Two Immortal Herbs

"Tower Master Qin, you..."

Seeing Qin Shiyuan's decisive response, Qian Renxue revealed a trace of undisguised disappointment on the surface.

Yet inwardly, she had long since begun rejoicing.

It was better that he would not help!

If the Star-Plucking Tower were also loyal to the Heaven Dou Empire, she truly would not know how to carry out her plans when the time came.

After all, setting aside the three exceedingly formidable Titled Douluo publicly affiliated with the Star-Plucking Tower...

This mysterious Lord of the Star-Plucking Tower before her alone had achieved the heaven-defying feat of using Eight Rings to utterly defeat five Titled Douluo.

If Qin Shiyuan decided to interfere when she made her move...

Never mind certainty—her plan would be two hundred percent stillborn on the spot.

And in a battle of that level, if she was lucky, she might still have a chance to escape alive.

If she was unlucky, she might be caught up in it and casually slapped to death before she even realized it.

Just as Qian Renxue secretly breathed a sigh of relief, Qin Shiyuan spoke again, interrupting her thoughts.

"Your Highness the Crown Prince, if this was the only reason for your visit, then you may leave now. We have nothing more to discuss."

"If you have any other requests, I would be quite willing to help."

"After all, as the Crown Prince of a nation, Your Highness should not be short of money, right?"

Now that Qian Renxue knew the Star-Plucking Tower would not interfere in the Heaven Dou Royal Family's affairs, the purpose of her trip had been perfectly fulfilled.

Still, since she was already here, leaving without seeing what capabilities this much-vaunted Star-Plucking Tower possessed would feel somewhat like returning empty-handed.

"The Soul Tools unique to the Star-Plucking Tower have already become the talk of every street and alley. Would Tower Master Qin still lack money?"

With the burden weighing on her heart gone, Qian Renxue no longer sounded as tense as she had at the beginning.

Her words now carried a touch more humor and ease.

"That depends on the person. There are not many on the entire continent as wealthy as Your Highness the Crown Prince."

Before coming here, Qin Shiyuan had deliberately altered his voice slightly to keep Qian Renxue from recognizing it.

His originally gentle, spring-breeze-like voice now possessed a few extra notes of magnetism, making one even more curious about his true appearance behind the mask.

"Hmm... a request..."

Qian Renxue considered for a while. Then her eyes suddenly lit up as she asked, "I would like to obtain several of the Thunder Nuclei that Tower Master Qin used to injure Bone Douluo before Spirit Hall that day. Would that be possible?"

"Hehe, Your Highness the Crown Prince certainly knows how to choose. I only have six of those left."

Qin Shiyuan was not at all surprised by what Qian Renxue wanted.

After all, with her plan imminent, having several trump cards capable of injuring Titled Douluo would greatly increase Qian Renxue's chances of seizing the Heaven Dou Empire.

However, that was not Qin Shiyuan's goal.

"I would like to sell them to Your Highness, but regrettably, for the sake of Your Highness's safety, I shall refrain from earning such unscrupulous money."

"Oh? From the sound of Tower Master Qin's words... could it be that I cannot use them?"

Qian Renxue was naturally intelligent. From Qin Shiyuan's few words, she had roughly guessed the reason.

"Correct. Controlling those requires at least the strength of a Soul Saint. If Your Highness carries them, you will likely end up perishing together with your enemy."

Hearing the teasing note in Qin Shiyuan's voice, Qian Renxue's lips twitched slightly.

Seeing that there was no way around this matter, she immediately prepared to ask whether there were other tools that could help with her plan.

However, Qin Shiyuan seemed to have seen through her thoughts and spoke first.

"Your Highness the Crown Prince, if you ask me, your most pressing priority now should be to quickly improve your own strength, rather than rely on external objects."

Qian Renxue froze at his words, and an involuntary bitter smile rose in her heart.

There was once a time when she had been the only soul master on Douluo Continent with Innate Full Soul Power at level twenty.

Who would have thought that one day, someone would criticize her for having insufficient soul power?

And all of it stemmed from the fact that she had infiltrated the Heaven Dou Empire in her youth.

Decades of disguise and covert infiltration had squandered an unknown amount of her potential for nothing.

Trying to catch up all at once now was no different from reaching the heavens.

"Improve my own strength... sigh, easier said than done!"

"Tower Master Qin may not know this, but this junior's talent is merely ordinary. Taking another step forward would likely be as difficult as ascending to the heavens!"

What Qian Renxue truly lacked was not talent, but time.

However, she was still playing Xue Qinghe, so claiming that her talent was ordinary was more reasonable.

"Not necessarily. If Your Highness the Crown Prince's purse is deep enough, then Qin may not be without a solution."

Qin Shiyuan's offhand words seemed to explode like a thunderclap beside Qian Renxue's ears.

"Tower Master Qin has a way to improve Martial Soul talent???"

Her tone was exceedingly urgent.

If such a method existed, then even Waste Martial Souls had hope, didn't they?

"Heh, Star-Plucking Tower does not bear its name for nothing."

"Second Elder."

Qin Shiyuan smiled and unhurriedly took a sip of tea.

A moment later, Shi Nian returned, carrying two translucent jade boxes in his hands.

"This is! An immortal-grade Immortal Herb, the Aromatic Silk Beauty!!!"

"And... an immortal-grade Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid!"

The instant she saw the items inside the boxes, Qian Renxue cried out in surprise.

That was right. The two Immortal Herbs Qin Shiyuan had brought out were precisely the ones absorbed by Ning Rongrong and Oscar respectively in the original work.

The latter was not too remarkable, but the effects of that Aromatic Silk Beauty were enough to shake the entire Soul Master world.

In the original work, it was because Ning Rongrong consumed that Aromatic Silk Beauty

that her Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda Martial Soul evolved in one leap into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.

In other words, the immortal-grade Aromatic Silk Beauty possessed the ability to let a Martial Soul break through its limits!

As she thought about it, for some reason, a hint of disappointment suddenly appeared on Qian Renxue's face.

Yet Qin Shiyuan seemed not to notice, and his voice carried a trace of surprise.

"Oh? So His Highness the Crown Prince recognizes this item. How rare, how rare."

Qian Renxue came back to her senses, but the excitement from before had already vanished from her expression.

"You flatter me, Tower Master. This junior merely heard of these Immortal Herbs from a friend's collection of books."

At that, the corners of Qin Shiyuan's lips curled slightly beneath his mask.

The friend Qian Renxue spoke of was naturally him, the one who spent every day in the tavern.

As for the collection of books she mentioned, it was actually a compilation Qin Shiyuan had made by copying down the original work's descriptions of Immortal Herbs.

Qian Renxue being able to see it had naturally been intentional on his part.

As for why she was disappointed now, it was perhaps because of that line at the end of the book: 'If a mortal consumes it, death is certain.'

In truth, Qin Shiyuan did not know whether ordinary people would be harmed by eating them. After all, what mortal would ever have the qualifications to obtain such immortal medicine?

That extra line had merely been added by him.