Back to the sect

Getting the bags that they had filled with spines back went without a hitch as Fei Sun also knew where she had left hers.

They wouldn't be staying there for a moment more than they needed, and so both without the need to talk took the same route back which they had come up the hill.

Coming down the hill it was already beginning to be the morning, and when they were at the horses, Xiao Fan looking towards the mountain could see a few groups roaming it.

'People do seem to like this mountain' He thought to himself as he was tying the bags to the other horse they had.

Then when ready with the things, Xiao Fan hopped behind Fei Sun on the horse, who then rode them back to the village below the Rising Fox Sect.

And like she had been thinking about, she asked the stable owner to go around asking a few families to come work for her.

She would like to set up that Sand Raiz mining operation.

Even the stable owner seemed to know what she wanted, yet he only laughed a little off compared to the usual and promised to find her the people.

This little thing arranged Fei Sun came out of the stable where Xiao Fan not wanting to touch such business was waiting.

It had been a day from the moment they had walked these steps downward, yet in that short amount of time, they had made great gains.

Xiao Fan walking up the stairs was thinking about what he had gotten.

He had a bag full of herbs and two bags full of other ingredients that should be left unnamed when around humans.

But greater excitement than those ingredients to him brought the soil still in his pockets.

Xiao Fan couldn't wait to start his first own experiment.

And the icing on top was the two books in his breast pockets.

'For a day's worth of work not bad' He happily smiled, now already walking past the market.

When at the door to Meng Chin's courtyard, Xiao Fan turned around ¨You going back home first or?¨ To look at the companion of his.

¨I'll get home first¨ Said the person who didn't look the best currently.

Her clothes and skin consumed from the trip while the spear she was taking support from had a blunt tip.

¨Thanks for the help then. You're golden¨ He happily thanked her.

Fei Sun only smiled a bit before taking her leave.

'She's good' Xiao Fan noted to himself when he also continued inside the courtyard after seeing her figure disappear around the corner.

As he was thinking about Fei Sun and coming inside the house, he after making one step on the floor was met with a sound.

¨Where you have been?¨ Meng Chin spoke from somewhere in the house.

¨I was looking for stuff with Fei Sun¨ Xiao Fan replied, now walking towards the source of the voice.

But the voice was also coming towards him ¨And what were you looking for¨ Came a playful yet also a threatening voice.

¨What do you mean? I just went outside the sect with Fei Sun¨ He spoke confused. 'What is she on about?'

¨Then explain this?¨ Meng Chin coming over the corner to meet him shoved the paper to his face.

¨You went to drink and have fun with her while leaving me here?¨ Meng Chin had found the letter Xiao Fan had made.

¨Okay, okay. Calm down for a moment¨ Xiao Fan seeing that Meng Chin was looking hurt again wanted to take everything easy and explain it all to her.

'She must have thought that the letters were made while I was drunk or something' He realised.

¨Calm down my ass! I'm here cleaning and everything like you said while you go and have fun with other girls¨ She exclaimed and gestured her hands all over herself.

¨I can explain everything if you let me¨ Xiao Fan wanted to raise his voice to the level of Meng Chin, yet didn't for he knew he didn't have such capital.

Xiao Fan needed to act all nicely in front of Meng Chin, who on the other hand, was just playing him per usual.

¨You mean explain while you massage me, correct?¨ Her acting didn't really hold up, but neither did Xiao Fan notice and so didn't deny her.

Xiao Fan saw her giving up, and so took it ¨Sure¨

Although he wanted, he didn't even take up the fact that he would like to cure himself before doing so.

There was too much of a risk he reasoned.

So massage while explaining it was.

¨I had concussions in my head so I couldn't write properly¨ Xiao Fan spoke while now doing what he had agreed to.

¨That explains the writing¨ Meng Chin spoke the obvious things, her focus more on enjoying her massage part.

¨Then what did you do when you were outside?¨ Meng Chin questioned the thing she was actually interested in.

¨And more so why didn't you take me with you?¨ And the most important thing.

¨Umm¨ Xiao Fan began to think how would he break it down to her.

¨Let it out¨ Came an order from below his hands.

¨I might have acted hastily. Furthermore weren't you doing something important in the enforcement hall?¨ Xiao Fan gave her the real reason why he hadn't asked her.

¨You sure did act hastily that day...¨ Meng Chin corrected him.

¨I'll try not to in the future¨ Xiao Fan said sorry in a roundabout way.

¨Be lucky that you are under my wing. That old pervert Ye De has been pushing really hard for your punisment¨

¨Ye De? Is he that grand elder?¨ Xiao Fan questioned.

