"Finally, I'm here!"
A silhouette appeared in front of a residence which was labbled as following,
"Elder Jian Hu's Residence"
This was naturally Shen Wang, even though he was reading, Shen also kept a close watch on how much time had passed based on the sun's positioning.
Clocks did not exist in this world, as far as Shen had seen at least.
In the previous few hours, Shen had mugged up the names of thousands of spiritual herbs.
It was largely thanks to the fastened speed of thinking which he had recieved from the Dao Transcending Consiousness Tempering Art.
Thus, Shen had more time to digest the information that his mind consumed which fastened his speed of remembering things.
"It seems that awakening the meridians in my mind has improved my mind as well."
"Maybe not just that, the Vital Lotus Breathwork has also strengthened my brain, after all Brain itself is a form of muscle."
This was just a guess but seeing the enhanced retaining of memories, Shen thought that his assumstion was most likely true.
Followed by a deep breath, Shen started speaking.
"Elder Jian Hu, I am Shen Wang, an outer sect disciple who wishes to follow your guidance as your assistant!"
In a few moments, some lotus servants appeared and let Shen inside the residence.
Elder Jian Hu's residence was at least a hundred times bigger and more lavish than Shen Wang's, it was just like a grand palace.
After all, not only was he a peak foundation establishment cultivator, he was also an alchemist.
"Even when I use the entirety of his effects and amplified them to the extreme, my strength only increases to about the middle of the foundation establishment realm."
Be it regeneration, resistance, strength, speed and so fourth, Elder Jian Hu completely dominated Shen Wang in every aspect.
"Even if I use creative mode, I can only become immune to physical attacks, not spiritual.." Shen held a bittler smile on his face.
Minecraft Cheats, even though it sounded amazing, it fell short compared to the majesty of cultivators.
Amplifications could only be applied to a mortal level, so if a human had fire resistance, amplifying it by 255 times gave them a quantitative change.
Sigh, while walking Shen sighed inwardly.
Cultivation was the only true path to gain true power.
[Ding!]
[No need to worry host, the system will strengthen you and accompany you!]
Shed didn't respond, instead kept walking behind the Lotus Servants.
After a few minutes, they reached in front of a closed door.
"Sir Shen Wang, Lord Jian Hu is present inside, please use your own strength to open the door, we bid you good luck," The Lotus Servants spoke in unison and retreated after giving Shen Wang a deep bow.
"A test?" Shen looked at the door and put his hands against it and started pushing.
As soon as his hands touched the door's frame, Shen felt his qi being drained from his body.
His muscles started to loose strength and fatigue started to accumulate in his mind.
"Arrrghhhhh!" Shen pushed more and more.
Sparks of thunder started to emit around Shen's body as the pressure increased in direct proportions.
"Huff.... Huff...."
Shen couldn't take it anymore and retracted his hands, his body started sweating from over-exertion and his legs became shaky.
"To think that you, a mere Qi Condensation realm disciple could withstand this door's formation," A deep imposing voice came from the closed room.
Shen was silent albeit his rugged breathing.
"Don't feel dejected, this was not a test which was meant to be passed anyways," The voice continued.
"You need to be at least a peak foundation establishment cultivator to open this door."
"You withstood the pressure far longer than the threshold that I set, Congratulations, you've passed the first test to becoming my Alchemy assistant."
At this moment, Shen cupped his fists and spoke.
"Thank You Elder Jian Hu!"
Followed by the end of their conversations, the door started to slowly open.
The door was quite huge, almost five times the size of a normal human being.
Thus, the door started to slowly open as light emitted from the door, showing the figure of a middle aged man with long black hair.
It was Elder Jian Hu!
"Greetings Elder!"
"Urgh.... Shen Wang.... when was the last time you took a bath?"
Shen Wang " ....."
"You smell like alchemy pills and feces."
"I apologise Elder Jian Hu, I had been given meridian repair pill by Elder Huang and for the foul smell, that is because my residence is near "the pigs"..." Shen showed a helpless expression on his face.
"Then why didn't you detoxify the stench on you, aren't you supposed to be knowledgable about alchemy if you want to be my assistant?"
'Sh*t!'
Shen felt a sense of crisis, his first impression was bad!
If he didn't do anything about it, he could forget about getting a method to cleanse the physical medicinal stench from his adobe, the clock was already ticking, time was of crucial essence to him!
"Elder please help me!"
Shen immidiately started to kowtow and started pleading.
"Elder I memorized many spiritual herbs and read countless books about alchemy from the Sect's library, although I'm lacking, I will do anything to prove that I'm worthy of being your assistant!"
"Sect's library? Haha, that's just surface level knowledge, that can be found in the first twenty or so pages of a true alchemy booklet!"
"Even if you memorized those hundrends of spiritual herbs and looked at some beginner level alchemy guide, how could you possibly assist me, who is already a Tier 3 Alchemist!"
Shen's eyes widened as he looked at Elder Jian Hu....
Wasn't he the elder who was immersed in concuting pills in that basement.....
Well...
'Sh*t'
But Shen had not other option, he needed to practice alchemy, otherwise his identity as the pill thief would be out and he would be chased to the ends of the world by the Lake Lotus Sect.
"Elder Jian Hu, please... please let me practice alchemy under you! a...and become your assistant, I assure you that I can learn anything that you give me in just a matter of days, no matter which alchemy book, I'll learn it!"
Jian Hu fell silent, although he couldn't see Shen's face, as he was performing a kowtow, he could faintly hear Shen's sobbing and smell Shen's tears.
Thud*
A thick book fell on Shen's head.
"I'll give you 3 days, if you manage to learn the names of all ten-thousand herbs which are mentioned in this, I'll consider using you as an assistant."
Jian Hu's voice was deep and cold, but carried within it a warm tone.
Shen's teary eyes shined like diamonds as he looked at Elder Jian Hu who had already started to close the door.
Thus, Shen picked up the heavy book and started to leave.
"You are not allowed to carry that book, if you want to study it then sit in front of the door and do it."
Shen Wang "..."
In just a few moments, the door closed again as the surroundings fell silent.
It wasn't particularly dark there, thus reading the book where it was kept was feasable.
But.....
Shen smiled a little as the crocodile's tears vanished from his eyes.
The book in front of him was somewhat of an extended version of one of the copies of the books that he had.
Shen immidiately sat down and started to flip through the pages.
Dao Transcending Conscious Terpering Art!
Maximum thinking speed!