Chapter 152 - A Special Kind Of Elder (1/2)
Some hours went by until Qiu Ling finally found the strength to return to the Yun Zou sect. He didn't go to Jing Yi immediately but instead went to the formation that led to the special dimension.
His beloved had been angry when he left. He couldn't return with empty hands. He first had to get that Amethyst something pill and present it to him when they saw each other again.
He stepped into the array and was transported to the special dimension. Qiu Ling looked around but couldn't find the person he was looking for.
”Old geezer! Come out and help me refine a pill!”
In the lake, in the middle of the dimension, a pair of golden brows twitched.
Qiu Ling waited but didn't hear any answer. He started to go forward. ”Didn't you hear me? I said I need your help! Come on out!”
The man in the lake opened his eyes and leaped out of the water just when Qiu Ling reached the edge.
Qiu Ling got a slap to his forehead. ”Damn! What was this for?”
The man lifted his brows. ”Is this how you talk to your elders?”
”Tch. Seems like it.”
”Mn.” The man turned around and walked to the boulder where he had sat when Zhangsun Xun Yi talked to him. Once again he sat down and observed Qiu Ling with those golden eyes of his. ”You look bad.”
Qiu Ling's brows twitched. ”I'm still better looking than you even on my worst day!”
The man smiled. ”Naturally.”
Qiu Ling gritted his teeth. Somehow, he felt like he had lost that bout. ”Anyway, I'm here because I need your help”, he repeated disgruntled.
The man leaned back and sighed. ”Ah, to think that I'd live long enough to see the day you'll ask me for a favor.” He shook his head. ”I should ask Zhangsun Xun Yi to make this into a festival so that I'll never forget about it.”
Qiu Ling didn't bother arguing with him. ”Are you going to help or not?”
The man smiled, his gaze turning gentler. ”What is this about?”
”I need you to refine something.” Qiu Ling took the herbs out of his spatial ring and put them down on the boulder, then he brought the spiritual beasts out.
The man lifted his golden brows. ”A bunch of herbs and some spiritual beasts. Some other hint as to what you'd like me to refine?”
”It's some pill for remodeling the spirit veins of a mortal. It's called Amethyst something pill.”
”That should be the Amethyst Lightning pill.” He sifted through the herbs and nodded. ”You did a good job. None of them are damaged and the quality is alright. What about them?” He nodded at the spiritual beasts.
Qiu Ling sat down next to him and handed him the list. ”Eh, you should know some way to get those ingredients from them without killing them, shouldn't you?”
The golden-haired man frowned. ”Do I look like a magician to you?”
”Uh … Actually … Yes?”
The man sighed. ”There are some we can get without problems but … not all of them. It's impossible.”
”Mn. Maybe the humans of the sect would know?”
Qiu Ling earned himself another slap to his forehead. ”Didn't you listen just now? I said it's impossible.”
Qiu Ling rubbed his head. ”Maybe you just don't know.”
”Tch. What do you mean by that? You were the one who came here and wanted my help, weren't you?”
”Hmph, maybe I shouldn't have done that, though.”
”Oh, please, go ahead and find someone else. I'd like to see what kind of price you'll have to pay to get a mortal alchemist to refine that pill for you.” The man put down the herbs and smiled.
”Damn. You're too calculating! Don't you feel like you owe me anything?”
The man lowered his head. ”I've warned him, though. It was your father who didn't want to listen to me.”