¨Yeah, he's a grand elder of the sect plus the head of the Ye Family¨

¨Should I worry?¨ Xiao Fan asked what he wanted to know.

¨Nope. If you lose your massaging skill then you should¨ She spoke while her legs jumped up a little from the massage.

'First Steps to Medicine for the win' He thanked the book that had explicit information about the human body.

¨I'll do my best for you¨ Xiao Fan also thanked her.

¨Save it for when you mean it¨ She oddly pushed back his compliments.

'She isn't so easy to be bribed with words anymore?' Usually, Meng Chin would take any compliment.

¨For now what where you need to do your best is in the trials to become a disciple. When you pass them, I take you in under my wing as a direct disciple¨

¨When that is done Ye De needs to calm down, and I don't need to go and beat him¨ Meng Chin began to speak about what Xiao Fan needed to do.

¨When do the trials take place? As in how much time do I have to prepare¨ Xiao Fan was all aboard with the plan, but he didn't know the timetable.

¨The trial is tomorrow¨ She replied.

¨Tomorrow?¨ Xiao Fan shocked about the time raised his voice.

¨Ye De is the person who oversees them, so this will be the least of your problems, as you did get the ingredients for the cure, correct?¨

¨That's just great!¨ He paused to lament it before continuing in a normal tone ¨I got everything I needed¨

¨Better finish me up then¨ She spoke the last coherent sentence for today.

...

It had taken him rest of the day time to finish her up, but now he was finally putting on some clothes and leaving the room filled with marks and smells of carnal pleasure behind him.

Although the task had taken the day time, there was still the night which he could use to concoct the treatment for himself.

And having only so much time he got to it immediately.

First, he went back into the lobby and took the bags that he had left there before going to look for the alchemy room.

Finding the alchemy room that had been made to his wishes, Xiao Fan got to work before thinking much.

Got to work in as in made a long list what he needed to do and then made boxes for checkmarks.

He didn't have too many tries to concoct the cure, and so if he wanted to make the cure while being under this headache, something like a step list was a must.

It done, he finally begun to unbag the things he had taken from the outside and the ones bought from the market.

Slowly but surely he then arranged the valves and pipes to go to the right directions and such.

The thing was read for the first try after an hour or so.

But what a sight it was.

This thing that he was making wasn't some forced product or brute force multiplier like the Elixir of Karna.

This thing was alchemy Xiao Fan stated to himself when he did the final checking just before igniting the fire that would start anything.

The bone that he had gathered slowly became liquid dripping down the pipes from the top while the pieces of herbs began to vaporise or melt whichever their function was.

Xiao Fan having the list on his other hand then began to let the bones drip down into certain places which would then take the gas or liquid downwards.

His work was slowly coming near the bottom where the flame was as a white yet somewhat pinkish liquid.

'Seems promising' Xiao Fan happily noted just before the batch would be ready.

However, not to his favour, he noticed that one of the glass orbs holding gas inside of it hadn't come down.

He hadn't opened the valve above it.

'Oh fuck me' Xiao Fan stared at the glass globe for a moment, knowing that the project had failed because he hadn't used this ingredient.

He looked at the gas so long that when he came out of it, the unsuccessful mix was already finished into the final chamber.

¨well you are useless¨ He spoke to himself, as one of his hands took the product and the other shut down the fire.

Still not wanting to waste the potion Xiao Fan place it away while starting to do another patch.

Like the last one, however, this one would also fail as this time he hadn't shut all the valves from the first try, letting them go in the wrong order.

The amount of frustration Xiao Fan was feeling wasn't helping him at all as he began to stuff in the ingredients for the third try.

The third time would also fail. This time the fault wasn't in Xiao Fan, but in someone else who had been sabotaging him.

Cao Cao hadn't seen enough failed attempts, and so when he had seen Xiao Fan would succeed had he simply taken some of the things out of the globes.

Which did give him enough fun; however, he also decided to secure that Xiao Fan would succeed when trying it for the fourth time.

He didn't want Xiao Fan to become too mad, plus he had also been the reason why the third attempt had failed.

On the other hand, Xiao Fan wasn't thinking about it as a funny thing at all.

Since the sun was already rising when the fourth batch of ingredients was coming down.

Seeing the liquid be completely pink like it should Xiao Fan laughed much as he could.

'Come on come on' He repeated over and over again his head almost next to the final chamber.

When the last drop had come down from the pipes, Xiao Fan shut the fire and took hold of the globe that had the liquid inside of it.

Not waiting or wanting to examine it Xiao Fan gulped it down his throat the moment the globe wasn't too hot for his hands.

And like the First Steps to Medicine promised the headache that had been destroying his mind into pieces was gone.