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Chapter 307: The Evergreen Lineage
"Na."
The Five-Qi Vine drew close to Chen Beiwu. The five-colored flower atop its head bloomed, revealing the little sprite within its stamens.
Chen Beiwu smiled at the sight and let the Five-Qi Vine nuzzle against him.
"How about leaving this Medicine Field in your care from now on?" he suggested.
"Na."
The Five-Qi Vine nodded without hesitation, indicating that it was an expert at growing medicinal herbs.
Leaving the Medicine Field and returning to the Green Bamboo Courtyard, Chen Beiwu pushed open the bamboo hut that housed the alchemy room.
The alchemy room was furnished with extreme simplicity: just a low table, a pill furnace, an alchemy pool, and three meditation cushions.
"What do you think? Does anything need changing?" Chen Beiwu looked at Iron Egg.
He knew nothing about alchemy, so he sought an expert's opinion.
Iron Egg did not answer directly. Instead, he walked over to sniff the pill furnace, then extended a paw and tentatively stirred its alchemical fire.
"Woof." Iron Egg nodded in satisfaction.
The furnace and alchemy pool inside the Alchemy Room were both third-tier Dharma treasures, far superior to the spiritual-artifact pill furnace in the Southern Wasteland Sect's Formation Hall.
If he settled down here for a while and focused on alchemy, he might fully enter the ranks of third-tier treasure pill masters.
"As long as you're satisfied."
Chen Beiwu nodded slightly, his eyes meeting Golden Egg's.
Golden Egg instinctively looked away.
Fighting and magical combat were his forte.
But alchemy, farming, talisman crafting, and artifact refining were all beyond him. He had not a single respectable accomplishment among the hundred cultivation arts.
"As for you, Golden Egg, your task is rather demanding. You'll need to work with me to switch to cultivating the 'Primordial Origin Cavern