Chapter 8: 008. Who is it?

008. Who is it? Yun Han knelt on one knee respectfully once again, his resolute face filled with self-reproach.

"This morning, before the Young Mistress had even woken, the Family Head sent someone to deliver a letter to me. The letter stated that my father had been hijacked on his way to the manor. In a moment of panic, I lost my composure and left on my own. Only upon reaching the manor did I discover that my father was safe and sound, so I rushed back without pause. I have failed in my duties; please punish me, Young Mistress!"

Heh, she didn't even need to think to know this was the work of her second uncle, Yun Jianmu!

Yun Qin waved her hand. "Forget it. You were merely worried for your father's safety. Rise."

"Thank you for your mercy, Miss. I guarantee that nothing like this will ever happen again!" Yun Han swore silently in his heart.

"Mhm. I am a bit tired; I shall go to my room to rest for a while."

Leaving behind those words, Yun Qin returned to her quarters. She didn't actually rest, but instead lowered the bed curtains and sat leaning against a soft cushion.

She had just searched through her memories and was relieved to find that after the original owner's dantian was destroyed, she had not given up on herself, but had instead read extensively over these past five years. Relying on her photographic memory, she had read no fewer than eighty or ninety thousand books; she was essentially a mobile library!

Among them, one book recorded that by combining the Bi Ying Flower with hundreds of kinds of herbs, one could refine a pill called the Spirit Repair Pill. After consuming it and following a specific mnemonic formula, the dantian could be repaired in about a year.

She could afford to wait a year, and she knew the formula, but the Bi Ying Flower and a Grandmaster-level alchemist capable of refining the Spirit Repair Pill were extremely difficult to find.

The Bi Ying Flower—the leaf is the flower and the flower is the leaf. When mature, the entire flower is a treasure, as white and translucent as snow. It grows at the summit of Mount Wan Shou in the Thousand Beast Forest, with a flowering cycle of twenty years. Consuming it alone can strengthen the dantian, and it is guarded by spirit beasts.

Magic beasts ran rampant in the Thousand Beast Forest; the deeper one went toward the center, the more powerful the beasts became, let alone the spirit beasts on Mount Wan Shou.

As far as she knew, after the tenth rank, the character tiers of this era were Spirit Rank, Saint Rank, Profound Rank, Immortal Rank, and Human Emperor!

The lowest quality spirit beasts on Mount Wan Shou were at least Saint Rank, and there weren't many cultivators on this continent above Saint Rank; the old monsters of the great families were generally only at the Saint or Profound Ranks.

As for Immortal Rank or above, none had been heard of for a thousand years.

Thus, the Bi Ying Flower was something that could be heard of but never attained.

At the beginning when the original owner's dantian was destroyed, her father, Yun Jianyue, loved her so much that he lost his composure. Hiding it from the Old Master, he took his wife and hired seven or eight mercenaries around the Saint Rank to enter Mount Wan Shou to search for the Bi Ying Flower. Her elder brother, Yun Jingchen, followed them secretly, but in the end, they were almost entirely wiped out.

The only brother who still had a breath of life was currently lying unconscious on a bed, having effectively become a vegetable.

Therefore, it went without saying how difficult it was to pluck a Bi Ying Flower.

In addition, the Grandmaster-level alchemists required to refine pills were also extremely hard to find. In the entire Haotian Continent, one could not find even five; thus, being an alchemist was a very prosperous profession in this world.

From the original owner's memories, she learned that the alchemists of this foreign world were fundamentally different from the physicians of her previous life.

In her previous life, anyone could learn to be a physician, provided they worked hard enough. But as an alchemist, one first needed to cultivate both Fire and Wood elements, followed by extremely high talent, and then the support of mental strength that surpassed ordinary people.

The Fire element controlled the flame of the medicinal tripod, while the Wood element, though seemingly useless on its own, was inseparable from the ability to identify the quality of medicinal herbs.

Of course, merely satisfying the Fire and Wood requirements was not enough; talent was also required. And whether one could go further depended on the strength of their mental power.

Otherwise, in the vast Haotian Continent, there wouldn't be only a handful of Grandmaster-level alchemists.

However, this seemed to have nothing to do with her, unless her dantian was repaired!

Yet, the original owner's grandfather loved her dearly; how could he not have tried to find a Bi Ying Flower? He had once offered a bounty of a million crystal coins, but no one dared to accept the task. After all, one only has one life; very few people were willing to take on an impossible mission for the sake of wealth!

Thus, the hope of repairing her dantian was slim!

"Sigh!" Yun Qin couldn't help but let out a sigh.

"Little one, you sit guarding a treasure without knowing how to use it, yet here you are sighing. What a waste of a peerless divine artifact."

Suddenly, a wicked and lazy male voice rang out abruptly in Yun Qin's mind, giving her a fright. "Who is it?"