Chapter 250: Recruiting an Alchemist

"I met a woman," Liang Xiong started awkwardly. "She's a rising star of the Bamboo Silk House who has gone from Awakening to late-stage Aesthete in less than six months," he explained. "She's different from any other woman I've ever met. Not only is she a beauty, but she protected my sister from a Burning Yang Sun Bear that was affected by the eclipse the same way the Corpse Devouring Locusts were. She…"

"I get it, I get it" Bo Gau interrupted, one hand waving off further explanation as though he was shooing a fly. "She's the woman of your dreams and you're courting her," he concluded, flashing a brilliant white smile that stood out sharply on his soot-streaked face. "Why come to me then? Do you want me to concoct an elixir for her?"