"Junior Brother Xiao Yan, it's not what you think. My master and your master are friends in alchemy."
"Oh, oh, oh!"
Still basking in the glory of having a sixth-grade alchemist senior brother, Xiao Yan, who was always so arrogant, didn't react to Lin Feng's words and replied blankly.
"Buzz."
Seeing Xiao Yan's expression, Lin Feng didn't pay much attention and took out a small jade bottle from his storage ring.
"Junior Brother Xiao Yan, this contains a soul-restoring potion, enough to restore Senior Yao Chen's soul power to the Dou Huang level. As for the price," Lin Feng said, looking at Xiao Yan who had finally come to his senses and had a slightly embarrassed expression, his face inscrutable.
"Consider it my gratitude to Senior Yao Chen. Junior Brother Xiao Yan doesn't need any further reward!"
"Master Lin Feng, this..."
Before Xiao Yan could finish speaking, Lin Feng interrupted him again, waving his hand and saying with great generosity.
"Junior Brother Xiao Yan, there's no need to be so formal. Just call me Senior Brother. After all, I've received many favors from Senior Yao Chen."
"Senior Brother Lin Feng!"
Seeing Xiao Yan's pitiful appearance, Lin Feng couldn't bear to look at him and revealed another piece of information.
"Junior Brother Xiao Yan, there's no need for that. In my opinion, you should hurry back to your cultivation! I know a little about your affairs. As far as I know, your fiancée is currently in seclusion, breaking through to the Dou Ling realm. You should hurry back and take the Three-Pattern Azure Spirit Pill!"
"What?! She's already almost at the Dou Ling realm? How could it be so fast?!"
Nalan Yanran truly lived up to her reputation as the Soul Emperor's lifelong enemy. Even the future Xiao Yan looked serious when she was mentioned.
"Senior Brother Lin Feng, Xiao Yan will take his leave now!"
Watching Xiao Yan leave, Lin Feng secretly began to look forward to it. "Yao Chen, Yao Chen, what will I get from you tonight?"
On the other side, after leaving the Alchemist Guild, Xiao Yan spent a lot of money to rent a top-tier cultivation room in the capital. Upon entering, he didn't immediately begin cultivating. Instead, he removed one of the ancient rings he was wearing and took out a small jade bottle.
Opening the bottle, a wisp of rosy light slowly emanated from it. Xiao Yan's spirit immediately lifted, and he quickly placed the ring inside before sealing the opening.
"Master, oh Master, you must wake up soon! Then we can go and ask Senior Brother Lin Feng for some benefits!"
Xiao Yan looked at the small jade bottle, tears of happiness glistening on his lips. Yao Chen, who had been secretly watching his disciple, was so angry at his appearance that he nearly vomited blood.
"That damned spendthrift! Doesn't he know that free things are the most expensive? Looks like I'll have to bleed a lot tonight!"
After watching for a while, Xiao Yan stopped paying attention, because Lin Feng had already said that after the soul power was depleted, even with restorative items, he wouldn't wake up for a short time. However, Lin Feng had also clearly stated that his master would definitely wake up before the three-year agreement.
Taking out the Three-Patterned Azure Spirit Pill given to him by Lin Feng from his storage ring, Xiao Yan only needed a cursory glance to notice the exquisite pill patterns on it.
"Truly powerful alchemy! However, with my teacher's guidance, one day I will reach this level too!"
Having secretly strengthened his resolve, Xiao Yan swallowed the Three-Patterned Azure Spirit Pill without hesitation, beginning his breakthrough!
Time slowly passed, and night quietly descended upon the earth. Inside Xiao Yan's secluded cultivation room, a cool breeze quietly rose, and a solid figure slowly floated out from the small jade bottle.
Approaching the cross-legged Xiao Yan in seclusion, Yao Chen said with exasperation,
"You little spendthrift, I'd better go get slaughtered now!"
Inside the Alchemist Guild's pavilion, in the room where he had met Xiao Yan during the day, Lin Feng was carefully studying the alchemy techniques passed down by Yao Chen. However, judging from his absent-minded expression, these alchemy techniques, which he usually cherished so much, seemed less important at this moment.
"They've arrived!"
Suddenly, Lin Feng looked up sharply, his eyes gleaming, as if some fat sheep was about to fall into his trap.
"Hahaha, Senior Yao, it's truly an honor for this junior!"
As Lin Feng's voice fell, a solidified soul slowly appeared in the room. However, this soul's appearance was rather strange. Although it was dressed in white, its face was dark, as if someone owed it a ninth-grade pill.
"Lin Feng, stop pretending and just say what you want to say!"
Faced with Lin Feng's enthusiasm, Yao Chen was extremely annoyed. He had roamed the continent for many years, yet he had been repeatedly deceived by this kid. By now, Yao Chen had long understood everything. The disciple of the Qinghua Old Monster, the teachings during his travels across the continent—it
was all just lies. Although he didn't know how this kid knew some of the hidden matters, there are no secrets that stay hidden forever. Perhaps he had only overheard these things by chance.
With this kid's talent, he reached the Dou Zong realm at the tender age of twenty, and his alchemy skills also reached the peak of the sixth-grade alchemist level. Let alone the Qinghua Old Monster, even he himself would cherish such a disciple like a treasure, how could he bear to abandon him in this barren Northwest Continent?
On the surface, his seemingly peak sixth-grade level at twenty seems ordinary, and that's true; in the eyes of Yao Chen, an eighth-grade nine-colored alchemist, this is merely an average level. Born into the Yao Clan, he has seen countless twenty-year-old sixth-grade and even seventh-grade alchemists, some even already working towards breaking through to the eighth grade.
Of course, considering this kid's lineage and environment, this is truly terrifying. Leaving aside his early experiences, how long has it been since he received Yao Chen's alchemy inheritance, yet he can already refine a Breakthrough Pill.
Thinking of this, Yao Chen, while annoyed at being deceived, couldn't help but feel a touch of admiration for this kid. You see, after he was expelled from the Medicine Clan, he, like this kid, resorted to swindling and cheating—no, trading—to achieve his current success.
"It's a pity. In my current state, this kid would definitely look down on me. Otherwise, taking him as a disciple would be a wonderful thing."
Yao Chen felt a slight regret. As for Lin Feng's temperament, while Lin Feng couldn't control him the first time, now that Lin Feng had advanced to the Dou Zong level and possessed the powerful weapon of a strange fire,
his weakened state, though feigned weakness to deceive his foolish disciple and cultivate his independence, had also been greatly depleted over the years of refining medicine and subduing the strange fire. Without Lin Feng's medicinal elixir to replenish him, he would at most be comparable to a Dou Wang.
(End of Chapter)