58: The patriarch of the Ancient Alchemy Sect, a ninth-rank alchemy master!

After everyone left, a manager from the Pill Refining Hall suddenly entered to report: "Sect Master, an Inner Sect Disciple sneaked into the Pill Refining Hall to secretly refine pills and was caught by us."

"He consumed quite a lot of precious medicinal herbs. We ask the Sect Master to decide his fate!"

This Disciple knows how to refine pills?

Interesting.

However, Lin Chen didn't care much and said casually, "For such a small matter, you can handle the punishment yourselves."

"Sect Master, this Disciple's name is Ye Feng."

Ye Feng?

Lin Chen had no impression of the name and couldn't react for a moment.

Was he someone's relative with connections?

The Wending Sect didn't tolerate such things!

Just as he was about to tell the manager to increase the punishment, he suddenly slapped his forehead!

He remembered.

This was the Inner Sect Disciple who had picked up a small green bottle containing a Supreme remnant soul!

At that time, he had specifically instructed Fang Hong to give him special care!

How could he have forgotten with his memory!

Lin Chen waved his hand: "Bring him in."

A moment later, the manager brought Ye Feng inside.

Ye Feng looked like a child who had done something wrong, lowering his head and not daring to speak.

Lin Chen smiled: "Come out."

The remnant soul inside the small green bottle hesitated for a moment before finally emerging and asking, "How did you discover me?"

"I just shouted at random, and you came out yourself."

remnant soul: "..."

After living for so many years, he had actually been tricked out by a single sentence from Lin Chen.

He had lost all face!

"Your name is Xu Zhishan, right?" Lin Chen said with a smile.

"Ah? How do you know!"

The remnant soul, Xu Zhishan, was shocked. He had never told anyone about his identity or origins; even Ye Feng didn't know his real name.

How did Lin Chen know?

"This Sect Master can know the past and future with a single thought. What's so strange about knowing your name?"

Immediately after, Lin Chen recounted his entire past.

Xu Zhishan.

The Old Ancestor of the Imperial Continent's number one Alchemy power, the Ancient Pill Sect, and a Ninth Rank Pill Refining Grandmaster.

He was only one step away from entering the Tenth Rank.

Although the Ancient Pill Sect had reached the pinnacle of the Dao of Alchemy, the Sect did not have a Great Emperor guarding it. Even the strongest, Xu Zhishan, was only at the Supreme Peak.

Seventy thousand years ago, the Batian Sect destroyed the Ancient Pill Sect.

Xu Zhishan died in battle, leaving only a remnant soul hidden in a small green bottle, which was found by Ye Feng seventy thousand years later.

As for the members of the Ancient Pill Sect, half surrendered to the Batian Sect, and the other half either died in battle or fled.

From then on, the Ancient Pill Sect no longer existed in the Cangxuan Realm.

"Ah... this, this, this..."

Hearing Lin Chen recount his affairs in such meticulous detail, Xu Zhishan's throat felt stuck for a long time, unable to speak.

Ye Feng was also stunned.

He hadn't expected Senior to carry such a deep blood feud; he was only learning of it now.

Looking at Senior's expression, it was clear that everything the Sect Master said was true.

"Join the Wending Sect and become the Hall Master of the Pill Refining Hall."

Lin Chen didn't waste words and directly stated his conditions.

"...This, this old man is currently just a remnant soul..."

Xu Zhishan subconsciously swallowed. He really wanted to agree, but the reality of his situation didn't quite allow it.

"No matter."

Lin Chen tossed out a bottle of Medicinal Pills.

"This, this, this... is this the soul returning pill?!!"

Xu Zhishan was completely dumbfounded, feeling as if his worldview had been overturned.

The reason he had Ye Feng sneak into the Pill Refining Hall this time was precisely to secretly refine a soul returning pill.

The soul returning pill was a Tenth Rank pill.

Even for him, he was only trying his luck; the success rate of refining it was less than twenty percent!

Yet Lin Chen... produced an entire bottle at once, a full two hundred pills!

He took one out, sniffed it, and looked at it for a long time.

