Chapter 500 - 507: Her Excellency Has Refined Elixir Pills!!!

The smug look on Meng Dong’s face froze. He never imagined Wu Rouyun would say something like that instead of trying to make him stay.

He was utterly humiliated, but he didn’t dare act arrogantly toward Wu Rouyun.

His face flushed red as he held back his words, but before Meng Dong could say anything, Wu Rouyun sent him flying with a single slap.

"BAM—"

Meng Dong flew right over the railing and crashed into the hall on the first floor.

Wu Rouyun’s expression was cold as she flew down from the second floor. She landed beside Meng Dong and crippled him without a second thought.

"You backstabbing piece of trash. Who do you think you are, threatening me?"

The loud crash startled everyone. Doors flew open as people peeked out, their faces full of curiosity.

The other gang leaders also emerged, their gazes unreadable as they watched the two.

Song Bangzhu stood on the second floor. Just as he was about to offer a sarcastic remark, he saw Wu Rouyun’s Communication Talisman light up again.

"Sister, Sister!!!"

Wu Yaozu’s voice, excited and incoherent, burst from the Sound Transmission Talisman.

"Sister, I... The Master... she... ah—"

"Stop sputtering and spit it out!"

Wu Rouyun snapped, but her heart was pounding in her chest.

"Sister! The Master, she refined a Super-grade Spirit Communication Pill! And three Top-grade Spirit Communication Pills, too!!!"

"Oh my god, you have no idea! The Master is a monster! She refined several hundred low-grade Elixir Pills, all of them top-grade! There were even Ninth and Tenth Grade Elixirs!"

"And it’s only been a few days!!!!"

Wu Yaozu’s voice was filled with shock and awe. If he hadn’t seen it with his own eyes, he would never have believed it was real.

’Just what kind of freak of nature is the Master?’

His voice echoed throughout the inn, and the surroundings fell deathly silent.

Everyone’s face was a mask of confusion and disbelief. The other gang leaders’ expressions changed drastically, their heads whipping around to stare at Wu Rouyun.

Their eyes were filled with suspicion.

’Is this just a smokescreen from Wu Rouyun to confuse everyone, or is it real?’

Only Song Bangzhu’s heart sank, and it felt as if a string had snapped in his mind.

Sprawled on the floor and unable to move, Meng Dong had a dazed look on his face, his eyes crazed as he muttered to himself.

"Impossible... impossible..."

’If this is real, then I’ve become a complete and utter joke.’

"Good! Keep the Elixir Pills safe. I’m coming back right now!"

With no time for anything else, Wu Rouyun shot out of the inn and raced back toward the Wolf Fang Gang’s headquarters.

The other gang leaders exchanged glances, a sense of foreboding rising in all of them.

"Let’s go! We’ll go see for ourselves if the Wolf Fang Gang is just bluffing!"

"Exactly. Wu Rouyun has to be putting on an act. Besides the Valley Master of Ghost King Valley, who else can refine a Super-grade Elixir?"

The gang leaders refused to believe that Song Wanning had actually refined a Super-grade Elixir.

But their feelings were complicated.

If there was one more person in the world who could refine Super-grade Elixirs, it meant that they, too, had a chance to advance their cultivation...

Each of the gang leaders was lost in thought. Many of them began to feel relieved they hadn’t made things difficult for Wu Rouyun from the start.

Song Bangzhu lagged behind the group, his heart pounding with panic. He hurriedly sent a Sound Transmission Talisman to Wu Mingxu and his companion.

He hesitated, worried he had made the wrong choice...

The gang leaders all vanished in a flash, leaving a crowd of their disciples standing helplessly in the inn.

...

At the Wolf Fang Gang’s headquarters, Song Wanning sat in the courtyard. Wu Yaozu stood respectfully by her side, holding tea and fruit. Behind him, a line of disciples stood, each holding a platter of various foods.

