Chapter 2026 — True Identity!
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"Teach me alchemy? I want to learn!" Wei Zhao hurriedly nodded.
"Ahem... Could you change your tune any faster?" Bai Lingtou said, at a loss for words. "Weren't you acting as if you had no interest in it at all just now?"
"Uh... I didn't know you were going to teach me alchemy. If you'd told me sooner, I would have come to learn long before the freshmen gala was over!" Wei Zhao could hardly contain his excitement. The moment Bai Lingtou offered to teach him alchemy, he was so thrilled he nearly leaped out of his skin.
Alchemy had always been one of Wei Zhao's greatest frustrations. Although he appeared to have stopped studying it, the truth was not that he had given up. He simply could not make any headway. He could condense alchemical fire, but the instant he tried to alter its intensity or temperature, the flame would go out.
So it was not that Wei Zhao did not want to study alchemy. He simply had no way forward and could only wait for an opportunity, a chance to learn. There had been no hope of finding one through You Panhu, leaving him no choice but to seek another path. Yet sometimes, what one searches for until one's shoes are worn through turns up without the slightest effort.
Who would have thought that the Bai Lingtou before him was actually an alchemist?
Wei Zhao felt as if he might cry. He was simply too lucky. The first person he happened to save had turned out to be an alchemist. And he had nearly missed such an extraordinary opportunity. If he had not applied to Donghai University of Engineering by sheer accident, and if he had not happened to become Bai Lingtou's student, meeting Bai Lingtou again would have been exceedingly difficult.
"I thought you weren't interested in anything. You were acting so self-important earlier, as if you were something special. Now you're begging me, aren't you?" Bai Lingtou felt thoroughly pleased after hearing Wei Zhao's words. "Ha! I told you that sooner or later you'd become my disciple. How about that?"
"I... I was already your student..." Wei Zhao gave a bitter smile. When a man was beneath another's roof, he had no choice but to bow his head.
"Ha ha! Beg me. Beg me, and I'll teach you!" Bai Lingtou crossed one leg over the other, lifted the teacup before him, savored its fragrance, and took an unhurried sip. He watched Wei Zhao with a half-smile.
"Well... Bai Lingtou, please..." Wei Zhao shuddered inwardly. This Bai Lingtou certainly had plenty of peculiar amusements. Still, for Xiaoxiao's sake, Wei Zhao would even kneel and formally acknowledge him as his master, let alone beg him.
"That was too quiet. I didn't hear you. You don't want to learn? Fine, then. Go home. Come back when you've made up your mind," Bai Lingtou said.
"..." Wei Zhao was at a loss for words, but he still raised his voice. "I want to learn! Bai Lingtou, please accept me as your disciple!"
"Ha ha! See? What did I tell you?" Bai Lingtou laughed heartily. "Since that's the case, I'll reluctantly impart some knowledge to you beyond what is taught in class."
"Thank you, Bai Lingtou!" Wei Zhao said quickly.
"No need to thank me. However, the foundation of an alchemist is being a martial artist. Do you know what a martial artist is?" Bai Lingtou waved a hand, his expression returning to normal as he asked in a solemn tone.
"I do!" Wei Zhao nodded, though a sudden doubt arose in his mind. When he had treated Bai Lingtou earlier, Bai Lingtou had not seemed like a martial artist at all. His meridians had been shattered in some places and blocked in others, making it impossible for him to practice martial arts. Could Bai Lingtou be a practitioner of external martial arts?
Yet Wei Zhao had never heard of anyone practicing external martial arts who could refine pills. Then Bai Lingtou... With that thought, Wei Zhao eyed him strangely. "Bai Lingtou, are you a martial artist?"
"No." Bai Lingtou shook his head.