The three brothers were quite satisfied. They hadn't intended to ask for money in the first place; this was entirely an unexpected windfall.
The three brothers left in high spirits.
Chu Xiangling gradually realized something and turned her beautiful eyes towards Mo Qi.
The surrounding people felt rather disappointed because they hadn't witnessed the scene of a beauty being mistreated. They all dispersed in disappointment.
Lin Jianye and the others were utterly bewildered. "Wasn't this money meant for those three? Why did this fair-skinned child end up keeping a large portion of it?"
It was then that they began to vaguely realize that this young man was orchestrating everything.
Most people were suffering in silence.
However, the tall, thin man was not resigned. Still lying on the ground, he glared up at Mo Qi. "It was you. You tricked us."
Mo Qi directly kicked him. "I tricked you? Do you know what kind of money you gave just now? It was for my medicinal pills. If I hadn't given those three pills, would they have recovered so quickly? They might not have even survived."
"Oh, right," he suddenly stepped on the tall, thin man again. "You reminded me. The market price for my medicinal pills is ten million spirit stone coins each. Three are thirty million spirit stone coins. You still owe me eighteen million spirit stone coins."
"I don't have it, and even if I did, I wouldn't give it to you," the tall, thin man said, looking like a dead pig unafraid of boiling water.
"I have plenty of ways," Mo Qi smiled and asked Lin Jianye his name, which was Du Tianshou.
Lin Jianye was truly scared. He carefully recalled everything that had just happened.
They had been played in the palm of his hand the entire time. While it seemed like Mo Qi had used some tricks, in reality, his strength was evident.
Even if those three brothers had used all their might, they couldn't have defeated their six people. It was only because this person in front of them had acted secretly that their side had been injured.
The fact that he injured their six people so silently and without a trace indicated that his cultivation was far superior to theirs.
Mo Qi wrote an IOU with Du Tianshou's bloodstains and then grabbed his hand to imprint it.
"This is what you owe me. I will collect from you once a month. If you fail to pay, I will beat you once, and I will keep beating you until you pay," Mo Qi said.
Du Tianshou finally caved, his face contorted. "It's not just me who owes you. Why are you only pursuing me? Besides, it wasn't us who injured those three; it was that girl. You should ask her for the money for the pills."
Mo Qi knocked him on the head. "You yourselves said that if you were given money, you would help her solve all her troubles. She already gave you money, and now you want to renege? And originally, I was going to collect from each of you, but you just had to step forward. You successfully caught my attention, and I must congratulate you."
Du Tianshou was speechless and spat out a mouthful of blood.
Mo Qi took out another medicinal pill. "Do you want to take my pill? You saw its efficacy just now; it's immediate."
Du Tianshou reached out to take the pill, but Mo Qi pulled it back. "Ten million spirit stone coins each!"
Du Tianshou immediately retracted his hand, almost in tears. "I won't take it anymore! I can endure and recover on my own!"
Mo Qi smiled. Seeing that he was somewhat of a man, he gave him a pill for free, while the others did not.
Then, as Mo Qi was about to turn and leave, Chu Xiangling hesitantly called out to him, "You, wait a moment."
Mo Qi stopped, and she gracefully walked over. "What did you give me just now?"
"Pili Dan. Would I lie to you?" Mo Qi said nonchalantly.
"Lying! I've seen Pili Dan before, and it doesn't have such great power," Chu Xiangling said, looking incredulous.
"Because what you saw was refined by others, while what I gave you now was refined by me," Mo Qi said with a hint of narcissism.
Chu Xiangling found him quite annoying at first glance, but she couldn't help it. Mo Qi's Pili Dan and his actions had indeed captivated her.
After hesitating for a few breaths, Chu Xiangling said somewhat urgently, "Do you have any more of this kind of medicinal pill?"
Mo Qi unhesitatingly took out several Pili Dans and handed them to her. She swept them up like a whirlwind and put them away.
"Given your excellent performance today, I forgive you," Chu Xiangling said to Mo Qi.
After speaking, she turned and left.
Mo Qi stood there in a daze. Forgive me? Did I do something wrong?
Afterward, all the disciples received orders to go to the Pill Hall and the Beast Hall to collect supplies.
Both outer and inner disciples would receive ten Pili Dans!
Those who had learned beast taming would also be able to bond with their desired spirit beasts, depending on their abilities!
Everyone was elated.
They hadn't expected to receive supplies; it was truly an unexpected gain!
Mo Qi already had dozens of Pili Dans in his storage bag. However, since everyone was queuing up to receive the pills, Mo Qi, unwilling to be left behind, also went to the outside of the Pill Hall and joined the queue to collect the pills.
There was never too much of a good thing!
The people distributing the pills formed two queues: one for outer disciples and one for inner disciples.
Mo Qi stood in the outer disciple queue, looking around.
He had another reason for coming to the outside of the Pill Hall: he felt that Hall Master Zhao would come to find him.
However, Hall Master Zhao didn't come; Supervisor Tong did.
