Stone Desert City at night, with lights just beginning to shine, also had a somewhat different scenery.
Xiao Xue pulled Qing Lin's hand, and the two strolled through this small border town.
Although Xiao Xue said that a small place like Stone Desert City was really boring, she still accompanied her through the entire small town.
What can relieve worries? Only swiping a card.
In her past life, when Xiao Xue was in a bad mood, she would take her pocket money and go out for a shopping spree.
After returning, her mood would be much better.
There probably isn't any girl who can refuse the temptation of window shopping and buying things.
As an Alchemist, Xiao Xue naturally didn't lack money.
She gave an idle storage ring to Qing Lin and then took her on a shopping spree in the city.
The band of the storage ring was still a bit too large for Qing Lin's slender fingers.
Thus, Xiao Xue turned it into a pendant and hung it around Qing Lin's neck.
Along the way, Qing Lin frequently looked up, observing this city that was both familiar and strange to her, as well as the person beside her.
However, when Xiao Xue turned to look over, she would subconsciously look away.
She was originally someone humble to the point of dust; the kindness of others was a luxury to her.
She could only pull Xiao Xue with one hand and tightly hold the storage ring in the other.
She only hoped that this kindness could last a little longer.
———
Half a month later.
Xiao Xue completely refined the Heavenly Fox Essence Blood and, as expected, reached the Nine-Star Great Dou Master level.
On the other side, Xiao Ding and Xiao Li had basically finished processing their properties in Stone Desert City.
What was inconvenient to take away was all exchanged for medicinal herbs, which Xiao Xue refined into portable Medicinal Pills.
Among them, there was no lack of Third-Grade and a very small portion of Fourth-Grade Medicinal Pills.
However, Xiao Xue's success rate in refining medicine was still controlled at over ninety-eight percent.
Therefore, the members of the Mo Tie Mercenary Group had a rough guess about Xiao Xue's level of medicinal refinement and became even more respectful toward her.
Due to having an Alchemist capable of refining Fourth-Grade Medicinal Pills, when Xiao Ding and Xiao Li proposed leaving Stone Desert City, they didn't hear any voices of opposition.
Especially since Xiao Ding and Xiao Li planned to head to Gama Emperor City; the mercenaries wouldn't miss such an Opportunity.
Following an Alchemist of at least the fourth grade, there was no need to worry about not being able to make a living in the Emperor City.
Developing in the Emperor City was much more promising than in a small place like Stone Desert City.
Thus, a team of over a hundred people was quickly formed.
Among them were one Nine-Star Great Dou Master, two Dou Masters, and several Dou Practitioner-level mercenaries.
Logically speaking, they could set off directly for the Emperor City now.
However, Xiao Xue, who was a Hanxia person in her past life, also had a habit that most Hanxia people have:
— Since we're already here.
In a certain underground passage outside Stone Desert City, there was the Green Lotus Core Flame, ranked nineteenth on the strange fire ranking list.
At this time, it should not have been taken away by Medusa yet.
However, Xiao Xue wasn't very interested in strange fires.
If she really had to get some strange fire, perhaps only the Sea Heart Flame could make her care slightly.
However, in Mo City next door to Stone Desert City, there was a Peak-match player who had been dropped in Rank for many years.
Since it was in the small town next door anyway, and a round trip wouldn't take long, Xiao Xue planned to head over.
Incidentally, she would take the second remnant map of the Purification Lotus Demon Flame.
After greeting Xiao Ding and Xiao Li and asking them to wait for a few days, Xiao Xue headed alone to Mo City next door to Stone Desert City.
———
Since this time she was going to recruit a former Dou Huang, Xiao Xue directly wore her Fifth-Grade Alchemist badge and flew into Mo City.
After casually grabbing someone to ask for directions, Xiao Xue leisurely walked toward the city's map shop under the respectful, envious, admiring, and longing gazes of the crowd.
