Daoist Wang was silent and reverent. His eyes glowed with happiness. He looked at Qin Yu, nodding again and again. “I knew that my judgment wouldn’t be wrong. Although you aren’t my disciple, you have studied my alchemy and now my lifetime of knowledge won’t be lost to the river of time. I truly am overjoyed.”

Looking at Daoist Wang and his sincere attitude, Qin Yu felt his heart warm. He cupped his hands together and bowed deeply. “Although I haven’t truly bowed to you as a teacher, in my heart you are already my teacher.”

Daoist Wang flushed red. He laughed, “Good, good! That old fellow Pill Crucible keeps pressuring me all over, but in this aspect he is finally inferior to me. No matter how high his cultivation is, he can only be your senior-apprentice brother.”

Qin Yu smiled. “Since I have taken you as a teacher in my heart, then allow me to give a gift to Senior Wang.”

He turned his hand, producing a jade bottle.

Daoist Wang was shocked. He stared straight towards Qin Yu.

Qin Yu said, “You gifted me your attainments in alchemy, and that was extremely beneficial to me. I specifically refined this pill for senior. It isn’t very useful to me, so I ask that senior accept it. Of course, if you don’t consider a junior like me your student in your heart, then you can also refuse this.”

Daoist Wang took a deep breath. He jokingly said, “Stop trying to use little tricks like this to goad me into accepting. Let me see just what sort of pill you refined to cause such a great stir.”

He took the jade bottle and opened...