Chapter 111 - Hundred And Eleven - I meet a pervert (2/2)

”Sorry, Sorry!” Ursam sang, but did not sound the least bit so.  ”I do not mean to tease you! Many alchemists have discovered that using purple spirit grass grown in certain locations can decreased the impurities in the resultant pill!  You are probably the youngest I have encountered though.  I, myself, did not learn of it in my alchemist years, but rather when I began selling pills as a middleman.”

”Oh?” Jin Li questioned, looking over the man's physique with a trained eye.  ”I would have said that you, sir, were a martial artist.” As ever, Jin Li treated with respect for those that had strength.

”I am.. I mean I was,” Ursam replied, without his grin faltering in the slightest.  ”But before that, I was an alchemist, just not a great one.  I chose to change my fate and pursue the great arts of the warrior instead.  Actually, it was for a girl, but don't tell my wife!  That girl ended up becoming Dao Companions with my senior martial brother anyway.”

”D-dao c-companion?” Leon blurted out the question without thought.

Ursam looked a little startled as he glanced at a rather innocent expression on the glasses youth's face, before a touch of wickedness altered his curved smile into more of a smirk.  ”Long term cultivation partner... you know the old saying; 'birds of a feather, cultivate together...' although really there is only one bird and one nest, if you catch my meaning!”

Leon flushed, his skin turning a brilliant red, causing the old Cultivator to burst into even louder stomach felt laughter.

Mr Clawse rolled his eyes once more and chided; ”Stop teasing the boy.”

”What?!” Ursam questioned as if he was being unfairly admonished.  ”They are young, healthy youths!  What boy of their age hasn't wondered over the mysteries of the female body? Right?” He glanced over at the pair, with a slightly sly glance before adding; ”unless, their interest is one requiring two birds and a very small...”

”Ursam!”  Mr Clawse crossed his arms about his thin chest.

”Such a prude,” Ursam complained.  ”The path of a Cultivator is thick with Yang, throw a stone and it is hard pressed to find Yin.  It's only natural for comfort to be sought where comfort is sought.”  Leon couldn't help his wandering eyes from peeking at Jin Li's expressions, giving Ursam more joyful insight than he meant to.  Jin Li remained completely impossible to read however, his face stoic.

Mr Clawse sighed and suggested; ”Let's get back to the subject of pills, shall we?”