Remedies

Xiao Fan thought that if he wanted to get any amount of forgiveness from Du Lan would he need to do a lot. And then there was his own stuff.

But first, Du Lan.

And that meant he would go to talk with Qian Bai, who supposedly wanted to negotiate about Greenheart.

Of course, he was suspicious about it not being about Greenheart as even he knew so much that Qian Bai wasn't responsible for Zou Zexi's Green Heart purchases.

Most likely, this talk would concern the sword he had bought.

Right now, however, there was no way he would be given the sword away for Qian Wei. He would go there and pay Qian Bai off.

Finding Qian Bei was easy as like any commander he had his posting where he was already working when Xiao Fan came into his compound.

Asking for directions there, he found himself looking for Qian Bei in a training field that was already at this time in full use.

Including the man himself, who was leading the troops from a tower in the middle of the field.

His coming over had been noted, for when climbing up the stairs of the tower was he met by Qian Bai's officers walking down the stairs per orders of Qian Bai.

Getting to the top, Qian Bei didn't seem to be turning around to face him.

Xiao Fan could only see the commander looking down at the soldiers his back towards him.

¨Xiao Fan greets senior Qian Bai¨ He still informed his arrival.

That didn't spark any other response than a reply in Qian Bei ¨Okay I'm not going to talk long. I need that sword you obtained from last nights auction¨

From hearing his voice, it was evident that like him Qian Bei didn't have the best night of his life either. Qian Bai's voice was one of a commander, who had been defeated in a battle.

¨I understand. Except, like you, I'm not in a position to get that sword, nor will she be willing to give it to you¨ Although he was talking to a Body Shattering realm expert he didn't fear him.

Besides, giving away the sword was literally impossible for him.

Would he go and take his gift back from Du Lan, then later she notices how that gift was given to another woman...

Well, in that case, there would be only one exceedingly bad outcome, and for his happiness, he intended not to do so.

¨I see. However, how do you think I can remedy this situation on my side? You know how fickle women are¨ He said while finally turning around to face him.

When he turned around, Xiao Fan could see that he had had it easy compared to Qian Bei, who added into not getting any sleep last night also had a few bruises on his face!

Xiao Fan was shocked since the only one he could think would have done this was Qian Wei.

¨How are your troubles my troubles?¨ But he acted indifferent, trying to get away from the whole situation by acting tough before needing to pay anything.

His plan didn't go so well, for the first time, Xiao Fan would get a lesson that playing by the set laws wouldn't always work.

His belligerent's patience had ended.

Qian Bai had abruptly come in front of him without Xiao Fan even registering anything about this movement, and then with a flick of Qian Bai's finger touching him was he sent crashing into the wall behind him.

A three realm difference was no joke!

Qian Bai had so far been acting like a nice guy to this youth, who in theory was at least equal or above him.

Though if he didn't appreciate that kindness, he would then show that what their power position face to face was.

¨Aish, how could I be so bad at controlling my powers!¨ Qian Bai said in a fake, apologetic tone.

Xiao Fan who had crashed into the wall behind him, coughed a few times before beginning to understand his current situation.

He looked up at the man, who could kill him with one finger, and now with a small fear towards him could only give in to his demands.

¨Its okay thing like this happens. But I honestly can't give you the same sword back, and if I do I should just kill my self!¨ After that demonstration, he was convinced to help Qian Bei remedy this situation.

Qian Bei wondered for a moment that why wasn't he giving the sword back already; however, he could, figure out that Xiao Fan has the same problem.

'Women women women' He cursed inside his mind. It was such a bad idea to go to that auction in the first place.

Zou Zexi merely uses it to get more money to run Hangzhou. There's never anything useful in there.

Because they went there, Qian Bei now had in front of him a man who wouldn't give him what he wanted alive.

And he was a man with enough status that bullying him was still okay like this, but killing was a no go if he wanted to stay alive.

On the other hand, behind him, there was his daughter, who wanted that sword he was so unwilling to give.

¨Then what do you propose? What will make us both of walk out of this happy?¨ He took a seat while talking to Xiao Fan, who was still on the floor gathering himself back together.

¨I can pay you enough gold coins that you can get another sword like that made for her¨ He said the idea what he had been thinking about from the start.

But Qian Bai didn't seem approving ¨We can't even get a sword like that forged anymore, it was plundered from the blacksmith's corpse who had forged it¨

Xiao Fan didn't focus so much on the later part as the first part was already sending his plans just to buy a new one and be done with this into oblivion.

¨Then let us think about this for a moment¨

Which prompted both of them starting to think how could they remedy this situation for Qian Bei.

Now that Qian Bei had gotten Xiao Fan on board, both of them sat inside the room for a moment quietly thinking about what they could do.

