Translation: Aerial Rain Translation (aerialrain.com) by koffeam

Chu Tianfeng froze, his face turned from white to red, and then gradually turned white again. He slowly lowered his head. The young man took out the new storage space given by his sect’s elder, counted thirty sixth-grade spirit stones, and handed them to Meng Qi: “Fifteen pills, a total of thirty spirit stones.”

The young man stood tall with his spine straight. His long eyelashes hung down, and he tightly squeezed his thin lips. On the palm of his hand, thirty spirit stones were neatly stacked. Beautifully glittering under the sunlight.

Instead, Meng Qi was the one who was stunned. She thought that Chu Tianfeng would turn around and go away in anger. She really didn’t have the intention to take his money again after the last payment. After all, it was merely first-realm Qingfeng pills. For medical cultivators such as Xiang Linmo and Xue Jinwen, the high price was justified because of the pill’s extraordinary refining method. They were willing to buy it at the price of two sixth-grade spirit stones or even higher because they wanted to research its refining method.

Of course, if they can really deduce the refining method by merely researching the pill, Meng Qi would sincerely admire them. That was really not an easy task. At that time, she and her master spent nearly half a year, experimenting with thousands of arrays, before finally succeeded. This refining method couldn’t be valued by a matter of several sixth-grade spirit stones. A medical sect would be willing to use everything they had to exchange for this secret.

Both Xiang Linmo and Xue Jinwen were medical cultivators. Of course, they understood this fact. So they didn’t even inquire about the refinement method and just bought the pills to conduct their own research. Even so, they only bought less than five pills. For this reason, Xiang Linmo thought nothing of spending several sixth-grade spirit stones to buy the pill. He probably also knew that if this pill really went into the auction floor, there would be many sects who were willing to buy it at a much higher price. If he went to participate in the auction, he wasn’t their opponent at all.

But it was different for Chu Tianfeng. For him, the pills were purely used for detoxification. Even if the effect was much better than the ordinary first realm Qingfeng pill, it still wasn’t so good that he had to pay thousands of times the regular price to buy it.

Meng Qi initially thought that the proud Young Master Chu would be furious at her words and turned away in disdain. She already had a way to make money now and didn’t need to pluck every feather from Chu Tianfeng’s body. She said such words, simply wanted to anger Chu Tianfeng, lest he always appeared in front of her. After all, his action might bring Lu Qingran’s displeasure towards Meng Qi, and at that time, heaven might punish her for the sake of its favored daughter.

Moreover, was there anything wrong with this Young Master Chu?

In Meng Qi’s previous life, she saved him without charging anything, and he acted as if he didn’t know about this grace at all. Later, she was imprisoned for three months. Let alone speaking for her defense or trying to release her out, Chu Tianfeng didn’t even spare a glance at her. Otherwise, Meng Qi actually wished him to at least give her some medicine formulas or other things so as not to waste that three months in vain.

This time she extorted so many spirit stones, charging him a heavily marked-up price. Still, the other party persistently glued himself to her instead and refused to get away at any expense.

How annoying!

Meng Qi recalled the words a certain older sister she met in her previous life once said: ‘People, especially men, were all cheap, and never knew to cherish anything they easily get without any effort!’

After thinking for a while, Meng Qi reached out and took the spirit stones. She stared at Chu Tianfeng without blinking, hoping that the young man would be furious and turn away. Young Master Chu lowered his gaze, standing obediently. His expression was unchanged, not looking a little bit unhappy.

Meng Qi: “…”

She pondered a bit and then said with an earnest tone: “From now, we are even. I am rich in money but poor in luck and simply want to concentrate on my own cultivation. So, I don’t want to bear too much karmic relationship. From now on, even if we meet on the road, let’s just nod slightly and go on our way… Of course, Young Master Chu can also ignore me completely, which I am most appreciating.”

“You…” Chu Tianfeng suddenly raised his eyes at Meng Qi.

“Also.” Meng Qi added: “You are forbidden to tell others about the little white tiger!”

“If nothing else, I will say goodbye first.”

Meng Qi walked out of the sect’s gate without looking back. Because of the urgent need to save Xiao Qi, she was almost getting entangled with this Chu Tianfeng. What was a soul vow? After making it, the person couldn’t break the words they said during the vow. And Chu Tianfeng vowed to never disobey Meng Qi’s order. So, when she just now said to treat each other as strangers, this also counted as an order. If Chu Tianfeng couldn’t do it, just wait for heaven’s retribution.

Fentian Palace’s Nascent Soul elder was currently here, and there was also Chu Tianfeng, their future palace master. With their help, the coming crisis would certainly not threaten the safety of Qingfeng Valley’s cultivators, or even the ordinary people living in Qingfeng Town at the foot of the mountain.

When Meng Qi arrived in Qingfeng Town, many people were still bustling with activities, no different from the peaceful time. There were not many people in Qingfeng Town since it was a very small town. After all, Qingfeng Valley was also a minor sect and wasn’t part of central authorities in the Eastern Realm. The people living in the town were ordinary people who couldn’t cultivate. As soon as they saw Meng Qi, they immediately gathered around and greeted her.

“Little Doctor Meng is here!”

“Good afternoon, Little Doctor Meng.”

