Martial Master

The young man looked in shock at the figure before him, who appeared to be no more than thirty years old, yet was respectfully referred to as a Master.

"Kid, if you stay here, you'll just be driven away. Go back. If you can successfully refine a batch of your so-called improved Bone Breaking Pill within ten days, I will give you a chance to enter the Alchemy Pavilion."

Qin Chen still remembered saying this back in the day.

In truth, he never expected that this young man would really be able to refine the improved Bone Breaking Pill again. He had observed for a long time and had already discovered the flaws in the other’s refining process. This was a matter of probability; perhaps out of a hundred batches of pills, there might not even be one success.

So, watching the young man leave with the broken alchemy furnace, Qin Chen quickly cast it aside because he knew that within ten days, this young man would not possibly return.

In ten days, not to mention a sixth-rank Medicine Venerable, even an eighth-rank Medicine Emperor might not be able to successfully refine a batch of Bone Breaking Pills using this young man's method.

However, what he did not expect was that—ten days later, when he came to the Alchemy Pavilion again, he saw that figure kneeling at the entrance, holding several pills in his hands. They were crooked and extremely ugly, but they emitted a medicinal aura.

"Master, Yuan Bai succeeded!"

The young man said hoarsely, his eyes bloodshot, kneeling on the cold ground.

It turned out that after returning that day, this young man had been refining for nine days and nights without resting for a moment, and finally succeeded on the thirty-fifth furnace.

He had knelt there early in the morning just to wait for Qin Chen, and after saying this to Qin Chen, he fainted.

His spiritual energy had long been exhausted from the frenzied refining over nine days and nights.

Qin Chen remembered how he felt at that moment.

This young man, with his actions, opened a crack in Qin Chen's heart.

Therefore, he fulfilled his promise, brought the young man into the Alchemy Pavilion, and did his utmost to heal him, because the young man was already on the brink of death; it wasn't until three days and three nights later that he finally woke up.

"Master."

The young man first called out like this, but was directly interrupted by Qin Chen: "I am not your Master, and you are not my disciple. During my time in the Alchemy Pavilion, you can consult with me, but we are not master and disciple."

Qin Chen said this and did exactly that, recommending the young man to the then Pavilion Master of the Alchemy Pavilion, thus becoming an ordinary disciple of the then Pavilion Master.

This secret was known to no one, and later, when Mo Yuanbai grew up, no one would connect him back to the young man who once knelt at the entrance of the Alchemy Pavilion.

"Master, once a teacher, always a father. In the heart of your disciple, you will always be my Master."

Later, when Qin Chen left the Alchemy Pavilion, the now grown young man knelt before Qin Chen, choking back his emotions.

By this time, the young man had become the most cherished closed-door disciple of the then Pavilion Master, a rising star in Dan City, and the Holy Son of the Alchemy Pavilion.

"Haha, I never expected that I, the Breaking Dust Martial Emperor, would have a named disciple like this!"

Qin Chen laughed heartily and turned to leave, leaving only the young man’s upright back, kneeling within the Alchemy Pavilion, unable to rise for a long time.

That scene seemed to still linger in front of his eyes.

However, three hundred years later, everything had changed.

The once young and energetic young man had grown to become the new Pavilion Master of the Alchemy Pavilion, a figure that shook the Eight Desolations of the region.

When Qin Chen felt a surge of emotions, Mo Yuanbai also raised his head and locked eyes with Qin Chen.

"You are the Lord of Thunder City, Chen Qing, also known as Qin Chen? You claim to be a disciple of the Breaking Dust Martial Emperor?"