Chapter 473 – A Clear Conscience Brings Peace of Mind, the Mind is Perturbed by Ru Xin’s Charm (2/2)

“Don’t celebrate too soon, everyone. We still need to continue with our efforts. Only then can we completely smash the Daemon race’s ambitions.” Liu Zhangqing cleared his throat twice before finally suppressing the excitement inside.

Cheng Kaishan said, “Fellow Fu, both the rock demon and blood demon have already fallen in battle. Now, as long as you can kill the moon demon too, we’ll win this war.”

“I’ll do my best,” Fu Qingjin said nonchalantly.

Kill me? Then why don’t you try it!

Tipsy, Li Qingshan smiled and thought to himself.

The celebratory banquet became an even grander celebratory banquet. It lasted deep into the night before disbanding.

Li Qingshan and Xiao An returned to their dwelling in the Chain mountains. Ru Xin also accompanied them.

Now that the fighting had come to an end, there was no need for her to constantly refine pills to save people. She could take a break now. She wanted to go back and rest up. She was still thinking about the “great gift” Li Qingshan had promised her, so along the way, she gave into her curiosity.

“Where’s my great gift?”

“We’ll talk about it once we get back.” Li Qingshan smiled mysteriously.

Returning to the chain mountains, Li Qingshan sent Xiao An back to the dwelling first before returning to Ru Xin’s dwelling with her.

Li Qingshan cut right to the chase, directly pulling out all the spiritual herbs in his hundred treasures pouch and piling them up on the stone table.

Most of them were spiritual herbs that the six clans of night roamers had offered up during his three years of secluded cultivation. There were also a few that came from killing and robbing cultivators of the Daemon Suppression alliance, which also amounted to quite the sum. He had held onto them for all this time, leaving them in his hundred treasures pouch, as Ru Xin had neither the time or effort to deal with them.

“Is this the great gift you were speaking of?” Ru Xin said in surprise. The amount of spiritual herbs Li Qingshan had taken out last time had already surprised her, but comparing it to this time, she realised she had still underestimated it.

Never had she seen so many spiritual herbs in her life. Just the amount alone had completely surpassed what Li Qingshan had taken out in the past, and they were nowhere close in terms of value too.

One a thousand-year spiritual herb could match a whole pile of regular, cultivated spiritual herbs. Yet, there were a hundred stalks of thousand-year spiritual herbs at the very least before her, piled up like vegetables. How could she not be shocked?

“Same as before. You’ll gather the other spiritual herbs, and once you refine them, you can have thirty percent.”

“That won’t do. I’ve refined too many pills lately. Now, I feel sick just from seeing spiritual herbs. Just thinking about alchemy gives me a headache,” Ru Xin rubbed her forehead and said in fake distress.

That was to hide the quivering emotions in her eyes. If she converted all of them into spiritual stones, there would probably be enough to fill her entire dwelling. Most importantly, the origins of these spiritual herbs were enough to expose many things, which only confirmed her suspicions.

She had never considered receiving trust on a level like this.

“Hmph, you’re getting such a good deal already, yet you’re still not satisfied. If you don’t want to do it, then I’ll go find someone else.” That was what Li Qingshan said, but he had no intentions of leaving.

“Why don’t you get that old father-in-law Han of yours to help you out? With the Han family’s influence, finding a few suitable alchemists won’t be difficult at all. You’ll save the thirty percent you’ll have to share with me too.”

“You’re the one I trust, alright? Are you happy now? Stop it. Are you going to refine it or not?”

This kind of trust could not be built up overnight, but at a time like this, Li Qingshan felt like he could trust her with many things, which even included a few important secrets.

Ru Xin found that soothing. For some reason, she chucked to herself. In other words, even Han Qiongzhi doesn’t know these secrets about him! Wait, why am I comparing myself to her?

“So be it. Since you’re already pleading with me like this, I’ll refine it. Though, you probably haven’t even counted your spiritual herbs, right? Even if a stalk or ten go missing, you wouldn’t know!” Ru Xin accepted all the spiritual herbs and blinked her eyes with a smile.

“Who said? If even a stalk goes missing, I’ll be questioning you.” Slightly taken aback, Li Qingshan refused to back down.

In reality, she was completely right. He had indeed not counted it. If Ru Xin wanted to steal his spiritual herbs, there was no need to go to such great lengths at all. She could just directly claim a few cauldrons of pills were destroyed during the refining process, or she could under-report the sum of pills. There were plenty of methods for her to embezzle him.

“Just by you?” Ru Xin said in disdain.

“Do you want to try it?” Li Qingshan shot a glance at her.

“Come at me then!” Ru Xin shot a glance back at him with contempt, but she suddenly felt rather uneasy. Li Qingshan’s expression changed slightly before she knew it.

They were a man and a woman in a room alone, staring at one another.

Suddenly, Li Qingshan felt rather tempted. Perhaps it was the alcohol at work, or perhaps it was because the burden had suddenly been lifted from his mind. Through his tipsiness, Ru Xin’s gentle face and wonderful, graceful figure possessed an indescribable charm. She was enchanting.