Chapter 73A - Who did it?!
Bai Xiaochun lanted as he left Hou Yunfei’s place and returned to his courtyard. He gazed at the sky then looked towards the earth; he first thought about the Legacy Order, then he thought back about those cultivator clans. Recalling Hou Yunfei’s words, he felt that his Senior Brother Sect Head was simply too cruel. But as he thought about it further…even though he could no longer receive any gifts, he needn’t return those he had already accepted either.
“That’s right, they can’t bla for it. After all, it was the order of Senior Brother Sect Head!” Once Bai Xiaochun realised this, he felt sowhat relieved. After he organised the gifts that he had received these past few days, he went down the mountain to exchange them for a large amount of dicinal herbs needed for the Grade Two spirit dicines. When he returned, he imdiately headed for the dicine Refining Pavilion and started ditating and refining dicine.
Actually, Zheng Yuandong didn’t want to interfere between Bai Xiaochun and the cultivator clans, but he couldn’t help but be alard; the nine Honourable Disciples before Bai Xiaochun all had their titles bestowed upon them after they had died in battle. Though those disciples may not have had any descendants, they all originated from cultivator clans and had clan mbers. Hence, there were no problems as these family clans would just naturally beco an Honourable Clan.
And the sect would spare no effort to protect those families and emphasise on developing their clan mbers.
But currently, Bai Xiaochun was a living Honourable Disciple; the terror of such a position was not evident in the beginning, but was now slowly revealing itself. Half a year after the news had spread, Zheng Yuandong and many others suddenly realised that they had neglected the temptation a living Honourable Disciple presents to those cultivator clans.
When countless cultivator clans had co to visit, Zheng Yuandong had only watched from afar; whichever clan Bai Xiaochun chose would’ve been fine, he thought. But he hadn’t imagined that those clans, under the situation of overwhelming demand, would be desperate enough to present their young clanswon as maidservants, asking only for a descendant of Bai Xiaochun’s bloodline.
Zheng Yuandong could imagine that as long as Bai Xiaochun’s determination wavered and caved in to such demands, then… in a matter of years, tens and hundreds of Bai Xiaochun’s blood descendants would crop up. And according to the sect’s rules, the first generation of descendants of an Honourable Disciple would all be inner sect disciples from birth, and every single one of them would need to be developed by the sect with their utmost effort… but that wasn’t all. As those tens and hundreds of people started their own families, tens and hundreds of Honourable Clans would appear, and by a few hundred years, the entire Spirit River Sect would belong to the Bai Family…and this was a grave problem.
Moreover…...Bai Xiaochun would still be alive. As long as he kept producing new descendants, then the sect would be in an everlasting nightmare.
For this matter, Zheng Yuandong had to convene the council of elders overnight, and even report this matter up to the Grand Elders. They finally reached a unanimous decision that within a hundred years, Bai Xiaochun was not allowed to have a partner. Though this decision may seem cruel, Zheng Yuandong had no choice - he dared not place his bets on Bai Xiaochun’s restraint. He could only hope that after Bai Xiaochun lived for a hundred years, he would beco more mature.
Ti flashed by, in the blink of an eye, a year had passed.
Throughout this year, it was as if Bai Xiaochun had vanished from the South Bank; barely anyone saw him as he spent his entire ti refining dicine and ditating in the dicine Refining Pavilion, working tirelessly to refine a Grade 2 Spirit dicine.
His cultivation level had also slowly increased unknowingly and had reached the mid-stage of the seventh level of Qi Condensation. Moreover, under his constant efforts, the problems he had in refining Grade Two spirit dicines were also gradually resolved.
Actually, if it was any other dicine Apprentice, they would have long since been capable capable of refining Grade Two spirit dicines. But Bai Xiaochun, he always had that ticulousness to him - as long as a problem was not resolved, he would not start the next furnace.
Finally, on this day, after an entire year, he felt that other than making adjustnts for the different problems corresponding to the different Grade Two dicine pills during refinent, he had an impeccable foundation when it ca to refining Grade Two spirit dicines. With that thought in mind, he started his next furnace.
“Purple Rising Qi Pill!” Bai Xiaochun’s eyes were bloodshot. This Grade Two dicine pill was suitable for cultivators under the eighth level of Qi Condensation. As such, it was exactly what Bai Xiaochun currently needed. At this mont, he took out the various items and dicinal herbs, organising them with practiced hands before he began throwing them into the furnace.
While controlling the fire, he observed the changes within the pill furnace by sending out Qi from ti to ti. Six hours later, the pill furnace shook vigorously and dicinal aroma wafted out. Bai Xiaochun’s eyes imdiately brightened as he quickly stood up and moved closer to the pill furnace. With a slap onto it, three red-coloured dicine pills instantly flew out.
“Success!” Bai Xiaochun said excitedly as he grabbed onto these three dicine pills. However, when he looked closer, he beca startled. He sighed and inspected the dicine pills thoroughly once again.
“This isn’t right, the Purple Rising Qi Pill should by purple-coloured according to the description in the dicine recipe. How co the ones that I refined are all red?” Bai Xiaochun scratched his head in confusion. Taking the dicine pill close to his nose for a sniff, he noticed that the dicinal aroma was not only very heavy, but it also contained so Qi. With it having such a weird sll, and in addition, a wrong colour, Bai Xiaochun did not dare swallow the pill.
Bai Xiaochun fell silent as he carefully recalled the entire refinent procedure. It was not until two hours later that he suddenly opened his eyes and let out a bitter laugh.
“It was when I put in the Agate Flower, that stalk had a little more pollen than usual and contaminated the other dicinal plants, causing such a bizarre change.” Bai Xiaochun placed the three red-coloured dicine pill aside and began refining another batch.
This ti around, together with the shaking of the pill furnace and the appearance of the dicinal aroma, a single purple-coloured dicine pill appeared. After closely inspecting it, satisfaction surfaced on Bai Xiaochun’s face.
Imdiately after, he started yet another furnace. This ti, he continued refining for nurous days; only after he had refined over a dozen Purple Rising Qi pills did he finally sit by the side, exhausted. While he was resting, he took out those three red-coloured Purple Rising Qi pills once again. There was hesitation in his eyes, he felt that it would be a pity if he were to just throw these pills away. After all, each and every single Purple Rising Qi pill was not cheap, and his stock of dicinal herbs had also been considerably depleted at this point.
“According to the laws of dicine refining, as long as a pill is ford, then it is considered a spirit dicine. These three red-coloured Purple Rising Qi pills had a change in colour because of a little bit more of the Agate Flower’s pollen, I wonder what effect it will have.” Bai Xiaochun hesitated for a mont before he slapped his storage pouch with his left hand as a needle imdiately appeared.
The needle was made of bamboo and was green in colour.
This was an essential item for dicine refining that Bai Xiaochun had obtained from the sect. It could be easily determine whether or not a spirit dicine contained poisonous elents harmful to humans. Bai Xiaochun slowly poked the bamboo needle into the red-coloured dicine pill and took it out half a mont later - the bamboo needle was the sa and didn’t turn black.
“There’s no poison!” Bai Xiaochun heaved a sigh of relief. However, because of his cautiousness, he still did not consu the dicine pill. He held onto the pill and left the dicine Refining Pavilion. It was still the early morning outside when Bai Xiaochun walked along the path in the sect.
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5th guaranteed chapter of the week. Last for today, 4 coming up tomorrow night, including the second half of this chapter. Thank you for reading!
Translated by: Xin
Edited by: Crimsonguard, Arch
Translated by XianXiaWorld
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