38: Chapter 38 The Father's Confidence - Top-Grade Qi-Nourishing Pill

"Shouren, well done."

Wang Yaozu's voice was a bit hoarse as he picked up the teacup, wanting to take a sip, but finding the tea had gone completely cold, so he put the teacup back down.

"Since the Ning Family dared to make a move against you, they have already torn off their masks; kill them if you must, our Family can afford to bear it."

"Rest assured, Father. Your son investigated and left no traces behind; the Ning Family shouldn't be able to trace it to me."

Wang Yaozu gently nodded, his gaze falling upon his son's face, and that trace of worry ultimately could not be hidden.

"Good. However, that Ning Xishan is different from a Loose Cultivator; behind him is an Immortal Cultivating Family like the Ning Family, and they still have methods like soul lamp detection, so you must thoroughly cleanse your Divine Soul in the future."

Wang Shouren's lips twitched slightly; Divine Soul? After the black lotus stopped giving backlash, this kind of enemy was naturally just a snack to be fed to the black lotus, and if the Ning Family wanted to investigate, let them go ahead and investigate.

"Your son will remember."

Wang Shouren fell silent for a moment, took out that huge qijia wolf puppet and that yellowish Jade Slip from his Storage Pouch, and placed them on the table with both hands.

"Father, this is the item that Ning Xishan risked his life to win at auction."

Wang Yaozu raised his head to examine that wolf-shaped Puppet, his brows slightly raising.

"So this is that qijia wolf puppet? The Ning Family spent four thousand six hundred Spirit Stones, truly..."

He shook his head, put away the Puppet, and picked up the Jade Slip, pressing it against the center of his brows.

After a moment, his fingers began to tremble slightly.

"The Puppet Refining method."

Wang Yaozu put down the Jade Slip and took a deep breath, those eyes accustomed to winds and waves unable to help but light up at this moment.

"Although it is only an introductory method, recording only the refining steps of a few Low Grade Puppets, the basic Artifact Refining techniques inside are the real deal; compared to this, the wolf Puppet is hardly worth mentioning."

He gripped the Jade Slip tightly in his hand, then picked up the wooden box and put them together into his own Storage Pouch, moving extremely fast as if he feared these things would vanish into thin air.

"Do not let others know about these two things for now; the qijia wolf puppet will be kept with me temporarily. As for that Puppet Refining method, I will hand it over to the core members of the Family to comprehend, and quite a few Artifact Refining methods among them should be able to be applied quickly."

He lowered his voice, "The Ning Family lost their Young Lord, so they will definitely investigate to the end. The qijia wolf puppet is an item they are determined to get. Once the news leaks, without them needing to investigate, the Ning Family themselves will be able to guess that you did it."

"Your son understands."

Wang Shouren said again, "Father, there is another matter. Your son intends to switch his Cultivation Technique."

"Switch your Cultivation Technique?" Wang Yaozu was slightly stunned.

"During this outing, your son accidentally encountered an Opportunity outside the Market, meeting a Senior Cultivator who was about to pass away, and obtained his Legacy."

Wang Shouren reasonably recounted the rhetoric he had long calculated.

"That Senior also possessed a thunder-attribute Spiritual Root, and followed the path of both spell and physical Dual Cultivation. His cultivation was even more unfathomable, far surpassing any Cultivator your son has ever seen."

"Your son intends to rebuild his Foundation, cultivating both the Physical Body and spiritual power simultaneously. The large amount of body-tempering Medicinal Pills and herbs exchanged from the treasury earlier was in preparation for this."

Wang Yaozu was silent for a long time.

He looked at his son, suddenly remembering that Wang Shouren was no longer that boy who followed behind him asking questions about everything.

That little bundle had now grown taller than his shoulders, capable of killing an Eighth Stage Qi Refining Cultivator, and could even bring back Opportunities that benefited the entire Family.

His son had grown up.

This change came too big and too fast, making him a little unable to react, yet these changes were clearly happening bit by bit before his eyes. It was just that he had never realized, like this moment, that his son was already walking on a path far beyond his reach.

