Shen Yuan Ring

"If you have the ability to refine high-quality pills, we can recommend you to the minister. With your talent, I'm sure the minister will accept you as his apprentice. With your talent and the minister's guidance, you might very well become a Pill King in the future," the minister suddenly interjected.

"I'm sorry, I already have a master, and my master treats me quite well. I have no plans to change my business!"

"Our minister is a Pill King, not comparable to those Pill Sect masters. You should know that there are only a few Pill Kings in this entire Southwest Region!"

"Thank you for your kindness, but my master is also a Pill King!"

(No wonder he could become a high-level alchemist at such a young age; he had already taken a master. It's a pity such a promising talent was snatched up by someone else. I wonder which old man was so lucky.)

The minister remained silent upon hearing this, thinking to himself...

The minister then asked again, "Who is your master? Perhaps our minister is an old acquaintance of his?"

Upon hearing this, Ji Daoyi thought to himself, "My master returned to Zhongzhou a hundred years ago. How could the Minister of the Pill Hall possibly know him? He probably hasn't even heard of him. Why is this middle-aged man asking me in such a hurry? Does he think I'm lying to him and trying to poach my master's daughter for his minister?"

Ji Daoyi had no intention of hiding his master's name, so he said, "My master is Feng Yuntian. Even if I tell you, the minister might not know!"

The minister was struck dumb upon hearing the name Wen Fengyuntian, which instantly transported him back a hundred years to his master who had taught him alchemy but refused to accept him as a disciple.

More than a hundred years ago,

Sun Shang was just an unknown alchemist in the Dan Hall at the time, but he had a good talent for alchemy and was very diligent.

One day, Sun Shang, who was repeatedly refining elixirs in the examination room, was spotted by Feng Yuntian.

In a good mood, Feng Yuntian became interested when he saw Sun Shang refining pills alone, so he watched from the side. Sun Shang, who was focused on refining pills, did not notice that someone was watching him.

Seeing the poor quality of the pills, Sun Shang said somewhat dejectedly, "Is it really that difficult to refine high-quality Body Tempering Pills?"

Feng Yuntian suddenly pointed out, "Is it possible that you didn't control the timing of the heat during the extraction and purification of the spiritual herbs properly, and that the pill started to solidify before you fully activated and fused all the medicinal properties of the spiritual herbs?"

"To refine high-quality pills, you can't just succeed by refining them! You need to think and ponder more, and you need to keep improving! Otherwise, why are there so few people who can refine high-quality pills?"

Upon hearing this, Sun Shang seemed to have grasped something, and before he could even express his gratitude, he began preparing a new batch of Body Tempering Pills.

With Feng Yuntian's guidance, Sun Shang finally refined his first high-grade body-tempering pill.

Day after day, over three months, Sun Shang's alchemy skills were continuously improved and enhanced.

On the day Sun Shang broke through to the Dan Sect, he wanted to become Feng Yuntian's disciple, but was ruthlessly rejected.

The reason is that he will never accept anyone else as a disciple until he finds his destined disciple.

Sun Shang always thought it was because his alchemy level was too low, so he devoted himself even more to studying alchemy and finally broke through to the Pill King level a hundred years ago.

However, even after becoming the Pill King, he still failed to become an apprentice, for the same reason as before.

That is, after Sun Shang failed to become an apprentice again, Feng Yuntian passed on the position of minister of Daoshu City to him.

It was then that Sun Shang realized that the person he had always wanted to become an apprentice to was actually the very mysterious Minister of the Dan Palace.

After taking over the ministerial position, he realized that his master's refusal to accept him as a disciple was not because he looked down on him, otherwise he would not have passed on the ministerial position to him!

Sun Shang vaguely remembered what Feng Yuntian said to him before he left: "Sun Shang, although we are not related as master and disciple, you have received all my true teachings! If you still remember my kindness in passing on my teachings, and if you meet my disciple in the future..."

Feng Yuntian didn't finish speaking. He gave Sun Shang a deep look before breaking through the air and leaving.

Seeing the minister lost in thought, Ji Daoyi was a little confused. He was fine just now, so why did he suddenly freeze up when he heard his master's name?

Coming to his senses, Sun Shang exclaimed excitedly, "You said your master's name is Feng Yuntian? Is his Daoist name Dan Chenzi?!"

"Yes! You know my master!"

Ji Daoyi was also stunned. Didn't his master say that he left the Southwest River Basin and returned to Zhongzhou a hundred years ago?

(My master is very famous in the Taoist City? Even after a hundred years, people still remember his name!)

Liu Rushuang, who was standing to the side, never expected that their minister would be so excited just by hearing a name!

She racked her brains but still couldn't figure out who this Feng Yuntian was!

In her memory, their minister had always been calm and composed, even when they came in last place several times in a row at the Youth Alchemy Exchange Conference!

Ignoring their expressions, Sun Shang asked again, "Is he in Daoshu City? Can you take me to see him?"

Sun Shang's question left Ji Daoyi completely at a loss for words!

But he could only answer truthfully, "I don't know where he is now. He disappeared after he took me as his disciple!"

Sun Shang murmured, "Master is still as elusive as ever."

"Master? Uncle, you must be mistaken. My master told me I'm his eldest disciple, and he hasn't taken on any other disciples..."

(No wonder he was so excited; it seems his master's name is the same as mine, and he mistook mine for his master.)

When Ji Daoyi asked him this question, Sun Shang realized that he had not been accepted as a disciple by Dan Chenzi.

Sun Shang coughed lightly to cover his embarrassment: "There's no mistake. It's just that I'm rather slow-witted, and my master has always been unwilling to accept me as his disciple, but in my heart, he is my only master!"

"Senior brother, since you are Master's personal disciple, I suppose the pills you refined during the assessment didn't reflect your true strength!"

When Ji Daoyi saw the uncle suddenly call him "senior brother" and even his tone of voice become obsequious, he felt a little embarrassed!

Not to mention Liu Rushuang, who was standing to the side, she wished she had never been there! Her hands and feet were trembling slightly because she had overheard a secret she shouldn't have.

"Uncle, please just call me by my name. It wouldn't be good if we got it wrong. Besides, you're at least a member of the Pill Sect, and your pill-refining skills are even better than mine. How could I be qualified to be your senior brother?"

Sun Shang knew that Ji Daoyi would definitely not be able to accept it in a short time, and he was also sure that he was not mistaken, because in the entire Southwest River Basin, let alone the City of Daoshu, no more than one person could have heard of the name Feng Yuntian.

A ten-year-old child being able to immediately name his master is clearly not something made up.

"Senior brother, I know this is very sudden. You don't need to worry that I'm lying to you. As the head of the Pill Hall in Daoshu City, I have no reason to deceive you!"

"And I'm certain that the master you mentioned is my mentor! So I'm happy to call you senior brother."

Ji Daoyi never expected that he would suddenly have a junior brother, who was also the head of the Pill Hall, simply because he was summoned by Steward Liu.