After Ye Qiu finished telling the story he made up, he patted Tang San's shoulder.
"So, Xiao San, you can rest assured. How could a miraculous item that can bring the dead back to life and regrow flesh on bare bones possibly overdraw potential?
If that were really the case... how would I dare give it to Xiao Wu?"
"Boss, your luck is too good, isn't it?
If only I could also pick up that kind of divine item!"
Zhang Wei looked at Ye Qiu with envy all over his face, unable to help but fantasize.
Tang San also couldn't help but nod. For Ye Qiu to have such an opportunity, his luck was indeed exceptionally blessed.
"Uh, Xiao Wu... why are you looking at me like that?"
Ye Qiu smiled, returned to Xiao Wu's side, looked at her somewhat resentful gaze, and raised an eyebrow.
He reached out and rubbed Xiao Wu's puffed-up cheeks.
The resentment on Xiao Wu's face quickly faded, replaced by a flush of red on her cheeks. She shyly leaned on Ye Qiu's shoulder, neither crying nor making trouble, letting Ye Qiu do as he pleased with her.
Tang San watched this scene.
He suddenly felt a bit confused. Since Ye Qiu really had a fiancée, for Xiao Wu to still be hugging and holding him... what was going on?!
He couldn't figure this problem out!
Was Xiao Wu's tolerance level this high?
What was so good about Ye Qiu anyway?
Ye Qiu clearly bullied her often...
Tang San smiled wryly, sorted out his thoughts, and forced a smile onto his face again, sighing with emotion:
"Ye Qiu, I didn't expect you to have such an encounter. If I had known this, I would have gone outside to explore with you."
"Not at all, not at all... I just got lucky, that's all."
Ye Qiu let go of Xiao Wu and waved at Tang San. He wouldn't dare go out with Tang San. The reason he made up this story was to dispel Tang San's ideas about the immortal herbs and clearly tell him that there were only two, no more!
Tang San smiled.
But he still hadn't completely put his mind at ease.
...
Finally, after dinner.
Tang San was still insistent that Ye Qiu go with him to see Yu Xiaogang for a check-up, and even wanted to bring Xiao Wu. Ye Qiu immediately refused.
Ye Qiu didn't want to be touched by a single middle-aged uncle, and even less did he want Xiao Wu to be touched by that kind of guy.
The most crucial point was that he couldn't expose the fact that Xiao Wu had already obtained her fourth spirit ring and become a Spirit Ancestor.
Thus, Ye Qiu directly drew the appearance of the immortal herb he ate and gave it to Tang San.
Seeing what Ye Qiu had drawn.
Only then did Tang San believe that Ye Qiu's improvement was not something that overdrawn potential or affected future growth, and at the same time, his eyes were full of envy.
He repeatedly sighed about Ye Qiu's heaven-defying luck.
And lamented his own bad luck for not going out to explore with Ye Qiu.
...
Yu Xiaogang's residence.
Yu Xiaogang looked at the drawing of a plant that Ye Qiu had sketched on the table and couldn't help but frown.
He still found it hard to believe that there would be any medicinal herb that could give someone such a huge improvement.
"Xiao San, how credible do you think Ye Qiu's words are?"
"Teacher, I think what Ye Qiu said should be true. This world is very big, and maybe there really is such a medicinal herb, you can't say for sure."
Tang San and Yu Xiaogang had different opinions.
If it were just based on Ye Qiu's words, he would still have some doubts, but... upon seeing the medicinal herb Ye Qiu had drawn, he was already eighty to ninety percent convinced.
This was simply because what Ye Qiu had drawn was seven to eight parts similar to an immortal herb he knew of... the Narcissus Jade Bone. This was truly too coincidental.
"Oh?"
Yu Xiaogang glanced at his proud disciple in surprise, not expecting that he, who was usually as steady as an old dog, would already be so convinced.
Immediately, Yu Xiaogang also shook his head and laughed.
He was actually less perceptive than his student. The facts were already laid out before him, what was there left to doubt?
Thinking of this.
Yu Xiaogang asked again, his tone carrying a hint of inexplicable meaning.
"Then do you think he might still have more?"
If it were true, Yu Xiaogang naturally hoped to obtain one. Whether it was for himself or for Tang San, it would be very beneficial to him!
Using it himself, he might be able to break through level thirty. If Tang San used it... the genius he taught would become even more formidable!
"Teacher, to obtain even one such immortal herb is already a great fortune, let alone Ye Qiu encountering two at once..."
Tang San's meaning was very clear.
He didn't think Ye Qiu still had any on him, but... even so, how could Tang San not have even a sliver of hope in his heart?
No one understood the value of immortal herbs better than him!
But it was precisely because he understood that he didn't have so many unrealistic fantasies in his heart.
"Sigh."
Yu Xiaogang sighed.
Ye Qiu was unwilling to take him as a teacher, otherwise he would have been a peerless genius taught by him. Perhaps, he would have offered the extra medicinal herb to him!
Unfortunately, these were all Yu Xiaogang's wishful thinking.
...
Ye Qiu strolled towards Dorm 7, his head tilted back, whistling, looking at the bright moon in the sky, his mind filled with countless thoughts.
He also didn't know if his half-true, half-false explanation could fool Tang Hammer, but at least Tang San and Yu Xiaogang were temporarily fooled.
Approaching Dorm 7.
Ye Qiu had a change of thought.
A slightly steady smile appeared on his face again.
For so many years, Tang Hammer couldn't even figure out the hidden weapons on his own son. It was likely that his brain wasn't very sharp.
Or perhaps...
He had known about Tang San's abnormality for a long time, but was just pretending to be ignorant while understanding everything.
It was precisely because of this.
Understanding Tang San's unusual nature, he completely washed his hands of things after Tang San gained basic self-sufficiency. Tang San even had to serve his father, Tang Hao, with food and drink in return.
Until the appearance of the twin spirits...
Only then did he let go of his reservations?!
Or was it the appearance of the Clear Sky Hammer spirit that made Tang Hao confirm that Tang San was his son, and only then did Tang Hao's fatherly love reclaim its dominance?
Ye Qiu shook his head.
He temporarily threw these miscellaneous thoughts aside.
When soldiers come, block them; when water comes, dam it. Can a living person really be suffocated by urine?!
Anyway, he wasn't completely lying. The old man and the fiancée were real, and the medicinal herb was also real, even if its appearance was different. No matter what, he still had the marriage contract with Dugu Yan in his hands to prove that it was true!
Adjusting his mindset, Ye Qiu quickly stepped into Dorm 7.
"Boss, you're back!"
As soon as he entered Dorm 7, someone greeted Ye Qiu.
Ye Qiu nodded at them and walked towards his bed.
Regarding his and Xiao Wu's cultivation level.
Ye Qiu had already issued a gag order, strictly forbidding anyone in Dorm 7, including Tang San, from leaking it out, to avoid causing extra trouble.
Before he even reached his bed, Ye Qiu noticed that his bed had become much larger.
No... it wasn't that it had become larger.
It was that hooligan rabbit's bed, which had been getting closer and closer over the years, had finally moved back again and was rejoined with his bed.