Cultivation: From Servant to Revered Immortal

Chapter 202: Chapter 132: First Meeting with Master White Cloud!

After a moment, the guard respectfully returned the token to Zhou Xun.

”Honored Guest Elder Zhou, please!”

Zhou Xun nodded and then walked into White Cloud Mountain.

Following the Han White Marble steps upwards, he walked for about the time an incense stick burns, reaching the mountainside and stopping in front of a simply designed cave mansion.

This was the cave mansion of the Chief Steward Zhou Buqi.

With a light chuckle, Zhou Xun took out a sound transmission talisman, whispered a few words, and then threw it towards the cave mansion ahead.

After a moment, an elderly man with dignified presence emerged.

It was indeed the Chief Steward Zhou Buqi.

”Greetings to the Chief Steward!”

Seeing this person, Zhou Xun cupped his hands in respect.

”Haha, Honored Guest Elder Zhou’s visit is a rare occasion, please come inside!”

He gestured with his hand towards the interior of the cave mansion.

Zhou Xun, without hesitation, walked inside.

Zhou Buqi’s cave mansion was extremely simple, without any unnecessary decorations.

As soon as they entered the reception hall, Zhou Buqi couldn’t wait to speak:

”You mentioned in your letter that you have advanced to a Tier Two High-Grade Alchemist, is this true?”

”It is indeed true, how could Zhou Mou dare deceive the Chief Steward!” Zhou Xun nodded.

Then he took out the Tier Two High-Grade Qi Recovery Pill he refined, and handed it to Zhou Buqi.

Zhou Buqi took the elixir bottle, pulled out the stopper directly, and poured out a milky white elixir, examining it carefully in his palm.

Then he sniffed it with his nose.

After checking it several times back and forth, he slapped his thigh and clapped his hands in laughter:

”Hahaha, it is indeed a Tier Two High-Grade Qi Recovery Pill, I have not misjudged you!”

”Honored Guest Elder Zhou, you are about to achieve a great merit!”

”How so?” Zhou Xun was a bit puzzled; wasn’t he just assisting in alchemy?

”You don’t know, this matter is of utmost importance to our White Cloud Immortal City!” Zhou Buqi was full of excitement, completely unlike his usual authoritative demeanor as the Chief Steward of the Immortal City.

Instead, he resembled a child who had received a reward.

”Come, you will go with me to see our master!” With his mood slightly calmed, Zhou Buqi no longer had any thought of making small talk with Zhou Xun, grabbing his arm to go outside.

Zhou Xun had no choice but to follow Zhou Buqi’s steps and leave quickly.

Leaving the cave mansion, they continued up the Han White Marble steps, walking for about the time two incense sticks burn, reaching the summit of White Cloud Mountain in front of a huge stone wall.

The stone wall towered a hundred zhang high.

A stone plaque above, roughly a zhang in size, had the words ”Qingshui Cave” inscribed on it.

This place was where Master White Cloud’s cave mansion was located.

Strangely, aside from the words ”Qingshui Cave,” there was no trace of a cave mansion, with no entrance in sight.

Only to see Zhou Buqi take out a sound transmission talisman, whisper a few sentences, and then throw it towards the stone wall.

With a ”whoosh” sound, the transmission talisman turned into a streak of fire, directly vanishing into the stone wall.

Zhou Xun then realized that the stone wall was an illusion array, hiding the entrance of the original cave mansion, merging it with the stone wall.

In a moment, a strange fluctuation came from the stone wall, then the stone wall slowly disappeared, revealing a doorway about a zhang in size.

Soon after, a few ”rumbling” sounds emerged, and the stone door opened inward automatically, revealing a passage about a zhang wide.

”You may come in now!”

An aged voice reached Zhou Xun’s ears, as if coming from beyond the nine heavens.

Giving Zhou Xun a start.

”Come, walk in with me!”

Zhou Xun, not yet fully recovered, was pulled by Zhou Buqi into the passage.

Passing through the stone door, into the passage.

Instantly, a rich spiritual qi enveloped Zhou Xun, its concentration close to Tier Three High-Grade level.

The top of the passage was inlaid with numerous moonstones, making the entire passage as bright as day.

At the same time, the sound of flowing water came to his ears.

Through the passage, around a corner, the view suddenly opened up.

Pavilions, water terraces, carved beams and painted rafters, lotus flowers and swimming fish.

It turned out to be a Jiangnan water town garden inside the mountain itself.

And the sound of flowing water Zhou Xun heard was from an underground stream in the north of the stone hall.

It puzzled Zhou Xun, how an underground stream existed in this place at the summit of White Cloud Mountain.

The stream was channeled into the stone hall, forming this pool covering an area of a hundred zhang.

The lotus flowers planted in the pool were all Tier Two Calm Heart Lotus, with many spirit fish swimming around.

