Generally, cultivators assigned to places with impoverished spiritual veins like Yellow Bamboo Island were mostly those with no hope on the path to immortality and no backing within the sect.
In truth, they were the very bottom of the sect's lowest ranks.
Their existence was like that of ants, often overlooked or even disdained.
Thus, they usually would not take the initiative to provoke disciples of the General Affairs Hall, much less make any additional requests.
Qing Chen, however, was an exception.
This made Li Feiyu regard him more highly and treat him with a little more courtesy.
As for why Qing Chen insisted on bringing Su Zixuan along, it stemmed from an experience five years earlier.
At the time, as his magical power circulated, it inadvertently entered the meridians within Su Zixuan's body, and he discovered, to his astonishment, that she possessed a mid-grade wood-fire spiritual root!
Wood nurtured fire, making this an excellent aptitude for pill concoction and artifact refining.
She could certainly be called "promising material," with some value for cultivation and use.
Qing Chen immediately took the introductory manuals on the hundred cultivation arts that he had collected from Outer Disciple Peak;
-such as Basic Talisman Diagrams, Rough Guide to Artifact Refining, and Introduction to the Hundred Herbs, and tossed them all to Su Zixuan for her to study on her own.
After observing her for several months, Qing Chen found that her talent in pill concoction, artifact refining, and even talisman crafting was mediocre, and she had little interest in them either.
Just as he was feeling somewhat disappointed, he unexpectedly noticed that Su Zixuan displayed an extraordinary fascination with the few jade slips containing basic formation knowledge.
She would often sit motionless for an entire day studying a simple "Spirit-Gathering Formation Pattern" or "Protective