Finding Vassals

He smiled after seeing the pills since he knew that he succeeded with this, not only did he made it even easier but he also managed to refine 9 pills.

That is just below average as any average alchemist can create 10 pills for each set of the said pill given the formula and the ingredients but that is because they are already old and experience with refining pills.

Zhou Mengyao is just 18 years old so they will naturally be in for a surprise if they were to know that he just succeeded in concocting a pill in just under a day.

He successfully concocts about 21 pills, which is not a very good amount when you take the fact that he took plenty of sets of ingredients just to concoct the pill.

[Energy Recovery Pill]

[Effects: Restores physical energy and gives one a vigorous body.]

It was the first time that he saw an explanation from a pill, his guess is that the system evaluated it since it is his work.

Although the pill is a success, Zhou Mengyao did not choose to immediately consume it.

There might be some side effects that he doesn't know, he has to test it on others first.

Zhou Mengyao left the messy room, outside the room the servant is still very alert as he waits for him. The perfect test subject is very easy to find, it is just at his front.

"Young Master, is there anything that you need from me?"

"Prepare another set of ingredients tomorrow. The more you can prepare the better."

"Alright, I will take note of it. I will make sure that Young Master will be pleased, anything you say I will do it for my genius young master."

Zhou Mengyao smiled kindly at the servant, the servant waited for him just to make sure to show how good he is at kissing others people's asses.

"Since you say it like that then take this pill and give me feedback about what you feel about it."

"If you give me a piece of proper information about the pill then this token can be yours, think of this as me appreciating your service."

Zhou Mengyao gave him a token that symbolizes the rank of a high servant, the servant in front of him is just lowly and he doesn't even dare to think to climb the ladders of the ranking but with the opportunity presented to him easily why will he even hesitate.

If he accepts the token then he will be a servant of Zhou Mengyao forever, the servant named Qian Fang accepted it.

Although it is rumored that Zhou Mengyao's position in the family is being questioned and he will be demoted in the hierarchy, after seeing how Elder Hong is even respectful to him then there is just no reason for him to decline.

Those rumors are sure to be false, even if they are true, the advantage that he can take with the token that will give him an identity as one of the high servants is already enough for him to settle down in the future and die peacefully.

"This lowly servant Qian Fang, greets his master! I promise that I will serve you and die with you master!"

The servant kneeled down in front of Zhou Mengyao as the latter look at him cooly.

"Alright, stand up. From now on you are my servant, I don't need a coward and someone who bends to others' wills. You have to remember that."

Zhou Mengyao commanded him as he prepared to leave, although he isn't very experienced with people proclaiming their loyalty, he made sure to acknowledge it properly.

"I have another task for you, use that token to gather servants at Qi Transformation Realm. Make sure that they are loyal, find someone who is willing to follow me. Tell them that I can promise them a high status as servants."

"Use your new identity properly, I wanted to see how you will execute my task perfectly."

Zhou Mengyao left without any hesitation.

The servant smiled as he saw Zhou Mengyao's back, the task is not that hard. It is just to gather resources and some men but it will be a problem if he doesn't have the status to do what it takes.

Gathering a bulk amount of resources with just an identity of a lowly servant from the Zhou Family is going to be hard and Zhou Mengyao knew it so other than giving him plenty of spiritual stones, Zhou Mengyao also gave him a token that will give him a limited authority as a servant.

It was risky to do it since the token that he gave is precious but Zhou Mengyao has nothing to fear, the servant is smart for him to wait outside just to please Zhou Mengyao and plead his loyalty so he naturally knew what should be the best for him.

Now that he is back at the Zhou Family, he has to find loyal vassals. He doesn't care if they are weak as long as they are loyal and can benefit him.

...

"It was already night huh? It must have taken me a lot of time. I might have to stop refining pills for now, it is not very efficient. I have to gather men to help me level up the Absolute Pride of the Azure Dragon so that I will not be limited by my qi."

After getting out of the alchemist ground, Zhou Mengyao can already feel the cold air of the night. The whole place is lighted with lights giving no assassin any dark place to hide, he looks at the shrouded moon from above and felt that the night is very peaceful.

'I have to go back and sleep early. I felt quite tired, I will hear the test of the pills tomorrow and try and see if it is a success.'

Zhou Mengyao goes to his cozy quarters, it was the villa and private property of Zhou Mengyao. There are plenty of servants working there but he doesn't dare to trust them, there are plenty of snakes mixed among them.

He did not even choose them so he naturally did not like them, his predecessor has this vague feeling that he is always being watched by the servants even when he is just relaxing and sleeping so it is not that hard to realized that there are some snakes mixed among them.

"Welcome back young master, we have already prepared a hot bath and food for you."

"Hmm."

Zhou Mengyao nodded as his stomach grumbles loudly due to him being hungry and fatigued for a long time.

Hearing his stomach, the two girls who are the servants in charge of greeting him quickly lead him into the kitchen as they watch him eat.

"Who cooked this food?"

"I am Wan Mei Young Master, I am the one who cooked the food served at your table today."

"Your food tasted good, from now on you are the only one in charge of taking care of my meals."

"I am flattered to hear that young master! This servant will make sure to continuously provide you good food."

Zhou Mengyao is honest but his intention with doing that is different, the other servants in charge of cooking also cook good food but he wanted to make sure that in case a poison is put in his food then the suspect will highly likely be the one in charge, if she is proven innocent then he just has to deal with it.

There is still the matter of how his predecessor mysteriously never wakes up again, he will never imagine that it is because of him since there are plenty of assassination attempts done to his predecessor.

He is just being cautious and try to see if he can spot some of them that are loyal to him.

Meanwhile, Wan Mei is very happy to hear that she got flattered by Zhou Mengyao. This will mean that she is being valued and there is a promising life that can be seen in her blurry life in the future.

Wan Mei is just a simple village girl lucky enough to possess excellent beauty to be fancied by the Zhou Family. Even then she can only be a servant since she realized that there are plenty of beautiful women in the world, if compared to others who possess beauty she is just very average so she felt disheartened by that.

Another reason for her to get disheartened is she is very unlucky that she accidentally got into to bad side of another servant and the latter took it to heart, the one that she got into the bad side has higher standing than her who also has a connection to someone with an even higher standing.

The result is that she got targeted and she can't even fight back nor resist. She became a servant of the villa of Zhou Mengyao, out of all the places that she can be it is the place with the least future.

At least with Zhou Mengyao favoring her, she can finally think of her future without it having a bad ending.

"I'm done, I'll take a bath."

Zhou Mengyao stood up from the chair that he is sitting in as he wanted to feel fresh before he sleeps.

He goes to the huge bathroom, the servants followed him as well to help him clean his body. If it was in modern times then Zhou Mengyao will feel uncomfortable but not embarrassed, now that he has adapted to life here he doesn't think that being serviced like this is bad.