Chapter 15 Qi Zibo's True Identity: Song Yin Becomes His Apprentice
Qi Zibo went directly to the top of Lingdan Peak to find Elder Xin.
Elder Xin: "What brings you here?"
Qi Zibo swaggered down in front of Elder Xin and said in a pretentious tone, "Xin Huailiang, you've run into some trouble these past few days, haven't you?"
Elder Xin remained calm and composed: "What trouble could this elder possibly have?"
Qi Zibo smiled maliciously: "How about I remind you about the Cleansing Spirit Pill?"
Elder Xin paused, his breathing momentarily disordered, but he quickly regained his composure. "I don't understand what you're talking about. What's wrong with the Cleansing Spirit Pill?" Damn it, this guy actually found out about the Cleansing Spirit Pill. If he didn't brush it off now, he would be ridiculed by this shameless bastard for over a hundred years.
Qi Zibo pretended to stand up: "My old friend doesn't know, but I stopped by Wanbaolou on my way to your Lingdan Peak to confirm that the batch of pills came from Lingdan Peak. Since my old friend doesn't admit it, then I can only go to the main peak to find the sect leader."
Elder Xin: "Sect Master is extremely busy. If you want to go find someone, then go ahead. After all, my Spirit Pill Peak is very busy and doesn't have time to entertain you." Bah! Who said we're old friends? How could that Wen fellow be so blind back then to become Daoist partners with such a shameless person?
Qi Zibo stood up and walked out.
One step, two steps, three steps... As he approached the door, Qi Zibo deliberately slowed down.
Elder Xin: "Wait a minute."
Qi Zibo turned around. "Is there anything else, old friend? Didn't you say that Lingdan Peak was too busy to entertain a guest like me?"
Elder Xin: "I certainly don't have time to entertain guests, but I do have time to entertain my mortal enemy. Since you're involved in the Cleansing Spirit Pill incident, you must know where it is. I ask you, is the Cleansing Spirit Pill in your possession?"
Upon hearing the other party's admission, Qi Zibo was delighted: "Oh dear, Xin Huailiang, you are supposed to be the master of a peak, yet your disciple makes such a stupid mistake. I think you should give up being a pill cultivator and switch to something else."
Elder Xin said, word by word, "Qi, Zi, Bo!"
Qi Zibo wasn't afraid of Xin Huailiang getting angry; he was even angrier. The thought of his promising young talent, whom he had nurtured for a year, almost dying because of a basic mistake made him want to punch someone: "Are you angry? Why didn't you think of that earlier? Now that the Cleansing Spirit Pill has been taken, you're worried?"
Elder Xin, annoyed at being interrupted, hurriedly asked, "You mean it was eaten?"
Qi Zibo: "Otherwise what? Someone almost lost their life! Luckily I was there. If this gets out, guess how the sect will punish you?"
Elder Xin was relieved to know that the person was not dead. He straightened his sleeves and sat back in his chair: "Hmph, a mere Qi Refining stage disciple. At worst, I'll just refine pills for the sect for free for ten years."
Qi Zibo laughed angrily: "A mere Qi Refining stage disciple? Ha, you're really arrogant."
The reason he disagreed with the other party back then was because the other party believed in the supremacy of strength and was extremely arrogant in reality despite appearing to be a humble gentleman.
Qi Zibo: "Xin Huailiang, Xin Huailiang, you really haven't changed at all over the years. If this really leads to someone's death, how innocent were those disciples who died? You mismanage your people, and your subordinates make mistakes that they shouldn't have made, yet you have to pay the price with the lives of innocent people!"
Xin Huailiang: "That only shows that the deceased had bad luck. You should know that luck is also a part of cultivation."
“Sometimes your lofty kindness seems utterly hypocritical to me. I promised Shao Yangtian to help you before, and you also helped me cover up the matter of the Cleansing Spirit Pill.”
Qi Zibo and another person came to Lingdan Peak on a long-term mission, but anyone could gather spirit herbs; the teleportation array could take them to Lingdan Peak in the blink of an eye, and most alchemy disciples gathered the herbs themselves. Lingdan Peak was lucky, as one of the two was a promising alchemist. After observing Song Yin for a year, they found her talent and character to be quite good; they were just waiting for the Cleansing Spirit Pill matter to be resolved before accepting her as a personal disciple.
Qi Zibo: "Okay, but you must give some spirit stones to compensate that disciple."
Xin Huailiang decisively tossed a storage bag to Qi Zibo. When had alchemists ever lacked spirit stones? "There are one hundred top-grade spirit stones inside. Consider it compensation for that disciple."
