Chapter 265: Beauty Pills?

Zhao Yanzi’s room was fragrant and quiet. Hao Ren tutored her geometry until nine o’clock.

After their tutoring session, Zhao Yanzi finally got the hang of it. After all, it was not a difficult subject for her since her mother was an architect, and she had inherited some of her mother’s sense of space.

For Hao Ren, geometry was a piece of cake; he was the best at it when he was in middle school. That was why he had quickly grasped the concepts in the books that Zhao Hongyu gave to him.

As soon as the session ended, Zhao Yanzi almost pushed him out of her room.

Her small hands that were pushing on Hao Ren’s back were soft, but her arms were firm.

“I’m going to go to the Dragon Palace for a visit tomorrow. Do you want to come?” Hao Ren looked back at her while she pushed him out.

“No! I won’t go!” Zhao Yanzi shook her head without hesitation. She had no interest in the dull life in the Dragon Palace and would rather stay on land.

Today, she had her hair down, and it covered her ears. When she shook her head, her hair flew up like an umbrella, revealing her white ears underneath.

“Then, should I come to tutor you tomorrow?” Hao Ren turned to look at her.

She stood in the doorway and looked up at him, biting her lip. “I’ll take a day off on Friday. But… come shopping with me on Saturday.”

Hao Ren looked at her and nodded. “Ok.”

He took two steps forward with the bag in his hand before turning again. “Just the two of us?”

“Well, how many people do you want?” Zhao Yanzi looked at him in bafflement.

“Ok… Ok…” Hao Ren nodded and turned to the stairs. Then, he turned his head and asked her, “Was it… our first kiss? I think when I first met you, we had…”

“That doesn’t count!” Zhao Yanzi said immediately.

Hao Ren wondered how she decided what counted and what didn’t. But looking at her fierce eyes, he decided not to ask and immediately went downstairs.

Zhao Guang and Zhao Hongyu were watching TV in their bedroom. Hao Ren didn’t disturb them; he walked out of the house quietly before releasing Little White from the hidden space and flying toward the school in a red energy sphere.

He got back to school.

The night passed quickly and in the blink of an eye, and Friday morning came.

All the students were excited since the weekend was near. Zhao Jiayi would be leading East Ocean University’s Basketball Team to play an away game this weekend.

Since Xie Wanjun went to the U.S., Zhao Jiayi had become the core figure of the Basketball Team. Due to the lack of a coach, he had to manage the daily business of the team and got quite busy with it.

Looking at the Zhao Jiayi’s empty seat while his classmates filed into the classroom one by one, Hao Ren felt a bit lost.

In the company of Ma Lina, Xie Yujia, in a military green jacket and boots, walked into the room.

She looked around and spotted Hao Ren. Then, she strode toward him.

Sitting in his seat, Hao Ren watched as Xie Yujia, who was fresh and elegant, walked toward him. Suddenly, his heart raced.

Indeed, she was more beautiful than before. But more importantly, ever since they settled into their relationship, an indescribable feeling began to engulf him.

When she was the Class President, Xie Yujia had to manage all the affairs of the class. Ever since she quit the position, she had an aura which was as fresh and heart-touching as a gentle breeze. All the guys in the class felt like she was a different person.

“Did you ask? Can we visit Su Han today?” Xie Yujia stopped before Hao Ren.

The faint fragrance of soup on her clothes floated into Hao Ren’s nose. (TL NOTE: At the time, some people in China hand wash clothes with soap, especially students.)

“Oh, they said yes. You can come with me after school,” Hao Ren answered her.

“Ok!” Xie Yujia smiled before walking back to the front of the classroom.

In the eyes of the guys around them, they were a perfect couple. However, Hao Ren knew that the relationship between him and Xie Yujia was that of two childhood sweethearts who cared about each other.

It seemed like they had returned to the time of Little Older Brother and Little Carrot in one night.

After the morning classes ended, the students were all busy preparing to go home. Since Zhao Jiayi was busy with the Basketball Team, the four roommates couldn’t stick with each other this weekend, so Zhou Liren and Cao Ronghua had decided to go home.

Xie Yujia walked to Hao Ren’s side with her bag.

“I need to go back to my dorm to pick up some stuff. How about you?” Xie Yujia asked Hao Ren.

