Thump...

"What's it that you guys want to talk to me about?"

Entering the house, Zheng-Fu immediately asked the young man. Actually, Zheng-Fu had already guessed what they wanted to talk about, but he asked to make sure that it matched what he had in mind.

"That's... that's... about... about... the matter… that we'd…" In front of Zheng-Fu, the young man had actually turned into a different person when he had to say their request.

"Say it. If it's something I can help with, I'll be ready to help." Zheng-Fu saw the young man hesitate, so he said it to let the young man relieve the pressure.

"Sigh... It's such a shame that we have to beg you.," The more he saw the expression of kindness Zheng-Fu showed to him, the more the young man was ashamed. "If this task is successful, I'm willing to serve you all my life," said the young man, with a serious expression on his face.

Zheng-Fu still had the same friendly smile on his face as he said, "Say it, don't be considerate. And you don't have to serve me for the rest of your life because I don't do it for the sake of (or not) wanting anything from you." He reached out and grabbed the young man's shoulder.

"Young Master!?"

Zheng-Fu's words made the young man gasp, not out of shock but in gratitude. Ever since they had been captured, they had been subjected to all kinds of torture and were looked at with contempt and disdain all along. But Zheng-Fu looked at them with warm eyes as if they were family.

"Thank you so much, Young Master, for being so kind... My request is that I just want you to save the captured people of my tribe, including other tribes. I don't know that this request of mine would..."

"Alright, I'm willing to help you," before the young man could finish speaking, Zheng-Fu interjected, saying he agreed.

Hah!?

…………………………….

"What did you say just now?" after regaining consciousness, the young man immediately asked Zheng-Fu once more to confirm that he had not heard wrongly.

"I said, 'I agree.' I'm willing to help you guys," Zheng-Fu repeated, smiling at the young man.

Thank you so much!

"Thank you, Young Master, for helping us."

"We also would like to thank you, Young Master."

The remaining four also thanked Zheng-Fu as their tears slowly flowed with gratitude that Zheng-Fu agreed.

"Is that all that you guys want to say to me?" Zheng-Fu did not want to get too emotional, so he hurriedly cut off the conversation.

"Yes, Young Master. This matter alone is more than enough. Just agreeing to help us is already more than we can repay you," the young man spoke up instead of everyone else, who was still in speechless joy.

"It's alright... You don't have to pay me anything. Well, if you guys have nothing else, then I'll excuse myself. I still have a lot of things to do. And if you guys want something, feel free to tell me," Zheng-Fu did not know what to say about the gratitude that the young man and his comrades wanted to repay him. In fact, he had something he wanted, but he was just unable to speak out.

"Yes, Young Master!"

When he finished talking to the young man and the others, Zheng-Fu excused himself to continue his errands. Zheng-Fu thought of going to the sect's medicine hall, located not far from here. He needed to go there to check out the Golden Core-Breaking pill, which the medicine hall had just successfully concocted from the formula given by Zheng-Fu.

At the medicine hall of the sect...

"This Golden Core-Breaking pill is so amazing. If anyone with their energy level is at the ninth level of the Golden Core stage and is facing a bottleneck condition, taking it would allow that person to break through the barrier and break through to the Nascent Soul stage," a joyful voice sounded from a middle-aged man in his late forties, standing beside a large cauldron.

"This pill is very important to anyone who needs it. If we sell them, they'll definitely get a high price," but suddenly, a very greedy sound rang up from another middle-aged man sitting next to the first middle-aged man who spoke earlier.

"Elder Zhu-Ling, why did you say that? This pill was made only for the disciples of the Beyond Earth Sect. They're not for sale," a young man on the other side of the apothecary furnace suddenly interjected with displeasure after hearing the middle-aged man's voice just now.

"I'm just joking, Kong-Chang. I really don't think so. Everyone knows how important this pill is to the Beyond Earth Sect, including you and all of us," Zhu-Ling hurriedly explained what he had just said.

But his facial expression was completely at odds with his words. As he spoke, his expression clearly showed that he spoke with genuine feelings. At the previous event, when Zheng-Fu's yellow pills were taken off for auction, Zhu-Ling was the second suspect, after Ming-Wang, who brought the pills to the auction. It was just that there was no clear evidence yet, so no one could blame him.

Although there was no evidence at this time, Kong-Chang believed that Zhu-Ling was related to that event anyway. As for Ming-Wang, he was now acting very normal, showing no abnormalities at all, other than diligently working hard to concoct the pills according to the formulas given to him and helping the medicine hall concoct pills for the sect.

