Wen Jingshu understood, smiled faintly, and tactfully replied:
“I wouldn’t want to take advantage of you, Thirteenth Brother. I assume you sought this Ziyao Spirit Bamboo Extract for body tempering. Coincidentally, I have a Body-Tempering Pill here, which I can offer as my return gift.”
A Body-Tempering Pill? A Sixth-Grade Body-Tempering Pill?
They had said it was too soon to speak, and look at Second Young Lady Wen, offering a Body-Tempering Pill right away!
While tempering the body with natural treasures was effective, directly using them for tempering, compared to a Body-Tempering Pill, was somewhat wasteful.
Moreover, Body-Tempering Pills were unaligned, unlike the Ziyao Spirit Bamboo Extract, which clearly possessed lightning and wood attributes. If a cultivator lacked these attributes, directly consuming the Ziyao Spirit Bamboo Extract would be exceptionally painful.
Especially with lightning-attributed natural treasures, a slight misstep could even damage one's foundation!
In other words, their young master had traded a dangerous body-tempering natural treasure for a safe Body-Tempering Pill.
Thinking this way, they suddenly felt like they had made a profit!
There was only one drop of Ziyao Spirit Bamboo Extract, whereas a single Body-Tempering Pill required over a dozen, even twenty, different spirit plants to refine.
Of course, the Gu family's alchemists could also refine Body-Tempering Pills.
But the quality... they were certain it couldn't compare to those refined by Wen Shuyi.
Gu Ji, losing all composure, immediately opened the bottle. Instantly, a unique, supreme-grade pill fragrance wafted out, and faintly, the subtle Pill Resonance around the pill could even be seen!
A Sixth-Grade supreme-grade pill imbued with Pill Intent! Its overall medicinal effects could be more than doubled! And it wouldn't harm the meridians at all! It was so gentle that even mortals could consume it directly!
They heard that Wen Shuyi's Pill Intent was Carefree, and consuming her Pill Intent Pills might even lead to enlightenment!
This was essentially body tempering combined with Dao-Comprehension Tea! It was a treasure one could only dream of encountering!
For a moment, both sides felt like they had profited.
Gu Ji regained his senses and quickly explained to Wen Jingshu:
“Forgive me for my lapse, Shushu. I truly haven't seen a supreme-grade pill above Fifth-Grade, let alone a Pill Intent Pill! I was quite out of sorts today.”
“The value of this Body-Tempering Pill far exceeds that of the Ziyao Spirit Bamboo Extract. I also have a few spirit plants here, which I will give to you as well.”
“As for the exact location of the Ziyao Spirit Bamboo, I will keep an eye out for it on your behalf.”
Gu Ji had just claimed not to know the location of the Ziyao Spirit Bamboo, but immediately changed his tune after seeing the Body-Tempering Pill.
Between intelligent people, a few words suffice.
As for Gu Ji's excited reaction to the Body-Tempering Pill... Wen Jingshu could completely understand.
As a talisman cultivator, Wen Jingshu herself had been shamelessly excited for a long time when she saw that Wen Shuyi had given her nothing but supreme-grade pills.
Not to mention the first time she saw a Pill Intent Pill... her reaction had been even more undignified than Gu Ji's.
Xiao Yan, who had been relegated to the background, hadn't dared to breathe heavily during their polite exchange.
He recalled how he had brazenly dismissed an Eighth-Grade Alchemist earlier...
And even incited his cousin not to take Wen Jingshu seriously...
Now, he just wanted to travel back in time and slap himself hard across the face.
Could two Eighth-Grade Alchemists truly be on the same level?
Could an Eighth-Grade Alchemist who could refine supreme-grade pills still be considered merely an Eighth-Grade Alchemist?
Could an Eighth-Grade Alchemist who possessed their own Pill Intent still be called just an Eighth-Grade Alchemist?
Essentially, what difference was there between that and a Ninth-Grade Alchemist?
Even a Ninth-Grade Alchemist might not be able to refine supreme-grade pills!
