I rolled my eyes at this suggestions of his and he was able to understand the gesture directly, today a lot of weird things had happened and I was already losing patience dealing with all this weird situations that kept popping my way .
I don't know why they were reacting weirdly like this as if the whole situation wasn't that big of a deal, or maybe in this world it wasn't and I was the only one who seemed to make much fuzz out of it .
Don't you want to rethink your decision, Shi Ru Yi is a once in a lifetime beauty and I had a hunch that she look at you with a bit of admiration, this marriage would help both you and your Master greatly .
" I don't know about my Master's opinion, but I know that he will back my own decision no matter what the consequences are, believe me it's for the best for her to take someone who is more suitable for her than a person like me who just popped up in her life .
Wi Jon seemed to grasp what I was saying and just end up sighing and after that he said :
Well, it's indeed a pity, but you might end up being right, I guess we will just have to wait and, but for now, I want you to help me with the remaking of that pill, I hope to try and test whether I had accumulated enough insights or not .
Hearing what he said, I understood what he was wanting me to do and seeing no problem with his request, I end up agreeing to help, since I too was acquiring a lot of insights on alchemy just by watching him, this was beneficial to me just as it is to him .
I was responsible for controlling the flames again, but this time I needed to be more careful with how I treat the pill inside the cauldron, the pill had already taken form so it would be too shocking to try and break the pill and refine it from the scratch .
I decided that I will just do my best to purify the waste accumulated in the pill and refining the still unprocessed Medicinal Energy and this should be more than enough to let the pill quality improve .
As I was doing this task, I kept recalling the scene where Shi Ru Yi stormed out of the room with red face and eyes for some reason, I didn't feel much guilty about this since my reasons for refusing her were quite logical .
First, I already have two ladies to share my heart between them, adding a third person might as well break my heart apart, she did say that she had no problem with being a third wife, but maybe she was just trying to act nice and all .
Second and this was the most important reason was because if I had accepted, I would start to actually feel guilty about such a marriage and arrangement, this marriage proposal is depending on the fact that I had a powerful Master behind me which was all made up by me .
If I agreed to marry here with that kind of lie, I don't want to see the day that she might end up regretting it, so it was better to let these feelings that she might have for me rest as quickly as possible, I don't want her to have regret which might end up causing more harm than good .
The process this time didn't last as much as the last time, this time it only took half an hour, two incense stick of time before I was finally able to see the result of my work, a round pill had come out of the cauldron and a complete red pill appeared in Wi Jon's hands .
The pill luster was less than the previous pill, indicating that it was a bit inferior compared to the previous pill which was of High-quality, this one was still a grade 3 pill of low quality, Wi Jon had already accepted that if the pill came as inferior quality he would have already grasped the recipe to a great grade of mastery .
But never did he expect that the pill quality would exceed his expectation like this, he kept fiddling with the pill in his hand as if it was his own precious child, seeing him like this, I understood that this guy was quite devoted to the path of alchemy .
I tried to take advantage of him being so engrossed in his own thoughts and escape from this room as well, but I merely took a step towards the opened door before he caught me and said :
I will try to concoct the pill completely on my own, I hope that you can oversee me and correct me for anything that I do wrong, I know that you have other business you came here to do, so tell you what, you help me with this last task and I will open my own treasury for you to pick a treasure I have in my hands, I will also accompany you with in own matters here .
Seeing how excited he was and hearing the offer he made, I couldn't help but lick my lips inwardly and directly agreed to help, won't it be a bad joke if I were to refuse such an offer, since I was here, then I might as well make the most part of it and continue to guide him to the end, there will also be rewards so that too helped convincing me .
He seeing me agreeing, he directly asked someone to go and fetch the ingredients needed for making this pill, after he did this he turned to me and with eyes full of curiosity he said still fiddling with the pill in his hands :
I wanted to ask you about how come there are two pills instead of one a batch as you mentioned earlier, could there have been something special happening this time around with the process .
