Even when Wei Jiangyuan compared Xiao Yan with his own teacher, he could find no serious flaws. At most, Xiao Yan still fell short on a few minor details, but the major steps were already beyond reproach!
Wei Jiangyuan clearly remembered that he and Xiao Yan had been apart for only two or three months. Yet the changes in Xiao Yan made it seem as though two or three hundred years had passed!
"Old Xiao, how did you improve so much?"
After refining medicine together, Xiao Yan had naturally seen Wei Jiangyuan's shock. Even he had to admit that his progress had been tremendous.
He had no intention of hiding it from Wei Jiangyuan. He told him everything: how he had entered the Ancient Bodhi Tree, passed through the Hundred Lifetimes Reincarnation, and amassed enough alchemical experience to all but establish his qualifications as a Ninth-grade Alchemist.
Xiao Yan had always encountered one stroke of fortune after another, each pushing him forward. Though Wei Jiangyuan envied him a little, he knew such things came down to personal fate and could not be forced. Usually, he could take them in stride.
But when he heard this, he was first utterly stunned, then sighed helplessly. "The heavens are unfair. They truly are unfair!"
Seeing him like this, Xiao Yan felt a little guilty. He had learned from his junior sister Yao Qingyu that Wei Jiangyuan had already taken a heavy blow from the performance of the Dou Di descendants after leaving the Heavenly Tomb. If Wei Jiangyuan had finally come through that, only to be driven into another dead end by Xiao Yan's good fortune, Xiao Yan would have truly let his junior sister down.
But Xiao Yan had never been good at comforting people. He could only step forward and pat