Yang Kai turned to Su Yan, his voice low. "Can you settle them in the sect? I'm just a nobody here, no status to speak of. But you're a core figure in High Heaven Pavilion. If they're under your protection, no one will dare harm them."
Su Yan's icy facade softened as she looked at him, a faint smile playing on her lips. "Of course," she said, her voice calm but warm. She turned to the girls, her authority undeniable. "You'll have quarters in the inner sect. No one will trouble you while you're under my care."
Mo Yanyu's eyes flickered with reluctant gratitude, while Mu Yu Die nodded quietly, her zither clutched tightly. Di Yalan's smirk faded, replaced by a nod of respect. "Thank you," she said, her tone sincere.
Su Yan stepped closer to Yang Kai, her fingers brushing his cheek. "Don't keep me waiting too long," she teased, leaning in to press a soft, lingering kiss to his lips. Then, with a swirl of white robes, she vanished like a cold breeze, leaving the girls staring after her in awe.
The air warmed again, the tension easing as the girls exchanged glances. "We'll make this work," Mo Yanyu said at last.
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Yang Kai began to take care of his own. Glancing around his secluded cave, he couldn't help but secretly be surprised; he found that his home had undergone a change.
When he left it was only a cold and dark cave, but now, this cave was more like a new home, not only did it have tables and chairs, there were many pots of flowers, calligraphy and paintings hung on the walls, decorations and embellishments filled every corner.
Even on the stone bed there was also warm and comfortable bedding. Having been engrossed with Su Yan for so long he had still failed to notice.
[This… should be the results of Xia Ning Chang and Su Yan's efforts.]
The transformation was pretty good. Sitting, a thought flashed, a wordless Black Book appeared in his hand.
These days, after every breakthrough, whether it was a small realm or a great realm, Yang Kai will look at this wordless Black Book, hoping to discover some new mystery or benefit.
But after many times getting his hopes up, he would end up disappointed; the more times this happened, the less enthusiastic Yang Kai became.
The Black Book had already given him plenty of help, and even if he could not get anything more from it in the future, Yang Kai was confident that he could still grow and advance. With such a thought, his mood had become a lot better. Waiting for handouts was not the way forward, even if the Black Book contained even more miraculous things, if he himself did not work hard it would all be useless in the end.
Yang Kai did not expect to get something from it, but still readily flipped to the fifth page and poured Yuan Qi into the Black Book.
But unlike the previous attempts during his time, this time the Black Book actually had a reaction.
"Hmm?" Yang Kai couldn't help but smile, staring closely at the Black Book while continuing to pour in his Yuan Qi.
A layer of strange ripples spread, immediately followed by the Black Book emitting a golden light, but unlike before, these golden lights did not leap out of the Black Book, but instead connected together, forming a dense complex pattern, similar to an advanced Spirit Array.
After a brief moment, a line of text appeared.
Medicinal King Valley, Myriad Drug Pond!
A few breaths later, this line of text faded out, and the golden light from the Black Book gradually disappeared.
Yang Kai wrinkled his brow; this time was very different from all the previous ones. The Black Book had not given him anything, but instead had told him the name of a place. Medicinal King Valley? Myriad Drug Pond? The names stirred a faint memory.
Medicine King Valley! Yang Kai naturally knew about this place. It was a very special Sect, the entire Valley was full of renowned Alchemists; Medicinal King Valley's member's cultivation was not necessarily high, nor was their means necessarily strong, their overall combat strength was not even on par with a first-class Sect and could only be considered slightly stronger than a second-class force.
However, such a force had a deeper heritage and longer inheritance than any other Sect in existence; it was said that its history stretched across thousands of years. After so many years, even many superpowers had risen and fell along the endless river of time, but Medicine King Valley still endured like an immortal pillar.
Its status was absolute; even the Eight Great Families did not dare to underestimate the existence know as Medicine King Valley. Every year, countless cultivators from all over the world would bring Precious Treasures and rare materials to Medicine King Valley in order to appeal to their Master Alchemists to refine pills for them. Medicine King Valley had thus formed intricate and unfathomable ties with almost every Sect in existence.
In other words, anyone who dared offend Medicine King Valley was essentially offending the entire world!
There were even rumors that there was once a Great Sect's Leader who traveled to Medicine King Valley to ask one of the Valley Masters to refine a pill, but for some reason was rejected. In this Sect Leader's anger, he actually attacked and killed a number of the Valley's people.
This became a huge incident, and after Medicine King Valley called out for justice, that Great Sect, in the span of a single night, was annihilated.
These rumors were not necessarily true, but they were certainly not groundless, and it accurately portrayed just how terrible the influence of Medicine King Valley was.
Additionally, the Myriad Drug Pond was Medicine King Valley's forbidden area, rumor had it that miraculous events would often occur there, many alchemy masters would make pilgrimages to Medicine King Valley's foundation to seek deeper alchemy insight.
The titleless Black Book showing such a line caused Yang Kai no small headache; was he supposed to go to Medicine King Valley's Myriad Drug Pond to look for something?
Although he had been given such a direction, Yang Kai was certainly not going to go now.
First, he was completely ignorant in the ways of alchemy; going there and making such a request now would only lead to him being thrown out. Second, his priority was to ensure the safety of people around him . Once he had accomplished that, he could then think of a good way to safely sneak into Medicine King Valley to investigate.
Storing away the wordless Black Book, As Yang Kai was going to cultivate suddenly some gravel which was disturbed above him fell on top of his head.
Yang Kai looked up, his face showing a pleasant smile. The location of his secluded cave was known to only two people, one was Su Yan, the other was Xia Ning Chang.
Su Yan had just left, and certainly would not return so quickly, thus there was no need to guess who was coming.