novelweb Chapter 418 Shi Guipeng
Chapter 418 Shi Guipeng
The rich vitality of heaven and earth will make medicinal materials grow better and faster than other places.
For example, rare medicinal materials that normally take hundreds of years to mature can only take ten years if there is a Yuan Gathering Formation.
The valley looks quite large, estimated to be at least ten square kilometers, with the medicine garden accounting for more than half of it. Such a generous hand is truly extraordinary.
"Other martial arts families don't have such a large medicine garden. Did I guess wrong?"
Zhou Xiaoyu thought to himself when he saw this, and couldn't help but frown slightly.
Zhou Yun and others secretly looked at his face and smiled knowingly, thinking that Zhou Xiaoyu finally noticed something was wrong.
Sorry to be late.
Everyone entered the valley.
The entire valley is covered by the Juyuan Formation, and the air is fresher. Coupled with the fragrant aroma from the medicine garden, it makes people energetic.
"Centennial red jade ginseng."
"Pure yellow and white."
"Pancao Wu."
……
Zhou Xiaoyu observed the medicinal materials in the medicine garden while walking, and couldn't help but feel happy.
There are many rare varieties.
Even the medicinal materials available in the secular world are of far inferior quality to those here.
If he had this medicine garden, he would have almost no shortage of raw materials for making any elixir.
Soon, everyone arrived in front of the house.
"Master, uncle, uncle, you are back."
……
A group of warriors stood in front of the gate. When they saw Zhou Yun and others, they all stepped forward to salute.
These people are both male and female, dressed in different styles, and range in age from their teens to their forties.
The only thing that is the same is that they are all in the body refining realm.
It seems that he should be a descendant.
But in a martial arts family, how can there be the title of master and disciple?
No one explained, and Zhou Xiaoyu didn't ask.
Zhou Yun and others walked into the gate, walked through the yard, and entered the main hall of the house.
The disciples followed in.
Zhou Yun and two elders in their fifties came straight forward and sat on the three main seats in the hall.
Huang Ying and four other elders sat on the left and right sides.
The disciples also divided into two rows and stood behind them.
No one asked Zhou Xiaoyu to sit down, but everyone looked at him.
Curiosity, surprise, pity, sneer, fun, sarcasm, excitement...
All kinds of expressions.
Only there is no friendliness.
"You are not the Zhou family, who are you?"
Zhou Xiaoyu asked.
Everyone looked at each other.
"You finally see it."
Zhou Yun smiled slightly, put his hand on his face, and with a soft sneer, he lifted off a thin human skin mask together with the hair cover.
Under the mask, there is a gray-haired old man in his 60s with a sallow complexion and a high nose.
Upon seeing this, Huang Ying and other Zhou elders also took off the human skin masks and wigs on their faces.
Huang Ying is pretending to be a pretty middle-aged woman.
She has short black hair and a charming smile.
After the other six Zhou family elders revealed their true colors, although their appearance and figure were very different from before, they were about the same age.
One of the elders disguised herself as a man, but was actually an old woman.
Zhou Xiaoyu glanced around for a long time, looking confused.
"I seem...not to know you."
he murmured.
Everyone laughed.
"You really don't know us."
The gray-haired old man pretending to be Zhou Yun smiled and said: "But we know you, Zhou Xiaoyu, Master Zhou."
Zhou Xiaoyu scratched his head and said, "I can see that you are not an ordinary martial arts force."
"It's time now, so stop playing riddles."
"Introduce yourself."
The gray-haired old man smiled and said: "Okay, although this is our first meeting, you may have heard of my name."
"My surname is Shi..."
"It's worth every moment I get to know you."
Zhou Xiaoyu couldn't help but answered.
What?
The old man named Shi was stunned.
"It's okay, I remembered a joke."
Zhou Xiaoyu laughed: "You continue."
The old man surnamed Shi glanced at him inexplicably: "My name is Shi Guipeng, and like you, I am an alchemist."
Zhou Xiaoyu exclaimed: "It turns out to be you!"
He had heard this name more than once in the past month.
Shi Guipeng is a famous alchemy master within a thousand miles.
Before Zhou Xiaoyu appeared, almost all martial arts families turned to Shi Guipeng to refine rare elixirs such as the Tongyuan Pill, the Vein Opening Pill, and the Soul-Reviving Pill.
Zhou Xiaoyu naturally heard about this alchemy master while doing business and communicating with the martial arts family.
Shi Guipeng said: "Now you understand why I arrested you?"
Zhou Xiaoyu nodded.
Colleagues are enemies.
Although Shi Guipeng is a master of alchemy, unlike him, it is impossible to refine a middle-grade elixir 100%.
Not to mention 100%, even [-]% out of [-]% is considered good.
The appearance of Zhou Xiaoyu caused Shi Guipeng to suffer a dimensionality reduction blow.
At first, Shi Guipeng didn't believe that Zhou Xiaoyu could 100% refine the middle-grade elixir. He thought it was a joke and dismissed it.
But as Zhou Xiaoyu completed alchemy in the Han family, Xu family and other aristocratic families, the news spread.
Shi Guipeng had to believe it.
Even if Zhou Xiaoyu lies, it is impossible for those martial arts families to lie to themselves.
The alchemy master who has been famous for many years has his skills crushed by a junior who is not yet 20 years old.
It's still a small matter to face difficulties.
Loss of profits is a big deal.
Now Zhou Xiaoyu's reputation as an alchemy master has spread far and wide, and almost everyone knows about it.
Who will ask Shi Guipeng to make elixirs in the future?
If you can't refine the elixir, there will be no reward.
Without remuneration, how can we maintain the expenses of the medicine garden?
You must know that the Yuan Gathering Formation is not a perpetual motion machine, and it consumes Yuan Stones for operation and maintenance.
The daily expenses are not small.
There are many warriors in the medicine garden.
Food and drink expenses, martial arts training, various resources...
Which one doesn’t cost money?
It is said that cutting off someone's financial path is like killing one's parents.
How could Shi Guipeng endure it?
Zhou Xiaoyu must be eliminated!
But Shi Guipeng knew that Zhou Xiaoyu was under the protection of the five major families.
He also heard that the Wang family sent Wang Mingli and four other elders to rob people, but failed in the end.
There are only eight pulse-opening realm warriors in the medicine garden.
They are Shi Guipeng and his wife Lin Qian, two fellow juniors, and four alchemists who defected to him.
The cultivation levels are also similar, they are all in the early stage of opening the channels.
There are probably dozens of disciples, all of whom are in the body refining realm.
Although it is also a strong martial arts force, its overall strength is far inferior to that of the major martial arts families.
The Wang family has failed, let alone him.
Fortunately, Shi Guipeng has worked with martial arts families for many years, and he has a good understanding of the situation and information of the major martial arts families.
His wife Lin Qian, a beautiful middle-aged woman pretending to be Huang Ying, happens to be proficient in the art of disguise.
So after everyone discussed it, they decided to disguise themselves as Zhou family members, take Zhou Xiaoyu out of the Shen family, and take him to the medicine garden.
In order not to reveal any flaws, Shi Guipeng and Lin Qian deliberately inquired about the Zhou family's attitude towards Zhou Xiaoyu before going out.
Especially when Zhou Yun and Huang Ying face the son they abandoned 20 years ago, what should their behavior and mentality be like when they meet again?
The two carefully figured out and rehearsed many times, so the performance was very realistic, and they successfully deceived the Shen family and Zhou Xiaoyu, hiding the truth.