Yun Wuji shut his eyes and started refining the Ice Phoenix's in blood. The instant the drop merged into his body, his temperature plummeted sharply. Instinctively, he began abs energy from the Heavenly herfrost Lake.

  The process sted about five minutes. Yun Wuji slowly opened his eyes, intending to thank Mu Xuanyin, only to find she had already vanished.

  "How cold..." Yun Wuji muttered, shaking his head before diving deep into the ke to chat with the Ice Phoenix.

  ...

  After leaving the Heavenly herfrost Lake, Yun Wuji returo his room and colpsed onto a soft sofa, sprawling out with his legs hanging over the armrest. He pulled out a crystal orb and started chatting with his wives.

  This had bee a daily routihey were so aced to it that if he didn't tact them for even a single day, they would probably start w about him.

  "Husband~" The moment Yun Wuji activated the crystal, the voices of his wives greeted him from the other side. Obviously, they had been waiting for him.

  ...

  After spending a long time chatting with his wives, Yun Wuji finally said goodbye and ehe e. Just as the crystal dimmed, a sudden knock at the door caught his attention.

  "Fair Bingyun?" Yun Wuji called out as he opehe door. A beautiful woman, as if she had stepped out of a painting, stood before him.

  He smiled and gnced behind her. Not seeing the annoying Mu Xiaoliaepped aside.

  "Xiaolian is in her cultivation room," Mu Bingyun seemed to notice his little as and said calmly. She theered the room and tinued, "I came for what you asked of me yesterday."

  Yun Wuji wasn't embarrassed by her exposing his pettiness. Instead, he excimed, "Really? Thank you!"

  Yesterday, he asked Mu Bingyun if she could provide him with a list of all the medies, elixirs, and pill recipes avaible in the sect, along with their prices and release schedule.

  Surprisingly, Mu Bingyun pleted the task in just one day.

  "It's nothing plex," Mu Bingyun said calmly, handing him a smaller blue crystal. "I just had to ask the people w in the resources hall to pile a list for me."

  "Thanks," Yun Wuji took the crystal with both hands and thanked her. Although it was indeed easy for her to gather this information, it was only because she was the beloved sister of the sect master. If it were anyone else, getting access to such details would be very difficult, especially the recipes. Recipes were always kept as secrets, and it was extremely hard for ao eveheir hands on a handful of them.

  "What are you pnning to do with it?" Mu Bingyun g the blue crystal and asked.

  "I am pnning to open a business," Yun Wuji said, then he looked at Mu Bingyun with ear eyes and added, "Would you like to be my partner?"

  "Business?" Mu Bingyun was fused, w what kind of business he was talking about. Suddenly, she thought of something and asked, "Are you pnning to refine pills? That won't work. Even if you know how to refine pills, it's a time-ing job. If you focus too much effort on it, it will affect your cultivation!"

  Even if Yun Wuji were a genius alchemist, hoills could he possibly refine on his own? A hundred? A thousand? That wouldn't be nearly enough to start a business.

  "Don't worry, Fairy Bingyun, I know more than ahat cultivation is the true path, and I will never it for anything else. However, I am indeed quite talented when it es to pill refining," Yun Wuji spoke calmly. "I have a high demand for profou cores. Could I trouble you to issue some advertisements or missions to exge profound cores for pills?"

  "Naturally, you will get your share as well."

  Yun Wuji had a very high demand for Profou Cores, and since he couldly plunder... cough! borrow from others, for now, he thought of replig the model he used ba Blue Pole Star—making people work for him.

  It was a win-win situation: he would get his Profou Cores, and the disciples would receive pills that could boost their cultivation.

  Mu Bingyun stared at him for a long time, then spoke softly, "I'll help you... You don't o pay me anything. You saved my life, and that is a debt that is as high as the heavens."

  "I only hope that you do not your cultivation."

  Yun Wuji stood in silence for a long time. Aside from his women and his adoptive father, he had never experiehis level of care from anyone. In fact, even with his women, it was usually him taking care of them.

