"Senior, were you calling for me?"
Chen Changming clasped his fists and smiled faintly at the old chief steward of the Pill Pavilion, who was striding over.
This man's cultivation was at the eighth level of Spirit Transformation, so he was worthy of being addressed as Senior.
Li Xing stepped closer and returned the smile politely. "Yes, Fellow Daoist. How should I address you?"
"This one is Ning Jin."
"Fellow Daoist Ning, our Pill Pavilion's steward Su Zhe deliberately made things difficult for you earlier. This old man apologizes to you on behalf of the Pill Pavilion."
Li Xing said with an apologetic expression.
Chen Changming's heart stirred. Could the earthfire have been tampered with?
But that shouldn't have been possible...
His divine sense was powerful. If Steward Su Zhe had done anything, there was no way it could have escaped his notice.
"Made things difficult for me? Senior, why do you say that?"
Chen Changming asked curiously.
"When you were refining pills earlier, I saw it from outside. The reason your Foundation Establishment Pill refinement failed was not because your pill-refining skills were lacking, but because you are a cultivator from the Human Realm. The aura of the Human Realm has tainted the spiritual power within your body, so when you mobilize the Spirit Realm's earthfire, it cannot possibly be as perfect as it was in the Human Realm..."
Li Xing let out a long sigh.
The reason he had come to explain was also because he wanted to nurture an alchemist for the Pill Pavilion. He could tell that this cultivator from the Human Realm, Chen Changming, was actually no slouch at pill refinement.
Moreover, he believed that anyone capable of entering the Spirit Realm from the Human Realm could not be an ordinary person. Since Chen Changming