As we all know, the first-level alchemists' defense against alchemy apprentices is higher than mountains and rivers, and wider than the sea.
Because the growth of apprentices will affect their identities and their interests. There are three ways for an alchemy apprentice to grow, one is to accumulate wealth and buy alchemy formulas.
The second is to steal a teacher.
The third is that an alchemist is old and dying. Only when there are no heirs will he find an apprentice to pass on the mantle.
These three situations are extremely difficult, just like Xue Taoyuan, who has not learned from stealing a teacher for five years. It takes at least decades of wealth accumulation to buy Danfang.
The status of an alchemist is very high, with beautiful wives and beautiful concubines, like Jin Danchen, there are more than a dozen wives, and the situation of having no children is also very small.
All in all, if one wants to be promoted from an alchemy apprentice to a first-level alchemist, it must be accompanied by a legend.
From Xue Taoyuan's mouth, Chen Guhong learned that this apprentice was named Deng Changqing, and he was thirty years old this year. Became an alchemy apprentice five years ago. After stealing five years of learning, he learned the alchemy methods of "Body Refining Pill" and "Xinggong Pill". After accumulating wealth, he bought the formula of "Ming Shen Pill".
After learning these three basic elixirs, he is already considered a first-level alchemist.
He had recently broken with his teacher, and planned to recruit troops and set up an elixir shop in Guiyuan Xiancheng as an independent first-class alchemist.
Compete for this piece of land of interest.
The newly promoted alchemist is so arrogant, of course it makes many alchemists unhappy. But this Deng Changqing has a lot of room for growth, and he did it by stealing at a young age.
That is almost a male comparison to the sky, he is more promising than alchemists like Jin Danchen. He even became a second-level alchemist and a third-level alchemist. I heard that the city lord of Guiyuan Xiancheng was alarmed.
As we all know, every generation of Guiyuan Immortal City's city lord has a cultivation base of Danyuan level. It's not the Jindan stage, it's the Yuanshen stage. The city lord of this generation is the tyrannical cultivation base of the Golden Core Stage.
But this tyranny exists. But he was startled by a small alchemy apprentice, which shows the great potential of this alchemy apprentice.
Even Chen Guhong nodded secretly after hearing this. Because he also completed it by stealing, and secondly, he was able to complete it thanks to the tyranny of the primordial spirit in his mind.
But the other party relies entirely on comprehension, which is different.
Describe it as standing on the shoulders of giants. Bending down to peek at the secrets of the alchemist. The other party stood on the ground, looking up to peek at the alchemist's mysteries.
Chen Guhong remembered this person, and thought: "It's good to make friends with such an amazing and talented person."
The party was just three days later, after Chen Guhong and Xue Taoyuan made an agreement, they went off work respectively. In the evening three days later, Chen Guhong and Xue Taoyuan got off work together.
Under Xue Taoyuan's leadership, Chen Guhong arrived at a relatively remote building in the city. Unless there are very few exceptions, this kind of building-shaped building. It is the mainstream of Guiyuan Immortal City.
This building is not big, covering an area of 20 square meters and three floors high. The house rented by Chen Guhong belongs to the same grade. There are also such buildings all around, and many immortals come in and out.
They definitely don't know that the small building belongs to alchemy apprentices, and it is also used as a meeting place. Xue Taoyuan and Chen Guhong avoided everyone's eyes and ears, and quietly came to the front of the small building.
The small building is protected by a formation, and it is not the owner who cannot enter and exit. But can be subpoenaed.
Xue Taoyuan made a series of lines, sending a message to the inside.
Shortly after. The door of the small building was opened. A woman walked out of it. This woman had a delicate face, a bun on her head, long hair reaching her waist, wearing a skirt on her body, and was very youthful.
"Tao Yuan."
The woman greeted Xue Taoyuan. Then Miao Mu turned to Chen Guhong, also smiled and said: "Are you Chen Guhong?"
"I'm here." Chen Guhong said politely.
"Sure enough, they are brothers, they are so mature and polite." The woman looked Chen Guhong up and down, joked, and then introduced herself with a smile: "My name is Wu Jinhuan. I am an alchemy apprentice."
Chen Guhong smiled, he also felt that Wu Jinhuan's cultivation was at the mid-thick soil stage. This is the same as Xue Taoyuan. Could it be that almost all alchemy apprentices have this level of cultivation
After saying hello, Wu Jinhuan called Chen Guhong and Xue Taoyuan in. Inside the small building, the layout is very elegant. To the north is a screen, and in front of the screen is the main seat.
After that, they are arranged in left and right rows, with four seats in each row, and a total of nine seats including the main seat.
At the moment, there are people sitting on the five seats, three men and two women.
Immediately after Wu Jinhuan's introduction, Chen Guhong got to know these three men and two women.
Jin Qianyuan, a young man in his twenties, has an ordinary appearance and nothing unusual, even according to his attire.
Shi Guangsui is also a young man in his twenties, but he is very handsome, with a sword on his waist, he looks very heroic.
Wang Zheng, this person appeared a little dignified. Because he has a face with Chinese characters, and he looks very old-fashioned with a blank expression.
Ruan Xiaozhu, a woman in her twenties, is very beautiful with fair complexion.
Chen Feifei has exquisite facial features, especially a pair of eyes, which are as tender as water, and there are various charms between Gu Pan. She has a graceful figure, very beautiful and hot.
Chen Guhong also heard a gossip that Chen Feifei was her teacher's disciple and lover, and was very favored. Among the alchemy apprentices, he is the second most likely to become an alchemist.
The cultivation base of these people is the same as that of Xue Taoyuan and Wu Jinhuan, around the mid-thick soil stage.
Chen Guhong is a new member, attracting a lot of attention. Chen Feifei glanced at Chen Guhong coquettishly, covered his mouth with a smile and said in a magnetic voice: "What a handsome young man."
"What a beautiful young lady." Chen Guhong thought that he was also a scholar who had rolled in the brothel back then, so he was not stage-frightened, smiled slightly, and bowed his hands together.
The conversation between the two was very interesting, which made the apprentices very happy, and they couldn't help laughing happily.
"Hahaha."
An apprentice is an embarrassing existence, but it is also a noble existence, a respected existence. Because of this, there is a certain generation gap between apprentices and ordinary cultivators.
Except for caring maids like Chen Guhong, most of them are lonely. Only when you get along with the same kind can you reveal your true nature. At this moment, both Xue Taoyuan and the other six apprentices showed signs of enjoyment.
Far from the respect of ordinary immortal cultivators, and also avoided the embarrassment in front of the alchemist, he was very free and enjoyed the atmosphere where he could talk freely.
Chen Guhong's temperament is very refreshing, and he quickly got to know these six people very well. But it was strange, because he was interested in meeting Deng Changqing when he came to the party this time, but he didn't show up. Can't help asking: "Why don't you see Deng Changqing?"