He arrived at the Heavenly Palace for the very first time.
Lost among the numerous pill refiners, no one paid any attention to a nobody like him.
He arrived at the Heavenly Palace for the second time.
He was Pill Dust Master, the man who had overwhelmed the Azure Pill Seven and claimed the championship for three consecutive rounds!
As soon as he drew near, pairs of curious and respectful gazes landed upon him.
Those were all Foundation Establishment disciples from the other sects.
Luo Chen did not pay much mind to these gazes.
The only things he cared about were the attitudes of the Golden Core Immortals.
And what he wanted to see appeared at the very first moment.
"Pill Dust Master, please take your seat!"
Although they did not address him as a fellow Daoist, they did not call him by his given name outright either.
A Dao title was, in itself, an honorific title for a cultivator!
Looking at the genial middle-aged man, Luo Chen cupped his fists and said, "Many thanks, Sect Master Qingyun!"
With that, under the watchful gaze of a crowd of Golden Core Immortals, he took his seat on the chair at the very end.
Seeing him carry himself thus, Qingyunzi could not help nodding in praise.
"Neither humble nor overbearing, unfazed by honor or humiliation; indeed a fine talent."
While he exchanged pleasantries here, Red Cauldron Immortal did not have quite so amiable a temper.
"Pill Dust Master, what of the proposal I made to you earlier? Have you considered it?"
The so-called proposal was nothing more than joining the Grand Pill Institute to become a Guest Elder.
Having been interrupted, Qingyunzi smiled slightly, though he did not grow angry.
His Senior Brother might pity the other man's pill-refining talent.
Yet from