Wang Tao

After Lu Qingfeng had gained a general understanding, Lu Hongwen led him and the six newcomers recruited that day toward the guild headquarters.

The headquarters stood atop a small hill outside Sishui Town.

The mountain had originally been nameless, but after the Yuanyi Guild moved in, it became known as Mount Yuanyi.

After leaving Sishui Town and walking for roughly half an hour, they finally reached Mount Yuanyi. Of the seven newcomers Lu Hongwen had recruited this time, only Lu Qingfeng was a player. The other six were natives whose Root Bones were passable.

One of them was named Qi Hai, and his Root Bone value had reached four points, making him a fairly gifted genius.

After all, anyone with a Root Bone of two points could join a guild.

With a Root Bone of four points, one could even join the Spirit Mechanisms Institute directly! Who knew why Qi Hai had passed up the perfectly good Spirit Mechanisms Institute to join the Yuanyi Guild.

They entered Mount Yuanyi.

Lu Hongwen handed the other six over to the deacon in charge of new recruits, then took Lu Qingfeng to the mountaintop himself.

From the mountainside to the summit, Mount Yuanyi was covered with quite a number of buildings.

Two of them were clearly alchemy rooms, situated at the edge.

"Old Wang!"

"Old Yue!"

"Come out and receive guests!"

Standing before the two alchemy rooms, Lu Hongwen shouted at the top of his lungs.

"Elder Lu, please don't make such a racket! Master is currently refining a batch of Qi-Circulating Powder and cannot come out to meet you," a disciple hurried out of the alchemy room on the left and bowed to Lu Hongwen.

"I never imagined Big Brother Lu was actually a guild elder. My apologies for my disrespect!"

Lu Qingfeng could not help speaking up from the side.

He was not teasing him. He truly had not expected it.

Lu Hongwen, who looked lazy and inconspicuous, actually held a fairly high position in the Yuanyi Guild. The position of elder was subordinate only to the guild leader and vice guild leaders.

"Don't joke around. You'll be an elder yourself soon."

Lu Hongwen winked at Lu Qingfeng, but his words left Lu Qingfeng stunned.

Seeing this, Lu Hongwen waved at the disciple, signaling him to go back.

Only then did he smile at Lu Qingfeng and say, "In the Yuanyi Guild, aside from the guild leader and the two vice guild leaders, there are only three people with status like ours, and all of them are elders. Although you've only just joined, you're the Yuanyi Guild's seventh player. Becoming an elder is more than within your capabilities!"

"This—"

Only after hearing this did Lu Qingfeng understand.

The Yuanyi Guild had only seven players, himself included. No wonder Lu Hongwen had been so enthusiastic after learning that he was a player.

"That's normal enough."

Considering that the entire Bingling World had fewer than three thousand players in total, it was already quite impressive for a small guild like the Yuanyi Guild to have seven slots.

Still, joining a guild for the first time and starting directly as an elder left Lu Qingfeng both amused and helpless.

Not long after Lu Hongwen explained everything to Lu Qingfeng, several people emerged from the alchemy room on the right. At the front was a handsome young man dressed in black-and-white Daoist robes, with several youthful boys following behind him.

"Old Lu, you really need to change that booming voice of yours! I finally managed to refine a batch of Golden Marrow Pills, and you nearly ruined it!"

The handsome young man looked refined, but the moment he opened his mouth, his roughness was astonishing.

Lu Hongwen was completely unfazed and merely grinned.

After shouting at Lu Hongwen, the handsome young man did not wait for him to speak. He looked toward Lu Qingfeng and asked, "Old Lu brought you here personally, so you must be a newcomer. My name is Wang Tao. What's yours?"

"Lu Qingfeng."

Lu Qingfeng replied.

This person did not seem difficult to get along with.

Seeing that the two had started talking, Lu Hongwen spoke up. "Old Wang, Old Lu has only just arrived and hasn't begun cultivating yet, but he knows alchemy. Take care of him. As for Old Yue, introduce him once he finishes refining his pills."