After walking unhurriedly for a while, the map shop named "Ancient Maps" appeared within Xiao Xue's line of sight.
This shop could be considered worthy of its name, faintly revealing a bit of an ancient aura.
Sensing that there was indeed an Ice Attribute Dou Ling with a strange aura in the shop, Xiao Xue smiled and stepped directly into this map shop.
The interior of the shop was not too spacious; two Moonlight Stones emitted a faint glow, lighting the shop quite brightly.
Xiao Xue's gaze swept across the shop's interior; there weren't many people inside buying maps, making it seem a bit deserted.
Behind the counter sat an old man who was lowering his head and carefully making a map.
This old man was clearly quite old, but although his head was full of white hair, the withered hand holding the black drawing pen was still steady and powerful.
Xiao Xue, following her usual practice, directly threw a [Detect] over.
Name: Hai Bodong
Race: Human Race
Gender: Male
Rank: Level 43 (Level 65)
HP: 4300/4300
Dou Qi: 4300/4300
Soul Power: Mortal Realm Late Stage
Aptitude: 7
Opportunity: 9
Charm: 8
Character Panel Comprehensive Summary:
[A refreshed little old man]
Xiao Xue: "..."
You sure know how to summarize.
[Aptitude 7] meant that in this life, Hai Bodong would reach his limit at Dou Zong.
However, his [Opportunity] had reached a staggering 9 points.
She guessed that this Opportunity was brought up by her Cheap older brother.
The other customers in the shop, after seeing the Fifth-Grade Alchemist badge on Xiao Xue's chest, immediately greeted her respectfully.
"Greetings, My Lady!"
Xiao Xue nodded in response and then casually walked to an ancient wooden shelf and began to rummage through it.
After hearing the movement here, Hai Bodong finally raised his head from behind the counter and gave a faint look toward this side.
Then, he caught a glimpse of that Alchemist badge with five patterns.
Hai Bodong's hand couldn't help but tremble, and the map he was drawing was instantly ruined.
But he didn't care at all, instead staring intently at Xiao Xue.
As an Ice Attribute Dou Qi cultivator, Hai Bodong was also relatively sensitive to fire attribute Dou Qi.
However, under his perception, Xiao Xue wasn't fire attribute at all, but a Water Attribute very close to his Ice Attribute!
A Water Attribute... Fifth-Grade Alchemist?!
Hai Bodong felt as if he had fallen out of touch with the times during his decades of seclusion.
Shouldn't Alchemists be of the fire and wood attributes?
After hesitating for a moment, Hai Bodong Speak first, "Do you want to buy a map of the Tagor Desert?"
At this time, Xiao Xue had also found what she wanted—half of the second remnant map of the Purification Lotus Demon Flame.
After Hai Bodong obtained the second remnant map, he had split it into two pieces based on his years of map-making experience.
And one of the pieces, along with a pile of defective map drawings, had been placed by him on the wooden shelf in this corner.
Xiao Xue raised the remnant map in her hand, looked at Hai Bodong, and said with a smile, "I don't need a map of the desert, but I am somewhat interested in this kind of map fragment."
Hearing Xiao Xue's words, Hai Bodong's palm trembled imperceptibly.
His gaze swept across the tattered map in Xiao Xue's hand, and a flash of inexplicable meaning crossed his cloudy old eyes.
"You... recognize this remnant map?"
Back then, he had been hunted by Queen Medusa because of this remnant map.
From this, it could be seen that there was definitely a big secret within this remnant map.
Xiao Xue smiled slightly, "That's right, I recognize this remnant map."
"However, I dare to speak, but you..."
"Do you dare to listen?"
------------------------
I've posted 40+ chapters in advance on Patreon.
Webnovel updates will still be daily, as usual.
It might not seem tempting right now but who knows what the future holds?
[email protected]/DaoistRoeoNQ
"And If you're enjoying it, drop a Power Stone for me!"