He first searched the queue for Mo Qi's figure. After searching for a long time without success, he asked others, "Do you know where Mo Qi is?"
At this moment, Mo Qi put on his mask, and Supervisor Tong immediately recognized him. The others also understood what was going on.
Supervisor Tong immediately scurried over, his smile not reaching his eyes. "Master Mo, long time no see."
Mo Qi glanced at him sideways. "Don't be sarcastic. Just get to the point."
Supervisor Tong immediately sighed again, his expression grave. "The formula for the pills you gave us doesn't produce Pili Dan with sufficient power. It's not as potent as the pills refined with our original formula."
It was correct that they couldn't refine it!
Mo Qi feigned anger. "Are you doubting that I gave you a fake formula?"
Supervisor Tong immediately shook his head. "How could that be? We completely trust Master Mo's character. It's just that your formula, while seemingly simple, is actually extremely difficult to refine and highly tests the alchemist's skill. The purification of some raw materials is particularly difficult. We can't refine it, or rather, we can refine it, but the effect is simply not good enough, not even as good as the original formula."
At this moment, a group of people rushed into the Pill Hall in anger. After a short while, the sound of arguing could be heard from inside the hall.
Mo Qi gathered the gist of it from the snippets of conversation and turned to ask Supervisor Tong, "What's going on?"
Supervisor Tong sighed. "This is the third batch, and it's still your pill causing trouble. These inner disciples saw the power displayed by your Pili Dan somewhere and received very inferior Pili Dans themselves. So they came to the Pill Hall to argue. They believe Hall Master Zhao is biased, giving outer disciples such good Pili Dans while giving inner disciples such inferior ones. Hall Master Zhao said that pill wasn't refined by our Pill Hall, but they don't believe it at all. They even said that if your Pill Hall can't refine that kind of pill, it might as well close down."
"They've all angered Hall Master Zhao to death."
"Oh, I see," Mo Qi suppressed a laugh. "Then why didn't Hall Master Zhao come to find me?"
Supervisor Tong's mouth twitched, and he said with a wry smile, "He can't just swallow his pride. He spoke so harshly to you last time; how could he possibly come to find you now?"
Mo Qi nodded. "That's true."
He then added, "I thought you had refined it. So, what we are collecting now are Pili Dans refined by you according to the original formula?"
Supervisor Tong nodded. "Precisely."
Mo Qi put on a disappointed expression. "Alas, I've been queuing here for half the day. It's so contradictory. Should I continue queuing?"
Supervisor Tong said eagerly, "Master Mo doesn't need to queue! What you need to do now is go inside and refine Pili Dan."
Mo Qi shook his head. "Supervisor Tong, it's not that I'm not giving you face, but it's because Hall Master Zhao hurt my feelings that day. Now, whenever I refine pills, my heart aches, and when my heart aches, I can't refine them well, and when I can't refine them well, my heart aches even more."
Upon hearing this, even the most foolish person would understand the meaning behind his words. Supervisor Tong sighed and turned to go inside.
At this moment, a group of inner disciples surrounded Hall Master Zhao, their emotions running high, their spit almost reaching Hall Master Zhao's face.
Supervisor Tong finally managed to squeeze through the crowd and whispered in Hall Master Zhao's ear, "Mo Qi is outside. He wants you to go and speak to him personally."
Hall Master Zhao directly shot him a glare. "How arrogant is he? Who does he think he is? He wants me to go find him personally? Do I need to kneel down for him?"
Supervisor Tong shook his head and prepared to retreat.
However, more people crowded around, surrounding him as well. "Isn't this Supervisor Tong? You tell us, what's going on? Why do outer disciples receive better pills than us inner disciples? Since when did our status become inferior to outer disciples?"
Supervisor Tong wore a pained expression but said nothing, as it was impossible to explain.
If you said you couldn't refine it, they would call you stupid.
If you said you could refine it, they would ask why you weren't refining it.
In any case, when there were many people, they always seemed to be in the right.
Hall Master Zhao was furious, but the public's anger was difficult to quell. Facing so many people, he dared not act rashly.
If I can't afford to provoke them, can't I avoid them?
Hall Master Zhao chose to hide.
However, practice proved that he couldn't avoid them.
As he took one step, those people followed, always surrounding him.
Supervisor Tong, implicated by him, also couldn't get out.
But those disciples had their limits. They simply surrounded the two of them but didn't make a move. They might not be able to win if they made a move, even though they had more people.
Hall Master Zhao was hoping they would make a move, but these people stubbornly refused to fulfill his wish.
The inner disciples queuing outside, instigated by someone unknown, also rushed in, clamoring for an explanation. In reality, they didn't know what was going on.
The outer disciples who were originally queuing up were orderly receiving their pills. However, when the inner disciples caused a disturbance, the formation was completely disrupted, and it became chaotic.
At this time, the outer disciples' mentality was also strange. Although they hadn't received better Pili Dans, they all put on a show of being wealthy. Some even deliberately clutched their storage bags, and when faced with the Pili Dans prepared for distribution on the table, they appeared indifferent.