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Chu Xue had been in seclusion for some time, and not long after she came out, someone told her the news about Zhou Ran.

When she learned that Zhou Ran had turned to alchemy, she wanted to persuade him, but she held back. After all, the cultivation of all arts was encouraged by the sect, and she couldn't go against the sect's will in the name of doing good for Zhou Ran.

Before she could wait and see, she heard that Zhou Ran had given up on refining the elixir. For this reason, she went to Zhou Ran specially and comforted him.

He even gave him a second-level alchemy furnace!

Clearly not supporting Zhou Ran in alchemy, yet giving him a better alchemy furnace? Was Chu Xue worried that she had some serious illness?

Of course not. Chu Xue wanted to prove that even she had no talent in alchemy. She had no use for this second-level alchemy furnace, so she was willing to give it away.

But she was so tactful in her meaning, was she sure Zhou Ran could understand?

Well... Zhou Ran thanked Chu Xue. Sometimes he also wondered why Chu Xue was so nice to him.

Is it true, as some people say, that Chu Xue is interested in him?

Well, according to some insiders, Senior Sister Chu is 580 years old this year...

He can be regarded as his ancestor for eight generations.

Zhou Ran mastered all the talismans below the third level of the Donghua Sect when she was at the fifth level of foundation building. After she entered the middle stage of foundation building, she tried to refine the fourth level talismans.

As a third-rank talisman master, Zhou Ran was no longer the only one among the inner disciples. After competing twice with the old foundation-building disciple who was almost four hundred years old, he missed the time when he was exempt from examinations.

How can one be exempted from the test? Of course, he must be the undisputed number one talisman maker in the inner sect.

Therefore, you have to become a fourth-level talisman master as soon as possible.

At present, he has successfully mastered the drawing of a fourth-level talisman. Although he has successfully drawn the other three, the success rate is extremely low. His cultivation is not enough.

You still have to practice and make elixirs.

As a third-level talisman master, Zhou Ran has no shortage of spirit stones, but he lacks the best elixirs.

At present, most elixirs are of low or medium quality. There are even some unscrupulous shops that use inferior elixirs to deceive people.

Zhou Ran is picky and even top-grade elixirs may not be to his liking, so he might as well make his own elixirs.

The second-level alchemy furnace that Chu Xue gave me was just in time.

When Chu Xue learned that Zhou Ran started refining the elixir again after she delivered the alchemy furnace, her face turned colorful. What is colorful black? This is it!

At one point, Chu Xue wanted to capture the man and beat him up, but the dignity of a Jindan cultivator stopped her.

Later on...

Zhou Ran was promoted to a first-level alchemist in the General Affairs Hall!

Zhou Ran was promoted to a second-level alchemist in the General Affairs Hall!

Zhou Ran broke through to the late stage of foundation building in... the sect competition!

This is obviously drug abuse!

Chu Xue couldn't sit still any longer, so she ran to the venue of the sect's small competition. Oh, it's better to come at the right time than to come early. Zhou Ran was drawing a fourth-level talisman. His title as the best talisman maker in the inner sect was finally secured once again.

However, everyone knows that Zhou Ran won't be able to hold this position for long. Senior Brother Zhou has only been practicing for a short time, but he is already in the late stage of foundation building.

It is not impossible to achieve the Golden Elixir at the age of thirty!

"Is this... a fourth-level talisman?" Chu Xue stared at Zhou Ran on the stage, or to be more precise, the talisman paper he wrote, with a complicated expression.

She had mixed feelings. On the one hand, she was happy with her own vision, but on the other hand, she was devastated by Zhou Ran's talent in talismans.

She has to accept this junior brother into the sect as soon as possible on behalf of her master.

Zhou Ran didn't understand why he had been taking the exam for several years just because he wanted a place to be exempted from the exam.

What's going on? Chu Xue actually came to his house in person to deliver the cultivation resources needed to form the golden elixir, including the Bu Tian Dan and Pei Yuan Dan.

The former helps to make up for the deficiencies in spiritual roots and improve purity; the latter is even a pill used by Jindan stage cultivators for cultivation, and it also helps foundation-building stage cultivators to form elixirs.

This is nothing. The key point is that these two bottles of pills are both top-grade elixirs!

"Why are you standing there? These are given by the master. You should hurry up and form your elixir. Then you can become the master's disciple. It will be worth our long-term support for you." Chu Xue waved to Zhou Ran.

"Senior Sister, I'm only at the seventh level of the Foundation Establishment Stage, and I just broke through." Zhou Ran smiled bitterly. Although the Core Formation Stage was in his plan, it would still take several years.

Chu Xue lived for 580 years. A few years or even more than ten years was a very short time for her, so she said puzzledly: "I know, that's why I asked you to practice well!"

Okay, maybe Senior Sister Chu and I are not on the same page.

"Okay, thank you, senior sister." Zhou Ran was led by Chu Xue when he entered the sect. In fact, he was already branded with the mark of Chu Xue's school early on, and he never thought about switching to someone else's school.

Well, that's it!

Chu Xue and the master behind her probably have something that requires a high-level talisman master to do, so they will wait until he is promoted before reporting back.

Zhou Ran had successfully drawn a fourth-level talisman once in the sect competition, but it was not until half a year later that he actually went to the General Affairs Hall for promotion.

Master the drawing of two fourth-level talismans. Zhou Ran would never choose the two simplest ones to advance.

Chu Xue: If you keep scolding me!

In the next few years, Zhou Ran was busy with alchemy, talisman making, and cultivation. Chu Xue sent people to take care of all other trivial matters for him. She even ignored his purchase of spiritual materials for alchemy.

My junior brother has the talent to study alchemy and talisman making at the same time, so I just need to support him.

Anyway, she has the entire Chu State as her backing, and even the elixirs that Zhou Ran used to exchange for spiritual materials, the Chu family did not lose out in terms of quality or quantity.

As the great aunt, Chu Xue is simply the winner.

Other families, such as the Qin family and the Han family, have had contact with Zhou Ran, but this junior brother lives a secluded life and his daily affairs are handled by the younger outer disciples of the Chu family, so they have no contact with him!

Later on, the children of the aristocratic families attended the Ascension Conference held every ten years very actively, and they no longer looked down on the new disciples who came from the casual cultivation background.

Well...that's a later story.

However, there has only been one talent like Zhou Ran in many years, and it is difficult for other immortal cultivation families to find one again.

Zhou Ran broke through to the Golden Core stage at the age of thirty-three. Since he had just reached adulthood when he was building his foundation, he still looked like a teenager even though he had reached the Golden Core stage.

When Zhou Ran was forming his elixir, Chu Xue's master came out of seclusion to protect him, which was considered to have fulfilled the real but unnamed master-disciple relationship.

"Zhou Ran, are you willing to be my disciple?" Qi Jiang had heard of Zhou Ran for a long time, but this was the first time she met him.

"Disciple is willing! Meet the Master!" Zhou Ran is a man of good intentions and has received many favors from others. It is impossible for him to switch to someone else's sect.

"Okay, okay! From today on, you are my sixth true disciple, Qi Jiang!"

Qi Jiang? Qi?

Something strange flashed through Zhou Ran's mind, but people thought he was just overly excited and brushed it off.

The jade pendant that Old Huang gave him before he died and the protective plaque that Qi Jiang gave him have the same word "Qi" on them!