"I don't know. Perhaps..."
Lin Dong answered absentmindedly. Naturally, he had never known of such a thing; it was merely a guess.
As he looked around, Lin Dong caught sight of two rather familiar figures.
"...It's them."
"Who?"
From Lin Dong's perspective, the two women he had briefly met beside Xiao Yan and Yao Wan were accompanying a handsome, silver-haired man as they watched countless energies gather beneath Jian Mu into an invisible alchemy cauldron.
"So it's them."
Ling Qingzhu remembered them as well. Her gaze naturally drew their attention, and after the two women exchanged a glance, they walked over with the handsome man beside them.
"Brother Lin Dong, and ladies Qing Zhu and Qing Tan, it has been a long time."
"Indeed, Miss Xian'er and Miss Xun Er, it has been a long time."
Lin Qingtan nodded in greeting, then could not help looking at the silver-haired man, who was still at the Ancestor Realm, and asked, "May I ask how we should address this gentleman?"
"Yao Chen, Xiao Yan's master. Because of certain events back then, I was an old man for a time, so everyone likes to call me Old Yao. Since you are guests, call me whatever you please."
"Since you are Brother Xiao's master, proper courtesy is still required."
Lin Dong cupped his fists toward Yao Chen. Though Yao Chen before him was only at the Ancestor Realm, anyone capable of teaching a disciple like Xiao Yan must have been an extraordinary figure, even in a lower plane.
"Are the three of you also here to observe Brother Xiao's pill refinement?"
"After all, it is a Heavenly Supreme refining pills. It would be a shame to miss it. For alchemists, those who have attained mastery are teachers. It is now time for my disciple