I Really Couldn't Take It Anymore

There was no way Old Man Huo wouldn't be curious about the great cauldron in Xiao Meng's Heavenly Abode. Even Hu Gan came over to have a look. But Xiao Meng brushed off their questions with a few casual remarks. Whether they believed him was their problem.

After obtaining the Void Divine Soil, Xiao Meng wanted to stay in Jia Nan Academy's Medicine Garden for a few days. He had assumed Old Man Huo and the others would refuse, but Hu Gan and Old Man Huo proved surprisingly accommodating. Not only did they let him stay, they even had several rooms built for him in the Medicine Garden.

Hu Gan also said he could use any medicinal ingredients there, as long as he didn't wipe out any species. Of course, it wasn't free. In return, Xiao Meng had to refine several Soul-Nourishing Pills for them.

Faced with an opportunity he couldn't have found if he'd searched with a lantern, Xiao Meng agreed without a second thought.

Soul-Nourishing Pills?

Refining three in a single batch had nearly stunned Old Man Huo senseless. The man couldn't speak for three days. That gave Xiao Meng quite a fright too, and from then on, he never refined pills in front of Old Man Huo again.

If three pills in one batch could leave him speechless for three days, would four or even five make him drop dead on the spot?

Xiao Meng thought it entirely possible, so he didn't dare shock Old Man Huo again. If the man really died of fright, Xiao Meng couldn't afford to pay for it.

Hu Gan eventually scraped together more than twenty sets of ingredients for Soul-Nourishing Pills. Xiao Meng soon refined them all without wasting a single set, though he openly took three pills for himself. He