Chapter 3: Becoming Yao Lao's Disciple

In the morning, a ray of morning light shone through the window, and the warm sunlight fell on his body. Xiao Yan opened his sleepy eyes and saw an old figure appearing by the bed, staring at him with a smile.

"Holy crap! Who are you? What are you doing here?" Seeing the white-bearded old grandfather who was somewhat transparent appearing in front of him, Xiao Yan was startled. After all, anyone who saw something like a ghost as soon as they woke up would be scared.

"Hehe! Don't worry about who I am, anyway, I won't harm you. Sigh! After so many years, I finally met someone who meets the conditions, it's not easy! However, I still have to thank you for your offerings over the past three years, otherwise, I'm afraid I would have to continue sleeping."

"Was the disappearance of my Dou Qi over the past three years your doing?"

When he first woke up, his head was dizzy, and he didn't think it was Yao Lao who had awakened, thinking he had really met a ghost! However, Xiao Yan, who had reacted, knew that this old man was Yao Lao, and he couldn't help but feel excited. But in order not to reveal the truth, he still pretended to be very angry.

"Alright! Stop pretending! Did you discover my existence a long time ago?" The old man rolled his eyes.

"Are there any attack types?" Xiao Yan scratched his head and said embarrassedly.

"About the same! However, with the current toughness of your meridians, you can't withstand the impact of any pill energy." Yao Lao said with a faint smile.

Seeing Xiao Yan use the Blowing Fire Palm with the power of a fart, Yao Lao couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"Hehe, you are quite smart! Many people think that the earlier they enter the Dou Zhe realm, the better, but unfortunately, when they reach a certain realm and have no hope of advancing for the rest of their lives, they regret it!"

Xiao Yan thought he had done it flawlessly, taking off the ring while taking a bath so he wouldn't attract Yao Lao's attention, but how could Xiao Yan's little tricks be hidden from the experienced Yao Lao.

"Hehe! You are quite smart, but how did you notice that there was a problem with the ring on your hand?"

"My name is Yao Lao. As for my background, I can't tell you yet, so as not to distract you. You just need to know that after my guidance, you will not only become a powerhouse on the continent but also become a respected alchemist!" Yao Lao said indifferently.

"I've already taken you as my master, can you see if there is any apprenticeship gift? Any Heaven-tier cultivation method, fighting technique, etc. is fine, I'm not picky." Xiao Yan scratched his head and said with a smile.

"You must have woken up early!" Xiao Yan complained in his heart. But he still bluffed: "It wasn't that early, I only discovered it two years ago!"

"Does Teacher mean that external force can be used?" Xiao Yan asked with some confusion.

"Hmm! Barely reached it!" The old man said somewhat insincerely.

Xiao Yan's small eyes turned, and he said with a smile: "Hehe, I only know that the disappearance of my Dou Qi is not because of cultivation talent. Because as my age grows, my soul perception becomes more powerful, and the speed of absorbing Dou Qi becomes faster and faster, but the Dou Qi trained from it always inexplicably disappears. I just thought that something must be absorbing my Dou Qi, but I didn't know it was your doing."

"Alchemist! Can I?" Xiao Yan asked excitedly. Coming to the Dou Qi Continent, although he was very confident in becoming a powerhouse, he was still a bit uncertain about becoming an alchemist. Because an alchemist not only needs fire-attribute Dou Qi but also needs to mix in some wood attribute on the basis of fire attribute. And a person's attribute depends directly on their soul, and he is not Xiao Yan in the original work. As for whether he is fire-attribute, he doesn't know, and he will only test his Dou Qi attribute when he chooses a Dou Qi cultivation method after the coming-of-age ceremony.

"Hehe! That's for sure, do you really want to learn?"

"Blowing Fire Palm: Xuan-tier Low-grade, can create powerful wind pressure!"

"Can you teach me? Are you also an alchemist?" Xiao Yan asked with feigned confusion.

Yao Lao moved his finger away from his forehead and, in Xiao Yan's ecstatic gaze, lightly tapped it on his forehead.

