Chapter 57：Third Lily (1/2)

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.

”Hmm… is this your first time? The garden is always like this. We try not to interfere with how the plants grow and only take what we need. Although sometimes it's hard to find exactly what you are looking for.” She said

Alex looked around a bit more. He was ignoring the feeling he had when he saw an alchemy ingredient. He was jaded to the feeling and could control himself now.

He used his spiritual sense to look at the different plants. Various information flooded into him, even telling him what the ingredients were. He didn't even have to focus to know now.

As he went forward, he stopped when he saw his master had stopped as well. He tried to look at what was in front of her. When he saw the flowers, he was surprised.

”A Spirit Cleansing Lily?” he asked.

”Yes. It has been in this garden for years now. It's highly regulated by the elders, so nobody gets to even look at it under normal circumstances.”

She turned towards Alex and asked, ”Can you tell me which one is the real one?”

Alex looked at the flower bed and walked towards it. After reaching it, he simply pointed to a blue flower in the midst of the flower bed.

Ma Rong looked at him nervously, ”Are you absolutely sure?” she asked. He nodded confidently. Ma Rong took a deep breath and grabbed the blue flower with a nervous hand.

”Here goes nothing.” She picked the flower. She half expected all the rest of the flowers to wilt, but they didn't.

”I did it. I did it. Haha, I finally got a Spirit Cleansing Lily.” She was so excited that she nearly jumped up and down. After she settled down from her excitement, she looked at Alex like he was a gem. ”So, you really have the talent to tell apart the alchemy ingredients huh. That is gonna come in handy very much.”

”Give me your nameplate.” She said. Alex took out his nameplate and handed it to her. She was about to change something in the nameplate when she noticed he already had a pill registered under his name.

”You have already made pills? Didn't you join less than 2 weeks ago?” She asked.

”Yeah. I made it the day before I left to hunt.” He answered.