"It worked!"
At Bi Xingjian's exclamation, Jiang Yang smiled too and hurriedly cupped his hands in Xie:
"Sorry for the trouble, senior brother. Without you, I could only have held those Spirit Seeds and watched helplessly as they withered away, with no idea what to do."
"Now, now..."
Bi Xingjian raised a hand to lower Jiang Yang's arms.
"You have it backward. I should be Xie-ing you."
"I took the Elixir you found last time to True Person Xuanyan. The moment Xuanyan saw it, Xuanyan said its effects were extraordinary—a beast-nourishing spirit pill rarely seen these days. You have no idea how delighted Xuanyan was..."
Hearing this, Jiang Yang immediately relaxed and said gently:
"That's good, then. Is it enough? If not, I have more here..."
"It's enough, it's enough. I already don't know how to Xie you for this one."
Bi Xingjian hurriedly answered, then explained how things had been going:
"One was plenty. Butterfly-Bearing fell into a deep sleep after taking that Pill. With True Person Xuanyan watching over the little one, everything is fine. Now we only need to wait for Butterfly-Bearing to recover fully and wake."
At this, the round-faced young man flushed and hesitantly said in a low voice:
"I know how precious this Elixir is. Don't worry, junior brother. I'll definitely repay you in the future!"
Without True Person Xuanyan's explanation, he would never have known how valuable the Elixir was. Now that he knew, he naturally could not sit easy. Yet there was no way he could repay it anytime soon, so he could only quietly make that promise.
Jiang Yang hurriedly stopped him, feigning reproach:
"What do you mean, repay me? There's no need for that. Use the Elixir with an easy mind, senior brother. Didn't we agree last time that you