What Pill Tower Elder, what eighth-grade peak Alchemist teacher—it was all just a gimmick to deceive outsiders.
You can deceive others, but don't deceive yourself.
There are many Elders in the Pill Tower, but only the Dan Ta Three Giants have reached the eighth-grade peak.
Among the three, Xuan Yi is still Yao Lao's old flame.
It's no wonder Yao Lao sought her out. If she truly had a Master-disciple relationship with any of the Dan Ta Three Giants, she could help Yao Lao escape his current state of being neither human nor ghost.
The temptation of "Rebirth" is something even Yao Lao cannot refuse.
Her biggest backers right now are Ah Li and Xiao Xun Er.
Ah Li is indeed a Ninth Revolution Dou Zun, but she is only a remnant soul and doesn't know how to make pills.
However, these words certainly cannot be said in front of Yao Lao.
Moreover, Xiao Xue does indeed have a teacher.
In the System's Master-disciple interface, above [Xiao Xue] is a name: her cheap dad, [Xiao Zhan].
A simple man who gave her the warmth of a home in this life.
He may not have great abilities and couldn't provide much for his children, and after discovering his children's talent, he often felt ashamed.
"Dad can't give you the best."
But this man swept away the gloom of Xiao Xue's past life.
Furthermore, Xiao Zhan's personal strength is actually quite terrifying!
As a dignified transmigrator, when she made mistakes as a child, Xiao Zhan would pick up the ruler and hit her without hesitation.
Being able to beat up a transmigrator—how could he not be strong?
He was so strong that she didn't even dare to have the thought of fighting back!
Actually, if Xiao Xue were to apprentice under Yao Lao, he might not refuse.
But first, after taking in Xiao Yan, Yao Lao had no intention of taking more disciples.
Second, if conditions allowed, she hoped that in her [Master-Disciple Interface], the Master column would forever only have the name [Xiao Zhan].
Would apprenticing to Yao Lao benefit her future development?
Naturally, it would be beneficial.
Although Xiao Xue is a cheater, having an extra backer in the early stages, especially one of the top Alchemists on the entire continent, how could that be a bad thing?
But what Yao Lao could teach Xiao Xue is actually not much.
Cultivation Techniques and Dou Techniques are not things Xiao Xue lacks; she can exchange for them with experience points in the System or make "equivalent" exchanges with Ah Li.
Greed leads to poor digestion; it doesn't mean that the more Dou Techniques you learn, the better.
Therefore, Ah Li can completely satisfy her needs.
She is the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox of the Yao Race, never mentioned in the original work, and definitely holds great secrets.
It's just that her state is not right; she can only lie in the stone coffin most of the time, and her amnesia is severe.
Ah Li's existence is one of Xiao Xue's biggest secrets; intuition tells her this secret cannot be told to anyone.
Moreover, from the current perspective, Ah Li seems to be hiding very well; even Yao Lao hasn't discovered her existence.
"Sure enough, the order in which people appear is really important."
Xiao Xue looked at Yao Lao beside her, then thought of the fluffy, soft Ah Li, and thought to herself.
"The beast-eared girl came first, nothing I can do."
"It's definitely not because she has fluffy ears and a tail, is obedient, and isn't very bright, making her easy to trick, while you are just an old man."
However, Yao Lao did not know what Xiao Xue was thinking.
After hearing that Xiao Xue could not contact the so-called "Pill Tower Elder," he fell into a brief silence.
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