"Speak,"
"Who is that woman?"
Upon hearing the words from Lu Ling'er's mouth, Zhou Xuan's smiling face instantly froze.
"Wh-what woman?"
"Ling'er, what are you talking about?"
"Your husband doesn't quite understand."
"Stop pretending!"
"The perfume on you has already exposed you!"
"Didn't you say you were going to inspect the pharmacy?"
"How come there's perfume in the pharmacy?"
"No wonder you were unwilling to take me out this morning!"
"So you had an appointment with a vixen outside!"
"How is it, is that vixen pretty?"
"Heh heh, of course she's not as beautiful as my wife..."
"Slap!"
Hearing Lu Ling'er's words, Zhou Xuan blurted out a compliment without thinking.
However, halfway through his words, Zhou Xuan realized something was wrong.
He quickly reached out to cover his mouth, but it was too late.
"Oh!"
"So, there really is a vixen!"
"Well done, Brother Xuan!"
"I was waiting for you to come back, worrying if you'd be hungry after being out all day!"
"And you, you actually went looking for a vixen outside!"
"Ultimately, I was mistaken!"
"Fine, I'm leaving!"
As she spoke, Lu Ling'er made a move to leave.
"Alright, Ling'er!"
"Stop it!"
"There's no vixen. She's just an employee at my pharmacy!"
"I just chatted with her for a couple of sentences!"
"The most I did was shake her hand!"
"I really didn't do anything else!"
"Besides, I have such a beautiful wife!"
"How could any other woman catch my eye?"
Seeing Lu Ling'er about to leave, Zhou Xuan immediately stepped forward and pulled her into his arms.
No matter how much she struggled, she couldn't break free!
"Hmph!"
"You're useless at everything else, but you're the best at sweet-talking!"
"You only shook hands!"
"According to you, you wanted to do more, didn't you?"
"If you want to, I'm not saying I can't..."
Looking at Lu Ling'er pouting and looking adorably jealous in his arms, Zhou Xuan couldn't help but tease her.
"No!"
"You dare!"
"If you dare do anything out of line again, I'll have Grandpa kick you out of the house!"
"Then I'll divorce you!"
"Divorce me?"
"Little girl, you've got quite a bit of nerve!"
"It seems I need to teach you a lesson, or you won't know what it means to be ruthless!"
After speaking, Zhou Xuan pinched Lu Ling'er's little face and slowly leaned his lips towards hers.
"Mmph!"
A few minutes later, Zhou Xuan returned to his room, looking very satisfied.
Lu Ling'er's figure had long since disappeared!
"Now it's time to refine the elixirs!"
"I just don't know how much of the method my master taught me I still remember!"
Back in his room, Zhou Xuan first observed his surroundings.
After confirming that no one was lurking nearby, he waved his hand and took out the medicinal herbs he had stored in his void ring.
"Huh?"
"Why does this Golden Jade Fruit look like it's been bitten?"
"This Bitter Spirit Bamboo Shoot is also incomplete?"
"Are these people at the Treasure Medicine Pavilion shortchanging me when they pack things?"
"No!"
"Damn, I forgot there's still someone in the ring I haven't released!"
However, after Zhou Xuan took out two bags of medicinal herbs and placed them on the ground, he realized something was amiss.
Zhou Xuan discovered that some of the precious medicinal herbs at the top of these two bags were more or less incomplete.
Moreover, at the missing spots, there seemed to be clear teeth marks.
Just as Zhou Xuan was wondering if the employees of the Treasure Medicine Pavilion had been unable to resist stealing and eating the herbs while packing them.
He suddenly remembered that there was another big guy hidden in his void ring that he hadn't released yet.
"Roar!"
With a slight wave of Zhou Xuan's hand, a somewhat thin tiger appeared in Zhou Xuan's room.
Upon seeing Zhou Xuan's familiar figure, the tiger couldn't help but let out a low growl.
"It was you, you little thief!"
"You're a tiger, you eat meat!"
"How can you possibly bite these medicinal herbs?"
Looking at the thin tiger that appeared before him, and then at the residual herb scraps still on its muzzle.
Zhou Xuan rubbed his forehead and sighed helplessly.
"Roar!"
Hearing Zhou Xuan's words, the thin tiger seemed to know it had done something wrong.
After letting out a soft howl, it slowly lay down on the ground.
Only its large eyes remained, staring at Zhou Xuan with a hint of innocence.
Its expression seemed to say, "Why did you forget about me in the ring!"
"And you kept stuffing things into the ring!"
"I thought you were feeding me with these things!"
"Alright, alright!"
"I'm not blaming you, so why are you looking so pitiful!"
"Since I've let you out, don't just stand there!"
"I'm going to refine elixirs in a moment!"
"You can stay and guard me!"
"I'll find someone to settle you down tomorrow!"
"And get you some meat!"
Looking at the thin tiger's innocent expression, Zhou Xuan was both amused and annoyed.
He never expected such a wild beast to possess such intelligence.
When it did something wrong, it knew how to act cute to gain sympathy!
"Roar!"
A tiger's roar sounded. The thin tiger clearly understood Zhou Xuan's meaning.
It immediately got up from the ground and began patrolling around the room.
"Truly a spirited fellow!"
"Our meeting is fate!"
"It is said that in ancient times, there were elixirs that could strip beasts of their wild nature and awaken their intelligence!"
"Although I can't refine them now, if I have enough opportunities in the future and obtain the formula for such elixirs!"
"I will definitely find a way to refine one for you!"
"To allow you to awaken your intelligence and escape the realm of beasts!"
"Alright!"
"I'm going to start refining elixirs now. Guard the room for me!"
As he spoke, Zhou Xuan directly circulated the true qi within his body.
However, unlike before, this time he only mobilized the Pure Yang True Qi within him.
Because for refining elixirs, Pure Yin Qi was of no help.
"Boom!"
As the true qi within Zhou Xuan circulated rapidly, a burst of orange-red flame suddenly erupted from his hand.
This flame burned fiercely on Zhou Xuan's right hand, and the heat emanating from it caused the thin tiger beside him to stiffen.
However, strangely, Zhou Xuan seemed to be unaffected by the heat. Instead, he allowed the flame to surge on his arm.
"Pure Yang True Qi, Yang Fire Transformation!"
"The mysteries of the cultivation world are truly wondrous!"
"It's been a while since I've used this. It's time to let it see the light of day again!"
Zhou Xuan stared at the flame in his palm, sighing, and then slowly took out a spherical black lump from his embrace and threw it onto the ground.
The moment the black lump touched the ground, it suddenly split in the middle, and then, like a folding chair.
It suddenly grew taller, and in a short while, the black lump transformed into a black cauldron the size of a table.
Seeing that the black cauldron had finished transforming, Zhou Xuan gently waved his hand.
The Yang Fire, transformed from his Pure Yang True Qi, instantly fell into the black cauldron.
Then, Zhou Xuan grabbed the Golden Jade Fruit, which the tiger had bitten in half, from the ground and threw it into the burning black cauldron.
The elixir refining officially began at this moment!