“I thought we are leaving directly after school, so I asked Zhou Liren to take my books back to the dorm.” Hao Ren dug out a key. “I drove to school this week, and I have to drive it back home.”

“Oh? I didn’t see you driving around.” Xie Yujia walked out of the classroom with Hao Ren shoulder to shoulder.

“I didn’t want to attract attention,” Hao Ren said.

Xie Yujia turned to look at him and smiled sweetly. She liked his low-profile.

They walked to the Administration Building, and Hao Ren drove Xie Yujia to the south student dorm area. He parked by the entrance of the dorm building and waited for her in the car.

“Well! Isn’t this Hao Ren?” Ma Lina walked out of the dorm building with a big bag on her shoulder and saw Hao Ren sitting in the car.

Unlike Xie Yujia, she went home every weekend and brought all her laundry back home. Xie Yujia washed and dried her own clothes and earned her pocket money by working during winter and summer breaks.

Hao Ren looked at her and smiled.

“Not bad! Picking up Yujia in a car!” Ma Lina teased him.

“How about I give you a lift?” Hao Ren asked her.

“I can’t accept; only Yujia can sit in it!” With a laugh, Ma Lina walked to the gate of the dorm area with her big bag.

Although she liked to gossip, she was a nice girl.

Shortly after, Xie Yujia walked out of the dorm building.

She got into the car and asked him after a moment of consideration, “Are there any shops near Su Han’s hospital? If not, you can stop on the right when you drive out of the gate, and I’ll buy some bananas and apples.”

Hearing her words, Hao Ren almost laughed. “Taking bananas and apples to the Dragon Palace?” he thought.

When Hao Ren didn’t answer, Xie Yujia leaned back on the seat. “Forget it, let’s find one when we get there. The fruits sold in the shops around the school are expensive and not tasty.”

“Ok.” Hao Ren stepped on the gas and drove toward Zhao Yanzi’s home.

Xie Yujia didn’t want to disturb Hao Ren while he was driving, so she looked out the window. Recently, she had been cultivating very hard but had little progress.

She planned to ask the old Grandma about it this weekend.

Soon, the car arrived at Zhao Yanzi’s home.

At the door, a black car was waiting for them. Elder Sun and four bodyguards in black suits walked toward Hao Ren’s car.

“Gongzi. Hao, we’ll go with you to the Dragon Palace,” Elder Sun said.

Not seeing Zhao Guang or Zhao Hongyu, Hao Ren knew that they were not going with them. Maybe they had more important business to handle.

Elder Sun walked over and opened the door of the white Ford, handing a strip of black cloth to Xie Yujia.

Baffled, Xie Yujia looked at him, not understanding his intention.

“Yujia, cover your eyes with it. It will be fine,” Hao Ren came over and comforted her.

Xie Yujia looked from Hao Ren and the short Elder Sun before taking the black cloth and tying it over her eyes.

Elder Sun got into the black Benz with four well-trained bodyguards.

Hao Ren drove, following them.

Except for the first time he met Elder Sun, Hao Ren had never been nervous. But now, Hao Ren felt pressured.

Instead of guiding them, Hao Ren felt like Elder Sun and the four bodyguards were here more to monitor them.

When they arrived at the seashore, Hao Ren helped Xie Yujia out of the car. Hearing the sound of waves, Xie Yujia couldn’t see through the blindfold and got very nervous; she tightly gripped onto Hao Ren’s hand.

“I’m only visiting Su Han; how come things got so weird…” Xie Yujia was full of questions, but she trusted Hao Ren and refrained from voicing them.

After opening the tunnel, Elder Sun led them into the East Ocean Dragon Palace.

Xie Yujia was still blindfolded on the way.

Finally, they entered a side palace; it was Elder Xing Yue’s residence and where Su Han was staying.

“You can untie it now,” Elder Sun said.

Hao Ren reached out and untied the black cloth over Xie Yujia’s eyes, and she exhaled deeply and looked around, finding herself in an ancient palace with water flowing hundreds of meters above her. Her look of astonishment was precisely the same as that of Hao Ren’s when he first came to the Dragon Palace.

“We forgot to buy fruits…” Xie Yujia blurted out.

“Bang! Hao Ren’s mind became blank.

“Is it Yujia?” Su Han’s voice came from the room.

“It’s me!” Xie Yujia answered in her clear voice.

“Come in,” Su Han said.