Time passed when Qian Bei got some idea as he remembered who he was talking to.

¨Can you make something for her?¨ Qian Bei knew that Xiao Fan should have loads of knowledge on him and maybe might know something that could fix the situation.

Xiao Fan still on the floor thinking also realised that if it was okay, he could do something for Qian Bei to gift it for Qian Wei.

¨Sure, what kind off thing you think could be useful?¨ At this point, he wouldn't mind doing this to get even with Qian Bei.

¨Well the only thing she likes is strength and items that are powerful; the sword is an exception as it was also powerful and beutiful¨ He knew what her daughter wanted, and the only thing she liked was power.

Hearing this Xiao Fan had a small explosion in his mind, for good thought was formed ¨That is easy then. Get me alchemy tools while I get some items and be right back here¨ He said, getting up to leave.

Qian Bai didn't think much and nodded to his idea.

Xiao Fan left back to his hotel room where the first thing he did was check on Du Lan, who was still sleeping soundly in her bed.

Now that the most important thing was done, he grabbed a sack where all of his herbs from yesterdays auction were, and then hurried back to the tower.

His plans for the morning were now one, he could make a mix for Qian Bai to help with his daughter's moodiness and at the same time use the equipment.

When he came back into the towers top floor, Qian Bai had already had people drag all kinds of alchemist equipment here.

From this, the top floor was filled to the brim with pipes, stands, wash bottles, and measuring equipment.

There was little to no space to walk inside the tower anymore when he started sorting the equipment like he required them to be set.

As he started doing his thing, Qian Bei on the side watched him do his thing.

Although he had no idea what he was doing, it looked like he knew what to do as devices including all kinds of equipment he didn't know the names of were put together.

Then carefully, he smushed some of them while others were simply put inside the machine and soon became liquids.

Soon, some of them started boiling and smoke started to run in the pipes towards one flask that all the pipes were connected to.

Qian Bai had seen some alchemist doing things before, yet nothing on the scale of Xiao Fan, who had over ten different things all at the same time going into the one flask.

When inside that flask all the colours started to mix into a black juice.

In the end, nothing was running through the pipes for all had gathered into that one flask where the ingredients had become slime.

Seeing this Xiao Fan swept off the sweat on his forehead and carefully took the flask which from he the poured the contents of into three different vials.

¨Is that the end product?¨ Qian Bei asked Xiao Fan, who was pouring them all equally into the vials.

Still pouring down the slime he replied ¨Yeah this is really good stuff, if your daughter isn't happy with this I don't know how much power she wants¨

Xiao Fan, saying this seemed very confident, even his eyes were glimmering when watching the slime falling into the vials, he himself couldn't wait to drink this.

Though the slime he had made wasn't anything proper medicine or cultivation helper, was it still very beneficial.

Making proper medicine was way too hard, anyways.

It was so since there were very few useful compositions, plus, the ingredients needed to be a perfect fit.

And so he had taken the easy route of making a thing that the First Steps Towards Medicine book taught about.

It called this thing he made a forced product.

Positive was that it could be concocted by mixing almost any material there was on hand.

Negatives? Well, it wasn't effective compared to the real things.

When Xiao Fan had poured the things equally into the vials, he took one of them and brought it over to Qian Bei, who took a look at it.

But when he smelled it, he almost puked from the smell.

¨What the hell is this thing? A poison that kills with its smell?¨ He roared at Xiao Fan.

The thing smelled worse than shit mixed with blood he deemed.

However, Xiao Fan had none of his complaining ¨What! Do you think that if something smells bad, it can't be helpful to one's cultivation?¨

In his logic, there was no such thought that a thing would be bad if it smelled bad, something shouldn't be evaluated by how it looked or smelled, but by the effect it had!

¨You think that she will drink this if brought up to her?¨ Okay, he could give him that, but what about her? When Qian Wei would smell or even see this, she might throw it away.

¨Say to her that with this she will break through to fourth grade of Body Activation realm if she drinks it¨ He was confident in promising this.

¨If you are right about her. She will inevitably drink it even if it smelled ten times worse¨

A person who truly only saw power wouldn't lose an opportunity to become stronger if it involved something repulsive.

Qian Bai looked for a moment at Xiao Fan, thought that he shouldn't be wrong as he also had done some awful things to become stronger during his life.

His daughter, who was even more like that wouldn't shy away, probably.

¨I'll be back if you are wrong¨ He said while already walking the steps down.

Xiao Fan also didn't stay inside the tower for long, but he made sure to break anything he had used.

He was not letting them get an idea about his stuff.

Then he also took off with the two vials and anything other he had brought with him.

Going back to the hotel room, he hoped that he didn't take too long and that she wouldn't be awake.