This question came quite late than expected, but at least now that it came, I can become more at ease of he believing most if not everything that I had said, the answer I gave him was quite simple, I said :
" I will only tell you this, once you try to make the pill yourself, then I very much guarantee that you will most likely be able to find the reason out yourself .
I said this and stopped explaining further, a bit wary of how my words might sound as an insult to him, so instead I let him try for himself and then if he were to succeed, he will very much be able to find the reason by himself .
He accepted my words as if they came out from the mouth of a sage or something like that and his heart was beating loudly with each passing second, if I'm not aware of him being a powerful and quite a lively person, I would have suspected that he might die on me like a normal old man at any second now .
Soon the arrangements had been made and the subordinates of this Alchemy room were still waiting outside, he was the one who ordered them not to step inside this time, the maid had arrived shortly with the ingredients and soon she left and closed the door behind her and her closing the door was the signal to start the pill making process .
" I think you need to calm yourself down first, otherwise you might not succeed .
I was still able to see that he was overstimulated by this whole situation and how would succeeding in this small test he set for himself might affect his future and I had to say something, Alchemists in this world at ancient times were said to lose a part of themselves with each failure in making pills, so just so I can get my reward, I needed him to be completely focused .
Hearing my advice, he took a few deep breaths as he too understood that a calm mindset was crucial for pill making, after a while he reopened his eyes and even though his excitement was still difficult to be extinguished, at least now there wasn't a risk of it causing any mishaps .
I was responsible for helping him out with processing the different kinds of Medicinal Materials, this was another opportunity for me to test another forbidden method that I had read about, but in the end, I cleaned and processed the materials as I had seen before, forcing myself to not interfere with his alchemy process .
I handed the ingredients to him and stood by a window and looked downward at what was currently happening downstairs, I happened to lay my eyes on someone that I was very familiar with being present downstairs and in the pavilion, but this person was currently being obstructed by guards as she tried to head inside the building I was in .
Telling her that the Alchemy Master Wi Jon was currently busy with alchemy and he would be seeing no one anytime soon, in simple words, he was driving her out, this familiar person was none other but my Senior Sister Liu Ru Yu, she was here accompanied by an older person who shared a bit of resemblance with her, but his eyes were a bit shifty and evil .
This guy can not be up to any good, but if my suspicion was indeed correct, why was Senior Sister accompanying such a fellow, I let Wi Jon focus on his own matter and went to a corner then asked one of the people standing outside to go and get her and allow only her to step inside the room .
He was very much cooperative and instantly went to invite her in, a few minutes later, she appeared behind the door and knocked faintly as to not disturb anyone inside, I opened the door from the shadow for her and she went inside .
The Evil guy with her tried to force his way in, but how can a 8th layer Organ Quenching Realm stand tall against the mighty of more than 4 guards in the same stage as him, not to mention where he was and how troublesome the situation might be if he were to stir any trouble here or even try to .
You are..... ?! .
" Shhhhh .
I gestured for her to calm down as she was trying to find who was the person behind the mask, I had no intention of appearing before her in accordance to what she asked me previously, so I put the half mask on and found a wig with long white hair to wear and completely disguised myself .
Me allowing her to enter was a small courtesy, but I was also curious about the business that she had with Wi Jon, night was already upon us, normally she would have went back to the Dojo already, so I couldn't help but be curious about what was going on here .
Wi Jon was completely focused on the process of Converting The Essence and can't be disturbed, so I pointed that out to her and even though she was squinting her eyes and looked to be on high alert, she still nodded her head and I motioned for her to go ahead and take a seat and that was all that she did .
Her eyes kept darting towards me then to Wi Jon who was still engrossed in making pills and I was able to tell what she was trying to say to some extent, so I found a piece of paper and wrote that she can watch the process keenly if she had interest in alchemy, her eyes lit up for a second and this was my first time seeing her like this, so I almost couldn't hold back my laughter .
But as if she was given the most precious gift she can think of, she bowed in gratitude towards me and then she completely forgot about my presence as she get herself completely engrossed in watching the Alchemy methods of Wi Jon with clear and bright eyes .
