Zhan Chen took out more than a dozen boxes of elixirs and a jade slip from the Qiankun bag that Chu Danqing gave him, picked up the jade slip and looked at it.

Liuyun Pill is a sixth-grade high-grade elixir with water attributes, and the refining method is not complicated, but it is difficult to refine it well.

Because the medicinal power of water-attribute elixirs is usually relatively soft and mild, in the process of processing elixirs, the heat must be very skillfully controlled, neither too high, which will reduce the efficacy of the elixir, nor too low, so that even the elixir cannot be fully extracted.

The master came up with such an exam question to test his mastery of furnace control.

Zhan Chen was still thinking carefully, so he heard Chu Danqing on the other side say, "Okay, let's start." ”

He had to cut off his distractions, put his energy on alchemy, and as he usually did, he raised the furnace fire, then opened the jade box, put the elixir in it into the Dan furnace and began to refine it.

It is also strange to say that once he entered the alchemy state, Zhan Chen forgot all about his worries and exams. Now all his energy has been firmly attracted by the alchemy furnace in front of him, his fingertips are constantly changing, pinching out one seal after another, controlling the changes of the furnace fire, and turning the elixir into the purest spiritual liquid, all of which are done in one go, without the slightest stagnation and hesitation in between.

Gradually, Zhan Chen entered an ethereal state, and everything he had learned and done on the alchemy path in the past came to his mind at this moment.

In the eyes of the outside world, his movements are becoming more and more skillful, and the performance of the furnace control technique is becoming more and more sophisticated, as if it contains some kind of unique rhythm.

At this time, Zhan Chen had a strange feeling, that is, he was not alchemy, but playing a beautiful piece of music, which was obsessive and intoxicating.

What he didn't realize was that Chu Danqing, who was sitting opposite him, stared at him, with a strange light in his eyes, and stroked his beard from time to time.

It wasn't until he took out the pill in the Dan furnace that Zhan Chen woke up, staring at the blue golden pill in his hand, exuding a three-color golden halo, and he was a little distracted, this was the first time he had refined a golden pill with a halo on his own, and it was also a three-turn golden pill.

He tried hard to recall the state he was in when he was alchemizing, but he couldn't recall the feeling he had at the beginning.

"Hahaha, Three-Turn Golden Pill, Zhan Chen, you are the most talented alchemist I have ever seen, it only took half a year for you to reach a height that is difficult for other alchemists to reach in a lifetime, I really didn't mistake you!" Chu Danqing, who had always been rigorous, laughed heartily when he saw this, and was much more proud than refining the Three-Turn Golden Pill himself.

This is also understandable, how happy it is for a teacher to be able to teach an apprentice with a bright future, an apprentice who may be better than the blue.

Zhan Chen said ashamedly: "Teacher, I won't tell you anything, if you ask me to refine such a three-turn golden pill again, I will definitely not be able to refine it." ”

Chu Danqing smiled and said: "Zhan Chen, as a teacher, I believe that you will definitely be able to, if there is one, there will be two, and if there is two, there will be three! From tomorrow, you will be a qualified alchemist of my Nanhua Peak, just follow me to fight, and you are also one of my personal disciples!"

Zhan Chen was overjoyed when he heard this, which meant that Chu Danqing was willing to teach all his alchemy techniques to himself, and immediately bowed down to him: "The disciple must do his best and live up to the trust!"

Since then, he has often followed Chu Danqing for alchemy, and gradually learned a lot of skills.

Time flies, time flies, the days pass day by day, and Zhan Chen's people gradually adapt to life in the Xuandao Sect. The elder's work is very leisurely, except for the regular refining of some pills for the sect, the rest of the time is free for himself.

In the first three years of Nanhua Peak's duties, Zhan Chen mainly studied with Chu Danqing. On the other hand, he also refined a lot of pills for his wife Su Yun to improve her cultivation, and with his extremely extravagant support, Su Yun finally improved to another level and reached the high level of the Martial King.

On this day, he prepared a table of banquets to celebrate Su Yun's breakthrough, and the husband and wife sat and drank together.

Zhan Chen filled the wine glass in front of him, raised his glass and said, "Yun'er, today is a happy day. Come, let's toast!"

Su Yun smiled slightly, also raised the wine glass, the two touched the glass, and then drank it all.