"Got it. Go on."

Wang Tao waved his hand and casually agreed.

Seeing this, Lu Hongwen turned to Lu Qingfeng again. "Old Lu, get familiar with Mount Yuanyi with Old Wang first. I still have to return to Sishui Town to recruit people."

"Sorry for the trouble, Big Brother Lu!"

Lu Qingfeng hurriedly thanked him.

Lu Hongwen grinned, then turned and left.

"You already know alchemy right after arriving. Looks like you didn't slack off during all those years outside!"

Wang Tao's voice was loud. He smiled at Lu Qingfeng and said, "Come in first and show me what you can do. Let me see your level."

Lu Qingfeng understood what Wang Tao meant and followed behind him without explaining.

He knew that both Wang Tao and Lu Hongwen could tell he had no cultivation and had only just entered the Primordial World. Yet Lu Qingfeng had claimed that he knew alchemy, clearly meaning that he had studied alchemy before entering the Primordial World.

But how could Wang Tao know that the old monster he was barking orders at had already spent two lifetimes in the Primordial World?

Inside the alchemy room.

Lu Qingfeng looked around.

Apart from him and Wang Tao, there were quite a few apprentices here, all of whom looked rather respectful when they glanced at Wang Tao.

The alchemy room was quite spacious. Nine alchemy furnaces had been installed in total, each with its own independent space, isolated from the others.

At that moment, an alchemist was concentrating on pill refinement before each of the other eight alchemy furnaces.

Around the alchemy room was a circle of herb-processing tables. They were even more complete than the simple herb-processing table inside the Bluestone Talisman that Lu Qingfeng had often used in his previous life.

Dozens of apprentices were constantly processing medicinal herbs.

Wang Tao pointed at the herb-processing table nearby and said, "You have no cultivation, so you can't use an alchemy furnace. Use this to process the medicinal herbs and try refining some pills first. As long as you can produce pills, I'll have the guild leader build you an alchemy room of your own."

Wang Tao understood that when everyone was a player, no one was willing to live beneath another's heel. Thus, he took the initiative to make his position clear. Conversely, if Lu Qingfeng could not produce pills, he would have to obediently work under Wang Tao in his alchemy room.

"Sure!"

Lu Qingfeng naturally had no objections!

In his previous life, he had refined thousands upon thousands of pills on the simple herb-processing table inside the Bluestone Talisman. With even more complete equipment here, there was naturally no way it could stump him.

Selecting the medicinal herbs!

Processing the medicinal herbs!

Controlling the flame!

Beginning the refinement!

With his arms folded, Wang Tao watched from the side, nodding from time to time as a trace of amusement appeared on his face.

Half an hour later, the fragrance of pills filled the alchemy room, drawing quite a few apprentices' sidelong glances. Lu Qingfeng used a jade bottle nearby to collect the pills.

He had refined Yellow Dragon Pills. Twelve pills had been produced in total, each plump and excellent in appearance. Their quality was as outstanding as ever!

"Not bad, not bad!"

"Very skilled. You must have practiced quite a lot outside."

Wang Tao took the Yellow Dragon Pills refined by Lu Qingfeng, placed several in his palm to inspect them, and praised him as he did so.

Lu Qingfeng smiled but said nothing.

"The medicinal efficacy of your Yellow Dragon Pills seems to—" Wang Tao truly lived up to his title of Master Alchemy Apprentice. After merely looking at and smelling them, he could tell that the Yellow Dragon Pills refined by Lu Qingfeng had stronger medicinal efficacy.

"A secret technique! It can increase the medicinal efficacy of Yellow Dragon Pills by fifty percent!"

Lu Qingfeng replied.

After five enhancements, the Yellow Dragon Pill Formula directly increased the pills' medicinal efficacy by fifty percent. But that was also the limit. Further enhancement would alter the required medicinal herbs as well, making it poor value for money.

"You're quite the deep one, aren't you!"

After hearing this, Wang Tao could not help looking at him with newfound respect.