"My name is Chu Yan. The cultivators of the Mountain Sea World honor me as the Pill Saint."
Even after Luo Chen stepped through the door, those gentle, soothing words still echoed in his mind, like a spring breeze and soft rain.
No wonder he had felt an instinctive closeness to her the moment he saw her.
They both came from the Eastern Wilderness Cultivation World, both were Pill Refiners, and both had even accomplished the feat of refining a Tier 5 Pill while in the Nascent Soul Realm.
All those similarities together had given rise to that instinctive closeness.
Some things about her, however, had caught him by surprise.
Luo Chen had imagined the Pill Saint as an old cultivator with a flowing white beard and the bearing of an immortal. Yet the apparition had clearly shown a slender, delicate young woman.
Of course, from the moment she abruptly asked, "Can you refine a Tier 5 Pill?" Luo Chen could no longer think of her as some frail woman.
She was a Spirit Transformation Great Power on the verge of Ascension by Soaring!
She had even vaguely sensed that he had refined a Tier 5 Pill before. That was why she had asked.
Luo Chen had no intention of advertising the Tier 5 Law Derivation Pill, so he had bluffed his way past the question.
From the moment he saw Pill Saint Chu Yan, the questions and answers within the Star Gate had ceased to matter much. He had merely repeated what Fu Chaosheng had told him to say.
Luo Chen left the Star Gate with an untroubled expression and returned to the Welcoming Immortal Hall.
Fu Chaosheng, who had been waiting for him, came forward eagerly to greet him, bringing along a genuinely young woman.
"This is my