The Crazy Son-In-Law

“I’m worried he might attack Master Zhou.” Yang Zinuo said cautiously.

“Mr. Zhou has no enmity with him, I don’t think it will go that far. Besides, Mr. Zhou is a grandmaster of alchemy, if he attacks Mr. Zhou, wouldn’t he be making enemies with the entire cultivation world? If he is seeking death, there is no need to make such a big fuss.” Haitang said confidently.

“Alright.”

Yang Zinuo was not as calm and composed as Haitang. Her tone was somewhat helpless. To be safe, she still instructed the Old School Society members below to be vigilant and specifically assigned two of them to follow Xiao Shun, to prevent him from doing anything out of line and to respond at the first moment.

The Old School Society members she had arranged to guard Xiao Shun were all high-level cultivators brought over by Haitang from the headquarters, but she was still vaguely uneasy.

Under the “escort” of the two high-level cultivators, Xiao Shun walked to the center of the venue in front of Zhou Tianheng.

“Hey, isn’t that the man? He’s an alchemist?”

At this moment, Wenyan saw Xiao Shun appear on the big screen above the hall, and said in surprise.

“Does he look like an alchemist with that shabby appearance? Only someone like Mr. Zhou is called an alchemist. I think he is at most a quack, just now you heard Mr. Zhou and the others criticize those quacks, they basically can’t refine real pellets, purely messing around.” Wu Jian scoffed.

“Indeed, some cultivators I know who rely on fumbling for their own formulas are all poor as church mice, not achieving anything.” Wenxuan chimed in.

“When we came to Harrow, we met a guy in the service area who tried to sell us pellets he refined himself through trial and error formulas. The quality was too poor, he was nearly beaten to death.” Wenxuan added with a laugh.

The guy he was referring to was undoubtedly Yang Tiancai.

“Cultivators like him have no future. Formulas are not so easy to figure out. He may waste his whole life on it. Now apart from the Old School Society, almost no one else can refine real pellets.” Wu Jian said.

On the other side, Yi Rui and Huo Pengju saw Xiao Shun go up to ask Zhou Tianheng to evaluate the pellets he practiced, and looked at each other with an unkind smile.

“Beauty, so your boyfriend is an alchemist? Has he ever refined any pellets?” Yi Rui looked at Yao Cen’s back with a mocking expression and asked.

Although sitting behind, Yao Cen knew he was talking to her. She pretended not to hear, too lazy to bother with him.

“Those quacks go up just to be humiliated by Mr. Zhou. Let’s see what he has to say.” Huo Pengju said with a laugh.

Xiao Shun walked up to Zhou Tianheng and the other two. He took out a small glass bottle, slightly larger than a penicillin injection, containing several thumb-sized dark green pellets, and handed it to Zhou Tianheng and the others, with a faint smile: “Please evaluate the energy pellets I refined.”

Seeing him put the pellets in such an “informal” bottle, the host laughed. Speaking into the microphone with a mocking and exaggerated tone, he said: “Haha, this young man is interesting. He actually uses this kind of bottle to contain pellets. If you don’t know better, you’d think it’s vitamin C tablets.”Text © by N0ve/lDrama.Org.

This scene was naturally also transmitted to the four huge screens, immediately provoking laughter.

“It doesn’t matter what kind of bottle is used. If the pellets are no good, even using the best jade bottle would be pointless.” Xiao Shun said leisurely with a smile.

“It seems this young man is very confident about the pellets he refined. If I didn’t hear wrong, you said you brought energy pellets?” The host asked.

“That’s right.” Xiao Shun replied.

Energy pellets were already quite rare at the Old School Society. Only high-level cultivators had the authority to purchase them. According to the latest auction price, each pellet cost 1. 5 million.

It was Yi Rui who spent 15 million to buy those ten energy pellets. At this moment, he watched the big screen with interest and sneered: “If this punk can refine energy pellets, I’ll go eat shit.”

“Want to make a bet?” Yang Tiancai looked back at him very annoyed and said.

“What do you want to bet on?” Yi Rui glared at him.

“On what you just said.” Yang Tiancai said.

“You’re on.” Yi Rui replied.

Neither of them clarified the stakes, it was just a bet for pride.

Of course Yang Tiancai was confident about the energy pellets Xiao Shun brought up. Xiao Shun had given him one back then and he gritted his teeth and took it, the effect was remarkable, otherwise he wouldn’t have recovered so quickly.

Zhou Tianheng and the other two didn’t know Xiao Shun, let alone the grievances between him and the Old School Society.

He contemptuously glanced at the very “informal” glass bottle Xiao Shun handed over. In his view, if one didn’t even respect the pellets refined through painstaking efforts, it at least showed an improper attitude. How could such a person possibly refine decent pellets?

“Teng Xian, take a look.” Zhou Tianheng said coldly.

The old man next to him with a tuft of goatee took the glass bottle, opened the rubber cap, poured out an energy pellet onto his palm.

His pupils instantly shrank, eyebrows slightly furrowed, then he put the energy pellet under his nose and smelled it, looking at Xiao Shun with a complex expression.

“Mr. Zhou should take a look personally, I can’t say.”

Teng Xian didn’t make any comments, but directly handed the energy pellet to Zhou Tianheng.

Zhou Tianheng looked at him in some surprise, took the energy pellet handed over, repeated his actions, then took out a thin blade like a cicada’s wing, carefully scraped off a layer of powder, dipped it directly with his finger, brought it to his mouth, and tasted it with the tip of his tongue. Immediately, his eyebrows wrinkled, he looked up at Xiao Shun.

“The color is dark, clearly the fire control is still lacking.”

“Oh, thank you Mr. Zhou for the pointer.” Xiao Shun said impassively.

Zhou Tianheng’s tone suddenly changed: “But you are already much better than most beginners. It shows your talent is not bad. But don’t overreach yourself, young man. You should start from basic pellets and take it slowly, instead of choosing energy pellets which are relatively more complex and require expensive ingredients. With a famous master to supervise and instruct you, you will definitely become a great master in the future.”

“Really?” Xiao Shun asked, feigning excitement.

“Of course.” Zhou Tianheng smiled rarely.

“Young man, Mr. Zhou rarely praises people. It seems he really appreciates you. If you want to find a master for guidance, you might as well take Mr. Zhou as your master. Mr. Zhou is the grandmaster of our alchemy world. It would be your greatest honor to have him as your master.”

Teng Xian had worked with Zhou Tianheng for many years and immediately discerned the subtext in his words. The energy pellets refined by this young man were much better than those refined by the three of them.

Perhaps he was gifted, a natural born alchemist. Or perhaps he just got lucky as a blind cat catching a dead mouse. In any case, this person was worth taking under his wing.

If he was highly talented, it would be gaining a promising disciple. Even if he just got lucky, he could still seize the opportunity to learn his method of refining energy pellets, a win-win situation.