Si yang turned around at the voice and found his senior martial brother Wei qi standing there. He had a hand held fan and was looking over at the sun set.
"Nothing much" Si yang replied to his previous question no longer looking at him.
"You are thinking about something" Wei qi said as a matter of fact. "You always have that kind of expression when thinking"
Si yang pursed his lips and thought whether he should just tell his senior martial brother or not. A moment later he sighed and sat down on the stone bench to the side.
"I went to master to ask about my situation a few months ago" He started. "I just can't understand.....Master said I met my trial subject that is why I was feeling all those.....things." He paused.
"What don't you understand.....Maybe i can help?" Wei qi walked over and sat next to him, Opening the fan in his hand and covering the lower half of his face with it. His eyes narrowed in concentration as he listened in silence.
"Master said I met my trial subject...But why would the trial start right after I met the subject....The trial subject is still a child....I have no idea how to go about it with a child only six or seven years old" Si yang held back a sigh pursing his lips tightly.
"Trial subject is a child?" Wei qi was also surprised but he now understood the dilemma his younger martial brother was in. "You are worrying too much for no reason.....many other's had also have had similar situation to yours.."
"Then what did they do?..." Si yang raised his head and glanced at Wei qi.
"What did they do.....They stayed with their trial subjects protecting them from harm and just being there for them.....When the trial subject is older you think about the complicated things then.....So you don't have to do anything complicated for now." Wei smiled raising his hand to pat Si yang's head "So you can go ahead and just get to know the other first and start as friends"
"Oh" Si yang was dumbfounded was it really that simple. " Okay...Thank you senior brother"
"You are most welcome" Wei qi laughed lightly waving his hand and walking away.
Si yang glanced at the setting sun and made up his mind. With faint smile he got up and followed Wei qi back inside.
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Ryse focused on the pill in the furnace using spirit energy as taught by the old man long wang. This was his his second pill he was practicing on making, He had learned the first simple healing pill in these seven months. Caused a lot of explosions along the way to finally get the hang of using spirit energy in the pill formation.
Ryse was smiling lightly,So far he hadnot caused an explosion in making his second pill which was the blood replenishing pill.
*Boom*
Ryse's smile fell his face darkened, All happiness flew out of the window as he stared at the black charred pill on the floor. His face also had ashes and so did his hands. The overall picture was just hilarious.
"So angry" Ryse whispered gritting his teeth. He took several long breaths and calmed himself. He then washed his face and hands and started the fire again. Measuring the pill ingredients and starting all over again. Last time he lost focus while thinking other things and so this time he sat there and focused himself determined not to cause another explosion.
The old man had gone out to get more ingredients from the forest. This time he left Ryse behind to practice. An hour later the pill came out of the furnace in all its sparkly glory.
"Wonderful" Ryse grinned to himself finally his first blood replenishing pill has been made. The wooden door creaked open at this time the old man was back.
Ryse stood up with the red shiny pill in the jade bottle and ran out. "Master look i have finished the pill!" He laughed as he shook the small jade bottle.
The old man chuckled looking at his young disciple covered in soot and ashes grinning at himself shaking the jade bottle. He kept the basket down on the side and reached out taking the jade bottle from Ryse's hands.
"Good job Jing ci this pill is perfectly made" The old man smiled happily His disciple really is talented to have learned these things in seven months. He himself had taken an entire year to perfect his first pill the healing pill. This child at seven years old had already perfected two pills in seven months.
The old man sat down on the wooden chair and picked up a leather bound book from the table " Now that you have perfected the two pills you can keep practicing making at least three a day"
Ryse climbed up to a wooden chair opposite of the old man and listened to him. The old man opened the leather bound book and placed it in the middle of the two.
"Next I will show you how to make energy replenishing pill. This one takes a little more time than the blood replenishing pill and is a little bit harder to make." He said caressing his beard.
"Yes master" Ryse sat up straight listening to the old man speak about the order and the way to make it and what color it will show if it is perfectly made and what color will appear if there are still impurities in it.
After the short half an hour learning, Ryse helped the old man cook vegetable soup. Ryse had learned a little bit of cooking from the old man to boil a simple soup to drink when the old man is out.
The old man did not really have a need to eat but his disciple was a mortal child and still growing so he always brought back wild vegetables and sometimes meat to cook. But he did enjoy eating with the child so he would take a little to eat every time.
The next day Ryse went with the old man to pick some important herbs and ingredients from the cliff side that was two hours away from their bamboo house.
On the way Ryse caught sight of dark purple small flowers and secretly tapped his wrist. The AI assistant flashed a neon blue and sent him the relative information.
The flower had a very special property...