Chapter 91 - 80: A 1000-Year Demon Pill, the Prefecture City Maiden’s Defeat, Gaining a Bow and a Maidservant, a Bountiful Harvest

Chapter 91: Chapter 80: A 1000-Year Demon Pill, the Prefecture City Maiden’s Defeat, Gaining a Bow and a Maidservant, a Bountiful Harvest

"You haven’t even mastered the Flesh, Bone, and Skin stage of Horizontal Refinement... A Fifty-Stone bow? Young man, can you even draw it?"

"Be careful you don’t pull something. You might end up bedridden for three months, you know?"

"Just now, I was afraid Uncle Gu would interfere and I wouldn’t be able to subdue you. I knelt to save my own skin. But don’t you know that a woman’s pride is worth more than gold?"

"If you can beat me, forget the Thirty-Stone bow. I’ll be your servant for three months! I’ll do your laundry, cook your meals, and wait on you hand and foot. You’ll get to experience what it’s like to have a ’noble lady from the Prefecture City’ as your maid. How about that!"

Ji Xiu clapped his hands and smiled.

"Are you sure?"

Cai Ling’Er was so choked with anger by Ji Xiu’s brazen confidence that a cold glint appeared in her beautiful eyes.

"I’m sure!"

’There’s a deal this good?’

’If I win, not only do I get this Demon Pill with two Blood Patterns, but I also get a free Tier Eight Great Bow and a noble lady from the Prefecture City to serve me.’

’And even if I lose...’

’...it’s a no-risk deal!’

’With Lord Gu here, she can’t do anything to me anyway.’

He looked at the disheveled, fuming Cai Ling’Er before him.

In truth, Ji Xiu was also eager to see...

...just what this so-called young lady from a great family in the Prefecture City, who was about his own age, was made of.

Could she really defeat a country bumpkin like him!

...

「A short while later.」

Cai Ling’Er sat collapsed on the ground, her face dazed and stunned.

She touched her neck, wiping away a single bead of blood. She looked as if her world had come crashing down, as if she had suffered some unbearable humiliation.

Watching her was Ji Xiu. He clutched the Demon Pill with two Blood Patterns, panting heavily as he sheathed his blade. He looked at Cai Ling’Er’s devastated state and, after a moment’s thought, said:

"It’s no disgrace to lose to me."

"After all, of those at the same level as me..."

"...you’re the only one who has ever lasted this long against me."

"I respect you, so let’s just forget about the whole servant business. Just forge me that Tier Eight Great Bow, and I’ll let bygones be bygones. I won’t tell anyone you lost to me, and your reputation will be safe. How about it?"

Ji Xiu spoke with sincere earnestness, extending a hand to her.

Upon hearing his words, Cai Ling’Er’s chest heaved.

She couldn’t help but recall how he had flicked open her bodice to retrieve the Demon Pill, and how the brat hadn’t even given her a second glance...

’I am the proper daughter of the Cai Family! How many brilliant young men from the Prefecture City have offered me rare treasures just for my attention? And now, here in your backwater county, you’re telling me I’m not even good enough to be your maid?!’

Cai Ling’Er grit her teeth, tears welling in her eyes, and viciously slapped Ji Xiu’s hand away. Sniffling, she said:

"Keep your pity!"

"This lady keeps her word! This is the upbringing and dignity of the Scholarly Clans!"

"So what if I become your servant?"

"Just you wait! In three months, after I, Cai Ling’Er, have tempered my Golden Bone, I’ll make you *my* servant! You’ll lead my horse, hold my stirrups, and be my human cushion!"

With that, she rose to her feet without another word, moved behind Ji Xiu, and stood with her hands clasped and her head slightly bowed, adopting the perfect posture of a maidservant.

She was, at least, true to her word.

Ji Xiu was first surprised, then filled with a sense of admiration. This young lady from a great family in Jiangyin Prefecture... she certainly knew how to take a loss in stride.

’To have the fortitude to endure such a humiliation at her age... What will she become in the future?’

However...

’Those I defeat are destined only to watch my back as I pull further and further away, until I disappear from sight entirely.’

’Young lady, you have a difficult life ahead of you.’

[Under the Tutor’s Spiritual Sense, the true nature of worldly wonders can be perceived.]

[Ancient Ape Demon Pill (Seventh Grade)]

[A Demon Pill left behind by a Thousand-Year Great Demon seventeen years ago, bearing two Blood Patterns. Unfortunately, after more than a decade, its Qi Essence has almost completely dissipated, rendering it useless to a Qi Cultivation Grandmaster.]

[However, if used in alchemy, it can create Seventh Grade Secret Medicines or Secret Pills for refining Bone Marrow, Bone Tempering, or Skin Refining. Its medicinal potency is immense, comparable to the Heart Essence Blood of ten Hundred-Year Great Demons!]

Holding the Demon Pill, Ji Xiu’s eyes shone with a terrifyingly bright light.