Zhu Xuan couldn't help but roll his eyes and thought "Who would want to be brothers with a shameless guy like you." But he put a smile on his face and started drinking the wine too.

The fatty introduced himself as a merchant from a minor merchant clan who sells pills, herbs and weapons in few shops he owned around the city.

Zhu Xuan introduced himself as Shikong Shen, and said that he is here to join the academy. After taking a few sips and getting familiar each other for a while, Zhu Xuan couldn't hold his curiosity anymore and asked "How did you even buy a snake egg as a dragon egg?"

Fatty Guo's face turned purple when the matter was brought up again by Zhu Xuan and replied with a bitter smile "How would I have known that bastard was so cunning brother?"

After listening to the fatty, Zhu Xuan understood how the fatty got duped and couldn't help but admire the guy who duped the fatty. The guy not only painted the outside of the egg looking like a dragon egg with an array to not let people see inside, but also used the timing that recently a secret ground was opened and even went to the extent of preparing a jade slip which looked aged with a message left inside about the dragon egg from a mighty sect existed ages ago.

The guy was so thorough in his scheming, the fatty only realized that he was duped after the egg hatched and a normal snake hatchling came out of the egg.

Zhu Xuan couldn't help but laugh and said "That guy definitely was too clever and cunning."

Fatty Guo said with a bitter face and raged "Do you think I would have fallen for it so simply if not for that guy being so thorough in his scheme? If I ever see him again, he will experience hell."

Zhu Xuan was confused and asked remembering the fatty hitting a guy outside the restaurant "Then who is the person you hit outside the restaurant? I thought he is the one who duped you."

Fatty Guo couldn't help but get angry again and shouted "No brother, I couldn't find that scheming guy. He must have already left the city when he sold that useless egg to me. The person I hit is my underling who introduced that scheming guy to me."

Zhu Xuan gave a hollow laugh and said "Forget about it man, take it as a lesson and don't get duped again."

He paused and continued "I have a good business deal for you. Are you interested?"

Fatty Guo got serious and asked "What kind of business deal?"

Zhu Xuan said "I'm an alchemist and I want to sell pills, but since I'm new to this city I need to buy herbs and demon beast blood to make pills. If you arrange those for me, I will concoct pills for you at a price lower than the market price after deducting the material cost until second grade, and I know few rare pills that aren't available in the market and can be exclusive to your clan store. What do you think?"

Zhu Xuan was not simply visiting various places since he entered the city to familiarize himself, but also looking around for business opportunity around the city. Even though he had Qinglu token and can become a VIP, he knew that depending on just them won't help him gain his influence in the capital city and he want to make his own foothold in the city.

So his plan was to sell his alchemy pills in the city. Even though right now he is only a mid grade apprentice alchemist and can only create up to second grade pills, he has few pill recipe that aren't normally available in the city which he obtained from the jade card of Jinghua Grandmaster. He also had the system where he will be able to gain even rarer pills which will not be available anywhere like Realm Breaking Pill, or the Transcending Qi Pill he obtained from his last mission rewards.

Zhu Xuan was frustrated with only his fire elemental roots has started to produce pure Qi, so he obtained this pill which will help him for the time being.

Transcending Qi Pill will help a cultivator purify the Qi pass through their elemental roots for three hours, but it is only effective for cultivators in Body purification stage. A purified Qi will help remove the impurities in the body of cultivator easily and help them breakthrough to the next level. But the pill will lose its effect if the cultivator keep using the pill, and according to the description it will help a person purify the Qi passing through the elemental roots completely for two times and from the third time its efficiency and time in purifying Qi will decrease.

Another reason Zhu Xuan planned to sell is because there is an ingredient for Transcending Qi pill that is hard to get called Rainbow sunrise flower. The plant absorbs pure energy from the sunrise and form colorful petals when the flower blooms which contains pure energy.

This flower is rare and hard to find with only his strength so when he heard Fatty Guo is a merchant and sell pills and herbs, he thought he will use this method to obtain the materials for concocting the Transcending Qi Pill.

Fatty Guo was silent for a while and asked "Brother, It's not that I doubt you. You are saying you are an alchemist able to concoct second grad pills and even rare pills that are only available with you making me hard to believe you when you're the same age as me. "

Zhu Xuan smiled with a smirk and took out his alchemy token and put it in front of Fatty and asked "Is this proof enough?"

Fatty Guo was shocked to see the token and the rank of it. He couldn't believe it even though he can see the token in front of his eyes. He calmed down and became excited and they begun talking in detail.

Zhu Xuan explained the use of two pills to fatty but put two conditions other than what he already discussed. First condition is to sell these two pills at the price dictated by him and only let the realm breaking pill be released now and hype for the next pill. He is not planning to sell the Transcending Qi Pill until he reach Qi gathering stage since he has other plans for those pills other than his own cultivation.

Second condition is to no one other than fatty will know that the pill comes from Zhu Xuan so that he didn't attract any unwanted attention until he is strong enough to defend himself.

After both of them discussing everything, they decided to meet in every ten days in a secret location to exchange the pills and materials required to create more pills for the next batch.

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Three days passed by in a flash and it was the day of the competition.

Zhu Xuan moved towards the direction of the Lei Shu Academy after leaving the inn early morning. When he reached the academy, he found many people in the open ground waiting for the competition on the side of the entrance.

He was surprised to find Wu Qian Ren, Wu Qing and Wu Shi Yun waiting at the entrance to the open ground and waved at him when they noticed him. He didn't expect them to wait for him and also waved back and walked towards them, not knowing the commotion he caused among other participants.

Everyone was in shock and wondering the same thing "Who is this guy to make one of the top ten inner court disciple and the beauty of Wu family waiting for him at the entrance?" and everyone remembered him and made sure to be careful of him in the competition.

The group of four took a seat on the seats surrounding the ground, and started asking Zhu Xuan about his arrival to the city and introducing various famous places in the city when there was huge commotion from the entrance. Everyone in the group turned around after hearing the sound and saw a group of people walking to the open ground.

Zhu Xuan moved to the front and saw it was Zhu Lang and Meng Haoran walking in the front talking to each other happily and his eyes immediately turned red with anger.