Chapter 1728 Luo Beihan
Alex only realized that Pearl had been taken back to the Western Continent the day they had returned by Bai Jingshen when he searched for him so he could take him there.
Alex left on his own, even though his subordinates didn't want him to, and quickly flew toward the Southern Forest where the White Tiger's palace was.
He arrived at the formation and was quickly led to Bai Jingshen. After telling Bai Jingshen the reason he was there, he was quickly led to Luo Beihan, Bai Jingshen's 6th wife. That had come as a surprise to Alex when Bai Jingshen told him that.
Wen Meirin, Luo Beihan, and Pearl's great-grandmother, Ren Xiao were initially just concubines. However, after Pearl's ascension to a White Tiger, Ren Xiao needed to be given a better status in the family. Bai Jingshen knew he needed to make her a wife as well, but didn't want to let the other two down, so instead he made everyone his wife.
Now, he had 7 wives and no concubines.
"Young Alchemist, I have been waiting for your arrival," Luo Beihan spoke when Alex arrived in the room she was in. Except, instead of being in her beastly form, she had turned to her human form.
She was a bronze-skinned woman with orange robes and long black hair. She wore a few jewels around her body, but not too much.The source of this content nov(el)bi((n))
"Sit," she said, letting Alex sit next to her.
Alex nodded and sat down opposite her, ready to ask her for the pill recipes. However, before he could ask her anything, the woman spoke up first.
"Tell me, have you learned anything new yet? I'm excited to learn if you've made any improvements to your alchemy that I can learn from," she said.
Alex grimaced a little and shook his head. "Unfortunately not, senior. I might have reached the highest level of alchemy I can reach in this world that I'm capable of with my cultivation realm. Anything more will require me to break through and move to other words."
"Nothing?" Beihan asked unbelievingly before clicking her tongue. "And here I was so excited too."
Alex gave a rueful smile. "I can give you a technique to help you make pill clouds every single time," he said.
The woman's eyes sharpened suddenly. "What did you say?" she asked.
Alex repeated what he said and watched the woman's eyes widen in shock. He could see the beast-like hunger in her eyes to get what he was proposing to give her.
"Oh, that was what you meant," the woman said and put the talisman away. "You don't have to worry about that either. I can have it be changed to fit my meridians as a human."
Alex got curious when he heard that. "How?" he couldn't help but ask.
"Didn't my husband tell you?" she asked. "I remember him mentioning that he told it to you before. That was how you learned it in the first place, he says."
Alex frowned a little. "I'm not sure what you are talking about, senior."
"Dao of Techniques," the woman said. "You've learned it right?"
"Yes," Alex said, and the memories flooded back. "Oh! Right..."
The entire reason Alex had learned Dao of Techniques in the first place was because Bai Jingshen had told Alex about it when he was training him in the Luminance empire as Shen Jing.
Alex only now remembered Bai Jingshen mentioned that he had learned the technique too.
"Oh, so you plan on having him change it for you," he asked. "But it will still take him a long time."
"You don't worry about that," she said. "You worry about your cousin. That young girl needs to be treated quickly."
She brought out two talismans and a bunch of wooden boxes.
"This is the recipe for the pill that can heal your sister's poison. I had a hard time tracking it down, and an even harder time tracking down these ingredients."
Alex took the recipe and ingredients.
"And this one is for opening up her dantian," she said. "I don't know if you have one or not, but I prepared it just in case. That young girl that came with your cousin told me that you would be needing one."
"Lady Luoyang did?" Alex asked. He hadn't seen her after returning. "I have a recipe for that, but this is highly appreciated too. Thank you."
"No need to thank me for this," she said. "After what you've given me today, I wouldn't mind if you told me to give you everything I owned."