"It's all here."
Huo Yuhao held out his hand.
Seven crystal-clear, dark red pills lay quietly in his palm.
Ju Zi lowered her head to look at the pills, and her breathing quickened.
She had just experienced the effects of this stuff firsthand.
One Red Jade Pill was completely worth a piece of Thousand-Year Whale Rubber.
It was even purer.
The pills contained no impurities at all, and their effects lasted much longer than simply consuming the Whale Rubber directly.
Most importantly, how many ingredients had Huo Yuhao used just now?
A piece of foul-smelling Whale Rubber, plus a packet of extremely common basic herbs.
With such ordinary materials, he had actually refined so many top-grade pills.
This was practically robbery.
Ju Zi took a deep breath and tried to calm her wildly pounding heart.
She suddenly recalled a rumor from her previous life.
At that time, Huo Yuhao had already been a god for several decades.
According to the rumor, while serving as the Master of the Sea God Pavilion, Huo Yuhao had personally refined a batch of divine medicine known as the Heaven-and-Earth Creation Pill.
It was said that batch of pills had directly seized the Creation of heaven and earth.
It had forcibly produced a Limit Douluo for Shrek Academy.
And several Peerless Douluo besides.
Even the leftover residue from the pill refinement had given Shrek a large number of young geniuses capable of fighting above their level.
When Ju Zi had first heard that rumor, she had only found it unrealistic.
She had thought later generations had made it up to glorify him as a god.
But now...
Looking at the Red Jade Pills in her palm, Ju Zi was completely convinced.
Not only was it not a myth, the rumors had most likely been far too conservative.
This brat was a natural-born alchemy monster.
With something capable of mass-producing geniuses like this, many things would become incredibly simple.
She could cultivate her own forces and build a loyal inner circle.
All she needed were mountains of Red Jade Pills.
Seeing Ju Zi's eyes, Huo Yuhao could not help shrinking back.
The way this woman looked at him was too frightening.
"Sister Ju Zi?"
"Mm."
Ju Zi raised her head and stared fixedly at him.
Huo Yuhao scratched his head and said, "Actually, the effects of this stuff can be doubled again."
At those words.
Ju Zi's expression instantly froze.
Doubled again?
"This only counts as a crudely made defective product."
Huo Yuhao began explaining with a serious expression.
That was indeed the information the Heavenly Creation Cauldron had just sent back.
The Thousand-Year Whale Rubber had only been paired with ordinary medicinal herbs. Their effects were merely nourishing qi and blood, soothing the tendons, and unblocking the channels.
As long as he could replace them with older, higher-quality herbs.
The effects of the Red Jade Pill could definitely increase severalfold.
Of course, as a veteran webnovel author, Huo Yuhao knew the usual rules for cheat abilities very well.
He had to keep a low profile.
He could not talk too big at the beginning. That was called lowering expectations.
So, he had used a very humble term.
Defective product.
That phrase kept echoing in Ju Zi's mind.
A pill better than Thousand-Year Whale Rubber, and this brat actually called it a defective product?
The next second.
Before Huo Yuhao's utterly stunned eyes.
Ju Zi suddenly pounced on him.
She directly raised both hands and cupped Huo Yuhao's still somewhat youthful face.
Then she fiercely leaned in.
"Mwah!"
The crisp sound echoed through the room.
Huo Yuhao was completely dumbfounded.
The thoughts in his mind instantly came to a halt.
Where was he?
What was he doing?
Why had the plot suddenly changed?
Taking advantage of him was one thing, but she even came with her own sound effects.
Ju Zi released him, and an unprecedentedly brilliant smile bloomed across her face.
"No matter what you ask for."
She stared into Huo Yuhao's eyes, her tone utterly resolute.
"I'll agree to it."
"Really?"
"Really."
Huo Yuhao swallowed.
"Then can I sleep in a room by myself?"
"No."
Huo Yuhao: ...
Women really were all big liars.
Early the next morning.
When Huo Yuhao opened his eyes, the spot beside him was already empty.
A trace of warmth still remained beneath the blankets.
Ju Zi had long since vanished without a trace.
After breakfast.
Huo Yuhao still went to the open space to train without fail.
Ye Guyi had already been waiting there.
However, compared to her strict attitude yesterday, Ye Guyi was clearly somewhat different today.
The way she looked at Huo Yuhao was full of complicated emotions.
