The auctioneer happily said, “Of course, we have private rooms here sir, we offer various services to not onl-”
“How much will it be?” He coldly spoke, not being friendly at all.
“It will be 1 Spirit Stone per hour, you can go to the building behind you and can take a private room.” He pointed behind Shen Yuan and spoke.
Shen Yuan nodded and tossed him a Spirit Stone, heading inside the building and entering one of the rooms.
Throughout the way the alchemist didn’t say anything and neither did Shen Yuan say anything.
After entering the room, Shen Yuan stood straight and looked at the alchemist with cold eyes, making him shudder.
“Wh-why- what do you want from me!?” He asked in a shivering voice looking at Shen Yuan’s cold gaze.
“How do you feel killing all of your victims?” He answered with a question instead, looking straight at him.
The alchemist’s expression lit up with joy at the mention of his victims, “Ah those were the truly good times, going anywhere and doing whatever I wanted. I was treated like a king due to my status as an Alchemy Master,” he paused for a bit, remembering about the old times as he continued speaking in a gate filled voice,
“But those bastards came and caught me one day, fucking hypocrites raising the banner of justice when they are nothing better than me..”
He continued blabbering, Shen Yuan had enough as he raised his hand, “Are you now happy remembering those old times? Now you can die happily.”
The vile alchemist’s eyes widened as he shouted, “Wait! I can help you in alchemy or even tell you the forbidden formula I found to make an immortal pil-”
His voice was cut short as Shen Yuan thrust his hand through his chest, grabbing his heart and ripping it out.
“You can take the recipe together with you to hell.” Shen Yuan spoke coldly to him.
All the alchemist could do was stare at Shen Yuan in anger and hatred, “I will fucking kil-” his voice was cut short as he dropped down dead on the ground.
The heart in his hand turned into thick red liquid and seeped into his skin, he could feel something changing inside of him as the system’s prompt sounded.
[Ding!]
[Unknown Bloodline has initiated the absorption of Low-Grade Minor Talent Alchemy Talent.]
[Ding!]
[Due to the effects of Purity Physique, the Tier of Low-Grade Minor Alchemy Talent has been upgraded to Mid Grade Minor Talent.]
[Ding!]
[Due to the effects of False Chaos Physique, the Tier of Low-Grade Minor Alchemy Talent has been upgraded to High-Grade Minor Talent.]
Shen Yuan closed his eyes to feel the alchemy fire burning brightly inside of his dantian.
Meanwhile, Yue Lan was still looking at him in amazement as she spoke,
[I didn’t know you would get used to your bloodline so soon, you used it perfectly.]
Shen Yuan nodded his head as he finally broke into a slight smile after feeling the wonderful effect of the Alchemy Talent.
“See? Isn’t this much better than spending 10,000 Chaos Coins in the system store to get merely a Low-Grade Minor Tier Talent for alchemy?” He thought about the shady prices of the system and thought that this was a much better way to get talent.
[Hey! It was 9,999 Chaos Coins, get that correct first. And second, do you think anyone in the world can extract the Talent or Physiques of others? My prices are already very fair. You can’t find the things I sell in my store in the outside world even if you sell a whole mortal plane.]
Yue Lan quickly defended herself and explained the reason for the price. Shen Yuan shook his head lightly and changed the topic,
“Anyways, I didn’t know that my physiques could change the tier of my talent. Will they change the tier of all talents? Because I remember it didn’t happen before.” He asked curiously as he wanted to know more about his physiques and how he could use them better.
Yue Lan replied lightly,
[Not all talents can be upgraded, the Alchemy Talent is special, and only a few more can be upgraded like this. So you better collect them all. They will be helpful later.]
Shen Yuan nodded in understanding as he looked at the corpse one last time before he left the room, heading outside.
The fat auctioneer saw him leaving but didn’t question him what happened to the slave or anything, after he left he went inside to see what happened.
He shook his head looking at the dead body, “Aiya, what a waste. Looks like the sir had some grudge with this alchemist, maybe he killed someone precious to him.”
He shook his and ordered one of the workers to clean up the room and head back outside to sell his goods.
…
Shen Yuan returned back to the room inside the ‘Verdant Flame Alchemy Hall’.
He didn’t start alchemy immediately, instead, he went to the bed and lay down.
“It’s been a long day, might as well sleep and practice alchemy from tomorrow morning,” he said to Yue Lan who jumped down from his head when he lay down.
She said,
[Yep, rest is necessary at your current level, after you reach Origin Core Formation Realm, you won’t even need to sleep. You can just absorb Qi and won’t have any further problems.]
Shen Yuan and Yue Lan continued talking for some time until he fell asleep.
…
Shen Yuan woke up early in the morning, feeling refreshed from all the fatigue of yesterday. Even his spirits were lifted which he felt were down since the slave market incident.
He stood up from the bed came in front of the cauldron and sat down.
[Going to start practicing alchemy first thing in the morning?] She asked him as he was bringing out the herbs.
He said as he neatly arranged all the herbs, “It’s as good a time as any to start, I will practice for a few days first.”
He raised his hand and ignited the alchemy fire, he brought it close to the furnace to heat it up.
After he finished heating up the furnace, he started putting the herbs inside in a particular order.
Extracting their essence and mixing them up. Time continued to pass as he continued refining the herbs.
Soon he felt the time was right as he used more Qi to quickly finish the process.
As he opened the cauldron to look at the results, all he saw were black ashes at the bottom of the cauldron.
He shook his head looking at his results.
[You shouldn’t be hasty, Shen Yuan. You need to have patience if you want to learn Alchemy.]
“Alright, I will try again.” he took a deep breath as he began processing the herbs again.
The second attempt was a failure as well due to him being far too cautious and overburning the essence of the herbs.
The third attempt failed because he lost control of his alchemy fire for a second.
…
He was on his 7th attempt as he carefully prepared all the ingredients and started the process again.
