"Your master is here?" Dan Hong repeated, then asked in confusion, "Yan Xiao?"
Dan Chen nodded. "Yes."
Dan Hong immediately frowned. "How could that be? We're waiting for Elder Xiao here, not your master Yan Xiao, Chen'er."
"Chen'er, could you have sensed it wrong?"
Dan Chen immediately shook her head, nervously fidgeting with her fingers as she said timidly, "N-No, I didn't get it wrong."
"And we're waiting for Master."
Dan Hong sighed helplessly. "Chen'er, your personality is really becoming more and more timid."
"Besides, we're waiting for Elder Xiao, the top Alchemist who refined the Bodhi Pill that drew Nine-Colored Pill Lightning."
"I finally managed to get an opportunity to meet him. I wanted to befriend him, so our Dan Clan might have a chance to rise even further!"
"Didn't I tell you all this, Chen'er? How could you forget..."
As he spoke, Dan Hong suddenly fell silent. After swallowing, he abruptly asked Dan Chen, "Wait, Chen'er, you know we're waiting for Elder Xiao, yet you still said that..."
"Yan Xiao... Xiao Yan... Xiao Yan?!"
Dan Hong's scalp went numb.
"Clan Head Dan, long time no see." Xiao Yan walked in from outside and casually greeted him.
Dan Hong turned around. Comparing Xiao Yan's tall, straight figure with Yan Xiao's, they matched perfectly!
"Elder Xiao, are you Chen'er's master?" Dan Hong asked expectantly.
Xiao Yan smiled faintly and nodded. "That's right. Yan Xiao was merely an identity I fabricated to avoid some unnecessary trouble."
Dan Hong's hands trembled with excitement. "For Chen'er to become your disciple, Elder Xiao, is truly the honor of our Dan Clan!"
Xiao Yan waved a hand casually. "Dan Chen has an exceptional Heaven-Swallowing Talent. At such a young age, she is already a High-Level Fifth-Rank Alchemist. Becoming an Eighth-Rank Alchemist in the future is