"Xiao Cha was probably like me—she didn't want the others in Shushan to know she had gone there to cultivate. Otherwise, she wouldn't have told me not to tell anyone."
"She gave me the entire Wu Qiu inner core, and she couldn't bear to destroy the eggs the Wu Qiu had laid. She truly acted without being driven by profit or desire. I just wonder whether I'll still be able to meet her again if I go to Tiancang Peak to cultivate in the future."
"And I don't know what kind of pills she gave me. Not to mention that I couldn't kill that Wu Qiu alone—even if I had killed it, I wouldn't have known how to extract its inner core, much less how to soak and consume it."
In Luo Bei's room on Tianhao Peak, Luo Bei stared blankly at the Wu Qiu inner core soaking in a white jar before him.
A faint, refreshing fragrance permeated the entire room.
That fragrance did not come from the Wu Qiu inner core. When Xiao Cha and Luo Bei had parted, she had given him more than a dozen milky-white pills. Once dissolved in water, the pills turned into a milky-white liquid that gave off a fragrant scent.
Xiao Cha had told Luo Bei that soaking the Wu Qiu inner core in spring water could also draw out its medicinal potency, but the process would be exceedingly slow. Moreover, the inner core had been condensed from Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy after the Wu Qiu devoured the essences of the sun, moon, and other medicinal herbs. Its power dissipated easily. If it were slowly soaked in spring water, then of the ten parts of medicinal potency extracted, five or six parts might instead disperse into the air.
After these milky-white