A brand-new three-story building towered over the street near Three Willow Alley. A crescent moon emblem representing Missing Moon Manor hung on the top floor, with the gilded sign of Nine Dragons Hall below. The calligraphy was elegant and graceful, signed with the three characters of Xie Jinhuan's name and stamped with a little bird's claw print-his personal seal.
As the Gu Poison Sect's first branch within the pass, it naturally had to be substantial. The premises on both sides were all branch shops, while the administrative section stood in the middle, where newly recruited children were taking academic lessons. Farther back lay the pill-refining area.
However, the Witch Cult did not use pill furnaces to refine medicine. Instead, they brewed it in boilers using ancient methods, with all-natural extracts of snakes, insects, rats, and ants. The sight was rather bizarre. Disciples stood guard around it to prevent outsiders from wandering in or poisonous mist from escaping.
As Manor Lord, Bu Yuehua knew how important this step was to the Gu Poison Sect. Lately, she had not even had the mind to tease the Flirtatious Daoist Nun. Every day, apart from being pounded front and back by the youngster, she spent all her remaining time negotiating with various factions. Wanyi naturally had no time to spare either. Never mind her own combined duties as accountant, cashier, and storekeeper-even Qinwen, the maid helping her, was so busy she had no time to sneak glances at their new young master-in-law.
Bu Yuehua had just seen off the people from the Fengshan Society's financial consortium, then headed straight to the pill-refining area at the back.
The pill-refining area was large, with several apprentices processing various medicinal herbs in the rooms. Inside a central "Dharma Protector Room" stood boxes of little bottles.
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