Chapter 496: Chapter 480: Meridian Opening Pill!

Sun Zhe was still in a dream when Qing Kui grabbed him by the neck and hauled him out of bed.

"Kid, stop sleeping, get up and do something for me!"

Sun Zhe sat lazily on the edge of the bed, rubbing his neck and coughing, with an exasperated expression on his face.

If he had the strength, he’d really like to light Qing Kui’s sky lantern!

"What are you staring at? Hurry up!"

Qing Kui impatiently kicked Sun Zhe’s calf.

Ye Fei, who had followed Qing Kui in, stood by the side with a schadenfreude look, mocking, "Did you think you were here for a vacation? Didn’t you hear what Grandpa Qing Kui said? Are you deaf? Hurry up!"

Sun Zhe glared at Ye Fei, reluctantly dressed himself, looked up at the wall clock, and found it was only ten in the morning.

"What do you want me to do?"

"Alchemy."

"..."

A little later.

After getting dressed, Sun Zhe hadn’t had time to wash up before Qing Kui took him to the second floor.

Looking at the familiar herbs all over the room, Sun Zhe asked, "Is it to refine the Spirit Crane Pill?"

Qing Kui smiled, "You do know a bit."

Sun Zhe yawned and stretched, saying, "The Spirit Crane Pill is not an ordinary elixir. I can make it, but in my current state, asking me to do it would just waste these valuable herbs."

At this, Qing Kui frowned, "What exactly are you trying to say?"

Sun Zhe said directly, "I haven’t slept well, and I’m not in a good mental state."

"You little brat..."

Sun Zhe shrugged, laughed, and said, "Even if you kill me now, it’s useless. Putting a knife to my neck won’t work either; in this state, I simply can’t do it."

He continued, "Because this process requires high concentration, any small error or carelessness can cause all the herbs to be wasted."

Qing Kui looked at him, seemingly in thought.

Sun Zhe asked, "Remember when Fang Ruoxue came to deliver herbs, were these herbs she found?"

"Correct."

Sun Zhe said, "I think it wasn’t easy for Fang Ruoxue to find these herbs, right? If you waste them due to your impatience, and the mistress blames you..."

"Fine!"

Qing Kui gritted his teeth and interrupted him, saying sternly, "I’ll let you sleep for another three hours!"

"By one o’clock in the afternoon, get up and refine the elixir! At that time, Ye Fei will supervise you, and you can let him do chores. I’ll be back in the evening, and if you haven’t finished the elixir by then, you’ll be in trouble!"

Sun Zhe ignored him and suddenly said, "I’m hungry, get me something to eat."

"I’ll have someone bring it to you!"

"..."

After eating something, Sun Zhe went back to bed and had a good sleep.

Sun Zhe wasn’t surprised that Liu Bingyue wanted him to refine the Spirit Crane Pill; after all, it’s about making full use of resources.

It’s rare to catch an alchemist who can refine the Spirit Crane Pill; of course, they have to make good use of him.

After waking up, Sun Zhe went directly to the second-floor Alchemy Room and began organizing the herbs methodically under Ye Fei’s supervision.

"What are you doing? Slacking off at work, huh? Stop dawdling, move faster!"

Ye Fei, like a black-hearted foreman, seemed to pick a fight as he saw Sun Zhe working slowly.

But Sun Zhe wasn’t indulgent, gave him a glance, and said impatiently, "You’re here to supervise, so supervise properly. Don’t babble around."

"You don’t know anything, yet you’re spouting nonsense here, jabbering away."

"Each of these herbs is worth millions, can we afford to be careless?"

"This is delicate work, damn it! Where did you learn your language, using words like ’dawdling’?"

"If you’ve got what it takes, come and refine!"

Faced with Sun Zhe’s mom-cursing tirade, Ye Fei was left speechless and could only curse inwardly in frustration.

Sun Zhe suddenly lowered his tone, "Hurry up and go wash the cauldron for me! Make sure it’s clean, any impurity and you’ll be responsible if the elixir is ruined!"

Ye Fei glared, "Why should I wash it?"

Sun Zhe looked at him with a half-smile, "Qing Kui said that besides supervising, you’d help with chores. Sitting there like a lord, do you want me to give you a massage or something?"

"Fine, just you wait!"

Ye Fei grumbled, grudgingly picking up the alchemy furnace and heading to the bathroom.

As soon as Ye Fei left, Sun Zhe looked at the herbs on the cupboard, pinching his chin, deep in thought.

"Using these herbs for the Spirit Crane Pill might just suffice to refine a Meridian Opening Pill."

"From what I’ve observed, the method Liu Bingyue used to seal my Dantian is to block my meridians with her True Qi, so the Meridian Opening Pill might work."

"However, there are still a few herbs missing for refining the Meridian Opening Pill."

"Ah, I can only take a risk and try, hopefully, the refined Meridian Opening Pill will be effective."

"Fortunately, it’s Ye Fei this useless guy supervising me, refining other elixirs undetected should be possible."

"..."

In the blink of an eye.

Night fell.

At seven in the evening, Qing Kui arrived promptly to settle the account.

Seeing Sun Zhe nodding off in the chair, about to lash out, Qing Kui’s eyes suddenly lit up as they caught sight of the two glistening, round Spirit Crane Pills on the table plate. He hurriedly stepped forward to examine them.

"Such quality, excellent!"

"Kid, I have to admit, you do have skills!"

Unfazed by Qing Kui’s praise, Sun Zhe stood up, "Can I go rest now?"

He had been drained of energy, spending the entire afternoon refining, with high mental focus, now even lifting his eyelids was difficult.

Qing Kui pocketed the two elixirs and asked, "You didn’t stash any away, did you?"

Sun Zhe smiled, "With just these herbs, producing two in an afternoon is already a miracle, do you think there’s any left for me to stash?"

"Besides, didn’t you have Ye Da Supervisor watching us? You can ask him if I hid any."

Qing Kui glanced at Ye Fei.

Ye Fei shook his head, agreeing that Sun Zhe was right.

Sun Zhe suddenly became curious and asked, "How did Fang Ruoxue know the herb formula for the Spirit Crane Pill?"

Qing Kui said, "This Pill Formula isn’t much of a secret to influences like the Qingyao Sect." 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

"Though now no alchemist can refine it, the Pill Formula is widely circulated among the Martial Artist Influences."

"I see."

Qing Kui: "Weren’t you going to rest? Why still standing here?"

Sun Zhe shrugged and turned to leave, "Remember to have Fang Ruoxue send over two more batches of herbs tomorrow."

"..."

Back in his room, Sun Zhe washed up quickly and went straight to sleep.

Today was indeed utterly exhausting.

However, he hadn’t slept long before the door was pushed open.

Sun Zhe, groggy, opened his eyes and inwardly groaned.

"Mistress, it’s so late... why aren’t you sleeping yet?"

"..."