Rise of the Alchemy God

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Deciding to ignore the girl, he gave a respectful salute toward the woman seated at the table.

"The disciple greets the sect master."

He said, bringing his right hand, clenched into a fist, to his left hand, which was open and wrapped around the fist, performing a slight bow forward.

The sect master nodded in acknowledgment and, for a moment, said nothing, simply watching him.

Having completed the salute, Ethan didn't know where to look, as the other party neither spoke nor reacted.

Just as the silence was becoming heavy for him, the sect master spoke, uttering a brief and simple phrase:

"Do you wish to become my direct disciple?" she asked with a calm expression.

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Hearing this, Ethan's brain momentarily froze.

'Become a direct disciple? Did she mispronounce the words?

Perhaps this is a new way of saying that one has been promoted to a disciple thrown out of the sect?

Ethan's mind embarked on a long, endless journey in search of the hidden meaning behind those words.

If it hadn't been for Bai Yu, who decided to pull him out of his thoughts, he might have continued indefinitely, like a computer program endlessly reprocessing an instruction due to an error.

Seeing that Ethan wasn't responding, Xiang Hua, who stood next to the sect master, had an even worse impression of him.

She remembered Ethan very well as she had been present on the day of the slave auction.

Having been taken under the sect master's wing since she was young, she held a great respect for her.

She almost revered her.

Therefore, when she learned that the disciple who had been invited to the sect was making no progress, it left her with a very poor impression of him.

The sect master had informed her that she intended to take a new direct disciple.

In other words, her second direct disciple after her.

She wasn't sure how to feel about it, but she thought that having a junior might not be so bad.

Who would have imagined that the disciple her master wanted to take under her wing would be this guy?

Her impression of him was already quite bad, and seeing that he didn't even thank the sect master for the opportunity being offered only further irritated her.

She wanted to say something but refrained from doing so.

She didn't want to lose her temper in front of the sect master.

Eventually, Ethan shook himself out of his thoughts after a few seconds, and to avoid wasting more time, he immediately responded:

"The disciple is honored to receive this offer," he said, performing another half-bow with his hands clasped in respect.

Ethan wanted to ask why he had been suddenly asked to become a direct disciple, but he knew it was better not to ask such questions right now.

Not with the girl next to him, who seemed to be even more irritated towards him.

'Does she have some kind of problem?

Why does she seem angrier than before?' he wondered, puzzled by Xiang Hua's mood swings.

Feng Huang, seeing him accept, nodded in satisfaction with his response.

She preferred people who were direct, who didn't beat around the bush when speaking.

"Good, now that you've become my disciple, naturally, the treatment you receive will be different," she said, pulling out a small jade talisman from her dimensional ring and making it float toward him.

"With this, you can request a certain amount of resources from the sect's treasure pavilion every month, and for any resource-related needs, you can make a request to the elders of the sect," she explained.

"Of course, there are other benefits to having this, but for those, you can ask Xiang Hua later," she said, pointing to the girl next to her.

Seeing her, Ethan shivered at the thought of his future.

He had decided he would stay as far away as possible from this girl.

In the end, the sect master said that he could ask her for any problems related to cultivation, and for the rest, he was free to cultivate on his own.

Throughout the time, he had never asked her about cultivation, but Ethan had the feeling that she probably knew what stage he was at.

That was the only reason he could think of for her to take him as a direct disciple.

He was also given a residence in the inner area of the sect, where the concentration of Qi was much higher than in the area where the outer disciples resided.

Ethan had to admit that there hadn't been much conversation.

Basically, everything could be summed up with a "Yes" and "Thank you."

In the end, he found himself outside the three-story building, with a green jade talisman in hand.

And while Ethan was coming to terms with the events of the day, in another part of the Long Empire, another important meeting was taking place.

Currently, in a grand hall adorned with gold and other precious materials on both sides, a meeting was underway.

At the end of the hall, there was a throne with a high back resting on a raised platform made of seven steps, on which a majestic figure was sitting at the moment.

On the long strip of intense red velvet, richly embroidered, which stretched along the hall from the large entrance door to the steps of the throne, knelt a young man with a valorous appearance, whose eyes matched the color of his golden hair.

He was none other than the Crown Prince Jian.

After the battle with the strange creature at the fifth stage of cultivation, he recovered its corpse and reached his sister, who seemed to have moved to another location in the meantime.

Once reunited with her, he returned to the royal palace, where he requested an audience with the emperor to inform him of the matter.

He knew that his father had surely noticed this being and was waiting for a report on the issue.

The situation with this being was too strange to be ignored.

From the type of creature it was to the strange energy it was using.

Not to mention the portal itself.

After defeating the creature, he investigated the incident, going to the place where its aura first appeared.

Upon arriving at the site, he found everything destroyed and no soul in sight.

The only thing he recovered from that investigation was a strange wooden object, resembling a sword.

He would have ignored it if it were only that, but the energy he felt coming from the object was very similar to that of the monster, so he decided to bring it with him.

He hoped that his father knew something about this,

after all, he was the strongest person in the Long Empire and also one of the people who had lived for almost a millennium.

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FRANK_LEE_JUNIOR:

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See you tomorrow with another chapter.