Chapter 13: Acquiring the Vitality-Elixir

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Qin Tianhai tagged Mu Xue in the group chat and asked her to add one more order for a Nightmare Charm.

Mu Xue knew that Qin Tianhai was using these Nightmare and Stench Charms to deal with the wife and her lover who had driven him to rage. She didn’t charge extra and even decided to refine the nightmares’ content further.

Mu Xue also tagged Yun Zhi, asking her to private message her.

Yun Zhi had long wanted to meet this sister from the eerie world.

Earth — Yun Zhi: “Hello, Sister Mu Xue.”

Eerie World — Mu Xue: “Qin Tianhai gave me two bottles of the Vitality Elixir as payment. One is for my father, Mu Qingsong, and the other for my close friend, Tao Qi. Their details are as follows…”

She provided their addresses and phone numbers.

Mu Xue said, “You don’t need to worry about them doubting you or refusing the elixirs. Tonight, I will send them a dream to briefly explain everything.”

Yun Zhi: …??!!

She compared the phone number Mu Xue gave for Tao Qi with the one in her own contacts—it was the same.

She confirmed that Mu Xue from the eerie world was indeed Tao Qi’s childhood sweetheart.

Just as she marveled at how small the world was, she saw Mu Xue’s next sentence!

Yun Zhi: “Sister Mu Xue, you can actually send messages through dreams!”

After her amazement, she felt a bit silly. Mu Xue could use the Nightmare Charms to make group members from different worlds have nightmares and even weave the dream’s content. Sending a dream to her friends and family didn’t seem so strange after all.

Mu Xue said, “Yes, after all, I’m no longer on Earth, so I rarely send them dreams. But because of my special abilities, I sometimes dream of fragments from reality… I know that Tao Qi and my father have taken revenge for me.”

Mu Xue: “And you, little sister Yun Zhi, you must be the new friend Tao Qi recently met? A few days ago, I saw Tian Tian chatting with a client named Yun Zhi in my dream.”

Mu Xue: “I thought it was just a homophone or someone with the same name, but now it seems not.”

Yun Zhi: …

Damn, Mu Xue’s abilities were just too incredible!

Mu Xue: “You don’t need to be afraid. In reality, I can only see some scattered fragments of people’s experiences in dreams if they frequently think about me in their hearts, especially if they mention my name during conversations.”

Yun Zhi admired her: “That’s amazing!”

Yun Zhi: “Yes, Tao Qi and I are friends. He’s helped me a lot. The supplies Panpan and Xiaofei traded to me, I always ask him to help me convert them.”

Mu Xue didn’t pry further about the real world from Yun Zhi. After all, she already knew the important things, and the rest didn’t matter.

Mu Xue: “Okay, the three charms that Old Qin requested will be ready by tomorrow morning. When the time comes, just prepare some Earth items for our trade. I will trade the finished Nightmare Charms to you.”

Yun Zhi: “Alright, Sister Mu Xue, do you have any particular favorites? Food, drinks, or something you use? I can buy more.”

Mu Xue was about to say it was unnecessary.

In the eerie world, food wasn’t essential; only eerie coins or items infused with eerie energy could provide the energy needed for survival.

Food was just for taste and didn’t fill the stomach.

Mu Xue wasn’t someone driven by strong cravings for food.

Clothes and daily necessities were the same—items without eerie energy were no better than trash.

Yet, Mu Xue couldn’t help but type on the screen: “Then get me a caramel macchiato from Starbucks.”

She used to love drinking that; Tao Qi often bought it for her.

Mu Xue actually knew Tao Qi liked her. Such passionate looks, only a fool wouldn’t notice. She just feared that if it was revealed, even being friends would become awkward, so she pretended not to know.

Tao Qi was a year younger than her. Mu Xue didn’t like younger guys. Plus, Tao Qi’s outgoing and lively personality, along with his roguish good looks, made him popular with girls.

At the time, Mu Xue thought Tao Qi attracted too much attention—she preferred someone honest and steady for a partner.

Besides, Tao Qi’s background… wouldn’t pass the approval of her father.

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Her father had struggled to reclaim the Mu family’s inheritance from an illegitimate uncle and detested illegitimate children deeply.

Since her mother died when she was young, her father had raised her single-handedly, fulfilling both parental roles. Mu Xue couldn’t ignore Old Mu’s wishes.

In her final year of graduate school, she accepted the pursuit of a senior under the same advisor.

He was exactly her type—honest, reserved, but thorough and steady in his ways. A bit conservative, he only dared to hold her hand; even kisses were initiated by her.

Their relationship was very calm, but that’s what Mu Xue wanted—peaceful and steady.

After graduating, they married.

Unexpectedly… she thought her honest, reserved husband would be faithful, but on their wedding night, just as they prepared to be intimate, he received a call, left her, and secretly met her best friend. They even had a child together…

Mu Xue lowered her gaze. They were the ones who made her leave the person who loved her most. Just making those two miserable wasn’t enough.

Those two often cursed her, so Mu Xue could see some of their recent happenings in her dreams and knew they still occasionally caused trouble at Tao Qi’s shop.

Mu Xue continued typing on the screen: “Yun Zhi, after you finish your current tasks, I’ll send you a commission. It’s not urgent; I also need time to prepare some things. Talk to me when you’re free.”

Somehow, Yun Zhi recalled what Tian Tian, the front desk clerk at Miracle Pawnshop, said about the two often causing trouble there…

Yun Zhi: “Alright, I’ll remember. Just let me know when your things are ready.”

If Mu Xue’s commission was simple, she could squeeze it in before the Haicheng auction.

If it was complicated, she’d wait until after the auction.

Mu Xue: “Okay.”

