Volume One, Chapter Nine: The Elixir!

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Peach Blossom Town, Tongfu Inn.
A young male and female cultivator anxiously stared at the silver-haired elder before them.
The elder, with his immortal aura and Daoist bearing, looked somewhat pale at the moment.
“Master, the Peach Blossom Formation has been completely sealed off by the demon clan; we simply can’t get out!”
“Yes, Master, what should we do now?”
Zhong Huai Zhenren coughed violently, his palm stained red with fresh blood.
“Master!”
Zhong Huai Zhenren waved his hand, wiping the blood from his mouth and palm. “My injuries have yet to heal; I’m afraid I can’t bring you out of here...”
Tang Xi hurriedly took out a bottle of healing pills from his storage ring. “Master, I have some medicinal pills here!”
“No use!”
Zhong Huai Zhenren shook his head, unwilling to waste the pills.
His foundation was severely damaged.
Ordinary pills would have no effect on him; taking them would only be a waste!
Zhao Ping, carrying a longsword on his back, poured tea for Zhong Huai Zhenren. “Master, I believe we will definitely find a way out!”
Zhong Huai Zhenren remained silent.
Trapped here with his disciples, they could only hope the demon clan would leave soon; otherwise, escaping from here would be as difficult as ascending to heaven!
Several children playing marbles in the inn ran past their table, laughing and teasing.
“Give it back, that’s mine!”
“No, no, you can’t catch me, nah nah nah!”
Zhong Huai Zhenren glanced absentmindedly.
When he saw the black pill in the boy’s hand, his pupils suddenly contracted sharply.
With a swift motion, he appeared before the boy, his withered hand grasping the boy’s wrist!
A cloud-patterned pill!
A supreme-grade elixir!
Zhong Huai Zhenren’s eyes widened in shock.
This child was using a supreme-grade pill as a marble?
What a sheer waste!
“Where did you get this pill?”
The boy, unfamiliar with such an incident, froze for a moment before bursting into tears.
The pill slipped from his hand and rolled forward.
“What are you doing!”
The boy’s mother rushed over at the sound, immediately shielding her child.
“Mom, he’s bullying me!”
As more onlookers gathered,
Zhong Huai Zhenren’s expression grew awkward.
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After all, he was a powerful cultivator at the Nascent Soul realm, and a senior elder of the Azure Cloud Sect!
With such status, how could he bully a child?
Earlier, he was merely too anxious, which frightened the child.
“A misunderstanding, old man here only wished to purchase this pill.”
“What pill or not, how dare you bully my Huzi? Are you tired of living?” The woman, still angry, puffed out her chest, pushing Zhong Huai Zhenren back repeatedly.
Zhong Huai Zhenren’s face turned green.
Despite his status, he could not bring himself to bully a mere mortal.
“That’s mine!”
Another boy suddenly picked up the fallen pill.
Watching the boy run away,
Zhong Huai Zhenren wanted the pill but didn’t want to argue with the woman. With a wave of his hand, he vanished with his two disciples before the crowd.
The woman kept pushing forward.
Suddenly, she found no one in front of her.
The inn erupted into chaos!
“A deity, a deity!”
The woman panicked but stubbornly said, “What deity? It’s just some illusion!”
Though she said this, she dared not linger and hurried back to her room with her child.
Outside the inn,
Zhao Ping wondered if his master’s injuries had affected his vision—how could a child have a pill?
“Master, that’s just a child’s toy; how could that be a pill?”
Zhong Huai Zhenren scowled, “Do you think this old man’s eyes are failing?”
“I wouldn’t dare!”
Zhao Ping bowed his head but was inwardly unconvinced.
Zhong Huai Zhenren didn’t bother explaining.
It was indeed a supreme-grade pill!
Its quality was unbelievably high!
If he could take it, his injuries might recover by several tens of percent, and with luck, his cultivation might even advance slightly!
“There they are!”
The boy had returned to his parents.
Zhong Huai Zhenren’s face brightened. Without hiding his identity, he appeared before the family with his two disciples.
“It’s... an immortal!”
Seeing Zhong Huai Zhenren’s ethereal appearance, the couple immediately knelt and kowtowed with their child.
Their small town had once hosted immortals.
With this appearance, there was no doubt!
Zhong Huai Zhenren said nothing.
He was not an immortal, but to these mortals, someone who could fly and traverse the earth with a lifespan of thousands of years was no different from a deity.
“Rise.” Zhong Huai Zhenren raised his hand, gently lifting the family with spiritual power.
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“Immortal, the demon clan is everywhere here. Please save us!”
Since the demon clan invaded Peach Blossom Town, the townsfolk lived in fear, afraid to venture outside.
They had long heard that the demon clan was cruel by nature.
If they lost control, what would become of this town...?
The boy, frightened by the immortal elder’s gaze, hid behind his parents.
Zhong Huai Zhenren opened his palm; the pill in the boy’s hand now appeared in his.
The boy was stunned for a moment, then instinctively said, “That’s mine!”
Zhong Huai Zhenren asked urgently, “Where did you get this pill?”
The woman was also taken aback upon seeing the so-called “pill.”
She recognized it.
It seemed to be the bottle of pills she had taken from Qing Yi’s stall.
When the demon clan entered the city, she had hurriedly taken it without paying.
Not knowing its effects and afraid to take it recklessly, she had left it at home.
Not daring to anger the immortal, she cautiously raised her head and explained, “Immortal, this is just an ordinary bottle of pills, not some kind of elixir!”
“Pills?”
Zhong Huai Zhenren finally realized.
These worldly mortals had no idea how precious this pill truly was!
More astonishingly, the pill’s spiritual power was gentle enough for mortals to consume, though without spiritual power within their bodies to refine it.
Even if taken, it could only prolong life and strengthen the body!
But for cultivators, it was enough to break through a major realm!
No exaggeration.
Even the Azure Cloud Sect would pay a high price to obtain such a supreme-grade pill!
“I wish to buy this pill, but you must tell me where it came from.”
The woman nervously wrung her hands, “Well...”
Zhong Huai Zhenren was eager to know the pill’s origin.
A master capable of refining such a pill must be a grandmaster-level alchemist!
He took out a pouch of gold leaves. “These gold leaves are enough to provide for your family’s needs!”
“Immortal, we dare not accept!”
“Take them.”
The value of these gold leaves was insignificant compared to the pill.
But treasures and spirit stones were of little use to mortals; giving them such things might only bring disaster!
The woman clutched the gold leaves, bewildered.
This was just an ordinary pill; how could it be worth so many gold leaves?
These gold leaves were worth more than their lives!