The third day arrived.
Nalan Jie arrived early in the morning, clearly eager to rid his body of all the branding poison as soon as possible.
"Master Zhang," Nalan Jie greeted respectfully.
Su Yun nodded. "Let's begin."
Nalan Jie took off his shirt, mentally preparing himself.
With a clap of his right hand, Su Yun allowed the Heaven Incinerating Qi to enter his body. Even though he had experienced it twice before, it still hurt a lot.
Feeling the terrifying heat inside his body, Nalan Jie dared not make a sound or move.
An hour passed, and Nalan Jie once again fell into a state of exhaustion.
Su Yun withdrew the Heaven Incinerating Qi. He had precise control over the heat of the foreign fire and took precautions to protect himself, avoiding the phenomenon of poison entering his body like what happened to Xiao Yan.
Struggling to get up, Nalan Jie wanted to thank Su Yun.
"Thank you, Master Zhang, for purging the poison for me. From now on, Master Zhang will be a lifelong friend of our Nalan family. If you need anything, just let me know, and Nalan Jie will never hesitate," Nalan Jie said solemnly.
Looking at Nalan Jie's earnest promise, Su Yun couldn't help but sneer inwardly.
This old guy is just all talk.
When Xiao Yan helped him as the Earth Marrow, he made similar promises.
And then what happened?
When Xiao Yan was besieged by the Cloud Sect after his identity was exposed during the three-year agreement, not only did Nalan Jie not lend a hand, he didn't even offer any assistance. He even hoped Xiao Yan would be left behind by the Cloud Sect.
At that time, the narrative described how disgusting he felt about it.
The same goes for the incident where Nalan Yanran went to break off the engagement.
After the breakup, Nalan Jie only threw a tantrum, without even planning to send someone to apologize to the Xiao family and ease the relationship.
In short, he just couldn't swallow his pride. Maybe secretly, he even applauded Nalan Yanran's decision to break off the engagement.
Despite these thoughts, Su Yun smiled and nodded.
"Well, you're too kind, old sir."
This treatment was merely a transaction. Since Su Yun had already refined the Seven Illusion Green Spirit Nectar, he didn't want too much involvement with the Nalan family.
After exchanging a few pleasantries, Su Yun sent Nalan Jie away.
Outside the gates of the Meter Family, Nalan Jie, feeling weak but relieved, sighed.
Master Zhang is indeed talented. With such skills, his alchemy should be above that of Dan King Guhe.
Nalan Jie speculated.
It's just that he didn't understand the mysteries of alchemists.
With a foreign fire, even a second-grade alchemist could easily remove the branding poison from his body.
Although Su Yun's alchemy skills were indeed stronger than Dan King Guhe's.
But it's a pity about the Seven Illusion Green Spirit Nectar.
Nalan Jie still felt a little regretful.
Back then, he had suffered branding poison just to obtain the Seven Illusion Green Spirit Nectar.
In the end, he had to give up the Seven Illusion Green Spirit Nectar to remove the poison.
Everything has its ups and downs.
Inside the Meter Family.
Haibodong handed Su Yun a storage ring.
"During this time, the Meter Family has collected all the demon cores as ordered by the Teng Mountain," Haibodong said.
Su Yun took it and looked inside. Seeing the hundreds of demon cores, he smiled satisfactorily.
"Thank you."
"Hmm."
Haibodong nodded and continued.
"As for the various medicinal ingredients you mentioned, we haven't found them."
Su Yun frowned but didn't say anything.
When he returned from the Alchemist Guild, he instructed the Meter Family to find several medicinal ingredients.
These ingredients were precisely the ones needed to refine the sixth-grade pill, the Earth Spirit Pill.
These medicinal ingredients were quite precious and rare, so it was normal not to find them in just a few days.
"It's alright, there's still some time before the enrollment at the Canaan Academy this year. Try your best to find them, but it's okay if you don't," Su Yun said to Haibodong, smoothing his eyebrows.
"In addition, don't neglect the collection of demon cores," he added.
Haibodong nodded at the mention of this.
Su Yun thought for a moment, then took out a sheepskin scroll from the system space and handed it to Haibodong.
"What's this?" Haibodong looked at the scroll in his hand, feeling puzzled.
"Old Hai, you'd better open it and see for yourself," Su Yun replied with a faint smile, teasing him a little.
Haibodong directly opened the scroll, and a trace of shock flashed in his eyes immediately.
It was a low-grade Earth-tier martial art, the "Nine Hades Frost Technique"!
"For me?!" Haibodong looked incredulous.
Su Yun nodded. "We'll be heading to the Black Horn Domain in a while. Naturally, you need to improve your strength a bit. If something happens over there, I won't have anyone to help me."
Su Yun joked lightly.
Haibodong, unusually, didn't retort. His eyes gleamed as he tightly held the scroll in his hands, as if he were holding onto his own wife.
"It's just a low-grade Earth-tier martial art. Do your job well, and there will be even better rewards in the future," Su Yun said, observing Haibodong's reaction, with a slight twitch at the corner of his mouth, then he returned to his room on his own.
After Su Yun had left for a while, Haibodong finally came back to his senses and stored the scroll in his storage ring.
Somewhat amazed, he wondered about Su Yun's background. Why would he be so generous?
Haibodong became even more curious about the forces behind Su Yun.
He naturally understood that this was the reward he received for collecting demon cores for Su Yun.
Choosing the right person.
The more Haibodong thought about his decision at the beginning, the wiser he felt it was.
Su Yun returned to his room and placed all the demon cores from the storage ring into the system space, carefully examining them.
There were about a hundred first and second-grade demon cores combined, over forty third-grade demon cores, over thirty fourth-grade demon cores, and two fifth-grade demon cores.
One of the fifth-grade demon cores was even fire-attributed.
Su Yun's eyes lit up. Now, he could upgrade again.
First, Su Yun scanned all the demon cores and backed up the replacement function in case of need.
Then, he used the system's fusion function.
"System, merge the Setting Sun and the fifth-grade fire-attributed demon core!"
"Ding, a merge scheme has been detected. It requires consuming one fifth-grade energy crystal or one fifth-grade demon core. Would you like to proceed with the fusion?"
"Fusion!"
In the system space, the two fifth-grade demon cores disappeared, and the blade of the Setting Sun sword shimmered with a dazzling light.
After a while, a brand new Setting Sun appeared in Su Yun's hand.
Su Yun examined the fiery red longsword in his hand and nodded in satisfaction.
With a fifth-grade demon core sword, he could barely bear the power of the mid-level Earth-tier martial skill, "Flowing Flame Dragon Slash."
After playing with it for a while, Su Yun stored the Setting Sun back into the system space.
Looking at the abundant demon cores, Su Yun began to study martial skills again.
His "Frozen Cold Technique" had three states of Qi: fire, ice, and a combination of both.
However, he hadn't used the most powerful combination state of ice and fire.
The reason for this was martial skills.
Both fire and ice attribute martial skills were simple, but there was no easy way to combine them into a dual attribute.
In the development of the Dou Qi continent over the years, dual attribute martial skills might have appeared.
However, they might have already been obscured by the passage of history.
He had nowhere to find them, so he could only create them himself.
Of course, the creation here definitely relied on the system's fusion function to merge the two martial skills together.
It was impossible for him to create them from scratch.
(End of this chapter)