Chapter 912: Reorganize
After all the remaining alive members of the Pill Tower had gathered, those who had questions asked questions. Those who were terrified had hid behind their elders and seniors siblings, those who were able to escape the purging turned silent afraid of being noticed and there were also those who were angry as they couldn’t understand what was happening and had seen their friends and disciples suddenly die before their eyes. The Pill Tower Master was about to explain the situation but just as he opened his mouth he heard the Divine Doctor speak and halted his words.
"Silence."
Just one word was enough to keep the Pill Tower Master helpless as his mouth stopped moving against his will. He can no longer warn his two remaining friends about the situation and can only warn them through his eyes that he is almost in tears. The Goddess of Moon didn’t hide the fact that she had restrained the Pill Tower Master and the other members of the tower were stunned by this scene. Yue Xuexia who was busy writing something that temporarily stopped her actions and lifted her head to meet the eyes of the remaining survivors. Only a few dozen of them are left yet for some reason there are still some bugs who had slipped after the purging.
"I am the real owner of the Pill Tower. Now that I have returned, the power and authority over the tower has been returned to me. The purge was done under my command and all those who had been killed were people from another power parasitizing my Pill Tower. Those of you who are still alive were the only ones loyal towards Han Siyu and thus your lives were spared. Though it seems there are still some clever bugs hiding within your small group. How interesting~," the Moon Goddess said.
Her black eyes glinted with a bit of silver which startled everyone in the office. On the other hand, the Immortal Sun Emperor by her side just smiled with a doting gaze. This is the Yue Xuexia that he knows. Strong, powerful, confident and even ruthless. The kind of woman who can stand on her own even with or without a backing. However, she is quite a bit too lazy. Unless one forced her to move, she would most likely stay as a salty fish for however long it takes.
The remaining members of the Pill Tower, especially the older ones, were a bit offended. Because the Moon Goddess had masked her cultivation and with most of the realm sealed by the heavenly laws, she appeared to be weak in the eyes of others unless she made a move. Making her feels a bit mysterious yet a bit like someone without proper power.
Smart ones might observe the people around her to gauge her strength but the truly intelligent ones are people who would observe the person itself and all of their actions. After all, the truth can only be found when they read a person correctly. The two friends of Han Siyu, the former is Lao Su while the latter is Lao Li. Lao Su can only see the strength of this new group at its surface and slightly look down on them as their leaders were actually a young couple that didn’t feel like they had seen enough of the world. That’s why even though he held back his anger, he still didn’t control himself well not to glare at the Moon Goddess and the Immortal Sun Emperor.
As for Lao Li, he remained silent as his observation wasn’t complete yet. However, he realized that even though he couldn’t recognize the young couples, he knew about Lord Shi Chuan and the mysterious Hei Yu who was the one who initiated the purging of the whole building. To be able to suppress all of them and kill those that need to be killed without much shows that he is definitely a person that lives with a career that has something to do with killing. In the Inner Haven, there is one famous organization that handles assassination. At the Evernight Manor, it was said that the Assassin King was not a silent type of person but the kind that is annoyingly arrogant and if not for the backing of his strength his manor would have been long destroyed by his enemies.
Lao Su was about to lose himself in anger, "You haven’t killed enough yet!"
Han Siyu had stopped him from walking towards the Moon Goddess while Hei Yu grabbed the weapon on his back and a serious expression on his face making him look eerily dangerous. There is also a sudden surge of frost in their direction and obviously the ones who can do that were Tan Bingyu and Xue Renxue. As for Tan Shengyu, he also looked relaxed yet the depths of his eyes were cold and calculating. Only Lord Shi Chuan blinked innocently, with too many to protect the princess there was no need for him to make a move. There is also that dangerous looking man always standing beside the princess, unless someone can kill this person, harming his princess is almost impossible.
Lao Li grabbed the back of Lao Su’s collar and stared at him with unknown coldness that instantly calmed the man down.
He whispered only a few words.
Calm down
Sensing the seriousness of his sworn brother, Lao Su had instantly turned silent and left the field to his brothers. He might be smart for things that didn’t need deep thinking and analysis, beyond that is something he cannot do. Among their group of friends, it can be said that Lao Li had the sharpest mind, Lao Han had the most productive ideas, Lao Lin the most ambitious and had the most connection while he, Lao Su, on the other hand is the most emotional that binds all four of them. That’s why Lao Lin’s death affected him the most.
Lao Li or Li Houye stood in front of Su Kan clasped his hand and lowered his head in front of the Moon Goddess and no one else.
He said, "I hope the Tower Owner will forgive Lao Su’s rudeness. I will assure the Tower Owner that this shall never happen again."
"You... accept me as the owner of the Pill Tower? I look young, what do you think of that?" The Moon Goddess asked.
Li Houye responded right away and said, "Real strength doesn’t equate to age."
"You are smarter than the two behind you. Much more useful than them as well," said the Immortal Sun Emperor.
Shen Jueyang suddenly appeared before Li Houye who didn’t even flinch when this young man suddenly appeared before him. Han Siyu and Su Kan tried to move, yet one glance from the Immortal Sun Emperor made them unable to move regardless of what they did. There is this suppression that caught them off guard.
Shen Jueyang looked at the calmness of this man called Li Houye in his presence. Then move his hand with a simple slashed then suddenly the nervous spy within the group was split into two. Which startled everyone and frightened the disciple making them scream on the spot.
"Shengyu, clean it up." The Immortal Sun Emperor said before walking back to where Yue Xuexia is.
Tan Shenyu said, "Yes, Master!" He controlled fire elements to burn down the corpses and blood to ashes and nothingness.
On the other hand, Yue Xuexia didn’t even blink her eyes when one was killed among them and said, "Tomorrow, I will come back and check the level of your skills in Pill Refinement."
"Shi Chuan, by tomorrow send all the list of herbs in this list. Not a single one missing."
The Moon Goddess passed a newly written list of herbs to Shi Chuan through Tan Bingyu and prepared to leave.
Shi Chuan, the boss of the Hanging Herb Garden Evergreen accepted the list with a smile.
"I will definitely prepare everything, Princess!" Shi Chuan, this half elf said.
Yue Xuexia said, "Good."
Then she finally stood up from her seat and looked at Han Siyu and the rest.
"Those who wanted to leave the tower can choose not to return but once you leave you will never be accepted back again. So be warned. Tomorrow I will teach you the correct way to refine a pill. Until tomorrow then..." said Yue Xuexia before leaving the building with his original group.
Outside the building, Yue Xuexia issued commands.
"Hei Yu, protect the remaining people of the Pill Tower. That Yun Clan will not back away this easily and those other groups from whose spies were killed will definitely come over to check this place again. You handle the rest of the clean up," the Moon Goddess said.
Tan Shengyu said, "Mistress, Master, can I join Hei Yu and them tonight?"
"You want to fight?" asked Shen Jueyang, not seemingly surprised.
Those who inherited his Sun Elements had mostly changed into someone who desires to fight all the time. It was already good enough that Tan Shengyu had been able to hold back all this time.
Tan Shengyu pressed on his nape shyly and said, "Well, I wanted to move around just a bit. Can I Mistress?"
Yue Xuexia didn’t answer right away and turned her head to look at Shen Jueyang as if asking the latter if that was alright. After all, even though Tan Shengyu is her subordinate, the one who handles his training is Shen Jueyang.
The Immortal Sun Emperor said, "Let him do it. If he doesn’t release from time to time, he might become uncontrollable."
"Then go ahead. You can only leave after eating dinner," said the Moon Goddess.