Chapter 89: Departure without Farewell

  Alchemist's Pavilion, inside a certain Dan room!

  A loud muffled sound!

  The medicine cauldron slightly trembled, Shi Sheng's eyes twitched at the corner, and a pained expression appeared on his face. He shook his head in regret!

  "This is the third time, and I've failed again. At this rate, even if I manage to refine two or three Gathering Mind Pills, selling them would only bring in twice the profit. However, it's still better than directly selling mature spiritual medicine." Shi Sheng looked at the spiritual medicine on the ground, smiled slightly, and said. Since there were quite a few spiritual medicines, Shi Sheng wasn't too worried.

  Shi Shengqing removed the residue from the medicine cauldron and continued refining!

  ……

  Guhuai Village, Hou Mountain!

  It's winter now, the whole village is covered with thick snow, and the wild mountains are all white. The trees are all decorated with white frost flowers!

  However, at this cold moment, there was a group of people wearing official uniforms gathered around the edge of a dense forest. Among them, there was a deep pit with two somewhat rotten corpses lying inside.

  Two corpses had already become unrecognizable, and their clothes were also rotten and difficult to identify. What was strange was that one of the corpses wore a pair of brand new green long boots on its feet.

  "Green Cloud Boots! It seems it's really Brother Zhou!" A young man exclaimed excitedly, this person was Ma Ming.

  "Hmph, Shi Sheng, because of your few words, I almost lost my life. Fortunately, someone pleaded for me and Zhou Shifu let me off. However, for this whole year, I didn't dare return to the sect to cultivate. I've been wandering around Guhuai Village searching for you, and finally found you! It's really like digging three feet underground!" Ma Ming said with narrowed eyes.

  After a moment, Ma Ming looked at a middle-aged man beside him and said: "Jia Ren, trouble you to lead a few men, hire a horse carriage, help me send these two corpses to Wugu Mountain, I will accompany you on the way!"

  "Yes, I'll go right away!" Jia Ren replied hastily, and quickly led several people to leave in a hurry. If the other party hadn't revealed their identity as a cultivator, these officials wouldn't have bothered to come out on such a cold winter's day. After nearly a year of searching, they had almost combed through every inch of Guhuai Village and its surroundings, and finally completed their task.

  ……

  Two months later, Tianxuan Sect, Lian Dan Pavilion!

  Shi Sheng was in a certain Dan room, carefully watching the Dan furnace, his expression extremely tense, controlling the spiritual flame on one side and pouring his mental power into the medicine cauldron on the other.

  After a long time, Shi Sheng raised his hand and pointed, the cauldron lid burst open with a loud bang, and a strong medicinal fragrance wafted out. With a whooshing sound, a round pellet of medicine about the size of a walnut shot out, and was caught in Shi Sheng's hand.

  "Did it work?" Shi Sheng's eyes widened, his face filled with boundless excitement, as if he didn't dare believe the results of his own labor. However, after taking a glance at the empty ground, his eyes twitched involuntarily.

  "Alas, all the medicinal materials were used up, and only one Nian Dan was refined. This success rate is really...” Shi Sheng shook his head with a bitter smile. He had originally thought that selling a few Nian Dans would make him a fortune, but now it seemed that buying those spiritual medicines was a complete waste of money.

  "It seems that selling the Cuihuo Lingyao directly is more cost-effective. This talent for refining elixirs can't compare to refining talismans, and it's not even as good as refining talismans to earn Xuanjing Yu insurance!" Shi Sheng hastily put away the Jyunian Dan, but he didn't feel any heartache about it. After all, this dan was originally prepared for Lin Wan'er to take, which would be enough to help her advance to the Huahai boundary!

  After a moment's thought, Shi Sheng opened the stone gate and left the Dan room. As soon as he came out, he saw Yifei, the disciple who was on guard duty.

  "Heh heh, Brother Shi doesn't know how to train his hands?" Yifei thought it was simple, Shisheng used unripe medicinal materials and said it was for practice, but in fact, he was just wasting the materials and couldn't possibly refine any elixirs.

  "Not much progress, by the way, for a two-month-old Dan house, how many Xuanjing jade are needed?" Shi Sheng asked.

