A Tale of Chase and Love s1

The figure who had just stepped out of the portal on seeing this scene, dropped his cauldron, which fell to the floor but did not make a sound.

The light covering the figure dimmed, and it turned out to be a man slightly taller than the beggar dressed in white robes and his hair reached his ankle despite being made into two ponytails.

On his left hand was a storage ring worn on his ring finger. The man had no beard and looked quite handsome.

“You… how dare you break in here,” the man who happens to be Han Liang’s Master Fu Tian asked, pointing his right index finger at the beggar. The beggar did not get up from the chair, but only smiled at Fu Tian.

“Elder brother, why don’t you introduce me to him? Why behave like strangers? You see, let me explain what really happened. I came here to say hello to you. But who knew where this rat came from? He wanted to cripple me. He did not even let me explain myself. Tell me, Big bro, would you allow it?” the beggar had removed his disguise and turned to Doctor Fu Jin.

“You see, I do have some grudges against this rat and his family. My first time of visiting them and healing their precious Han Ling they showed me disrespect. They also paid me in feces and urine when all I simply asked for was 500 years old demonic rat.” Fu Jin explained.

“So you have the right to cripple my disciple? ” Fu Tian was getting angrier with all that his little brother was saying.

“Come on, Big bro, he’s just a small fly. There are many phoenixes out there.” Fu Jin got up from the chair and bowed towards Han Liang, who was trying his best to bear the pain.

“I am sorry, little fly, but what you did was wrong,” said Fu Jin. He then turned to face his brother after lifting his head.

“Brother, it’s been so long since we met. Please let us drink wine. Enjoyment and happiness are good for the heart.” said Doctor Fu Jin and then he disappeared.

“You… come back here,” Fu Tian quickly threw a jade bottle towards Han Liang.

“Hold on, my dear, Papa will come save you. But first, I must erase that disgusting pig from here. Take care,” said Fu Tian as he rushed back towards his cauldron, which he picked up, and entered a portal that had just appeared. When the portal closed, Han Liang began to spit out blood.

Also, after he managed to swallow the pill with great difficulty, everywhere became blank. He had also lost his eyesight. If things turned out like this, then he is useless to Master Fu.

“So all along it was Master’s eccentric brother I offended?” he muttered. The possibility of him remaining the only disciple of Alchemist king Fu Jin is now very low.

He also remembered that the old man told him he had grudges against him because of the deeds of his family towards him.

What exactly happened that made Doctor Fu do this to him, despite knowing he was his brother’s disciple? Whom among his family dared to piss off this mighty being?

The best thing to do now was to wait for his Master to come back first, and then he would sort things out with his family.

For now, he should deal with the pain. Ah, the pain would have killed an ordinary man long ago.

The pill his master gave him was a rare pill that could repair a crippled person efficiently. This means Master still cares for him!

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At the bedroom belonging to Fu Tian, a beam of light appeared and the figure covered by the light walked to the edge of the small bed that could hardly contain two people.

“Elder brother is sure wise.” muttered the figure who turned out to be Doctor Fu Jin after the light had dimmed down. He took out a jade hairpin from his storage ring and carved a crest of a dragon on the wall.

Immediately, the crest emitted light and the wall parted to reveal a cauldron. He took the cauldron and disappeared with it into the secret alchemist library.

Meanwhile, Han Liang had recovered his sight and had also carved the crest of a phoenix with one of his golden bell hairpins, and the wall parted to reveal a cauldron that he picked and disappeared with it.

His destination was the same as his Master and Fu Jin- the secret alchemist library. That library is somewhere not even the current emperor can access unless he is bestowed a crest by Alchemist king Fu Tian.

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The dragon crest which can only be carved by a jade hairpin infused with internal or magic energy.

The Phoenix crest which is made by a gold hairpin.

The six headed turtle crest which is made by a wooden hairpin.

The tiger crest which is made by a golden dagger.

The sixth demonic flower ‘Basel’ crest which is made by a dragon brush.

The hairpins, dagger and dragon brush are bestowed to only five people.

The jade hairpin that looked cheap was bestowed to Fu Jin when Fu Tian was 120 years old and Fu Jin was 100 years old. The emperor was given the dragon brush so he holds the ‘Basel’ crest. Han Liang was given the golden hairpins as the only disciple of Fu Tian. The sect had of ‘Black peach’ holds the golden dagger and lastly, The immortal shape-shifting fox, Hua Lei holds the wooden hairpin.

So this library’s existence is only known to so few people and only them and their descendants can enter.

The Fu family has always been the caretakers of the secret alchemist library until they all died mysteriously in their various homes. Only Fu Tian and Fu Jin survived.

They were 40 and 20 years old at that time. Fu Jin had not known of the library’s existence until 80 years later. Both had chosen different paths since their relatives all died.

The enemy behind it was the Xia family’s patriarch, Xia Jin, whom Doctor Fu Jin had long murdered on his trip to find a particular herb called ‘Shuliang’

There are 4 sects here in the capital.

There is Black peach where Jin Ehuang was once a student, Arrow, Petals, which is meant for only females, and finally Dragon sea.

The first-rate sects in the whole of Luo Ye amount to 6.

The second- rate sects are 10.

The 3rd rate sects are 29.

And finally, the trash grade sects are numerous. The country of Luo Ye is vast, consisting of 200 towns, 2000 villages and lots of sects. The current population of people who really reside in the capital is 25 million. Each village has at least 20 thousand people residing in it, while in town apart from the capital, you could find 3 million people.

Most of these people cannot cultivate. It is only the nobles and those blessed by heaven that can cultivate.

Let’s head back to the story.

The three of them (Fu Tian, Han Liang and Doctor Fu Jin) were now standing on three stages carrying a cauldron.

“Fu Tian, it’s been so long since I had any opponent so please, let this brother ask for your permission to fight,” said Fu Tian whose eyes were red. The disciple he trained for 5 years was crippled by his brother over a little problem he had with the Han family.

It hurt him when he couldn’t stop Han Liang from being crippled even though Han Liang’s cultivation had been restored by the miraculous pill he created last month, he wasn’t sure if Han Liang was still the genius he was. Fu Jin, however, did not want to fight.

“Big bro, I already apologised to him and besides, you promised to give me your monkey wine if I apologize for my misdeeds.” Fu Jin then bowed his head seven times.

“This should be enough. Now let’s prepare to celebrate our lively ‘reunion’. Han Liang go prepare the inner chamber for us. Today, we will get drunk. It’s a pity we don’t have fine beauties to enjoy.” said Fu Jin.

Hearing his brother’s words, Fu Tian released his aura that no one had ever felt in full. The temperature in the library began to rise by several degrees. Seeing that things had turned out like this, Fu Tian smiled.

“Let’s fight, shall we?” Fu Jin asked.