Benjamin Evans looked at the fat old man flying away, feeling mostly speechless. His master had once introduced him to most of the important figures in the Hundred Peaks Sect, and this grand-uncle Jonathan Morris had been especially emphasized.

One of the few powerhouses in the Hundred Peaks Sect! Jonathan Morris! With extremely high cultivation, he was one of the top alchemy masters in the sect! If you ever meet him, you must treat him well.

This time, Benjamin Evans had been very careful in checking the alchemy materials to ensure everything was in order, since he was tasked with finding and delivering them. It was clearly for the Mingxin Morning Dew Pill, but who would have thought that grand-uncle would be so shameless as to bring along an extra set of ingredients for the Blazing Fire Frenzy Pill and start refining that instead!

“Sigh! I can only ask Master to go to the Sect Leader and demand an explanation.” Benjamin Evans sighed, knowing in his heart that even if grand-uncle admitted it was the Blazing Fire Frenzy Pill and agreed to compensate, it would probably end up as a bad debt.

“Senior brother, why did that senior from the sect just now go to Four Treasures Peak?”

The disciple who had been questioned by Jonathan Morris earlier couldn’t help but step forward and ask Benjamin Evans, wanting to know in case things went south so he could find an excuse to get a token to leave the sect and avoid trouble for a while.

“Don’t worry, junior brother.” Thinking of Brian Carter, who had swindled his spirit stones, and how even cursing a sect powerhouse would bring bad luck, Benjamin Evans’s gloom instantly vanished, and he said cheerfully, “This has nothing to do with you, so just relax.”

The disciple who had been questioned by Jonathan Morris finally felt at ease and left.

Benjamin Evans happily watched in the direction Jonathan Morris had left, not too worried. That fat old man finding Brian Carter was only a matter of time, and then he’d question him about the curse and how he knew it was the Blazing Fire Frenzy Pill.

Wait! Wrong direction? Is he bad with directions? Benjamin Evans suddenly felt the world spinning. He suddenly remembered that Jonathan Morris had a twin brother named Oliver Morris! Also a powerhouse in the sect! His alchemy skills were average, but he was obsessed with alchemy! He often impersonated Jonathan Morris’s name, and was a notorious swindler in the Hundred Peaks Sect and even the entire cultivation world!

“That person just now... was it Oliver Morris?” Benjamin Evans suddenly felt despair. If it was the great swindler Oliver Morris! Then even if he reported it to the Sect Leader, it probably wouldn’t do much good! Too many people in the sect and the cultivation world had been tricked by him!

“Shopkeeper, why did the master of Four Treasures Peak know it was the Blazing Fire Frenzy Pill just from behind the door?” The servant standing nearby asked in a low voice, puzzled.

How did he know it was the Blazing Fire Frenzy Pill? Benjamin Evans suddenly felt something was off! How did Brian Carter know it was the Blazing Fire Frenzy Pill? Was it just a coincidence that he was familiar with the recipe? Or was he really skilled in alchemy? That didn’t make sense! Four Treasures Peak wasn’t founded on alchemy!

The more Benjamin Evans thought about it, the more uneasy he felt. If Brian Carter of Four Treasures Peak was really skilled in alchemy? And now a powerhouse obsessed with alchemy was going to find him? Wouldn’t that be sending him a powerful backer? Could it really be such a coincidence? Probably not! If he was really skilled in alchemy, Four Treasures Peak wouldn’t be in its current state.

That’s right! Probably not! Benjamin Evans quickly calmed down. The one going to Four Treasures Peak was the old swindler Oliver Morris! Brian Carter was definitely going to be swindled badly!

Brian Carter had no idea what Benjamin Evans was thinking, nor did he know that one of the sect’s few powerhouses was looking for him. He spent a spirit coin to ride the Immortal Cloud Car back to Four Treasures Peak, and found the courtyard even livelier than when he had left.

Chapter 13: Brother! You got lucky!

“You’re misleading the disciples!” In the courtyard of Four Treasures Peak, a middle-aged man dressed in the Hundred Peaks Sect’s Daoist academy teacher’s robes pointed at Ashley Grant and roared angrily, “You’re committing fraud! I’m going to report you to the Sect Leader!”

Emily Morris and the others in the courtyard stood behind Ashley Grant with worried faces, while Ashley Grant kept bowing and apologizing to the furious man, repeatedly saying, “Please don’t be angry, how much do you want? We’ll compensate, we’ll pay double…”

“Compensate? Can you even afford it?” The middle-aged man’s face twisted with rage. “These children are the future pillars of each peak! Yet you teach them the wrong alchemy recipes! If they really follow your recipes in the future, won’t it waste a huge amount of materials? It could even cost lives!”

Charles Brooks? Brian Carter instinctively smiled. This man had been his desk mate and classmate back in the Daoist academy! And one of the few he could really talk to!

Back then, when Charles Brooks failed the selection, the original Brian Carter had been downcast for days, feeling sorry for this rare friend he could confide in.

“Mr. Brooks, this is our fault, we admit it.” Ashley Grant took the water handed over by Xiao Beiyan and offered it to Charles Brooks with both hands, saying, “Please calm down.”

“Don’t give me that!” Charles Brooks waved the teacup to the ground and shouted toward Brian Carter’s room, “Get the peak master out here! He must apologize to me in person today!”

Behind Charles Brooks’s angry expression was a hidden sense of pride. All these years, whenever he thought of the day the Four Treasures Peak master chose Brian Carter over him, he would grit his teeth in hatred.

Charles Brooks couldn’t understand. He had drugged Brian Carter before the assessment, and he had clearly won the duel! Why did the Four Treasures Peak master choose Brian Carter? Leaving him to be just a teaching assistant and an outer disciple at the Daoist academy.