The Hehuan Sect cultivates alchemy; my senior sister helps me refine alchemy throughout the world.

Su Wuwang stared at Shen Yifei for a full ten breaths.

"You have formed your Golden Core," Su Wuwang suddenly said.

"Yes. I broke through my limits by chance in the Blood Soul Sect's underground palace."

"The color of your golden core is wrong." Su Wuwang leaned forward. "Dark gold. What did you eat?"

Shen Yifei's heart tightened. This woman had a sharp eye; she could tell from this distance that the color of his golden core was off.

"Reporting to the sect master, this disciple accidentally swallowed a beast soul pill from an eight-hundred-year-old snake demon in the underground palace."

"You dare to swallow the inner core of a demon that's hundreds of years old?" Su Wuwang's gaze towards him became subtle. "Aren't you afraid of dying from overeating? Alright, the fact that you came back alive proves you're tough. I don't like people with short lives."

She stood up from her position as sect leader and walked to Shen Yifei.

Su Wuwang was half a head shorter than him, but when Su Wuwang stood in front of him, Shen Yifei felt as if he were being crushed by a mountain. The pressure of the Nascent Soul stage was incomparable to that of the Spirit Transformation stage; it was an existence on another level.

"From today onwards, you are an elder of the Hehuan Sect's Pill Refining Room."

Upon hearing this, the expressions of the elders nearby all changed.

An elderly man with white hair and beard stepped forward. He was Zhou Yuanqing, the current elder of the Pill Refining Room, with the cultivation level of the early Nascent Soul stage. He had been refining pills for two hundred years in the Hehuan Sect.

"Sect Master, Shen Yifei has been a disciple for less than a year, and his cultivation level is only at the early stage of the Golden Core realm. He is still relatively inexperienced. Directly promoting him to the position of Elder of the Pill Refining Room may not be convincing to the public."

"Elder Zhou, you've been refining pills for two hundred years. How many top-grade pills have you actually produced?"

Zhou Yuanqing was momentarily speechless.

"Shen Yifei has been a disciple for less than a year, yet he has refined more top-grade pills than you have in two hundred years combined. Qualification? Qualification is earned through experience, while pills are refined through practice; they are two different things."

Su Wuwang turned around, his gaze sweeping over the other elders. "The position of elder of the pill refining room will be given to whoever refines the best pills. If any of you disagree, you can challenge him to a match right now."

Zhou Yuanqing's face turned a deep purplish-red, his lips trembled slightly, but he ultimately didn't dare to reply.

He had seen the pills Shen Yifei refined; each one was of the highest quality. In terms of pill refining, he truly couldn't compare.

"Since no one objects, it's settled then." Su Wuwang took out a token from his sleeve and tossed it to Shen Yifei. "This is the token of the elder of the Pill Refining Room. Take it. From today onwards, the Pill Refining Room is under your management. Elder Zhou will be your deputy."

Zhou Yuanqing's face turned extremely ugly. A two-hundred-year-old alchemist being made the assistant of a greenhorn who had only been practicing for less than a year was even more unbearable than being dismissed from his post.

But since Su Wuwang had spoken, he dared not utter a single word of dissent.

"Disciple obeys." Shen Yifei took the token and put it in his pocket.

"Alright, everyone disperse." Su Wuwang waved his hand. "Shen Yifei, stay."

Several elders filed out, with Zhou Yuanqing bringing up the rear. He paused briefly as he passed Shen Yifei, his lips moving as if he wanted to say something, but ultimately said nothing, flicking his sleeve and walking away.

Only Su Wuwang and Shen Yifei remained in the main hall.

Su Wuwang beckoned Shen Yifei to her side. As Shen Yifei approached her, he noticed a unique fragrance emanating from her, a fragrance that stirred a sense of heat within him.

Shen Yifei thought to himself, "Could this old woman have the same constitution as me? Does she have a scent that attracts men?"

He couldn't resist taking a deep sniff.

Seeing his reaction, Su Wuwang didn't say anything, but just slightly raised the corner of his mouth, as if he had known he would react this way.

