Goodbye, Adele

Indeed, Jovic kept his word and submitted a body-building formula to Li Jiye.

Li Jiye studied the formula for a long time. Although he was only a Tier 2 pharmacist, he was still able to refine some simple Tier 3 potions with the Divine Blessing skill. Seeing that most of the medicinal materials could be found in Yibao Pavilion, he heaved a sigh of relief.

"Thank you, Senior Jovic! Don't worry. I definitely won't reject you if you ask me for a match again!"

After sending away a very depressed Jovic, Li Jiye returned to his messy dormitory.

He was the kind who ignored other things and concentrated only on one thing. Seeing the mess in his room, he couldn't stand it anymore.

He quickly sorted out his room and placed the previously refined potions into his storage bag.

Excluding the Tier 2 body-building potions he had taken, there were still countless potions lying in his room. After counting these potions, he left his dormitory to head to Yibao Pavilion.

This was considered a walk in the park for Li Jiye. The body-building potions he refined with the Divine Blessing skill were astonishing, so all the auctioneers and appraisers knew him very well.

He arrived at Yibao Pavilion and was about to sell his potions when he saw a somewhat familiar figure walking out.

"Hey… Aren't you Adele?"

Li Jiye was a little surprised to see the young girl in front of him. This was Adele, the girl he had rescued from the periphery of the Demonic Beast Mountain Range that day.

Adele also seemed very surprised to see him.

"Li Jiye? Why are you in Polar Star City?"

Smiling, Li Jiye pointed to the Polar Star Academy's school uniform he was wearing. Adele glanced at it and immediately looked dazed.

"I was so focused on escaping that day that I didn't even notice! I didn't expect to see you again. This is really fate!"

She immediately noticed the Tier 2 body-building potions that Li Jiye was holding.

"What are all these? Are you auctioning potions?"

Li Jiye nodded. "I made these body-building potions myself. I came to Yibao Pavilion today to sell them in exchange for some new medicinal materials."

Adele was a little surprised to hear that Li Jiye had personally refined these potions. She placed a bottle to the nose and smelled it, and was then immediately startled by the deep medicinal fragrance of the potion.

"Tier 2? This is a Tier 2 body-building potion?"

As if aware of her gaffe, she immediately coughed and continued.

"But the medicinal properties in this potion seem way stronger than normal Tier 2 potions… Wait, I remember! I heard of a genius pharmacist in Polar Star City who could refine various potions to a higher level. Could that pharmacist be you?"

Looking a little embarrassed, Li Jiye scratched his head and smiled.

"Erm… I think so… But I've been selling low-level potions and only came to sell slightly higher-level potions today."

Adele returned the potion to him and seemed to hesitate for a brief moment before she finally snapped her fingers.

"How about this! If you want to sell some potions in the future, you can just come find me directly in Yibao Pavilion! Here, this card is for you. With this card, you can get a certain degree of discount anywhere in Yibao Pavilion. This is a V-I-P card! Keep it well!"

Li Jiye took the glittering card with purple and gold textures on it, looking doubtful.

"A V-I-P card? Why do you have them?"

Adele laughed brightly and reached out to shake Li Jiye's hand. "Have you forgotten? I told you before that I'm from Yaoyang City. Yibao Pavilion originated from there. Hehe… This is my family's business!"

Her words were full of pride, and her face was even radiating brightly.

The glow of being rich with gold coins!

Li Jiye couldn't be more aware of what kind of place Yibao Pavilion was. He didn't even need to think to figure out how powerful the family who owned such a flourishing business was.

He hiccuped and swallowed a mouthful of saliva. Back then, he hadn't thought much when rescuing Adele. But in retrospect, he couldn't help but feel it was a curious coincidence.

After exchanging for many medicinal materials from Adele, Li Jiye returned to Polar Star Academy.

He still had the Azure Mystic Fruit in his storage bag at this time. However, he had to be a Tier 4 advanced-level pharmacist to ensure 100% success in refining this potion.

He returned to his dormitory and soon fell back into the crazed stage of refining potions nonstop. He finished refining all the medicinal materials he had in his hands, taking the entire night, and finally succeeded with three Tier 3 body-building potions.

As a Tier 2 pharmacist, even with the help of the Divine Blessing skill, his refining success rate was still unacceptably low.

However, it had also been a blessing in disguise. Through these few days of refining, his pharmacy skill had leveled up to Tier 3 automatically.

He nodded in satisfaction at the body-building potions.

Another week passed by in the blink of an eye. Over the past few days, he had consumed as many Tier 3 body-building potions as possible. Although he wasn't a Tier 3 martial artist yet, his physical strength was still much stronger than normal martial artists below Tier 3.

On this day, Teacher Daphne called Li Jiye and the others early in the morning.

Li Jiye immediately understood when he saw Daphne's serious expression.

The Grand Four-City Contest was coming up.

"The previous internal qualifying battles were to select the competitors for the Grand Four-City Contest. Winners of all levels have thus been selected to participate in the competition. Although we only have one qualified competitor in our class, he's a Tier 2 advanced-level martial artist."

She looked directly at Li Jiye and continued, "Tomorrow, you'll be accompanying the teachers and talented students to Yaoyang City. Remember, this matter regards the honor and reputation of our school. As your instructor, I have to remind you about something.

"Please don't overexert yourself in this competition. As you know, there are no shortages of geniuses in this world. Although I'm confident of your skills, Li Jiye, if you blindly charge forward in hopes of winning the game and injure yourself seriously, I will be very disappointed. It's not something I want to see."