Selling pills and preparing for Long Hao

Gu Lingxin got the feedback from his ghosts; he knew about everything that happened, and he knew that from here on would be Long Hao's rise; naturally, the first stepping stone in his rise would be Ye Xianya's lackeys that attempted to kill him.

Ye Xianya would probably be mad that his lackeys are beaten and would say something like, 'You should look at the owner before you beat the dog' or something like that and ends up in a deathmatch with Long Hao will be killed by him.

Then Ye Xianya's father tries to kill Long Hao, but he gets saved at the last moment by the grand elder who suddenly wants to take Long Hao as his disciple.

The best thing to do here is to help Ye Xianya from the shadows, he could kill the lackeys and cut off the route towards Ye Xianya, but he would at most take away the opportunity from Long Hao to get the grand elder as his master, whereas if he plays his cards right, he can humiliate him in public and prevent him from getting a master.

Soon two weeks passed until one day Gu Lingxin got feedback from his ghosts saying that Long Hao had left the ravine; if he had to guess Long Hao's current strength, then he'd most likely be at around the second or third stage of foundation establishment.

He had now read most of the books in his house, he confirmed that there wasn't anything in there that he didn't already know.

Remembering his master's words, he made his way to his master's house so he could be tested; he also wasn't hiding his cultivation aura anymore since it had already been enough time for him to cultivate to his current level with all the resources his master had given him.

Although he didn't use the pills, others would believe he did, and that's all that mattered.

Knocking on his master's house door, he was quickly greeted by his master's figure.

"Master," said Gu Lingxin while also giving his a slight bow, "I've broken through to the fourth stage of foundation establishment with the pills you've given me; I've also read most of the books."

His master seemed a bit surprised, but soon his face returned to normal "It seems that your cultivation talent is also pretty good, come in and let's go and test some of your alchemy abilities" with that, his master turned around and made his way into the alchemy room.

Gu Lingxin, not missing his cue, quickly followed behind his master.

After that, they spent the next hours with him making a bunch of impure pills of a wide variety, and he also got quizzed about herbs, flame heat, and so on.

It was now nearing nighttime; one could see that the sun had made its retreat, and in its place was the bright moon overlooking the sky.

Walking out of his master's house, he was relatively happy; with this, he could now make some pills and sell them under his name; most people would also want to curry favor with him; after all, he was a rank one alchemist at the age of seven, and even if they didn't he'd still be able to make a lot of money just by selling the pills.

As for the other pills he had made, he was going to sell them while disguising himself; after all, he was going to use those pills to screw over Long Hao, and he didn't want to have a protagonist targeting him so soon, he also didn't want others to question how a seven-year-old could already make pure pills.

Most big sects had a city outside their sects; after all, it was a world where demonic cultivators and monsters ran rampant, so the safest places for mortals to gather would naturally be in a city outside a massive sect.

The cities would, in turn, pay some protection taxes to the sect members, and the sect members also mingled with mortals, be it in inns or brothels or just out of boredom; all in all, both parties benefited.

He was currently in disguise while walking towards the alchemy pavilion in the city; this was a branch owned by the sect that was open to the public, whereas the other was private to the sect's disciples.

Making his way in, he was quickly greeted by a young waitress.

"Hello, sir. May I ask whether you intend to buy or sell?"

"Both," said a voice that sounded both masculine and feminine without a trace of emotion.

"Right this way, sir," said the waitress as she led him into a private room.

"First, what would you like to sell?"

Without saying anything, Gu Lingxin just took out the ten pure qi gathering pills and the three pure foundation pills.

This quickly attracted the waitress's attention; after all, a single pure pill was worth more than ten unpure pills and was also quite rare.

But she quickly regained her composure; although they were rare, it wasn't like she'd never seen any pure pills before, plus they were only rank one.

"The total for all of these pills would be two thousand five hundred spirit crystals" she paused for a while to gather her breath before proceeding. "If you wish, we could also have you purchase the things you need right now before deducting them from the overall spirit stones."

Gu Lingxin quickly agreed before naming a few herbs; he ended up with only five hundred spirit stones left, but it didn't bother him too much; he could make more pills in the future.

The ingredients he got were all the materials needed to make a rank five pill, a fake nascent soul pill, it was a pill that gave someone the strength of a nascent soul for a day, but as a drawback, they'd lose all their cultivation for a month.

He was naturally making this pill to give to Ye Xianya; he knew it was only a matter of time before he fought with Long Hao, so he wanted to use Ye Xianya's hand to humiliate and cut off Long Hao's chance to meet the grand elder.