"How... how could this be...?"
Master and disciple stared at the pitch-black pill furnace in shock, their faces full of disbelief.
Other things could be forged, but a pill furnace could not—and judging from the aura emanating from it, this was undoubtedly an immortal artifact.
"Now you believe me, don't you?" Shi Jin said with a light chuckle as he put away the furnace.
"You... You truly are that Pill Immortal?" Jiang Shan's voice trembled as he spoke.
His mind had gone blank. The Pill Immortal whom their sect had worshipped all this time had actually appeared before him, alive and in the flesh. He had never expected such a surprise.
"The genuine article." Shi Jin nodded.
"You... Didn't you ascend? How did you..." Jiang Boyue asked incoherently.
"There was a slight accident. I did not go to the Immortal Realm and was instead reincarnated in the cultivation world. That is why I have this body now," Shi Jin said.
Judging from Jiang Shan and Jiang Boyue's expressions, Cherry Blossom Pavilion truly seemed to hold him in great respect. If so, this mission was likely as good as settled.
"Ah... Such a thing actually happened..." Jiang Shan said in shock.
"I know you still have doubts. Actually, there is someone else who can prove my identity. You know Mu Chen of the Heaven One Sword Sect, right?" Shi Jin asked.
In order to convince the two of his identity, Shi Jin directly brought up Mu Chen as well.
"You mean that elder from the Heaven One Sword Sect, Mu Chen of the Tribulation Transcendence stage?" Jiang Shan asked in astonishment.
Mu Chen might not have had much of a reputation in the cultivation world, but in the alchemy world, he was an immensely renowned figure. He was the only person