89: Chapter 88 Secretary Li

Li Fan picked up the freshly refined great rejuvenation pill and examined it closely in his palm.

"You didn't sneak anything else into this, did you?"

Wen Xinran's cheeks flushed slightly, and she hurriedly replied, "No... no, I didn't."

But when she looked up and saw Li Fan's face still full of suspicion, she couldn't help but stomp her foot lightly, her tone becoming increasingly anxious, "I really didn't add anything!"

Before she could finish, Li Fan pinched the Medicinal Pill between two fingers, flicked it with a casual motion, and sent it straight into her mouth.

He waited quietly for a moment, and seeing that Wen Xinran remained full of energy, he finally relaxed.

After putting the remaining great rejuvenation pills into his System space, he turned to Wen Xinran and instructed, "Don't worry about Alchemy for now; just focus on your Cultivate."

"I'm going to go find your sister and see if she has found any clues on her end."

Li Fan still remembered that Wen Xinmei had joined United Pharmaceutical to investigate the murderer who killed her entire clan.

Upon hearing this, Wen Xinran's expression became solemn.

She also cared deeply about the blood feud of her slaughtered clansmen and said earnestly, "Then Husband, go find my sister quickly, and let me know if there is any news."

Nodding, Li Fan immediately took a flying shuttle to United Pharmaceutical.

Entering the familiar Chief's office, Wen Xinmei was instructing a woman in front of the desk, "Xiao Chun, go communicate with them first and set the venue and time."

This woman whom Wen Xinmei called Xiao Chun was the very same Foundation Establishment female Cultivator sent by the Xuan Nu Authority to guide them at the beginning.

After receiving the order, she hurriedly brushed past Li Fan and went to handle the task.

Seeing this, Li Fan felt a bit confused and asked, "Wasn't she responsible for guiding and explaining things initially? How did she end up becoming your deputy?"

Wen Xinmei hopped backward, sat on the desk, crossed her legs, and said resentfully, "It's all because of a certain Secretary Li, who ran off after only being on the job for two days."

"That's why I had to request Xiao Chun from the Authority."

Hearing this, Li Fan scratched his face in embarrassment and said sheepishly, "Well, there have been a lot of things going on lately..."

Wen Xinmei looked at him and then asked, "So, Husband, what business brings you here today?"

"The Joint Tournament is only a few days away; shouldn't you be preparing for it?"

Li Fan claimed that he came over to see if Wen Xinmei had found any news. In reality, he was seeing if he could bravely seize the ten thousand bitter refining sessions.

Now, as he was about to take the initiative, he found it somewhat hard to say. After all, he had always been on the receiving end and had never proactively initiated a combat invitation.

Fortunately, he didn't need to ask. Wen Xinmei, sitting on the desk, crossed her raised legs again, narrowed her eyes, and said languidly, "Could it be that Husband came to find me for some pre-match relaxation?"

As she spoke, her gaze drifted to Li Fan's lower body, "You're that bold?"

Meeting Wen Xinmei's provocative gaze, Li Fan immediately stood tall and puffed out his chest. "Stop looking down on me." "Right now, I'm very bold!"

Having said that, Li Fan took two steps forward and directly lifted Wen Xinmei's crossed leg.

...

A little later, the door to the Chief Management Office opened, and Xiao Chun walked in quickly.

She habitually looked up at the desk and said, "Chief Wen, the time and venue have been set..."

Halfway through her sentence, she stopped and scanned the room.

Wen Xinmei was nowhere to be seen, only Li Fan was sitting in the chair behind the desk, looking slightly constrained.

So Xiao Chun asked instead, "Secretary Li? Have you seen Chief Wen?"

Li Fan opened his terminal and replied as if nothing was the matter, "Xinmei has stepped out. If you have anything to say, just say it; she can hear you."

Xiao Chun felt suspicious upon hearing this. She could hear even when not here? She raised her eyebrows slightly, assuming this was some unfathomable method of a Golden Core Cultivator, so she didn't dwell on it and began her report.

So she said, "The negotiation venue for the procurement of Alchemy raw materials has been set on Baigong Planet."

"All the families involved in the secondary processing of medicinal materials there will be present."

After speaking, she placed the tablet recording the information of various families on the desk.

Even though the action of placing the tablet was very gentle, Li Fan shuddered as if reacting to a stimulus and blurted out subconsciously, "Be gentle!"

Hearing this, Xiao Chun raised her hands in suspicion, "I didn't use much force..."

She glanced at Li Fan and noticed that his expression was somewhat unnatural, as if he were suppressing something. "Secretary Li, are you alright?"

Li Fan hurriedly waved his hand. "I'm still holding up; Xiao Chun, you should go out first."

"I'll tell Xinmei when she arrives."

Although Xiao Chun felt an indescribable strangeness, the person in front of her was, after all, the secretary personally appointed by Chief Wen. What he said should be reliable. So Xiao Chun nodded and turned to leave the office.

Seeing that the office door was completely closed, Li Fan repeated his previous words, "Be gentle!"

After speaking, he wanted to pull himself away from the desk, but he couldn't pull out no matter what. He had no choice but to lean his body forward; since he couldn't pull out, he might as well go a bit deeper.

"When Xiao Chun asks where you went later, explain it to her yourself."

A muffled reply came from under the desk. "Just say that you and I had a verbal conflict."

"And that you made me go out to clear my head!"

Li Fan sighed softly and pressed his hand down. "Don't speak for now..."

...

Not long after, Xiao Chun was called back to the Chief's office.

Li Fan was humming a tune while surfing the web on the sofa.

Wen Xinran was sitting steadily behind the desk, holding the tablet Xiao Chun had left earlier.

She looked at the information of the various families on the tablet, feeling somewhat puzzled. "Why are they all families from Baigong Planet?"

Xiao Chun was prepared and replied, "Industries like secondary processing on the Main Planet have all been transferred to Baigong Planet."

"Of course, it is also possible to go directly to Guangyin Planet to purchase raw materials, but the processing costs would be much higher."

Li Fan, who was on the side, saw the two mentioning procurement-related matters and asked, "What is the intended use for purchasing these Spirit materials?"

As a secretary, it was still necessary for him to understand.

Wen Xinmei said, "The secondary processed Spirit materials purchased this time are used to refine Spirit Recovery Pills."

"This pill is the one that Qin, who went missing, proposed during the last decision-making meeting; it is a Medicinal Pill that can replenish Spirit Essence."

Speaking of this, she also took the opportunity to explain the current situation of United Pharmaceutical to Li Fan.

Previously, the Qin Family's Nascent Soul, the Chief of the Medical Center, and the Chief of the Alchemy Department had mysteriously disappeared.

The positions that originally oversaw the four major departments were now vacant.

According to the rules, it should have been up to the families behind them to nominate successors. However, the Xuan Nu Authority directly intervened and appointed four Golden Core Cultivators from other families to take the Chief positions.

The four new Chiefs were all inclined towards neutrality, so Wen Xinmei's situation was much better.

However, this Spirit Recovery Pill, as mentioned in the meeting that day, was indeed a Medicinal Pill that the Xuan Nu Authority urgently needed right now.

Hearing this, Li Fan was a bit curious. Was there really such a Medicinal Pill that could replenish Spirit Essence? He had thought it was just something Qin made up on the spot to make things difficult for Wen Xinmei.

Wen Xinmei also saw what he was thinking, raised her hand, and tossed a Medicinal Pill towards Li Fan, "It has already been verified; it is indeed effective."