Zhou Fu, female, 72 years old at the time, was an outer disciple of Daojian Sect. It had been 64 years since she started practicing.
Her talent for cultivation is decent, and she is now a great cultivator in the late stage of foundation building. She is only one step away from the legendary golden elixir that separates heaven and man.
In the outer sect, except for an occasional Jindan stage boss, she can be said to be well-known. When other people see her, they will give her respect with a bow or a call of "Fellow Daoist Zhou".
This is the strength and qualification she has gained through sixty-four years of diligent practice.
However, she had been waiting for the foundation-building process for long enough, and she felt that her cultivation career had come to an end. If she wanted to form a pill and take that step, she needed an external opportunity, a big enough chance.
She had been looking for this opportunity for many years but couldn't find it until one day when someone told her that the pharmacy was going to recruit new members.
In charge of the pharmacy?
A place that manages the sect's elixirs and medicinal materials, there will be no shortage of elixirs... so wouldn't that mean there will be plenty of barrier-breaking elixirs and all kinds of elixirs? !
This is the opportunity.
Join the Pharmacy Hall and get a Barrier Breaking Pill... No, at least get one Barrier Breaking Pill.
She keenly realized that this was an important turning point in her life. If she grasped it, her future spiritual practice would be smooth sailing.
This time the Pharmacy Hall is recruiting new students, and the students need to know alchemy and arithmetic. Many people were discouraged by these two points, but Zhou Fu realized that in the past, the entire Deacon Hall did not recruit new students, and everyone got in through various connections. No one had ever mentioned that knowledge of alchemy was required. Could it be that... this is not just recruiting deacon disciples?
She immediately asked who the current elder in charge of the Medicine Hall was, and found out that it was Qin Ran, the head of Danfeng.
"This is to recruit Danfeng's outer disciples..."
She knew that the peerless female swordsman Li Shiyin was a disciple of Danfeng. Li Shiyin was a sword practitioner, not an alchemy practitioner.
“Master Qin wants to recruit disciples to teach alchemy… maybe he wants to revive Danfeng!!”
What is the general trend of the times?
This is the trend of the times!
For an outer sect disciple like her, a low-level figure in the sect, when the sect leaders wanted to revive Danfeng and recruit the first batch of disciples who specialized in alchemy, it was an earth-shaking trend for her.
“If I can take advantage of this great momentum, then let alone forming a pill, I can become an alchemist in the future. With endless pills to take, it will not be impossible for me to form a Nascent Soul or a Spiritual Transformation.”
Thinking of this, Zhou Fu made a decision. This time, even if she died, she would die in the pharmacy.
She must seize this opportunity, she must become the deacon disciple under Master Qin!
Children from poor families have to grow up early. As an outer disciple who has practiced for decades, Zhou Fu knows a little bit about most of the strange things. She already knows a little bit of scattered knowledge about alchemy.
Now, she went to find all the alchemy books she could find, and then shut herself in, staying awake, not eating or drinking, and memorizing all the knowledge by rote.
Once was not enough, so she recited it two or three times, until August 31st, the last day, when she was finally able to leave.
On the first day of September, Zhou Fu rested for a night, adjusted herself to the best condition, and appeared in the Wendao Square early. This was her chance to make a leap in life, and she would not allow any problems to occur.
She waited quietly, without a trace of impatience. Some people around her complained, but she didn't complain; some people around her cursed Qin Ran quietly, but she didn't curse; some people around her made a lot of noise, but she didn't say anything...
When the autumn sun began to grow scorching, Lord Qin arrived, riding on a tiger.
Zhou Fu looked up at Lord Qin in the crowd and at the terrifying Xuanming Spirit Tiger. She knew that she was not even as good as Lord Qin's mount, far from it.
Just a tiger roar allowed her to clearly locate herself. It turned out that this was a high-level cultivator.
When someone questioned the rationality and fairness of Qin Shouzuo's exam, Zhou Fu just found it funny.
Because there is no idiot here who would question Master Qin for no reason. That is just a way to attract attention and gain Master Qin's attention so as to enter the Pharmacy through another route.
