Mortal To Immortal (Book 1)
MTI 164 - Small Assistance

"Peace, huh? You think that could happen? Is it possible that all the cultivators of the various streams could unite regardless of background and interests?"

"Why not?" Yao Han said lightly, "Peace is not a difficult thing to achieve, Feng-gege. We can feel it long enough during our stay in Bukit Bunga City. My teacher once said, the world of cultivators is filled with fools who always create a murky atmosphere and pseudo peace."

"What do you really expect, Brother Han? True peace? As long as there is interest in one of the parties, the world never achieves true peace."

"Hm? It is easy, just destroy those who do not want to be invited to work together to create peace."

Hua Feng snickered as he held his breath, "You've lost your mind? I don't think you have such a dangerous mindset."

Yao Han chuckled as if his words were no big deal, "I just repeated the sentence my teacher once said. I myself do not agree too much with him, but if the conditions force, I will agree too."

Hua Feng shook his head slowly, "If it's from your teacher. Ah, yes, does your teacher know you're here?"

"Of course you know. I told you all about me and the activities I wanted to do when I was leaving Moon Star Island."

"Hm, I thought you'd get in trouble if you came here. The Purple Star Sect was one of the white flow sects under the auspices of the Star Fire Palace which now changed the flow direction from neutral to white. I heard Senior East Wind doesn't like white flow cultivators."

Yao Han chuckled softly, "No problem at all. Actually the more appropriate one was that my teacher didn't particularly like white flow cultivators, instead of really disliking."

The direction of the conversation began to shift from a fairly heavy topic to a lighter one.

"By the way, Brother Han, what is your current level of practice? Since I have trouble reading it, your practice must be higher than mine. You're a Foundation realm cultivator? Or maybe the Core Realm?"

"My practice hasn't been that high. Just like you, I'm still a Cultivator of the Basic Realm." Yao Han then pointed out his practice of being in the tenth level of the Basic Realm.

Hua Feng frowned confusedly, as he felt that Yao Han's practice should be higher than he thought, at least having already reached the Foundation Realm by forming the Earth Foundation. Moreover he was curious about Yao Han's practices which he thought were strange, but he refrained from asking.

"Are you here just to see me?"

"Yes and also want to run your father's little request?"

"Dad's request? Aish, you must be troubled. I feel bad, Brother Han. Don't you have your own business? My dad was really..."

"Absolutely not a hassle, after all I have no clear travel destination. And on the way here I can do something useful."

"I know, but for me it would be a problem to meet the members of the Moon Cloud Sect and the Poison Heart Valley. Good thing you're okay." Hua Feng shook his head softly, "Then my father asked you for what?"

Yao Han answered him by taking out a few jade bottles. Hua Feng smelled a faint medicinal scent and hurriedly opened it.

"I-It..." Hua Feng's body trembled and briefly held his breath. He found the jade bottle he opened contained full of cultivation pills that emitted rays, "P-Pil of perfect quality. Is this your teacher's?"

"No, it's my own thing."

Hua Feng stopped his remark that almost saying was an impossibility for Yao Han to make a pill of perfect quality. Hua Feng immediately felt stupid because he quickly almost forgot Yao Han was the world number one alchemist disciple of the Blue Moon Continent cultivator.

"You are truly magical, Brother Han. You can even make a perfect quality pill this young. All this time I've only heard of it and it's the first time I've seen a pill of perfect quality. Now, should I be inferior or envious of you?"

Yao Han only responded with a light laugh. Before their conversation bounced everywhere, Yao Han immediately explained the pills in the jade bottles were for Hua Feng.

"Forku? Are you kidding me? Wait, don't tell me my dad asked you to give me these pills?"

"No, your father only asked me to help you reach the Twelfth level of the Basic Realm, so that at least you can form the Earth Foundation."

Hua Feng snorted softly, "The talismans are indeed different, but the edges are still the same. I'm sorry, Brother Han, but I can't accept this. If this pill is someone else's, I'll take it. You gave me away for free, didn't I become a shameless person?"

Yao Han chuckled softly, "Don't say anything stupid. Even though we haven't seen each other for a long time, we were friends in our childhood. It's just a little help from me and consider it a gift of meeting. No one knows if we can meet again in the future, right?"

"Whatchu mean? You said like we'd never see each other again."

"Not so, I'm in the middle of trying to find something I can't explain. Surely the time is not for a moment. And when I'm done wandering, I'll spend more time at my teacher's residence."

"Ah, so." Hua Feng glanced at the jade bottles on the table, "Alright, I received your gift. All this time I've been taking pills of ordinary quality and with this pill made by you, the Twelfth level of the Basic Realm is not impossible for me to achieve."

"I've made sure this pill I gave you can help you reach at least the Twelfth level of the Basic Realm. My hope is also the same as your father so that you can form the Earth Foundation, so that there will be open opportunities to reach the Core Realm in the future."

"Sister Han, you really are my helper. Thank you for bringing us together tonight."

"This has become a sign of destiny. But my help doesn't get here. I want to make sure of something, please lend me your hand."

Hua Feng immediately reached out his right hand and Yao Han clasped his wrist. Hua Feng just kept quiet and felt stunned when Yao Han's powerful Qi entered his body, making him cluck in awe.

Yao Han originally examined the quality of Hua Feng's spirit root. It consists of three elements: earth, metal, and fire. He also found Hua Feng's practice to be fragile and the purity of Qi he possessed was also low.

The next examination, other than Hua Feng's body containing pill poison, there were also other poisons that disrupted the smooth running of the practice.

"Among the ones I found, something that bothered you must be the Three Eyes Serpent Poison. Not endangering lives, but very troublesome to remove."

Hua Feng smiled stiffly, "A few months ago I was struck by a Three-Eye Snake bite. Since then my practice has been hampered in the eighth level of the Basic Realm. If in one more year's time I can't reach the ninth level of the Basic Realm, I will end up being an Outer Disciple forever or worse be expelled from the sect."

Without needing to respond, Yao Han directly used the Poison God Technique to eliminate all the poison in Hua Fengs body.

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