Chapter 296

Chapter 296

Zhou Fu, a woman of seventy-two years, is an outer disciple of Dao Sword Sect, dedicating sixty-four years to her cultivation journey since joining.

Her aptitude for cultivation is decent, now a senior cultivator in the Foundation Establishment stage, just a step away from the legendary Golden Core. Within the outer sect, aside from the occasional expert in the Golden Core stage, she commands respect, with fellow disciples addressing her as Senior Zhou.

This strength and cultivation were the results of her sixty-four years of diligent practice.

However, despite her considerable time in the Foundation Establishment stage, she feels her cultivation path has reached a plateau. Yearning to break through to the next level and achieve Core Formation, she understands that an external catalyst, a significant opportunity, is needed.

After years of searching, the opportunity finally arrives when she learns that the Chief Alchemy Hall is recruiting new members.

Chief Alchemy Hall?

The place responsible for managing the sect's elixirs and medicinal herbs, a location rich in various pills, including the coveted Break Barrier Pill!

This is the opportunity she's been waiting for.

Joining the Chief Alchemy Hall to acquire not just one, but at least one Break Barrier Pill.

She senses that this is a crucial turning point in her life. If seized, her cultivation path ahead will be smooth sailing.

The recruitment for Chief Alchemy Hall requires disciples skilled in alchemy and mathematics. Many are deterred by these prerequisites, but Zhou Fu realizes that in the past, the Butler Hall never recruited based on alchemy knowledge. Could it be that they are not just recruiting butler disciples?

She promptly inquires about the current Elder of Chief Alchemy Hall and learns it's Qin Ran, the Dan Peak Chief.

"This is to recruit disciples for Dan Peak..."

Knowing that the extraordinary female sword immortal Li Shiyin is from Dan Peak but practices sword cultivation, not alchemy, she speculates, "Elder Qin must be aiming to revive Dan Peak!"

What is the trend of the times?

This is the trend of the times!

For a disciple like her from the outer sect, a low-ranking member of the sect, when the higher-ups decide to revitalize Dan Peak and recruit the first batch of dedicated alchemy disciples, it's a monumental shift in the tides.

"If I can ride this wave, not only Core Formation, but becoming an alchemist with an endless supply of pills for Nascent Soul and Divine Transformation stages may not be impossible."

With determination, Zhou Fu decides that this time, even if it costs her life, she will be within the Chief Alchemy Hall.

She must seize this opportunity and become a butler disciple under Chief Elder Qin!

Coming from a humble background, Zhou Fu, with decades of cultivation experience as an outer disciple, has a basic understanding of various oddities. She already possesses a bit of scattered knowledge about alchemy.

"Zhou Fu?" Qin Ran took out a booklet from the table and asked her gently.

He seemed like a young lad one might encounter on a spring outing, casually conversing with her. But the experience of the exam day made Zhou Fu realize he was a smiling tiger.

"Yes," she made herself appear and sound as respectful as possible.

"Do you know about Zhican Valley?" Chief Qin suddenly asked her.

She didn't understand the meaning and simply replied truthfully, "Yes."

"Are you from Zhican Valley?" Chief Qin asked again.

Zhou Fu frowned, shaking her head. "No."

Chief Qin glanced at Li Jianxian, Li Jianxian nodded, and he lowered his head to jot down a few notes, then continued to ask, "Do you enjoy alchemy?"

"I do."

"Have you ever practiced it?"

"..."

Afterward, Chief Qin asked her many strange questions, and after finishing, he asked her to wait outside the door.

Zhou Fu stood in the corridor under the eaves of the Chief Alchemy Hall, seeing disciples going in for interviews, then standing behind her with a puzzled expression; she saw people going in for interviews, then coming out looking disappointed; she saw people going in for interviews, then not coming out...

Although she had reached this point, it seemed like she had passed, like she was going to be a probationary disciple, but Zhou Fu still didn't know what Chief Qin's standards were. The whole process made her feel confused.

After everyone had finished their interviews, there were a total of six people left behind her, plus her, making seven in total.

Apart from them, Zhou Fu noticed that out of those who went in but didn't come out, there were as many as four. Thinking of Chief Qin asking her about Zhican Valley, she had some guesses...

Chief Qin called them into the Chief Alchemy Hall, his voice still calm, and announced to them, "Zhou Fu, Wu Yan, Zheng Jue, three of you are disciple stewards, Wang Yishan, Jian Xun, Li Ergou, Zhang Lu are miscellaneous disciples..."

In the end, Zhou Fu became a disciple steward, and her job was to distribute elixirs to the disciples within the sect every month.

Besides that, the Chief Alchemy Hall conducted a monthly assessment on elixirs...

So, compared to the monthly distribution of elixirs, Zhou Fu felt that the monthly assessment seemed more important.

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