Aman

Long Chen couldn't help but be startled. "That woman?"

"It is the woman who fought with you earlier," Great Master Yun Qi said with a serious expression.

"What? Is there a problem with her?" Long Chen asked, feeling somewhat puzzled.

Great Master Yun Qi hesitated for a moment, then immediately said, "Come with me."

Long Chen followed Great Master Yun Qi to his previous guest room. He couldn't help but feel curious; that woman was only at the Qi Gathering Nine Heavens, surely that wasn't enough for Great Master Yun Qi to specially warn him about her, right?

After entering the room and closing the door, Great Master Yun Qi brushed his hand over his ring, and a scroll appeared in his hand.

"Whoosh." The scroll opened, and Long Chen couldn't help but be shocked. He saw a beautiful woman painted on the scroll, with delicate features, and in front of her sat an ancient Medicine Cauldron, as she was performing Alchemy.

What shocked Long Chen was that the woman's face was almost exactly the same as the crazy woman he had encountered.

However, the woman in the painting was pure and serene, giving people a very gentle feeling, whereas that crazy woman was far too different from her.

"This is…" Long Chen asked tentatively. The scroll was extremely old, clearly an object with some history. Long Chen didn't understand what Great Master Yun Qi meant by taking out this painting.

"The person in the painting is my wife." Looking at the person in the painting, a rare trace of tenderness appeared on Great Master Yun Qi's serious face.

Long Chen couldn't help but open his mouth wide. This was something he had never expected, and for a moment, he didn't know what to say.

After looking at it for a long while, Great Master Yun Qi gently put the scroll away and sighed: "My beloved wife passed away a long time ago."

"When I first saw that woman, I almost thought my eyes were playing tricks on me; it took me a long time to calm myself down."

"However, when that woman kept insisting on becoming my apprentice, it immediately made me vigilant."

"What? Could it be that she has some ulterior motive?" Long Chen was stunned and asked.

Great Master Yun Qi smiled slightly without answering. After a long while, he finally said: "She is also an Alchemist's apprentice, and her Aptitude is very good, perhaps even better than yours, so you must be careful."

Long Chen listened, feeling a bit confused, but Great Master Yun Qi refused to say anything more. He took Long Chen's jade plate and engraved his own unique mark on it.

That mark contained a trace of his Soul energy. With this mark, Long Chen could withdraw a portion of precious medicinal ingredients in advance from the guild's pharmacy.

After engraving the mark, Long Chen was directly kicked out, leaving countless question marks in his mind.

It seemed that the arrival of that crazy woman was probably not a coincidence. If it was deliberately arranged, what was she trying to do?

Seduce Great Master Yun Qi? But thinking about how old Great Master Yun Qi was, that seemed somewhat unlikely.

However, even if it were seduction, they should have found someone more quiet and gentle, right? Who could stand such an arrogant and domineering woman?

Could it be that Great Master Yun Qi had other secrets? Could she be his illegitimate daughter?

That wasn't right either; Great Master Yun Qi's illegitimate daughter would have nothing to do with his beloved wife, so how could she look so much like her?

His head hurt from thinking about it, so Long Chen couldn't be bothered to think anymore. In any case, Great Master Yun Qi wouldn't harm him, but it was better to be careful.

Carrying the jade plate, he went straight to the pharmacy. When Long Chen showed his Nameplate, the pharmacy attendant's attitude immediately became respectful.

Long Chen asked about the procedures for withdrawing medicinal ingredients in advance and understood that with a Level 1 credit rating, he could withdraw up to five million gold coins worth of medicinal ingredients, limited to Grade 1 medicinal ingredients.

And Long Chen's credit rating was Level 2, allowing him to withdraw thirty million gold coins worth of Grade 1 medicinal ingredients, and up to five portions of Grade 2 medicinal ingredients.

This result made Long Chen exclaim that the trip was worthwhile. With this credit limit, he would never have to worry about not having money to buy medicinal ingredients again.

Usually, when an Alchemist performs Alchemy, if they succeed once out of five portions of medicinal ingredients, they basically wouldn't lose money. If they succeeded twice, they would make a huge profit.

And for Long Chen, who possessed the memories of the Pill Emperor, the failure rate for refining Grade 1 Medicinal Pills was zero. If it weren't for his poor Alchemy fire, his efficiency would increase even further.

However, for Grade 2 Medicinal Pills, Long Chen thought about it and decided against it. Currently, with his Alchemy fire power, trying to refine Grade 2 Medicinal Pills would tire him to death.

For now, he should continue to condense the Fengfu Star. Now that the Fengfu Star had just formed, there was still huge room for improvement; he needed to condense the Fengfu Star to the Perfection Realm.

Long Chen wanted to buy all the medicinal ingredients for refining Fengfu Pills at once, but to Long Chen's disappointment, the guild didn't have that much stock.

In desperation, Long Chen could only withdraw fifty portions of medicinal ingredients and also purchased some other Grade 1 medicinal ingredients. After all, refining Medicinal Pills could be sold to the guild, which was also money.

In the Fengming Empire, the martial spirit was prevalent, the population was large, and there were countless adventurers, so Medicinal Pills were always in short supply.

Fortunately, the Alchemist Guild was a conscientious organization and never maliciously raised prices; otherwise, the Alchemist Guild's speed of accumulating wealth would definitely be the fastest and most ruthless.

After Long Chen returned from the guild, while he was walking, suddenly there was a commotion ahead. He could hear shouting and scolding from far away, so Long Chen hurried over to take a look.

He saw a dozen or so workers kicking and punching a person. A round, chubby middle-aged man was pointing at the person on the ground with fingers like radishes, cursing loudly.

"Brother, what exactly is going on here?" Long Chen asked someone who was watching the commotion.

