Chapter 2337 — Of Course It's No Problem

"Even you can't tell?" Gu Mengyao glanced at Shen Yushu. "Aren't you supposed to be Omniscient Shu?"

"Well... I'd call her Omniscient Jing. Anyone who can research an outlandish technique like scientific pill-refining is no ordinary person," Shen Yushu said.

"There you have it. Who cares what she is? She seems to be a great help to Wei Zhao. Whether it's the wisdom of the fool or the same feigned silliness as yours, it doesn't matter." Gu Mengyao shrugged.

"Little Shu has never feigned silliness. Little Shu was never silly to begin with," Shen Yushu said.

"And Han Jingyi was never silly to begin with either," Gu Mengyao said.

"Fine..." Shen Yushu had gained nothing from the exchange.

When Wu Chengtian, Wu Gonggao, Pi Zhishan, Pi Zhihai, and Old Master Pi heard that Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu had returned, they all came out to greet them. Learning that Wei Zhao had gone next door, they were in no hurry—after all, given the speed at which Wei Zhao upgraded them, there was no rush at all. Even if they could not be upgraded by tomorrow morning, they would be done early tomorrow evening.

As for why Wei Zhao had gone next door, Gu Mengyao did not tell them. The matter of Han Jingyi being able to refine pills had not been told to anyone. Though they were all Wei Zhao's followers, the fewer people who knew about such things, the better.

If anyone was to speak of it, it had to be Wei Zhao himself. Gu Mengyao would never gossip.

After Wei Zhao, Han Jingyi, and Han Xiaochao entered the villa, Han Xiaochao went upstairs to read. The fellow was a complete bookworm—every day was nothing but reading and studying, reading and studying. He paid no attention whatsoever to what Han Jingyi was doing, nor did he ask a single question.

"Which pill ingredients did you ruin, and which did you successfully refine?" Wei Zhao asked.

"I ruined four portions of the Lesser Rejuvenation Pill ingredients, and successfully refined one pill. For the Meridian-Unblocking Pill, I successfully refined two portions of ingredients," Han Jingyi said.

"You haven't used the Lesser Qi-Gathering Pill ingredients yet?" Wei Zhao asked.

"No," Han Jingyi said. "I haven't had time to refine them yet."

"Good!" Wei Zhao nodded. To be honest, the Lesser Rejuvenation Pill and the Meridian-Unblocking Pill were not of much use to him. Whatever effects those two pills could achieve, his Xuanyuan Dragon-Mastering Art could achieve as well; and effects they could not achieve, he could still achieve. So their usefulness was really only worth accumulating.

The Lesser Qi-Gathering Pill, however, was different. There were quite a few people around Wei Zhao. Although there were eleven Lesser Qi-Gathering Pills left over on the hidden Pi family side, if Han Jingyi could successfully refine all five of these Lesser Qi-Gathering Pills, Wei Zhao could create even more Earth-rank experts.

"By the way, Wei Zhao, what method did you think of, the one you mentioned before?" Han Jingyi asked.

"Simulate the process of refining two pills now, and then I'll help channel true qi into you. We'll see if it works." Wei Zhao did not dare let Han Jingyi directly try using the ingredients—he was also afraid the method would fail and the ingredients would be wasted.

There were still three portions of Meridian-Unblocking Pill ingredients, but if they were wasted, only the Lesser Qi-Gathering Pill ingredients would remain, and that would be a pity.

"All right, but simulating pill-refining won't show the actual effects. It won't be of much use—it will just consume stamina for nothing," Han Jingyi said.

"That doesn't matter. I just want to test whether my true qi can be used by you!" Wei Zhao said. "If my true qi can be used by you, then you can try with the actual ingredients."

"Very well, shall Jingjing begin now?" Han Jingyi picked up the tier-two pill cauldron and asked Wei Zhao.

"Yes, begin." Wei Zhao nodded and placed both hands over the pulse points at Han Jingyi's wrists, while Han Jingyi began to condense pill fire, preparing to simulate pill-refining.

Soon, Han Jingyi's pill fire was condensed, and she began the formal simulation of pill-refining. Wei Zhao, meanwhile, circulated the second layer of the Xuanyuan Dragon-Mastering Art, preparing to replenish true qi into Han Jingyi's body. But very quickly, Wei Zhao discovered a problem!

The problem was that Han Jingyi's body simply did not absorb his true qi. The second-layer heart method of the Xuanyuan Dragon-Mastering Art circulated only within Wei Zhao's own body, and the true qi was likewise confined to circulating within Wei Zhao; it never entered Han Jingyi's body at all!

"Wei Zhao, there's no true qi?" Han Jingyi had sensed this too. She refined pills entirely according to the formula and timetable laid out on the tablet computer, without using her own wood-attribute to perceive the changes in the ingredients inside the cauldron, so she was able to spare attention to speak.

"Yes, indeed there isn't..." Wei Zhao smiled wryly. "When you refine pills, can you simultaneously circulate the heart-method oral formula that pill refiners use during cultivation?"

"That I can't..." Han Jingyi shook her head. "Jingjing can only circulate one heart-method oral formula for condensing pill fire. I can't simultaneously circulate the cultivation heart-method oral formula!"

"Then I suppose it won't work..." Wei Zhao released Han Jingyi's hands and gave a rather gloomy sigh. "Only when you circulate that cultivation heart-method oral formula can I channel true qi into you. When you circulate other oral formulas, my true qi won't be automatically absorbed by you. It seems my idea cannot be realized..."

Earlier, Wei Zhao had been delighted by his sudden inspiration, but now that the test was done, he found it had failed, and he was instantly very disappointed.

"Then should I still simulate?" Han Jingyi asked.

"Let me try channeling directly from your qihai acupoint and see if that works... though I may need to touch your abdomen..." Wei Zhao said after a moment's hesitation.

"Oh, all right." Han Jingyi nodded.

"Um... you're a girl. Is it all right for me to touch you like this?" Seeing that Han Jingyi did not seem to understand the proprieties between men and women, Wei Zhao added a sentence.

"Of course it's no problem. If Wei Zhao touches me, naturally it's no problem. Anyone else, no," Han Jingyi said, quite naturally.

"I... you..." Wei Zhao truly could not figure out why this Han Jingyi, who had suddenly appeared and become his neighbor, was so close to him. It was as if everything he said was right, and she worshipped him utterly. It was truly a little strange.

Still, Wei Zhao could sense from Han Jingyi's gaze that she bore him no ill will whatsoever, and she truly had no cultivation strength at all—she did not seem to be some enemy's mole or the like.

First, if she had strength, she could never have hidden it from Wei Zhao's golden finger. Second, she could not possibly cultivate a pill refiner's heart-method oral formula—every cultivator seemed able to focus on cultivating only one heart-method oral formula—and Han Jingyi had leveled up right under his eyes, with no possibility of fakery.

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