“Sir, that’s true, but a Heaven-level expert wouldn’t do such a thing. However, it’s not impossible for Earth-level martial artists to come. The veterans outside are indeed good, but they can only deal with ordinary people.” Seeing that Lin Yao wasn’t displeased, Yi Potian pressed his advantage and continued his persuasion. “Make it a titanium alloy one, and then add weight to the chassis. Even Yi Yang won’t be able to break it easily. If they try to move the entire safe, it will be easier for us to pursue them if they are discovered.”
"Alright." Lin Yao shook his head and accepted the suggestion. He thought to himself that these pills were really troublesome. After being stored separately in jade bottles, they were not convenient to carry around. Modern people have less fabric in their clothes, so he couldn't carry a burden all the time. He would also have to be extra careful when going through airport security to avoid being mistaken for a drug dealer.
"Actually, I can help you put these pills away," Xiaocao's voice rang out, having received Lin Yao's thoughts.
"Really?" Lin Yao exclaimed casually, startling the people around him.
"Really, I'll arrange it right away." Yi Potian answered honestly, then looked at Lin Yao strangely, wondering what was so real or fake about such a small matter. Did the Yi family really care about the small amount of money spent on the titanium alloy safe?
"Oh, hehe, thank you, Elder." Lin Yao's ears were a little hot. He secretly glanced at the expressions of everyone in the room and found that they were all very strange. They probably couldn't have noticed that he was talking to someone else. Only then did his nervousness ease a little.
"Little Grass, why didn't you say so before?" Lin Yao's tone was somewhat reproachful. "Didn't you say that you couldn't get anything into my stomach except for rare and precious herbs and Gu worms?"
"You didn't ask me," Xiaocao said matter-of-factly, as if she had no responsibility whatsoever, leaving Lin Yao speechless.
"Of course the pills you refined are rare and precious materials. These pills are all condensed from top-grade medicinal energy, with few impurities, so of course I can bring them in. You don't think I'm going to bring the bottles in as well, do you?" Little Grass lectured Lin Yao in a tone that sounded like she was scolding an idiot, which made him even more furious.
"Won't the medicinal properties of the pills dissipate if they're not stored in the jade bottle?" Lin Yao asked, voicing his concern. He thought to himself that if he could let the little grass store the pills, he would only need to carry some empty bottles in the future; it would practically be a spatial ring.
"You don't believe me?"
As soon as Xiaocao finished speaking, Lin Yao knew he was in trouble. How could he doubt Xiaocao's abilities? So he quickly made amends, "No, no, how could I not believe you? I was just worried that you could only hang the poison gas beads on the downy fur and couldn't store the medicinal gas, so I was concerned."
Xiao Cao's thoughts weren't that complicated. She accepted the explanation and stopped pursuing the matter. "Although the pills you refined can only be considered pseudo-pills, the condensation after being refined by the pill fire is enough to preserve them, unlike the medicinal energy absorbed from medicinal herbs, which I can store. However, the 'Life-Giving Pill' you refined has some effect on me, but it's very small, so I haven't asked you for it."
"Take it all if you want. We're like family, aren't we? I'll refine more next time and give it all to you." Lin Yao boldly promised Xiao Cao, almost patting his chest. He was never stingy with anything that would benefit Xiao Cao; everything he had came from her, so of course he had to prioritize her.
After searching high and low, they finally found the jade bottle containing the "Dragon Tiger Pill." This search made the Yi family quite uncomfortable, and even Yi Fei rolled his eyes at them.
The importance of the "Dragon Tiger Pill" to the Yi family is self-evident, but no matter how casual the master is, he shouldn't squander the Yi family's hope for revival like that. Yi Potian even felt that his breathing had become much heavier, and he didn't seem like a Heaven-level expert at all. He wondered if spending more time with Lin Yao would break his mental state and cause him to fall back from the Heaven-level to the Earth-level.
