Ch93 - Medicinal Shop

Five years later.(6 years, seven months and eleven days in the secret realm time.)

Jiang Xu was overjoyed when he saw his lover finally come out after half a year of seclusion. “Mufeng, you’re out!”

“Yes, I am out of seclusion.” For Jiang Xu, he was in seclusion for half a year. However, for Liu Mufeng, he had been in the bracelet dimension for five years.

“You have advanced to the Spiritual Master Realm with one star, which is very good.” Jiang Xu was very happy for his lover when he saw that he had finally been promoted to the Spiritual Master Realm.

Hearing this, Liu Mufeng smiled wryly. “It’s two stars worse than you.”

“It’s okay. We have agreed that I’ll protect you.” Jiang Xu said with a smile.

“I really missed you.” Holding his lover’s waist, Liu Mufeng gave him an affectionate kiss.

“Mufeng.” With his arms around his lover’s neck, Jiang Xu called out softly, leaning on the man’s arms.

With a wave of his hand, Liu Mufeng directly put all the Golden Insects mining in the mine into the bracelet dimension, hugged his wife, started to undress him, and took his liberty as a husband.

After a long time, the two were reunited, and after three days of tossing, they finally stopped.

“I’ve been in seclusion for half a year. Nothing happened, right?” Liu Mufeng asked softly, holding the lover in his arms.

“It’s alright, no demon beasts came, and I drove away a few cultivators. Do not worry. The barriers are still working, so they had no idea what was in this mountain.” Jiang Xu assured him.

“That’s good to hear.” Then, Liu Mufeng gently kissed his lover’s cheek, bowing his head.

“Mufeng, there are fewer and fewer spirit stones underground. We can only dig a few spirit stones every day. I haven’t dug a mid-grade spirit stone for three months.” Jiang Xu was very depressed when he said this. He remembered that when he started digging for spirit stones, he and Mufeng would often find mid-grade spirit stones. But now, only low-grade spirit stones were dug up, and there were very few mid-grade spirit stones.

“We’ve been digging for five years. Even if more spirit stones are stored underground, it can’t stand our digging. I think there shouldn’t be many spirit stones left in this mine.” Liu Mufeng thought about it. He remembered that in the novel, the male and female protagonists seemed to also have been digging for five years. It was estimated that the spirit stones in this mountain should be almost dug by them. Although he was absent for half a year, Xiaoyuan and her swarm had helped. Their speed should be much faster than the male and female protagonists.

“That’s it.” Jiang Xu felt a little disappointed when he heard that the spirit stones had been hollowed out.

“It’s okay, if there are no more spirit stones. We can leave here to find other opportunities.” Looking at his lover, Liu Mufeng smiled and comforted him.

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Jiang Xu’s eyes lit up. “Yeah, if we can’t find the opportunity, we can find a way to exchange the opportunity with the others.”

“En!” Nodding, Liu Mufeng smiled and pinched the tip of his lover’s nose.

“Mufeng, you are so smart.”

“Eat more of my saliva, and you will become wiser.” After speaking, Liu Mufeng kissed his lover’s lips again.

Liu Mufeng and Jiang Xu stayed on the mountain for another month. After digging up all the spirit stones, Jiang Xu removed all the unused traps and the barrier enchantment before leaving the mountain.

After leaving, Liu Mufeng took Jiang Xu to find a few more opportunities which the hero and the heroine had acquired as per the novel’s narrative. However, it seemed that all good opportunities had been used up. They searched several places for more than three months but found nothing.

The two simply stopped looking for them when they couldn’t find more opportunities. Liu Mufeng found an abandoned cave at the foot of the mountain and lived there with Jiang Xu. They set up a sign at the cave entrance to exchange medicinal pills. Liu Mufeng took out the pill recipe book and refined pills every day. Meanwhile, Jiang Xu was responsible for putting all the pills refined by his husband into porcelain bottles. He labeled and placed them on wooden shelves and waited for the business to come to the door.

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A group of twenty-five people walked on the mountain road. They were Xue Hao, Zhou Wen, and Zhou Wu, followed by the three prominent families of Yong’an City, the Li family, the Liu family, and the Shen family.

While walking, suddenly, the Eldest Young Master of the Li family who led the team stopped, followed by the others.

“Fellow Daoist Li, what’s wrong?” Liu Shen from the Liu family asked Li Ming suspiciously.

“Fellow Daoist Liu, look!” Li Ming pointed to the horizon.

Hearing this, everyone looked towards the direction Li Ming pointed and saw a swarm of Golden Insects flying toward them.

“Ah, this, what is this?” Liu Shen was shocked when he saw the insects flying towards them.

“Looking at this seemingly enraged action, this is not good!” Frowning, Shen Xiao said with a look of alertness.

Hearing this, the group immediately became alert.

Staring at the swarm of insects flying toward them, Xue Hao couldn’t help but raise his eyebrows. “It’s the Golden Insects, don’t be afraid. It’s the Golden Insects of Fellow Daoist Liu, not the demon beasts in the secret realm.”

“Ah?” Hearing Xue Hao’s words, everyone looked at him in surprise.