When Li Shiyin sent the test paper to her with sword energy, she couldn't help but doubt her life. With her knowledge, she couldn't imagine what kind of realm could control the sword energy to such a degree. The sword energy was obviously very sharp, piercing through the air and causing pain to her skin, but it didn't cut a thin piece of paper.
It turns out that this is his direct disciple, one of the ten geniuses.
When someone was late, he was directly removed by Qin Shouzuo. Zhou Fu sneered in her heart. Such a life opportunity, but that person treated it like this. He should suffer the pain of heaven.
The questions in the alchemy exam were difficult, but Zhou Fu was not panicked at all, because she knew that she had some knowledge of alchemy. If even she found it difficult, others would find it even more difficult. She calmly finished all the questions she could answer, and wrote her name and information in the designated position. Don't do anything you shouldn't do.
After the exam, there was a long wait. Zhou Fu did not do anything else but waited at home and meditated quietly.
On the third day after the exam, she finally received a piece of paper floating in from outside the house, which read: Tomorrow, go to Zhangyaotang for an interview.
There were more than fifty people participating in the interview.
Zhou Fu arrived very early and was the first one standing outside the pharmacy door.
...No one cut in line because Yan Yi, the deacon in charge of the pharmacy, was standing right next to them.
At ten o'clock, when the sunlight moved out from the pharmacy, the handsome and young Master Qin appeared in front of the pharmacy with his sword-immortal apprentice.
Zhou Fu remembered that Chief Qin also appeared at ten o'clock yesterday, so she knew that Chief Qin would not appear until after ten o'clock.
Chief Qin and Li Jianxian walked towards the pharmacy hall. When they came to her side, Chief Qin said to her, "Follow me."
She followed him into the pharmacy and stood obediently in the middle of the hall.
Master Qin sat in the main seat, Li Jianxian stood beside him, and the door behind her was closed by Yan Yi. At this time, there was no one else in the hall.
"Zhou Fu?" Chief Qin took out a booklet and placed it on the table, asking her gently.
He looked like a young man she met on a spring outing, chatting with her casually. But the experience on the day of the exam made Zhou Fu realize that he was a smiling tiger.
"Yes." She made herself look and sound as respectful as possible.
"Do you know Zhisheng Valley?" Chief Qin suddenly asked her.
She didn't understand what he meant, so she just replied truthfully: "I know."
"Are you from Zhishengu?" asked Qin Shouzuo again.
Zhou Fu frowned and shook her head: "No."
Qin Shouzuo tilted his head to look at Li Jianxian. Li Jianxian nodded, and he lowered his head to record two things, and then continued to ask: "Do you like to make pills?"
"like."
"Have you ever practiced it?"
“…”
Afterwards, Master Qin asked her a lot of strange questions, and then asked her to wait outside the door.
Zhou Fu stood in the corridor under the eaves of the Medicine Hall. She saw a disciple go in for an interview, and then stood behind her waiting with a puzzled look on his face; she saw someone go in for an interview, and then walked out with a defeated look on his face; she saw someone go in for an interview, and then did not walk out...
Although she was standing here, it seemed that she was qualified and seemed to be a preparatory deacon, but Zhou Fu still didn't know what the standards of Qin Shouzuo were. The whole process made her feel confused.
After everyone was interviewed, there were six people left behind her, and including her, there were seven in total.
In addition to them, Zhou Fu noticed that there were four people who went in but did not come out. Thinking of the head monk asking her about Zhishen Valley, she had some guesses about this...
Master Qin called them into the Medicine Hall and announced to them in a calm voice: "Zhou Fu, Wu Yan, and Zheng Jue are the steward disciples, and Wang Yishan, Jian Xun, Li Ergou, and Zhang Lu are the errand disciples..."
Eventually, Zhou Fu became a deacon disciple, and her job was to distribute pills to the disciples every month.
In addition, the Medicine Hall conducts an assessment every month regarding elixirs...
Therefore, compared to the monthly distribution of pills, Zhou Fu felt that the monthly assessment seemed more important.
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