Chapter 1: Junior Pharmacist

Qingfeng City, Lu Family Residence.
"Puff!"
A faint voice came from a dilapidated other courtyard room.
In the room, a young man in Tsing Yi looked at a transparent jade in front of him in a daze. To be precise, the teenager is not looking at the jade, but at the liquid in the jade. At this time, a pungent white smoke was slowly spreading from the liquid.
The boy's name was Lu Chen, a direct descendant of the Lu family.
"Failed again!"
"Hehe, I still can't be promoted to Intermediate Pharmacist." A wry smile gradually appeared on Lu Chen's face. He shook his head slightly and said softly.
Lu Chen is a junior pharmacist. As early as eight years ago, Lu Chen successfully refined the junior pharmacy and became a junior pharmacist. For the past eight years, Lu Chen has been working hard to improve his medicine refining skills and wanted to be promoted to an intermediate pharmacist, but he has not succeeded so far.
This is not to say that Lu Chen has no talent in refining medicine, but... he is a non-attribute physique!
On the Tamron Continent, people with no physical attributes are actually ordinary people. Ordinary people cannot embark on the path of cultivation, and cannot become a powerful cultivator.
Generally speaking, one of the foundations of becoming a pharmacist is to be a cultivator. It was an accident that Lu Chen could become a junior pharmacist with a non-attribute physique. If Lu Chen can really be promoted to an intermediate level pharmacist, then his status in the Lu family will also increase.
Unfortunately, as an ordinary person with no attributes, wanting to become an intermediate pharmacist is tantamount to idiotic dreams, which is impossible in anyone's eyes.
In fact, a few years ago, many people had persuaded Lu Chen to give up his dream of becoming an intermediate pharmacist. Because, in order to become an intermediate pharmacist, Lu Chen had wasted too many herbal resources. If Lu Chen hadn't wasted his money on buying medicinal herbs for refining intermediate potions, the wealth he had accumulated so far would be enough to make many people jealous.
Because too much money was wasted, Lu Chen hardly had any savings now. All his belongings are just a few gold coins. It takes about one hundred gold coins for one piece of body quenching medicine material.
"Da da da!"
At this moment, there was a sound of footsteps.
Lu Chen's eyebrows moved slightly, and then a smile appeared on his face. He quickly opened the door of the room and walked out, just to see a gray figure coming in from outside the courtyard.
"Grandpa San!" Lu Chen looked at the gray figure who had just entered.
The gray figure is Lu Chen's third grandfather, Lu Tianxing, Lu Chen's relative, and the elder of the Lu family. There are nine elders in the Lu family, and Lu Tianxing is just one of them.
"Refining medicine again?" Lu Tianxing sniffed lightly, and then said to Lu Chen in a gentle tone. He obviously smelled the herbs in the air.
"Well, refining the body tempering potion has failed again." Lu Chen sighed and said helplessly while looking at Grandpa San.
Body Tempering Medicine is a basic intermediate-level medicine. If it can be refined successfully, it means that Lu Chen has been successfully promoted to an intermediate-level pharmacist.
"Don't be discouraged. Intermediate potions are not so easy to refine. As long as you don't give up, there is hope and one day you will succeed." Lu Tianxing said with a smile. Although he said so, in fact, he had a heart for Lu. Chen didn't have much hope of being able to refine the body tempering potion, because Lu Tianxing knew very well how low it is that an ordinary person wanted to refine the intermediate potion.
However, he would not persuade Lu Chen to give up, even if Lu Chen kept refining and failed, he would not let Lu Chen give up. Because, compared to Lu Chen being able to become an intermediate pharmacist, he valued Lu Chen's tenacious spirit, which is commendable.
Lu Chen had been able to try to refine the body-tempering potions because of Lu Tianxing's support. If Lu Tianxing hadn't always provided the materials for body-tempering potions, Lu Chen would not have so much money to buy so many materials frequently.
"I will definitely work hard, Grandpa San!" Lu Chen looked at Lu Tianxing with firm eyes.
"Yeah!" Lu Tianxing nodded, and suddenly said in a deep voice, "I discussed with the elder, and he promised to speak for you at the adult meeting. With the help of the elder, you should be able to stay in the family."
"The Great Elder is willing to help me?" Lu Chen's eyes moved, and he looked at Lu Tianxing in surprise.
Lu Chen is sixteen years old this year, and Lu Chen must also attend the coming-of-age meeting held by the family this year. After the coming-of-age meeting, Lu Chen was an adult.
According to the rules of the Lu Family, the children of the family, whether they are direct or collateral, must leave the family after they reach adulthood, as long as they have no physical constitution and cannot cultivate. These non-attribute family children are generally sent to remote places belonging to the family industry to continue to work for the family.
The children of the family who are sent out have no hope in this life, and it is almost impossible to have the opportunity to return to the family. Because of this, no family child is willing to leave the family compound and go to work in those places.
Originally, Lu Chen, an ordinary family member with no attributes, had no chance to stay in the family compound, but because Lu Chen was a junior pharmacist, and the family elder of the third grandfather was there, Lu Chen had a glimmer of hope to stay in. Within the family. Now that Grandpa is also willing to help Lu Chen speak, then Lu Chen's chances of staying in the family as an adult will increase.
