Yang Yao sighed. "Time is pressing. Deputy Hall Master Xu has ordered you to set out at once, so I have no time to explain in detail. Let me tell you the basics first. Although Chen Fengxiao was a medicine boy from Hui Chun Valley, gifted and diligent in his studies, with abilities in planting and cultivating herbs that surpassed the crowd, he had been young and frail when he first came to the Incense-Passing Cult. He was always envied and often bullied. Valley Master Nie only taught them knowledge of herbs—how could he possibly attend to everything? Thus, while Chen Fengxiao bore a grudge against the other medicine boys of Hui Chun Valley, he came to resent Hui Chun Valley as well. After coming to the Incense-Passing Cult, he gained the chance to practice martial arts and trained bitterly. Perhaps he truly was good material, for he actually developed extraordinary martial skills and nearly succeeded in becoming an outer sect disciple. Of course, if he had not been so impatient and impetuous, and had waited a few more years, he might truly have become an outer sect disciple. But one only gets one chance to advance to the outer sect. Though his martial arts are said to be stronger than those of ordinary outer sect disciples now, he can only remain in the Pill-Refining Hall."
"It was precisely because his martial arts had reached such a level that he became somewhat unruly in the Pill-Refining Hall, especially in how he often bullied medicine boys from Hui Chun Valley. Hall Master had intended to punish him, but seeing how diligent he was, and considering that his difficult childhood had shaped him so, as well as the fact that the Pill-Refining Hall rarely produced anyone outstanding in martial arts, Hall Master