Lu Qing's mouth twitched violently. His refining had no issues, but when she tried, there was a problem? Shouldn't she be looking for her own issues instead of pinning it on him!
"Trash!" Lu Qing managed to blurt out two words after a long pause. He turned around and added, "One hour."
"One hour, for what?" Xiao Man asked doubtfully.
Lu Qing glanced at the side room, which was in disarray from the explosion, and gestured with his eyes for Xiao Man to clean it up within an hour!
Xiao Man nodded repeatedly and quickly grabbed a broom to start cleaning the side room. Looking at the alchemical furnace that had been blown into two halves, Xiao Man sighed. Why did the furnace explode? It had only been a few days, and she had already ruined three furnaces. Could it be that the furnaces were too inferior and couldn't withstand the potency of the pills?
Outside Lu Qing's cave dwelling, Zhai Ge and others hid behind rocks. "Did you hear that? It sounds like a furnace exploded."
"Would our Uncle-Master's refining explode?"
"Judging by the sound, it seems like my disciple."
The group of them looked at Jun Fei'er in unison. Not only did her disciple blow up their Uncle-Master's refining room, but she also wanted to blow up his cave dwelling?
Jun Fei'er rubbed her nose. "Don't look at me like that. I don't know what's going on. That kid's refining always explodes. I watched her practice, her steps were flawless, and her ingredients were precise, but at the crucial moment, it always explodes!"
"Could it be that kid isn't suited for refining?" Xuan Hu asked curiously. "So no matter how strictly she follows the methods we taught her, the furnace will explode."
"Senior Brother, why don't you say she has a vendetta against alchemical furnaces!"
Xuan Hu chuckled and turned back to stare at Lu Qing's cave dwelling. "That person has been inside for a whole day. When do you think Xiao Qin will come running out crying?"
"She won't come running out crying," Jun Fei'er said confidently. She had never seen Xiao Man cry, but she had seen Xiao Man beat others until they cried. "I'm worried that she'll anger Uncle-Master, and he won't hold back and will injure her."
"I haven't seen anyone who could endure Uncle-Master's 'good intentions' without crying," Zhai Ge said gloomily. Although he was also a little worried, he understood that Lu Qing meant well, but few people could withstand his well-intentioned actions.
The group waited outside for several hours. Suddenly, they heard another explosion, which even shook the ground. They looked at each other in bewilderment. "It exploded again!"
Just as they were betting on who's refining had exploded, they saw the usually calm and collected Lu Qing, looking disheveled, with a person dangling from his hand, rapidly approaching. He threw the person he was holding towards them and went back without looking back.
Seeing Lu Qing about to leave, Xiao Man sprang up and grabbed his leg. "You're a person of your word! I followed the methods you taught me. If the furnace explodes, it's your fault! You won't teach me the correct method, and I won't leave!"
Lu Qing tried to shake her off with disgust, but Xiao Man clung to his leg like an octopus, impossible to dislodge. Her beautiful eyes glared at the three people who were watching the spectacle.
"Jun Fei'er, take your person away."
Jun Fei'er blinked. Was Uncle-Master asking her to take the person away?
"Uncle-Master, are you begging me?"
Lu Qing choked. He had always been the one others begged him, never the other way around. He immediately walked back into the cave dwelling, ignoring the koala clinging to his leg, and returned as if no one else was there.
After Lu Qing and Xiao Man disappeared, the three senior and junior disciples looked at each other, disbelief in their eyes.
"Uncle-Master is angry."
"Uncle-Master is annoyed."
"Uncle-Master is begging."
The three of them, as if they had discovered a new continent, said in unison, "Finally, someone can handle him!"
If Lu Qing knew what the three outside were thinking, he would have found a way to deal with them. However, he was currently at his wit's end, tormented by Xiao Man, and had no energy to care about anyone else.
As Xiao Man entered Lu Qing's cave dwelling, the disciples of the Hall of Hundred Medicines started placing bets on how many days Xiao Man would last in Lu Qing's cave dwelling and whether she would come out unharmed. Everyone was speculating if Xiao Man would become another entry in Lu Qing's dark history, another disciple driven mad by Lu Qing in the Hall of Hundred Medicines.
Fu Shen dragged Kong Qing and the others over stealthily, intending to investigate the situation. However, they witnessed their usually impassive Grand Uncle-Master, looking disheveled, contemptuously tossing Xiao Man out. Yet, Xiao Man shamelessly clung to their Grand Uncle-Master's leg, crying and refusing to leave! It was the first time in history someone had tearfully begged not to leave!
The scene was so surreal that even Kong Qing felt that the sun must have risen from the west today. He specifically checked the sun's direction. It was definitely not evening; it had to be morning, otherwise, why would someone be crying and begging not to leave the Grand Uncle-Master's cave dwelling!
Poison Lady squeezed to the front and, seeing this, grinned. "I told you, there's no one my boss can't handle!"
"Why can Junior Brother Xiao handle Grand Uncle-Master?"
"You wouldn't understand," Poison Lady said confidently. "It takes one to know one."
Kong Qing didn't understand the meaning of this phrase, but Fu Shen immediately grasped it. "Junior Sister Shi Lan, are you saying that Junior Brother Xiao Qin is a great villain, even more wicked than Grand Uncle-Master!"
Poison Lady nodded and smiled. "Isn't that true? I've never seen such a wicked person who does bad things so righteously."
"So, does that mean Grand Uncle-Master is no match for Junior Brother Xiao?"
"Match?" Poison Lady's eyes twinkled. "I haven't seen her meet her match yet."
"Is Junior Brother Xiao really that powerful?" Fu Shen asked with great curiosity.
"Senior Brothers all know that we came from the Land of No Law, right?" Poison Lady inquired.
"We know. Junior Sister, you've worked hard," Kong Qing quickly replied.
"Most of the people in the Land of No Law are heinous villains. Their leader is Mad Blade," Poison Lady recounted. "Mad Blade leads the Mad Blade Gang in the Land of No Law, specializing in bullying newcomers from the Eight Divisions and isolated individuals from other factions."
"What does this have to do with Junior Brother Xiao?"
"She came from the Eight Divisions and encountered Mad Blade as the first person she met," Poison Lady said, her eyes sparkling with excitement. "Mad Blade suffered his greatest loss at her hands. Not only did his robbery attempt fail, but Xiao Boss also stripped him naked and hung him upside down from a tree."
Kong Qing's mouth twitched. This personality was truly unyielding.
Fu Shen, on the other hand, was greatly amused. "What happened afterward?"
"Mad Blade suffered such a great loss, he naturally wouldn't let it go. He would search high and low to capture her, but even after turning the Land of No Law upside down, he couldn't find her. Instead, Xiao Boss, along with her people, wiped out his Mad Blade Gang and cut off his head, displaying it in the Land of No Law as a warning."