It had to be said: Xuan Lengyan had a talent for the Way of Alchemy. He had merely given her a push, sending her to a higher platform, and she had performed brilliantly there.
What Xu Yi had just repeated was an experiment from one of Xuan Lengyan's written essays.
"What color does the auxiliary agent become when you replace it with rotten persimmon bamboo heart?"
Xuan Lengyan asked.
Xu Yi replied, "White. More precisely, milky white, with layer upon layer of floating wisps. I wonder if I've got that right."
Xuan Lengyan looked at Chu Qiushan. "You've been extremely lucky, but your luck won't last forever."
With that, she vanished.
Ding Taochun hurried after her. "You're just going to let Chu Qiushan off like that? He's occupying that position without doing a thing, and if we bring him down, Elder Wu will inevitably be implicated. Then you'll be able to rise another step. We don't need to worry about Xue Xiang at all. If we follow the line from Young Master Yinshan to Li Xingtian, we're sure to dig something up..."
Xuan Lengyan stopped and looked back at him. "If we deal with Chu Qiushan, we can only judge him by his motives. All he needs to do is find one counterexample, and it'll be very difficult to topple him. Besides, he swore an oath on the spot. That carries more weight than any speculation or accusation. Ding Taochun, I heard that Old Demon Yiling may have come to Central City."
Ding Taochun's face changed in an instant. "Y-you heard that from whom? I haven't received any news at all."
Xuan Lengyan stared at him. "Is that so? It seems you're not a very competent assistant. You don't need to follow me tomorrow."
"No!"
Ding Taochun glared at Xuan