Qi Zibo took the storage bag and turned to leave Lingdan Peak.
Xin Huailiang watched the departing figure and sneered, as if talking to himself.
"Qi Zibo, Qi Zibo, we are both cold-hearted people, only showing kindness to those close to us, otherwise we wouldn't have been able to get along back then. The lives of sect disciples are lives, but what about the lives of the people in the world? You see me clearly, but you can't see yourself clearly."
After Song Yin and Shi Heming returned, they waited for Qi Zibo to come back, because they knocked on the gate of Qi Zibo's courtyard, but no one was inside.
Shi Heming: "Are you really going to confront him face to face? What if his cultivation level is much higher, and he gets angry and attacks?"
Song Yin: "He wouldn't. The sect clearly stipulates that fellow disciples cannot fight to the death outside of the life-and-death arena. Moreover, the Bamboo House has a dedicated elder in charge. The elders' cultivation starts at the Nascent Soul stage. I don't believe that Qi Zibo's cultivation is higher than that of the elders. In the past year, whenever a disciple makes a move in the Bamboo House, it will alarm the elder and then he will forcefully intervene to stop the fight."
After Song Yin nearly lost her life, Qi Zibo decided not to wait until Song Yin participated in the Foundation Establishment Competition to take her as a disciple; he wanted to take her as a disciple now!
Qi Zibo knocked on the gate of Song Yin's courtyard, and Shi Heming opened the door.
Qi Zibo: "You're here too, kid?"
Shi Heming glanced at Qi Zibo, then ran to Song Yin's side.
Song Yin remained seated on the stone bench, her face expressionless as she looked at Qi Zibo, offering none of her usual warm greeting.
Who exactly are you?
Qi Zibo stopped and clenched his fists behind his back. Why did she suddenly ask that? Had she discovered something?
Song Yin stared at him and said, word by word, "Your scorching spiritual energy is fire-attribute spiritual energy, which is completely unlike that of a Qi Refining stage cultivator. I went to the Affairs Hall and found that there is no one named Qi Zibo among the Qi Refining stage disciples of the sect."
Your observation skills are quite sharp, that's good.
Now that he'd been exposed, Qi Zibo decided to stop pretending: "I am a member of the Xianxiao Sect, but not a Qi Refining stage disciple. Qi Zibo is my real name, but people are more familiar with my sobriquet. My sobriquet is Shanyuan, and those with lower cultivation levels than me all address me as Lord Shanyuan."
Song Yin: "Lord Seonwon?"
Qi Zibo nodded, a secret smile playing on his lips, waiting for the two to look at him with respect and admiration.
The two children must be overwhelmed with gratitude.
"Sunpuku-kun...who is that? I don't know him."
After thinking for a long time, Song Yin blurted out this sentence.
Qi Zibo's defenses were instantly broken!
"Were you paying attention in class? Didn't you learn any of the inner sect content?"
Song Yin thought carefully: "Senior Zhou only mentioned the matter of the inner sect in a brief sentence."
Shi Heming nodded in agreement, “Song Yin is right, Senior Zhou did not explain the inner sect in detail.”
Qi Zibo: "..." I'm impressed.
Qi Zibo said to Song Yin, "Never mind, none of that matters. In short, I want to take on a personal disciple to inherit my mantle. Before coming to the outer sect, I even asked a friend to do a divination for me. He said that my disciple's destiny lies among the newly entered disciples. I observed your batch of new disciples and finally chose you."
Song Yin: "What is your cultivation level? Are you a sword cultivator?"
Qi Zibo: "Your current cultivation level is mid-Nascent Soul stage, you are a Pill Refiner, and the current elder of the Inner Sect's Pill Refining Peak. So you are willing—"
Song Yin knelt down with a thud and said in a firm voice, "Master, please accept my bow!"
Qi Zibo: "...Be my apprentice...?"
Haha, it doesn't match my expectations at all, I feel no sense of accomplishment.
His idealized scene of accepting a disciple was that he would reveal his true identity, then express his desire to accept a disciple to Song Yin's shocked gaze, and then Song Yin would be flattered and respectfully become his disciple.
Now, Song Yin realistically asks herself what her cultivation level is and whether she is a sword cultivator.
Song Yin: I've wanted to find a master for a long time. I'm willing to take anyone as my master, and now that a willing (scratch that) master is finally willing to take me as a disciple, of course I'll quickly establish a master-disciple relationship. Those with foresight recognize the protagonist Aotian's extraordinary potential early on and offer their help. Qi Zibo saw my talent; he's got good judgment!
Having good taste means appreciating her.
whee!
