Ch64 - Experiment Failure Song Qingshi’s spirit was extremely exhausted. He fell asleep, lying in Yue Wuhuan’s arms. He was like an octopus, he clung to the other tightly, refusing to let go lest the other disappear, never to be seen. Yue Wuhuan once again tasted the feeling of being unable to move. Fortunately, the potency of the medicine was very good and it wasn’t too difficult to bear. He wanted to try and lean sideways to adjust Song Qingshi to a comfortable position, only to find that his waist was tied up. No matter how me moved, he would weigh down on the other’s arm. He was forced maintain his position and use the Blood King Vine to dragged the quilt over and cover him with it. Since Master became so clingy, he’s been unable to endure… Yue Wuhuan gently untied the hair band for the person in his arms, scattering his long hair. The soft, fine black hair fell down, mixing with his own long hair he’d spread out early on. They mixed together until you couldn’t tell the strands apart. He was feeling playful. While Song Qing wouldn’t notice, he quietly picked up strands of his long hair, braided it with his own. He tried to tie a loose knot. Filled with satisfaction, he appreciated it for a moment. He hid it among the strands of hair. He’ll wait until the morning to undo it. He shut off the luminous beads and closed the blue gauze canopy curtains. Yue Wuhuan stretched his arms, holding in his arms, this person who was completely unguarded towards him. He sniffed the medicinal scent that set his heart at ease. He called to mind those maddening and sweet kisses. He felt a slightly unreal sense of happiness. This was exactly what he desired most. A close companionship, where there was only each other in their eyes, but never crossing the boundaries.
Master’s Heart of the Way of the Heartless was stable, which meant that no matter what he’d done, his Master hadn’t been moved in that way. Yue Wuhuan couldn’t help but laugh at himself. He has long been a monster raised on wind and moon. He knew that his body and beauty could easily evoke the desires of men. He had seen all manners of buffoonery. With a single look, he could tell what others wanted. He’s gotten so used to it, that he accidentally used a provocative techniques during their kiss. It was already too late when he found out. Fortunately, Song Qingshi was unmoved, and no physical sensations he shouldn’t have were evoked. Song Qingshi’s kisses were the purest kisses, like a child seeking sugar. People like him could even feel the beautiful sweetness inside… What if the Master’s Heartless Dao Heart was moved? Yue Wuhuan thought about it and felt that he didn’t know enough about the Way of the Heartless. He needed to collect relevant information and study it carefully. … Song Qingshi got up the next morning to find that he had held Wuhuan down all night. He was a little embarrassed and gave him a good morning kiss. He then he got up and did a quick washing up. He ran to the research room, and started a new round of toxicology research in very high spirts. The Black Death Butterfly was highly toxic and poisonous by contact. When Poison Master Nie refined the Poisonous Lingshi, there was no better methods to rid of the impurities. Now he had better purification methods and techniques, which could increase the Poisonous Lingshi’s toxicity by five times. He could also adjust the auxiliary materials which were affected by the impurities. It was very possible that he could come out with a poison that could kill a Fen Shen cultivator. We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts. The extraction of Poisonous Lingshi was dangerous.
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Rong Ye didn’t understand. “In any case, it ended in failure. Why do we still need to record it? Look at this notebook, it’s all wrong, wrong, wrong; at least 70 or 80 times already. Is there any meaning to this?” Ming Hong was opened his mouth and said, “This is what the Master has ordered us to do. Every time you perform an experiment, regardless of whether it ended in success or failure, you must record it.” “Master must be very powerful,” Rong Ye heard that it was Song Qingshi’s command, and didn’t dare refute anymore. He lamented while recording, “We are too stupid and we always fail. Qing Luan Jie said that the Medicine King’s Valley will be accepting more apprentices later on. We’ll have to hide this record book and not let our junior brother and sisters see it. Otherwise, they’ll laugh at us for being so useless.” Qing Luan was about to speak, but when she saw Song Qingshi walk in through the door, she hurriedly saluted. The children stopped playing and stood up properly. Song Qingshi smiled and took the notebook from Rong Ye’s hand. He flipped through a few pages, “You mustn’t hide mistakes. You must put them in the laboratory, to be kept forever. In the future, when studies are made on this drug, they will know to eliminate the failed plans… …Including all the experiments you’ve done before, all the data must be saved, and we must figure out why they failed.” Rong Ye blushed and murmured, “Including the time I made the pill furnace explode?”
“En,” Song Qingshi said with a smile, “That way everyone will know that you can’t put Yellow Powder when refining the Return of Spring Pill, otherwise it will explode.” Rong Ye suddenly understood a little bit, but he still didn’t understand it thoroughly enough. “You mustn’t be afraid of failure.” Song Qingshi looked at the data table of Qing Luan’s experiment and confirmed that there were no errors in the process. “In medical research, failure is the norm. Many people fail, failing hundreds of times, thousands of times. …Success is but a stroke of luck.”
