After resting for three days, Liu Changxu threw himself back into alchemy. He was determined to refine a lower-grade third-tier Purple Sun Pill, for only after becoming a lower-grade third-tier alchemist would he have a better chance of refining Foundation Establishment Pills.
Despite Liu Changxu's firm resolve, reality proved brutally unforgiving. After wasting spirit medicinal herbs worth more than a hundred thousand low-grade spirit stones, he had produced only a single inferior pill, a considerable blow to him.
Still, that inferior pill also gave Liu Changxu a glimpse of hope for success.
However, he had exhausted his supply of spirit medicinal herbs for alchemy and needed to buy more.
That morning, Liu Changxu told his wife, Li Zhenxin, who was in the sitting room, that he planned to go to the Azure Cloud Cultivator Market to buy spirit medicinal herbs.
"Husband, go ahead!"
Li Zhenxin agreed without a second thought.
Unexpectedly, Yun'er, who was playing nearby with her younger siblings, refused to be left behind when she heard that her father was going to the Azure Cloud Cultivator Market. She ran up to Liu Changxu and said:
"Father, I want to go to the market too. Could you take me with you? Staying at home is so boring."
Before Liu Changxu could agree, Yue'er and Feng'er also rushed over at the news, clamoring to go.
Yi'er and Qi'er, who understood nothing of what was happening, saw their older siblings asking to go and ran over too, wrapping their arms around Liu Changxu's legs and saying in their babyish voices:
"Father, we want to go too."
Looking at his children's eager appeals, Liu Changxu reflected that keeping them on White Cloud Peak every day was rather unfair when they were at an age that loved play and mischief. He agreed:
"All