Sparrow Head Isle!
The foremost island of the Flying Swallow Islands.
The largest docks stood here, and it was also where the greatest flow of travelers passed through.
Yet today, Sparrow Head Isle was eerily silent.
Not a single person was in sight, nor was there any sign of life.
Ships of every size had lowered their sails and lay moored within the harbor.
Only one figure stood quietly upon the docks, surveying his surroundings with a complicated expression.
This had been the place where he had grown up. Though hundreds of years had passed and much had changed, it still felt familiar.
Back then, his family had not valued him. In order to improve his Pill Refinement Art, he would occasionally come to the docks to take on odd jobs and earn Spirit Stones.
Perhaps if he had continued on like that for his entire life, he could have become a skilled Tier 1 Alchemist, perhaps at most Tier 2.
As for his cultivation realm, it would have stopped at the Qi Refining Stage.
But everything had changed because of his master's arrival.
His master at the time had needed a great number of assistants.
Whether low-rank Pill Refiners or fire workers and medicine boys, the more, the better.
The great families had catered to his preferences and selected a large number of talents to send over. Because he was familiar with medicinal herbs, he too had been summoned.
From that point onward, Xu Muxian's true opportunity had begun.
He became Azure Sun Devil Monarch's Registered Disciple, learned the other party's Pill Refinement Art, earned his family's regard, and entered into a marriage alliance with the Xu Family...
Yet what had moved Xu Muxian most was a conversation he had once had with Luo Chen on Moon Invitation Island.