The next morning, as the sunlight had just begun to seep through the windowsill, the deeply sleeping Shen Qiang felt something fragrant and soft and was then woken up by kisses.

When he opened his eyes, the charming Su Xiaonuan was looking at him with boundless tenderness.

Shen Qiang couldn't help but tighten his embrace around her delicate waist and smiled, "Did you sleep well last night?"

Su Xiaonuan slightly furrowed her brows and said softly, "I made dinner specifically for you. I had planned to eat with you, but somehow I fell asleep."

Helplessly, Shen Qiang knew it was Qian Shanxue and Ali who had interfered, but there was no need to tell Su Xiaonuan about their involvement.

Moreover, the more embarrassing fact was that before going to bed last night, Shen Qiang had deliberately checked the dining room, only to find that the dinner Su Xiaonuan had prepared was completely gone, leaving behind only a pile of bones, a goose head, and a big goose butt.

Everything else was gone.

"It tasted great; you did very well. It was so delicious that I couldn't control myself and ate it all last night."

Hearing Shen Qiang's words, Su Xiaonuan's eyes widened in astonishment and she exclaimed, "You ate everything? Are you sure? Just the roast goose alone weighs almost 6 jin. Could you really eat all that?"

Shen Qiang instantly felt embarrassed.

Then, inexplicably, he remembered the cold and stunningly beautiful boss Qian Shanxue.

Su Xiaonuan had been put to sleep, so she definitely hadn't eaten, and the petite Ali, who had been knocked unconscious by cicadas, also hadn't eaten. A 6 jin roast goose and other foods, if actually eaten by Qian Shanxue alone—

Wouldn't her appetite be as high as her cultivation?

Seeing Shen Qiang's embarrassed expression, Su Xiaonuan laughed out loud, "Look at you. Being able to finish it all is the biggest compliment for me. Actually, it makes sense; you're a big man after all. It's normal to eat more."

"With that said, I must have wronged you before, eating as much as I did each time. Turns out, you were holding back. Don't worry; from now on, I'll prepare more."

Shen Qiang's gaze was vacant.

A 6 jin roast goose plus four side dishes.

Preparing even more in the future?

Who other than a food barrel could eat that much?

What if he couldn't eat all that, wouldn't that expose the lie?

While he was pondering, Su Xiaonuan's phone rang.

She picked up the phone, gesturing to Shen Qiang to be quiet.

Because she was close, Shen Qiang heard Dean Su on the phone saying there was an emergency and that Su Xiaonuan needed to come to the hospital immediately.

After hanging up, Su Xiaonuan was in a flurry, urging Shen Qiang while she washed her face.

Shen Qiang directly announced his decision, he had matters to attend to and would not be going to work.

Su Xiaonuan was helpless.

She had no choice but to leave on her own.

Once she left, Shen Qiang became excited.

After quickly getting ready, he hurried to the medicinal materials market.

After some haggling, he bought all the raw materials at one shop, but when it came time to pay, he suddenly became embarrassed.

The excited Shen Qiang had not felt the sting of being short on money for a long time, so he had forgotten that he had already spent all the money in his card.

After deducting the 65,000 he transferred to Gao Hui, there were only a little over 200 Yuan left in the account after a 50 Yuan service fee, and in his wallet, there was only 300 Yuan left.

If things went as previously planned, refining some Qi Gathering Powder to give to Xu Nan to auction would have been enough with a hundred or so Yuan.

But this time, the amount he needed to refine was large, needing 200 jin of the finished product and over 500 jin of raw materials in total, costing over 10,000 Yuan altogether.

That really was embarrassing.

But thankfully, this situation wasn't too much for Shen Qiang to handle.

He pulled out his phone and called Xu Nan, Shen Qiang got straight to the point.

"Transfer twenty thousand yuan to my card as interest, I'll give you a surprise tomorrow."

On the other end of the phone, Xu Nan laughed, "You haven't given me the Blood Ganoderma you promised..."

"That's perfect, transfer one million to me first, the remaining fourteen million to clear the account, and the Blood Ganoderma will be yours tomorrow morning."

"Alright, but..."

Shen Qiang hung up the phone directly, smiled slightly at the vendor who looked puzzled, and said, "There's a little problem, just give me a moment to settle the bill."

Soon, Xu Nan had transferred two million yuan to Shen Qiang's card.

After settling the bill, Shen Qiang had the shop owner call for a car, followed the vehicle to deliver the medicines to the underground parking garage of Jinyu Huacheng, and after unloading the goods, when everyone had left, Shen Qiang waved his arm, stuffed all the medicines into the Storage Ring, and then headed upstairs.

He arrived at the top-floor activity room.

Shen Qiang began to refine the Gathering Qi Powder.

Having already had the experience of refining Blood Ganoderma Bone Healing Ointment, refining ordinary Gathering Qi Powder was completely a familiar task for Shen Qiang.

However, during the refining process, Shen Qiang still encountered a critical problem.

Originally, he thought refining two hundred kilograms of the Gathering Qi Powder would be a piece of cake.

But to Shen Qiang's complete surprise, with his Cultivation and abilities, he had to exhaust all his efforts and could only refine ten kilograms of Gathering Qi Powder at a time.

This meant that to refine two hundred kilograms of the Gathering Qi Powder, Shen Qiang needed to perform the refining process twenty times.

Once, twice, three times.

By the fifth time, Shen Qiang was already feeling very tired.

By the tenth time, Shen Qiang felt as tired as a dog.

By the fifteenth time, Shen Qiang felt sore all over.

By the eighteenth time, not only his body nearly didn't feel like his own, but his entire mind felt numb as well.

He just mechanically repeated the process over and over.

Finally, when the last batch of Gathering Qi Powder was refined, the time was like a fiery sunset.

He packed the refined Gathering Qi Powder into burlap sacks typically used for raw materials in the herbal market, and casually weighed it with an electronic scale.

Unexpectedly, there were over three kilograms extra.

This result was likely because, by the later stages, Shen Qiang couldn't control the ten-kilogram quantities anymore, and each batch refined was slightly less, but he performed a few extra rounds.

He put the extra Gathering Qi Powder into plastic bags used for shopping at the vegetable market.

And stored everything into the Storage Ring.

Utterly exhausted, Shen Qiang then slumped onto the sofa.

At this moment, he felt not only a complete drain of True Qi but the physical exhaustion and soreness were also extremely uncomfortable.

"At ten thousand yuan per gram, two hundred kilograms of Gathering Qi Powder are worth a hundred million yuan, a Storage Ring eighty million, and an Invisibility Star Moon Protection for one hundred million yuan is simply too cheap."

He thought to himself, but simultaneously, the physical fatigue forced Shen Qiang to consider safety matters.

The Gathering Qi Powder was mere trash in Shen Qiang's eyes.

But Star Moon Protection was a treasure.

If he were robbed of it before even getting it warm, that would indeed be a heavy loss.

"I should hire two big, strong men, with lots of scars on their faces, bushy sideburns, and shiny bald heads as bodyguards, that would look very intimidating," he thought.

Thinking of this, Shen Qiang dialed Qian Shanxue's number, grinning wickedly, "Hello, boss. As a newcomer, there are some things I don't quite understand and would like to ask you in person. Yes, there's a great Korean restaurant on the pedestrian street, let's meet there in an hour. Yes, that's all."

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