Chapter 689: Seeking Jing Yan’s Help to Refine
Take Jing Yan as a disciple?
What a joke!
It was true that after the Alchemy Ceremony ended, Hu Donghe had indeed planned to take Jing Yan as his disciple. After all, at that time, Jing Yan was only a Sixth-level Alchemist, and the gap between him and Hu Donghe, the Great Alchemist King, was substantial.
However, once Jing Yan provided a piece of Alchemy information that allowed Hu Donghe to soon afterward advance further on the Alchemy Dao and refine Perfect Quality Elixirs, the idea of taking Jing Yan as his disciple was never again entertained.
And over the years, especially a while ago in Donglin City, Hu Donghe had many exchanges with Jing Yan on the Alchemy Dao. Just a few months of interaction had made Hu Donghe unable to resist the desire to take Jing Yan as his master.
Hu Donghe was very clear that Jing Yan’s ability on the Alchemy Dao was now entirely above his own. To refine Ninth-level Elixirs was as easy for Jing Yan as eating and drinking.
Because Hu Donghe’s relationship with Jing Yan had grown closer, Jing Yan had sincerely pointed Hu Donghe in the right direction on the Alchemy Dao and had not deliberately concealed his Alchemy skills. Consequently, Hu Donghe knew that Jing Yan could even refine Ninth-level Elixirs of Perfect Quality.
Knowing this, Hu Donghe felt that if Jing Yan was really willing to take him on, then he would be truly able to set aside his pride and loyally become Jing Yan’s disciple. He had even expressed this wish to Jing Yan but was rejected.
"Third Hall Master, you misunderstand. I’m not qualified to take Jing Yan as a disciple," Hu Donghe said with a wry smile.
"Jing Yan isn’t your disciple?" The Third Hall Master, upon hearing this, immediately felt relieved.
The expressions of the other Hall Masters also returned to normal.
However, they were all somewhat curious as to why Hu Donghe said he was not qualified to take Jing Yan as a disciple; this was obviously a bit peculiar.