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章節 22: Alchemy Hall

Alex made a fist with his hands and was shocked at how much strength he could feel in them. The pain he had just felt, the transformation of his normal Qi into Yang Qi, had also in some minor ways changed his physical body as well. 

While he was still at Muscle Tempering 7th Realm, he could tell that he was ever so slightly stronger. He wanted to check what changes his new form of qi brought to his techniques. 

But alas, there was no fire around to see if anything had changed. 

Grrrrrr

His stomach cried out. The inner transformation had left him feeling hungry. 

"Now that I think about it, I'm surprised I have gone so long without feeling hungry or thirsty. Does being a cultivator make you no longer need a lot of sustenance?" he wondered. 

He looked at the clock and realized it was only 4 PM. There were still 3 hours before dinner time. There was no homework, so he was free to do whatever he wanted today. 

He decided to go eat something in the sect valley but stopped. 

"Wait, doesn't food cost contribution points as well?" he quickly checked the rulebook and he could in fact not eat anything without contribution points. 

Even the cheapest stuff costs about 2 contribution points. Also, he couldn't leave the sect without permission from an elder, so there was no way to go to the city to get something to eat. 

'Sigh. I guess it's time to go work now.' He got out of his cottage. He walked back to the valley. This time, however, he needed to go to the Alchemy Hall. 

He quickly checked the map and found it. He thought he would be jaded by now, seeing all the different massive halls, but, he was still surprised when he saw the Alchemy Hall. Perhaps more than everything else he had seen in the sect valley.

The Alchemy Hall wasn't just a simple building. It was located at the very corner of the sect valley and seemed to be carved into the sect leader's mountain. 

It was a simple one-story building, but he couldn't tell how far into the mountain the hall went. He looked at the entrance of the hall and saw a bunch of light green robe-wearing disciples standing side by side. 

Once in a while, an inner sect disciple would come, and pick one of the outer sect disciples and take them inside.

'Were the outer sect disciples standing here to be chosen as aid?' he wondered. 

He walked up to a small station outside the hall where an elder was staying. 

"Good afternoon elder. I wish to work as an Alchemist's aide. Can you tell me what I have to do?" he asked politely. 

"Hmm…." The elder looked toward Alex and asked, "Is this your first time here?" 

Alex was surprised. 'How did he know?' there shouldn't have been any clue yet the elder found out at once. 

"Yes, elder. This is my first time." He said honestly. 

"How good are you at recognizing ingredients?" the elder asked him.

Alex was surprised. That wasn't what he had expected the elder to ask him at all. 

"I would say it's very good," Alex said, not knowing if that felt like he was bragging or just being honest.

The elder's eyes perked up at the answer. He reached into his storage bag and brought out 3 items. 

One was a small, yellow fruit. The other was a strangely purple leaf. And the last one was a brown bark from a tree. 

"What are these?" the elder simply asked him to name them. 

Alex focused a little on the ingredients and their names popped up on them.

"They are Cat Eyed Berry, Purple Bane, and Forest Scale." He answered confidently. 

"Correct," the elder put back the items and said," Go stand among your fellow disciples. If an inner sect disciple needs you, they will call for you."

"Thank you, elder," Alex left and stood in an open spot next to a female disciple. 

He watched as inner disciples came and went. Most of them decided to take in aid, but some just went in alone. He couldn't help but wonder why some would need aid, but some didn't. 

He looked next to him and saw the female disciple fidgeting about, almost to the point that it looked like she was shaking.

"Are you okay, sister?" he asked. 

The girl turned towards him. She was not the best-looking female he had seen, but she didn't look that bad. She had long black hair and a small face with big eyes. And in those eyes was a small amount of fear. 

"I'm fine," she took a deep breath and stopped fidgeting. " It's just that I haven't earned enough contribution points for the week, and if I don't earn 5 more points in the next 10 hours, I will be punished. I am just nervous that no one will pick me." 

"Ah, I'm sure someone will pick you, sister." He said as he comforted her. They made some small talk before an inner sect disciple chose her as his aid, and went it. 

Her eyes had gotten truly bright when she was chosen. He thought he would have to wait out here alone for now, when suddenly someone talked ahead of him.

"Eh, junior brother. Aren't you the same junior brother who completed my mission?" A voice came from in front of Alex. 

Alex turned around to find a big, buff man in front of him. He looked at the person's face and thought he had seen it before. 

"Ah.it's you, Brother Kong. it's good to see you here. I almost didn't recognize you since I only saw you in the darkness of evening." 

Yes, the man in front of him right now was Kong Yuhan, the inner sect disciple. The same person who he had sold his Dwarf Berry to last night. 


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章節 23: The Task of an Aid

"What was your name again junior brother? Yu Ming?" Kong Yuhan asked. 

