"He's alive! He's really alive!"
"That alchemist, he was telling the truth! He really did save this little girl!"
"What a kind person! That alchemist is such a kind person!"
"What's his name again? It's Lord Liu Xi!"
"The Zhou family is rich now! They got two pills from the alchemist for free with just a tattered animal hide!"
"A kind and compassionate person, truly a good man!"
"..."
Not long after Liu Xi and Galeo disappeared.
The crowd watching the little girl erupted in a clamor.
The reason is that the little girl who was just about to die actually came back to life.
"My little girl, my little girl! You've really come back to life!"
The down-on-his-luck middle-aged man wept with joy, and as he looked at the little girl whose face had become slightly rosy, his eyes also welled up with tears.
"Master Alchemist, I kowtow to you! I kowtow to you!"
The down-on-his-luck middle-aged man knelt down in the direction where Liu Xi and the other man had disappeared, kowtowing repeatedly.
...
On the other side.
"Brother Liu Xi, why did you save those two lowly commoners?! Giving them two pills is such a waste!"
Galeo beat his chest in frustration, thinking that Liu Xi had lost his mind. How could he sacrifice his own interests of thousands or tens of thousands for the sake of two lowly people!
"Shut up!"
"What do you know? Saving a life is more meritorious than building a seven-story pagoda!"
"I saved that little girl today. Maybe tomorrow, she'll become a Dou Di and help me become a Venerable Saint!"
"This is an investment! Do you even understand what investment is?!"
Liu Xi glared at Jia Lie'ao indignantly and scolded him for not knowing anything.
"Ah, this..."
"That lowly commoner—no, that little girl—she can actually become a Dou Di?!"
Galeo was dumbfounded.
I just feel like my attitude before was too bad.
Should he go back and make amends now? What if the little girl really can become a Dou Di as Brother Liu Xi said? Then today, he was flirting with death!
"That's one possibility, maybe you understand?! If you don't, then shut up!"
Liu Xi rolled her eyes at the guy, thinking that he had some minor issues with his brain.
"Ah, so it's possible!"
Galeo breathed a sigh of relief.
He thought to himself, "Brother Liu Xi is really good at scaring people."
...
Galeo led them on a tour of their local market.
Liu Xi actually managed to find some good quality medicinal herbs.
Although he wasn't sure if his soul was capable of being used to make medicine.
But it's good to have more medicinal herbs on hand to try it out.
...
noon.
Liu and Xi returned to the Jialie family.
After a hearty meal, Liu Xi took a wonderful afternoon nap.
afternoon.
He instructed Galeo not to let anyone come forward to disturb them.
Liu Xi is preparing to open the cauldron to refine medicine.
"Whether we can take off or not depends on this wave!"
"That unlucky Liu Xi, his soul was possessed and devoured by me. Logically speaking, I should also inherit his wood-attribute alchemy talent."
Liu Xi is very optimistic.
He inherited all the memories of the previous willow mat.
It doesn't make sense; he couldn't have inherited the tiny bit of wood attribute mixed in with the fire attribute.
"Let's try refining a Rejuvenating Powder first..."
Liu Xi took out his alchemy cauldron, a two-mouthed cauldron.
It's not considered very valuable, but at an auction house, it can fetch around 100,000 to 150,000 gold coins.
Rejuvenating Powder is the worst kind of elixir that Liu Xi could concoct.
Or rather, it can't even be considered a elixir at all.
What was produced was just a pile of bluish-green liquid.
Barely, he can reach the first-rank level.
Without hesitation, Liu Xi recalled the various medicinal herbs that would be needed and selected them out.
Actually, there aren't many medicinal herbs needed, only three or four kinds, and they are all very common ones.
Rejuvenating herb, blood-activating herb, poppy flower, weed fruit.
Blood-activating grass, twig fruit, are extracted and ground into powder.
Rejuvenating grass and poppy flowers are extracted into juice.
Then, mix them together in a certain proportion, and that's it.
It looks simple, but it's actually quite complicated.
The first step is to use fire-attribute battle qi to transform it into a tangible flame through the fire port of the alchemy cauldron.
The second step is to find the wood attribute within your soul power and infuse it into the alchemy cauldron to temper the violent nature of the physical flames.
The third step is to begin refining the medicinal herbs.
Transforming into a physical flame is simple. Liu Xi had just poured his golden battle qi into the cauldron when a ball of golden flame emerged from it.
Finding the wood element within soul power is a bit complicated.
It requires a strong sense of the soul.
Liu Xi thought he would need to search for a while, but unexpectedly, with a thought, he gathered a green energy from his soul power.
Carefully manipulating this emerald green energy, he poured it into the fire.
Whoosh!
The golden flames rippled a few times, and then they did indeed become warm.
"Not bad, not bad, I, Liu Xi, have the potential to be an alchemist!"
Overjoyed, Liu Xi grabbed the Blood-Activating Grass, threw it into the alchemy cauldron, and attempted to refine it.
puff!
Unexpectedly, the flame was quite hot.
It was burned to ashes in an instant by the Blood-Activating Grass.
"It's okay, let's continue!"
Liu Xi controlled the flames, lowering their temperature, and this time, he successfully extracted the medicinal powder.
"Wow, bullfrog! He succeeded on his second try!"
Liu Xi felt that his talent was still quite formidable.
It is estimated that the two willow mats were combined into one.
And that's what made him the amazing person he is today.
"Again!"
One by one, the blood-activating herbs were extracted from the willow mat.
With each attempt, he became more skilled, and eventually, he could manipulate the willow mat at will.
Next, we'll prune the branches!
Following the same method, except for a minor mishap the first time, I almost never made a mistake afterward!
Rejuvenating grass, poppy flower.
Under Liu Xi's masterful manipulation, it was transformed into two pools of liquid with different colors.
Wow, so strong! Wow, so strong!
As Liu Xi withdrew his hand, a wave of mental and physical exhaustion washed over him.
The swirling energy of the battle also conveyed a sense of weakness.
"I'm a little tired, do you want to take a nap first?"
"Forget it, let's just fix the chain!"
In order to save his own life, Liu Xi decided to seize every minute and second of the opportunity to repair the chain.
Buzz!
As soon as the willow mat was repaired, a pale yellow hurricane swept through the room.
That pale yellow color is fire-attribute battle aura.
Because the willow mats possessed a tiny bit of superior talent, they all manifested a tangible form in the air.
"Hmm? Such dense fire-attribute battle aura, even denser than at night!"
Liu Xi, who was repairing the chain, sensed that the fire-attribute battle qi was much more concentrated than it had been at night.
However, he didn't notice that slivers of sunlight were streaming in through the cracks in the window.
Then, the tiny golden patterns between his eyebrows continuously absorbed the golden nourishment from the sunlight.