Rong Ye asked cautiously, “Master, can you fail too?” Song Qingshi couldn’t help laughing. “Do you know the Heart Guard Pill?” “Yes!” The children rushed to answer, their faces filled with admiration. “This is the pill developed by Master in his early years. It has a miraculous effect on damaged heart and arteries! Everyone says that the appearance of this pill shocked the immortal realm. It has changed the way wounds to the heart and arteries are treated. Because of this, Master is hailed as a genius alchemist.” Rong Ye’s peach blossom eyes are full of worship. “Master is an innate genius. We are far too inferior.” “You’re wrong,” Song Qingshi told him with a smile, “In developing the Heart Guard Pill, I failed 3,672 times.” Rong Ye was stunned. “In the twenty-ninth row of the library, there are more than six hundred record books stacked on the top. These are the records of my failure from that year. Making a pill furnace explode is something I’ve done many times,” Song Qingshi recalled an amusing incident from the past. He couldn’t help laughing, “In the end, I dozed off and accidentally dropped oxaline into the concoction, and it succeeded.” He was aware of his own IQ. Although he was a little smart, he is still far from being a genius. He could only work hard and keep trying. “Don’t be afraid of failure,” Song Qingshi saw Yue Wuhuan coming from the peach blossom forest. The smile in his eyes turned even gentler. “Every time you fail, you are eliminating a mistake. As long as you don’t give up, you will find the right answer.” Seeing that he was about to leave, Rong Ye couldn’t help asking, “Master, do you still fail even now?”
The Medicine King Xianzun was already a Nascent Soul cultivator, the world’s number one doctor. Everyone says that there’s no pill that he can’t refine, and no patient he can’t cure. Song Qingshi stood at the door and looked back. “I’ve been failing this whole time.” Under the golden glow of dusk, he hadn’t had time to put away the gentleness on his face when facing that person and this scene fell in everyone’s eyes. It was as though they had seen the happiest sentiment. It made people yearn and envy. Song Qingshi walked towards Yue Wuhuan, and the two of them left, talking and laughing. Rong Ye looked at Yue Wuhuan and once again remembered the beautiful Mermaid Pearl. This pearl was now tied to the new jade ornament around Yue Wuhuan’s waist. The Yue Wuhuan was also made out of the best Dragon Jade, white as congealed fat. There were golden grains scattered throughout, like a golden dragon hidden in the clouds. It carried with it a touch of water-type aura, which could nourish wood-type meridians. Last night, did Wuhuan Xianzhang sleep in Fuling Palace? And today, he now has a new jade ornament? Qing Luan Jie has always insisted that the relationship between Wuhuan Xianzhang and the Master wasn’t that kind of relationship. So, please don’t talk nonsense. Ming Hong, Qingyun and the others all believed it when Qing Luan Jie said that Wuhuan Xianzhang and the Master were in the bedroom talking about academics, doing math problems, and studying formations… Sometimes because their discussion go late into the night, it was too much of a bother to change rooms and so they just sleep together. He had raised a veiled objection. Ming Hong hadn’t understand at all. “What could two grown men get up to?” Rong Ye nearly fainted from anger. “Have you forgotten that you were almost sold?”
“How can there be that many good homosexuals in the world? We don’t have these messy things in the Medicine King’s Valley,” Ming Hong was a typical example of ‘forgetting past pains once the wound has healed’. Remembering those disgusting things, his face went dark, and he resolutely defended his benefactor’s moral character, “Our Master simply isn’t that kind of person! He wouldn’t do those disgusting things to Wuhuan Ge!” Rong Ye’s mouth twitched… There were actually several pairs of same-sex couples in the Medicine King’s Valley, but Ming Hong couldn’t spot them at all. When he sees them, he simply thinks they’re very good friends. Even Rong Ye, himself, his preference was geared towards men, and from time to time someone would show interest in him. That’s why he didn’t like going to the big bathhouse used by the valley servants. He didn’t like being seen by others. Ming Hong hadn’t at all realized his friend’s orientation. Not only did he use to the big bathhouse without any hesitation, he’s even made plans to bathe with him several times, saying that it was comfortable soaking in the hot bath… If it weren’t for the fact that he knew this guy looked reserve, but was actually an idiot when it came to emotions, he might have misunderstood. He Qingyun had once told him that someone had their designs on Ming Hong in the bathhouse, with intention of taking advantage of him. Ming Hong then mistakenly thought that the other party was provoking him. In addition, the other had said some disrespectful words against Qing Luan and so he dragged the person out and gave him a very sound beating. The other hadn’t been able to get out of bed for half a month. From that day on, it seemed that no men entertained thoughts of fooling around with him. On the other hand, there were a lot more of the girls among the valley servants who developed a crush on him. Why were all his friends stupid? ! Rong Ye felt crushed… He decided to still rely on himself. During the Medicine King Xianzun’s closed door cultivation, Yue Wuhuan had been in charge of all the valley’s resources. He’d seen see that Yue Wuhuan had no interest in women, and had thought about fooling around him, so he could at least exchange for some cultivation medicine. However, Yue Wuhuan’s Devil Mask disfigurement really scared him and he was unable to make up his mind. In addition, during that period, Qing Luan Jie increased their homework load like crazy and no matter what he did, he just couldn’t finish them all. In the end, he abandoned that idea. He knows that Yue Wuhuan was extremely smart and capable; he was deeply trusted, He wasn’t expecting to receive the same treatment.
He just wants to use his beauty for some benefits, to successfully reach Foundation Building… If he could become a real cultivation, his mother would never call him worthless again, right? Rong Ye was restless and perturbed.