122: The inheritance of wine, the conference of recruiting disciples.

Before leaving, Lu Hao went to the place where Uncle Yang had bought wine before.

Before he even saw the shopkeeper, Lu Hao smelled the unique eighteen fragrance of the wine.

Soon, Lu Hao arrived in front of the shop.

This wine shop was very small, and the entire shop was dilapidated, giving Lu Hao the feeling that it could collapse at any moment.

Above the wine shop hung a sign with three large characters: "eighteen fragrance."

Inside the wine shop, several large vats of wine were displayed, and only an Old man was sitting there with his eyes closed, resting.

Evidently, this should be the owner of the wine shop.

Lu Hao softly called out:

"Boss, I'm here for wine."

The Old man slowly opened his eyes, stood up, scrutinized Lu Hao, and spoke:

"Young man, where are you from?"

"From afar, out to see the world."

The Old man's eyes darted around, then he narrowed them, smiling slightly as he said:

"Traveling is good, young man. How much wine do you want?"

"Can I take all you have?"

"Oh? Well, I have a lot of wine. Are you sure you want all of it?"

"All of it. I wonder if this is enough to buy it."

Lu Hao took out a Mid-Grade Spirit Stone from his storage bag and handed it to the Old man.

When the Old man saw it was a Mid-Grade Spirit Stone, he nodded repeatedly and said:

"Enough, enough, enough!"

Spirit Stones are the universal currency of this world, even Mortals can use them.

Even if not used for cultivation, carrying them for a long time can nourish the body and prolong life.

After Lu Hao collected all the wine from the wine shop, he followed the Old man to his home.

On the way, Lu Hao asked the Old man:

"Senior, did you research this wine yourself? It's truly remarkable..."

The Old man laughed heartily after hearing this:

"Young man, how could I be that amazing? This has been passed down by my sect for thousands of years."

"Through generations of effort, it finally became the eighteen fragrance."

"By the time it reached my hands, this wine was already seventeen fragrance. I spent half my life improving it to eighteen fragrance."

"I have no regrets in this life, having reached this step. Now, my only wish is to find a suitable person to pass on this eighteen fragrance."

"So that it can become nineteen fragrance, twenty fragrance, and even more perfect wine."

Lu Hao listened in utter shock!

This small sip of wine actually condensed the efforts of others passed down for thousands of years!

No wonder this wine was so exquisite!

Not just the wine, but the Old man's lineage were all admirable figures.

To perfect something is an incredibly respectable feat.

Lu Hao sighed:

"Senior is truly a master..."

"Not at all, not at all. I'm just a useless Old man who only knows how to brew wine."

After Lu Hao took the wine from the Old man's house, he left the village.

Long after he left, the Old man who brewed the wine slowly closed his eyes, then formed hand seals, seemingly calculating something.

Suddenly, he sharply opened his eyes, his face revealing an expression of extreme shock;

"He has no Karma with this world! Could it be? Is this the person we have been searching for?!"

Lu Hao had already gone far, completely unaware of the Old man's words.

...

Since Alchemy cultivation could be returned, his most important task now was only one!

Taking Disciples!!!

Lu Hao flew directly to the nearest city.

This city was named Guangdong City, a small city within Danling State.

However, it was far from comparable to Zhongyi City in the Northern Barren State.

After entering the city, Lu Hao went directly to the most bustling area of the city.

This place was filled with various Alchemy-related shops: Alchemy ingredients, cauldrons, Alchemy insights, and so on.

These shops were everywhere.

Conversely, resources related to various forms of cultivation were less common.

This Danling State truly focused on Alchemy. It seemed that most Cultivators here put their minds into Alchemy.

Even their cultivation Breakthroughs happened while they were refining pills.

Alchemy is a very demanding activity, consuming both cultivation and mental energy.

The difficulty of refining a furnace of high-grade pills is no less than engaging in a major battle.

Alchemists, in their day-to-day Alchemy, will also continuously improve their cultivation.

While it might not be as fast as cultivating wholeheartedly, it wasn't too much slower.

Mainly, in Danling State, the art of Alchemy is also the foundation of one's standing!

Possessing superb Alchemy skills, just like possessing superb cultivation, will earn you respect and admiration from everyone.

You might even be more popular.

After all, everyone needs pills during their cultivation process.

If one's cultivation is low, it's fine, as those pills are relatively common. But for high-grade pills, they are rarely circulated on the market.

Generally, you have to personally seek out an Alchemist and offer sufficient benefits for him to specially refine the pills you need.

A high-grade Alchemist is generally very popular, so never underestimate an Alchemist's influence.

Many people, relying on their profound cultivation, provoke high-grade Alchemists, thinking that others are easy to bully because their cultivation is not as high as theirs.

But if you infuriate him, he can easily summon dozens of powerful experts to hunt you down, leaving you nowhere to run, nowhere to hide!

Too many powerful experts yearn for a favor from a high-grade Alchemist. Even experts from other states will rush over to personally lend a hand!

And the Alchemist only needs to personally refine pills for these powerful experts.

So, in Danling State, everyone has a consensus: you can provoke someone of the same cultivation level, but never provoke an Alchemist of the same rank!

This is the prevailing atmosphere in this continent, completely different from the Northern Barren Continent, and perhaps unique even in the entire Eastern Region.

The main reason is that Alchemy in other places is simply not valued, and high-grade Alchemists rarely appear. Over time, a consensus formed among the people of the entire Eastern Region.

If you need pills, go to Danling State!

This is also why the Alchemy of Danling State is unparalleled in the Eastern Region.

At this time, there was an event in this area where Alchemists were recruiting Disciples, called the Disciple Recruitment Convention. This event was annual, considered a relatively large event in the city.

Therefore, many Alchemists who had achieved something in Alchemy came today to recruit Disciples.

Alchemy is different from cultivation; it very much requires a master to guide you. Alchemy techniques and understanding of Materials are very difficult to figure out on your own.

It's not like cultivation, where the various Realms and Bottlenecks of cultivation, after countless years of development and inheritance by so many Cultivators, have long become common knowledge.

Many times, a person can Cultivate to a very profound Realm just by diligently practicing alone.

For Alchemy, even truly gifted individuals greatly need an excellent master to guide them in.