“That’s right,” Ye Shaohua nodded.
Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.
She also wanted to continue the legacy of the Alchemy Hall in this world.
Besides…
Alchemy was really quite tiring. Now that the Dragon Group members knew about her, she would definitely have to refine pills for them in large batches.
Thinking this, Ye Shaohua looked gently at Wei Zhengxuan and Wu Mao. “Come on, let me teach you the basics first.”
Ye Shaohua truly taught them.
From pharmacology to the extraction steps, she explained every detail thoroughly.
Moreover, this world didn’t require the strict standards of a fantasy world. After all, even Murong Qiyue’s pills were considered precious here. So, it wouldn’t take these two too long to learn how to refine some low-grade pills.
For Ye Shaohua, a former Alchemy Hall Master, refining low-grade pills was just a bit time-consuming—there was no real difficulty.
It would still take some time for Wei Zhengxuan and the others to learn how to refine pills.
In the meantime, she prepared a batch of pills for the members of Group A.
“Leader Yun, are you sure your Group A doesn’t want to get some pills and weapons first?” For this mission, a case at the border of Huaxia, Yun Mu had brought members from both Group A and Group B.
Murong Qiyue looked at Yun Mu and smiled.
Yun Mu didn’t look at her, nor did he speak.
Instead, Wu Kuai spoke for Yun Mu, smiling politely. “Miss Murong, we don’t need any.”
Murong Qiyue looked at Wu Kuai’s face and suddenly remembered something. “Wait, aren’t you supposed to be dead?!”
Murong Qiyue knew about Wu Kuai’s illness. To leave a good impression on Yun Mu, she had observed Wu Kuai’s condition from the gate when he returned.
It was incurable.
A few days ago, she hadn’t heard any updates from Group A and assumed they had quietly dealt with it.
But to her surprise, here she was, seeing Wu Kuai alive and well?
From the looks of it, not only was he alive, but his abilities were also intact.
“Of course,” Wu Kuai’s expression turned colder at Murong Qiyue’s words. “I’m sorry I didn’t die as Miss Murong predicted.”
Murong Qiyue’s face changed. She wanted to say that wasn’t what she meant, but Wu Kuai had already returned to his position and didn’t want to engage with her.
Meanwhile, Yun Mu was still talking to Ye Shaohua.
Ye Shaohua wasn’t very familiar with international rules.
Yun Mu rarely talked to people, especially not with such a gentle expression.
From where Murong Qiyue stood, she could even see the slight upward curve at the corner of his mouth.
She got a clear look at Ye Shaohua’s face, and her expression turned somewhat strange.
Of course, she remembered Ye Shaohua—someone she hadn’t paid any attention to before.
This scene darkened Murong Qiyue’s expression. She felt an intense anxiety stirring inside her.
Yun Mu’s identity was mysterious, and his strength was unfathomable. After all this time, she still couldn’t figure out what level he was at.
Even someone from the cultivation world like her couldn’t discern his identity, which showed just how extraordinary he was. How could she not have ulterior motives?
Unfortunately, Yun Mu had always been cold. After being rejected, she had fled from Country M for a few months before returning.
She had always thought that one day, he would be moved by her various abilities. Today, she had even personally asked if they needed pills or weapons.
But she never expected Yun Mu to be so intimate with another woman.
Explaining the rules for international ability users to her—since when did a Dragon Group leader need to bother with such trivial matters? Yet he was explaining everything in painstaking detail.
This already showed how special Ye Shaohua was to him.
Murong Qiyue was extremely unwilling to accept this. Qiu Zihang, Xu Anyuan, and others had been pursuing her relentlessly, but she never gave them a definite answer—after all, the unattainable was always the most desirable. Looking at Yun Mu, she pressed her lips together and said, “This operation is very difficult. They’re coming to rescue Number One. You’ll definitely come back begging to buy pills and weapons from me.”
Just then, Wu Mao raised his hand. “Actually, there’s someone in our group who can refine pills too.”
“Refine pills? Do you think anyone can just refine them if they want to?” Murong Qiyue immediately knew Wu Mao was talking about Ye Shaohua.
She turned her gaze to Ye Shaohua. “I suggest you go home and practice how to refine pills first. Come back and tell me you know how to refine pills in another hundred or eighty years.”
After saying this, she gave Yun Mu and Ye Shaohua a meaningful look before leading Group B away.
Refining pills—how could it be that easy?
Back in the cultivation world, Murong Qiyue had spent hundreds of years just scratching the surface of alchemy before encountering a heavenly tribulation.
How could ordinary people just casually claim they could refine pills?
This mission was quite difficult. The Dragon Group was up against the world’s largest ability user alliance, the Free Alliance, whose goal was to rescue Number One.
For Number One, they had mobilized almost all their forces.
However, the Dragon Group didn’t send everyone—they needed to keep some people guarding their base. They couldn’t leave it vulnerable and return to find their headquarters wiped out.
Xu Anyuan was rendezvousing with Murong Qiyue in another direction. Because of his lower status, he couldn’t join the operations with Murong Qiyue and Ye Shaohua’s teams, so he hadn’t seen Ye Shaohua yet.
But once the mission began, these groups would mostly disperse.
“Miss Murong sold pills to Number One and his people!” Yun Meng dodged an attack, his expression grim. “The weapons she gave us broke after just three uses.”
Murong Qiyue wasn’t foolish either.
Only Group A in the Dragon Group was relatively wealthy. Most of the things she refined couldn’t be sold anywhere except the black market.
After all, she needed a large amount of money to restore her golden core.
But by doing this, she had directly raised the difficulty of this mission to S-level.
Xu Anyuan ran into Yun Meng, looking just as panicked.
He also had a pill, but only one, and he didn’t dare take it now.
“Let’s go,” Yun Meng directed them.
The group headed toward the perimeter. On their way back, they encountered someone from the Free Alliance. Right in front of them, that person took a pill that boosted their ability level.
“Run!” Yun Meng shouted.
Just then, they ran into Wu Mao and Ye Shaohua’s team. Unlike their own disheveled state, this group looked like they were out for a leisurely stroll.
Seeing Ye Shaohua, Xu Anyuan felt, for a moment, as if the world had turned upside down.
But Yun Meng didn’t notice his expression. He was staring at Wu Mao and the others in shock. “Why are you all unharmed?”
Group A didn’t have weapons or pills. Shouldn’t they be in even worse shape?
“Run! This guy has a level-boosting pill!” Yun Meng had no time to explain.
Wu Mao ignored him. He just looked at the Free Alliance member, then pulled out a large bottle of pills from his pocket, grinning: “Want a comparison?”
