"You're remarkably diligent, fellow Daoist!"
A damp mountain breeze brushed past, carrying an icy voice to his ears.
Tantai Jin descended from the clouds, her gaze fixed intently on Luo Chen.
"Up so early to read."
Luo Chen waved the pill treatise in his hand, seemingly unsurprised by her arrival.
"The path of Alchemy is vast and profound," he said. "Life has its limits, but knowledge has none. How could I not put in some effort?"
Tantai Jin's eyes flickered. "We true cultivators pursue the Great Dao of longevity. When we may one day live forever, how can you say life has its limits?"
Luo Chen laughed heartily.
"I hope it goes as you say, fellow Daoist Tantai!"
"Please, sit!"
Tantai Jin did not stand on ceremony. She sat in the wicker chair opposite Luo Chen.
Luo Chen set down the treatise and personally poured her a cup of hot tea.
Her gaze immediately fell on Esteemed Fox Pill Explanation.
At the sight of its title, a complicated look flashed through her eyes.
She lifted the spirit tea Luo Chen had poured and took a careful sip, offering no opinion on its flavor.
Instead, she went straight to the point. "I hear you've made considerable gains in Alchemy lately, Pill Dust Master?"
Pill Dust Master, not Fire Spirit Lord?
The corners of Luo Chen's mouth rose.
Just as I thought!
She was steering the conversation toward that subject.
Playing along, he replied modestly, "A little. Just a little!"
At such modesty, Tantai Jin's mouth twitched.
More than a little!
Sky Wave Immortal City had plenty of small families and sects skilled in Pill Refining, but Luo Chen's Luo Tian Association had wiped out two of them in one sweep not long ago.
The Li Family, which favored him, was also