In the Qin family's rear garden, in a brightly lit room, Hong Zhu and Xiao Chen had already finished their dinner and were leisurely resting in the room.
Hong Zhu was looking at the lantern in boredom when she suddenly recalled the question that had been lingering in her mind for the entire afternoon. Now that the two of them were finally alone, she lazily asked, "Little brother Xiao Chen, big sister has something to ask you. I'll say it in advance, but this time, you're not allowed to find any other excuses to evade me!"
"What is it? Ask away! "Xiao Chen, who was in the middle of washing up, casually replied.
Hong Zhu cleared her throat and said, "Ever since I entered the cultivation world, I've noticed something. You don't seem to be unfamiliar with cultivators at all, and you don't seem to be surprised by the division of strength in this world. Even when dealing with those cultivators, you're still able to handle them with ease. About this, shouldn't you explain the reason to me?"
Hong Zhu's beautiful eyes were tightly fixed on Xiao Chen. Although her tone was very calm, her tightly clenched fists betrayed the nervousness in her heart.
"Oh, the reason is also very simple. It's because I'm a standard cultivator. With your intelligence, can't you see it?" After washing up, Xiao Chen turned around and sat down at the table. He casually picked up an apple and ate it, then spoke without batting an eyelid.
Since Hong Zhu had already seen some clues, Xiao Chen didn't want to hide it anymore. In any case, this was something she would find out sooner or later, so there was no harm in telling her now, lest she kept doubting him.
"Ah?! Is that true? "Hong Zhu blinked and asked doubtfully.
Although she was already mentally prepared, she still couldn't quite believe it when she heard Xiao Chen personally admit it.
Xiao Chen took a bite of the apple and answered vaguely as he chewed. "Absolutely genuine! I'm not deceiving anyone!"
Hong Zhu frowned and thought for a while. Suddenly, a dusty past appeared in her mind. She slapped her forehead and pointed at Xiao Chen with sudden realization. "That's right, I remember now! No wonder when you were in the secular world, you always went to Little Hong's Pharmacy to buy some rare and expensive herbs. You did it for the sake of cultivation, right? "
"Yes, that's right. At that time, I had just started cultivating, so I needed to borrow the power of medicine to help with my cultivation." Xiao Chen did not hide anything and nodded calmly.
"What? Are you kidding me? At that time, you had only just begun … "Hong Zhu was taken aback, but he immediately recalled that he had tried to probe Xiao Chen at that time. At that time, Xiao Chen's strength was indeed not much, and besides having a relatively firm mind, his cultivation was a complete mess. He was nothing more than a weakling.
Unexpectedly, in just a few years, Xiao Chen had already become an existence that even clans in the cultivation world had to look up to from a beginner cultivator. Wasn't this guy a little too powerful?
"Hehe, speaking of which, I have to thank Pharmacist Chen and Pharmacist Lu in your shop. If it weren't for their generosity, I might still be stuck in the preliminary stage of the Immortal Cultivator, unable to make a breakthrough!" Xiao Chen smiled as he recalled his experience in Xiao Hong's Pharmacy.
"You're still talking about it! At that time, it was because you bought those strange medicinal ingredients that Grandpa Chen was very puzzled, so he reported your situation to the higher-ups and had Grandpa Lu come over to probe you. In the end, I didn't expect you to be so weak at that time that you couldn't get anything out of it. "Hong Zhu curled his lips and snorted.
Hong Zhu remembered that when Grandpa Chen had first started selling medicine to Xiao Chen, he had reported this situation to Hong Ying's team. However, she had a lot on her hands at that time, so even though she had received the report, she hadn't taken it seriously at all and had tossed it aside.
Later, when the news that Xiao Chen had killed her fiancé, Li Shanpao, coupled with the previous news about Grandpa Chen, Hong Zhu's curiosity was finally aroused. Thus, she came from the martial world to the secular world and secretly tried to probe Xiao Chen a few times. In the end, she discovered that this guy's strength was ordinary and she could not get anything out of him, so she gradually lost interest.
Aside from occasionally doing a few deals with Xiao Chen to earn some pocket money, Hong Zhu also began to slowly shift her focus to other areas, handing over Xiao Chen's matters to Medicine Master Lu who came later.
Later, during the summit between the righteous and demonic sects, Xiao Chen once again used the identity of the white fox to display his extraordinary strength. Only then did Hong Zhu completely change her opinion of him, and the two of them could be considered to have crossed paths again.
"I remember that Medicine Master Lu asked me for a prescription, right?" Xiao Chen said with a faint smile, "But it seems that there was nothing else after that. It seems that I have taken advantage of your Hong Chamber of Commerce quite a bit!"
Xiao Chen remembered that Medicine Master Lu had given him a few doses of medicine in exchange for the prescription he had prepared to refine. Medicine Master Lu had also discussed the pharmacology of some of the ingredients in the prescription with him. The two of them had gotten along quite well.
"Yes, Medicine Master Lu was very interested in your prescription at that time, but after studying it for a long time, he found that he couldn't figure out the right way. In the end, he could only leave it at that." Hong Zhu hugged his legs and curled up on the chair, tilting his head as he recalled.
As a member of the inner martial arts cultivation faction, Medicine Master Lu had keenly sensed something unusual when he saw the prescription Xiao Chen had brought. At that time, he suspected that Xiao Chen might have something to do with the World of Immortal Cultivation. However, when he submitted the report, Hong Zhu came down and found nothing unusual.
After that, Apothecary Chen's feedback became more frequent. Apothecary Lu's interest was piqued. He went to Little Hong's Pharmacy to get in touch with Xiao Chen and obtained the prescription from him. Unfortunately, he couldn't figure out anything from it. After he returned to his family, he didn't continue.
"Haha, if Apothecary Lu had started studying my first prescription, he might have been able to find some clues. Unfortunately, the prescription he received at that time was after I had cultivated for a while, so it's normal that he couldn't understand it." Under the candlelight, Xiao Chen felt that Hong Zhu's tilted head was very charming. His heart was slightly warmed, so he quickly raised his spirits and explained.
"That's not right! I remember very clearly that among the medicinal materials you bought for the first prescription, except for the bitter fruit, which should be commonly used by primary immortal cultivators, the other medicinal materials were extremely ordinary. At that time, I thought you were a devil cultivator! " Hong Zhu stared at Xiao Chen in surprise and asked, "Could it be that your way of cultivation is different from that of ordinary immortal cultivators?"
Hong Zhu thought carefully. Among the medicinal materials Xiao Chen bought, except for the core materials necessary for immortal cultivators, the other medicinal materials could be bought anywhere. Could it be that he could also cultivate in this way? Xiao Chen had actually become a great master through this. What was going on?
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