117: Chapter 117 A Rank Three Alchemist! Zi Yan Suddenly Appears

[Cao Ying]: "Sister Xun'er, Teacher's wife Xun'er, can I really not meet Teacher Xiao Ting earlier?"

[Xun'er]: "It's not appropriate. Brother Xiao Ting will become suspicious. There are already too many women appearing around him, not to mention that you all are women from the Central Plains."

[Cao Ying]: "Alright then. Actually, I just wanted to share the burden for Teacher as soon as possible; I didn't mean anything else."

[Yao Ling]: "I think you just have bad intentions and won't give up on showing off in front of my Medicine Clan."

[Cao Ying]: "Nonsense. I am merely strictly following Teacher's orders. If Miss Yao Ling doesn't want this to happen, what you should do isn't to get rid of me, but to eliminate Teacher's hostility towards the Medicine Clan. Otherwise, even without Cao Ying, there will be Gu Ying, Yun Ying, or even Teacher taking action personally."

[Huo Zhi]: "That is the truth."

[Yao Ling]: "You all just gang up to bully me. I will definitely be able to reverse Xiao Ting's prejudice against the Medicine Clan, I will!"

[Tang Huo'er]: "Isn't it correcting the Medicine Clan's blind arrogance, the kind that doesn't even hold the Ancient Clan in its eyes?"

[Yao Ling]: "..."

The group suddenly became lively.

Xiao Ting was unaware of this.

For the next period of time, he practiced diligently, using the bonuses gained from the Plane Blessing, and his Alchemist grade and strength grew rapidly.

After reaching the rank of a third-grade Alchemist, he even used his Flying Dou Technique to go to the nearest Alchemist Guild for assessment. After summoning the Purple Heaven Flame, he successfully completed three assessments in one day, obtained the third-grade Alchemist badge, and also received the specialized Alchemist robes.

Hiding one's true strength and keeping trump cards are methods every transmigrator knows, but Xiao Ting had no interest in playing the pig to eat the tiger; he would simply wear his Alchemist robes whenever he appeared in public.

Often, people respect the clothes before they respect the person, simply because the clothes can reflect a person's status and identity.

As time passed in this manner, Xiao Yan's cultivation finally improved to a seven-star Dou Practitioner.

From Xiao Yu, he learned that the Jia Nan Academy recruitment team was about to arrive, and he prepared to attempt to refine the Green Lotus Core Flame.

"Boom!"

After a day and a night, the energy barrier set up outside the area where the Green Lotus Core Flame was located opened a gap.

Xiao Yan walked out wearing a fitted outfit, his temperament having undergone slight changes, with an excited expression on his face.

"Brother Yan, did you succeed?" Xiao Ting asked, knowing the answer.

"That's right." Xiao Yan walked in front of Xiao Ting and nodded excitedly: "The Burning Technique has already been upgraded to Xuan-Rank Mid-Tier. The next target is the Fallen Heart Flame of Jia Nan Academy; by then, it should be able to upgrade to at least Earth Tier Low-grade."

"Good." Xiao Ting felt happy for Xiao Yan, his gaze narrowing slightly: "Your cultivation also seems to have had a breakthrough?"

"Yeah, after polishing it for a while longer, I can break through to Dou Master." Xiao Ting clenched his fist, and a surge of Dou Qi emerged within his body, forming a thin veil around him.

This veil was incomplete, not covering his head, and it lacked the various augmentation effects that a Dou Master's veil provides to a cultivator.

"Good news. Once your realm stabilizes, you can take this pill to break through to Dou Master." Xiao Ting smiled and nodded, casually tossing a porcelain bottle to Xiao Yan.

"What is this?" Xiao Yan opened the bottle cap and sniffed it, his expression changing slightly: "A dou shi pill?"

