Mi Xingzhe was dragged Yun Qingyi's ear firmly twisted the whole time.
"Ah, it hurts, hurts, hurts Senior brother."
As soon as they entered the room, Yun Qingyi pushed Mi Xingzhe down onto a chair.
"It's hurts!" Mi Xingzhe said.
Yun Qingyi was so angry that he paced back and forth in front of him.
"You still dare say that? Are you itchy because you have not been beaten for three days? You made such a huge mess again. When Master comes back later, you are done for."
The time went back a few hours earlier.
"Nian Nian~"
Yue Ruling was dressed in plain clothes today, which made her look especially fresh and pretty.
Mi Xingzhe smiled and shook the wine jug in his hand. "Sister Ruling."
"Try this." Mi Xingzhe raised his hand and poured her a cup.
"Mm, this wine is completely different from your master's blue snow clear brew. It is rich and mellow when it enters the mouth, and the fragrance is strong. Where did you get it?"
"From my master's storeroom."
"Pff. It was your master's wine again? You are way too bold. You are almost drinking all of your master's wine."
"He is the kind of person who would treasure a medical book if you gave him one. As for wine and treasures and things like that, they just sit in the storeroom gathering dust. He probably does not even remember he has them. Such good wine would be wasted if no one drank it."
As he spoke, Mi Xingzhe picked up the wine jug beside him and looked at it.
"Mountain Heavenly Blessing. Just hearing the name, you can tell this wine has some age to it."
"Nian Nian,I have not seen you come to me these days. What have you been busy with?" Yue Ruling asked.
"Oh, I have been busy taking care of my savior."
"You mean that little demon from the hall last time? I do not think he was hurt badly."
"No, no. There was also a girl with him named Hua Ruoying."
"Hua Ruoying? Why did I not hear you mention her that day in the hall?"
Mi Xingzhe drank a mouthful of wine and said, "I was afraid of dragging her into unnecessary trouble."
"But speaking of that, little junior brother, your temper is usually pretty good. Why were you so rude in the hall that day? Your master definitely punished you after going back, right?" Yue Ruling suddenly thought of what had happened in the hall that day.
"How would I know that Immortal Sovereign was so unreasonable? Besides, I was perfectly fine outside the hall. But the moment I entered, I just felt this nameless anger rising inside me, and I could not press it down at all." Mi Xingzhe thought back on it and said.
"You cannot be that rude again next time. Even if the Immortal Sovereign usually gives your master some face, he is still the Immortal Sovereign. Talking back to him like that without leaving any room was improper. If you do that, it puts your master in a very difficult position. Do you understand?" Yue Ruling reminded him gently.
"I really did not mean to that day." Mi Xingzhe scratched his head and explained awkwardly.
"Right, the Hua-whatever girl you just mentioned, is she sick?"
"She was injured by someone." Mi Xingzhe said.
"Injured?"
"She was originally from Wuming Demon Mountain. Since Master saw that they had nowhere to go, he arranged for the two of them to stay for now in the wooden hut in Peach Blossom Grove. I heard from Master that she accidentally overheard people planning something on the road, and after they found out, she was attacked and injured." Mi Xingzhe explained slowly.
"Planning something? What in the Liao Yin Immortal Realm would need secret planning? People from Wuming Demon Mountain really know how to make up stories.Could it be that she accidentally ran into people having a secret date?"
" She saw two men!" Mi Xingzhe tried hard to explain.
"Two men? Ugh. Broad daylight and they did not even try to hide it." Yue Ruling said with a look of disgust.
"Planning, planning! Sister, what on earth are you thinking about?"
"Fine, I am not joking anymore. Back to the point. What did she hear?" Yue Ruling asked.
"That I do not know, but I heard it had something to do with an inner core. Because of this, my master even made a special trip..." Mi Xingzhe almost let it slip.
"A trip where?" Yue Ruling pressed.
"Oh, anyway, it is a long story. Drink, drink." Mi Xingzhe quickly changed the subject.
After several rounds of wine, it soon became deep into the quiet night.
Mi Xingzhe and Yue Ruling stumbled as they said goodbye to each other and then headed in the directions of their own residences.
Maybe because he was too drunk, Mi Xingzhe could no longer tell direction clearly. Without realizing it, he actually wandered outside the Medicine King's pill room.
"Pill... room?" Mi Xingzhe looked drunkenly at the sign above the door. "What am I doing here?"
As he stood there swaying at the entrance of the pill room and looked up at the two words on the sign, he did not notice that there was a person sitting on the roof behind him.