“Little Doctor Meng, you come at the right time. The oranges in my orchard have just ripened this year’s first fruits. The frost on it hasn’t been wiped yet. Take back some and taste it.”

“My honey pomelo this year is also sweet and juicy. They are girls’ favorite! You should also take some.”

“Sister Meng, good afternoon!”

These ordinary people in Qingfeng Town have no intersection with Lu Qingran. In order to practice her medical skills, Meng Qi used to come here and gave them medical treatment. The physical problems of non-cultivators, as long as the root cause could be identified, weren’t hard to cure, so treating them actually didn’t give enough experience for breaking through. But ordinary people ate grains, and they suffered from all kinds of diseases. Although Qingfeng Town was just a small town, it was still inhabited by hundreds of people, and everyone had different illnesses. When treating them, Meng Qi also gained much enlightenment.

She remembered Elder Yan. He clearly already reached the fourth-rank medical cultivation level, but was still willing to treat ordinary people. He even made a great vow to travel through the Three Thousand Worlds and cure as many patients as possible. Among medical cultivators, not many were actually obsessed with medical skills. Meng Qi had seen many of those people before.

While greeting the residents of Qingfeng Town, she walked towards the Cloud Immortal Pavilion in the town center. By the time she arrived, Meng Qi had received a lot of fresh fruit in her storage bracelet.

Cloud Immortal Pavilion claimed to have branches in every city in the Three Thousand Worlds, regardless of size. Similar to Beyond The Heaven, if one wanted to buy something from them, they could make the order at their local branch, and Cloud Immortal Pavilion would deliver it as soon as possible.

Meng Qi had never seriously thought about making money before. Being a healer and treat people was simply to practice her skill. But now, to treat Xiao Qi, countless spirit stones were needed just for his external injuries alone. After some calculation, Meng Qi immediately bought more than ten kinds of first and second-grade herbs from Cloud Immortal Pavilion.

After that, Meng Qi walked to the relay station area to send the pills marked with Xue Jinwen and Xiang Linmo’s spiritual sense. This was the first time she visiting Beyond The Heaven’s relay station. The layout wasn’t different from ordinary stations. Soon after the staff confirmed the spiritual sense, they took away the wooden box containing the pills and gave Meng Qi the spirit stones.

“Excuse me, how long will the items be delivered to the buyer?” Meng Qi asked.

“Beyond The Heaven has its own teleportation array. It takes only nine days from here to the border town at the southern end of the Southern Realm.” Beyond The Heaven’s staff answered politely. They didn’t need to check the contents. As long as there was no mistake in the spiritual sense imprinted on the item, they would pay off the spirit stone.

“Thank you.” Meng Qi nodded politely.

After she finished, Meng Qi returned to the Qingfeng Valley. Xiao Qi was still lying on the bed lazily, and Chu Tianfeng has long gone. Meng Qi slowly stroke Xiao Qi’s fur. Cultivators actually didn’t need to sleep every day. But Meng Qi was still in the Qi Condensation stage, and she had to sleep two hours a day.

“Xiao Qi.” Meng Qi pushed the little guy, “Move a bit.” This guy has occupied her bamboo bed for a long time and now took it as his own.

The little white tiger’s blue eyes suddenly widened. He saw Meng Qi take off her blue robe and threw it on the chair beside the bed.

Then…

Now she should sleep. After two hours, she had to get up and started to refine medicines. She already had forty-six sixth-grade spirit stones and could buy the jackdaw grass. After that, she would sell more medicines….and then…

Meng Qi’s consciousness gradually blurred. She closed her eyes and fell asleep.

The fluffy little white tiger laid stiffly on the other half of the bed, his back against the wall. Meng Qi’s bamboo bed was originally very narrow, and she usually slept by herself. Although the little white tiger’s body was still very small, it was inevitable that they would touch each other when lying down together.

He froze for a while, watching Meng Qi’s breath gradually became longer. The little tiger returned to his sense and slowly moved inward. His soft white fur rubbed Meng Qi’s arm. The loose white blouse on her body accidentally lifted, revealing her white and slender arms. The little white tiger lowered his head, running his gaze down on the girl’s arm. His blue eyes suddenly stopped at Meng Qi’s slender fingers.

He flinched back again, as if wanted to stick his entire body to the wall.

His soft fur brushed Meng Qi’s arm gently. “Don’t make trouble,” she muttered. Then Meng Qi stretched her hand and pulled the little white tiger into her arms: “Sleep obediently!”

Little white tiger “!!!”

A faint scent of medicine overwhelmed his nostrils.

Very comfortable.

The little white tiger, who had always hated others invading his personal space, couldn’t gather his will to push the girl away.

The wound on his paw was still bleeding slowly. Although it wasn’t much, the blood drops accumulated and gradually tinted Meng Qi’s originally white sleeves. The small red patch slowly turned from bright red to dark red, and the slight bloody smell was overpowered by the fragrance from her body.

The little white tiger froze for a moment before gradually relaxed. He had never been sleeping like this. No one has ever dared to do this kind of thing before, hugging him to sleep in such an overbearing way.

However…

He probably was injured too much. His eyelids gradually became heavy. Listening to Meng Qi’s soft breath, the little white tiger slowly closed his eyes. One human and one tiger very naturally lying together, as if they have known each other for a long, long time.

It was a full night without a dream, and they were sleeping soundly until dawn.