I too looked at that guy as to see if there was any problem with the process, but up till now there haven't been the sight of even the slightest mistake, but this was mainly a part of my reasons to why I was keeping an eye on him, I was worried that he might end up blowing up my cover seconds after his success .
I can already imagine her getting all angry and storming out of her, just as I was thinking of this, I couldn't help but notice her directing a few questioning gazes at me, I turned to her and her face flushed a little as she managed to find a piece of paper that she can communicate with me through .
Her face grow even more red while she was writing something and before I began thinking of any weird thoughts, she finally displayed what she had written, so in the end she was just trying to find out about what kind of pill was Wi Jon concocting .
I told her that it was a 3rd grade pill plainly and I saw that her eyes widened at me as if I were some kind of a ghost, well the clothes together with red eyes and white long hair, could indeed help me pass as one .
Her shock was understandable, but for some reason she became a bit hopeless and restless after she heard what I said, before she can return her attention to the cauldron, I seeing her dispirited like this couldn't help but ask her about the reason she had become like this all of a sudden .
She released a few sighs and after a few minutes did she finally say that her current state was related to her goal of coming here, asking her what exactly was she implying, I finally found out about the reason behind her current dispirited state .
She came her with the purpose of getting discipled by Wi Jon, this wasn't her first time coming here, but everyday, she had been trying to become his disciple for 4 days now, everyday she will come here and ask him about accepting her as a Disciple.
Only to be driven away by the guards as Wi Jon wasn't character anyone can meet easily, not to mention that some troubles would happen between the staff and the uncle who kept forcing her to take him with her everytime, he would intentionally try to destroy any chances for her getting what she wanted .
But now every chance she had had completely vanished, she was aware that him becoming an Alchemy Grandmaster meant that it was even impossible for him to accept her as a disciple.
I couldn't help but breath a bit of relief as I didn't want to accept that this guy was my Senior Sister's Father, but luckily that wasn't the case, as she told me about her own misfortune, she asked me for a favor .
She first asked me if I had any relationship with Wi Jon, I nodded my head and didn't explain the relationship in detail, but all I did add was that I was one who gave him the recipe he was currently practicing with .
This shocked her even more, but it gave her a slight ray of hope, she seem quite at conflict with her thoughts for a while, before she suddenly made quite a bold move, she stood up from her seat across me and sat beside me and whispered slightly in a somewhat pleading tone :
Could you please recommend me to him and make him accept me as his disciple, I'm willing to do anything, but this is the last opportunity I might have to save the Dojo I belong..... myself, to save myself yes .
She slipped and said something that I didn't expect to hear from her and here of all the places, after she said this, I recalled that 4 days ago was Master's Funeral, could she be trying to save the Dojo using herself as a sacrifice .
I kept on trying many methods to change my voice and once I succeeded I pushed her away from slightly and said :
" I will tell him to take you as his disciple, you don't need to sacrifice yourself or anything, just be determined in your pursuit of alchemy and I guarantee that he will be more than proud to accept you as a disciple and teach you all that he have, no need to feel embarrassed, I won't be staying here in this city for long .
Seeing how red she had become from embarrassment, I couldn't help but release a faint smile, next I asked her about her parents and she was instantly in a sore mood, both of them died when she was 10 years old and since then, her uncles had been the ones managing the family, as for her own thoughts about this, she didn't share them with me .
But there was a lot of resentment in her voice as she spoke about them, just as we kept chatting for a little bit more than an hour, Wi Jon suddenly slapped the cauldron in front of him suddenly and this startled both of us .
Turning towards him, I saw that the pill had already started to form and he was a unique method of using the fluctuations from the sound wave produced by him slapping the furnace, it was a unique method that helped in purifying the pill one last time, before he finally release a sigh and stop controlling the flames, indicating that the pill was ready .
He turned towards me and said excitedly :
It's actually the fire, my ability to control the flames is insufficient to completely refine the Medicinal Energy without leaving some waste in the pill AND WHO MIGHT YOU BE ? .