Gu He nodded. "Even if I gave him the Green Lotus Seat and all the Earthfire Refining, I could only get two months of his time."
There was some helplessness in his tone, but it gave Chen Huo the urge to kill someone. Trading two pieces of "junk" that were of little use to a Dou Zun for the guidance of an alchemist capable of refining Seven-colored Pill Lightning pills—what was there to complain about?
The exchange conference lasted three days. During that time, Gu He discussed alchemy with more than a dozen Eighth-grade Alchemists in attendance. Though everyone held something back during the exchanges, Gu He still benefited immensely.
While Gu He was attending the eighth-grade exchange conference, two terrifying auras suddenly erupted from a valley on the Frozen Plains in the northeastern Central Region. Their sheer pressure shattered space, filling the sky with countless tiny black cracks as though the world were ending. Two figures radiating icy coldness slowly emerged from the valley. Both had a pair of green wings behind them, and with each slight flap, the space around the wings trembled without cease.
"Extreme Cold, how is your cultivation of the secret art?" one of the figures, who appeared exceptionally young, suddenly asked.
"Haha, with your cultivation experience to guide me, it went very smoothly. My current speed is enough to rival that of a Six-star Dou Zun," the other, older-looking man said with a hearty laugh, clearly delighted.
The two were Ice Venerable and his friend, Extreme Cold Venerable. After several months of cultivation, they had finally achieved preliminary mastery of the secret art, successfully refining and grafting the Wind Wolf Wings into Wind Wolf Wings. Their speed had increased dramatically.
"Good. Since I have fulfilled what I promised you, is it time for you