Chapter 766: Backlogged Orders

She had thought her longing for Ye Yuan was only because he resembled that person.

But after returning to the Divine Realm, Yue Mengli found that the image of Ye Yuan lingered in her mind, impossible to shake off.

At this moment, Yue Mengli's face was filled with nothing but yearning.

“Given Ye Yuan’s cultivation speed, he’s probably already ascended to the Divine Realm by now, right?” Ye Qing suddenly said.

Yue Mengli nodded but said worriedly, “That’s exactly what I’m worried about! Zhou Yan planted the mark of the Sunflare Heart Pupil on Ye Yuan. If he’s truly set on dealing with Ye Yuan, with his current strength, Ye Yuan is definitely no match!”

Ye Qing, however, laughed and said, “I don’t know about others, but that kid Ye Yuan is incredibly tricky! A tiny mark like that probably won’t have much effect on him.”

Yue Mengli’s eyes lit up. “Really?”

Ye Qing nodded. “When have you ever seen that kid suffer a loss? And if Ye Yuan really is the person you suspect, how could he care about a mere Zhou Yan? Don’t worry. When that kid appears before you again, he’ll definitely have Zhou Yan under his heel!”

Having followed Yue Mengli all these days, Ye Qing had learned many secrets about Ye Yuan, including Yue Mengli’s suspicions about him.

Yue Mengli said skeptically, “Really?”

“If you don’t believe me, just wait and see!” Ye Qing laughed.

Meanwhile, Zhou Yan was fuming: “That damned native actually erased the mark of my Sunflare Heart Pupil! Damn it! Damn it! I don’t believe a mere native can really cure Li’er’s illness! Zhou Yu, based on the coordinates, that native who ascended from the Boundless Realm should be in the southwestern regions. Send people there now and find that brat for me!”

“Yes, young master!” A middle-aged man who looked like a guard responded.

When Zhou Yan had entered the Boundless Realm, he had used the coordinates given by that black-clad man to tear through the interface directly. As for which region Boundless Realm martial artists ascended to, he had no idea.

There were countless lower worlds—hundreds of billions. It was nearly impossible to determine the corresponding ascension region for each small world.

Zhou Yan could only roughly determine Ye Yuan’s ascension region through the coordinates.

He had left the mark on Ye Yuan back then precisely to make it easier to find him.

But who would have thought that Ye Yuan would erase the mark of the Sunflare Heart Pupil before ascending?

Today, Zhou Yan deliberately tried to sense the mark he had left, but found no response. Only then did he realize that Ye Yuan had unknowingly erased it.

How could Zhou Yan know that in his previous life, Ji Qingyun had some connections with both the Zhou and Yue families and was very familiar with the Sunflare Heart Pupil technique?

With Ye Yuan’s skills, erasing the mark without anyone noticing was far too easy.

…

By now, about half a month had passed since Ye Yuan and the others emerged from Xie Lingzi’s cave.

During this half-month, the entire Gufeng City had been very calm.

Not long after Ying Tianya returned, he took Xu Yan’s remains back to the holy land.

He Shuming had also chosen to go into seclusion for life, never again appearing before the world.

Ye Yuan and Jun Tianyu also chose to go into seclusion. Jun Tianyu had suffered considerable losses in the Starstorm Lihuo Array and had to consolidate his realm.

Ye Yuan’s divine soul had also suffered considerable damage. Over this half-month, Ye Yuan had consumed quite a few pills to fully recover his divine soul.

From the time Ye Yuan left Gufeng City to his emergence from seclusion, about two months had passed. During this period, a large backlog of orders for sixth-tier pills had accumulated.

Before leaving, Ye Yuan had refined a batch of sixth-tier pills, and the results were exactly as he had said—the vast majority were top-grade pills.

As a result, the Medicine Fragrance Pavilion’s reputation had truly taken off in Gufeng City.

Boundless Realm martial artists in Gufeng City were practically crowding the Medicine Fragrance Pavilion’s doorstep. Every day, there were massive orders for sixth-tier pills.

But with Ye Yuan away, Qian’er and Li Huisheng were at a loss with these bulk orders.

They dared not make such a guarantee that all the sixth-tier pills they provided would be top-grade.

Li Huisheng even came up with a bad idea in the middle—to have the Meteor Chamber of Commerce’s Alchemy Grandmasters refine the pills—but Qian’er flatly refused.

This was about building a reputation; they couldn’t afford to mess it up!

Helpless, Qian’er had to postpone all these orders, waiting for Ye Yuan to return.

How could Qian’er have known that as soon as Ye Yuan returned, he would go straight into seclusion, and that seclusion would last half a month?

Most of the martial artists who placed these orders were in urgent need of the pills.

With two months of orders backlogged, how could those martial artists not be anxious?

Especially in the last few days, those martial artists were practically ready to tear down the Medicine Fragrance Pavilion’s signboard!

Qian’er paced anxiously outside Ye Yuan’s seclusion chamber. After who knows how long, she finally saw Ye Yuan emerge!

“My great master, you’ve finally come out! If you stayed in any longer, the Medicine Fragrance Pavilion would really have to close its doors!” Qian’er complained with a hint of reproach.

When Qian’er said this, it carried a touch of coquettishness that made it hard to get angry.

Ye Yuan laughed upon hearing this. “If it closes, we’ll just open it again. The sky won’t fall. Tell me, what’s the matter?”

Qian’er said urgently, “You! How can you be so unconcerned? The situation is critical, and you’re not the least bit worried!”

Qian’er told Ye Yuan about the difficulties the Medicine Fragrance Pavilion was facing. She thought he would be frantic with worry, but he just smiled faintly and said, “I thought it was something big. Isn’t it just some sixth-tier pills? Give me all the orders, and within two days at most, I’ll deliver all the pills to you!”

Qian’er’s eyes widened. “Two… two days? Are you joking with me? I have several hundred orders for sixth-tier pills here. Can that expert behind you really finish refining them in two days?”

In fact, Qian’er had long suspected that the whole “expert behind the scenes” was pure nonsense.

The person refining these sixth-tier pills was definitely Ye Yuan himself!

But there were some things Qian’er couldn’t say outright. She was a smart person and knew that once certain words were spoken, the cooperation between the Meteor Chamber of Commerce and Ye Yuan would come to an end.

In fact, when Qian’er first heard Ye Yuan make that promise, she had been startled too.

But later, when Ye Yuan said there was an expert behind him, she felt a bit relieved.

However, her contact with Ye Yuan had been very close, and she had never seen any so-called expert.

So she boldly guessed that the person refining the pills was Ye Yuan himself!

At the time, she had also startled herself, finding this conclusion too incredible. How could an alchemist at the Alchemy King realm refine sixth-tier pills?

Even if he could refine sixth-tier pills, the fact that they were almost all top-grade or above was simply too shocking!