"Then if I didn't get from the Shao family, there was only one other place that I frequented as much as my abode, and that is the Golden Duck Platter Restaurant.
It was the only place that made sense that I could have gotten the pill poisoning from. I didn't want to believe it at first, but the more I thought about it, the more it seemed like the likeliest of suspects.
At first, after the diagnosis, while I did feel some bit of anger and ill will toward them when I thought they may be the ones responsible for pill poisoning in my body, I had no intention of pursuing the matter further.
With senior Pan Xin already certain I was suffering from pill poisoning, I thought I'd get healed, and after that, I'd find someplace else to eat or if I still wanted to have my meals at the Golden Duck Platter restaurant, I'd be careful with the dishes i ordered.
I felt it would be a pity to completely stop eating there..."
Yang Qing was shocked to see the regret Lu Shi showed for not getting to eat at the Golden Duck Platter restaurant was much more than the look she had as she mentioned her abandonment by the Shao family.
If she has no place to go, I think she'd fit perfectly in the White Baobab Kingdom, mused Yang Qing.
"However whatever intentions I had went to a halt when complications arose in my treatment.
Despite the skills that Senior Pan Xin had as a top-tier orange-grade alchemist and even having the strength of a fifth-stage core formation expert, he still struggled to get rid of the pill poison that had built up in my body.
He used every means at his disposal to remove it, but no matter how much he tried, the pill poison seemed like it had latched itself tightly to my body.
He worked tirelessly for a month, even at the expense of expending his spiritual essence, but he only managed to deal with a third of it.
He even went to the extent of consulting with their palace master who was just at the edge of becoming a blue-grade alchemist, but even with her intervention they only managed to get remove half of it, and even then it came with considerable risk since it seemed like the my contaminated qi could transfer the pill poison to them, over long durations of interactions of our qi during the treatment plan.
Once it seemed like it would be impossible to completely get rid of the poison, and I wasn't willing to risk their lives, I decided it was better to search for an alternative solution.
The palace master of the Blue River Cauldron Pavillion was kind enough to give me three options. I think you should take a look at
One of them was to hire the services of the blue-grade alchemist and have them purge the poison for me, if i could not find a blue-grade alchemist then a palace realm cultivator would do, especially, one skilled with the wood or water attribute since they would be able to purge the poison completely through using the overbearing qi of a palace realm cultivator and with their enhanced spiritual sense, they could easily track it and ensure not a single of the pill poison remains.
As for the final option, it was to consume the morning lily heartseed..."
"With my current means and station, how could I possibly afford any of those means.." she said with a pitiful smile.
Who were blue-grade alchemists? These were alchemists who could refine a potion or pill that could be used by palace realm experts, and for a pill to be considered usable by a palace realm expert, it had to trigger a tribulation upon its completion and survive that tribulation.
Such a pill was no different than a natural Dao treasure. Such pills could be considered as pilfering nature's fortune and blue grade alchemists were those who could steal from nature and imbue that force to their pills.
This was the reason why four in every one hundred thousand orange grade alchemists could successfully become a blue grade alchemist.
Their numbers were always in short supply and in high demand. Li Shu with whatever amount she got as a guest elder of the Shao clan was hardly sufficient to hire their services, even if she saved for a decade, and since she only got her quota in spirit stones mostly, it was even harder.
Just because you had the spirit stones, didn't automatically translate to gaining the services of a blue grade alchemist. Their services were always in high demand and to gain their attention, wealth was but the least factor. You had to have sufficient reputation, connection, or power to gain their help.
Pan Xin had agreed to see her on account of his relationship with Shao Qing but he went above his way because of her potential and cultivation as a sixth stage core formation expert at such a young age.
With his skills as an alchemist, and a seasoned one at that, it wasn't difficult for him to guess Li Shu's young age for a core formation expert, which prompted him to do everything in his power even to the extent of involving the Blue Cauldron palace master. All this was for the sake of sowing good fortune and a relationship with Li Shu who had the potential to reach the palace realm someday.
Having the friendship of a palace realm expert, was the same as having a monarch-grade treasure in your hand. This was why both he and the palace master went out of their way to help her, even at the risk of having their qi infected.
However, when it came to the three options she didn't have such a standing. A blue-grade alchemist would not give her the time of day so easily, even her potential would be insufficient to move them, even if the alchemist was in the core formation realm as her, they would not show her any concern because every blue-grade alchemist was always guaranteed to reach the palace realm, if they were not one already.