More than three-quarters of all pills were concocted by Ming-Wang. He was a greatly skilled apothecary, just like Yao-Xiang and Yang-Qin, the former head of the Association of the Alchemists and the director of the association. And if compared to Gim-Dong-Guo and Tian-Tang Si-Wu, his ability was not much different from theirs.

Ming-Wang was just a little inferior to Gim-Dong-Guo and Si-Wu, who received training and one-on-one guidance from Zheng-Fu to a certain extent. But if Ming-Wang continued to practice more diligently like this, he would soon become a high-level apothecary.

"This pill's formula only we know. If it has leaked out of the sect, everyone knows what will happen, right?" Elder Yao-Xiang said with a serious expression, staring at everyone.

"We understand."

Creak!!!

Bang!!!

Huh...?

Suddenly, the sound of the door opening sounded while everyone was talking. When they turned to look at the person who entered, a shocked expression appeared on almost every face, except for a few that showed a happy expression, and the person who opened the door was Zheng-Fu.

"Hello, everyone."

"Young Master Zheng-Fu!"

"Yo... young… Young Master Zheng-Fu!"

Thump!!!

"Respect, Young Master Zheng-Fu," Yao-Xiang, who was the first one to pull himself together, walked up to Zheng-Fu and gave a humble greeting.

"Oh... Elder Yao-Xiang is being far too modest. Take it easy." Zheng-Fu was not a very formal person, so he helped Elder Yao-Xiang up before continuing, "How is the Golden Core-Breaking pill formula going?" He smiled at Elder Yao-Xiang.

"Here, Young Master," Elder Yao-Xiang immediately handed Zheng-Fu the pill he was holding.

"A fourth-level pill? Um... It's good enough," Zheng-Fu picked up the pill, examined it, and said, satisfied with the result. Normally, if it was him concocting it himself, it would definitely be in the fifth or sixth level. But for these people, this was already a good result.

"Before we can concoct it this well, we have to waste quite a lot of resources. Fortunately, with Young Master Zheng-Fu's support, we were able to successfully concoct it," Zhu-Ling suddenly spoke out with a flattering expression.

"Don't mention it, Elder Zhu-Ling. Just the resources, I'm ungrudging. As long as you guys can concoct the Golden Core-Breaking pill, that's enough," Zheng-Fu still had the same smile on his face as he replied to the middle-aged man, Zhu-Ling.

But in truth, behind Zheng-Fu's smiling face was a very ruthless and terrifying face because he did not like this type of person at all. The flatterers performed poorly; they spoke sweetly in his presence despite being both bitter and foul behind him.

"Thank you very much, Young Master Zheng-Fu," Zhu-Ling thanked him with a satisfied smile.

"Alright, you guys continue your duty. I won't bother you anymore. I hope you guys will be able to invent a new pill that will increase the strength of the disciples of the sect," When Zheng-Fu finished speaking, he immediately walked away, not continuing to say anything.

"Understood!"

At the end of the conversation, all of them dispersed to do their own duties. The only exceptions were Ming-Wang and Zhu-Ling, who remained where they were.

"Master Ming-Wang, what's your opinion?" Zhu-Ling's voice rang out after everyone had left.

"Nothing special, aside from continuing to practice medicine-concoction," Ming-Wang only gave a short reply. His expression was still calm, which looked very different from what he was doing in the past.

In fact, Ming-Wang had no idea other than to hurriedly improve his own cultivation to increase his level of apothecary even higher. In the coming months, the main office of the Apothecary Association, located in Foggy Cloud Land, would launch the Apothecary Promotion Exam.

Ming-Wang did not have time to think about anything else right now, since if he continued to train hard like this, he would soon be able to upgrade to master alchemist. And once he was a master alchemist, his status would definitely change a lot.

By then, he would surely leave here and join a large sect or a large clan from another very powerful kingdom without caring what Zheng-Fu would think.

"Sigh... It's not going to be easy to bring this medicinal formula out and offer it for sale," Zhu-Ling's desperate grumbling rang out as he saw Ming-Wang's indifferent expression. He knew why Ming-Wang was in such a hurry to improve his skills, and he also knew how good it would be for anyone to have a higher apothecary level.

But neither of them realized that Zheng-Fu was also in the room and had heard all that Zhu-Ling had said about his stupid idea of getting the Golden Core-Breaking pill formula out for sale. But because Ming-Wang had not made any comment, Zhu-Ling did not dare to take action.

"I've tried to give you a chance."

Huh...?

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