Chapter 316 - Foundation-Laying Bolus (1/2)

The orange-red flame is dancing.

A medicine scent wafts from the Grade Two alchemy furnace on which the Kyuuki Beast is engraved. Lin Luoran’s one hand continually puts the fire Wakan into the furnace while the other hand makes the gesture of spells to lift the lid and put b.u.t.terflybush Flower in it.

What she is making is “Foundation-Laying Bolus”, the Grade Four middle-cla.s.s bolus. It is not like making Grade One Fostering Qi Bolus, which only needs to put a certain quant.i.ty of medicinal materials together. Foundation-Laying Bolus takes dozens of medicinal materials, some basic remedies and some spirit herbs as support in total. Besides, their purifying degrees vary and should be put in the alchemy furnace by sequence. One false step will make a great difference. Lin Luoran has learned the lesson from the materials she has wasted.

You can’t know how many times you will fail before successfully making one bolus. The success rate just represents a general situation. When encountering special cases, you can do nothing but feel depressed.

Making Foundation-Laying Bolus is not like making Fostering Qi Bolus. It’s not the deal of putting tons of medicinal materials together and just waiting for solidifying. What Lin Luoran needs now is not b.u.t.terflybush Flower or Seven Stars Gra.s.s, but “Monkey Mushroom”.

When Lin Luoran got two Monkey Mushroom from the old monkey in the secret land, she tried to plant them in the s.p.a.ce. It’s the first time that she realized there is something can’t be done in the s.p.a.ce. Other mushrooms can be transplanted there. But the most important guiding drug of Foundation-Laying Bolus cannot live there.

So with the limited guiding drug, Lin Luoran makes Foundation-Laying Bolus very carefully. But she still fails many times.

Thinking that it’s the only remaining Monkey Mushroom, Lin Luoran is so nervous.

A black smoke erupts from the alchemy furnace. The smell of burning spirit medicine and spirit herb tells her that these valuable things have turned into ashes.

Tired and frustrated, Lin Luoran has no energy to clean the mess and just goes out. Lin’s backyard is very quiet and peaceful. Lin Luoran pa.s.ses by the vegetable patch and unconsciously goes to the Huan island.

Shadows of bamboo are dancing in the breeze, with a small medicinal garden in it. Goldie notices that its owner is approaching, so it flies down directly.

Lin Luoran catches it with her arm. Goldie is lazy, feeling kind of droopy. So she puts an elixir in its mouth.

The moon is s.h.i.+ning brightly. She wanders around with Goldie in the bamboo forest. And then she suddenly realizes she has been in front of the bamboo house.

Usually, there was a little fox nearby. It always hangs on to whoever pa.s.ses by, putting on all kinds of coquettishness and arrogance and asking for food and spirit herbs. The whole Lin family all know its tricks.

But now, in a room full of moonlight, the small wooden bed, which Mr. Lin deliberately made for it, now is so empty. Where is the little fox?

It disappeared in Weifang, Shandong. It has been three months but no one knows where it is.

Cyan little fox showed its nine tails and made s.h.i.+kigami surrender. At that time, when the three of Lin Luoran hiding on the roof revealed their joy, a cyan light suddenly burst out on the hillside.

With a flash, everyone on the hillside, including the cyan little fox, disappeared.

Lin Luoran found that the leaking Reiki had been blocked. Without Reiki, Weifang can’t produce amazing radish any more. However, Lin Luoran doesn’t care about that very much. Even the fact that maybe cyan little fox opened the entrance to the Green Mountains and took Sakurako Asada with it… is not so important in Lin Luoran’s mind.

Lin Luoran doesn’t care about where the Green Mountains is. The only thing she concerns is that whether cyan little fox went to the Green Mountains on its own will, or was pa.s.sively involved—If the answer is the former, will it still want to go back to the Lin’s? But if it is the latter, how can it come out?

Maybe, it thinks the mortal world is so annoying and complex and doesn’t want to return.

The three of them stayed in Weifang for more than a month. Lin Luodong and Huang Weijian were about to go back to school so they had to return home. Even when they were home, Lin Luoran often asked Goldie to take her to check the hill behind Weifang Vocational High School at night. It took a few hours to make a round trip but she was always worried that cyan little fox couldn’t find the way back to the Lin family… Unfortunately, there was no trace at all.

Lin Luoran thinks about it. She is just deceiving herself. Cyan little fox has found Weifang from two thousand kilometers away. How can it be possible for it to get lost?

She is just a weak Laying Foundation cultivator while it is a nine-tailed adult fox. Maybe she does not qualify enough to raise it…

Luo Luoran understands all these reasons, but she is still restless. So she has failed in making Foundation-laying Bolus for so many times.

But Goldie must be the one that cares most about cyan little fox’s missing.

It has no partners. It is a lonely alien in this world.

…

After two days, it’s weekends. Lin Luodong and Huang Weijian return home together. They are fresh students of the Fourth Secondary School of Rong City. Huang Weijian is not the local so he can live on campus. Lin Luodong also lives on campus. They only go home on weekends.

“Sister, Wei Xue was also admitted to our school.” Lin Luodong mentions his friend and is so happy. They stayed close to each other even when they were in different junior high schools. Fatty Ma is now also in No. 4 Middle School, at the cost of money. The small group finally has enough people to play Majiang together.

Lin Luodong says lots of things. The key idea is sometimes even friends can be reunited one day, so probably everything can be back… Lin Luoran finally realizes he is comforting her.

Lin Luoran always has very deep feelings for people or things that she spends a lot of time together. She does not know whether it is good or bad for her cultivation of personal ability.

When Luodong starts to find ways to comfort her, she realizes that she had to face up to this problem.

She can’t get stuck in it. She still has a lot of other things to do.