Xie Yujia stepped forward and pushed open the ancient engraved wooden door. Hao Ren followed her while Elder Sun and the four bodyguards stayed outside.

Su Han was sitting on the bed, cultivating with her eyes closed.

At this sight, Xie Yujia froze for half a second before understanding why Hao Ren used to go to Su Han’s office.

“Hao Ren told me that you are injured, and I wanted to come and visit you,” looking around the super spacious bedroom with beautiful stones paved on the ground, she said in a low voice.

“It was a minor injury. It’s no big deal.” Su Han looked very calm.

In fact, Xie Yujia and Su Han weren’t that close; Xie Yujia wanted to visit Su Han out of kindness and didn’t expect that she would end up here.

“Oh! Another thing.” Hao Ren suddenly remembered something and took out a small box from his hidden space. From the small box, he picked out several small bright red flowers. “These are the red flowers you mentioned last time. I found them.”

Su Han was calm, but her eyes lit up instantly at the sight of the red flowers in his hand.

The main ingredient of Beauty Pills.

She thought that she would have to go to the Snow Lotus Cave on Sky Mountain for the flowers, and it was a surprise that Hao Ren had found some for her!

As crazy as she was about cultivation, she was still a woman, and all women were interested in eternal beauty.

“Where did you get them?” Su Han had been pale due to her injuries, but now her face flushed with excitement.

“I got them accidentally…” Hao Ren didn’t tell her that he bought a dozen of such small flowers for only one mid-tier spirit stone at the convention on Fifth Heaven.

Su Han didn’t probe. Instead, she grabbed the red flowers from his hand and murmured, “Beauty Pills…”

“What are Beauty Pills?” Seeing Su Han’s passionate expression, Xie Yujia blurted out.

Remembering that there was someone else in the room, Su Han cleared her throat and put on a calm and mysterious look. “Oh. Beauty Pills are pills that can sustain one’s looks permanently. In other words, they are pills that could keep people forever young.”

“Forever young?” Hearing her words, Xie Yujia got interested and curious.

With the red flowers in her hand, Su Han thought for a moment before turning to Hao Ren. “In East Ocean, who can make elixirs?”

“Making elixirs…” Hao Ren thought for a while and could only think of Little Daoist Zhen.

“There’s one, but he has a weird personality and rarely helps us. In fact, after making a pill for the Dragon Clan last time, he expressively told us that it would be the last time he helped us,” Hao Ren said.

Su Han did some calculation and said softly, “With a top elixir master, these materials could make three Beauty Pills if 100% successful.”

She had known that Beauty Flowers were growing together with the Seven-Colored Snow Lotuses in the Snow Lotus Cave in Sky Mountain, but she wasn’t sure if they were mature or not. Besides Sky Mountain, the other place that had Beauty Flowers was Fifth Heaven. If she failed to find them after breaking into the den of the snow lions, she would take the risk and break into the cultivation sects on Fifth Heaven to find them.

That was why she was greatly pleased when Hao Ren got her more than a dozen mature Beauty Flowers.

By now, she was 22 years old, and her most beautiful moment would go very soon if she didn’t take the Beauty Pill.

After all, the cultivators didn’t care about old age. As long as someone looked young, they were young!

For Su Han who wished to push the limit of cultivation, it would affect the elevation of her realms if she tried to sustain her beauty with her cultivation strength.

The only solution to keep her beauty without affecting her cultivation was taking Beauty Pills.

In fact, the Beauty Pills would not only sustain her beauty but keep her body in a youthful state as well. She would remain a junior in the cultivation world as long as she didn’t reach the Heavenly Dragon Realm!

Beauty Pills were not useful to realm elevation, but they were treasures in the eyes of all female cultivators.

“Hao Ren is quite resourceful.” Su Han had a higher regard for him.

Then, she looked at Xie Yujia and hesitated for a few seconds. “Yujia, you master can make elixirs, right?”

“Old Grandma?” Xie Yujia blinked. “I have no idea.”

Su Han knew that cultivators on the Soul Formation Realm could do anything in the world; it was nothing for them to make a super powerful dharma treasure, not to mention some elixirs.

While Su Han was debating with herself if she should ask Xie Yujia for help, the doorbell of Zhao Yanzi’s home rung.

“Who is it?” Zhao Hongyu, who had been doing housework with her hair up, went to open the door.

On the doorstep stood a white-haired old grandma.