Alex was surprised. He didn't remember ever telling him his name. He replied with a shocked expression, "That's right, brother Kong."

Kong Yuhan saw his shocked expression, and asked, "Why do you look shocked junior brother? Did you think I wouldn't recognize you just because I only saw you once? You brought me a very important ingredient. You are a benefactor to me, and this Kong always remembers his benefactors."

"Ah, no brother Kong. I was just surprised you somehow figured out my name. Even though I didn't remember you asking for my name." He replied honestly. 

"Hmm. You didn't? Then I must've read it in your nameplate. Anyway, that doesn't matter right now. Are you working as an aid right now, junior brother Yu?" he asked.

'Oh! The nameplate. Of course.' Alex felt stupid for not realizing that. 

"Yes. I am waiting for someone to pick me as an aid." 

"Do you want to come with me?" Kong Yuhan asked.

Alex's eyes brightened. 'Finally' he thought. 

"Yes, brother Kong. I would love to." 

Kong Yuhan walked into the hall and brought Alex along with him. The inside of the Alchemy Hall was not what he had been expecting.

The inside of the hall looked like catacombs. It had a relatively narrow path that went straight for a dozen or more meters before splitting into 3 paths. Each of the paths had multiple rooms on each side of the path. The doors themselves were made of stone, similar to the walls. 

Lanterns hung on the wall to light up the pathway. At the very entrance of the hall, there was a big white rock embedded into the walls. There were many small boxes that either lit up with red lights or green lights. 

Alex looked at the carvings and immediately realized that this was the internal map of the Alchemy hall. Similar to all the other stones, and boards he had seen around the sect, this was also constantly changing forms, going from red to green, or green to red. 

Kong Yuhan looked at the map once and saw a clump of green lights in an area. "Come on junior brother Yu. Let's go find ourselves an open room." 

Kong Yuhan knew the path very well, so he simply walked straight through the maze-like hallway and reached an open room. He walked into the room and waited for Alex to enter. 

Alex walked in and was surprised to see the room. The room was bigger than his cottage and had a giant hole in the middle. The steady fire was burning inside the hole, and on top of it was a black cauldron, ready to be used. 

Kong Yuhan took out his nameplate and placed it in a carving on the wall next to the open door. Suddenly, a massive block of stone came down from the open door and blocked it entirely. 

"Let's start junior brother. The room costs me 5 contribution points every hour, I need to take advantage of it." He said. 

He took the cauldron on top of the fire and set it aside at a corner. He then took out his own cauldron and put it on top of the fire. His cauldron seemed to be made of a dirt-like brown color, but more polished than the black cauldron. It was without a doubt better than the other cauldron. 

He waited for the cauldron to heat up and took out his storage bag. He then handed to storage bag to Alex. 

Alex was confused now. What was he to do with the storage bag? He looked inside and saw a bunch of alchemy ingredients, including the dwarf berry. He decided to ask.

"Brother Kong, what do I do with this?" 

"Huh, why are you asking? You should know this as an aid already." Kong Yuhan was surprised at the question as well,

"This is my first time working as an aid brother. I only joined the sect yesterday." Alex said as he laughed wryly. 

Kong Yuhan frowned. "This is bad, brother. You should have let me know it was your first time. If you mess something up, I will be in big trouble." 

Alex got a little worried as well. 'I should have tried to find out what an aid does before coming here as well.'

"What does an aid do brother Kong?" he asked. 

Kong sighed, "The job itself is very simple, junior brother. You just have to give me the ingredients when I ask you to. The problem is that Alchemy requires near-perfect timing. So if you were to hinder my process by not being able to find an ingredient in time, I will fail in making the pill." 

"And this pill is very important to me. I only have one set of ingredients, so if I mess up here, I won't be able to break through to Meridian Tempering realm. I'm just worried that you won't be able to recognize what ingredient I ask, and be slow at delivering it."

Alex's eyes perked up when he heard this. "If it's just recognizing ingredients, then I am confident in being able to do that, Brother Kong." 

"Very well then junior brother, I shall trust you. The room already took my points, so there is no going back. Familiarize yourself with the pill ingredients and recipe in the bag," Kong Yuhan said as he closed his eyes and started meditating. 

Alex looked inside the storage bag and found out there were 13 different items inside. 12 of them were the ingredients, while the last one was a talisman. 

Alex took out the talisman and started to read it. 

<Congratulations, You have learned the recipe to [Spirit Enhancing Pill]> 

"Oh wow." He was surprised. He didn't expect to learn the recipe the moment he read it. 

'This must be because of the feature of [Alchemy God's Knowledge] that says I can learn all recipes instantly.' He thought


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