The proof of Emperor Wu began with daily rewards for diligence.

Chen Jue, carrying his child, went straight to Cuihu Street in Kaiyang Community.

Walking along the bustling street, Chen Jue suddenly turned around and asked Wu Nanyuan, "Have we met at the martial arts academy? You look familiar."

"..." Wu Nanyuan remained silent.

Her academic record was certainly not fake, but she never studied at "Linjiang Martial Arts College" for even a single day.

"Turns out he's a socially awkward, taciturn guy..."

Chen Jue turned around and looked the girl up and down.

The girl had long, jet-black hair that cascaded down her back, with thin, wispy bangs parted to the sides and wispy strands falling casually across her face, giving her a somewhat disheveled and fragile air of indifference and vulnerability.

"Looks familiar...it looks so familiar."

Chen Jue frowned, like a lecherous man harassing a respectable woman, and circled the girl three times before his gaze suddenly stopped on her narrow, fox-like eyes with reddish corners.

Fox eyes?

Chen Jue suddenly realized that he remembered the aloof girl who had fought him to a standstill in the old alley of the black market that day.

The same narrow, fox-like eyes, the same extreme thinness...

brush!

Chen Jue suddenly attacked, reaching out to remove the thin string from the girl's ear.

Wu Nanyuan's expression suddenly changed. She nimbly dodged Chen Jue's impolite act, narrowly avoiding his move.

"Oh~~~"

Upon seeing this, Chen Jue instantly understood; it was indeed the girl from the Wu family who sold the secret manual.

Thus, Wu's purpose becomes quite clear.

This is an attempt to support the Wu family, replace Zhang Wei, and even potentially have him succeed Zhang Wei as the director of Kaiyang Police Station in the future.

"I knew it! How could Director Wu recruit a college graduate who just finished his second year of vocational college into the medical corps..."

"Tsk, such talent, it's a real pity she didn't go to Wuhan University."

Chen Jue was both enlightened and sighed. He quickly made a series of moves to fool everyone and led Wu Nanyuan through Cangzhu Street.

"Wait for me outside for a few minutes."

Seeing that Dr. Jiao's clinic was empty, Chen Jue rang the bell and went inside.

"Tsk! Isn't this our Alchemist Chen? He's already full from the spirit grains, but wants to buy a few more for a treat?"

Jiao Fengchun was dozing off in the shop when he saw Chen Jue, dressed in a black inspection uniform, enter in a spirited manner and ring the bell. He couldn't help but tease him.

"Old man, are you looking down on me?"

Chen Jue gave him a mocking look, then gestured towards the treatment room behind the medicine shelf, indicating that the old man should go in and talk.

"Hiss!~~"

Seeing Chen Jue's serious expression, Jiao Fengchun immediately shuddered and stood up from the armchair.

He arrived at the clinic entrance, glanced left and right, his gaze lingered briefly upon seeing Wu Nanyuan, and then quickly returned inside.

The old man hung up a "Closed" sign at the clinic, locked the glass door from the inside, and then pulled Chen Jue behind the medicine shelves.

"You kidding me, right? You refined a mere twenty catties of spirit grain into a Spirit Sprout Pill?"

Jiao Fengchun looked incredulous. He knew that achieving a "balance of the five elements" in spiritual grains and spiritual sprouts was extremely difficult. If one was not careful, the "five elements would become unbalanced and the spiritual material would be ruined."

"Actually, it wasn't just twenty pounds. A beautiful, kind-hearted, and wealthy young woman even sponsored me for another twenty pounds..."

Chen Jue didn't want to appear too shocking, so he appropriately downplayed his true talent in alchemy.

"Forty pounds is terrifying, okay?!"

"Do you know how difficult it is to achieve a balanced Five Elements constitution in the Spirit Sprout Pill...?"

Jiao Fengchun was about to correct Chen Jue's erroneous views on alchemy, but he was speechless and stuck.

