Past life sage: This life a dual cultivator

"What?", Lan Yueyue looked towards Zhan Chen with disbelief in her eyes. The word 'Spirit ascension pill' acted like a thunderclap inside her mind.

Spirit ascension pill' was a legendary pill and the pill formula was already lost in the annals of the history.

So, the name of Spirit ascension pill made her stupified for a moment. "Hurry up and eat it. Otherwise, it's medical efficacy will be lost", Zhan Chen reminded her.

Lan Yueyue stood up from her place after hearing Zhan Chen's words. She didn't speak anything but reached out to Zhan Chen's face on her toes and left a soft kiss on his right cheek.

"Thank you", she spoke with an emotional voice. No peak Core condensation realm expert could resist a Spirit ascension pill and she was no exception. It would lessen years of hard work and make sure that a peak Core condensation realm cultivator would reach the Martial ascension realm safely.

Its reputation precedes it and Lan Yueyue was still in disbelief that she was holding the legendary pill in her palm. She thanked Zhan Chen and hurriedly went back to cultivate.

Zhan Chen touched the spot on his cheek where she had pecked and a smile appeared on his face.

He checked Li Shu, Li Yan and Kai Min with his soul consciousness and found them cultivating seriously. Even the least attentive among them, Li Shu was being more hard working with each passing days.

"Good for them", Zhan Chen thought to himself. He didn't know that his growing stature was exerting pressure on them and motivating them to cultivate seriously.

All of them were proud girls and none of them wanted to be left too far behind by Zhan Chen. The more concerned among them was Li Yan as she had nothing to show infront of Zhan Chen. Her sister was a genius blacksmith and Kai Min had a blessed body. As for her, her talent and cultivation was her pride but all of her arrogance turned to dust after she got acquianted with Zhan Chen.

Zhan Chen crushed her arrogance and pride but left behind a mark in her heart without him knowing. Now, Li Yan was more determined than ever and all of her hardwork was only for one person. She wanted to show Zhan Chen that she was also capable.

Zhan Chen didn't know the extent of her stubbornness and determination. He only thought that all of them were cultivating seriously for the upcoming grand sect competition. He shifted his focus from the girls and spread his soul consciousness towards the outside.

A frown appeared on his face as soon as he noticed a certain cultivator outside the inn. "He may cause trouble if I don't take care of him", Zhan Chen thought to himself.

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Elder Sima of the Hundred blossom city was waiting outside the Clear spring inn. It was the same inn where Zhan Chen was staying with Li Shu, Li Yan and Kai Min.

Elder Sima was pondering about something when a sudden sense of crisis alerted his mind. He was about to defend his mind but the attack was so swift that he got overwhelmed within a moment.

"Problem is solved", Zhan Chen thought to himself.

He tried to call out 'Celestial night', his sword but the sword spirit took it in deaf ear. Zhan Chen could feel that the sword spirit was still inside his body but it was not responding to his call.

Zhan Chen could feel that it was in a calm and peaceful state at this moment. He didn't know that his sword spirit had turned into a little girl and sleeping peacefully. Otherwise, he would have feel astonished.

It had been a while since entered the diagram world inside his mind. So, he had know way to know that the sword spirit was currently resting inside the diagram space.

"What is going on? Why is it not responding?", Zhan Chen thought to himself. He checked his body once again with his soul consciousness but to no avail. He still couldn't locate his sword which was still inside his body.

"Well, forget about it. Looks like I have another one beside the Shadow panthress who loves to throw tantrums", Zhan Chen thought to himself.

He didn't resume his cultivation because he had promised elder Cheng to show him the Alchemy technique of his teacher. He had to wait only half an hour before elder Cheng came knocking his door.

"Young friend Chen, thanks for waiting", elder Cheng spoke.

"No problem", Zhan Chen replied and led elder Cheng to another room. His room was occupied by Lan Yueyue at this moment and he wouldn't allow any disturbance in her cultivation.

"Sit comfortably and watch. How much you learn is upto you", Zhan Chen spoke. Elder Cheng nodded his head and waited eagerly for Zhan Chen to start his concoction. He wanted to see how could an eighteen year old boy concoct a peerless pill which was only sort of pill vein appearing.

Zhan Chen didn't have to prepare anything as all the herbs had already been delivered by elder Cheng in his earlier visit. He took away the required herbs and started concoction.

This time he was concocting the pill for the panthress to eat. He had already promised her. So, now it was upto him to fulfill the end of his bargain.

"What is the pill you are concocting?", elder Cheng asked curiously.

"Purple star pill", Zhan Chen replied.

"You are preparing pill for your magical beast?", elder Cheng asked with surprise on his face. Zhan Chen nodded his head and continued to arrange the herbs required around him.

"What extravagance!", elder Cheng became speechless after hearing the reply of Zhan Chen.

Zhan Chen didn't look towards elder Cheng as he was busy in the preparation of the herbs. He did the grading of the herbs neatly and sorted out the required parts of herbs in an extremely efficient manner.

Then he opened up the lid of pill furnace and started the process of essence extraction. Elder Cheng felt a thunderclap inside his mind after seeing the fire that came out of Zhan Chen's hand.

Zhan Chen decided to show him his soul fire because he wanted to take elder Cheng as a subordinate. So, showing his prowcess was imperative to gain the respect of his subordinate.

The surprise of th elder Cheng didn't end at the soul fire because the impossible methods of Zhan Chen took his mind by storm. Zhan Chen's hands were extremely swift as he extracted essence from the herbs one after another.

It took only fifteen minutes for him to extract the essence from all the herbs. Zhan Chen was decreasing the pace of his concoction deliberately to teach elder Cheng. Otherwise, it would have take much lesser time than the fifteen minutes of time he had taken.

After the essence extraction, it was time to fuse the essence and concoct the pill. Elder Cheng focused all of his entire mind and soul on the figure of Zhan Chen as he didn't want to miss such an heaven sent opportunity.

Zhan Chen mainted proper temperature with his soul fire and finally took off the lead from the pill furnace after twenty minutes.

A thick aroma of medicinal pill permeated the room as two Purple star pills laid inside the pill furnace. Elder Cheng again become speechless after seeing an extra pill inside the pill furnace.

"How is this possible?", he murmured in a dazed look on his face.