"Yes." Xiao Ting nodded calmly: "A few days ago, when I went to take the third-grade Alchemist assessment, I bought a stone statue at a street stall. Using my soul perception, I sensed something fishy inside the statue. After smashing it open, I found a storage ring with a diameter of three zhang that can be used to plant spiritual herbs. There were also a few pills inside the storage ring, and this is one of them."

This was naturally a benefit he had obtained through the Plane Blessing; among the many items in the storage ring, the dou shi pill was not considered very precious.

The most precious item was a thousand-year-old warm jade, which could increase a cultivator's sensitivity to external fire-attribute heaven and earth energy and increase the cultivation speed of fire-attribute cultivators.

With this thousand-year-old warm jade, once he reached the Inner Academy of Jia Nan Academy and practiced with the help of the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower, his speed would be incredibly fast before breaking through to Dou King.

"Brother Ting, Third Brother won't stand on ceremony with you." Xiao Yan punched his chest hard: "In the future, when you go to propose marriage to Xun'er's family, Third Brother will definitely go all out to support you."

Xiao Ting did not act overly sentimental or say too much to Xiao Yan.

After obtaining accurate information, he set off for Xun'er's residence, telling the latter to rest assured and practice the Burning Technique.

Meanwhile, in the courtyard where Xun'er lived, an uninvited guest appeared.

"This is it, it smells so good."

On the windowsill of Xun'er's bedroom facing the lake, there was a flower pot made of jade. The soil inside the pot looked like gold and appeared very extraordinary. Planted in the soil was a red flower, swaying in the wind as if it were a burning flame.

At this moment, a petite figure in a white dress suddenly appeared and reached out to pluck the flower.

But just as her hand was about to touch the flower, Xun'er's ethereal voice rang out.

"If this flower is plucked, you will suffer for it."

The girl in the white dress paused, turned her head to look at the purple silhouette sitting in the pavilion on the lake, and spoke somewhat defiantly: "I, Zi Yan, am not easily scared, humph."

As she spoke, she prepared to continue her action, but at this moment, the girl in the purple dress across from her spoke again, with a tone of surprise: "You are Zi Yan? From Jia Nan Academy?"

"You know me!?" Zi Yan cast a suspicious look, while also being somewhat vigilant.

She had never left Jia Nan Academy before, so logically, no one outside should know her.

If there were, they must be someone who knew Jia Nan Academy extremely well and might harbor malicious intent.

"My name is Xun'er, Gu Xun'er!"

The girl in the purple dress raised her head, revealing a fresh, refined, and stunningly beautiful face.

"Xun'er?" Zi Yan's eyes widened suddenly: "So this is the Xiao Family?"

"If it's you, it's no wonder there's such a spiritual herb that makes my mouth water."

"Hey, that's not right. How do you know me?"

Zi Yan reached out and scratched her head, somewhat confused.

Fortunately, she wasn't stupid, and she quickly realized what was going on. Her beautiful eyes widened even further: "Could it be, you also..."

"That's right. I am the same as you, and there are many others who are the same as you." Xun'er waved at Zi Yan: "Come over here and sit."

Zi Yan took a reluctant look at the spiritual flower beside her, then flashed over to the pavilion, the void seemingly rippling.

"Eh." A look of surprise flashed in Xun'er's eyes.

Zi Yan's cultivation should be at the Dou King level, yet her movement technique actually contained the power of space.

To have such means, it seems her background is very extraordinary.

"Although that Huo Ling Flower is only Tier 6, its rarity is not below that of many Tier 7 heavenly treasures, so it cannot be let just anyone pluck it." Xun'er pushed the plate of pastries in front of her forward: "These are pastries made with spiritual materials; you can try them."

Xun'er remembered that Xiao Ting had mentioned in his Diary that Zi Yan had a very good relationship with her, Xiao Yi Xian, and Queen Medusa.

Since the other party could become her friend in the original trajectory, and now that they were peers in the Diary, there was naturally no problem at all.

"Pastries?" Zi Yan glanced at them, pursed her cherry lips: "Are you trying to coax a child?"