Ch. 1Sun Buxiao with the Porridge Bowl
Sun Buxiao arrived in Wutan City three years before Xiao Yan’s fall from talent and decided to delay befriending him. Instead, he went to the Mittel Auction House to seek Alchemist Gu Ni’s help refining a second-rank pill, and Gu Ni arrived to meet him.
- Sun Buxiao saw Xiao Yan being praised as a One-Star Dou Zhe and realized he had arrived three years too early to approach him.
- Sun Buxiao recalled his past life, his mother’s death, and his rise to Dou Shi with the Porridge Bowl; at sixteen, he was close to becoming a Da Dou Shi.
- Sun Buxiao asked for directions to the Mittel Auction House, intending to find Gu Ni rather than Mittel Ya Fei.
- Sun Buxiao offered the maid gold coins to report that he wanted Gu Ni to refine a second-rank medicinal pill using his own herbs.
- Gu Ni came to meet Sun Buxiao and looked him over skeptically.