"What use are you?" Xiao Ting asked while meeting Yao Ling's gaze.
"Eh?" Yao Ling was stunned.
What did "What use are you?" mean?
"I have no intention of keeping idle people around me," Xiao Ting said with a serious expression. "If you want to follow me, you must be someone of value."
"No, who said I was going to follow you?" Yao Ling felt she was being targeted. Xiao Ting did not treat other women like this, so she angrily retorted, "I'm following Sister Huo Zhi."
"Zhi Er is my future wife. She said she would listen to my opinion. Of course, that means you're coming along too." Xiao Ting reached out and put his arm around Huo Zhi's waist. "If you can't prove you're useful, I have no intention of bringing you."
"Sister Huo Zhi!" Seeing Xiao Ting's firm attitude, Yao Ling could only turn to Huo Zhi for help.
"Didn't you say you would listen to Xiao Ting?" Huo Zhi spoke in an obedient and submissive manner. "It's only natural to ask him to protect you. You can't expect him to be your free bodyguard, can you?"
"'The wife leads, the husband follows' is really true." Yao Ling gritted her teeth, took a deep breath, and returned to her usual cold demeanor. "Fine. I'll refine seventh-rank pills for free. That should be enough, right?"
"Useless." Xiao Ting shook his head. "I can refine seventh-rank pills myself. There's no need for you to refine seventh-rank pills that are inferior to mine. You're less useful than a maid who serves tea and water."
Yao Ling widened her eyes in disbelief. "You want me to become a maid who serves tea and water?"
"I'm just saying that being an exclusive maid is more useful than alchemy," Xiao Ting lightly shook his head. "Just explain what role you can play."
Yao Ling screamed in her heart, "I'll bite you to death!"
"I also possess a secret technique that uses the soul to refine pills. With this, I can do more than two things at once. As a reward for your efforts, shall I give it to you?" Yao Ling took out a jade slip.
She felt it would be more practical to directly use her own wealth.
Since Xiao Ting liked to rely on women to live, she might as well let him rely on women to live as well.
"Excellent." Xiao Ting accepted the jade slip and nodded in satisfaction. "From now on, please come with us. As long as you don't cause trouble, I will guarantee your safety."
"Actually, there's no need to be so polite. I was only joking. Do you think I would disregard and not take care of you, who is both my future wife's sister and close friend?"
Yao Ling: !
She usually had a cold personality, but at this moment she could not suppress herself.
Before you say that, could you please return the jade slip to me?
"Are you Feng Zun Zhe's disciple?" Xiao Ting asked Mu Qing Luan.
"Qing Luan greets Brother Xiao Ting." Mu Qing Luan obediently bowed.
"Since you are Feng Zun Zhe's disciple, you are my junior sister." Xiao Ting took out a seventh-rank pill and handed it to her. "This is a seventh-rank Wind Spirit Pill I refined. It can increase the cultivation speed of wind-attribute cultivators and reduce the difficulty of breaking through bottlenecks. Taking it will allow you to break through to the sixth rank. This is a gift from me."
"Thank you, Brother Xiao Ting!" Mu Qing Luan's eyes lit up as she accepted the pill with both hands without hesitation.
Yao Ling: ?
Mu Qing Luan was given a gift.
But when they came to her, they demanded a bodyguard fee.
The distinction was still unclear!
"Yao Lao, are you and Third Brother also preparing to return to Starfall Pavilion?" Xiao Ting asked Yao Chen.
"Ah, since my old friend knows me well, he will definitely come to pick me up soon." Yao Chen lightly nodded.
"In that case, please keep the things I prepared safe." Xiao Ting handed a storage ring to Xiao Yan and transmitted his voice through his soul. "Inside are the remains of a half-Saint, an eighth-rank Three-Colored Pill Thunder Bone Regeneration Blood Fusion Pill, and the essence blood of an eighth-rank Heavenly Demon Phoenix."
"Once you return to Starfall Pavilion, Third Brother can begin the revival of Yao Lao."
Yao Ling: !
Xiao Yan: !!
Is this what it feels like to win without lifting a finger?
After chatting with Yao Chen for a while, Xiao Ting took Huo Zhi and Yao Ling back to Purple Sky City.
This time it was Mu Qing Luan's turn to feel dissatisfied. She had to wait in the Inner Court of Jia Nan Academy for Feng Zun Zhe to come pick her up, and she had no proper reason to follow Xiao Ting.
She could only pray in her heart that Xiao Ting would come to Starfall Pavilion soon. Once he did, she planned to use her position as junior sister to cling to him relentlessly.
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[Then let's head to Central Plains and see with our own eyes just how outstanding the geniuses Yao Lao mentioned really are.]
Women: "…"
Do you want to hear yourself speak?
Huo Zhi and Yao Ling are right in front of you. How many geniuses are there in Central Plains?!
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"Protect Purple Sky City well. If you satisfy me, I will give you a reward."
After giving instructions to Su Mei and the others, Xiao Ting took out the Space Boat and threw it into the air. It instantly expanded to a hundred feet in size, resembling a massive boat floating in the air.
"Where did this Space Boat come from?!" Yao Ling stood on the deck and looked around in surprise.
Even the Yao Clan did not possess such a large Space Boat.
It was not that they could not refine one, but those above the Dou Ancestor level did not need a Space Boat, and those below the Dou Venerable level were not worthy of possessing one!
"I'm just casually refining it," Xiao Ting replied casually. "Once you understand one method, you understand all methods. There's not much difference between refining pills and refining weapons."
"As long as you have the blueprint, you can innovate, find ores, and refine with fire."
"The same goes for weapons, jewelry, and colorful clothes."
At this point, Xiao Ting looked at Yao Ling and asked suspiciously, "You speak as if you know me very well, but why do you think I don't have such a spatial Space Boat?"
"Because even my Yao Clan doesn't have such a large Space Boat. In other words, I'm surprised that you have a Space Boat's sleeping quarters like this."
Yao Ling returned to her expressionless state so that her guilt would not be noticed.
"It's surprising that your Yao Clan doesn't have it, but other clans do," Xiao Ting lightly shook his head. "Arrogant and self-righteous."
Yao Ling: ?
"Do as you like."
"From now on, I plan to focus on improving my pills. I can't arrive in Central Plains and become a pauper."
Xiao Ting arrived at the center of the deck, took out the soul cauldron, and began refining pills.
Seeing this, all the women moved aside. Feng Qing Er crossed her arms, Cai Lin placed one hand on her waist, Yun Yun held her sword, Xun Er placed both hands in front of her lower abdomen, Little Fairy Doctor and Qing Lin spoke in low voices, Yao Ling and Huo Zhi were talking, and Zi Yan sat on the boat's railing yawning.
Han Yue and Han Xue stood behind Xiao Ting with serious expressions.
None of the women spoke, but the group chat was lively with excitement.
[Feng Qing Er]: In this situation, it's awkward for those who aren't on the boat, right?
[Mu Qing Luan]: Are you targeting me?
[Cao Ying]: Let me tell you, this will arouse public anger.
[Tang Huo Er]: That's right. I, Tang Huo Er, am calling you by your real name.
[Feng Qing Er]: Only the three of you. Everyone else is on the boat.
[Feng Qing Er]: Many people are still missing. Sorry for the disturbance.
[Mu Qing Luan]: You're the the horse. Talk less and take more action.
[Feng Qing Er]: You're going too far! I challenge you to a duel!!!
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