Yun Zhi contacted Qin Tianhai again, asking him to first use four vitality herbs to make eight bottles of the Vitality Elixir, with the remaining two bottles to be prepared next month upon her notice.

The elixir needed to be consumed within three days to be effective. After that, the rich vitality energy inside would quickly dissipate, losing its original effect.

So, the two bottles intended for Tang Panpan and Cen Junfei couldn’t be made yet since they had already used their only trading chance this month. She couldn’t trade them any items now.

Qin Tianhai: “Got it.”

Qin Tianhai also explained some precautions for taking the Vitality Elixir, such as drinking it all at once preferably at home or in a hotel because it would cause diarrhea to expel toxins.

Older people with more toxins might have diarrhea lasting one or two days; younger, healthier people might only have it for half a day to a day.

Yun Zhi: …

Looks like she couldn’t take a bottle immediately herself—the side effects would keep her from going out.

Fortunately, as long as it was consumed within three days, the efficacy was basically the same; vitality only began to fade after three days.

Yun Zhi further asked, “Given my parents’ current health, can they take this elixir?”

Qin Tianhai: “I’m not sure. I need to ask the alchemist. There are so few people here who can’t cultivate at all, so there’s not enough data.”

In the high martial arts world, ordinary people referred to those with low talent who might never even reach the martial apprentice realm. As for those like on Earth, with zero internal energy, they weren’t called ordinary people here, but “waste.” Only one or two appeared in ten thousand.

Therefore, the Vitality Elixir designed for such people was very rare and not sold commercially—no market for it!

There were plenty of herbs to strengthen martial artists’ physiques, but those without any internal energy couldn’t tolerate the destructive nature of herbs carrying spiritual power and could only use the mild vitality herbs as the main ingredient.

Soon after, Qin Tianhai returned: “They can take it. Their bodies have injuries, and the vitality energy in the elixir will prioritize repairing those. I suggest giving them a quarter dose first, then another dose every four hours. Though the strengthening effect isn’t as good as drinking it all at once, it’s better for healing. After drinking a quarter to half the elixir, external and internal wounds will mostly heal within half a day, allowing them to care for themselves. Then they can drink the rest at once, which will serve as detoxification.”

Yun Zhi: “Got it, thanks.”

The effect was so miraculous that Yun Zhi would have to arrange carefully when to give her parents the elixir.

…

Early next morning at eight.

Qin Tianhai’s commission officially appeared.

At the same time, eight bottles of Vitality Elixir appeared in her personal space.

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Yun Zhi took out one bottle and saw a small glass vial about the size of her thumb, roughly 5ml. The liquid inside was light green, clear, and beautiful.

After waiting another hour, Mu Xue’s Nightmare and Stench Charms were all completed and initiated a trade request to Yun Zhi.

Yun Zhi put thirty caramel macchiatos she had just bought at Starbucks into the trade.

She also selected some previously stocked gourmet foods, beautiful dresses, shoes, and small accessories from her personal space.

From Tang Panpan’s accounts, she learned that in the eerie world, items without eerie energy were useless and merely took up space. Food could only be tasted and provided no energy.

So, she didn’t prepare too many supplies for Mu Xue to avoid cluttering her storage.

But even if food couldn’t fill the stomach or quench thirst, just tasting it might bring some spiritual pleasure, right?

After Mu Xue received the items, the trade was completed, and Yun Zhi’s points rose by 100.

Mu Xue: “Thank you. If you ever need Nightmare or Stench Charms, just come to me. Just buy me a monthly supply of caramel macchiatos.”

Yun Zhi thought for a moment. Actually, there were some cases, like the partner who embezzled funds and caused her father’s company to collapse…

But that wasn’t urgent. She would deal with it next month when she could trade with Mu Xue again.

Today was Monday. Qin Xiaohu was a third-grade student and should be in class.

Yun Zhi had called Zhang Shuying last night to ask for two days’ leave for Xiaohu.

However, before delivering the medicine to the Qin family, Yun Zhi planned to first dispatch the Stench and Nightmare Charms from her space.

She learned from Zhang Shuying that Gong Xiurong’s current boyfriend was named Qin Wei.

He was unemployed, sometimes helped Gong Xiurong at the shop, but mostly stayed home playing video games.

Wearing a mask, Yun Zhi went to Gong Xiurong’s convenience store.

She saw Gong Xiurong at the entrance handing her daughter to a man.

The man was quite tall and somewhat handsome, with a black mole the size of a soy bean above his left lip—that was Qin Wei.

Gong Xiurong handed the child to the man and turned to walk across the street toward a small supermarket, seemingly to buy groceries.

Yun Zhi stood at the corner, confirming the distance between herself and the two was under a hundred meters. Using the umbrella as cover, she took out three yellow charm papers with blood-red inscriptions, all at once.

She wore disposable gloves.

The strange symbols on the yellow papers immediately dissolved into countless pale yellow light particles, flying toward Gong Xiurong and Qin Wei.

Only Yun Zhi could see this eerie scene.

Others could not.

Yun Zhi confirmed three beams of light: two merged into Gong Xiurong’s body as she reached the supermarket entrance, and one merged into Qin Wei’s body. Then Yun Zhi left.

Mu Xue had specially set these three charms to have a three-day delayed activation.

By then, Qin Xiaohu’s health would have recovered, so if Gong Xiurong came to cause trouble and he overreacted, there would be no danger.

Yun Zhi would have long left N City, so Gong Xiurong and Qin Wei wouldn’t suspect her.

Qin Tianhai’s commission was partially completed.

Next was delivering the medicine.

Yun Zhi drove to the Qin residence.

At that moment, Zhang Shuying, Qin Fugui, and Qin Xiaohu were all waiting at home…