Chapter 456: The Alchemy Sage of the Fifth Heavens~
g a girlfriend in college will be accomplished smoothly," Hao Ren retorted.“That’s easy to say! Oh my god, how embarrassing…” Zhou Liren covered his face and exaggeratedly lamented.Hao Ren ignored him...Chapter 456: The Alchemy Sage of the Fifth Heaven
The other two morning classes flew by.
As the final exams were approaching, based on experience, the last few lectures would often highlight exam priorities. Hence, Hao Ren listened particularly attentively.
For some courses, he and Xie Yujia took them together, so he could use her notes; for others where they didn’t take the same classes, he referred to her old lecture notes, but there were different focuses on exam priorities. For a few courses that he chose with Zhao Jiayin and others while Xie Yujia did not, he had no choice but to rely solely on himself.
As for Zhou Liren and his gang of guys, they couldn’t be relied upon at all; before connecting with Xie Yujia, their exams were still dependent on Hao Ren—the latter might have skipped some classes, but his memory was truly remarkable.
The morning classes ended right at noon, lunchtime.
"Young Master!"
Lü Lili’s clear voice rang out outside the teaching building.
Hao Ren, who walked out of the teaching building with Zhou Liren and his gang, immediately spotted Lü Lili and then Lü Lining.
Little Lining pursed her lips and glared at Hao Ren, still peeved that he had used sword light to peek into their room.
In contrast, Lü Lili was very warm towards Hao Ren. In her view, the little spot of light was something Hao Ren released, so there wasn’t a problem with it.
Zhou Liren and his gang’s eyes lit up when they saw the Lu sisters.
Lü Lining had an expression that was slightly aloof, while Lü Lili greeted them enthusiastically with a smile. Their contrasting attitudes showcased two different kinds of beauty.
Chirp! Chirp!
Xiao Bai darted out from the surrounding greenery and scampered over to Hao Ren.
"Sis, don’t be angry anymore. Young Master definitely didn’t do it on purpose," Lü Lili tugged at Lü Lining’s hand as they approached Hao Ren.
Zhou Liren and his gang were practically staring dumbfoundedly when they saw the Lu sisters coming over to them.
Xiao Bai climbed up Hao Ren's thigh like a monkey, then scampered into Hao Ren’s embrace. Its paws still had water marks from the ground, leaving little cherry blossom prints all over Hao Ren’s clothes.
"Young Master!" Lü Lining walked up to Hao Ren and called out sweetly.
“Mm, how were your classes today” Hao Ren asked them.
“Pretty good. We’ve started the final review now,” Lü Lili said sweetly.
The Lu sisters were a year younger than Hao Ren and from the College of Film Studies (Arts). If they hadn’t frequently sought him out, he wouldn’t have many chances to run into them on campus.
"Let's go, I'll treat you to a meal!" Hao Ren said.
"Sure! Thank you, sir!" Lu Lili laughed joyfully, her eyes crinkling into crescent shapes.
Lu Linlin glanced at Lu Lili and sighed inwardly; this person had no principles at all. However, looking at Hao Ren, she couldn't harden her heart either. She pouted and was dragged by Lu Lili towards the cafeteria.
It's too much... it's too much...
Zhou Liping, who followed Hao Ren to the cafeteria, cursed him silently a hundred times over.
To treat beautiful women to a meal and yet go to the cafeteria! Only Hao Ren could do such a thing!
However, Lu Lili didn't have any objections; she even laughed more happily than before!
Fate... Zhou Liping, towering at over 1.8 meters tall, couldn’t help but want to pound his chest.
The cafeteria wasn't crowded at this hour as most students rushed through their meals before heading off to the library or self-study rooms to occupy seats for revision and wouldn’t linger in the cafeteria long.
Lu Linlin and Lu Lili picked a quiet seat to sit down. Hao Ren took her meal card to buy food.
Zhou Liping was almost burning with envy as two super campus beauty twins were sitting there waiting for Hao Ren to bring them their food! Just thinking about it made his blood boil!
Especially since Hao Ren had that indifferent expression, Zhou Liping wondered how many meals Hao Ren had shared with the twin beauties! It seemed to him like it didn't matter anymore. Yet, countless boys in school had no chance of getting close to them!
He didn’t know that Lu Linlin and Lu Lili had stayed at Hao Ren's place several times already...
Hao Ren calmly carried three plates over, and Zhou Liping, Zhao Jiayin, Gu Jiadong, and the others immediately took their seats around a long table.
The opportunity to admire these campus celebrity beauties up close was rare indeed.
As they were staring at the Lu sisters while nearly dropping the braised pork from their chopsticks into their noses, Xie Yujia and Su Han appeared in their line of sight with trays in hand.
"Su Han!" Hao Ren casually waved his hand.
The others instinctively shrunk back when they heard him call out to her like that in the cafeteria!
How could Hao Ren dare to call Su Han by name and here, in the cafeteria
To their astonishment, however, Su Han didn’t react at all. She led Xie Yujia over to sit directly across from Hao Ren.
This time, Zhao Jiayin and his friends’ eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.
It was strange enough that Xie Yujia and Su Han were eating together; when Hao Ren just waved them over, Su Han came straight to him And even sat down at the same table
The moment they felt it, it was as if lightning had struck their heads!
How could they know that Su Han clearly knew where Hao Ren was. Especially since each of them carried a Reviewer's token; within the campus area, sensing each other’s location was as easy as pie.
Seeing four beautiful ladies accompany Hao Ren for dinner made Gu Jiadong and company almost tremble from head to toe.
