At the thought, Ya Fei immediately became respectful.
Then Ya Fei said, "All right, Mr. Yao, please rest assured. I'll put the Mittel Family's connections to work and do everything I can to find those medicinal ingredients for you!"
Ya Fei was very excited, and she also mentioned something to Yao Chen.
"By the way, Mr. Yao, the Nalan Family has a granddaughter named Nalan Yanran. She's currently a disciple of Yun Yun, the Cloud Mist Sect Leader. Do you remember her?"
"Since you're in Wutan City, you must know Xiao Yan, the third young master of the Xiao Clan. She's Xiao Yan's fiancée."
"Although the young lady from the Nalan Family went to the Xiao Clan a few days ago to break off the engagement, things ended badly between her and Young Master Xiao Yan."
Yao Chen didn't respond, and Ya Fei couldn't tell what he was thinking.
So she said, "The thing is, Miss Nalan would like to meet you. Would you be willing to see her, Mr. Yao?"
"She's in the VIP room next door. If you agree, I'll go tell her right away and have her come out to meet you."
Yao Chen didn't have a good impression of Nalan Yanran.
Besides, Xiao Yan was his disciple, and the boy had only recently suffered the humiliation of having his engagement broken off.
Yao Chen hadn't planned on meeting her anyway.
It wasn't because of Xiao Yan. He simply felt that as a Dou Sheng expert, he shouldn't have to meet some junior Dou Zhe just because she wanted to see him.
Yao Chen refused outright.
Ya Fei immediately nodded. "Understood, Mr. Yao. I'll go back and turn her down for you."
"As for the medicinal ingredients, please rest assured. I'll notify everyone at once and do everything I can to gather them all for you."
After Yao Chen left the Miteer Auction House,
Ya Fei immediately went to the VIP room to inform Nalan Yanran of the situation.
"Miss Nalan, I'm afraid you should head back. Mr. Yao won't see you. I also need to help him find the ingredients for refining a Sixth-Grade Pill, so please excuse me."
After saying this, Ya Fei left.
She planned to make a personal trip to the Imperial City of the Jia Ma Empire and return to the Mittel Family.
If the clan leader, Teng Shan, and the grand elder learned that Mr. Yao was not only a Dou Zong expert but also capable of refining Sixth-Grade Pills,
they would both be extremely excited and shocked.
Before leaving, Ya Fei gave Master Gu Ni some instructions.
While she was away from the Miteer Auction House, he would be in charge of running things.
Nalan Yanran stood rooted to the spot, unable to believe her ears. For a moment, she thought she must have misheard.
The fact that he was a Dou Zong expert had already shocked her.
She never expected that he was also a Sixth-Grade Alchemist!
Still reeling from the shock, Nalan Yanran couldn't wait to meet Yao Chen.
So she repeatedly begged Master Gu Ni,
asking him to persuade Yao Chen by any means necessary to agree to meet her.
Gu Ni was so frightened that he immediately said, "Miss Nalan, please don't make things difficult for me. I'm just a mere Rank 2 Alchemist."
"I wouldn't have the slightest say in front of a Sixth-Grade Alchemist who's also a Dou Zong expert. Please go bother someone else. I don't have the nerve for this."
Gu Ni was badly shaken.
Seeing how scared Gu Ni was, Nalan Yanran didn't press him any further.
In Wutan City, she didn't know anyone besides Xiao Yan.
But she hated Xiao Yan. Whenever she remembered how that good-for-nothing had even written a letter of divorce and cast her aside when she broke off the engagement, she grew furious.
Nalan Yanran decided to leave Wutan City and return to the Misty Cloud Sect to explain the situation to her teacher, Yun Yun, in person.
Since that Mr. Yao refused to meet a junior like her,
if she brought up her teacher and the power of the Misty Cloud Sect, surely he wouldn't refuse to see her without even giving her a chance?
After coming to this decision,
she left Wutan City and returned to the Misty Cloud Sect.
A few days earlier, Yun Yun had gone into seclusion in the Misty Cloud Sect to improve her strength, but she had ultimately failed.
As soon as she emerged from her cultivation chamber and arrived at the sect's main hall, she asked several of the Misty Cloud Sect's elders,
"Where's Yanran? I don't see her. Did she run off to play again?"
"Even if Xiao Yan of Wutan City is far behind her in strength, Yanran still can't slack off on the Three-Year Agreement. How can she afford to underestimate him?"
The elders replied, "Sect Leader, Yanran went down the mountain a few days ago and returned to the Nalan Family."
"Oh, then perhaps her grandfather and father needed her for something," Yun Yun said.
Just then, a young woman came up to her. It was her disciple, Nalan Yanran.
"Teacher!" As soon as Nalan Yanran came over, she immediately explained the situation to Yun Yun.
Then she said,
"Teacher, I'd like you to come with me to Wutan City. If you go with me, Mr. Yao surely won't refuse to see me."
"Mr. Yao might look down on a junior like me, but he'll at least have to take the Misty Cloud Sect—and you, Teacher—seriously, even if he is a Dou Zong expert."
"Yanran, what did you just say?"
After hearing Nalan Yanran's words,
Yun Yun froze, thinking she must have misheard.
The many elders of the Misty Cloud Sect also exchanged glances.
Every one of them looked shocked.
"A Dou Zong expert?"
They couldn't believe it. How many years had it been since a Dou Zong expert had appeared in the Jia Ma Empire?
Plenty of nine-star peak Dou Huang experts had appeared before, but even after spending decades or even a century, they had failed to break through to Dou Zong.
They had died when their lifespans ran out, never managing to reach the Dou Zong realm.
Who would have thought a Dou Zong had appeared now?
And in a backwater place like Wutan City, no less?
Nalan Yanran continued,
"And according to Ya Fei of the Miteer Auction House, this Mr. Yao isn't just a Dou Zong expert. He also seems to be a Sixth-Grade Alchemist."
"What? A Sixth-Grade Alchemist?"
When Yun Yun's words reached him, Gu He, the Misty Cloud Sect's honorary elder, immediately sat up.
He had always thought he was the number-one Alchemist in the Jia Ma Empire.
He never expected that someone else would be at the same Rank 6 level as him.
And that person was a Dou Zong, far beyond his own Dou Wang strength.
Gu He, known as the Pill King, was also thrown into a state of shock.
He desperately wanted to meet Yao Chen and discuss their alchemy skills, to find out who was stronger.
At that moment, as Yun Yun listened to Nalan Yanran's description, her face showed not only shock but admiration as well.
What kind of genius could reach the Sixth-Grade Alchemist level and advance to Dou Zong?
"What? A Dou Zong? And a Sixth-Grade Alchemist?"
Inside the Mittel Family, when Teng Shan, the clan leader, and Hai Bodong, the grand elder, heard what Ya Fei had just said, they were both utterly stunned!