"Who are you people?" Jiang Yun asked.
"My name is Chen Yu, and this is my younger brother, Chen Feng. My brother could not stand seeing the disciples in the Heavenly Cave bullying each other, so he stepped in to help. He fought two against one and taught those two a lesson, but he accidentally affected Junior Sister Weier. It is all because my brother's skills were lacking."
Chen Yu was clearly the sort of sharp and capable woman who could explain the whole matter in just a few simple words.
At the same time, she highlighted Chen Feng as the protagonist of this "hero saving a beauty" tale.
Chen Feng, dressed in white beside her, puffed out his thin chest and tried his best to look like an upright gentleman.
Yet his slightly lecherous air was clearly ill-suited to those white robes, making him look utterly out of place.
Upon hearing their names, Jiang Yun's eyes flickered slightly, and he smiled with amusement.
He truly remembered these two. They were no good people, so why would they be kind enough to help Xia Weier?
"Oh, then we really must thank you. Once Shuanglan has treated Xia Weier, we will have her visit and thank you in person."
After learning their names, Jiang Yun promptly sent them away.
Chen Feng was clearly unwilling to leave and wanted to say something more, but his sister Chen Yu directly pulled him away.
After Chen Yu departed, she pondered the matter carefully.
She could not understand why this Immortal Seedling had seemed quite easygoing at first, only for his tone to change immediately after she finished speaking.
Had he seen through her scheme for her brother?
Impossible. What she had done was not flawless, but there was no way he could have seen through it at a glance.
Though she could not figure it out, Chen Yu did not dwell on it. What could possibly be wrong with saving someone?
This hero-saving-a-beauty performance had been somewhat of a failure. She had truly not expected her brother to be so useless.
She had given him a treasure artifact, yet he had still nearly failed to defeat two disciples who had only condensed four or five Divine Patterns.
As a result, Xia Weier had been injured, and Jiang Yun and Jiang Shuanglan had even been alerted.
But there was nothing to be done. Chen Feng was her younger brother, after all, so she could only go deal with the loose ends.
Jiang Yun waited outside the courtyard for a while before Jiang Shuanglan emerged from the room.
"How is she?" Jiang Yun resumed his calm demeanor and stepped forward. "Is Junior Sister Weier badly hurt?"
Xia Weier was his wife's close friend. He could neither appear too anxious nor seem completely indifferent.
"The injuries are not too serious. Half a month of rest should be enough. I never expected Weier to condense Divine Patterns after cultivating for less than half a year. She blocked part of the impact, or her life might have been in danger."
Jiang Shuanglan looked at Jiang Yun and also sighed in relief.
"It is good that she is fine. I drove Chen Feng and Chen Yu away from outside the courtyard just now."
Jiang Yun told Jiang Shuanglan what had happened earlier.
"This matter is definitely connected to those two. The Heavenly Cave must punish them."
Jiang Shuanglan spoke with certainty, looking somewhat angry.
"How do you know this matter is related to the two of them?" Jiang Yun asked curiously.
"The two of them come from the same city as Weier and me. That second young master of the Chen Family has committed all sorts of evil deeds, forcibly taking women time and again. His crimes are countless. We simply never had any contact with them, so they do not know us. This whole hero-saving-a-beauty act was definitely staged."
Jiang Shuanglan then told Jiang Yun about Xia Weier's experiences over this period.
At first, Xia Weier had merely run into Chen Feng a few times. After that, Chen Feng kept coming to find her.
Later, Xia Weier was repeatedly harassed over various matters within the sect, and Chen Feng would mysteriously appear several times to help her resolve the crises.
Every time, it was more or less the same sort of performance. Xia Weier was rather reserved and timid.
But after several incidents, she realized that Chen Feng had designs on her, so she tried to go out as little as possible.
Today, she had needed to collect Hundred-Grass Liquid and had no choice but to leave. She had not expected them to go so far this time.
"You should head back first. Weier's injuries are not too serious. I will stay here with her for a while, then go see the disciplinary elder."
After chatting for a while, Jiang Shuanglan had Jiang Yun return first.
Jiang Yun returned to the small valley. Seeing how empty it was, he suddenly thought of planting something.
