Beast Taming: I gained the talent of a spirit pet

After saying goodbye to Situ Yan, Feng Shaojie led Gu Yuan out of the alchemy room.

"Junior Brother, please follow me. Your residence is ready and not far behind."

Feng Shaojie led the way. After witnessing the scene just now, he knew that his master valued Gu Yuan quite a bit, and he put away his underestimation of Gu Yuan.

"Then I'll have to trouble Senior Brother Feng."

Noticing the other party's somewhat complicated gaze, Gu Yuan didn't care much.

"Wait!"

As they went downstairs and passed a long corridor, they were stopped by someone.

The two stopped and looked in the direction of the voice, and saw a middle-aged Taoist with a thin figure and wearing a gray-blue Taoist robe.

Unlike True Monarch Kumu, although this person was thin, he had a broad frame, fluttering sleeves, and a long beard, giving him a somewhat immortal aura.

"Greetings, Uncle Qingmu!"

Feng Shaojie bowed.

Realist Qingmu nodded slightly, then glanced at Gu Yuan, and asked with doubt: "Nephew Feng, what are you doing? Also, who is this person?"

Feng Shaojie respectfully replied: "Replying to Uncle, this is Master Crane Plume's disciple, Junior Brother Gu Yuan. Master has already met Junior Brother Gu, and then asked me to take Junior Brother Gu to his arranged residence."

"Oh?"

Realist Qingmu looked a little surprised, and looked at Gu Yuan: "So you are Master Crane Plume's disciple."

"Disciple greets Uncle!"

Gu Yuan saluted, but sneered in his heart.

Although he had never met this person, he had heard his master, Realist Crane Plume, mention him.

Realist Qingmu is the deputy landlord here, and belongs to the aristocratic family faction.

Unlike Situ Yan, who is always obsessed with alchemy and ignores worldly affairs, Realist Qingmu is enthusiastic about power and controls nearly half of the power of Jade Cauldron Tower in Qiongming Square Market.

With Situ Yan not around, he is the one who calls the shots here.

The key point is that this person is quite hostile to the sect lineage, and has had some friction with Realist Crane Plume, but not as openly opposed as Realist Zixiao.

Moreover, when they first met, Gu Yuan keenly noticed that this person's gaze towards him was subtly surprised, without any sense of unfamiliarity, obviously he had known him for a long time.

"Sure enough, he is a talented person, Master Crane Plume has good eyesight!"

Realist Qingmu stroked his beard, nodded slightly, and smiled. People who didn't know him might have thought he was showing goodwill.

However, Gu Yuan's sword heart was the most敏锐 (mǐnruì - acute, sharp), and he vaguely noticed a森冷 (sēnlěng - cold, ghastly) malice hidden under this person's kind appearance!

"This old thing is definitely ill-intentioned! I have to guard against him a little."

Gu Yuan secretly affirmed in his heart.

On the surface, Gu Yuan exchanged a few polite words with him, and then bid farewell to him with Feng Shaojie and left.

Looking at the backs of Gu Yuan and Feng Shaojie leaving, the smile on Realist Qingmu's face gradually disappeared, becoming cold, with a hint of coldness in his eyes.

"Gu Yuan... Humph!"

...

In the next few days, Gu Yuan began to study "Essentials of Golden Elixir".

It must be said that this alchemy method is indeed profound.

Fortunately, Gu Yuan tamed the spirit pet Caiyun, and also obtained its talent "Thousand Transformations", which has a special sense of the medicinal properties of spirit herbs.

This also makes Gu Yuan have an extremely high talent for alchemy. Learning "Essentials of Golden Elixir" is also easy to handle, and he is not deceived by its various metaphors and alchemical terms.

During this period, Niu Youde, Xia Xiuxue and others also came to visit Gu Yuan's residence once.

Both of them knew very well that the three of them had joined Medicine King Mountain together, and they had all joined the sect lineage, so the three of them naturally belonged to allies.

And Gu Yuan is the leader.

There is no other reason, because Gu Yuan's talent, cultivation, strength, and identity are all sufficient to bear this point.

