The sea breeze blew gently.
Waves surged, mighty breakers crashing against the shore.
"Senior sister... Supreme White Island is just ahead."
A young cultivator dressed like a Confucian scholar steered a flying boat, gazing at the snow-covered island before them.
Behind him stood Zhan Hongxiu, wearing a blue magical robe with scarlet cuffs. A Longevity Tortoise the size of a millstone followed beside her, and her cultivation had reached roughly the qi refinement seventh layer.
She looked toward Supreme White Island, worry clouding her expression as well. "The island's guardian is said to be the second-ranking figure on the Azure Sea Sect's Pill Island. His alchemy is supposedly approaching grandmaster level... If we want someone to refine the pill, this is our only option apart from the Azure Sea Sect's headquarters."
"But... the Azure Sea Sect has always been overbearing."
Her junior brother was clearly hesitant.
Several months earlier, Three Origins Island had come under attack by cultivator bandits. Among them was a Foundation Establishment demonic cultivator who possessed strange demonic soul arts.
Their master had let his guard slip. Although he had barely managed to repel the attackers, a vicious spell had struck him, damaging his soul, and his condition had been deteriorating ever since. The two disciples had invited a second-order physician to examine him, only to learn that his injuries were severe. Only a second-order Mystic-Soul Restoration Pill could save him.
This pill was second-order high grade. Although its recipe was available in Three Talents Market, and the disciples had even obtained its main ingredient at any cost, they could not find an alchemist capable of refining it!
Every master alchemist among the rogue cultivators had looked troubled upon hearing that they wanted a second-order high-grade pill refined.
The only rogue master alchemist willing to try, Master