Gu Dou plant should, of course, be cut off. Fresh Bai Hua fruit has absolutely no use.”
“Impudent!”
Qin Ning suddenly raised his voice and roared, “Xu Yuan, do you think I know nothing about refining pills?”
“The Shu Lin Grass absolutely requires its leaves to maintain moisture, and even needs to be soaked in water to ensure its efficacy; all the medicinal properties of the Gu Dou plant are concentrated in its root branches. As for the Bai Hua fruit, it absolutely cannot be withered. If it’s not fresh, it should be discarded, otherwise what’s refined won’t be a life-saving pill, but a life-threatening poison!”
“You, as an alchemist managing Pill Street, doing something like this – is that considering the Qin family’s best interests?”
Being yelled at by a sixteen-year-old youth like that, Xu Yuan and Chen Feng’s expressions turned ugly.
“Qin Ning, you’ve brought ruin upon the Qin family. Stop acting so noble here. You’re merely a young master of the Qin family. Pill Street is managed by Second Master, it’s not your place to point fingers and give orders here.”
“That’s right, Pill Street is not a place for you to act recklessly!”
Xu Yuan and Chen Feng were not afraid of Qin Ning. They were high-grade alchemists, and the Qin family’s pills all required them to refine.
Even if Qin Ning was a young master of the Qin family, he couldn’t control them. Let alone Qin Ning, even Qin Chang-sheng had to rely on them.
"Get out of Pill Street at once, or I'll tell your father about this," Xu Yuan said in a deep voice.
Get out of Pill Street?
By now, Qin Ning was an old monster who had lived for ten lifetimes; how could he not see through the current situation?
These two, Xu Yuan and Chen Feng, wanted to exploit their positions for personal gain!
He didn't want to waste words on such people.
Just throw them all out!
"The ones who should get out are you!"
Thud...
Suddenly, two figures were flung out, and Xu Yuan and Chen Feng fell, hitting their heads hard.
Although the two were masters of the seventh-gate Purple Gate realm, Qin Ning had now broken through to the fifth-gate realm, making these two utterly insignificant in his eyes!
"Qin Ning, you're insane! We're no longer going to be alchemists for the Qin family; you can refine pills yourself!"
"Qin Ning, even if you brought a sedan chair to invite us back, don't dream of us returning!"
The two who had been thrown out screamed, as a crowd gathered to watch.
"What's going on? What's going on?"
At this moment, Qin Yuanshan rushed over.
Seeing the two Grandmasters, Xu Yuan and Chen Feng, lying so miserably, Qin Yuanshan was stunned.
"Who did this?" Qin Yuanshan roared.
"Second Uncle, I did it!"
At this, Qin Ning stepped out, saying calmly: "My Qin family no longer needs these two. Second Uncle, go to their residences and search for all the silver and valuables they've appropriated for themselves, then kick these two old men out."
What?
At this moment, Qin Yuanshan was stunned.
Kick them out?
What happened?
"Father, quickly kick them out of here! These two old men turned the medicinal ingredients our Qin family paid for into spoiled, unusable ingredients. All the medicinal ingredients Brother Ning needed just now are spoiled!"
Although Qin Xinxin didn't fully understand the talk about medicinal ingredients, he knew Qin Ning was definitely right.
"Hmph, you don't need to kick us out, we'll leave ourselves!" Xu Yuan snorted, then turned to leave.
"You can't leave now! Second Uncle, I'm sure Grandmaster Xu Yuan's residence contains quite a few rare treasures, gold, and silver, far more than the stipends we've given him. If you lead people to search, you'll see."
After Qin Ning finished speaking, he said no more, his gaze sweeping over the two before he walked straight out.
"Father, you absolutely must search!" Qin Xinxin hurriedly ran after Qin Ning.
Watching Qin Ning leave, Qin Yuanshan walked into the pill refining room and immediately understood.
"Guards!" Qin Yuanshan roared: "Immediately escort these two Grandmasters back to their residences and see what exactly is inside their homes!"
As soon as he gave the order, Xu Yuan and Chen Feng's faces turned pale.
The two had originally thought Qin Ning knew nothing about pill refining, so they had simply made up some excuses to get rid of him, but they hadn't expected Qin Ning to expose them.
This time, they were finished!
"Brother Ning, Brother Ning, wait for me! Where are we going now?"
"Too many of the medicinal ingredients in Pill Street are spoiled. I need to refine Bone-Soothing Pills and Gate-Opening Pills. If I can find Flame Spirit Ganoderma, I can also refine a Spirit Gathering Pill for Father."
"Spirit Gathering Pill?" Qin Xinxin asked, puzzled. He had never heard of the types of pills Qin Ning mentioned.
"It's a type of pill that condenses vital energy within the body, opening the ninth-gate Heavenly Gate..."
"There's such a pill?"
Qin Ning was too lazy to explain, and led Qin Xinxin to the Sacred Pill Pavilion.
The Sacred Pill Pavilion was renowned throughout the Northern Ming Empire, with its branches distributed everywhere across the Northern Ming Empire.
The Sacred Pill Pavilion was even famed as a place that had everything imaginable; the only things they didn't have were those customers hadn't even thought of.
After seeing the medicinal ingredients available on Pill Street, Qin Ning had no choice but to go to the Sacred Pill Pavilion to purchase his ingredients.
“Qin Ning!”
A person in a long white robe, with an elegant demeanor and fair skin, holding a fan, looked at Qin Ning. He then snapped his fan shut and angrily snorted, “You still dare to show your face!”