Chapter 458
Chapter 458
Li Yi saw Xu Lingfeng and said, “There you are.”
Xu Lingfeng nodded and said, “Yeah.”
Li Yi usually stayed at the weapon shop. There were few customers, but they were Nascent Souls. Once the deal was made, the profit could cover the expense for three years.
Li Yi asked, “Did you see Xiao Jinting? Does he have any difficulties?”
Xu Lingfeng looked at Li Yi in dismay. “You only care about him. You don’t care about me at all.”
Li Yi shook his head and said helplessly, “Don’t be jealous. Why didn’t you learn any lesson from the mistakes you made?”
Xu Lingfeng said gloatingly, “He doesn’t have any difficulties. He’s out of spiritual stones. He’s broke.”
Li Yi frowned. “You…”
“I gave him fifty thousand upper-grade spiritual stones.” Xu Lingfeng gave all the spiritual stones that he earned to Xiao Jinting. Now he was broke.
Li Yi nodded and said, “Good.”
Xu Lingfeng was speechless.
He couldn’t help saying, “You treat him too well.”
Li Yi said indifferently, “He treats Muan well. If it weren’t for Xiao Jinting, Muan might be still in the Barbarian Continent.”
Xu Lingfeng pursed his mouth. “You are right. I wonder how Xiao Jinting’s alchemistic techniques are. He’s very confident.”
Li Yi lowered his head and narrowed his eyes, deep in thought.
…
When Xu Muan brought a dozen bottles of pills over, Xu Lingfeng was dumbfounded.
He said suspiciously, “Did Xiao Jinting make these pills?”
After Xiao Jinting got the fifty thousand upper-grade spiritual stones, he disappeared. Xu Lingfeng thought Xiao Jinting hid away. He didn’t know that Xiao Jinting went to make pills.
Xu Muan nodded and said, “Yes. There are quite some pills, so you’d better sell them in batches.”
Li Yi looked at the pills and said, “The Li family needs the pills. I can negotiate the price for you. I’m sure you can sell them at a good price.”
Xu Muan smiled and said, “Daddy, that’s great. Thank you.”
Xu Lingfeng asked in disbelief, “Did Xiao Jinting make these pills?”
Xu Muan nodded and said, “Yes. He was in a hurry, so the pills don’t look very good.”
Xu Lingfeng was surprised. The pills were good although they didn’t look that way.
After Xu Muan chatted with them for a while, he left.
Li Yi watched Xu Muan leave, deep in thought.
Xu Lingfeng frowned and said, “Did Xiao Jinting make these pills? Is our son lying?”
The pills were on Level Eight or Level Nine. Even in the Green Continent, there were very few ninth-level alchemists. Xu Lingfeng was surprised that Xiao Jinting was able to make pills that helped Nascent Souls at the advanced level.
Those ninth-level alchemists in the Green Continent were arrogant. The elders of the Xu family had to wait and pay high for the pills made by the ninth-level alchemists without being guaranteed that they would get the pills. Xiao Jinting was on the same level as them.
Li Yi shook his head and said, “I think Muan is telling the truth. Xiao Jinting has made the pills.”
Xu Lingfeng couldn’t help saying, “But he’s too young.”
Li Yi said, “Xiao Jinting is not Xiao Jinting.”
Xu Lingfeng said, “Yi, what are you talking about?”
Li Yi lowered his head and said, “After I knew Muan is our son, I made a thorough investigation. When he was young, he was sold to the Xiao family and led a wretched life. The Xiao family abused him like an animal.”
As he spoke, Li Yi grew resentful.
Xu Lingfeng said, “But…”
Li Yi said, “I know. Do you want to say Xiao Jinting was close to Muan?”
“When Muan was a teenager, he was expelled out of the family with Xiao Jinting because Xiao Linfeng and Wang Lu disappeared. After that, Xiao Jinting grew addicted to drinking and gambling. He was worthless.”
Xu Lingfeng widened his eyes and said, “How could that happen?”
Li Yi said, “One day, Xiao Jinting suddenly changed. He became ambitious and started to treat Muan well. He not only made rapid progress in his cultivation but also grew much nicer. He had completely changed as if he was someone else.”
Xu Lingfeng widened his eyes and said, “Did someone snatch his body?”
Li Yi nodded and said, “I think so. I tested Muan, but he didn’t admit it. I think my guess is right. I talked to Xiaodong, and he seems to know about that.”
Xu Lingfeng grabbed Li Yi’s wrist and said, “Why didn’t you tell me?”
Li Yi moved his wrist and said, “It’s only my guess, and it is useless telling you about it.”
Something came across Xu Lingfeng’s mind. After they arrived at Green Cloud Immortal Sect, Li Yi was nice to Xiao Linfeng. After a while, he detested Xiao Linfeng. Xu Lingfeng had thought Li Yi disliked Xiao Linfeng because of his low cultivation level, but he didn’t think Li Yi was a snob. Looking back, Li Yi seemed to have known about something.
Xu Lingfeng asked, “Did Xiao Linfeng treat our son badly?”
Li Yi nodded and said, “Yes. Muan used to suffer a lot.”
He lowered his head and thought, “Xiao Linfeng didn’t abuse Muan, but he ignored my son.”
Thinking of Xu Muan’s wretched past, Li Yi was resentful, but Xu Fu had died, and Xu Guanghua had gone mad. He didn’t know how to vent his anger.
Li Yi said, “I think a dead master transmigrated into Xiao Jinting’s body, and that master was good at alchemy.”
Xu Lingfeng nodded and said, “Yi, you are brainy. That explains everything.”