Of course, if Lu Chen could be promoted to an intermediate pharmacist before the adult meeting, it would be a different story. An intermediate pharmacist is very important to a family like the Lu family. Now there are only three intermediate pharmacists and one senior pharmacist in the entire Lu family.
It can be said that if Lu Chen is an intermediate pharmacist, even if he takes the initiative to leave the family, the family will probably not agree. Of course, there is only half a year left before this year's adult meeting. Lu Chen wants to be promoted to an intermediate pharmacist within half a year, and the chance of success can be completely ignored.
"Yes, the great elder talked to me yesterday. At the adult meeting, he promised to help you speak." Lu Tianxing smiled and nodded to look at Lu Chen.
"Grandpa San, thank you!" Lu Chen looked at Lu Tianxing and said solemnly. Although Lu Tianxing did not say much in detail, Lu Chen also knew how much it would cost Lu Tianxing to ask the elder for help. If there were not enough benefits, it would be impossible for the great elder to help Lu Chen.
"Are you polite with grandpa?" Lu Tianxing smiled and waved his hand casually.
...
The next day, the Lu Family Treasure Pavilion.
"Huh? Isn't this Lu Chen?" A somewhat sharp voice came from the front.
Lu Chen's eyes narrowed slightly and looked forward.
It was a young man wearing a white robe who made the sound. This young man's name was Lu Yan, and he was the grandson of the elder. Unlike Lu Chen, Lu Yan's position in the Lu Family is far from Lu Chen's, because Lu Yan is also sixteen years old this year, but he is already a practitioner in the late body tempering stage.
At the age of sixteen, he entered the stage of body tempering stage, which was regarded as a first-class talent in the entire Qingfeng City.
On the way of martial arts, there is bone refining first, then the body is tempered after the bone refining, and the marrow is washed after the body is tempered. After washing the marrow, that is the awesome innate powerhouse. In the entire Blue Wind City, the cultivators of the Innate Realm are truly powerful. In the entire Lu family, there are not many innate strong, and the Lu family in Qingfeng City is one of the three major families.
At the age of sixteen, you can enter the stage of body tempering, and it is very likely to become an innate strong in the future. How can the family not focus on training such excellent children as Lu Yan? What's more, Lu Yan is also the grandson of the family elder.
"Lu Chen, what are you doing in the treasure house?"
"Haha, is the Treasure Treasure Pavilion where you can come from? Trash that can't even step into the bone-refining realm, come to Treasure Treasure Pavilion?" The two Lu family children beside Lu Yan also ridiculed Lu Chen in a strange way. .
The relationship between Lu Yan and Lu Chen has always been poor, because Lu Yan's father was injured by Lu Chen's father Lu Yizhou, so Lu Yan has always held a grudge against Lu Chen. Had it not been for Lu Chen's grandfather to be the third elder of the family, Lu Yan might have already attacked Lu Chen.
"I'm here has nothing to do with you!" Lu Chen frowned as he looked at the three people in front of him, and then said.
"Hey, it has nothing to do with us? Lu Chen, do you have water in your head? Don't you know where the family treasure pavilion is? Did you come to the treasure pavilion and get permission from the Patriarch?"
"Lu Chen, don't blame me for speaking badly. To be honest, you are a trash with no attributes. You will never be able to embark on the path of cultivation in your life, and you will never be able to step into the realm of bone-refining! Are you still not convinced? Hey, Or if you use your internal power now, if you step into the realm of bone refining, I promise not to stop you from entering the treasure chest!" Lu Yan said harshly.
In fact, Lu Chen didn't come to the Treasure Pavilion to look at the martial arts classics, he just wanted to look at the refining medicine classics. Although he knew that he was unlikely to be promoted to an intermediate pharmacist in half a year, Lu Chen would never give up easily. Lu Chen wanted to find some inspiration for refining medicine from the ancient books left by the predecessors of refining medicine. Before arriving at the Treasure Pavilion, he happened to meet Lu Yan and others, and was stopped by the other party.
"Lu Yan, I am inferior to you now, but I may not be able to surpass you in the future. Now you are proud. When I surpass you, you can see if you can laugh." Lu Chen looked at Lu Yan, his mouth raised slightly. .
Although Lu Chen couldn't practice, he couldn't even step into the realm of bone-refining, but Lu Chen never complained about himself. If you can't make a breakthrough in martial arts, then you can improve on refining medicine. Try to become an intermediate pharmacist first, and then become a senior pharmacist. Then the members of the entire family will have to look at their faces, even if they can't even enter the realm of bone-refining.
"Hahaha, I laughed so hard. I have seen a lot of self-righteous guys, but it is really rare to see you shameless like Lu Chen!" Lu Yan laughed unscrupulously, as if he had heard a big joke, but Under his smile, there was a trace of insidiousness hidden in that gaze. In fact, Lu Yan's heart was very angry at this time. The reason for his irritation was Lu Chen's indifferent attitude that seemed to be overwhelmed no matter what.
"Lu Chen, hurry up for Lao Tzu, or don't blame Lao Tzu for being polite!" Lu Yan said in a gloomy voice, he really wanted to hit Lu Chen.