Huang Zhen, a master of the Pill Way, had been born in the year 9975 of the Dharma-Ending Age and was now forty-eight. He was a personal disciple of the renowned Pill Sect master, the Mount Qi Master. Clever, eager to learn, and gifted with exceptional insight from childhood, he had learned to identify countless herbs and understand their medicinal properties at an early age, laying a solid foundation for his future as a Pill Way master.
In the year 10000 of the Dharma-Ending Age, Huang Zhen, then only twenty-five, had passed the Pill Sect's great Pill Way examination, a gathering akin to the leap through the Dragon Gate. Officially invested as a Pill Way master, he had risen in one bound to become a sect elder, equal in standing to an Earth Rank cultivator.
Over the next twenty-odd years, he had frequently been active in the cultivation circles of both Central Province and the Southern Wilds. He had served numerous Earth Rank Experts, respected veterans, and powerful figures, delivering the full quota of pills each time. His outstanding reputation had earned praise and admiration from all quarters.
Huang Zhen possessed his lineage's secret formulas for refining numerous Three-Treasure Elixirs. He also excelled at helping Spirit Tamers refine the various pills needed to strengthen Spirit Creatures through fusion refinement, making him precisely the right Pill Way expert to handle the Taotie origin this time.
Huang Zhen had already been booked to refine pills for an elder of the Lin Family of Mountain City in Central Province, one of the Five Great Aristocratic Clans. Nevertheless, because of the cooperative relationship between the Azure Cloud Sect and the Pill Sect, he had set aside his work and hurried over.
The Pill Sect could hardly have been more cooperative this time. Aside from