Inner Sect Alchemy Apprentice Disciple

"Alas!" Zhang Xiaohu was consumed by regret. If I'd known accepting this Su Huan Cultivation Method would bring such trouble, why... why did I take it? Greed for petty gains brings great losses! The ancients truly did not deceive me!

Back when Zhang Xiaohu had accepted the Su Huan Cultivation Method and Su Huan Pill, he had only believed that his dantian was ruined and that he was already a useless cripple. Whether he accepted them or not made no difference. He had merely been tempted by a small advantage, intending to give them to Changge if he could not cultivate them himself. Yet later, he had unexpectedly discovered that he could cultivate. So he had gone with the flow and "yielded" to Yi Xiang Peak, practicing the Su Huan Cultivation Method alongside the Misty Divine Art. But... but he had never imagined that this Su Huan Cultivation Method would cost him his identity as a Misty Sect direct lineage disciple!

Although Envoy Mu had made it sound easy—he would merely become Jingxuan's registered disciple, without needing her to personally instruct him from beyond the Nine Springs, and could only receive guidance from a disciple assigned to pass on teachings—once that happened, he would still become the disciple of some elder from Yi Xiang Peak. That would create a barrier between him and his identity in the Misty Sect. If anything beyond his control happened again in the future, it would certainly not be something he wished to see!

But... the second rule of the Incense-Passing Cult's regulations stated it clearly: only fools could refuse to carry out the Cult Master's Edict. Was he a fool? Certainly not. There was no need to mention anything further—he had to obey the Cult Master's Edict!!!

Zhang Xiaohu opened his mouth, yet could