“Fellow Daoist Xue, are you really sure that these are Fellow Daoist Liu’s Golden Insects and not some beasts in the secret realm?” Looking at Xue Hao, Li Ming asked uncertainly.

“I’m sure I’ve seen these insects.” Nodding, Xue Hao answered in the affirmative.

“That’s weird. We didn’t offend fellow Daoist Liu. Why is he letting his insects attack us?” Li Ming was very puzzled about this.

“Maybe it’s not for us, right?” But, of course, Xue Hao didn’t know much about this either.

However, knowing that it was the Golden Spirit Insect, everyone was not as nervous as before.

A group of Golden Insects flew over, then stopped five meters away from the crowd, throwing down a lot of notes with words on them, and flew away again. They came and went quickly.

“What are those?” Looking at the papers on the ground, everyone asked curiously.

“Let’s go and have a look.” Xue Hao walked over with his two cousins. Each of the three families picked up a flyer and looked at it with interest.

“Fellow Daoist Xue, what is written on it?” Li Ming asked when he came over.

“Oh, it’s Daoist Liu’s Medicinal shop. You can exchange spiritual plants, spiritual flowers, and spiritual fruits for second and third-level medicinal pills. Here is the location of the medicinal pill shop.” After speaking, Xue Hao handed another flyer to Li Ming.

“Is it possible to buy second-level and third-level medicinal pills? Is it really not fake?”

“Yeah, doesn’t Liu Mufeng only know how to wash spiritual roots? Could it be that he is also an alchemist?”

“I don’t know. I haven’t heard that he could do alchemy.”

“That’s not necessarily true. Liu Mufeng is from the Wang family. Maybe he learned alchemy from Third Master Wang?”

“Yeah, Liu Mufeng’s spiritual insects were those that City Lord Wang helped him contract. Maybe he also learned alchemy with his uncle.”

“Yes, it is possible.”

Everyone talked in a hurry, picked up the thirty flyers scattered by the Golden Insects, and started talking about the medicinal shop.

“Fellow Daoist Liu, Fellow Daoist Liu Mufeng is your cousin. You should know about him, right? Is he a third-level alchemist like Senior Wang?” Looking at Liu Shen, Li Ming asked uncertainly.

Hearing this, Liu Shen shook his head. “No, I don’t know much about this cousin.”

“Yeah, our Yong’an City is so far away from Black Dragon City. My brother and I only went back to see our grandfather once every few years. So we don’t know anything about Liu Mufeng.” Shaking his head, Liu Feifei also expressed that she didn’t know much about Liu Mufeng.

Liu Shen and Liu Feifei were brother and sister. Their mother was Liu Mufeng’s Fifth Aunt, the Fifth Sister of Liu Mufeng’s mother, married to one of the sons of the City Lord of Yong’an City. Previously, their mother took them back to Black Dragon City to find their grandfather and Liu Mufeng to help wash their spiritual roots. However, their grandfather was furious and threw them out. So, it could be said that they really didn’t know anything about Liu Mufeng except that he was their cousin.

“Oh, is that so.” Li Ming was too embarrassed to ask again.

“Fellow Daoist Xue, you and fellow Daoist Liu Mufeng have a closer relationship. What do you think about this?” Looking at Xue Hao, Shen Xiao asked suspiciously.

“Based on what I know about Liu Mufeng, he is not a person who would bluff simply. Since he said that there are second and third-level medicinal pills that can be exchanged, there must be medicinal pills.” Xue Hao trusted Liu Mufeng very much.

“Oh, let’s go and see if there are any medicinal pills?” Zhou Wen said as he opened his mouth.

“Yeah, this map says that the medicinal shop is at the foot of the mountain in the Eastern part of the forest. Let’s see if we can find it?” Zhou Wu said the same.

Hearing this, several people looked at each other. As the strongest among the group, Li Ming looked at everyone, “Fellow Daoists, this medicinal shop is not far from our location. We have come this far and got this information, if you want to go to the medicinal shop, follow me. If you don’t want to come with us, you can rest on the side of the road. When we finish buying the pills, let’s all reunite.”

“Okay, we will listen to fellow Daoist Liu!”

“Yes, we listen to fellow Daoist Liu!”

Seeing that everyone agreed, Li Ming continued to walk forward with everyone. As they walked for a while, he looked back and found that no one stayed behind. Everyone had followed. Seeing that everyone was interested in finding this Medicinal Shop, Li Ming smiled wryly. It had been almost seven years since the secret realm opened. The supply of pills they had prepared before coming to the secret realm had long been used up. If one was injured, you could only use spiritual plants to heal, which took time. Who didn’t want the pills?

In fact, if Xue Hao and the Liu siblings were not in the team, maybe everyone would hesitate. However, Liu Mufeng’s grandfather and Xue Hao’s father had a deep friendship. Liu Mufeng was also acquainted with Xue Hao. On the other hand, the Liu siblings were Liu Mufeng’s cousins. With these three people around, everyone felt that even if they couldn’t buy medicinal pills, they wouldn’t be robbed by Liu Mufeng. Therefore, safety could still be guaranteed.