Outside the Bamboo House, Chu Yinyin saw Nangong Yue and the others staring at Chu Huai Xu. She immediately bristled like a kitten guarding its food.
"What are you looking at? He's my disciple!"
Squinty-eyed Zhao Shuqi immediately said, "Junior Sister, what are you saying? It's not like we're stopping Chu Huai Xu from taking you as his master. We just want him to take a few more masters too."
Second Elder Tai Tingbai, who looked like a farmer, promptly nodded in agreement. "Besides, I never planned to guide Chu Huai Xu in cultivation. My idea is to become his master in alchemy."
Though Second Elder looked rough and uncouth and always claimed to be dull-witted, he had already thought everything through. He could simply blaze a new trail!
"As the saying goes: Among the myriad Art Paths, alchemy comes first."
"Chu Huai Xu, are you willing to take me as your master and learn alchemy from me?"
As soon as he finished speaking, before Chu Huai Xu could reply, First Elder Lu Pan immediately showed his displeasure.
He and Xiang Yan had already filled all their disciple slots. They had purely come today to preside over the situation.
"Second Junior Brother, that's not right! Among the myriad Art Paths, formation arts clearly come first!" The Formation Array Grandmaster immediately spoke sternly and began to argue back.
The broad-minded Ninth Elder Nangong Yue was usually a gentle woman who was easy to talk to, but when the subject turned to this, she unexpectedly joined the debate as well.
However, knowing that Chu Huai Xu had probably already achieved some success in alchemy and would not switch to artifact forging, she turned to Han Shuangjiang and said,
"Shuangjiang, I know you seem somewhat interested in artifact forging. Don't listen to them.