CHAPTER 835: CHAPTER 835: BEARING THORNS TO APOLOGIZE

The newly built alchemy room was much more spacious, with many shelves on the walls for placing elixir pills.

Chen Nan pushed the door open and saw Tang Zhirou practicing alchemy there.

When Tang Zhirou saw Chen Nan return, she immediately gave him a rather resentful look.

"Yo, isn’t this the senior brother of the Qingshan Sect? What, you finally decided to come back?"

Her words were filled with sarcasm, a familiar tone indeed.

Chen Nan chuckled and walked forward, "Now you recognize that I’m the senior brother? Call me that once more for me to hear."

"In your dreams!" Tang Zhirou rolled her eyes at him and resumed her alchemy work.

Under Chen Nan’s guidance and her relentless practice, Tang Zhirou was now a Ninth Grade Alchemist.

Though her success rate and pill formation rate were far less than Chen Nan’s, she was already far ahead of other cultivators.

This indicated that Tang Zhirou had a talent for alchemy.

"Alright, let me take over. We still owe quite a few elixir pills to the Beast Taming Sect, Luojian Mountain, and Ten Thousand Array Sect."

After Tang Zhirou successfully refined a batch of elixir pills, Chen Nan stepped forward and nudged her aside.

The three sects helped in building the Qingshan Sect, aiming for Chen Nan to assist in alchemy.

The elixirs for their disciples’ cultivation needs were one thing, but more importantly, they were for Luo Chao, Granny Hua, and Yin Wuxing personally.

Though these three were all Golden Core stage cultivators, they had been stuck at the first stage for a long time, unable to break through their bottleneck.

Luo Chao needed pills to break through his bottleneck, allowing him to advance further.

Granny Hua required pills to improve her spirit beast’s aptitude, as the cultivation techniques of the Beast Taming Sect allowed for mutual growth between cultivators and their spirit beasts.

Yin Wuxing needed pills to heal internal injuries.

Chen Nan found three types of Seventh-grade elixir pills and began searching through the spiritual medicines he brought back.

Although the Medicine Immortal Valley could cultivate seventh-grade and sixth-grade spiritual medicines, it required Golden Core stage cultivators to nurture them.

Previously, because the sect elders either left or joined other sects, the Medicine Immortal Valley didn’t have any Golden Core stage cultivators.

The disciples’ cultivation levels weren’t high either, making the cultivation of seventh-grade and sixth-grade spiritual medicines exceedingly difficult.

Thus, most of the spiritual medicines Chen Nan brought back were eighth or ninth grade, with only a few in the seventh grade, and even fewer sixth-grade spiritual medicines, just a few.

These were cultivated before Qing Xuan was poisoned.

To refine the elixir pills needed by Luo Chao and the others, the spiritual medicines from the Medicine Immortal Valley were insufficient, but fortunately, he killed Liu Ping and obtained his storage bag.

The storage bag contained all kinds of spiritual medicines.

Just as Chen Nan was selecting the spiritual medicines and preparing for alchemy, he suddenly looked at Tang Zhirou.

"Um, could you step outside for a moment?"

Tang Zhirou immediately widened her eyes in shock, "Not letting me watch? Chen Nan, you’re being a bit too much. Did I offend you?"

Clearly, she had been observing while he was refining elixir pills before.

Now that Chen Nan wanted to refine elixir pills and was asking her to leave, she felt incredibly wronged, and her voice rose a few pitches.

Chen Nan looked troubled. The reason he wanted Tang Zhirou to leave was to avoid revealing the Heaven-Burning Flame, at least for now.

Although he knew Tang Zhirou wouldn’t tell anyone, the fewer people who knew about such things, the better.

"You’ve misunderstood. There are some things I can’t discuss right now, but I promise, when I start refining eighth and ninth-grade elixir pills, I’ll definitely let you watch and learn."

Chen Nan said apologetically, but Tang Zhirou was not appreciative.

"Hmph, I don’t need it!"

She stood up and walked out, leaving behind a statement, "Chen Nan, I misjudged you!"

Chen Nan cried out in grievance, but any explanation now seemed powerless, so he could only sigh deeply.

"Junior Sister, you will understand me."

Putting aside distractions, Chen Nan began to focus on alchemy. With the help of the Heaven-Burning Flame, the process was indeed much easier, and the success rate of forming elixirs significantly improved.

Originally, when refining seventh-grade elixir pills, he could only produce six or seven per batch.

With the Heaven-Burning Flame, Chen Nan could refine ten pills in one batch and sometimes achieve a perfect twelve.

No wonder Liu Ping, such a mediocre individual, could become a seventh-grade alchemist with the help of the Heaven-Burning Flame. A Heaven-and-Earth Spirit Fire is crucial for an alchemist.

For three consecutive days, Chen Nan stayed in the alchemy room and refined many seventh-grade elixir pills. After placing them appropriately, he handed them over to the disciples of the Qingshan Sect.

"Send these elixir pills to the designated sects. Payment can be made with spirit stones or spiritual medicines."

He said to the three disciples and added, "These three bottles of elixir pills, deliver them personally to Luo Chao, Granny Hua, and Yin Wuxing, understand?"

The three bottles of elixir pills were specially refined for these three, as a reward for their assistance in the sect’s construction.

The rest of the elixir pills would be dealt with via normal transactions.

The three disciples nodded and quickly set off, as the sects weren’t far, they would return within the day.

Watching them leave, Chen Nan went to find Tang Zhirou.

"Junior Sister, still angry?"

Tang Zhirou snorted coldly, ignoring Chen Nan, pretending he didn’t exist.

"Some things really can’t be explained now. Don’t you know what kind of person I am?"

Tang Zhirou still said nothing, continuing to cultivate on her own.

Chen Nan was helpless. Truly, when women get angry, they are unreasonable.

"By the way, the old man hasn’t returned yet. Could something really have happened to him?"

He attempted to change the subject, leading to a response from Tang Zhirou.

"It’s fine if he doesn’t return. You can become the Sect Leader of the Qingshan Sect."

"Why not let you be the Sect Leader, Junior Sister, and I’ll just become an Elder?" Chen Nan joked.

Tang Zhirou’s expression finally relaxed a bit.

Women indeed need coaxing.

"Hehe, at least you have some conscience."

"But the old man hasn’t come back for so long, where could he have gone?"

Chen Nan frowned, somewhat worried as well.

Just as the two were filled with worry, a disciple hurriedly came before them.

"Senior Brother, Second Senior Sister, people from the Undying Sect are here."

Upon hearing this, Chen Nan’s expression immediately grew serious.

"They’ve come to attack us? How dare they?"

The disciple quickly waved his hands, "No, no, they haven’t come to attack."

"They’ve come to...apologize!"

"Apologize?"

Chen Nan and Tang Zhirou exchanged glances and quickly left the hall, heading to the outer courtyard.

Tie Shan was there with his hands tied, his upper body bare, with a bundle of thorns on his back, clearly here to apologize with humility.

Beside him stood a scholar-looking man, smiling broadly.

"This must be Young Master Chen Nan. I am Lu Qingfeng, the sect leader of the Undying Sect."

"Previously, I was in seclusion and was unaware of Tie Shan offending Young Master Chen. Now that I’ve emerged from seclusion, I brought him here to apologize."