She suddenly said, "I don't believe a single word you just said."

Shen Yifei felt a pang of panic. "How can this old woman be so accurate?"

"Trouble broke out in the Blood Soul Sect's underground palace, and you took advantage of the chaos to escape. A disciple at the early Golden Core stage escaped right under the nose of the sect leader, who is at the peak Nascent Soul stage. Do you think I'd believe that?"

"Sect Master, what I said is the truth."

"The truth?" Su Wuwang turned to look at him. "I've heard of Yin Wuxie. She's the leader of the Blood Soul Sect, a peak Nascent Soul cultivator, skilled at refining pills from living people. She kidnapped you for over a month just to let you refine pills? She didn't refine you?"

Shen Yifei did not respond.

"You smell of her." Su Wuwang suddenly stood up and leaned close to Shen Yifei, his nose almost touching his neck, and gently inhaled. "The scent of the Blood Demon Technique. You and Yin Wuxie practiced together."

Upon hearing this, Shen Yifei immediately became nervous.

Colluding with cults is a capital offense even in legitimate sects.

"disciple……"

"Don't rush to deny it." Su Wuwang took a half step back, a slight smile playing on his lips. "I am the sect leader of the Hehuan Sect. Dual cultivation is a matter of mutual consent. Who you cultivate with is your own business. But Yin Wuxie is the leader of an evil cult. Since you've gotten involved with her, I have to ask a few more questions."

Shen Yifei quickly made a calculation.

Su Wuwang wasn't there to interrogate her. If she wanted to pursue the matter, she would have done so in front of all the elders earlier, instead of keeping him behind alone.

The fact that she left him alone suggests that her attitude towards the matter was not to pursue it further; she must have other motives.

"What does the sect leader wish to ask?"

"How did she perform during dual cultivation?"

Shen Yifei's mind went blank for a moment!

A sect leader at the Nascent Soul stage left him alone in the main hall and actually asked him this question?

"Disciple...disciple does not understand the sect master's meaning."

"Don't understand?" Su Wuwang turned around, walked to the sect leader's seat and sat down, crossing one leg over the other. As she swayed, Shen Yifei discovered that her lower body was actually hollow!

"Yin Wuxie is over three hundred years old and cultivates the Blood Demon Technique, following a purely Yin path. How does it feel to cultivate with a three-hundred-year-old virgin?"

Shen Yifei's lips twitched.

"This disciple does not know how to answer..."

"I don't know how to answer?" Su Wuwang chuckled.

"This disciple was forced into this situation!"

"Forced into it? Yin Wuxie is a virgin of over three hundred years. If you defile her, her cultivation will suffer a great loss. The difficulty of breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage will double. Is that what you call forcing you?"

Shen Yifei didn't know how to answer. Judging from Su Wuwang's words, she seemed to know Yin Wuxie very well. If he continued, he didn't know where he would make a mistake, and it would be difficult for him to cover it up later.

"The fact that you were able to cultivate with Yin Wuxie without being harmed by her extremely Yin evil arts shows that your physique is also extremely rare. No wonder Yin Wuxie spared your life and was willing to cultivate with you!"

Su Wuwang's voice suddenly became very soft, "I have been stuck in the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm for many years. The Hehuan Sect's cultivation methods emphasize the balance of Yin and Yang. However, I cultivate the Taiyin Su Nu Jing, which is also a pure Yin path. This cultivation method has a fatal flaw: after reaching the Nascent Soul realm, every breakthrough to a minor realm requires dual cultivation to balance the excess Yin energy in the body. Otherwise, the Yin energy will accumulate, which can lead to stagnation in cultivation or even demonic possession."

After Su Wuwang said this, Shen Yifei would be a fool if he still didn't understand! It turned out that he had passed Yin Wuxie's test, and Su Wuwang also wanted to use him, and this time he should be a complete furnace cauldron.

She was at the Nascent Soul stage, while he was at the Golden Core stage. It was like an elephant versus an ant.

The key point is that this elephant is female!