Tao Wan returned to Green Pill Valley. Before she departed, she left Luo Chen ten bottles of mid-grade Ascending Dragon pills and two bottles of top-grade ones. Of course, they were not gifts. Luo Chen paid twenty thousand spirit stones and accepted a task in return.1

Namely, the task was to instruct Tao Yisheng in alchemy. Luo Chen accepted with pleasure. He understood that this was Tao Wan’s way of compensating him after significant concessions. If Tao Yisheng improved into a proper second-tier alchemist, the Tao family would benefit regardless of whether Tao Wan claimed the Dao Scion title.1

Naturally, if she wanted to compensate, Luo Chen wasn’t about to suffer a loss in silence. Even though Tao Yisheng constantly addressed him as “Senior Brother”, there was no formal master-disciple bond between them. So Luo Chen devised a practical arrangement.0

“Yisheng, do you know where my alchemy skill...0