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

After Su Wuwang finished speaking, she didn't rush him. She just leaned back in the sect leader's seat, one leg crossed over the other, swinging back and forth. Her skirt had a high slit, revealing a section of her fair thigh with each swing.

Shen Yifei dared not look, yet he couldn't help but look.

A female cultivator at the Nascent Soul stage, the sect leader of the Joyful Union Sect, a shrewd woman who has lived for hundreds of years, if she wanted to seduce a young man at the Golden Core stage, that young man would have no chance against her.

"Sect Master, I am engaged to someone in the Qingyun Sect," Shen Yifei said, forcing himself to speak.

"Luo Qinghe? That Holy Maiden of the Qingyun Sect?" Su Wuwang chuckled, tapping his fingers lightly on the armrest twice. "You've been married to her for a month, and you haven't even touched her, have you?"

"Reporting to the sect leader, she and her disciple had already practiced dual cultivation before the marriage, but due to the limitations of her cultivation technique, they could not consummate their marriage after the wedding."

"No need to explain. I know that Luo Qinghe cultivates the Ice Heart Technique and follows the pure Yin path."

Shen Yifei fell silent. This woman knew everything; the more he said, the more mistakes he would make.

"Yin Wuxie broke your craving for meat, but her Blood Demon Technique was too domineering. Although your physique withstood it, you didn't gain much benefit. You're at the early stage of the Golden Core realm, with a dark golden core mixed with the essence of a snake demon's soul. It's a mess."

Su Wuwang paused, then continued, "The reason I haven't sought a partner for dual cultivation is because I haven't found a suitable one. There are many male cultivators in the Joyful Union Sect, but none can withstand the Yin energy within me. The Yin energy of the Nascent Soul stage is so potent that any Nascent Soul stage male cultivator who comes into contact with it will die. I think you should be a suitable candidate!"

After hearing Su Wuwang's elaborate setup and the final outcome, Shen Yifei felt a chill run down his spine. "Sect Master, what do you mean...?"

"My meaning is very clear: you must help me break through my bottleneck. You're willing to cultivate with an outsider like her, so what's there to hesitate about cultivating with me?"

"Sect Master, isn't this happening too fast?"

"Fast?" Su Wuwang chuckled, stood up, and placed his hand on his chest. "When you were cultivating with Yin Wuxie in the Blood Soul Sect's underground palace, didn't you find it too fast?"

Shen Yifei felt a cool, refreshing spiritual energy seep into her fingertips, flowing along her heart meridian and into her dantian.

The moment that spiritual energy came into contact with the dark golden spiritual energy within his body, it was like cold water being poured into hot oil, causing it to crackle and explode.

The dark golden core in his dantian started spinning wildly, spiritual energy surging through his meridians, and his whole body felt as hot as if it had been set on fire.

"Sect Master, what's wrong...?"

"Don't speak." Su Wuwang placed his other hand on his lower abdomen. "Let my Yin energy circulate through your body and see if you can withstand it."

Shen Yifei gritted his teeth, and the veins on his forehead bulged out.

Su Wuwang's yin energy surged wildly through his meridians, leaving a cold and painful sensation wherever it passed, as if scraped by an ice blade. But after the yin energy subsided, a warm current surged through his meridians, creating an alternating sensation of hot and cold that was indescribably uncomfortable.

After about the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, Su Wuwang withdrew his hands.

Shen Yifei leaned against a pillar, panting heavily, his clothes soaked with cold sweat.

"Not bad." Su Wuwang looked down at his palm. "Your constitution is indeed special. My Yin energy circulated through your body, and not only did you not die, the spiritual energy in your dantian actually increased slightly."

She looked up at Shen Yifei.

"Come to my bedchamber at midnight tonight."

Shen Yifei opened his mouth, as if to say something. Su Wuwang had already turned around and walked towards the back of the main hall.

She paused when she reached the entrance to the back hall and turned her head to the side.

"Don't keep me waiting."

Su Wuwang's figure disappeared behind the door, leaving only Shen Yifei in the main hall.

He leaned against the pillar for a while before he recovered.

"Mengli".

