Chapter 4180 — The Automatic Artifact-Refining Mechanism
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"Yes, so now I'm back to square one. I still have to find another way to get the Life-Image Mushroom, and if all else fails, I'll have to make another trip to Mount Tianwu in Hucai," Wei Zhao said helplessly. He did not know how much longer the Scrap King could wait, but in any case, the sooner he got his hands on the Life-Image Mushroom, the better.
"That may not be necessary. A month ago I already posted a bounty for you at the Northern Island Cultivators' Guild. I expect results by the end of this month, so you may as well wait a little longer, Young Hero Lin," Hong Zhong said with a smile.
"That's wonderful—many thanks, Shopkeeper Hong! Here, let me toast you!" Overjoyed, Wei Zhao at once raised his cup in thanks.
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Western Island. After playing on the Northern Island for so long, Ning Xuefei had finally returned to her familiar home. Yet the first thing she did was not to go see her mother, the island lord, but to seek out Han Jingyi without delay.
"Jingjing, Jingjing, guess who I saw on the Northern Island?" Ning Xuefei threw her arms around Han Jingyi, who was studying the automatic artifact-refining mechanism, and teased her mysteriously.
"Who? Weren't you going to see Shangguan Lan'er?" Han Jingyi blinked her big eyes, somewhat puzzled.
"Of course I saw Lan'er, but I'm not talking about her—I mean someone else, someone with a deep connection to you, Jingjing!" Ning Xuefei said, winking and grimacing.
"A connection to me? I've never even been to the Northern Island—who could have a connection to me?" Han Jingyi was all the more baffled.
"Who says there isn't? The person I saw on the Northern Island this time is the very one you think of day and night, Jingjing!" Ning Xuefei laughed.
"Could it be Brother Wei Zhao?!" Han Jingyi's eyes lit up at once, and she clung to Ning Xuefei, excited and capering.
"Hee hee, that's the one!" Ning Xuefei said, and taking a small box from her bosom, containing three top-grade pills, handed it to Han Jingyi: "Here, these were refined by your Brother Wei Zhao. Put them away quickly!"
"Top-grade Foundation Establishment Golden Cores?" Han Jingyi was both astonished and delighted. "Does Brother Wei Zhao know I'm here?"
"Not yet—I haven't told him. I was thinking I'd bring you over next time and give him a proper surprise!" Ning Xuefei stuck out her tongue.
"Go to the Northern Island?" Han Jingyi nodded again and again, the anticipation on her face plain for all to see, and then she grabbed Ning Xuefei and asked eagerly, "Feifei, how is Brother Wei Zhao now? Tell me quickly."
Ning Xuefei then carefully recounted everything that had happened since she went to the Northern Island, from beginning to end, and because Wei Zhao was part of it, Han Jingyi listened with particular absorption, instinctively growing tense and happy even over the most trivial, inconsequential little things.
Especially when she heard how Si Haitao had harassed the two girls and Wei Zhao had stepped forward, she grew so tense she scarcely dared breathe, and only when she heard that five Golden Core disciples had appeared did she pat her little chest and let out a sigh of relief.
"Brother Wei Zhao went to the Northern Island Cultivators' Guild? And then? Did he find the Life-Image Mushroom?" Han Jingyi pressed.