At night, River Dam.
"Yes, I sent you the jade pendants," Jiang Ning said, answering his parents' call.
"They didn't cost much. A classmate's family works with jade."
"I know. I'll thank him. I'll treat him to a meal sometime."
"Wear the jade pendants properly. Don't be too stingy to use them."
Jiang Ning said a few more words before hanging up.
His parents had been away from home for a long time and only returned once a year during the New Year. After giving them the two Body Protection Jade Pendants, he could rest a little easier.
Jiang Ning walked down the road, his mountain bike moving alongside him on its own. It was an eerie sight.
The room was lit.
Jiang Ning formed two hand seals and condensed water spheres, washing his body clean and removing the smell of grilled fish from his clothes.
He sat at his desk, pen in hand, and began to write.
Jiang Ning was improving a spell, developing one capable of concealing the medicinal components of Evergreen Liquid.
Jiang Ning had once been a true ascetic cultivator. Over three hundred years, ninety percent of his time had been spent in secluded cultivation. He had created more than a dozen cultivation techniques and nearly a hundred Small Spells.
He was quite skilled in this area. Combined with the knowledge he had learned in the Current Realm, creating a spell that concealed medicinal ingredients was not difficult.
Jiang Ning sorted through spells, then turned the medicinal components of Evergreen Liquid into symbols. He began combining them, listing formulas, line after line of complex equations filling the A4 paper.
One page, two pages, three pages... until he had filled seven sheets of A4 paper, Jiang Ning finally settled on a formula.
All that remained was