There was another person in the courtyard. Qi Zibo said to Shi Heming, "Alchemists usually have fire or wood spiritual roots, or at the very least, dual fire and wood spiritual roots. You have a lightning spiritual root, which is not suitable for becoming an alchemist, but don't worry, with your talent, someone will definitely be willing to take you as a disciple." In each batch of new disciples, most of the single-spirit-root and dual-spirit-root disciples eventually succeed in becoming disciples, especially the single-spirit-root disciples, who are almost all accepted.
Shi Heming nodded.
Unlike Song Yin, he wasn't very interested in becoming an apprentice. If someone wanted to take him as a disciple, they had to be of good character and responsible towards their students before he would agree to become their apprentice.
Qi Zibo said to Song Yin, "Don't continue the mission at Lingdan Peak. Afterwards, go to Lingcao Peak to learn how to manage the medicinal fields and identify spiritual herbs, so as to lay the foundation for future alchemy."
Song Yin quickly changed her tune, her previous cold expression gone, "Yes, Master, no problem, Master!"
Qi Zibo: I'll say it again! I really don't feel any sense of accomplishment at all when I take on my first apprentice!
Qi Zibo looked at Shi Heming and said, "You shouldn't go to Lingdan Peak either."
"Is there any path you wish to learn? I will assign you other tasks to lay a solid foundation from the beginning. Although I am a pill cultivator, I also know a little about how other cultivators lay their foundations."
This child has been under my watchful eye for a year; he's a good child.
Without hesitation, Shi Heming said, "I want to become a talisman cultivator in the future."
He had accidentally seen someone using talismans and found them very convenient and interesting. Actually, he was also quite interested in formations, but he didn't say it out loud.
"Fu Xiu?" Qi Zibo's heart stirred. If he remembered correctly, Yuan Ci had previously told him that he wanted to take on another personal disciple.
Yuan Ci, Fu Xiu, is the current elder of the Inner Sect's Dao Asking Peak. He currently has only one direct disciple, Zhu Jin.
Qi Zibo: "You are a beginner and haven't been exposed to talisman drawing yet. Go to the Treasured Dharma Pavilion and find a book on the basic cultivation method of talisman drawing. Then, practice with the method using various tools around you, such as a leaf, a twig, or even your finger. Don't limit yourself to drawing talismans with a pen. You need to forget the idea that drawing talismans can only be done with a pen."
He overheard this when Yuan Ci was teaching his eldest disciple.
Shi Heming's eyes brightened: "Thank you, Elder Qi, I've got it." He was lucky to receive a word of guidance from the other party.
Qi Zibo nodded.
Song Yin interjected at this moment, showing no nervousness in front of the elder, "Wait a minute, if we lay the foundation according to your method, won't we have no more spirit stones to earn in the future?"
Qi Zibo sighed and tossed out a storage bag. "The Spirit Cleansing Pill was an accident caused by Spirit Pill Peak. The hundred top-grade spirit stones inside are their compensation to you. As for other spirit stone income, you won't have to worry about income once you start refining pills and drawing talismans. Besides, the Mission Hall never lacks missions."
Song Yin happily accepted the spirit stones: "Alright." She was still very happy to have a hundred top-grade spirit stones!
Qi Zibo: "I won't move out of the bamboo hut until you've established your foundation. So don't try to slack off. When you're free, channel spiritual energy into the spiritual plants. On your days off, go to Spirit Herb Peak to learn how to identify spiritual herbs. I'll make the arrangements for Spirit Herb Peak. You can go there directly on your next day off."
Qi Zibo kept rambling on and on. Now that he was Song Yin's master, he naturally had the right to directly tell her what to do. As a master for the first time, he wanted to make sure everything was arranged thoroughly.
Knock knock knock.
A knock on the door interrupted Qi Zibo's speech.
Song Yin quickly ran over to open the door. Her master was too terrifying; he had so much to say.
There was an unexpected person outside the door.
When Song Tian saw the door open, he smiled and said, "Junior Sister Song Yin, it's been a long time! How have you been? We all came to the sect together and were thinking of getting together at the Xianxiao City Restaurant, so we came to invite you. I knocked on Junior Brother Shi Heming's door earlier but no one answered. Since you're close to him, you can also help pass on the invitation."
A note from the author:
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In anticipation of that moment when he would accept a disciple, Qi Zibo imagined countless exhilarating possibilities in his mind. [Exclamation emojis]
But he encountered Song Yin [sunglasses][sunglasses][sunglasses]
Song Yin: [Milk Tea]
Qi Zibo: [Clown]
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Hey everyone, I'm back in the cyber world begging for collectibles again! [empty bowl][empty bowl][empty bowl]
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