Liu Mengli floated out of the cauldron, sat cross-legged in mid-air, and grinned from ear to ear.

"Congratulations, Master. You'll be serving another Nascent Soul stage expert."

"Congratulations my ass." Shen Yifei wiped the sweat from his forehead. "The yin energy in her body almost froze me into an icicle."

"It'd be worth freezing you to the bone." Liu Mengli floated in front of him. "She's at the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm, and she's a virgin. Just think, the sect leader of the Joyful Union Sect, with a mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivation, is still a virgin. Her pure Yin energy is more than ten times stronger than Yin Wuxie's. If you cultivate with her once, your cultivation can directly jump to the late-stage of the Golden Core realm."

Shen Yifei was stunned for a moment.

How do you know she's a virgin?

"I smelled it from inside the cauldron." Liu Mengli pointed to her nose. "The Nightmare Clan's sense of smell can distinguish between a virgin and a non-virgin from three miles away. Su Wuwang's pure Yin energy is almost overflowing, so she must be a virgin."

Shen Yifei leaned against a pillar, looking up at the coffered ceiling of the main hall.

A painting of a pair of lovers entwined on the ceiling was depicted, the brushstrokes delicate and lifelike. He stared at the painting for a while, then suddenly smiled.

"The sect leader of the Joyful Union Sect is actually a virgin. If this gets out, the entire cultivation world will laugh their heads off."

"That's why she's so eager to cultivate with you." Liu Mengli floated onto his shoulder and sat down. "She's been stuck in the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm for so many years because she can't find someone who can withstand her Yin energy. Now that she's finally found one, do you think she'll let you go?"

Shen Yifei pulled Liu Mengli off his shoulder and stuffed her back into the Cauldron of Myriad Things.

"Let's go back to the medicine room."

The pill refining room was located on the west side of the Hehuan Sect, in a three-story wooden building. When Shen Yifei pushed open the door, Zhou Yuanqing was sitting in the hall on the first floor refining pills.

Before him stood a bronze alchemy furnace, about half the height of a person, with orange flames burning at the bottom, filling the air with the fragrance of medicine.

Zhou Yuanqing sat cross-legged on a futon, his hands resting on the stove, a fine layer of sweat on his forehead.

Shen Yifei didn't disturb him and stood by and watched for a while.

Zhou Yuanqing was refining a fourth-grade Rejuvenation Pill. His control of the heat was decent, nothing majorly wrong, but nothing particularly outstanding either. At this rate, he could only produce a maximum of six pills, and their quality wouldn't be very good.

After an incense stick's time, the fire in the furnace went out. Zhou Yuanqing lifted the furnace lid, revealing five Rejuvenation Pills inside, two of medium grade and three of low grade.

He sighed, picked out the pills, and put them into a jade bottle. Looking up, he saw Shen Yifei standing beside him, and his expression immediately turned grim.

"Elder Shen has arrived."

Shen Yifei waved his hand, "Elder Zhou, you are more familiar with the alchemy room than I am. You should manage the daily affairs. I will only focus on alchemy and will not interfere in other matters."

Zhou Yuanqing stood there, stunned.

Having served as an elder in the alchemy room for so many years, he was naturally resentful that Su Wuwang had suddenly sent a young upstart to lord it over him. But now that the kid was saying he would still be in charge of daily affairs, it was as if the real power had been returned to him.

He had witnessed all sorts of power struggles, but he had never seen anyone relinquish real power on their very first day as an elder.

"Elder Shen, are you serious?"

"Why would I lie to you?" Shen Yifei walked around the pill room, picked up a stalk of Longyang grass from the medicine cabinet, and smelled it. "Alchemy is my profession, managing people is your profession. Everyone should do their job, and no one should hold anyone back."

Zhou Yuanqing was silent for a while, then suddenly laughed.

He walked to the medicine cabinet, took out a dusty jade box from the bottom shelf, blew off the dust, and handed it to Shen Yifei.

"What is this?"

"A sixth-grade Fire Spirit Mushroom. I've kept it for almost a hundred years, reluctant to use it. I'm giving it to you today as my way of showing my respect."