The old man suddenly realized that Chen Jue was cultivating the "Minor Five Elements Technique". If he didn't even have the ability to balance the five elements, then what was the point of cultivating the Five Elements True Qi?

"You little rascal, you're really incredibly lucky..."

Jiao Fengchun had largely believed the fact that Chen Jue had refined the Spirit Sprout Pill.

He pulled Chen Jue directly into a more private consultation room and said, "Let me see it. Let me make this clear beforehand: I'll try to negotiate the price for any impure or inferior pills..."

"Don't worry, I've already eaten all the inferior and mixed pills."

Chen Jue was referring to the first batch of "Yellow Sprout Pills" he tried making. He then refined the pills three more times, and each time the pills he produced were pure, flawless, and transparent.

Upon hearing this, Jiao Fengchun was so shocked that he fainted.

Judging from Chen Jue's words, he had refined more than one pot of Spirit Sprout Pills in just ten or twenty days.

With such extraordinary talent in alchemy, cultivating the "Minor Five Elements Technique" is simply a waste of his potential.

"Here you are, forty Spirit Sprout Pills, no deception for the young or old."

Chen Jue casually tossed a palm-sized, exquisitely packaged medicine box in front of Doctor Jiao.

Jiao Fengchun's heartbeat slowed down a beat as the medicine box hit the ground.

"You brat! Don't you know that Spirit Sprout Pills are very fragile? If you ruin their appearance, I'll haggle down the price!"

Old Jiao glared at Chen Jue, and the moment he opened the pill box, he gasped in shock.

Inside the pill box, like a pearl box, were densely packed round and plump Spirit Sprout Pills, each about the size of a little fingertip.

Each Dudan pearl is sweet and clear, as pure and translucent as frost-covered glass.

Within the clear core of the elixir, countless fine golden sands flowed slowly, their subtle light contained within. It appeared translucent and warm, yet it concealed a rich and profound spiritual energy.

Jiao Fengchun had exceptional eyesight and could tell at a glance that the person who refined this pill had already achieved a certain level of skill, with a success rate of nearly 100%.

"How about the old man?" Chen Jue asked smugly, hands in his pockets. "Name your price!"

"Good lad! You truly are a once-in-a-century alchemy genius..."

Jiao Fengchun pulled out a black bank card from somewhere and handed it to Chen Jue.

"Large-sum transfers will attract the attention of the government."

"This is an anonymous Royal Black Card. As long as you link your phone number, I can transfer money into this card."

"However, when you use the Royal Black Card, the Royal Bank will automatically deduct 15% as a gray tax. As a service, no one may question or trace the source of your funds, including the government itself."

"Holy crap, the Ming Dynasty even had something like this?"

Chen Jue was stunned when he heard this.

Isn't this a perfect money laundering tool?

In their quest for wealth, the Divine Dynasty was so greedy that they even dared to sell the noose that led to their own suicide!

By simply tapping the chip of the black card against the back of his phone and scanning it, Chen Jue found a Royal Bank app on his phone in less than a minute.

He clicked on it and saw that an anonymous virtual account had been generated.

Jiao Fengchun skillfully entered the virtual account number and transferred 300,000 yuan directly to Chen Jue's card.

Three hundred thousand banknotes!

This far exceeded Chen Jue's expectations.

He excitedly reached out and shook hands with Doctor Jiao, and said that he would trade with him at a rate of forty Lingya Pills per week, hoping that the old man could hold on.

To his surprise, he received only a sneer from Jiao Fengchun.

"You're seriously underestimating the elixir market in Linjiang..."

"With your meager output, let alone placing it in the inner city, it wouldn't even make a ripple, let alone at 'Linjiang Martial Arts University'."

"Just keep refining it, I can eat as much as you want."

"You said it yourself!" Chen Jue was so excited that he rubbed his hands together, not expecting that Old Man Jiao was so capable.

Since that's the case, and Old Man Jiao said he could take as many Spirit Sprout Pills as he wanted, then there's no need for him to hide it anymore.

We'll try to settle my mother and aunt in the inner city within a month!