"My name is Chu Yan. The cultivators of the Mountains and Seas Realm were kind enough to honor me with the title of Saint Alchemist."

Even after Luo Chen stepped out from that gate, those words still echoed in his mind with the gentleness of a spring breeze and light rain.

It was no wonder he had felt a sense of closeness the moment he first laid eyes on her. They both hailed from the cultivation world of the Eastern Wilderness, were both alchemists, and had both achieved the remarkable feat of refining fifth-tier pills while at the Nascent Soul Realm. All these similarities gave Luo Chen an instinctive desire to get close to her.

However, certain aspects were outside of his expectations. He had imagined the Saint Alchemist as an elderly, ethereal sage with a flowing white beard, but judging by that projection, she was clearly a delicate young woman.[1]

Of course, from the moment she asked out of the blue if he was capable of refining fifth-tier pills, Luo Chen could never see her as some kind of frail girl. She was, after all, a mighty expert on the brink of rising through the clouds and attaining...