It's impressive to have this much on the first try.

Faced with the fact that he was stopped.

Ye Shu did not feel any anger, nor did he hold any resentment, because all of this was within his expectations.

Danxia would never let him kill Lin Qingxue.

He simply asked faintly, "How many breaths are left?"

"What?"

"Ghost possession."

Ghost possession? What kind of crappy name is that? Danxia's mouth twitched, but she still responded, "Ten breaths."

Almost the moment Danxia's voice fell, Ye Shu's figure suddenly vanished from his spot.

Just as Lin Qingxue was wondering where he went.

Ten breaths later.

Splash...

Demonic beasts, countless low level demonic beasts fell from the sky, as if it was raining demonic beasts, scattering and piling up by the riverbank.

Ye Shu returned to Danxia's side, a pile of demonic cores at his feet. He looked at Danxia and said faintly:

"These are enough for my alchemy practice."

Danxia stared blankly at the young man before her, only feeling that he seemed to have become a different person, becoming cold and ruthless.

She felt they did not seem like a master and disciple who had spent fifteen years together.

Instead, they seemed like... strangers.

He didn't even... ask her why she stopped him.

"Why don't you ask me why I stopped you from killing this girl?"

"If I asked, would you let me kill her?"

"..."

Danxia fell silent.

Ye Shu said no more, only silently lifting Lin Qingxue from the ground and carrying her on his back, walking step by step toward the cabin.

Xiaobai followed beside him, several times wanting to approach, but then shrinking back timidly.

Seeing her like this, Ye Shu smiled faintly at her.

"Am I scary?"

"N-no, I just... was frightened."

Xiaobai's voice was a bit low. She really was frightened just now. That murderous look in his eyes... She had always thought Ye Shu was a carefree, heartless fool, but his performance just now...

He was simply like a desperado.

"I'm really sorry for scaring you."

Ye Shu casually tossed Lin Qingxue onto the ground, plopped himself down on the soft bed, and smiled as he opened his arms to Xiaobai.

Looking at those open arms, Xiaobai hesitated for a moment.

Eventually, she took a step with her short little legs and threw herself into Ye Shu's embrace, burying her small head into his chest, her voice carrying a rare hint of crying.

"You... you scared me to death... I really thought... thought you were going to kill someone... Your expression just now was so scary, it was like you became a different person..."

Ye Shu gently patted her back, soothing her little emotions.

He could tell that although his own Heavenly Dao was called a Heavenly Dao, her intelligence was entirely that of a child.

After a long time, Xiaobai slowly raised her head and choked out:

"You... you promise me, you are not allowed to scare people like this anymore. I am timid and easily frightened."

She sniffled, speaking aggrievedly.

Hearing this, Ye Shu rubbed her little head and smiled, "I won't do it again."

Walking through the door, Danxia was slightly stunned when she saw this scene.

In her eyes, she could only see Ye Shu petting a patch of thin air, chuckling foolishly, no different from a madman with schizophrenia.

This made her feel a faint sense of guilt in her heart.

Betrayed by his most beloved master, and then inexplicably hunted down, was the psychological pressure on this child already this great?

That's right...

Danxia smiled bitterly.

To some extent, she and Ye Shu could be considered fellow sufferers. In the previous life, he betrayed her, and in this life, she was going to kill him.

Even though she had lived through so many years and experienced so many joys and sorrows of parting and reunions.

But the despair of being abandoned by the world was suffocating just thinking about it.

Not to mention for this child who had just turned twenty?

Just as Danxia was immersed in the past.

Ye Shu had already calmed Xiaobai's emotions. He stood up, and as he passed by Lin Qingxue, he kicked out, knocking her unconscious just as she attempted to crawl out the door. Then he looked at Danxia, slightly cupped his hands, and revealed a smile, saying:

"Master, please teach me alchemy."

Although it was a smile, it held no compassion.

His tone was respectful, finding no fault.

But falling into Danxia's ears, it made her feel even more stifled, because just the day before, her own disciple was still lying on the grass, holding a piece of foxtail grass in his mouth, looking at the starry sky, and happily bragging.

"Master, don't worry, with my skills."

"A three year agreement? Three years? Let alone defeating that Li Qingran from the Li family, one year! In one year, I will be invincible across the world, and I'll mold a body for you out of sand with one hand."

"You rascal, is your master not worth you using good materials?"

"Using garbage materials to refine the best things, isn't that what shows my skill? As the saying goes, sending a goose feather from a thousand miles away, the gift is light but the sentiment is heavy."

"You brat, you just won't give your master anything good."

"Asking for a beating!"

"Ouch! Master, I was wrong, stop hitting me!"

.......

"Master?"

"Master?"

"Danxia!"

It wasn't until Ye Shu gave a loud shout that Danxia snapped out of her past memories. She glanced at Ye Shu, her eyes looking wronged and timid, carrying seven parts guilt, five parts pain, and three parts indescribable resentment...

This single glance made Ye Shu shudder.

He trembled all over and almost hid out the door.

Damn it, he actually saw a look of a resentful woman in those phoenix eyes. Even if it was just a little bit, he genuinely caught it.

Good heavens, this world's plot actually had a bit of female protagonist romance mixed in.

After a moment, Danxia gathered her thoughts and said faintly:

"Before this, you have already memorized the alchemy encyclopedia. What you lack now is only the alchemy steps and practice. As an alchemist, the most important thing is to have 'fire'. Spiritual fire is the key to extracting medicinal liquid from spiritual plants and demonic beasts. Without fire, there is no alchemy."

She reached out her hand, and a wisp of flame ignited on her fingertip.

"Take out the alchemy furnace. Since you have just entered cultivation, use your master's Nether Ice Flame to transition for now."

Ye Shu nodded and took out the alchemy furnace from his storage ring.

"Do exactly as I say." Danxia gently came behind him, stretched out her illusory hands, and loosely cupped them over Ye Shu's wrists, guiding his spiritual energy to flow into the array patterns of the alchemy furnace at a specific frequency.

The Nether Ice Flame was indeed worthy of being one of the strange fires.

Medicinal herbs that would normally take hours to boil were refined instantly into medicinal liquid with just a light touch.

"The spiritual energy must be steady and slow. The important thing is that there can be no fluctuations; you must maintain a strange balance."

"First, put in the Heart Clearing Grass..."

Ye Shu held his breath and concentrated, following Danxia's words one by one.

Before long, Ye Shu gave a low shout.

"Condense!"

Inside the alchemy furnace, two round and translucent light green pills emitting a faint medicinal fragrance lay quietly there.

Although he succeeded on the first try.

There were only two pills, and they had no pill patterns.

Ye Shu was obviously somewhat disappointed with this result.

Because according to records, the upper limit for a perfect furnace opening was four pills, plus three pill patterns.

One pill pattern could increase the medicinal efficacy by thirty percent.

But he didn't even have a single pill pattern.

Danxia obviously also saw Ye Shu's disappointment. She sighed softly, rubbed his hair with her illusory hand, and comforted him.

"For a first attempt, this is already quite impressive."