Let alone a Pill Intent Alchemist, who might only appear once in ten thousand alchemists!
Yet Wen Jingshu casually pulled out a pill, and it was a supreme-grade pill imbued with Pill Intent.
What did this imply? It implied that she didn't just possess one such Pill Intent supreme-grade pill!
Otherwise, she wouldn't have given it away so casually.
That day, Ying Zhen and Xiao Yan's worldviews were completely reshaped.
Arrogance, pride, talent, status... all amounted to nothing before Wen Jingshu and Gu Ji.
It was already late at night when the group parted ways. Wen Jingshu, clutching two treasures, rode in a sedan chair directly back to Misty Peak at the fastest possible speed.
Treasures were only truly reassuring when they were used on oneself!
Returning to her secluded cultivation spot, Wen Jingshu eagerly took out the Azure Dragon egg.
Had it been before, if Wen Jingshu had obtained a divine beast, she would have signed a Master-Servant Contract with it without hesitation.
However, after Sui Qi had broadly explained the powers in the Immortal Realm to her, she changed her mind.
The Dragon Race in the Immortal Realm held sway over their own domain, being domineering and fiercely protective of their own. If she were to truly sign a Master-Servant Contract with the Azure Dragon, she might well be hunted down by the Dragon Race the moment she ascended to the Immortal Realm.
Given this, she decided to sign an Equal Contract with the Azure Dragon, with her as the primary party.
Under this contract, she would still be the master and it the subordinate, retaining the right to control and restrain the Azure Dragon, though she could not directly obliterate it.
However, only she could actively dissolve this Equal Contract, thus the initiative remained in her hands.
She had also learned this method of Equal Contract from Sui Qi.
The five-year-old-looking girl's chubby face was serious as her fair, tender hands formed complex seals.
As she chanted, a whirlwind suddenly surged in the secret chamber, centered around her and the Azure Dragon egg, making Wen Jingshu's long hair and robes flutter.
Then, a massive and intricate formation appeared beneath the person and the egg.
The formation shimmered with a golden glow, enveloping them both. The next second, a complex pattern appeared on Wen Jingshu's forehead and the Azure Dragon egg's shell. At the moment the pattern shone brightest, Wen Jingshu offered a drop of her Heart's Blood into the Azure Dragon egg, and commanded:
“With me as the master, with you as the bond, I grant you an Equal Contract—Be formed!”
Once Wen Jingshu's words fell, a resonant hum echoed, and the Heavenly Laws acknowledged the contract, bringing the person and the egg back to stillness.
With the contract in place, Wen Jingshu could constantly sense the Azure Dragon egg's condition. Noticing its intense craving for immortal qi, Wen Jingshu unhesitatingly placed it inside the Shengsheng Bead.
Divine beasts required immortal qi to hatch, and what a coincidence—she just happened to have immortal qi.
Wen Jingshu reached out and touched the eggshell, sending a trace of wood-attributed immortal qi from her palm into the egg. She tutted, saying:
“You're truly lucky.”
Not everyone possessed a mustard seed space filled with immortal qi; the entire cultivation world probably couldn't even produce five such places.
The Azure Dragon rubbed affectionately against her palm upon hearing Wen Jingshu's words. After stroking the egg for a while, Wen Jingshu returned to the real world to prepare for body tempering.
The Ziyao Spirit Bamboo Extract was 100% compatible with her own attributes, so there was no need to laboriously refine it into a pill before consumption.
Wen Jingshu opened the bottle and poured the Ziyao Spirit Bamboo Extract directly into her mouth. She then sat cross-legged, formed hand seals, and closed her eyes to begin body tempering.
She activated her wood immortal root, enveloping the Ziyao Spirit Bamboo Extract and tempering her body inch by inch.
Due to the lightning attribute, she could hear crackling sounds emanating from within her body.
Perhaps because she had previously tempered her body with heavenly lightning, the pain brought by the Ziyao Spirit Bamboo Extract was far less severe than she had imagined.
In fact, after the pain subsided, there was an indescribable comfort.
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