105: Qingling is in trouble!

Nangong Wenyou’s lips curled into a slight smile. “Is the Prince of Zhenbei you mentioned Nangong Yu?”

“Yes, Your Highness!”

Qing Ling nodded, her expression respectful.

Nangong Wenyou’s lips curved upwards slightly. “This Young Master thinks highly of you. Should this Young Master speak to Nangong Yu and have you come work by my side?”

Hearing this, Qing Ling refused without a second thought, “I hope Your Highness will forgive me, but Qing Ling is already the Young Master’s maid, and for this life, she can only be the Young Master’s maid. She will not follow anyone else!”

Upon hearing this, Nangong Wenyou raised an eyebrow slightly. “What’s so good about that trash? He’s merely a Medium Grade Spiritual Root…”

But before he could finish, Qing Ling interrupted him, “Your Highness, Qing Ling does not allow you to slander the Young Master. The Young Master is not trash, please apologize to him!”

As her voice fell, Sparrow Sprite also slowly opened her eyes, gazing at Nangong Wenyou with a sharp glint.

Seeing this, Nangong Wenyou frowned, glancing at Sparrow Sprite warily.

But he shrugged indifferently, “This Young Master didn’t say anything wrong, why should I apologize?”

“You…”

Qing Ling was a bit angry, but she knew that this person was not someone she could offend and did not want to cause trouble for the Young Master, so she said no more and sat down huffily.

Seeing this, Nangong Wenyou’s expression shifted slightly. He was about to speak again when Instructor Yang walked in, so he found a place to sit down.

Instructor Yang glanced at the classroom, and upon seeing Qing Ling, he couldn't help but raise an eyebrow.

“This… young lady, who is your Young Master?”

Qing Ling quickly stood up and respectfully said, “Reporting to Instructor, my Young Master is the Prince of Zhenbei!”

Instructor Yang frowned slightly. “Prince of Zhenbei? Nangong Yu? Where did he go?”

Hearing this, Qing Ling quickly took out a student token and said, “Reporting to Instructor, the Young Master went to the Scripture Pavilion and asked me to attend the lecture and tell him about it later!”

Hearing this, Instructor Yang frowned slightly. “Isn’t his student token here? Without a token, how could he…”

Instructor Yang stopped abruptly, recalling a certain rumor, and swallowed the rest of his words.

“Alright, you can sit down first!”

“Thank you, Instructor!”

Qing Ling nodded and sat down, looking straight ahead attentively.

Instructor Yang turned, picked up a book, and said, “Today we will be discussing the Cultivation of the Body Forging, Spirit Absorption, and Cavern Heaven Realms…”

...Time flowed by, the moon rose and the sun set.

Supervision Office, in the Scripture Pavilion.

Nangong Yu’s hands moved, and the last pill-condensing rune was struck into the Medicine Cauldron.

“Buzz buzz!”

The Medicine Cauldron vibrated slightly, then fell silent.

Nangong Yu’s expression was calm as he slowly controlled the Furnace-Destroying Sacred Fire to lower the temperature.

Not long after, Nangong Yu put away the Furnace-Destroying Sacred Fire.

He opened the Medicine Cauldron with an expectant look, using spiritual power to draw out the Medicinal Pills inside!

As the nine Medicinal Pills landed on the jade plate, he couldn’t help but shake his head slightly, “Has the pill yield ultimately decreased?”

He lowered his head to look at the nine Medicinal Pills on the jade plate, but couldn’t help but frown slightly.

“One of them is a waste pill, so that’s an 80% pill yield, which is quite a significant decrease!”

On the jade plate at this time, there were two Special Grade, one High Grade, two Medium Grade, and three Low Grade spirit king pills, as well as one waste pill.

Although the profit was still decent, it was still far less than the 100% pill yield he achieved during his first Alchemy attempts in the past.

“Never mind, for my first time refining King Rank Medicinal Pills, and refining the relatively difficult spirit king pill, this result is not bad.”

Nangong Yu smiled slightly, put away the Medicinal Pills on the jade plate, and as for the waste pill, he casually burned it to ash with the Furnace-Destroying Sacred Fire!

He tidied up, cleaning everything.

Then, he kept the Special Grade spirit king pill and sold all the other spirit king pills to the Time-Space Merchant Guild, earning 400 million points.

Having finished all this, Nangong Yu had Ying Mei remove the concealment, and he rose and walked to the second floor.

Soon, he found Su Xingmeng in a corner on the second floor.

“Sister Xingmeng, still not working?”

Su Xingmeng heard his voice, looked up slightly, her eyes filled with disappointment.

“Young Master, it’s still not working. I’ve Cultivated all the Cultivation Techniques that might succeed, but I still can’t get started.”

Su Xingmeng shook her head slightly, disheartened, “How do I put it? I’ve already learned all these Cultivation Techniques, but I just can’t draw Qi into my body.”

Hearing this, Nangong Yu feigned surprise, “How could that be? I have a Medium Grade Gold Spiritual Root. Back then, when my mother and the others gave me a gold-attribute Cultivation Technique, I quickly drew Qi into my body and entered the Spirit Absorption Realm after learning it!”

Su Xingmeng shook her head slightly. “No, according to my Master, even if a person’s Spiritual Root is incompatible with a Cultivation Technique’s attribute, or even clashes with it, they should still be able to Cultivate.”

“But my situation is very special. No matter what Cultivation Technique I use, I can’t Cultivate. It’s been like this for over a decade, I’m starting to give up!”

Nangong Yu stepped forward and took her hand, comforting her, “Sister Xingmeng, don’t be discouraged. Believe that one day you will find the Cultivation Technique that belongs to you and step onto the path of cultivation.”

“Thank you for your auspicious words, Young Master!”

Su Xingmeng smiled slightly and said, “Young Master, it must be getting late, right? Let’s go back first.”

“Alright!” Nangong Yu nodded, pulling Su Xingmeng out of the Scripture Pavilion.

He glanced at the sky, then smiled, “It’s three quarters past You Shi now. Let’s go directly to the gate of the Supervision Office to find my mother, and then wait for Qing Ling!”

“Mhm!”

Su Xingmeng nodded, and the two walked straight out.

But before they reached the gate of the Supervision Office, they met Qing Ling halfway.

She was slightly disheveled, her beautiful hair a bit messy, and her eyes were slightly red.

And on her shoulder, Sparrow Sprite’s feathers were ruffled, her eyes filled with anger.

Seeing this, Nangong Yu frowned and quickly stepped forward to ask, “Qing Ling, what happened to you two?”

Suddenly seeing Nangong Yu, Qing Ling’s expression was a little flustered, and she quickly said, “Young Master, we’re fine, let’s go back first!”

“Master, not…”

Sparrow Sprite tried to speak, but Qing Ling stopped her with a shout, “Silence, Cai’er, have you forgotten what I told you?”

Hearing this, Sparrow Sprite’s eyes struggled, but finally, she closed them and said no more.

Seeing this, Nangong Yu frowned. “Qing Ling, what exactly happened? Are you even going to hide it from me?”

“I…”

Qing Ling’s expression changed slightly. “Young Master, I can’t say, please don’t ask!”

Hearing this, Nangong Yu took a deep breath and looked straight at her. “Really not going to say?”

“I can’t say!”

Qing Ling shook her head, her expression firm.

Seeing this, Nangong Yu nodded slightly and led her towards the gate of the Supervision Office.

“Young Master, what are you doing…”

“Going home!”

Nangong Yu said directly, his eyes terrifyingly dark, containing endless fury.