Zhan Chen saw that Su Yun's interest was not very high, so he couldn't help but be stunned, and asked with a smile: "Yun'er, what's wrong?

Su Yun stared at Zhan Chen and said seriously: "Zhan Chen, I think I have really become a drag on you, in the past three years, you have been busy improving my cultivation, and you have never thought about yourself." ”

Zhan Chen poured himself another drink, and then said with a smile: "Yun'er, with the current relationship between you and me, do you still need to say such extraneous words, I am happy to serve you, besides, you are wrong, I am also cultivating and improving." You don't understand, Emperor Wu's cultivation accumulation takes an incomparably long time, and even with sufficient pill support, it is not possible to break through in a few years. Rather than that, I'd better improve your cultivation first. ”

Su Yun said: "Zhan Chen, don't be busy with me anymore, although the breakthrough speed is very fast this time, how can I feel that the foundation is a little unstable? It seems that it is not a long-term solution to break through with pills all the time." ”

Zhan Chen heard her say this, lowered his head, and stopped talking, it was true, even he felt that the power he had obtained by relying on pills recently was vain, not to mention Su Yun, who had been staying in the sect's paradise for a long time, she lacked the experience of blood and fire, and lacked the fight between life and death.

"Zhan Chen, don't be refining pills for me, in the near future, I want to consolidate it, and you yourself also need to improve. ”

Zhan Chen finally raised his head and promised: "Okay then, but Yun'er, if you need me, I can do anything for you right away!"

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In this way, Zhan Chen was completely liberated, and just as he was full of ambition and ready to make a big effort to launch a sprint to the middle rank of Emperor Wu, there was a major change that overturned all his previous plans, or rather, disrupted all the arrangements between him and Su Yun.

Three months later, Su Yun felt that she was pregnant!

What great good news is this? Father-to-be Zhan Chen became overwhelmed for a while, and he had no intention of cultivating, he would come to Su Yun to sit there whenever he had free time, and he would glance at Su Yun's belly from time to time.

Su Yun was amused by his look, and said with a smile: "What's the matter?

Zhan Chen smiled, and made a clumsy excuse: "Su Yun, I think you are the most beautiful now!"

Su Yun glared at him fiercely with big white eyes, and said, "My body is deformed, how can I do it?!"

"Beautiful, beautiful, our pregnant Yun'er is the most beautiful in the world!" Zhan Chen couldn't help but grin again.

The room was filled with an atmosphere of joy and drama again.

Under the careful care of Zhan Chen and his wife, after nearly two years of pregnancy, the two finally ushered in the birth of their son.

On that day, the morning sun was rising, and a loud cry was born with the morning sun breaking through the clouds. Then I saw that Zhan Chen excitedly and carefully held his newborn child, rushed out of the door, raised the baby above his head, faced the morning sun, burst into tears, and shouted: "I finally have a son! Father, mother, have you seen it?

At this time, Su Yun's slightly tired voice came from inside the room: "Zhan Chen, bring the child in quickly, give me a closer look!"

It was only at this time that Zhan Chen reacted, hurriedly returned to the house with the child, came to Su Yun's bedside, and asked with concern, "Su Yun, what do you think?"

Su Yun shook her head lightly and replied, "I'm fine, quickly bring the child over and show me." ”

Zhan Chen hurriedly hugged the child over. Su Yun held the child with both hands, put it in her arms and looked at it carefully, as if she couldn't get enough of it, and her face naturally showed the kind light of loving motherhood.

After a long time, she suddenly turned her head, looked at Zhan Chen on the side, and said, "Father, give the child a name." ”

"Take a name?" Zhan Chen was stunned for a moment, yes, the child should have a name, what should it be called? Suddenly, he saw the lovely early sun outside the window again, his face stretched out, showed a smile, and said: "This child is the same as me, he came to this world in the morning, what a coincidence! My name is 'Zhan Chen', he is called 'Zhan Xu', the sun is rising, full of hope!"

"Well, okay, it's called Zhan Xu!" the child's mother nodded happily.

In this way, Zhan Xu came to this world. Zhan Chen and Su Yunke, who were new fathers and mothers, were busy, and the two of them circled around him all day long, as if this child was the center of their world.

However, what Zhan Chen didn't expect was that Zhan Xu was not his first child. Many years later, whenever he recalled this incident, there would always be a faint trace of self-blame and a faint regret.