Transmigrated into a Grandpa, Embracing the Laid-Back Life

Chapter 263: That's what you call professional.

The morning mist had yet to completely disperse in Clear Stream Valley, and a few fallen leaves clung to the damp stone steps.

Su Ming sat cross-legged on a meditation cushion deep within his cave dwelling. Before him lay three cyan jade pill bottles, their stoppers still sealed, yet a faint, crisp medicinal fragrance was already seeping through.

These were top-grade Qi Gathering Pills he had obtained through an "internal channel" at Pill Cauldron Peak, using the two hundred spirit stones he had just acquired plus the savings he had accumulated over the past few months.

To charge into the seventh layer of Qi Refining, he had truly invested heavily this time.

"A cracked Dao foundation is like a leaking bucket. To fill it with water, you have to pour it in relentlessly," Su Ming thought, looking at the pill bottles, his fingers gently stroking the cool, textured patterns on their surfaces. "If these three bottles of pills still can't break through that membrane..."

"Then you'll try again next time," Lin Yu's voice drifted lazily within his Consciousness Sea. "Cultivation is a matter of patient, grinding work. Now that you're somewhat wealthy, your mindset has actually become impatient. That's not good, you need to change it."

Su Ming gave a bitter smile and was about to speak when a series of urgent fluctuations suddenly rippled through the protective formation outside his cave dwelling.

Immediately after, that signature booming voice pierced through the multiple layers of formations, causing dust to sift down from the ceiling of the stone chamber.

"Brother Su! Brother Su! Your big brother is here to deliver a money-making opportunity to you!"

Su Ming's eye twitched. He helplessly put away the pill bottles.That voice—there wasn't a second person besides that brute Lei Hu from Spirit Beast Peak who could produce it.

He deactivated the formation and opened the stone door. Lei Hu's iron-tower-like frame almost completely blocked the entire doorway.

Today, he wasn't wearing the sect's standard long robe. Instead, he had changed into a form-fitting, short-sleeved martial attire that revealed his two arms, knotted like tree roots. He also carried a heavy sword as wide as a door plank on his back.

"Senior Brother Lei, what money-making opportunity is there so early in the morning?" Su Ming stepped aside to let him into the cave dwelling and casually poured a cup of cool tea.

Lei Hu didn't stand on ceremony either. He grabbed the teacup and gulped it down like an ox, wiped the water from the corner of his mouth, his eyes gleaming. "A big deal! The sect discovered a small accompanying spirit stone vein in Crimson Glow Ridge. Turns out the place is occupied by a swarm of 'Earth Fire Scorpions'. Those beasts are only first-tier demonic beasts, but their shells are tough, their poisonous fire is troublesome, and they move in swarms. The mining team can't even get their shovels in the ground."

"So?" Su Ming's expression remained calm.

They've issued a 'Suppression Order'!" Lei Hu slapped the stone table with a bang. "Clear out an area, reward of two hundred spirit stones! Plus, the bodies of the Earth Fire Scorpions you hunt belong to you. Those scorpion shells are excellent material for crafting fire-attribute armor. The poison

Two hundred spirit stones.

finger twitched slightly within

he would have accepted without a second

he had just made a quick buck and

it's definitely not worth it. But those Earth Fire Scorpions are afraid of water, afraid of cold. You're the Hall Master of the Repair Hall, an expert at

Su Ming's mind stirred.

Fire Scorpions, fire attribute, aggressive temperament, prefer to live

power, but it excelled at "using softness to overcome hardness." If

Ming asked

your 'Bumper Harvest No. 1'.

a gentle smile appeared on his face. "Since Senior Brother Lei has put it that way, if this junior brother declines again, it would be ungrateful.

hard it echoed. "Besides the two of us, I've also called a junior sister from Pill Cauldron Peak, specializing

...

hour later, at the foot of the

the "teammates" Lei Hu

appearance and carried a medicine basket on her back

Yun. Their faces were cold and stern, each holding a long sword in their arms. Standing there, they were like two wooden stakes, radiating an aura of sharpness that kept strangers at

from Brother Lei that you are proficient in formations? Let's be blunt upfront.

was questioning Su Ming's practical

Repair Hall had a big reputation, in the eyes of many combat-oriented

Ming wasn't angry either. He just gave a gentle smile, took out two palm-sized round plates from his sleeve, and lightly tossed them

...

Glow Ridge,

them. The rocks

air was so dry it

suppressed by at least thirty percent," Su

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