
Long ago, Xiao Zan was an alchemist employed by the King of Goldenforth Kingdom. His life passed by casually, but he had a very high honor despite only being an alchemist. He has contacts everywhere. No one knows his name. But after his first disciple appeared and became an alchemist king, Xiao Zan was betrayed by his first disciple...
One day, Xiao Zan was looking for a ginseng that could cure a serious illness, but he wanted to use it as an antidote for deadly poison. He was looking for ginseng in a forest. While in the forest, he heard the sounds of forest animals as in general. Xiao Zan continued walking and walking until he saw a pure ginseng that was long-lived and equivalent to 365 years old.
"There's ginseng!" xiao Zan said as he lowered his body to look at the ginseng he had encountered.
"Waw, this ginseng is very pure and the quality is very good. If sold, I can get a lot of gold coins! Haha." Xiao Zan started to be excited.
As he was pleased with his findings, there was unwittingly the soft voice of a little boy from a nearby bush. The whimpering sound was in pain from hunger, making the sound even smaller each time.
"To...long..!" the sound from the bush.
Then the excitement of Xiao Zan disappeared and made him curious about the sound he heard.
"What's that sound?" xiao Zan asked in his heart.
At once Xiao Zan took the ginseng he met and placed it in the pocket of the alchemist clothes he was wearing. Soon Xiao Zan looked for the source of the shrill voice. He searched here and there and found the source of the sound. Xiao Zan spontaneously pulled the bush and saw a little boy lying on the ground in a very bad condition.
The child's clothes were tattered like a street beggar, and his body was covered in scars from wild animals. Not to mention that the child was starving, and his thin body was helplessly dried. Xiao Zan who saw the child, spontaneously brought him straight to Goldenforth Kingdom and took care of the injured child.
And before long Xiao Zan arrived at Goldenforth Kingdom. He rushed the boy to his clinic and treated him there. The people who saw Xiao Zan were running away, while carrying the little boy were confused and surprised. Because Xiao Zan never brought 1 person to his clinic, using his own hands.
Note: So Xiao Zan always asks the people around to help him bring the patient to the clinic. Xiao Zan never used his own hands to bring the patient to his clinic. It was only natural that everyone felt confused and shocked, seeing Xiao Zan carrying the little boy using both hands of his.
Not long after, Xiao Zan arrived at his simple clinic. Xiao Zan preferred a simple life but had enough money for his life.
Xiao Zan placed the little boy on the bed so gently that he did not wake him up. Then Xiao Zan took out his toolbox and retrieved the needed tools. He sewed the torn skin and gave the wound medicine to the child. He also gave cultivation pills in order to make the child feel better.
Xiao Zan gave alcohol-containing wound medicine to wounds that were already severe enough.
"Well, you're given drugs that contain alcohol. Then I have to melt the ginseng and make it medicinal as well!" xiao Zan said with his confidence.
He did not think about the loss he would experience. In fact, he gave up ginseng with the age of 365 years, only to save a child he did not recognize. After the child's wound was healed, Xiao Zan immediately went to the kitchen and cooked good food for the child who was lying on the bed.
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The boy ate it too. Even wolves lose their greed. He ate very greedily, and did not let a piece of his food remain. Shortly after that, the child had spent 7 dishes in one meal. And it still did not make him full, but the boy did not tell Xiao Zan the truth.
Xiao Zan, who saw the child had finished eating, took the child back to the bed, and asked the child some questions. "Hey, kid! What's yourname?" ask Xiao Zan. Then the boy replied in a soft voice, "My name is Tieyang, uncle. Thank you for helping me." reply the boy.
"Hahaha. Oh, my boy, where do you live? Why are you in the forest? Where are your parents?" xiao Zan asked looking for the reason behind the child's existence.
Tieyang who heard Xiao Zan's question only fell silent, but soon he replied that he had no family. And his house had been evicted, and he had been driven out of his native village.
"My parents are gone, uncle. I don't have a home either. And I have been driven out of the village." replied Tieyang.
Hearing Tieyang's words, Xiao Zan felt sympathy and was determined to take care of the unknown child. He had already made up his mind to take care of the boy to adulthood and make him his disciple.
"Yeah! I'll take care of you until you grow up! And of course you must learn martial arts to protect yourself" Xiao Zan said without the slightest hesitation.
Hearing that, Tieyang was delighted. "Hore, thank you uncle." Tieyang said happily. But who would have thought, behind his pleasure there is a dark heart that only thinks of power, degrees, strength, and wealth.
After Tieyang expressed his pleasure, Xiao zan told him to call Xiao Zan "teacher".
"Tieyang, you should now call me 'teacher' huh!" xiao Zan said to Tieyang.
Tieyang nodded his head indicating that he understood what Xiao Zan was saying. After Tieyang recovered completely, Xiao Zan taught him martial arts, alchemists, how to make potion medicines, and others. Xiao Zan gave all the knowledge he knew, but unexpectedly Tieyang even abused the knowledge given by his teacher. Every night Tieyang experimented with living creatures such as animals and plants in his secret place.
Note: That secret place was where Xiao Zan and Tieyang met. Nearby was a tree large enough to occupy and the trunk of the tree was a hole large enough to live in.
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