Lingsha

The years he spent with Yunhua were the most fulfilling and joyful of his life. Like a sharp-nosed snake, he would flit through bottles filled with strange herbs, searching for strange creatures from other planets. The origin of Mara, the true essence of the Abundance Abominations, the medicinal pills that facilitated Mara's onset... Each new topic of research drew him deeper into this fascination and sparked a lifelong obsession. Each day brought new progress and new joy. However, during this time immersed in scent and fantasy, the Alchemy Commission had quietly become unstable and treacherous. After dozens of days and nights of internal surveillance, the tides of war spread, eventually engulfing Cauldron Master Yunhua. With a single command, he was stripped of his role as Cauldron Master and reduced to an ordinary human. In fact, he had sensed the strange scent coming from him. The teachers' whispers, the smell of unknown medicinal pills around the Alchemy Commission, the nights his master had gone back and forth to the Chained Prison after receiving a mysterious message... But by the time he realized how interconnected it all was, it was too late. He had sought help from his superiors within the Alchemy Commission, but his usually kind-hearted superiors had grown jealous of the previous Cauldron Master, and he received only cold responses and warnings. He repeatedly made a formal appeal, but each time he received the same response. However, he could not believe that the Cauldron Master, who was completely devoted to the well-being of his patients, would do something so unreasonable. Just as he couldn't suppress the urge to plead his master's case once more, Yunhua appeared out of nowhere and tapped him on the shoulder. "Dan Zhu, you don't need to plead my innocence anymore... I'm too tired, I don't mind leaving here." He ran after his master, but before he could say a word, he detected a strange scent... the scent of a conspiracy.