After obtaining the Dew-Falling Pill formula and the method of pill refining from Nan Tianba, Ye Qin immediately began preparing to refine pills to increase the speed of his cultivation.
To be cautious, he had no intention of refining pills inside the Herb Gathering Hall; it would be far too easy for his fellow disciples to notice something amiss. If people found out he was secretly making medicine, it would bring him a lot of trouble.
Of course, he also had no intention of searching for a place in the wilderness. He could easily be stumbled upon by someone there, which would be just as unsafe. He had gone into the wilderness to refine medicine before only because he had been short of money and had no choice but to make Clear Heart Pills out there. Now, he had dozens of Gold Leaves that he had traded for Clear Heart Pills with Elder Huang of the Treasure Gang. He could easily find a place in the county town and buy it as a place to settle down.
Dressed in black with a bamboo hat, Ye Qin spent more than ten Gold Leaves to buy a small courtyard from a down-on-his-luck minor landowner. It was tucked away in a remote alley in the southeastern part of the county town, and he planned to use it as both a temporary residence and a place to refine pills.
The small courtyard wasn't large. A ten-foot-high earthen wall enclosed it on all four sides, and a separate house built of green bricks and roof tiles stood at the very back. The minor landowner rarely lived in the city and had neglected the courtyard, so it was overgrown with weeds and rather untidy.
The neighboring houses belonged to ordinary people. They weren't very worldly and