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Feixia Mountain, Rain-Hued Peak.
For at least the coming year, Cheng Xinzhan would remain on Feixia Mountain to draw out Lion's poison and fire up his furnace to refine pills, so Dong Shouren had found him a place in the mountains as a temporary residence.
Rain-Hued Peak stood in the eastern foothills of Feixia Mountain, with the North River at its foot, offering open vistas and delightful scenery.
An elegant courtyard residence on the mountain was called Lush Garden Villa. Cheng Xinzhan was staying there now.
Lion remained unconscious, but his breathing had stabilized. Cheng Xinzhan settled him below the main hall, then spent a long time catching up with Fang Weimin, who had escorted him there.
Fang Weimin had started from lofty heights. He was the son of Purple Mist Mountain's Mountain Lord and a Dao scion of the Golden Core Dao. Gifted from childhood, he had practiced qi ingestion from birth and repeatedly made the sect's Southern Dipper Ranking. Owing to his talent and his connection to Purple Mist Mountain, Deputy Mountain Lord Wan of Cinnabar Glow Mountain had taken him as his final disciple when he was very young and poured his heart and soul into him.
Of course, he had not squandered his talent or family background. Diligent and hardworking, he neglected neither cultivation nor pill refining, studying Internal and External Alchemy together. Now at the Second Wash of Internal Alchemy, he left his peers far behind in External Alchemy. The sect had arranged for him to cultivate at Cult Master Dong's side, and he was regarded as a candidate for the next Mountain Lord of Cinnabar Glow Mountain.
The two talked through the night, until they practiced Gathering Purple together the following morning.
After Gathering Purple, both felt clearheaded and refreshed.