Everyone gazed at Song Wanning with unconcealed adoration, watching eagerly in the hope that she would choose the food they were holding.

’That way, they’d have bragging rights when they went out later!!’

’After all, they had fought hard to get this honor.’

"Grandmaster, please take a look. Are these to your satisfaction? I wasn’t sure of your preferences, so I took the liberty of making these arrangements!"

"If you don’t like them, Grandmaster, I’ll have new dishes prepared at once!"

"You must be exhausted after refining so many Elixir Pills, Grandmaster. The Wolf Fang Gang is eternally grateful..."

Wu Yaozu was acting like a complete sycophant, fawning over her to an extreme degree.

He was grinning from ear to ear.

Even Song Wanning’s ghost servants had been seated off to the side, with a table laden with delicacies placed before them.

They even had attendants specially assigned to serve them food.

Song Wanning took a sip of tea, her expression placid, betraying neither pleasure nor displeasure.

She nonchalantly selected a couple of dishes and began to eat at a leisurely pace.

’Refining so many Elixir Pills really was exhausting.’

Just as she finished the food in her bowl, Wu Rouyun’s voice came from the entrance to the courtyard.

"Song Dao You, I’m back!"

Even Wu Rouyun, long accustomed to her high station, was incredibly excited and wanted nothing more than to rush right in.

But she restrained herself, asking from the entrance, "May I come in?"

Things were different now. Given Song Wanning’s new status, even she had to be completely respectful.

"My sister’s back? That was fast."

Wu Yaozu’s eyes lit up, and he excitedly ran to the entrance to take a look.

He knew full well that his sister was his pillar of support. The higher her Cultivation, the more comfortable his own life would be.

Thus, he was incredibly excited, as if he could already see the moment his sister would break through to the Mahayana Realm.

In the courtyard, Song Wanning raised an eyebrow.

’To think that just refining a Super-grade Elixir could make a Combined Cultivator act like this. It seems Alchemists are truly scarce in the Netherworld.’

Since they were showing her respect, she saw no reason to put on airs. "Please come in."

The words had barely left her lips when Wu Rouyun flashed into the courtyard, with a whole crowd of gang leaders rushing in right behind her.

The crowd was taken aback when they saw Song Wanning.

Because Song Wanning was far too young!

’A Ghost Cultivator who’s just over a hundred years old?’

’You’ve got to be kidding me!’

The leader of the Wind and Cloud Gang immediately burst out laughing.

"Tch. Wu Rouyun, even if you’re just putting on an act, you could have at least found someone more believable. For a little ghost who’s only a century old, reaching the Out-of-Body Stage is already a stroke of incredible luck."

"And you expect us to believe she can refine Super-grade Elixirs? I doubt she could even manage a First Grade Elixir!"

A Ghost Cultivator who was just over a hundred was no different from a child.

They couldn’t deny that Song Wanning was a genius, but she couldn’t possibly be an Alchemist—let alone an Alchemy Grandmaster capable of refining Super-grade Elixirs!

Many of the other gang leaders nodded in agreement. No matter how they looked at her, Song Wanning simply didn’t resemble an Alchemy Grandmaster.

After all, the Valley Master of Ghost King Valley was several thousand years old...

Even people like Wu Mingxu were already hundreds of years old, yet they were hailed as geniuses in Ghost King Valley despite not being able to refine Tenth Grade Elixirs.

How could Song Wanning, a nobody who came out of nowhere, possibly have succeeded?

And so, one of the gang leaders tried to reason with her. "Master Wu, I know you’re desperate to save face, but there’s no need to go this far... We won’t laugh at you."

"That’s right. We’re all friends here. If you’re in trouble, we’ll help. We’d never kick you while you’re down. You don’t have to resort to this..."

"..."

They chimed in one after another, all putting on an act of being concerned for Wu Rouyun.

Only Song Bangzhu’s expression was grim.

He knew very well what Song Wanning was capable of when it came to Alchemy.