Chapter 2625 — After-Dinner Conversation, Part One — A Successor Gains Insight Through Years of Cultivation and Fortuitous Encounters with Herbs, but Everything Changes After Becoming an Alchemist
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An alchemist must constantly expend physical strength and true energy while refining pills, and must always spend time recovering them. This leaves far fewer opportunities to inherit the legacy. Most of the remaining time is devoted to alchemy, leaving even less chance to come into contact with plants and comprehend the inheritance.
"I see." Wei Zhao suddenly understood. "But it doesn't matter. I have an extra second-grade pill cauldron. I'll bring it next time and give it to Xinxin. That fool You Panhu gave it to me."
"By the way, speaking of You Panhu, Xuanchen has sent people to seek information from Jingjing. It's possible that the Hidden You family leaked the news. Above them stands the Xuandan Sect, and behind the Xuandan Sect..." The White Leader suddenly thought of something and said to Wei Zhao, "...is that place."
"Oh? The You family? The Xuandan Sect? That place?" Wei Zhao froze for a moment, then could not help giving a bitter laugh. So that was where the problem had arisen! He had been thinking of tempting You Panhu into trading for something good, never imagining that he would be the one to suffer in the end.
It seemed that, as his strength rose higher and higher without his realizing it, the level of the people he encountered had risen with it as well. Among those around him, there would inevitably be people connected to still higher circles. From now on, he truly had to proceed with caution.
"I'm only guessing. I don't know whether that's really what happened," the White Leader said. "But how did You Panhu know that you had Zhang Lifeng's alchemist notes?"
"That's difficult to say. I never revealed it to him. Today was the first time I told you about it." Wei Zhao could not make sense of it either.
"Then that's strange. Forget it; there's no point dwelling on it for now." The White Leader waved a hand. "Let's eat."
"All right!" Wei Zhao nodded. Naturally, he had not thought that something had gone wrong at the cultivators' marketplace auction. Someone from the Hidden You family had been bought off within the auction house itself, and that was how the news had leaked.
"Master, Senior Brother Wei Zhao, what are you talking about? What You family? What Xuandan Sect? What happened? And who is Jingjing? What are Zhang Lifeng's alchemist notes?" Guan Xin was utterly lost. But what concerned her most was who Jingjing was. It was a girl's name, and Wei Zhao seemed rather close to her. Otherwise, the White Leader would not have brought her up here. Guan Xin grew a little anxious.
"The You family and the Xuandan Sect are two alchemical powers," Wei Zhao explained. "Jingjing is my classmate, and also my... well, our relationship is roughly the same as yours and mine. She's an alchemist too, though she's already a second-grade alchemist. She was a little tired today, so she didn't come. When we have the time, I'll bring her over so the two of you can get acquainted and discuss and study alchemy together."
"Oh, I see..." Guan Xin was both pleased and disappointed. She had known for a long time that Wei Zhao had many women who favored him, and she did not demand anything of him. As long as there was a place for her in his heart, that was enough. She nodded and said, "All right. Then I'll have to ask her for guidance."
"As for Zhang Lifeng's alchemist notes, Teacher Bai will have to explain that part," Wei Zhao said.
"Heh heh. Zhang Lifeng was our founding grandmaster. As for Wei Zhao, he is essentially Zhang Lifeng's inheriting disciple as well. So if we go by seniority, he would be our founding grandmaster too..." As he spoke, the White Leader gave Guan Xin a general account of Zhang Lifeng's affairs. "But Wei Zhao insists on calling himself my student, and there isn't much I can do about that. We'll each follow our own line of seniority."