"Oh dear." Lin Yao suddenly thought of something and exclaimed, startling everyone who thought something serious had happened.
“All the rooms here are full. Elder Yi Dao has nowhere to stay with me. I also need to refine pills often, and the medicinal smell I emit is disturbing the neighbors. Let’s just rent a house away from the crowds near the Third Ring Road. We’ll only stay here on weekends.” After Lin Yao finished speaking, everyone’s hearts finally settled down.
Yi Potian glanced at Yi Dao without changing his expression, his eyes filled with a fierce look, meaning that you must protect the master well and there must be no mistakes, otherwise you will be letting down the entire Yi family.
Yi Dao's expression was serious. He nodded slightly and immediately moved closer to the desk. "Sir, let me help you pack these. When are we going to look for a house?"
"No need, this is a 'Bigu Pill,' you can go and try it." Lin Yao casually handed a jade bottle to Yi Dao. "Go find a house in a bit, the sooner the better. I've wanted to move out for a long time. Every time I refine medicine, I have to sneak around like a thief, making the whole neighborhood a mess. People think someone has opened a drug processing plant here without permission."
"Bigu Pill?" Yi Potian snatched the jade bottle from Yi Dao's hand without any manners, opened it, and saw a dozen or so milky white pills the size of mung beans inside, which were faintly transparent.
After capping the bottle, Yi Potian stared blankly at Lin Yao, thinking to himself that the Yi family was blessed. This young master's endless supply of miraculous pills was simply divine intervention. The "Bigu Pill," a pill that had only been heard of in legends, had actually appeared in his hands.
Yi Potian glanced approvingly at his son beside him, feeling very gratified. If Yi Yang hadn't decisively invited Lin Yao to Yijia Town with the ancestral sacred medicine as a price, not only would he have been lying in bed waiting to die, but the entire Yi family would never have been able to turn things around, unless the Fan family could develop an effective prescription. But decades of waiting had extinguished his hope.
"Sir," Yi Potian's tone became even more respectful, forcing himself to speak in a flattering voice, "Do you have any other pills that I could see? It would be good to see them; sir, you have truly broadened my horizons."
"Hehe, it's not that miraculous." Lin Yao shook his head somewhat embarrassedly. "'Bigu Dan' is a name I made up. One pill can only make a person go without food or water for a day. It's not the kind of good stuff where one pill can keep you full for a month."
Speaking of this, Lin Yao thought that alchemy was really troublesome. Not only did he need a prescription and procedures, but he also needed to find a matching mental cultivation method. The alchemy method for the "Bigu Pill" was taught to him by Xiao Cao, while the "Sheng Sheng Pill" was something he figured out on his own. He tried to slightly modify the mental cultivation method of the "Long Hu Pill," but even this slight modification caused him to waste at least tens of thousands of yuan worth of raw materials.
Fortunately, the secret formula for "Baiyun Dan" was developed with the help of Xiaocao, which was related to a cracked version of the online book "An Exploration of the Manufacturing Process of Yunnan Baiyao" that I downloaded. Otherwise, I would have had to take many more detours.
“There’s another kind of ‘Life-Giving Pill,’ but it won’t work for you. It’s only effective for those who are lacking vitality.” Lin Yao began to boast. “By the way, Yi Yang, you can help me sell some ‘Life-Giving Pills’ in the future. Those high-ranking officials and businessmen who are afraid of death need this kind of pill the most. Set the price at least two million per pill. Don’t sell it to the worst people. That’s the principle.”
"Thank you, sir." Yi Yang nodded in agreement. He knew that Lin Yao was giving him a way to win people's favors, and that this kind of pill was the most effective way to break down barriers and obstacles in a certain region.
Yi Yang's heart suddenly stirred, and his eyes became eager. After a slight hesitation, he gritted his teeth and held back the words that were about to come out.
