Inside the inner hall of the Alchemy Hall, within a secluded chamber.

An elder with white hair and beard, a lean face, and dressed in a robe adorned with the Eight Trigrams, sat cross-legged in front of a purple-gold alchemy furnace, his expression focused as he controlled the furnace fire.

He was none other than Sun Baicao, the head of the Alchemy Hall, a mid-stage Golden Elixir cultivator, and the only third-grade alchemy master within the Qingyun Sect.

"Knock, knock, knock!"