Elder Dan, dressed in gray, stood in front of Lu Fuyue, looking at her with an inscrutable expression.
"Fuyue, didn't I ask you to come to my place before? Why didn't you go?"
Lu Fuyue was slightly taken aback, suddenly remembering that Elder Dan from the Law Enforcement Hall had asked her to come find him that day, but she had been busy cultivating for the past few days and had forgotten about it.
A hint of apology flashed in her eyes as she bowed slightly to Elder Dan.
"I'm sorry, Uncle Dan."
"It's okay, we can go now."
Lu Fuyue hesitated for a moment and then nodded. She then sat on Elder Dan's crane and went with him to the Alchemy Peak.
For some reason, Lu Fuyue always felt that Uncle Dan seemed a bit strange since she came back.
She carefully recalled what had happened in the past few days, and suddenly her body stiffened. Could it be that Uncle Dan knew what was below the Endless Cliff?
So, did he know... that she had received the inheritance of the Heavenly Sound Sect...?
Lu Fuyue looked up at Elder Dan standing in front of her. Elder Dan had been in the Tianxuan Sect since she could remember.
Alchemists are the most respected figures in the cultivation world, since elixirs are one of the most important things for cultivators.
Perhaps because the spiritual energy in the cultivation world is so scarce now, fifth-grade alchemists are already among the top alchemists in the cultivation world.
Elder Dan was one of the few fifth-grade alchemists in the cultivation world.
I heard that Elder Dan was not originally a member of the Tianxuan Sect. He came here three hundred years ago, and because he was a rare fifth-grade alchemist in the cultivation world, he directly became an elder of the Alchemy Peak, and later even became the master of the peak.
Unlike other cultivators who use their cultivation level to freeze their appearance in their youth, Elder Dan allowed himself to age, so he looked like a withered old man in his sixties.
However, she was certain of one thing: Elder Dan would not harm her.
Before long, they arrived at Alchemy Peak.
Elder Dan led Lu Fuyue to his private alchemy room, a place where no one but him was allowed to enter.
Lu Fuyue was a little puzzled. What was Uncle Dan trying to do?
Just then, Elder Dan suddenly spoke up, "Fu Yue, watch closely, these are the steps for refining a Grade One Blood-Replenishing Pill."
Lu Fuyue subconsciously followed his gaze.
Elder Dan took out a blood-red spiritual plant from a jade box, looked at Lu Fuyue, and explained,
"This is a first-grade blood-clotting herb, which is the main ingredient in the blood-replenishing pill."
"And this is rootless water, a commonly used auxiliary material for alchemy."
"Now I will demonstrate to you how to refine pills."
Lu Fuyue asked in confusion, "Uncle Dan, are you going to teach me how to refine pills?"
Elder Dan paused, "You saw that woman at Endless Cliff, didn't you?"
Upon hearing this, Lu Fuyue broke out in a cold sweat. She instinctively took a few steps back, adopting a defensive stance. "Uncle Dan, what are you saying?"
In the cultivation world, the greatest taboo is having one's possession of a powerful treasure discovered.
Seeing Lu Fuyue's wary expression, Elder Dan put down the herbs in his hand, then stroked his beard and smiled.
"Little girl, do you think Uncle Dan would harm you for the sake of some so-called inheritance?"
“I watched you grow up. Have you forgotten that you used to be in poor health, often vomiting blood and fainting? I was the one who often made pills for you and fed them to you.”
"If you're afraid of bitterness, I'll improve the pill formula for you. If you don't want to take the pills, I'll specially make them into small snacks to feed you."
Elder Dan sighed softly, a hint of relief flashing in his eyes.
"But it's good that you're wary; it shows you've grown up, little girl."
Lu Fuyue's wariness gradually subsided. When she was a child, Uncle Dan was indeed the one who treated her the best.
At that time, because of her health condition, no one ever played with her.
However, Uncle Dan and Uncle Enforcement were different; they would visit her from time to time with gifts.
If both of them are capable of harming her, then she truly has no one she can be close to.
She looked up at Elder Dan, "How did Uncle Dan know?"
Elder Dan's mood immediately darkened, and he remained silent for a long time.
He turned his back and his complicated gaze fell on the direction of the forbidden area.
After a long silence, he slowly said, "Because she is my only rival."
Lu Fuyue was startled and looked at him in disbelief.
She simply couldn't reconcile the aged-looking person before her with the red-clad beauty at the bottom of the endless cliff.
Seeing Lu Fuyue's surprise, Elder Dan smiled wryly, "When the Tianyin Sect still existed, music cultivators could heal people's illnesses and injuries by playing music, and they could also kill people invisibly through music."
"And Hongye, the person you saw at the bottom of the cliff, is more skilled at using music to save people, and that's how I became acquainted with her."
"At that time, people thought that sound cultivation was better than pill cultivation, because the effects of pills needed time to be absorbed, while the healing methods of sound cultivation could quickly restore a cultivator's injuries."
"Born into a family of alchemists, I disagreed with the world's view of alchemists. Therefore, relying on my high talent in alchemy, I challenged those sound cultivators who majored in medicine time and time again, and I won every time."
"And she was the last person I challenged, because I lost to her, so I never challenged anyone else again."
"For so many years I have been diligently cultivating alchemy, just to fight her, but I never expected that the Tianyin Sect would be destroyed and she would disappear."
"It wasn't until I learned that she had perished at the Endless Cliff, a forbidden area of the Tianxuan Sect, that I came to this place and became an alchemist for the Tianxuan Sect."
Noticing Elder Dan's low spirits, Lu Fuyue was at a loss for how to comfort him.
At this moment, Elder Dan looked at Lu Fuyue with a complicated expression, his voice slightly hoarse, "Fuyue, Uncle Dan wants to ask you for a favor."
Lu Fuyue had already guessed what it was. She raised her eyes and looked directly at Elder Dan, "Uncle Dan, do you want me to learn alchemy?"
With Hongye dead, Uncle Dan has no rivals left.
She inherited the legacy of sound cultivation, so Uncle Dan wanted her to cultivate sound cultivation while also practicing alchemy.
All for the sake of fulfilling his long-held obsession with sound cultivation and alchemy.
Elder Dan was slightly taken aback, then suddenly laughed, "Then would you like to become my disciple?"
Lu Fuyue nodded and knelt down, "Master, please accept this disciple's bow."
Uncle Dan was so good to her, how could she let him down?
Elder Dan nodded in satisfaction and quickly helped Lu Fuyue up. "Good, good, good. From today onwards, you are my only disciple, Dan Bucheng."
He then took out a storage ring and handed it to Lu Fuyue, saying, "This is your apprenticeship gift. Girls need money no matter where they go. There are five spiritual veins inside, which will make it easier for you to go out and train in the future."
Lu Fuyue was startled upon hearing this, and the storage ring in her hand suddenly felt heavy. "Master, this is too much."
A small sect probably only has one spiritual vein. Her mother had left her several high-grade spiritual veins before, and now her master has given her five spiritual veins.
It's estimated that her current net worth is almost half that of the Tianxuan Sect.
Elder Dan waved his hand, "What's a little extra? It'll come in handy when you go to those auction houses later."
"In addition, I also put some pills that I usually refine inside."
Elder Dan suddenly sighed.
"However, there are no magical artifacts or the like. We'll find you a suitable master in the future."
Lu Fuyue smiled and said, "Master, these things are already more than enough."
Elder Dan shook his head. "Alchemists are the wealthiest cultivators. You'll understand when you reach my level."
"Alright, now I will teach you how to refine pills."
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