That white figure on the roof had also been drinking alone under the moon.
"I was not trying to hurt you that day." After saying that, he drunkenly pulled out a short blade. "I will get it back for you. Let it count as an apology." With that, his hand rose and fell, and he stabbed the blade into his own shoulder.
At this moment, Mi Xingzhe's voice drew the white figure's attention.
"Why is it you again? You really are an eyesore. Since you are so curious, then go inside and have a look." The lips on the roof curved into a wicked smile, and the voice muttered in a low tone.
Then, with a few casual strokes in the air, a streak of dark red energy silently slipped into the belt at Mi Xingzhe's waist.
Mi Xingzhe, who had just been swaying around like a limp shrimp from drink, suddenly stopped moving. He lowered his head and stood at the door of the pill room. When he raised it again, a red evil light flashed through his eyes.
The person on the roof took a drink and waved a hand toward the pill room. The door opened at once.
As if controlled by something, Mi Xingzhe walked into the pill room step by step.
Once inside, Mi Xingzhe stiffly looked around, then walked to a wall, took down the pills hanging there one by one, opened each box, and dumped all the pills onto the floor.
The young immortal attendant guarding the pill room was covered by a spell and slept heavily at the desk. He seemed completely unable to hear any of the noise Mi Xingzhe was making beside him.
As more and more pills were ruined, the person on the roof grew happier and happier, and even began dancing a little with excitement. "Tonight the moon shines, and everyone looks up. I do not know whose home my lonely thoughts will fall upon. Heaven loves the moon, yet only sings of sorrow. In the end, it cannot truly follow what people wish."
Once the destruction seemed enough, the person on the roof moved two fingers and sent out two more spells. After being struck by one spell, Mi Xingzhe kicked over the pill furnace inside the room.
The other spell broke the barrier that had been covering the young attendant. The attendant woke at once, and what he saw was a completely wrecked pill room and Mi Xingzhe lying unconscious beside the pill furnace, dead drunk.
When Yun Qingyi got the news, his face turned green with anger. He hurried over with the attendant to the front of the pill room. As soon as he entered the courtyard, he saw Mi Xingzhe standing at the door, looking lost and unsure of himself.
The old Medicine King was kind-hearted. Even though the pill room had been wrecked like this, he only laughed gently, said a few words to Yun Qingyi, and then let him take Mi Xingzhe away.
By all rights, this matter was serious enough to be brought before the Immortal Sovereign, but the old Medicine King only waved his hand carelessly and told the young attendants not to spread the matter.
"Look at you. How could you drink so much and even run into the pill room and make such a huge mess? If the Medicine King had not deliberately pressed this matter down, I would have had to go once again to the Immortal Sovereign's hall to plead for you." Yun Qingyi dragged Mi Xingzhe back toward Mirror Cloud Residence with a stern face, scolding him the whole way. Whenever he got angrier, he would jab Mi Xingzhe hard on the forehead.
"Oh, but I really do not know why. I do not remember anything that happened then. I only remember seeing the words 'pill room,' and then my hands and feet just stopped listening to me and I walked in." Mi Xingzhe argued in a wronged tone.
As they spoke, the two of them had already reached the gate of Mirror Cloud Residence. Mi Xingzhe knew that if this reached Master's ears, he definitely would not have any good end, so he stopped at the courtyard gate and hesitated, thinking whether he should go hide somewhere first.
"If you had not been dead drunk, would you remember nothing? Tell me, did you steal Master's wine again and go have a secret meeting with Ru Ling?" Yun Qingyi was so angry that he spoke without thinking.
"What secret meeting? That sounds awful. That is so rude. I was just drinking and chatting with senior sister." Mi Xingzhe said unhappily.
"Fine, my fault, wrong wording. But does that make stealing wine right?"
"Brother, I... how about I go see Miss Ruoying first and come back with you later?" Mi Xingzhe tried to make up an excuse to leave.
"Do not pull that on me. Hurry up and come back honestly. If Master does not know, then you are lucky. But if he already knows and you are not even here, I will not know how to cover for you." As Yun Qingyi spoke, he reached out to pull Mi Xingzhe, who was standing at the gate.
The moment Yun Qingyi reached for him, Mi Xingzhe wanted to run even more. His arm moved back on instinct.
Seeing that he had missed Mi Xingzhe's arm, Yun Qingyi said, "Come back with me."
"No."
Yun Qingyi saw the unwilling look all over Mi Xingzhe's face and knew that being soft was useless. So he reached out and grabbed Mi Xingzhe by the ear.
