Chapter 3487 — The Palace Mistress's Boyfriend
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"Oh?" Bingtang opened the small box in her hand and froze on the spot! Inside the box were five Ice-Heart Jade-Bone Pills—and not only that, every one of them was of superior quality!
Upon each pill, moreover, there was a ring of pill halo! As the Palace Mistress of the Ice Palace, Bingtang was widely experienced and naturally understood what this meant. Even for the same kind of pill, those with a pill halo and those without differed in effect by a world of distance.
A pill halo meant the very finest of its kind, its effects far beyond the ordinary run. Such things were rare finds that could not be sought, only stumbled upon; even the most formidable alchemist could not guarantee a halo on every single pill!
Yet Wei Zhao had done it—all five pills, every last one, were of the highest grade!
Bingtang stared at the pills in her hand, dumbstruck. It was a long while before she raised her head and looked at Wei Zhao in astonishment. "Your alchemy is this good? You actually refined five? Do you have that much Ice-Heart Jade-Bone Pill material?"
"Mm, the Hidden Right Family gave me four sets, and I gathered one myself." Wei Zhao had not told the truth. After all, Bingtang had only been talking about being his itty-bitty-teeny-tiny wife—she had not really meant it—and Wei Zhao still could not open his heart to her.
"Five sets... and you really can achieve a hundred percent success? Your alchemy has already surpassed third rank?" Bingtang's eyes went wide, and a blush flashed across her pretty face. "Don't tell me... you've really reached the first rank of the Mystic tier?"
"I've never tested it, so who knows!" Wei Zhao shrugged. Still, with Han Jingyi's cauldron, refining even higher-grade pills ought to pose no problem.
"Fine. You've met my requirements. About what we discussed before—I agree... and I mean it." Bingtang sighed and spoke lightly, as if it were nothing at all.
"Let's take it one step at a time. I never meant to force you—I only saw how proud you were and was teasing you," Wei Zhao said with a smile. "All right, go take it now. Oh, right—does the Ice Palace still have any Ice-Heart Jade-Bone Pill material? Since you think we should leave some for the successors, I'll refine it all for you."
"We do, in the Ice Palace treasury. I'll take you there—you can prepare it yourself. There should be enough for three or four sets," Bingtang said.
"Perfect. I've still got some incomplete ones I gathered myself—let's see if I can scrape together a few more sets..." Wei Zhao feared that after refining he would end up with extra pills, so he claimed to have some incomplete ingredients of his own, and thus Bingtang would not grow suspicious. But lest she ask what his remaining ingredients were lacking, Wei Zhao gave her no chance to speak and cut in: "The treasury—you'd let me in? Isn't it only the Palace Mistress of the Ice Palace who may enter?"
"Aren't you the boyfriend of two Palace Mistresses?" Bingtang said calmly. Having accepted the fact, she was no longer coy about it! (Update 1 — recommending Yunhai Shuku's new work, *The Top Cultivation Young Master*) RL