Qingzhou.
Anyu City.
The Gu Family was one of the great families within Anyu City. Its founder had been a disciple of the Qingyuan Sect. After finding it difficult to advance further in Martial Cultivation, he chose to leave the Qingyuan Sect and establish the Gu Family as one of its affiliated forces.
Gu An was a member of the Gu Family with exceptionally high martial talent.
After comprehending Jing Power, he directly joined the Qingyuan Sect and became a Formal Disciple.
After becoming a disciple of the Qingyuan Sect, Gu An felt that his progress in martial cultivation was not particularly fast. Thus, alongside his cultivation, he also tried walking the path of a Pharmacist.
He possessed a certain talent for pharmacy and soon became an Intermediate Alchemist. However, it was only then that he discovered his talent in pill refinement was not quite so high, so he subsequently focused more on martial cultivation.
After his Martial Cultivation broke through to the Internal Refinement Grandmaster realm, he used his status as an Intermediate Alchemist to become the hall master of the Qingyuan Sect's Medicine Hall. It was a position that allowed him to obtain more cultivation resources and build good relationships with those Pharmacists.
Within the Medicine Hall, whenever he saw disciples with decent talent, he would offer them some help. This caused his reputation in the Medicine Hall to grow better and better.
Until one day, he saw a Steward Disciple whose Ox Demon Strength Fist cultivation was fairly good, someone not far from comprehending Jing Power. His heart stirred, and he arranged for someone to deliver a bowl of Qi Replenishing Body Nourishing Soup to that Steward Disciple named Yang Chan. After that, he did not pay much attention to it.
Yet before long, he heard that