Origin-Nurturing Pill

"He bought over two hundred jin of medicinal ingredients, including Lieyang, Tianmahua, Wuhonghua, and Lü Ticao. What was he planning to do?"

"It looked like he wanted to make soup. I also saw someone deliver some meat and poultry to their place!"

"Make soup?"

On the sixth floor of Building Two of the Xuanshi Building, Ren Yisheng listened to the report and had a bad feeling.

He paced around the room for several dozen seconds.

After thinking it through, he tucked a book under his arm and left the room.

"That boy's behavior is a little strange, but isn't Father paying him too much attention?"

Watching Ren Yisheng go downstairs, Ren Wuyang couldn't make sense of his behavior.

As far as he was concerned, it was no big deal for Zhang Xuezhou to buy some medicinal ingredients.

Granted, Zhang Xuezhou had bought rather a lot, even visiting several pharmacies and markets to obtain the quantities he wanted.

But Ren Yisheng had lived in seclusion for years, and the fact that he had actually taken the initiative to pay a visit surprised Ren Wuyang.

"Could there be some special mystery to those ingredients?"

Ren Wuyang thought over the names of the various medicinal ingredients he had looked up.

There was nothing special about them; they were just common varieties found on the market.

Ren Wuyang reckoned Zhang Xuezhou could use those ingredients to make soup for four years, drinking it all the way until he graduated from Canglan Academy.

But that was all.

He had also previously confirmed that Zhang Xuezhou had been buying guinea fowl nonstop and had eaten more than thirteen hundred of them.

Other than using the ingredients to make guinea fowl soup, Ren Wuyang couldn't think of any use for them.

Zhang Manqian had much the same