Chapter 8 (1/2)

Translator: Henyee Translations  Editor: Henyee Translations

“It wasn’t a fire; someone barbecued here…”

The director sniffed in the room and found it weird.

“Unbelievable! This is unbelievable!” Xin Qi shivered in fury. “Feng Gan, is this how you’ve been managing the refining rooms? By letting people barbecue and picnic here? The sanctuary of refining is now a diner? Unacceptable!”

The suffocating smoke and the intense smell of pepper and cumin both suggested what had been done there.

Thinking that someone had barbecued in such a holy land, Xin Qi couldn’t stop trembling.

Feng Gan, the director, lowered his head and almost cried.

He approached the fire and saw the marks of oil, soy sauce and vinegar all over the floor.

It was obvious that someone had barbecued or cooked there!

Gnashing his teeth, Feng Gan hurried to explain, “It was all my fault, Mr. Xin. I’ll check who used this room today…”

“Okay!”

Xin Qi finally nodded, “Find out who it is. If it’s a student, they will be expelled; if it’s a teacher, I’ll tell the headmaster to give them the most severe punishment!”

“Yes, sir!”

Feng Gan nodded quickly.

“This lab is unavailable for refining. I’ll use a different room. Have someone clean this up, especially the platform…”

Xin Qi was about to use another refining room, when he was stunned.

A drop of gold liquid had been left on the platform, where herbs were kept not far away from the fire.

“Is this… the liquid of herbs?”

He went up close.

The liquid was bright gold with intense spiritual energy. He felt that his muscles were revitalized even before touching it.

He grabbed the drop of liquid and observed it with a magnifier. The more he observed, the redder his face became.

“Mr. Xin…”

Feng Gan, thinking that Xin Qi was angry, said prudently, “I’ve asked someone to investigate it. There will probably be a result soon…”

Students with one illuminated star were already qualified to refine herbs, and that refining room didn’t require registration. So, it wasn’t so easy to track the users of that room.

“Shut up!”

Xin Qi interrupted Feng Gan before he could finish.

Xin Qi’s fury had been replaced by passion. He mumbled nonstop as if he had seen a treasure.

“The Smoke Grass and the Gold Thread Flower are perfectly melted!”

“The White Wood and the Tail Leaves are perfectly melted!”

“The Secondary Dawn Wood and the Purple Silver Leaves are perfectly melted…”

“…Perfect!”

…

“The twenty-seven herbs are perfectly melted without the slight conflict…”

Xin Qi shivered nonstop.

It was easy to melt herbs, but melting them perfectly without wasting any of them or causing other chemical reactions was an intricate task!

One could even say that it was impossible!