She smiled broadly as she noticed that it was indeed him.
It was hard to recognize him because the mask he wore was different.
Fuck, it had been over a year since she had seen him, how could there be anything the same about him?
But she still hadn't forgotten about his aura.
"Haha, it really is you, Young Master. Please come this way." She replied and urged him to enter her room directly.
Tang Yin then walked in.
"I didn't expect to see you here, Miss Xie." He said with a smile, and she nodded.
"I was indeed expecting to see you here." She replied with a smile and made him sit down and then sat down across from him.
"Were you expecting to see me here?" he asked hesitantly, and she nodded.
"Of course, I came all this way just for you. It's just that I didn't expect you to take so long to arrive. Even though the eastern region is far from the northern region, how could you take more than 1 year to arrive?" She said, and at the end, made it as if she was complaining.
She had arrived here months ago and had been waiting all that time for Tang Yin or her token to appear. But it never appeared, nor was it ever used. For a moment, she had worried about his well-being.
Tang Yin smiled at this and took off his mask, he still wore his bandages under it.
"Many things happened, from Dark Sand City I had to walk across the desert to the borders of the desert with this region. It took me a year to cross that, it was too stressful." He replied somewhat pitifully, and she laughed out loud.
"Hahaha, did you really walk all that? Hahaha, no wonder it took you so long." She spoke.
"Then why did you come here? What do I have to do with you being here?" Tang Yin asked, diverting the conversation away from that annoying topic.
She smiled and shrugged her shoulders.
"I have improved a lot with the alchemical recipes you gave me, and for that, I wanted to thank you. Thank you very much, Young Master." She said sincerely and bowed to Tang Yin.
Her improvement had skyrocketed since she had those recipes, how could she not thank him?
Tang Yin smiled.
"There's nothing you have to thank me for. I gave you those recipes with the intention that, at some point, you might be able to help me create a certain pill. I didn't think you would be so grateful, so it looks like my gamble was correct." He replied.
And she nodded to him.
"Were you able to gather the materials you were looking for?" she asked.
Tang Yin then passed her a list of what he lacked. There were few materials, but they were hard to come by.
Especially the two materials of the ice attribute spirit beasts.
Xie Meiyu received the list and began to read it.
"When I was in that small city I thought you could get everything here, but apparently it's still complicated because of the two beasts." She replied and then called out the name of the receptionist outside.
She came in quickly.
"Miss." She said, waiting for her order, and Xie Meiyu handed her the list.
"Gather all the materials on that list if any and bring them in those quantities." She said, and the person who had just walked in quickly nodded and left.
"Can you get all but the beast ones?" Tang Yin asked, and she nodded.
"Are they very necessary for you?" She asked, and Tang Yin nodded firmly.
"They are to recover my Spirit Bone Body." He answered sincerely, surprising Xie Meiyu.
"The Spiritual Bone Body can be recovered? I heard that only with forbidden techniques can that be destroyed..."
Tang Yin smiled at him.
"Well, that recipe works for that. But it's complicated to make, even though it's a general recipe." He replied...
After that, the two of them talked about many more things, and a while later, the lady came back and brought the materials.
'I'm missing only two...' He thought with determination.
It's just that those two are hard to come by.
Still...
He had to get them.
Xie Meiyu looked at him for a while and then sighed.
"I'll help you get them, but those spirit beasts only live in the Great Northern Forest, it's dangerous to go there, how about I go while you wait here?" She said and waited for Tang Yin's reply.
He looked at her and smiled as he shook his head.
"If you want to come with me that's fine, but I can't let you go there alone to get something that's for me." He replied, and she nodded slightly.
"It's dangerous, you know?" She said again, and Tang Yin shrugged his shoulders.
"Don't worry, we're just going to go hunting spirit beasts. They're not a problem, but do you really want to go?" he asked, and she nodded.
"Of course, how can I let a normal person go into such a dangerous place alone?" She replied with a smile as she got up from the couch and walked a bit across the room to look out the window.
"When are we leaving? I'm really ready right now. I want to show you something." She said, and Tang Yin smiled.
"I need a few days, are you staying here? I'm going to need your help these days, but I also need a place with abundant spiritual energy." He said.
She frowned a little, why would a person who couldn't cultivate want spiritual energy? She thought but didn't ask the question.
"Hm, I'm staying in a house by the lake, is that enough spiritual energy?" She asked smiling, and Tang Yin nodded.
"Let's go there then, I'm going to be doing some things these days and you can watch, it will help you greatly in your spiritual energy management." Tang Yin replied confidently and then pulled out another piece of paper.
"Right, can you get this for me?" he asked as he passed the paper to her without waiting for a response to his earlier comment.
After taking the paper, she frowned a little.
"It's common stuff, how can you ask if can get it? There's plenty of this stuff everywhere, even more so in a Regional Capital." She replied.
Tang Yin then nodded at her.
He still needed to get up to speed on the subject of the forces of this continent, so he wasn't up to speed on a lot of things. Though, of course, he knew how important the main city of an entire region was.
"Well then, let's get moving." He replied, and so the two of them went down...
Everything Tang Yin had asked for was given to him for free, even the expensive materials for his recipe.
Xie Meiyu granted it to him as compensation, and it was here that Tang Yin witnessed the wealth of this beautiful woman who could occasionally be a bit frisky.
After that, they went all the way to the house where they would be for the next few days...
And so, several days passed, and the huge mansion where they had been staying these days had been filled with noises almost all day long and a great deal of spiritual energy.
During this time, Tang Yin had locked himself in the mansion to make a large number of killer weapons of different types while instructing Xie Meiyu to perfect them.
Surprisingly to him, she had increased her ability to control fire and perfect his killer weapons quite a bit, which was a pleasant surprise.
It seemed as if she had been practicing doing this for a while.
But during this time, the most surprised was her.
From watching him make an array that is very complicated to make, with only a few steps, to watching him make small to medium-sized weapons with a speed and agility that is hard for an ordinary human to achieve.
What amazed her the most was the ability he had to use spiritual energy when he was not a cultivator.
It is true that, in theory, normal humans can use spiritual energy if they use tools to do so. Although they won't have the same agility as a cultivator, they can still use a small portion of spiritual energy if there is a lot of it in the environment.
But that's on paper. It is a theory.
In this world so far, there hasn't been a human who could do that, or at least not to Xie Meiyu's knowledge.
But Tang Yin could!
In the end, she concluded that it was because, previously, Tang Yin was a cultivator and was familiar with spiritual energy.
Even so, she kept seeing amazing things done by Tang Yin while helping him.
Thus, the two of them worked together for several days, and finally, it was time to go to the Great Northern Spiritual Forest.
It is one of the great forests on the continent and perhaps the most dangerous.
Still, this time going there was the only alternative for Tang Yin.
'It's time, huh.' Tang Yin thought as he was walking out of the city with Xie Meiyu at the side.
Possibly, the last adventure he would have before becoming a cultivator was about to begin, so Tang Yin was a bit nervous but highly motivated.