Chapter 659: Follow the Recipe

Chapter 659: Follow the Recipe

Xi Sanji pursed her lips. If you need it, I guess we can follow the recipe.

Yes, yes, Hui said, nodding. I dont care that much about waking the cultivators, but if I dont stop Elder Sister, Ill end up dead from her, er, genius pill cultivation! For example, that green liquid. If I hadnt been aware of it and able to defend against it, if I hadnt been here to toss it away, I wouldve been hit by a deluge of acid with no warning. I could have been seriously injured and had to take some time to regenerate my body!

Formula. Why did you call it a recipe? Its a pill formula, Xi Sanji said, tilting her head in confusion.

Elder Sister can call it whatever she pleases, as long as we follow it, Hui agreed, nodding. Whether its a recipe or a formula, Elder Sister, please mind it!

Hmph. Well, I suppose you are a low-realm cultivator Her eyes passed over him, and she finally registered his apparent age. Her brows furrowed faintly, and then she shrugged. an ordinary low-realm cultivator such as yourself naturally needs to rely upon such props as recipformulae if you are to properly cultivate pills.

Ah! Did I just watch Elder Sister ignore reality in order to impose ordinariness upon me? Not that this small cultivator minds. No, no. In fact, since my quick growth is in fact false, only because of my actual high rate of cultivation compensating for my slow actual rate of growth, Elder Sister is the only one not blinded by the apparent state of things! Everyone else sees a fourth-stage cultivator as young as I appear and assumes I must have some talent, but only Elder Sister, whos willing to disregard reality so thoroughly, can pierce through to see the truth. Hui put a hand on his chin, raising a brow thoughtfully. To be so ignorant as to loop around and find truth once more an interesting concept.

Right, right. So that recipe? Hui prompted her, tilting his head.

Formula. Xi Sanji ran a hand over the metal ring around her wrist. A script appeared from the ring. Giving it a cursory glance, she quickly handed it over to Hui, almost as if burned. There. The script for the wakefulness elixir.

Hui looked over the script, then nodded at Xi Sanji. Elder Sister is indeed wise. By splitting the work, we can proceed at twice the speed!

In other words, aside from her preference for attempting novel pill formulae instead of creating pills from existing ones, Xi Sanji is actually a formidable pill cultivator! The only problem is her ego, which is what prompts her to attempt things high above her realm, such as uniquely cultivating fresh pills.

Now, all this may not seem like much sabotage. But consider! If Xi Sanji cures everyones sleep status before her father returns, using a pill she createdeven if she didnt develop the formulait will raise her standing in the eyes of the Tier Masters. Shell begin her meteoric rise to the top of the sect. Now, under ordinary conditions, she would simply revert to her old habits and quickly fall from the minds of those Tier Masters.

But if Im at her side, providing information, helping her actually follow recipes I can ensure her meteoric rise is locked in, and whisk her all the way to the top! Once shes installed in a high location, Ill leave her to do her own thing, and shell instantly revert to her pill-creation ways. With the reputation Ill build for her, shell have access to more expensive materials and more favorable locations. Therefore, any mishap she inflicts upon the sect will be more expensive for them to recover from.

I cant expect her to remain as a favorable candidate in the eyes of the Tier Masters for long once I stop providing assistance, but I can guide her to more powerful and dangerous pills that require more and more extreme ingredients as a way to rid Eight Tiers Palace of its resources. Meanwhile, I can reduce the number of eager young battle-ready cultivators through sending them on near-impossible quests to collect the herbs Xi Sanji desperately needs, and I wont even need to blame their deaths on anything other than what killed them! After all, cultivators die to monsters all the time, and high-level herbs are almost universally guarded by dangerous monsters or if not monsters, then dangerous terrain, or even scenarios like mazes or mausoleums.

Hui nodded to himself, lost in the idea of his beautiful plan, his eyes slightly glazed.

Annoyed, Xi Sanji stomped over and snapped in his face. Hello? I asked for the first instruction! Are we doing this or not?

Ah! Many apologies, Elder Sister, small cultivator was merely caught up in basking in the light of your presence, Hui quickly bluffed.

Well, get over it and read the first rule, she demanded.

Not that much of an egomaniac, huh? Or rather could it be that she likes pills even more than herself? Wary of Xi Sanji leaving, and entirely voiding his clever plan, Hui cleared his throat and started reading. First, heat the furnace to