Chapter 20

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

“Disciple… Disciple Chu Chen, greets Elder Ling Xin!”

Chu Chen was stunned for a moment, then reacted and quickly bowed to the elder. It was disrespectful for a disciple to look at their master directly, moreover, the other party was also a sect elder.

When he thought of that, Chu Chen could not help but feel anxious, he bowed and said, “The disciple is ignorant. Please let me atone for my offenses and for being disrespectful.”

“Okay, you don’t need to keep up the fake yet polite remarks.” The pretty elder waved her hand and looked at Chu Chen up and down a few times. She curled the corner of her mouth and fiddled with an cauldron. “You are the disciple that accepted my task yeah? Let’s get straight to the point. My rule here is that as long as you do well in the tasks assigned to you, it doesn’t matter if you act casually with me. If you can’t keep up with what I assign you, no matter how polite you are, you will still be kicked out. Do you understand?”

When Chu Chen heard this, his eyes widened in shock. This elder had an interesting personality. He nodded. “The disciple will follow the instructions of the elder.”

“Okay, I just finished making a cauldron of elixir. I am exhausted and I want to take a good rest. I will assign you a simple task and see how patient you are.”

After she fiddled with the small cauldron for a while, the pretty elder waved her hand to motion Chu Chen to come over. She pointed to the cauldron and said, “In this cauldron, there is a pot of cleansing broth. This is a meticulous task. It needs to be boiled for three days continuously for it to be effective. Do you see the flame under this cauldron? Remember, you must ensure that you keep fanning the flame during the three days so that the flame will not die out. The intensity of the flames must be controlled. It cannot be too big nor too small. After three days, if the flame is not extinguished, you will have qualified. If it is extinguished, you can get out of here!”

After she finished speaking, the pretty elder waved her hand, seemingly tired, and stretched herself. Her plump breasts were made to be even more enticing. She waved her hand and walked toward the side hall at the back of the lobby.

“Did you take note of what the elder said?” Senior Sister Qing Yue looked at Chu Chen and asked softly.

“Yeah.” Chu Chen nodded, picked up the fan, sat on the futon, and started to fan it.

“Okay, all the best. The elder positioned everything here personally. Remember not to move anything, I’ll make a move first.” Senior Sister Qing Yue exhorted a few words, looked around, and left the hall.

The huge heavenly hall suddenly became so empty.

The corner of Chu Chen’s mouth moved slightly. ‘That was it?’ His mind was preoccupied with thoughts of the beautiful elder who he seemed to be yet to get over.

The beauty was beautiful, but she was a bit harsh. No wonder so many disciples could not bear to tolerate her and ran away.

Chu Chen will do his best on whatever he does, so he took it seriously and began to look at the cauldron in front of him. It was a round cauldron with three legs and two ears, no more than three feet high, and the whole body was as black as ink. He was not sure what material it was made of. A turquoise broth elixir filled the cauldron.

A cleansing broth was an indispensable auxiliary potion in the process of elixir refinement. The higher the grade of the general spiritual herb, the higher the spiritual energy contained in it would be, and the better the cleansing broth that would be needed.

Only top-grade cleansing broth could perfectly wash away the impurities in the spiritual herbs while retaining the pure medicinal power before it can be used for elixir refinement.

Therefore, the most important purpose of the cleansing broth was to consolidate the essence and nourish the medicinal properties.

There was no fixed formula for this kind of broth. Different broth was needed for different people to refine different elixirs. 

The cauldron of broth in front of Chu Chen was obviously made by Elder Ling Xin herself. It was of extremely high quality. The cauldron was full of broth as green as jade, it looked like a cauldron of emerald. The refreshing fragrance of the elixir filled the room.

A good broth was an excellent spiritual herb, and it could even be consumed directly.

Chu Chen was surprised to find that each time he waved his fan, a very pure medicinal energy radiated from the broth, which nourished his skin, bones, flesh, blood, and spiritual energy simultaneously. It was like these medicinal powers were strengthening his physical body, and it slowly but steadily increased its effectiveness.

It turned out that this was also a form of cultivation!

Chu Chen was overjoyed and subconsciously activated his spiritual consciousness. He wanted to see the level of potion that was in this broth. However, the next moment, the scene that appeared in front of him made Chu Chen’s eyes widen completely.

Time was fleeting like a white horse’s shadow across a crevice.

For a cultivator, three days was a really short time, and it could pass in an instant.

When the pretty elder walked out from the side hall while she was stretching out her body happily, she could see the disciple in the hall that had his back leaned against the wall in deep sleep.

He was frowning slightly, and there was a trace of exhaustion on his young and handsome face.

The eyebrows of the pretty elder pulled in tightly. She patted his head: “Hey…You! How long have you been asleep?”

The crisp voice, like a yellow oriole in a vast valley, sounded in the empty hall. The pretty elder was angered. The sleeping disciple did not move and continued with his deep sleep even after she shouted at him.

‘This kid… I misjudged him, he’s so lazy!’

Piak!

There was a sharp smack, and the loud sound woke Chu Chen. He leaped forward, taking guard as he carefully scanned through his surroundings.

When he could see everything in front of him clearly, he saw that the pretty elder was staring at him with an angry expression. “How long have you been asleep?”

“The disciple greets the elder. Probably… about three hours!” Chu Chen scratched his scalp. In the past three days, he had been exhausted. Looking at the sky outside, he estimated the time.

“Three hours!!!” When the pretty elder heard that, her expression grew angrier. She glared at Chu Chen fiercely and waved her hand impatiently. “Okay, you haven’t forgotten what I said before yeah? You can get out of here.”

Chu Chen frowned slightly. “Elder, you…”

“Leave!”

The angry pretty elder did not give him a chance to defend himself and pointed her finger toward the exit of the temple. What she meant by that was clear and obvious.

Chu Chen looked helpless. “Elder Ling Xin, please let me speak. Didn’t you say that as long as the flame is not extinguished, things would be okay? Although I slept for three hours, the flame did not go out during these three hours.”

Elder Ling Xin was taken aback, frowning even more. “What a joke, you slept for three hours, and the flame has not gone out yet. Do you know that I hate people who tell lies?”

“Elder Ling Xin, please see for yourself.”

She turned her head unconsciously, and she saw that under the black cauldron, a handful of flame was continuously burning.

“Is there such a thing?”

The pretty elder was surprised. She lowered her body and looked carefully at the cleansing broth in the cauldron. She saw that the initial cauldron of broth had become an amber-like potion. Its texture was similar to gems and there was no semblance to the original broth.

This… this was the best result that can be achieved after boiling it in full force for three days and three nights!

‘How did he do it?’ As a master-level figure of elixir refinement, Elder Ling Xin knew very well that if this flame was not fanned for as long as the time it took to burn a stick of incense, it would be automatically extinguished.

However, the disciple in front of her said that he had slept for three hours, so how hasn’t the flame gone out?