"Damn! I've known since I was born, so what! Can you guess it? Can you also know that I am a transmigrator? Except for how many hairs you have on your body, I know everything else." Xiao Yan rolled his eyes and complained in his heart.

"Let me look for it." Yao Lao rubbed his forehead with his finger and looked for it slowly.

"Still Heaven-tier cultivation method, fighting technique! With your Stage Three Dou Qi, can you practice it if I give it to you?" Yao Lao rolled his eyes.

A weak wind pressure was generated in Xiao Yan's palm, blowing the window slightly.

"Blowing Fire Palm!"

"Pfft!"

Xiao Yan watched Yao Lao searching for fighting techniques, feeling extremely excited, feeling like drawing a lottery or unpacking an express delivery.

"Found it."

The Blowing Fire Palm was not difficult to learn, and the cultivation route was simple. Under Yao Lao's guidance, Xiao Yan learned it quickly and initially mastered its tricks.

"Then why don't you take me as your master yet!"

"Hehe, that's true. Do you want to become an alchemist?"

Xiao Yan rolled his eyes, still barely. This reminded him of the motto of all head teachers in high school: "You are the worst batch of students I have ever taught!"

"That can be considered, what kind do you want?" Yao Lao stroked his beard and said indifferently.

"Alright! Alright! Stop joking. Although I have absorbed your Dou Qi for three years, this has also made your foundation very solid. In Dou Qi training, the foundation is the top priority. You will naturally know how much benefit the strength regression over the past three years has brought you in the future. Your strength is too low now, and you need to improve your strength first, but training step by step is a bit too slow." Yao Lao said seriously.

"You didn't just discover it yesterday!"

Standing in the room, facing the half-open window, he operated the Dou Qi in his body and ran it along the meridians of the Blowing Fire Palm.

"Hehe, then Xuan-tier fighting technique is fine!" Xiao Yan said that asking for Heaven-tier fighting technique was just a joke.

"Then why didn't you take it off earlier? That way you wouldn't have to be mocked and ridiculed every day."

"Hehe! You only have Stage Three Dou Qi now, so this is all you can practice. The founder of this thing was a blacksmith who worked as a blacksmith for a lifetime. Because of the needs of the furnace fire, he inexplicably created this fighting technique of blowing fire..." Looking at Xiao Yan, whose small face was a bit stiff, Yao Lao said jokingly.

Xiao Yan performed the apprenticeship ceremony seriously, and the old man also accepted it seriously, obviously attaching great importance to these etiquettes.

"Blowing Fire Palm!" Xiao Yan was a bit disgusted, he thought it would be something like Eight Extremities Collapse.

Being tapped on the forehead, Xiao Yan's head swelled slightly, and a large amount of information poured into it. After a long while, he gradually woke up.

"Hehe! That can't erase the fact that you absorbed my Dou Qi for three years! Tell me how to compensate me!" Xiao Yan said with a cold smile.

"That's because I learned that entering the Dou Zhe realm too early is not a good thing, which is what I discovered after I entered the Dou Zhe realm. The disappearance of the Dou Qi vortex actually made me breathe a sigh of relief." Xiao Yan explained indifferently.

Xiao Yan curled his lips and stared at Yao Lao, was it that funny?

"Want! Want!" Xiao Yan answered quickly.

"Hehe, this is just checking from the outside first! On my whole body, only this ring is a bit different." Xiao Yan said with a smile.

"Then what good way do you have?" Xiao Yan asked knowingly.

"Tomorrow, prepare three complete Purple Leaf Orchid Grasses, the older the better, and two Wash Bone Flowers, the age of this thing doesn't matter, oh, by the way, and a wood-attribute Level 1 monster core. These are low-level medicinal materials, I think you can get them... Someone is coming, I'll go back to the ring first. Remember not to tell others about my existence, even the closest people." After Yao Lao finished his instructions, he turned into a white light and drilled into the ring.

(End of Chapter) ===== CHAPTER 4 =====