บท 57: Third Lily

Alex followed Ma Rong down the mountain. The time was late morning so a lot of people were already in the sect valley going about their own business.

As soon as she left the mountain, she took a sharp right turn and walked towards another mountain.

'One of the alchemy gardens?' he thought. This was Alex's first time entering the alchemy garden, so when he finally got to see what the mountain was like, he was extremely surprised.

When he first heard the word 'garden', he had expected a well-organized and well-kept botanical landscape. But it was anything but that. This looked more like a jungle that no one had visited in over a century.

There was no proper walking path, plants grew wherever they wanted, and there was no way to tell what was required in alchemy and what was just useless weeds.

"Why is the garden so disorganized, master?" he decided to ask.