"Good morning, Sister."
Huo Yuhao greeted her obediently.
"Mm."
Ye Guyi nodded.
She hesitated for several seconds before suddenly asking, "That Red Jade Pill from last night, did you really make it?"
That morning, Ye Guyi had risen even earlier to train. Ju Zi had given her a Red Jade Pill and told her that Huo Yuhao had refined it, and that its effects were far better than Thousand-Year Whale Rubber.
Ye Guyi had doubted Ju Zi's words, but under Ju Zi's certain gaze, she had still chosen to take it.
What followed was shock—indescribable shock!
She was shocked by the Red Jade Pill's effects, and even more shocked that Huo Yuhao could refine such a pill at only eight years old.
Even now, she still found it hard to believe.
That disgusting Thousand-Year Whale Rubber could actually become a top-grade pill without a single impurity.
She had personally experienced the effects of Thousand-Year Whale Rubber before experiencing the effects of the Red Jade Pill.
Although Whale Rubber was a good thing that could strengthen the body, it was a natural, unprocessed substance and contained many impurities. When cultivating, one had to build up gradually and carefully, and could not consume too much of it for long periods.
Otherwise, the impurities would accumulate inside the body, gradually clogging the meridians and affecting cultivation speed.
But consuming the Red Jade Pill came with none of those worries.
After swallowing that pill, she had even felt the faint old injury in her body slowly healing.
"I know a little."
Without blushing or skipping a beat, Huo Yuhao brought out the same excuse he had used yesterday.
The corner of Ye Guyi's mouth twitched.
If such heaven-defying methods counted as knowing a little, then all those so-called master alchemists on the Douluo Continent might as well collectively smash their heads into walls.
That afternoon.
The sound of carriage wheels rolling came from outside the camp.
Ju Zi had finally returned.
Two guards dressed in black followed behind her.
Both of them carried parcels and boxes of varying sizes in their hands.
It looked like they had brought quite a few good things.
The two of them walked straight into the small courtyard.
"Put them there."
Ju Zi pointed toward a corner of the room.
The guards set down the boxes and respectfully withdrew.
Huo Yuhao leaned closer and peered into one of the boxes.
With that one glance, he immediately sucked in a breath of cold air.
The box was filled with precious herbs of extremely high age, and there was even quite a bit of processed high-grade soul beast flesh.
These were definitely not cheap goods from an ordinary market.
They were all top-tier cultivation resources piled up with heaps of real gold and silver.
"Is this enough?"
Ju Zi walked to his side, her tone exceptionally lavish.
"It's enough, it's enough."
Huo Yuhao nodded repeatedly.
With this batch of resources, the Red Jade Pills could be directly upgraded.
The deficiency in his body would probably be completely restored within a few days.
"This still isn't enough."
Ju Zi shook her head.
She picked up a precious herb and casually stuffed it into Huo Yuhao's arms.
"These are only basic medicinal ingredients, for strengthening your body."
Ju Zi looked at Huo Yuhao, her eyes filled with seriousness.
"I've already ordered people to look into it."
"After some time, I'll get you Soul Ascension Pills and Profound Water Pills."
Huo Yuhao was instantly dumbstruck.
Soul Ascension Pills.
Profound Water Pills.
These two kinds of pills were absolute luxury goods on the present-day Douluo Continent.
They were priceless and unavailable.
If the core disciples of those sects received even one, they would probably laugh in their dreams.
Yet Ju Zi spoke of them as though they could be measured in batches.
This was not raising a husband.
She was clearly raising him like an ancestor.
"Sister Ju Zi, isn't this too extravagant?"
Huo Yuhao swallowed and asked quietly.
"Don't worry about it."
Ju Zi reached out and ruffled his hair.
"You just use them. Leave everything else to me."
Those words were simply too domineering.
Huo Yuhao's pleasure point as a transmigrator had been struck directly.
Now he finally understood why so many male-oriented novel protagonists loved shamelessly living off women.
It really was great!
No wonder domineering CEOs still had a market in female-oriented novels after all these years. A domineering female CEO—no, a domineering Empress Dowager—was simply too alluring.
Of course, if this Empress Dowager were a little older, that would be even better.
As an exemplary college student with normal values, he could accept a ten-year-old girl treating him as her child husband, but he could not treat her as his child bride.
If he really thought that way, how would he be any different from an animal?
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