"Ah, it hurts, hurts,Brother Qingyi ,I am not going back."
"You do every day is cause trouble for me. Just wait until Master comes back and see how he deals with you."
"Wait wait wait , brother, you are the best. You have to save me. I really did not mean it, believe me. Besides, look, my arm got burned by that pill furnace." Mi Xingzhe felt wronged and showed the burn on his forearm from when he had fallen.
"You deserve it. Do you know how hot the Medicine King's pill furnace is? Stay here honestly. I am going to get medicine for you." Yun Qingyi complained out loud, but still turned around to search through the medicine chest, taking out several bottles and some clean white cloth.
"Dear senior brother, can I discuss something with you?" Mi Xingzhe asked carefully.
"Even if I say nothing, Master will find out about this."
"Not that. Brother, can you take off the Gui Ning on my hand?"
"Take off Gui Ning? Why?"
"Brother please , it's hurt." Mi Xingzhe pouted and shook his injured hand, acting cute.
"Hurt? That shouldn't be happening.I think you should be tied up, so you stop going out and causing me so much trouble."
After finishing the medicine, Yun Qingyi poked Mi Xingzhe on the forehead again. Though he was scolding him, he still raised his hand, chanted a spell, and removed the Gui Ning from Mi Xingzhe's wrist.
The moment he saw Gui Ning undone, Mi Xingzhe immediately lit up with joy.
"I am telling you, Master will be back in a moment. If he does not know, good. But if he does, you had better think clearly about how you are going to explain it."
Yun Qingyi put the medicine bottles back on the shelf behind him one by one.
"Nian'nian, this time you..."
Yun Qingyi turned around, and Mi Xingzhe had already slipped out of the room at some point.
As it happened, Li Luoning had just gone to the pill room to borrow a few medical books from the Medicine King.
The moment he entered the courtyard, he saw the young attendants busy cleaning up the mess.
Just then the Medicine King came out of the pill room, and Li Luoning quickly stepped forward.
"Medicine King, are you... cleaning the pill room today?"
"Xiao Yi, good that you came. Here is a bottle of ointment for burns. Take it back for your little disciple. Burns from my pill furnace need to be treated carefully, or they will leave scars."
As he spoke, the Medicine King took out a bottle and handed it to Li Luoning.
"Ointment for burns?" Li Luoning looked even more puzzled.
"Take it for your little disciple Yun Wan'nen. I saw that he took a pretty bad fall in my pill room. But as for medicine for bruises and such, I know you have plenty, so I will not give you any more."
The Medicine King stroked his beard and smiled.
"Nian? How would Nian end up in your pill room?"
"It is no big deal. Your little disciple got drunk last night and accidentally fell into my pill room. Luckily, the fire in the furnace was not very strong at the time, or else he would definitely have been badly hurt. Early this morning, I had Qingyi bring him back."
"Drunk again. I truly did not know of this. On his behalf, I am apologizes to you. It is my failure as a teacher that made you laugh at us." Li Luoning apologized at once.
"It is nothing, nothing. Young people drink a little now and then. When I was young, if I smelled good wine, my legs would not listen to me either." The Medicine King laughed kindly and joked about himself.
"Medicine King, you jest. Nian acting this way truly means I have spoiled him too much in daily life." Li Luoning apologized again.
"It is fine, it is fine. They are only some pills. No need to take it to heart. Since your little disciple could even win over a Chenghuang beast as a companion, he must be a pure and kind person. If he can truly focus on cultivating, he will surely become something great in the future." The Medicine King said with a warm smile.
"You praise him too highly. Nian'er is mischievous by nature, fond of wine, and lets it ruin things. When I go back this time, I will definitely discipline him strictly, and another day I will bring him here to apologize to you in person."
"No need to keep it in mind. Children are young and full of spirit. Causing trouble now and then is not necessarily a bad thing. Go on, go on." The Medicine King waved his hand and turned back into the pill room.
After bowing again, Li Luoning turned and walked out of the courtyard. Two young attendants who were cleaning approached from the other side.
"The one who got drunk last night really went too far. He dumped all over the floor the Medicine King's medicine."
"Exactly. He wasted a lot of precious medicinal materials, and the Medicine King is not even going to pursue it at all."
"Well, if it were not for his master's sake, who would be this tolerant with him?"
The two were muttering softly when they saw Li Luoning walking toward them. They quickly shut their mouths, saluted, and hurried past him.
After hearing what the two young attendants had just said, Li Luoning let out a heavy sigh and walked back toward Mirror Cloud Residence.