At a purplish mountain where unique vegetarian grew with abundant life where the radiant sun-eyed. The strong yet soft breeze caress the iridescent emerald grass blades causing them to wave with glee as it dripped fresh dew to the soil. The mountain was flourished with the purple leaf trees carrying it sweet scent with the wind attracting much wildlife. The purple leaves floated gently through the airs like a fish flowing with the stream. On the mountain, one can see a path going around the mountain like a snake slithering upward to the top where it stop a cave fuming with white smoke. From bitter to sweet, mixed of aromas came out in a rush as if it wanted to see the graceful sunlight after being trapped in the dark for so long. There sat a matured looking woman on the warm floor due to the furnace in front of her. In front of the dim flame, her phoenix-like eyes, her long black eyelashes, flickered under the burning orange flame cauldron. She wore a silky purple robe that if anyone saw it, they would awe in respect. Her long silky hair slightly flows back and forth as she stared at her dying flame until it was gone. At the bottom the creamy white yet cracked cauldron, a single brown-green pill laid still without moving. A size that was no bigger than a bird egg that no one would think much of it, but she stared at it with a nostalgic smile. A foundation Establishment Day pill. Even though it was a simple pill, it contained great essences of not only the earth and the heavens but her own soul as will. Just about the time she was reaching the sweet smelling pill with her pearly skin coloured fingers, she was interrupted by a small girl panting in and out like she ran for miles, which she actually did. Her green attire was covered in sweat that was unladylike, but she did not take much heed of it.
"Did you...hear about...it… Master Hanxue...Shan?" The little girl tried to be respectful as she gracefully bowed before Hanxue Shan, but it didn't look graceful as she breathed very hard for air. Hanxue Shan giggled with her sleeves covering her charming smile as her eyes gleaming eyes look at the person before her. It was her lovely disciple that she knew for years.
Hanxue Shan, once a young beautiful girl that was patiently growing out of her seed, was now a matured woman that many females would up too. Her personality was now tempered to that of soft lotus that would stay calm and afloat no matter how arrogant the water was. Not only from her beauty but also, her skills as an alchemist was kept in high regard. She would teach the younger students with a patient and a smile. For that, her popularity has increased over the long years.
“I haven’t. I’ve been busy. What is wrong?” She softly said to her.
“There been talked about all around the Violet Fate Sect that even the birds were talking about it.” She exaggerated. “Someone super important! Super famous! A legend!”
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"Oh, who is it, Poon An? Is it Chu Chuyan or Ye feimu? Did someone got promoted to furnace lord?" She was perplexed on what was going on. She hasn't heard of any test for it nor any gossip about anything for all that matter. She had been cooped up here for months on end. The only time she talked to someone was when her direct disciple, Poon An, bring ingredients for her. Other than that, she did not know much regarding the outside world.
“Grandmaster Pill Cauldron. The Grandmaster Pill Cauldron was seen again.”
"Meng Hao… To know that he was alive all these years, that is good. Which was the place he had been seen at?" She spoke in a calm voice towards the excited girl. Perhaps in the past, she would be excited like her, maybe infuriated, but now her emotion was stable to calmly think about it.
“I heard he made a seen at the black land, but there was not much information. Some said he was conquering the territory as his own. Other said some powerful geezer robbed him for his pills and he wanted revenge.” Hanxue Shan smile as she gazed at the blue sky as she remembered her days with the Frigid Snow Clan before assimilating with the Violet Fate Sect. She still remembered vividly about him. How they met. How he saved her, not once, but multiple times. She remembered him being surrounded by lotus as he sat still staring at it. And the feeling she had for him. Maybe it was love, maybe it was admiration, but whatever it was back then, now it something else, something stronger that got her this far.
“Whenever it snows, think of me…” She softly sighed with a grinned as she thought of that last moment she said to him. Now about two hundred years have slowly passed without any news until now.
"Master Hanxue Zhan, what happened between the two of you? You know after, you two separated?" Poon An questioned with great curiosity. She knew about the history between the two from her parents, but she talked very little about what happened after. Hanxue Zhan, nowadays, doesn't talk much about her past, but today she felt like talking about it. Maybe because it was the news about Meng Hao, or concocting the foundation establishment pill, or maybe she just felt like it, either ways she did not mind talking about those days.
“Hmmm, where should I begin?” She tilted her as she touched her index finger next to her jawline. She was pondering which time to start. “How about I the day I came here, the day I found out who Meng Hao really was. The day I found out Grandmaster Pill Cauldron was that Meng Hao.”