Chapter 81: Learning The Techniques (2/2)

'What else do I need to do?' he thought. 'I still need to absorb that yellow stone. I kept it aside since I had to make the pills, but now that it's over, I should do it… maybe tomorrow.'

He practiced with the technique a little longer and started cultivating.

At exactly 6 am, he woke up. He logged out and got back into the game about an hour later. He waited for Ma Rong to arrive, and learned alchemy from her for a bit.

”Give me your nameplate.” Ma Rong said after the classes were done. Alex took out his nameplate and handed it to her. Ma Rong quickly scanned the nameplate and frowned.

”Why haven't you registered a single pill? You should have made at least 5 different ones by now.” She got a little irritated at how slow Alex was with becoming a Core disciple.

”Uhh… I will, master. I will start making pills today onward exclusively for registering.” Alex got a little embarrassed. He didn't think his master would ask him for the pills so soon.

”That reminds me, master. Here.” He handed the 2 books he got from Song Zun to her. ”It's the techniques Song Zun was using to sneak around in the alchemy gardens.”

Ma Rong took the books and flipped one to the front page. She read the page and said, ”It makes you invisible, huh?”

Alex was surprised she was able to tell what the book did from the front page alone. 'Can she actually understand the unintelligible words?' he could only read the letters but was never able to tell what anything meant.

The only thing helping him was the fact that at the end of the book, he would somehow thankfully learn it.

Ma Rong checked the next book and was surprised. ”An immortal grade technique? There is only one of those in the sect. Where did that thief get this?”

”There is an immortal grade technique in the sect?” Alex got surprised when he heard this.

”You don't know? You have full access to the library, haven't you checked yet?” she said.

”Uhh… I was so focused on making pills, I forgot about learning new techniques.” Alex said with a bashful face.

”Anyway. Keep these books, they are yours now. You can give them to me after you've learned them.” Ma Rong said as he gave back the book.

But Alex didn't take them and instead just said, ”Oh, I've already learned them, master. That's why I am giving you these.”

”You already learned them? But you only got it last night. It hasn't even been 8 hours since you got these.” She was surprised.

”I learned it last night at around 2 am. I stayed up late instead of cultivating.”

”WHAT? You learned it in less than 2 hours?” Ma Rong was getting more and more shocked. ”Show me,” she said.

Alex had simply stopped the technique from automatically working, so when he let it work again, all of his presence, cultivation base, and aura disappeared in a flash— All Ma Rong could see in front of her was a mortal Alex.