It’s no wonder that Qing Yu thought this way. This place is in the Western Territory, not too far nor too close from the Northern Territory’s Wuxiang Mountain.
And the young master said he had matters to attend to afterward, yet he was willing to delay them slightly to visit his sister-in-law at Wuxiang Mountain...
Saying it’s a normal relationship, that definitely wouldn’t fly.
How could someone with a mere ordinary relationship act this way?
So, Qing Yu thought, it’s just right to follow and get to the bottom of this!
No matter what kind of relationship it is, with her intentional observation, it certainly couldn’t hide from her discerning eyes.
...
Wuxiang Mountain.
In the luxurious single-person pill room, Jiang Lingyue had already opened a furnace here to refine a batch of Tier Four Grandmaster Pills.
Now, Tier Four Elixirs in her hands had already become increasingly proficient, with a pill formation rate reaching an astounding seventy percent!
It should be known that most Tier Four Alchemy Masters outside, when refining Tier Four Elixirs, typically have a pill formation rate around forty to fifty percent, which is about half.
Even her Alchemy Dao master, Su Liuying, only had around sixty percent, yet he could already stand out among Tier Fours.
And Jiang Lingyue’s seventy percent pill formation rate... absolutely ranks her in the top five among Tier Four Alchemists in Xuanzhou!
Those who could surpass her were all not without having honed their skills for a long time in Tier Four Alchemy.
And Jiang Lingyue had been promoted to this stage for less than a year.
If Jiang Lingyue had the patience to continue refining in Tier Four, even an eighty percent pill formation rate would not be out of reach.
But now, she had clearly lost the thought of continuing to delve deeper into Tier Four, and the elixirs she had been refining had already... switched to Tier Five!
She was attempting to break into a Tier Five Alchemy Master!
Mortal Realm Pill... For many people in the Northern Territory, it is the most coveted pill!
Many cultivators who had been stuck at the Grandmaster Late Stage for too long eagerly desired to obtain a Mortal Grandmaster Pill.
Moreover, the Mortal Realm Pill is also among the Tier Five Elixirs, belonging to the most difficult batch to refine.
If successfully refined, even a newly promoted Tier Five would be more surprising than most ordinary Tier Five Alchemists who could not refine Mortal Realm Pills.
At this moment, Jiang Lingyue sensed the Storage Ring’s Communication Jade Token making a movement.
But she was in the process of refining the Mortal Grandmaster Pill, not daring to be distracted in the slightest, her forehead already starting to bead with fine sweat.
Most importantly, having stayed in the Wuxiang Sect for such a long time, whether out of politeness or her current status, Jiang Lingyue had added quite a few Elders, Dan Peak stewards, senior and junior sisters to her Communication Jade Token.
But it was difficult for fellow brothers in the same sect to have Jiang Lingyue’s contact information, as she would not give it at all.
Therefore, Jiang Lingyue did not know that it was Lu Ye who sent the message.
In the pill room, as the earth vein-assisted pill fire rushed out, the whole pill room felt even hotter.
After an hour, a faint... fragrance even began to permeate the pill room!
This is a scent that can only be released during the smelting of many medicinal materials under the Pill Formula and pill fire!
Jiang Lingyue actually managed to refine the Tier Five Mortal Grandmaster Pill to such an extent, with the progress already over halfway!
Sure enough, just as this scent appeared, floating out of the pill room and into other places, a Dan Peak steward on duty in the Alchemy Hall was initially taken aback.
He then showed an incredulous expression.
"Why does this smell seem to be the pill aroma unique to Mortal Realm Pills?!"
To other ordinary people, the pill aroma just presented itself as a scent, unable to distinguish the subtle differences within.
But to a true Pill Master, distinguishing pills by scent had become a basic Alchemy Dao knowledge.
Therefore, after catching a whiff of this pill aroma, this steward immediately looked odd.
How could such a level of pill aroma appear in Dan Peak?!
Could it be that his sense of smell had gone awry recently?
Unconvinced, the Dan Peak steward sniffed again...
With this sniff, his pupils shrank immediately, and the fragrance grew stronger... indicating the person refining pills was increasing the completion rate of the Mortal Realm Pill!
"Have I seen a ghost?!"
Immediately, the steward could no longer sit still, getting up at once from the quiet room and began investigating where this pill aroma was coming from.
Who was fooling around in the Pill Hall?
At this time, outside in the Pill Hall, disciples all around began to notice this scent, showing surprised expressions.
"Huh, who is refining pills, such a pill aroma, why haven’t I smelled it before?"
"It seems like I haven’t smelled it before either. When the steward took us to learn the basics of alchemy, it seems we felt this kind of pill aroma from a pill specimen, but I can’t recall what kind of pill it was."
"Yes! Now that you mention it, I remember it too."
Just then, the Dan Peak steward came out, and those disciples immediately fell silent, quickly tending to their tasks, while sneakily observing the steward whose expression was off with the corners of their eyes.
They all smelled this fragrance, knowing the steward would have noticed too.
The Dan Peak steward glanced at these disciples, not wasting any time, immediately heading toward the inner passage.
Soon, the Dan Peak steward followed the pill aroma to a pill room.
After arriving, the steward looked up, instantly stunned: "How... could it be here?"
This pill room, long before, after Jiang Lingyue ascended to Tier Four, was allocated for her solitary use.
Everyone in Dan Peak knew of this, and it was impossible not to recognize the only two Tier Four Alchemists in the Wuxiang Sect.
But...
Hadn’t she just recently been promoted to Tier Four for less than a year?!
This was what stunned the Dan Peak steward.
At this stage, being able to refine the most challenging cultivation-enhancing elixir of Tier Four was already ahead of ordinary Tier Four Alchemists by a margin.
But a Tier Five Mortal Grandmaster Pill... that stuff, if not an experienced Tier Five Master, how could it be successfully refined?
However, smelling the real pill aroma emanating from inside was stronger and more concentrated than what was felt in the outer hall, the Tier Three Dan Peak steward, like a novice, dared not even breathe heavily standing outside, afraid of disturbing the alchemy process inside.
"If this succeeded... wouldn’t it mean becoming the only Tier Five Alchemy Master in the Northern Territory?!"
"Our Wuxiang Sect could leverage this, achieving the pinnacle among top sects in the Northern Territory!"
Thinking of this, steward Wang Hai of Dan Peak was extremely excited internally.
Meanwhile, already returned from the Western Territory to the Northern Territory, Lu Ye looked at the Communication Jade Token with no response, feeling slightly puzzled.
"Huh, why no response?"
Based on previous situations, shouldn’t there be a little sister-in-law shouting ’brother-in-law’ just a few minutes after sending a message?
"Could it be..."