Three years ago, before the Alchemist Grand Tournament, Gu He had been a virtual nobody.
But after winning that tournament, he had shot straight to fame!
His name had spread across the entire Jia Ma Empire!
He had become a Tier 4 Alchemist in his twenties, and now he had reached Tier 5. With talent like that, he would have stood out even in the Central Plains.
After Gu He won the tournament three years ago, nearly every major power in the Jia Ma Empire had tried to recruit him.
Even powers from other countries had invited him to join them.
But Gu He, whose heart was set on alchemy, had turned them all down!
As he put it, he disliked being tied down. He just wanted to refine pills. That was all.
Even so, many powers had not given up on recruiting him.
Gu He let them try.
He had no intention of joining any faction for the time being.
With what he gained from that tournament, Gu He had since become a Tier 5 Alchemist!
His Dou Qi cultivation, however, was still only at the Dou Ling level.
Truthfully, if Gu He had been willing to join the Gama Empire Alchemist Guild, his talent would have let him take over as president from Fa Ma within a few years.
But he had no interest in that.
Besides, Gu He knew himself. When it came to alchemy, he considered his talent quite good.
When it came to management and political maneuvering, though, he was a complete novice!
That much was clear from the original story, where he had served only as an honorary elder of the Misty Cloud Sect and taken no part in its management.
As one of the Jia Ma Empire's Four Great Clans, the Xiao Household