Many places in Jade Cauldron Paradise had medicinal fields.
They could be used to cultivate herbs and spiritual plants, which could later be refined into Hundred-Grass Liquid to obtain cultivation resources.
Although Jiang Yun still had plenty of Divine Spring Fluid,
he could not simply sit back and consume his reserves. Planting some ordinary herbs and spiritual materials to gain experience would be good as well.
His Dao Scripture inheritance also contained the Daode Alchemy Chapter, which was worth studying in depth.
Jiang Yun carefully examined the valley's terrain, preparing for the future cultivation of spiritual medicines.
But he had no idea where to begin. He had never encountered such knowledge before and still needed guidance from a professional.
He then returned to the pill room and began studying the Dao Venerable Alchemy Chapter inheritance. Perhaps it contained guidance on this matter.
Jiang Yun connected his consciousness to the Dao Scripture inheritance deep within his mind and actively made contact with the Dao Venerable Alchemy Chapter.
Bang!!
An immense flood of knowledge surged straight into Jiang Yun's mind. It contained not only knowledge about alchemy, but also the identification of precious medicines and spiritual herbs, the nurturing and purification of medicinal ingredients, and how to bring out greater effects during pill refinement.
There was even an unfathomable inheritance of Dao Runes, along with methods for refining matching precious pills.
There was even some research concerning Immortal Elixirs.
Jiang Yun only felt that his brain had learned it all. As for whether his hands had learned it, that was another matter.
The inheritances concerning medicine kings, precious medicines, spiritual materials, and the like broadened Jiang Yun's horizons.
Some special precious pills even needed to be nurtured with the terrain of mountains and rivers, and might not emerge from the furnace for decades or centuries.
That was far too slow. It was much more convenient to just take medicine directly.
Jiang Yun was not particularly surprised by this abundant store of knowledge.
One could say that Daode Heavenly Venerable was not powerful, but claim that he could not refine pills? Jiang Yun would be the first not to believe it.
Among these inheritances, one set of pill formulas caught Jiang Yun's attention. This set of formulas was far too extraordinary.
Daode Heavenly Venerable had obtained the formula for the Nine-Turn Immortal Pill and studied it extremely deeply.
He had broken down the Nine-Turn Immortal Pill and developed an entire series from it.
It divided the stages from one turn to nine turns: One-Turn Golden Core, Two-Turn Golden Core, all the way to the ninth turn, which became an immortal pill. Every one of them had a refinement method.
Looking at the formula for the Nine-Turn Immortal Pill, Jiang Yun's eyes burned with desire.
This was a divine object capable of driving even ancient Great Emperors mad. Even after consuming an Immortal Elixir, this pill would still remain effective.
It could consolidate the Dao Fruit of one Lifetime and allow one to live into a third life.
Yet the refining materials recorded within quickly brought Jiang Yun back to reality. Leaving aside the Immortal Elixir,
the remaining main ingredients, such as Eclosion Source Soil, Fire Essence Divine Juice, and Primordial Chaos Divine Stone, were all divine objects rarely seen even once in eternity.
Not to mention that all kinds of rare treasures were also needed as supplementary materials.
They were far too difficult to obtain. Throughout history, there had been very few people capable of refining a Nine-Turn Immortal Pill.
Jiang Yun shifted his attention to the One-Turn Golden Core, and his scalp went numb as well.
Even a One-Turn Golden Core required a trace of an Immortal Elixir as a catalyst, supplemented by all kinds of spiritual herbs and precious materials, before it could be refined.
A strange expression appeared on Jiang Yun's face. The materials for the One-Turn Golden Core did not seem all that difficult to find.
He glanced into Source Space. The hardest ingredient, the Immortal Elixir, was available there in the form of the remains of a Bodhi Tree and part of the branches of the Nine Wonders Immortal Medicine.
The other materials were not especially rare, and some of them even had substitutes.
It was worth trying. If he succeeded, the rewards would be enormous. The One-Turn Golden Core corresponded to the Dao Palace and Sea of Reincarnation.
The first time it was consumed, it could bring changes akin to rebirth, transforming everything from the physical body to spiritual consciousness. It could greatly increase cultivation speed, while extending one's lifespan was merely its most basic effect.
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