The system favors me so much, I get eight meals a day while escaping from famine

Jiang Qingyi stood aside without saying anything. After weighing the pros and cons, she decided to agree. She immediately knelt in front of Si Xiu, holding a cup of tea from the space in her hand, "Master, please accept your disciple's greetings."

Si Xiu was indeed very satisfied with Jiang Qingyi as his disciple. He took the tea from her without any embarrassment and said, "Okay, from today on, you are my last disciple."

Jiang Qingyi stood up from the ground and said bluntly, "Master, what's the gift?"

Si Xiu sighed, "I didn't expect you were such a money-grubber."

Jiang Qingyi said shamelessly, "After all, I'm not from here, I don't have much money, and I'm very stingy when buying things."

Si Xiu directly threw a storage bag to her and said, "Here, spend it as you like."

"Thank you, Master."

"And here is this ID card. Take it and drip your blood to identify yourself as the owner."

"Okay, Master, can you give me anything else?"

"No, don't even think about it. I have things to do in the academy. I have to go back. Do you want to go back with me?"

"No, I will go to see the master after I pass the test."

"It's up to you then. Just be careful out there."

After Si Xiu left, Jiang Qingyi was still a little dazed. How did she suddenly have a master out of nowhere? This was really...

Jiang Qingyi returned to the inn in a low-key manner. Before she went upstairs, she heard someone in the lobby say, "Have you heard? The Pharmacist Union has produced a 19-year-old fifth-level alchemist. Who is this person? Even if he has been practicing since his mother's womb, he can't be so powerful, right?"

"What? Where did you get this information? It's definitely not true. The most talented alchemist in Zhongzhou, Master Fuchen, was only able to refine a fifth-grade elixir at the age of sixty. Someone who can refine a fifth-grade elixir at the age of nineteen can no longer be called a genius. That's called a pervert."

"It must be true. My eldest aunt's sister's son's son-in-law's cousin's husband works for the Pharmacists' Union. Their inside information must be correct."

"So what? No matter how talented or abnormal a person is, he can't appear in a place like this. It's impossible to find him to make medicine."

"That's true, but it would be good to meet such a talented person. Maybe we can get to know each other better."

"..."

The genius (pervert) they were talking about, Jiang Qingyi, was passing by and even overheard their entire conversation.

Jiang Qingyi felt a little scared when she heard this, because she realized that the protagonist of their topic was herself.

She had only participated in an alchemist assessment, but the fame spread so quickly that she didn't even know she was so amazing.

Jiang Qingyi ran upstairs and rushed into her room. She decided not to go out for a while, for fear of being found.

The next morning, Qiao Manni knocked on Jiang Qingyi's door. "Qingyi, didn't you go to the Pharmacist Union yesterday? Did you see the 19-year-old alchemist? What did he look like?"

Jiang Qingyi quickly covered her mouth and pulled her into the room.

"Um, um, what's wrong?" Qiao Manni asked nervously.

Jiang Qingyi pretended to cough twice to clear her throat, "Is it possible that the 19-year-old alchemist you heard about is me?"

Qiao Manni was stunned for a moment before she waved her hands and said, "Oh, Qingyi, stop joking. You look about the same age as me. Even if you are an alchemist, you can't be a fifth-grade alchemist...right..."

Jiang Qingyi looked at Qiao Manni with a sincere expression, and she didn't say anything.

Qiao Manni felt a little uneasy. She took a step back and looked at Jiang Qingyi, then asked tremblingly, "Old Swan, it can't be you, right?"

Jiang Qingyi took out the remaining Tianyuan Pill and handed it to Qiao Manni, "Here, this is the one left from yesterday. I saved it for you."

"What...what?"

"Tianyuan Pill, didn't you want it before?"

Qiao Manni quickly took it, opened the lid and smelled it, "Ah~ah~ah~it's actually real. How lucky am I to have a friend who is a fifth-grade alchemist."

Jiang Qingyi covered Qiao Manni's mouth in panic, "My little ancestor, please keep your voice down, just keep it to yourself, don't shout it everywhere."

Qiao Manni blinked and nodded frantically, indicating that she would not tell anyone about this.

Jiang Qingyi put her hand down and sat on the chair casually. "By the way, Nini, what do you want to talk to me about?"

Qiao Manni also sat down. "I just wanted to share some gossip with you. I didn't expect you to be right next to me. But to be honest, I thought you were about my age, but you're only nineteen."

"You look about twenty years old, not much different from me."

"Thank you, I'm three hundred and twenty-five years old." Qiao Manni didn't mind telling her age at all.

Jiang Qingyi was silent. She didn't know what to say. Being in the world of immortal cultivation, she should be used to this situation.

Maybe those people who look very young are actually old monsters who are hundreds or thousands of years old. The situation in Zhongzhou should be even more serious.

Thinking of this, Jiang Qingyi said, "It's not a big problem. We are still sisters anyway. Don't try to secretly increase your seniority."

Now it was Qiao Manni's turn to be speechless. "What are you thinking? I don't even have a Taoist partner now. We must be sisters. I'm not happy if you want me to be your junior."

As she spoke, she took out another spiritual card from her storage bag, "Qingyi, give me your spiritual card."

"What?"

"Here are the spirit stones for you. Tianyuan Pills are in short supply and I can't find a place to buy them even if I want them. I'd be very grateful if you could leave one for me. I can't just take it for myself."

Jiang Qingyi felt that the purpose of getting along with friends was not to take advantage of others, so she took out the spiritual card that Si Xiu had given her before and said, "Just give me 500,000."

"Row."

Qiao Manni used her own card to transfer 500,000 spirit stones to Jiang Qingyi's card, and then returned the card to Jiang Qingyi.

"Qingyi, what are your plans for the future?"

"Plans? I don't have any plans. I originally wanted to sell pills at the trading house after getting the alchemist badge, but now I have the spirit stones you gave me, so it doesn't seem so necessary. I'll just practice in the inn and wait for the Brahma Academy to start recruiting students."

"I think so too. With this Tianyuan Pill, my cultivation should be able to go a step further. Then we can practice on our own and go out later."

"Well, that's it."

Qiao Manni was in a good mood and took the Tianyuan Pill back to the next room, while Jiang Qingyi closed the door and entered the space.

After reaching the Spirit Transformation Stage, Jiang Qingyi felt that her cultivation was obviously not as fast as before. The spiritual power she gained from her daily practice was like a drop of water poured into the ocean, failing to cause the slightest ripple.

Although the speed of cultivation has slowed down, Jiang Qingyi still insists on practicing every day. She firmly believes that little by little, it adds up to a lot, otherwise these cultivators will not become stronger.

Before she started practicing, Jiang Qingyi asked the system to remind her after fifty days, for fear that she would miss the enrollment period for Brahma Academy due to being immersed in practice.