  So, it felt strao be treated this way by Mu Bingyun, like a little brother, or perhaps even a child...

  "Hmm, I promise to never my cultivation," Yun Wuji took a deep breath and nodded firmly. Then he added, "Fairy Bingyun, to express my gratitude, I've prepared a small present for you."

  "Please sit down, I'll bring it right now," he said, pointing to the table before turning toward a small kit.

  "A present?" Mu Bingyun was mildly surprised, but she didn't probe further. She followed his gesture and sat down.

  Soon, Yun Wuji came out of the kit with a cake in his hand. The cake was icy blue and shaped like a cloud.

  "I made this cake for you, I Frozen Cloud (Bingyun)," Yun Wuji walked over with a smile and pced the cake down oable. "Please have a taste."

  "...Frozen Cloud?" Mu Bingyun stared at the cake for a long time, then picked up a fork, cut a small piece, and pced it in her mouth. As she chewed, her expression slowly began to ge. At first, she didn't think much of it, but as the taste enveloped her taste buds, her eyes widened in surprise. A strange numbness spread through her body as if the fvor was awakening something deep within her.

  She felt as if she were floating among soft clouds, with fwless white snow dang around her. She closed her eyes and immersed herself in the heavenly sensation for quite some time.

  Yun Wuji sat down aed his on his hand as he observed her.

  After a long while, Mu Bingyun opened her eyes a out a long sigh. "Thank you for this gift. I uand now where your fiden refining pills es from."

  "Haha, as long as Fairy Bingyun likes it," Yun Wuji chuckled and replied, "If you ever want more, you always tell me."

  "..." Mu Bingyun didn't respht away. Instead, her gaze lingered on the cake.

  ...

  One month ter, a rge number of missions requesting the hunting of beasts and the colle of profou cores were issued in the mission hall. When they first appeared, they caused a huge otion among the disciples and even the elders.

  The tent of the missions wasn't anything strange, as the sect regurly issued simir missions. What was truly surprising, however, was not the missions themselves, but the rewards!

  The rewards were quite unusual; valuable pills in exge for just profou cores, and there were even some new pills they had never heard of, like the Amorous Frost Pill.

  It was said that this pill had the same effect as the Amorous Frost Dew, it could se the marrow and meridians, permaly increasing both the body's and profound veins' affinity toward icy profound energy!

  The Amorous Frost Dew was a very precious spirit liquid, something that many disciples yearned for. It was so valuable that even Ice Phoenix Pace disciples could only receive one vial per year.

  So, when the tent of the mission's rewards was revealed, it caused a huge otion.

  Many people didn't believe it at first, but it was only after they found out that Mu Bingyun was the one who issued the missions that they started to trust their credibility.

  After all, Mu Bingyun was not only the head of the 36th Pace of the Ice Phoenix and the seost powerful person in the Divine Ice Phoenix Sect, but she also had an even more terrifying identity; she was the sister of the great realm king!

  *A month had passed, and she had fully healed and regained her strength.*

  Soon, tless disciples began to frantically scramble to take these missions. The se ectacur, with the number of disciples reag hundreds of thousands!

  ...

  Today was the final day Yun Wuji was allowed to ehe Heavenly herfrost Lake. After exiting the ke, he looked around but couldn't find Mu Xuanyin. He sighed, gave the ke o look, and then turo leave.

  Ever since she gave him the Ice Phoenix's in blood, Mu Xuanyin had not appeared again. It seemed as though she was unwilling to see him.

  Wheuro his room, Yun Wuji slumped onto the sofa and muttered, "Ever since Jasmi, nothing is going as pnned."

  The moment his words fell, Hei Xiaolian appeared, floating in front of his face, and said in a deep voice, "Wake up to reality!"

  "Nothing ever goes as pnned in this accursed world."

  "The longer you live, the more you'll realize that the only things that truly exist in this reality are merely pain, suffering, and futility."

  "WTF? Who do you think you are, Uchiha Madara?" Yun Wuji stretched both his hands and pulled her cheeks.

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