That's right, it was indeed the soul returning pill!

With so many soul returning pills, his Divine Soul would be completely restored in less than a year!

"Are these... all... for me?"

Xu Zhishan trembled all over, still unable to believe it.

"Yes, that's right!"

"How about it? Consider what I just said?"

Lin Chen smiled faintly; he loved seeing people like this who hadn't seen much of the world.

Xu Zhishan carefully put away the soul returning pills, took a deep breath, bowed deeply, and said solemnly: "This old man, Xu Zhishan, is grateful for the Sect Master's high regard. I am willing to join the Wending Sect and will give my all until my dying breath from now on!"

"What's with all this talk of dying? It's bad luck!" Lin Chen waved his hand and laughed. "From now on, you are an inner sect elder of the Wending Sect and the Hall Master of the Pill Refining Hall!"

With such an ancestor-level Alchemy Great Grandmaster presiding over it,

coupled with the many Alchemists from Miao Dan Valley, the Wending Sect would never lack Medicinal Pills in the future.

No matter what kind of pill it was, they could refine it!

"Thank you, Sect Master!"

Xu Zhishan was so moved that tears streamed down his old face.

Life was like a roller coaster; it was truly too thrilling.

One moment he had just been caught and was facing punishment.

The next moment, he had transformed into an inner sect elder and the Hall Master of the Pill Refining Hall!

..."With so many of us going directly to Miao Dan Valley, are we still afraid they won't submit?"

On the white tiger warship, the Old Ancestor huffed and puffed with wide eyes.

Fairy Nansheng explained patiently: "Old Ancestor, it's not like that. If we go directly to Miao Dan Valley now, they have a Legacy of hundreds of thousands of years and certainly won't submit easily. If we resort to violence, casualties will be inevitable..."

"What does it matter if a few people die!"

The Old Ancestor interrupted Fairy Nansheng.

In his view, strength was everything, and no strategy was needed at all.

Once, while chatting with the Sect Master, he had asked Lin Chen: "What is the Kingly Way?"

Lin Chen said without hesitation: "If someone refuses to submit, crush them!"

"Then what is the Overbearing Way?" the Old Ancestor asked again.

Lin Chen added: "Even those who submit, crush them too!"

Ah?

It can be like that?

The Old Ancestor had never thought things could be handled this way and was truly startled.

He asked again: "Then what is the Benevolent Way?"

"Before crushing them, give them a warning!" Lin Chen laughed.

"Hahahaha..."

The Old Ancestor laughed so hard at the time that tears almost came out.

The world of cultivation was inherently one where the strong preyed on the weak; weakness was the original sin.

The Old Ancestor was very fortunate that Lin Chen was not only extremely powerful but also decisive in killing. The Wending Sect would certainly not fare poorly in his hands!

But now, although this woman was also in the Great Emperor Realm, her way of handling things was too feminine!

Not straightforward at all!

"If we start a fight and people die in Miao Dan Valley, even if they submit under pressure, they will only be submitting in word but not in heart!"

"Keeping them in the Wending Sect would always be a hidden danger."

"But if we first destroy the top powers of the Eastern Region like the Heavenly Sword Sect and Xuanji Pavilion before going to Miao Dan Valley, things will be much smoother. We will have demonstrated our formidable strength, and they will be more willing to submit to the Wending Sect!"

Fairy Nansheng remained very respectful to the Old Ancestor and explained patiently.

"Hmph!"

Hearing this, the Old Ancestor felt it made sense.

But... asking him to admit he was wrong? No way!

Stiffening his neck, he said: "...Fine, then which power are we going to first?"

Fairy Nansheng smiled faintly: "Miao Dan Valley."

Oh.

Hmm?

Ah?

Are you playing with me?

Just as the Old Ancestor was about to lose his temper, he heard Fairy Nansheng smile gently: "Old Ancestor, don't be in a hurry! You'll know when we get there! If there's a need for you to take action, for the sake of the Sect Master, please do not refuse!"

"Hmph!"

The Old Ancestor gave a proud huff, which served as a silent agreement.