Yao Chen: "Something like this should only be enjoyed within a small circle. Far too unrestrained..."

As Yao Chen spoke.

Only then did the many Little Pill Tower Elders notice Xiao Yan, their expressions surprised. "To possess a spirit realm soul at such a young age is truly extraordinary... may we ask who your master is? What tradition do you inherit?"

"My master is Taiqing Dao De Tianzun, and my tradition... is the Daoist School," Xiao Yan replied, cupping his hands.

"The Daoist School?"

Everyone was taken aback.

Yao Chen, however, stroked his beard and silently committed that name to memory.

"I have never heard of it. Perhaps he is some powerhouse living in seclusion. After all, the Dou Qi Continent is so vast that even we dare not claim to have set foot on every patch of land." The Grand Elder sighed reflectively, giving Xiao Yan a way out.

"My current cultivation realm was attained through that esteemed figure's guidance..." Yao Chen spoke with restraint. After all, if he actually said that the mysterious powerhouse had forcibly elevated him single-handedly, transforming him as though he had shed his old body and bones, likely no one would believe him.

It was simply too inconceivable.

At their level of cultivation, even the slightest progress was exceedingly difficult, let alone standing above them.

Unless it was an existence in the Dou Di realm.

"Gasp... is that really so?!!" Everyone went from their previous composure to utter astonishment.

To offer guidance to a Ninth-Grade Alchemist meant there was no telling how terrifying that person's realm was.

"Could he be a powerhouse with an emperor realm soul, capable of refining ninth-grade profound pills, or even at the golden core realm?"

"Enough questions. Disperse, everyone, disperse..."

The Grand Elder sternly dismissed the elders, only to sidle over discreetly and ask quite solemnly, "Might I ask whether you have met our ancestor,