An old friend from the Spirit Transformation Realm?
Shopkeeper Zhao froze for a moment, looking at Wen Xiaoyu with disbelief written all over his face.
Myriad Medicine Pavilion's Pill Master Wen had reached the second layer of the Void Refinement Realm at such a young age. Her talent was outstanding, and her future limitless—so why was she still thinking about an old friend from the Spirit Transformation Realm?
The path of cultivation had always been cruel. Once the gap in cultivation widened, their circles would never again intersect.
Besides, having made no progress for years meant this person's aptitude was simply too poor. He likely had no hope of breaking through to the Void Refinement Realm in this lifetime.
Such trash was not worth befriending, much less worth Wen Xiaoyu spending such an enormous amount of effort to help.
Though Shopkeeper Zhao thought so in his heart, he did not say it outright. The expression on his face was merely rather complicated.
Chen Changming blinked, his gaze toward Wen Xiaoyu equally full of strangeness.
The more he listened, the more he felt that the "old friend from the Spirit Transformation Realm" Wen Xiaoyu spoke of was the cultivation avatar he had left behind in Vermilion Bird Barracks back then.
Without the help of that senior with the Mysterious Lotus-Root Node, that avatar had rather poor aptitude. It had made almost no progress in cultivation over the years, its cultivation remaining around the fourth or fifth layer of the Spirit Transformation Realm. It indeed matched Wen Xiaoyu's description.
Seeing Wen Xiaoyu's determined expression, Shopkeeper Zhao could not bear it, yet he still earnestly advised her, "Pill Master Wen, you are already a Void Refinement Realm cultivator, and you excel at refining pills and making talismans. Your future is immeasurable; you may