The sect lineage is already declining, and the three of them can only unite to better protect themselves from being bullied.

The two did not disturb Gu Yuan for too long, said a few words and quickly left.

After sending the two out, Gu Yuan simply went straight to Jade Cauldron Tower.

After comprehending alchemy for many days, he planned to try it himself.

No matter how much or how deeply you learn the principles of pills, it is useless if you don't personally practice alchemy.

"Senior Brother Gu!"

"Greetings, Senior Brother!"

"Junior Brother..."

"..."

When Gu Yuan came to Jade Cauldron Tower, this time many people recognized him and greeted him one after another.

However, Gu Yuan could see that these people seemed polite, but their politeness revealed疏离 (shūlí - estranged, alienated), and some scrutiny.

Among them, there were also many people with hidden防备 (fángbèi - guarded, wary) and hostility.

Gu Yuan didn't care, casually responded, and came to the counter.

Ignoring the probing eyes of some people around, Gu Yuan directly took out a jade slip and said to one of the people in front of the counter:

"These materials, give me ten portions of each."

"Yes!"

The middle-aged manager in front of the counter did not dare to neglect, and quickly checked the information in the jade slip.

"Jade Essence Pill... Qi Supplementing Pill... Spirit Nurturing Pill..."

Seeing the first two kinds of pills, he was still relatively calm. When he saw the Spirit Nurturing Pill and the materials needed to refine the Spirit Nurturing Pill, his face showed a trace of strangeness, and his gaze towards Gu Yuan changed, but he didn't say much.

He just said "Please wait a moment, Junior Brother", then called someone over,吩咐 (fēnfu - instructed, ordered) a few words, and the servant hurried away.

Not long after, the servant hurried back with a storage bag in his hand.

"Junior Brother Gu, here are the things you want. You are an inner disciple, and Landlord Situ has given instructions, so you can get a discount, you only need to pay 40% of the spirit stones, which is 1,600 spirit stones."

The middle-aged manager handed the storage bag containing the spirit herbs to Gu Yuan.

"Junior Brother can check it."

"Thank you."

Gu Yuan was not polite, took it, and probed into it with his spiritual sense. After confirming that it was correct, he paid the spirit stones and turned to leave.

After Gu Yuan left, someone came over to inquire. After learning about the situation, someone嗤笑 (chīxiào - sneered) out loud: "Spirit Nurturing Pill?"

"I'm not surprised that this son wants to learn alchemy, but how many days has he learned it?"

"That Spirit Nurturing Pill is a spirit pill that can nurture spiritual thoughts and even nourish the soul. It is not comparable to Jade Essence Pill and Qi Supplementing Pill. He actually妄想 (wàngxiǎng - presumptuously expect, vainly hope) to refine the Spirit Nurturing Pill, it is really滑天下之大稽 (huá tiānxià zhī dà jī - the world's greatest joke)! Extremely ridiculous!"

"In my opinion, this kid has great ambitions, but he is too arrogant... I have learned alchemy for more than 30 years, and now I am a veteran in the alchemist, and I dare not妄言 (wàngyán - speak presumptuously) that I can refine the Spirit Nurturing Pill, how can he be capable..."

"That's right... The one surnamed Gu is completely異想天開 (yìxiǎngtiānkāi - indulging in fantasy, having a flight of fancy)!"

"Don't say that, I heard that Landlord Situ still values this kid quite a bit."

"I think it should be because of the Ninth Elder's face."

"That makes sense..."

"I want to see, when this kid折腾 (zhēteng - toss about, do something over and over again) for a few months, and ultimately gains nothing, and can't refine a single pill, what will the scene be like..."

"Haha, Senior Brother, now that you say that, I'm looking forward to it."

Many people also followed suit, and were not optimistic about Gu Yuan's alchemy.

More than 70% of the people present were disciples of the aristocratic family faction.

They didn't like Gu Yuan, a sect lineage disciple who had risen to prominence recently, and no matter how they looked at him, they didn't like him.