Chapter 120: Zi Shang's Method: Demanding Kisses
“This boy doesn’t believe you.” There was a hint of schadenfreude in Zi Shang’s voice.
How was this possible? She looked so kind and pure that everyone must have always believed her.
Ye Jiuge put on a serious face as if she were treating a patient that had a secret disease, then solemnly said to the Little Mute, “I’m not interested in other things apart from the advanced version of the Poison Earthworms.”
The Little Mute still had that distracted look on his face, as if he didn’t understand what was being said. However, Ye Jiuge had no time to talk to him. She told Bai Songling to take care of him and returned to the Zilin Residence.
Imperial Consort Xi was going to return to the palace in three days. She was planning to use common Poison Earthworms to refine the Poison Detection Pill then change them to the advanced level after waiting for the Little Mute. Refining the simple version of the Poison Detection Pill was very easy. First, you needed to refine the pill; then, you had to seal the living Poison Earthworm inside it. However, this pill had to be dissolved at a very particular time—neither too late nor too early. It had to dissolve the moment it entered the stomach so that the Poison Earthworm could settle down smoothly.
Ye Jiuge tried several kinds of materials and finally selected Erdong, Gastrodia, Golden Cypress, White Orchid, Wolfberry, Schisandra, and other herbs. Made in this way, not only would the pill dissolve well, but it would also nourish the spleen and kidney. Ye Jiuge ground the herbs into a powder, then mixed them with walnut oil and kneaded them until they became little pills. Then, she sealed up the Poison Earthworms inside. Creating a lot of pills would be useless, so Ye Jiuge stopped after she’d made ten pills.
Zi Shang sensed that Ye Jiuge wanted to sleep and suddenly coiled up around her and teased, “Didn’t you forget something?”
“What did I forget?” She was completely clueless.
“You didn’t refine the Spiritual Beast Pill to exchange with that little boy for the Poison Earthworms.” Zi Shang had a vicious expression as he gripped Ye Jiuge’s ears and continued, “Or, don’t tell me that you want to profit without paying?”