”What a truly extravagant place!” Zhou Xun exclaimed.

Meanwhile, in a pavilion at the center of the water terrace, an elder was drinking a cup of spirit tea alone.

Upon seeing this person, Zhou Buqi took quick steps forward, crossing the arch bridge to the pavilion, with a respectful attitude, bowing deeply.

”Disciple greets Master!”

Zhou Xun also cupped his hands in salute:

”Junior Zhou Xun, greets Master White Cloud!”

”What’s with all the formalities for seeing an old man like me!” Master White Cloud said with a cheerful laugh.

Soon after, Zhou Xun felt a gentle uplifting force lifting him up lightly.

Gentle yet irresistible.

Zhou Xun was secretly astounded, was this the ability of a True Pill Cultivator!

”So you are Zhou Xun, you certainly have a remarkable appearance, in terms of demeanor, you are not at all inferior to Huai’an!”

The elder looked Zhou Xun over a few times with interest.

Zhou Xun then raised his head, seeing the elder in front of him clearly.

The person before him had greying hair, a thin build, slightly prominent cheekbones, and dark skin, resembling an old farmer.

However, his eyes were exceedingly shrewd, having a glow that seemed to see through the ages.

”Senior overpraises, how could this junior compare to Daoist Xing!” Zhou Xun replied modestly.

Xing Huai’an, Master White Cloud’s youngest disciple, exceptionally gifted and renowned in White Cloud Immortal City for his grace.

Many fairies have secretly harbored feelings for him.

”Hahaha, you have a cautious and prudent nature, not bad, only by being so can a Loose Cultivator walk further!”

The elder seemed to recall something, revealing a look of reminiscence.

Then he glanced at Zhou Xun again, slowly speaking:

”I heard from Buqi, you come from a Loose Cultivator background, with extraordinary talent in alchemy, becoming a Tier Two Middle-Grade Alchemist by your thirties, I have lived over four hundred years, and have only seen five such talented individuals as you.”

”Among those five, two have become Tier Three Middle-Grade Alchemists, and three have become Tier Three Low-Grade Alchemists!”

”You too have the potential to become a Tier Three Alchemist in the future!” Master White Cloud’s eyes gleamed.

As if looking at a rare treasure.

”Junior has no higher aspirations, becoming a Tier Two High-Grade Alchemist is consolation enough for life!” Zhou Xun replied carefully.

”Haha, young man, you’re not being honest, though you only have a Middle-Grade Spiritual Root, at sixty years of age you are already at Middle-Stage Foundation Establishment Cultivation, in the future you may have a chance to reach Core Formation!”

”Thank you for your kind words, Senior!” Zhou Xun cupped his hands in respect.

”Since Buqi brought you here, you must already know the matter at hand. I am to refine a pill, sadly my attainment in the Alchemy Dao is insufficient to complete it alone,”

”Therefore I require the assistance of three Tier Two High-Grade Alchemists, two have already been found, and you are the third we have chosen!”

Master White Cloud slowly opened his mouth.

”It is my fortune to be favored by Senior’s regard!” Zhou Xun replied respectfully.

”This pill is extremely important to me, even as an assistant, it requires understanding in the Alchemy Dao, therefore I will test you a bit,”

As he spoke, he patted a storage bag, a few spirit lights flashed, and a large pile of spirit medicines appeared on the stone table in front of them.

”These are some of the auxiliary herbs for those pills, you need to process them all within two hours, and then blend them into one essence.”

Zhou Xun looked at these spirit medicines, each was a rare treasure scarcely seen in the outside world.

There were as many as four or five Tier Two Top-Grade and Quasi-Third Tier Spirit Medicines.

”Here?” Zhou Xun asked in surprise.

Merely to assess his level, they took out such rare spirit medicines?

And only to process them, not to refine them into pills.

It was known that once processed, if the medicinal liquid isn’t promptly refined into pills, the medicinal potency would quickly dissipate, turning to waste.

And he clearly saw, these spirit medicines seemed to be part of the auxiliary herbs for refining a Crystal Condensing Pill, the medicinal liquid he processed seemed to be exactly a step in making the Crystal Condensing Pill.

”Could it be that Master White Cloud intends to refine a Crystal Condensing Pill?” Zhou Xun dared to speculate.

He couldn’t help but feel his heart pounding.

This was the best auxiliary item for breaking through to Core Formation.

Such a treasure, in any sect of the Eastern Wilderness, would probably be an utmost core treasure.

Now he actually had the chance to come into contact with the refining of this pill.

”Is there a chance to get my hands on one?” Zhou Xun couldn’t help but entertain a bold thought.

But he quickly overturned it.

In the presence of a True Pill Cultivator, where would he find the opportunity.

While feeling melancholic, Master White Cloud’s voice interrupted his thoughts.