"Hehe, it'll laugh you to death if I tell you. See that? That eighty-zhang tall chimney? That kid built it."

"Today the boss came to inspect it, and when he saw the chimney, he was almost angered to death. That big fool looked at the blueprint upside down; they were actually supposed to dig a well, hahaha…"

After hearing this, Long Chen also almost burst out laughing. Was there such a strange person in the world? He looked at the person being beaten on the ground, and his heart trembled slightly.

The person didn't look very old, probably not older than Long Chen, but his body was very long and exceptionally strong. He lay on the ground, letting those people kick and punch him, without fighting back.

What shocked Long Chen was that when the people's fists and feet hit the person's body, there was a strange power on his body that bounced them away.

If it weren't for Long Chen's amazing Soul power, he wouldn't have been able to detect that subtle fluctuation at all. However, the youth had no trace of spiritual power fluctuations on his body; he was definitely not a practitioner.

The youth had been beaten for a long time without any reaction, while the people beating him were panting from exhaustion, with sore hands and swollen feet.

"Damn it, I'm so angry! How much money is this idiot going to make me lose? Beat him to death!"

The fat boss, looking at the big chimney in front of him, was furious. He cursed repeatedly and even went up to kick him a few times himself.

"Stop," a voice suddenly came.

"You say stop, so I stop? Who the hell are you?"

The boss was in a fit of rage. Hearing the voice, he didn't even think and cursed directly before looking at the person.

However, when he saw who it was, sweat immediately broke out on the boss's face, and he stammered: "Young… Marquis…"

"Stop. Here is one hundred gold coins, enough for you to tear down the chimney and dig a well again." Long Chen couldn't be bothered to argue with such a person and directly threw him a bag of gold coins. He was too lazy to fight over things that could be solved with money.

Seeing this, the others hurriedly stopped. The fat boss hurriedly said: "Marquis, this…"

"Take it and get lost," Long Chen frowned and said coldly.

Seeing the fat man's face, Long Chen knew that this idiot was likely trying to build a relationship with him. He directly snorted coldly; one couldn't give such people a good face.

"Yes, yes, this lowly one will get lost right away." The fat man hurriedly took a group of people and scurried away in embarrassment.

"Little brother, get up." Long Chen looked at the youth who was still lying on the ground and said.

The youth seemed to have fallen asleep. Hearing Long Chen's call, he raised his head blankly and discovered that the people beating him had all disappeared.

"Did you save me?" the youth asked somewhat blankly.

"Get up and we'll talk," Long Chen smiled. The youth looked very honest and loyal, making people feel a sense of goodwill toward him.

"Oh."

When the youth stood up, it caused the onlookers to gasp. When he was lying on the ground, everyone only felt that his build was large, but now that he stood up, everyone was shocked.

The youth was nearly a zhang tall, just like a giant, filling the surrounding people with pressure.

"So tall." Long Chen couldn't help but be shocked as well. In front of him, the surrounding people all became like children.

"They hit you, why didn't you fight back?" Long Chen saw that he was so strong, and the people beating him were not Martial Artists; he could have easily beaten them down.

"They said I did something wrong, and they hit me, so I cannot fight back," the youth said honestly.

Long Chen shook his head. Although this big guy was strong, it seemed his intelligence was still that of a child. It was rare for someone to be so honest and simple, but to be able to build a chimney instead of a well, this level of intelligence was enough to make people worry.

"Where is your home?"

"I don't have a home. Big brother, does your family need a laborer? I don't need wages, as long as you give me food to eat, I'm so hungry," the youth pleaded.

Long Chen was just about to speak when someone suddenly reminded him: "Young Marquis, don't be fooled. This kid can eat a whole cow in one meal; hiring him is definitely not worth it."

"No, I can not eat meat, as long as there is rice to eat, it will be fine," the youth said somewhat urgently.

"Alright, then come with me. What is your name?" Long Chen asked.

"My name is Man Niu, thank you big brother," Man Niu said excitedly.

"Hmm, from now on, I will call you A-Man, and you can just call me Brother Long," Long Chen nodded and said.

"Okay, Brother Long," A-Man nodded honestly.

After Long Chen and A-Man left, the people present couldn't help but feel a burst of envy. They envied that big fool for being appreciated by a young noble; he really had the luck of the simple-minded.

Along the way, Long Chen asked about A-Man's past. A-Man said he was picked up by a kind person, but when he was five years old, a plague took the lives of everyone in the village, and only he survived.

So he wandered to the Imperial Capital alone, relying on doing odd jobs for people to beg for a meal, but because his appetite was too big, he was quickly driven away, and his life was very hard.

"A-Man, follow me from now on, and I won't let you go hungry," a touch of sympathy rose in Long Chen's heart.

Sure enough, awesome people all have the same awesomeness, while miserable people all have their own misery. Although their statuses were different, the degree of misery was about the same; Long Chen had just turned his luck around, that was all.

As the two were walking, they had just entered a wide road when suddenly a cry of alarm came, and a huge figure sped past.

That was a luxurious carriage, pulled at the front by a Red-Blooded Yak, which was a Grade 1 Demonic Beast, racing along without caring about the people around it at all.

A five or six-year-old little girl was playing on the side of the road. Suddenly seeing that huge Red-Blooded Yak, she was scared silly and even forgot to dodge, and it looked like she was about to lose her life under the carriage.

Long Chen snorted coldly. A loud explosion sounded under his feet, and several solid floor tiles were crushed. Like a bolt of lightning, he grabbed the little girl and hurriedly dashed to the side.

Long Chen had just stood firm when the carriage sped past them. Just when Long Chen thought everything had passed, a voice filled with anger came:

"Audacious commoner, how dare you block the path, you are courting death!"

Following a cold snort, a long whip, carrying a strong wind, whistled towards Long Chen.