Especially Zhou Liren. His legs were shaking in excitement… If it were me, how wonderful that would be… So wonderful…
"Yu Jia already told me that you’re doing well in the Fifth Heavens," Su Han asked elegantly while sipping her soup.
“Yes. Zhen Ciming set up a barrier, and I took the opportunity to open several cave heavens.” Hao Ren slightly raised his head and looked at Su Han as he said, “Would you like to visit them”
"Not now. Maybe in the future." Looking at Hao Ren, Su Han replied, "In a few days, you’ll have to accompany me to the Dragon Deity Temple for an official registration."
“Oh…” Hao Ren agreed. In the system of the Dragon Deity Temple, Su Han was his mentor and senior.
Since he had now become an official Reviewer, he could enter the interior of the Dragon Deity Temple, that giant black tower-like structure.
"How did Yu Jia do today" Hao Ren switched to another topic.
“Well. Teacher Su… Senior Su taught very carefully,” said Xie Yujia as she continued, “With medicinal pills, she should be able to reach the middle Foundation Establishment stage within a month.”
Xie Yujia could not call her teacher; yet it was awkward for her to directly use her name. She then called her Senior Su, which sounded quite nice.
"Why didn't you teach me together…" Hao Ren complained somewhat.
“I don’t have the energy to teach two people at once,” replied Su Han with a roll of her eyes as she picked up her plate and stood up. "I’m done eating, so I’ll leave first."
The slightly disgruntled expression on Su Han’s face made Zhou Liren feel like his hair was standing on end—not out of fear but excitement—Su Han, a beautiful lady, even rolling her eyes looked incredibly enchanting!
Hao Ren watched Su Han's back as he noticed that all the male students in the cafeteria had already gathered their attention towards them. Some were even moving over here and shy Su Han clearly did not like being surrounded.
"I’ll head to the Fifth Heavens later and help you set it up," Hao Ren said to Xie Yujia.
“Alright,” Xie Yujia nodded slightly in agreement.
The previous night, Hao Ren had obtained the secret manual on the Seven-hearted Five-colored Lotus from the Sky Mountain Sect in the Sixth Heavens. Using half a night before returning to her seaside villa early morning, Xie Yujia carefully studied this ancient scripture and sorted out several preliminary conditions for cultivating the Seven-heart Five-coloured Lotus.
The first condition was obtaining eight kinds of sixth-rank spirit grasses to make fertilizer; these were the best materials in heaven and earth for alchemy. The seven-colored snow lotus that had once saved Zhao Kuo’s life was one of them.
Secondly, they needed two late-stage core formation cultivators with similar cultivation techniques—ideally those with a full set of five elements—to jointly extract a thread of their original yang and activate the spirituality in the lotus seed.
The third condition was to create complex formations to attract heaven and earth’s qi to irrigate the Seven-heart Five-coloured Lotus’s seeds.
The fourth condition is to have the fertilizer from spiritual beasts, which essentially means their "excrement." Among them, the excrement of a Snow Lion has the best effect.
The fifth and most crucial condition is that one must possess seeds of the Seven-hearted Five-colored Lotus.
Each of these conditions is incredibly stringent, making it no surprise that the Seven-hearted Five-colored Lotus is gradually becoming extinct. For instance, the first requirement involves the best alchemy materials in the world—so-called sixth-grade spiritual herbs, which total only ten types. However, to nurture the Seven-hearted Five-colored Lotus, one needs eight of these at once!
The most astonishing condition for Hao Ren was the effectiveness of Xiao Bai's excrement!
But upon further thought, the abundance of colorful snow lotuses growing in the Snow Lion Cave left behind by the Heavenly Mountain Sect relied entirely on the feces of Snow Lions.
The reason the Heavenly Mountain Sect specialized in raising Snow Lions was to promote the growth of spiritual herbs for alchemy purposes!
From this secret manual, Hao Ren suddenly understood everything.
Xiao Bai rubbed against Hao Ren's leg and called out.
Hao Ren looked down at it and suddenly felt that the little guy was somewhat endearing...
He casually tossed a large rib bone to Xiao Bai, which made the delighted little creature use its paws to hold onto it while happily munching on it.
Among these conditions, everything else is not an issue; Lu sisters, Zhen Cunming, and even Xiao Bai could help. However, obtaining eight types of spiritual herbs as mentioned in the first condition poses a significant challenge.
To refine pills using pills.
Raise Xiao Bai with spiritual pills to produce high-quality fertilizer. Use this fertilizer to cultivate large quantities of mature spiritual herbs and then refine them into medicinal pills, which can provide even more materials...
Half an hour later, Hao Ren and Xie Yujia appeared at the valley entrance of Mirage Peak.
Hao Ren personally made a small wooden board, clearly writing with charcoal: "Wanted: 10 ten-thousand-year-old black herbs. Reward: 100 fourth-grade foundation-building pills."
What impact this message would have in the Fifth Heaven layer was unknown to Hao Ren.
However, during this period, some unfamiliar cultivators had come to the valley entrance seeking medicine. If Xie Yujia had any extra third-grade defective pills, she would casually give them away.
The story of there being a Nirvana Core alchemy master in Medicine King Valley was quietly spreading around Mirage Peak's vicinity.
"Let’s see how this goes," looking at the small wooden board that functions like a bulletin board, Hao Ren said with ease as he clapped his hands.
“Yes.” Xie Yujia looked at Hao Ren softly and suddenly felt that doing things together with him made her very happy.
"Next," Hao Ren looked at Xie Yujia, rubbed his hands together, "I'm going to visit Kunlun Mountain." her room. The material, weight, and thinness of the robe made her feel cool all over, which did not hinder her cultivation.As they say, hard work pays off. After two months of focused practice, Su Ha...