"Then let's go, get ready to move. Anyway, this place isn't suitable for entertaining you." Lin Yao stuffed a dozen or so jade bottles into a faux leather bag, twisted it, and prepared to leave, causing the Yi family members who saw this to cringe.
"Here, I'll give you two more bottles of 'Bigu Pills' and one bottle of 'Sheng Sheng Pills.' You can sell the other bottle of 'Sheng Sheng Pills' for me as repayment for the money you advanced. I can only pay back this money slowly." Seeing that the expressions of the Yi family members were all the same, Lin Yao knew that they coveted these small bottles, so he generously took out five small jade bottles from his bag and stuffed them into Yi Yang's hands, keeping only six bottles of pills for himself.
“Sir, although we don’t know the specific effects of the ‘Life-Giving Pill,’ the Yi family happens to need this kind of pill.” Yi Yang said, glancing cautiously at his father’s expression. Seeing no objection, he continued, “Not all members of the Yi family can cultivate the ‘Tendon Changing Technique.’”
“They start practicing the ‘Yi Jin Jue’ at the age of six. From the age of nine, many Yi family members are unable to continue cultivating due to their lack of talent, becoming crippled and left only to wait for death.” Yi Yang’s face was filled with sorrow, and his tone was somewhat distorted. “The Fan family has done everything they can to save these people, but they still cannot recover. It is impossible for them to live a normal life. Therefore, our Yi family has the most cripples, even exceeding the total number of cripples in all other aristocratic families. There are 1,121 cripples in the Yi family, who can basically only lie in bed and wait for death.”
"The head of the Fan family said it was because their life force was insufficient, so they became disabled after practicing the 'Yi Jin Jue,' a technique that severely damages life force." Yi Yang straightened up, adjusted his clothes with both hands, and bowed to Lin Yao. "Please forgive me, sir, but I would like to buy these 'Life-Giving Pills' first so that the Yi family members can take them, even if it only restores them to the abilities of an ordinary person."
Lin Yao never imagined that the Yi family would make such a great sacrifice for its revival. He himself was also practicing the "Yi Jin Jue" (Muscle/Tendon Changing Technique), and even with his powerful body modified by the grass, he was enduring immense pain. Just imagining a six-year-old child practicing such a painful technique struck him as cruel.
No wonder the Yi family is so united and has such a strong character; it turns out they were all forged through the greatest suffering.
"How about this?" Lin Yao's voice was somewhat low, and hearing this information made him feel very heavy-hearted. "Let's give it to those disciples at cost price first. Min Hong bought the materials at a cost of 200,000 per piece. It's more convenient for the Yi family to purchase medicinal herbs than for Min Hong. I'll make a list in a while, and you can collect the medicinal herbs and bring them over. I'll help you refine them. After the Yi family disciples are all cured, we'll consider selling them to others."
"Thank you, sir!" Yi Potian led the way in bowing to Lin Yao, for this concerned the lives of over a thousand members of the Yi family.
They never doubted the effectiveness of the "Life-Giving Pill." Just by looking at the miraculous effects of the "Dragon-Tiger Pill" and the "Bigu Pill," they could see a glimpse of its power. They believed it could restore the health of these disabled children, or at least allow them to enjoy the life of ordinary people, since what they lacked was vitality.
"No need." Lin Yao felt a lump in his throat and tears welled up in his eyes. Those children were so pitiful. "It was my fault for not knowing the situation. If you encounter any difficulties in the future, please tell me directly. I will definitely try my best to help if I can. If the 'Life-Giving Pill' works, that would be the best. If it doesn't work, tell me and I will immediately go to Yanji to find a solution and try my best to save them."
After much deliberation, Lin Yao looked at Yi Yang seriously and said, "The Yi family's perseverance has moved me. Patriarch, I accept the position of guest elder of the Yi family. Please take good care of me in the future."
The four members of the Yi family, including Yi Potian, stared blankly at Lin Yao, forgetting to speak.
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