72: Chapter 72 The Tragic Young Master Li 72: Chapter 72 The Tragic Young Master Li The City Lord of Pingyun City’s slap thoroughly stupefied Young Master Li.

This slap was even harder than the one the old man had delivered before.

Both cheeks slowly started to swell, and Young Master Li felt his teeth had been loosened by the blow.

Covering his face, Young Master Li stared angrily at the City Lord of Pingyun City.

“Why did you hit me again?” Young Master Li demanded hotly, his face aching as he spoke, causing him to grimace in pain.

“Quickly apologize to Young Master Mu,” the City Lord of Pingyun City had made up his mind today, deciding it was better to betray his own family in the name of justice than to be casually extinguished by Elder Zhang or provoke Mu Can to take action.

“Uncle Gao, you’re helping an outsider like this?” Young Master Li could see that his Uncle Gao was definitely not going to take his side today.

The City Lord of Pingyun City knew that this young man would likely hold a grudge against him, but he truly had no other choice.

“Apologize,” said the City Lord of Pingyun City, looking indifferently at Young Master Li, who had just been slapped hard enough to fall to the ground.

Young Master Li’s already slightly swollen face turned livid with reluctance as he looked at Mu Can and said through clenched teeth.

“I’m sorry.” Apologizing twice in a row, Young Master Li felt as if his dignity had once again plummeted to the floor with those words.

His face was livid as he clenched his fists tightly and bowed his head, not daring to lift his eyes to see Mu Can’s expression.

He was afraid, afraid to see even a hint of mockery on Mu Can’s face.

But he was clearly overthinking it, as Mu Can didn’t even consider him worth noticing.

“Alright, City Lord Gao, let it be,” Mu Can said with a faint smile to the City Lord of Pingyun City.

Young Masters like Li, in Mu Can’s eyes, were simply no match for Mu Xing or Mu Chen.

The City Lord of Pingyun City quickly mustered a smile, looking at the Elder and Mu Can as if he had been granted a great reprieve.

“Then I’ll be off now.”

Seeing the Elder nod, the City Lord of Pingyun City quickly led his subordinates downstairs.

“Hey, take him with you,” the Elder called out as he noticed the City Lord hurrying away and leaving Young Master Li behind.

The City Lord of Pingyun City, who had already started descending the stairs, waved his hand for his attendants to help Young Master Li leave.

It wasn’t until he walked out of the establishment that the City Lord of Pingyun City felt relieved, realizing his entire back was drenched in a cold sweat.

“Let’s go,” Young Master Li said coldly, giving the City Lord of Pingyun City a glance and forcefully shaking off the attendant’s hand, striding with his companion toward the outer area of Pingyun City.

“Dear nephew, please wait,” the City Lord of Pingyun City called out in a hurry.

“I don’t deserve to be called ‘dear nephew’,” Young Master Li said coldly.

The experiences he had just undergone were a first in his twenty years of life.

The first time being slapped, the first time being forced to apologize, and he attributed all of these firsts to the very uncle standing before him.

“Sigh, dear nephew, come to the mansion with me and I will explain everything slowly.

Uncle will definitely give you an explanation,” the City Lord of Pingyun City sighed and said.

“Then I really want to see how uncle will explain this.

Otherwise, I may come back again, and at that time, it won’t be so easy to let it slide,” Young Master Li said with a gloomy face and a bitter tone.

“Come, come, my young friend, sit here and chat.

Don’t let them disturb your mood,” seeing the City Lord of Pingyun City leaving with his entourage, Elder Zhang hurriedly pulled Mu Can to sit down.

“You go, go to the City Lord and get the money for the door repair,” Elder Zhang instructed the medicine shop assistant as he watched Mu Can take a seat.

The medicine shop assistant, now bewildered, realized the extent of this seemingly ordinary medicine-buying patron’s power; he plainly saw the City Lord of Pingyun City looked even more fearful when facing Mu Can than when facing Elder Zhang.

With a pensive face, the assistant stepped out, actually heading to demand the door repair money from the City Lord.

“Is it true, young friend, that you can refine the Yin Yang Balance Pill?” Elder Zhang asked eagerly, looking at Mu Can.

“Elder Zhang, do you think I would deceive you?” Mu Can replied with a smile.

Elder Zhang laughed a bit awkwardly and quickly offered Mu Can a cup of clear tea.

“I was just too anxious.

You have no idea, I’ve been searching for this elixir for almost twenty years,” Elder Zhang said with a complex expression while looking at Mu Can.

It was hard to believe that an elixir so painstakingly sought for almost twenty years was found with a young man who seemed so unlikely.

“Oh?

Twenty years, and you haven’t found a single clue, Elder Zhang?” Mu Can asked with a puzzled face.

The Yin Yang Balance Pill was indeed difficult to refine, but not so that one would fail to find it for twenty years.

“It’s a long story,” Elder Zhang took a sip of tea, his face filled with reminiscence.

“In those years, I tried to forcibly refine a furnace of Nine Revolutions Soul Returning Pill to save someone, alas, due to insufficient strength, I failed, and not only did I not save the person, but I also wore myself down.

Since then, I can no longer perform alchemy,” Elder Zhang slowly said.

Mu Can had already learned from Purple Cloud about the cause of the Elder’s yin-yang disfiguration; the Elder was quite unlucky, as normally, even if an explosion during alchemy failed, it was extremely unlikely to harm the alchemist’s soul.

“It’s definitely because you were too eager for success during alchemy, otherwise, even if you’d been injured, it wouldn’t have been so severe.

The person you wanted to save must have been very important to you, right?” Mu Can voiced his conjecture.

Upon hearing Mu Can’s question, the Elder glanced at him.

Only then did he remember that the young man before him was not an ordinary beginner in Alchemy Dao, but a Pill Master able to produce the Yin Yang Balance Pill.

“Sigh, without hiding the truth from you, one of my fellow disciples got seriously injured in a duel while trying to assist me.

Alas, I regret not having concentrated on refining my Alchemy Technique, and in the end, I couldn’t save him.

Since then, I’ve been searching for the Yin Yang Balance Pill and ended up wandering here,” Elder Zhang’s face still showed sadness when recalling the past.

The Elder who was once considered a core member with the greatest potential in the Alchemist Association never recovered from that blow and even left the Alchemist Union.

He ended up opening a herbal shop in Pingyun City, which was why members of the Alchemist Association received discounts when buying herbs here.

The Elder never forgot that he was once a part of the Alchemist Association.

“This old man truly has had a tragic life.

If I can help, I will,” Purple Cloud was living a leisurely life now, snacking on Spirit Fruit when idle and occasionally checking on the souls cultivating in the first layer.

Her days were comfortable and her strength was gradually being restored.

The first layer of space within the Reincarnation Pearl was the ideal place for souls, where abundant Soul Energy allowed Purple Cloud to slowly recover.

“Um, Sister Cloud, I’m thinking of asking him to return to the Mu Family and help us there, is that okay?” Mu Can was already willing to help.

“Of course, that’s good.

If you’re going out, I suppose you won’t be coming back here for quite some time,” Purple Cloud lazily spoke as she threw a Spirit Fruit into her mouth.

PS: Happy New Year, everyone.

Spend more time with your family; it’s New Year after all.