"Shouren, you..." Wang Yaozu opened his mouth, but didn't know what to say.

Shock was real, pride was real, and worry was also real.

After a long time, he sighed softly, his voice a few shades deeper than usual, but his tone wrapped in undisguised laughter, "You really have given me too many surprises."

"On this matter, I, your father, approve. Although physical and spell Dual Cultivation is bitter, if it can be walked through, it is a great Dao to the heavens."

"Since that Senior chose you, it is your fortune. Just name whatever resources you need; your father has some Family fortune, enough to support you."

"Rest assured, Father. Your son's resources are still abundant, and I've already exchanged almost everything needed."

Wang Shouren paused, softly adding, "When your son comes out of seclusion, I should be in the Late Stage Qi Refining."

"Don't rush." Wang Yaozu interrupted Wang Shouren, turning to take out a jade box from his Storage Pouch.

The jade box was the size of a palm, with a warm and delicate jade texture. Wang Yaozu placed the jade box in front of Wang Shouren.

"Keep this well; you should be able to use it."

Wang Shouren took the jade box, feeling heavy in his hand.

He gently opened a crack in the box lid, and a medicinal fragrance so rich it was almost viscous overflowed from the gap. Just a single breath made all his limbs feel much lighter, and the spiritual power vortex in his Dantian also vibrated slightly with it.

He abruptly opened the box lid completely.

Lying in the jade box was a pill the size of a dragon's eye.

The pill body was milky white, with four light gold medicinal patterns floating on the surface. Those four patterns were like living creatures, slowly swimming on the pill body's surface.

Around the pill condensed a thin layer of medicinal mist, shimmering with colorful micro-lights under the candlelight, illuminating the entire study a bit brighter.

This was precisely the peiyuan pill needed for cultivation and entering the Dao in the Immortal Realm.

It was distributed by wealthy families to descendants with Spiritual Roots to lay their Foundations.

"This... This is..." Wang Shouren's voice unusually carried a hint of tremor.

The peiyuan pill was not rare.

When he first started cultivating, his father had found him a High Grade peiyuan pill with three medicinal patterns to help him clear his Meridians and lay his Foundation.

The value of a peiyuan pill was roughly equivalent to a bottle of qi gathering pill.

But the one before him, those medicinal patterns, actually had as many as four!

One medicinal pattern was Low Grade, two were Medium Grade, three were High Grade.

Four, that was a grade that only existed in Alchemy classics—Top Grade Medicinal Pill!

Its medicinal efficacy was several times that of High Grade ones, and there was almost no residual pill toxin. Throughout the entire Yue Country, not a single alchemist could be found who could refine a Top Grade Medicinal Pill.

"Top Grade peiyuan pill."

Wang Yaozu said it for him lightly, but the undisguised pride in his eyes had already betrayed him completely.

"It was accidentally obtained by your father when I went out the year before last. That day, passing through Qingyun Market, I happened to catch a Golden Core Elder of the Lingdan Sect opening the furnace to lecture on Alchemy."

"Your father stood in the crowd for half a day, and finally exchanged a five-hundred-year-old purple leaf ganoderma that I accidentally obtained in my early years for this one."

He spoke lightly, but when mentioning the five-hundred-year-old purple leaf ganoderma, the muscles at the corner of his eyes still twitched imperceptibly.

Wang Shouren's hands holding the jade box tightened slightly.

A five-hundred-year-old purple leaf ganoderma was his father's most precious collection, harvested when he was young from a Secret Realm after a narrow escape from death.

His father had pressed it at the bottom of the box for decades, refusing to sell it even when the Elders of the Family tried to buy it, yet he exchanged it for a peiyuan pill.

Wang Yaozu looked at the expression on his son's face, chuckled, and continued speaking.

"It's a pity there is only one. Both you and Qingcheng have already reached Qi Refining. This peiyuan pill is a Foundation-laying item for the Early Stage Qi Refining, so it wasn't originally needed."

"Your father thought, when you form a marriage in the future, I will leave it to my grandson, letting him start a cut above others right from the beginning."