  Yi Fei hastily waved his hand and said, "Sorry, Shi Shidi, I just found out that you have an Honor Token. You didn't mention it earlier, so when you bought the spiritual medicine, rented the dan room, and used the medicine garden, I should have given you a discount. I also need to return over 100 pieces of Xuanjing Jade to you. As a new generation disciple, your reputation is quite impressive now!"

  "I actually forgot about this!" Shi Sheng's eyes lit up, and he took out the Honor Token. Yi Fei directly returned over a hundred pieces of Xuanjing Jade to Shi Sheng, and after chatting for a while, Shi Sheng returned to Gu Xiang Zhai!

  ……

  "Wan Er Jie, I've brought back the Jyun Nian Dan for you!" Shi Sheng exclaimed excitedly as soon as he entered the house.

  Squeak squeak!

  Jin Ling stood on the table, gesturing and making faces, then glanced at the door, twisted her body, and struck a seductive pose.

  "Wan'er sister has gone?" Shi Sheng asked tentatively, Jin Ling bared his teeth and nodded.

  "Alright!" Shi Sheng ignored Jin Ling and sat down on the chair, slowly waiting for Lin Wan'er to return with some food. In this sect, Shi Sheng wasn't worried about any accidents, preparing a surprise for Lin Wan'er when she came back.

  However, it wasn't until evening that Lin Wan'er still hadn't returned, and Shi Sheng finally felt that something was amiss. After a moment's thought, he brought Jin Ling to find Xiao Changlao.

  "What's going on?" asked Xiao Lao.

  "Master, my fiancée has gone missing from the school!" Shi Sheng's eyebrows furrowed.

  "Oh? A living person has gone missing in our sect? How is that possible? How long has he been gone?" asked Xiao Zhanglao.

  "He just left Gu Xiang Zhai this morning and hasn't returned until tonight, she doesn't have many friends in the sect and wouldn't go on any missions, so it's impossible for her to be gone for so long." Shi Sheng said.

  "Has she gone down the mountain herself? After all, you've been in seclusion in Danfang for so long, perhaps she's homesick?" Xiao Lao guessed.

  "This...” Shi Sheng felt it was unlikely, but the matter was simple. Lin Wan'er could leave the sect freely after reaching the Lingjing stage. As long as he inquired at the mountain gate, he would know about it. However, Shi Sheng felt that Lin Wan'er wouldn't leave without saying goodbye, at least not until he came out or left a message behind.

  "Well, if there's nothing else, you can go back first. I still have some things to take care of!" said Xiao Chang Lao with a serious face.

  After a moment of contemplation, Shi Sheng opened his mouth and said: "Master, I want to go down the mountain for a trip!" He wanted to find Wang Bo for the Cong Zhidan Danfang.

  "Down the mountain again?" Xiao Lao's eyebrows furrowed: "Forget it, that Huo Wei might be back soon. You go down the mountain and look for some opportunities yourself. Your master is busy with many things lately and can't take care of you."

  "Take that token, just say you're going to carry out a mission for your master. However, you must return to the sect and report every three months. If you really manage to advance to the Yuanhe realm by luck, you can directly practice outside for one year before returning. But when you return to the sect, you need to hand over the records of your practice."

  "Thank you, Master. I won't disturb you anymore!" Shi Sheng said, and then hastily arrived at the mountain gate, asking the guarding disciple a few questions.

  "Lin Wan'er?" The disciple on duty flipped through the registration record: "This morning, a fellow villager came to find her and said something about their old house being demolished. She left the sect in a hurry!"

  "Has she really left?" Shi Sheng felt that something was off in his heart, but he couldn't quite put his finger on it. However, with Lin Wan'er's departure, Shi Sheng suddenly felt a hollow feeling in his chest. He didn't know when it had started, but Lin Wan'er had somehow moved into his heart, and her sudden goodbye left him feeling somewhat down.

  "This is my master's token, I'm going out to take care of some things!" Shi Sheng said, and after a simple registration, he left the Tianxuan Sect.

  Because he had Lin Wan'er on his mind, Shi Sheng hurried down the mountain and took a shortcut home, but the more he thought about it, the more he felt that something was off.

  "Hey, you've finally shown up! I've been waiting for you for a long time!" Suddenly, a white figure darted out from the small path, with a sly smile spreading across his face! (To be continued in the next chapter!)

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