Chapter 160: List (2/2)
A middle-aged man walked into the room very quickly later. ”Mr. Had!” Wei Xi was astonished as she boomed.
This man named Had was Wei Xi’s teacher in alchemy. He was handsome and always well mannered. He was the foundation to the fandom of girls going crazed in the Sanctuary.
Heard the shriek, the man turned and smiled at her. He then turned back to the elder and bowed, ”Yes, my elder, how may I assist you today?”
”Had, I want you to look at this list.” The elder’s hoarse voice rang in the room. He tapped the processor on the table afterwards.
Ye Chong’s list was projected on the hologram floating before Had.
Had knotted his brows upon seeing the first few apparatuses listed. He seemed intrigued at first, till he saw the following items he lost his interest and in exchange, worries shrouded his expression.
”Did you see something? This is one list of request from a candidate of the Level 4 Trial this year. And we did not have any information of his background in alchemy. I think you should be able to discern something from the list. Most importantly, are you able to estimate his standards in the field? This is very essential for us. A skeleton artisan who knew alchemy like the back of his hands, how could we let go of a talent like this?” The elder’s voice trailed off…
Had pondered for a while and he stated, ”Judging by the list alone, the candidate could wield quite a high level of skills in alchemy. For example, there’s this Ever-brightening Powder in the list, it is an extremely familiar material that even most of our alchemists in the Sanctuary would be foreign of. Ever-brightening Powder needs to be combined with Falts reagent. That was a hidden law that it would not be surprising for an experienced alchemist to never hear of it. I was also one of them till one day I spotted it on one note by a master alchemist by chance. And the note was right. I discovered Falts reagent very soon after. Other than this, the list also has included a certain number of materials from plants, ores and non-extracting reagents, which was undeniably heading backwards from the current trend in alchemy. Yes, I suspect, he could be a kind of chemist from the ancient faction.”
”Oh?” The elder’s eyes lustered, intrigued, ”Chemist from an ancient faction? Very interesting. Anything unique about them?”
Wei Xi raised her ears, she would not want to miss any parts of this juicy and precious information of ancient lost myths.
Had hesitated for a moment… ”Um… the ancient faction held a total different ideology than the modern chemist. They worshipped the nature and they were exceptionally low-profiled. They were in the dark, not known to people. Only an official family member could be the successor of such artistry. Since they had existed beyond the records, the depth of their research in the alchemy was much greater than the current chemists in the field. They had their own specialization and somehow they have a kind of rapport between the branches. Mhm, I’m sorry I do not know anything else about this faction. I only knew this much after reading between the lines in the master alchemist’s note.”
”If he is in fact an alchemist from the ancient faction, and we were able to bring him into our Sanctuary, how would you judge his value?” The elder stated briefly.
”Ah!” exclaimed Had. ”That would be invaluable! Absolutely invaluable! We knew nothing about the ancient faction techniques! And they possessed a totally different theoretical framework than modern alchemy! They also only passed their expertise to their children. There were too many mysteries in their clan! If we could know all these! I believe the standards of our alchemists in the Sanctuary would be brought into an age of rapid development! And we could easily overtake those Black Covers and MPAs, we could even toss them at far end! This is absolutely, significantly bringing us benefits! My elder, you can’t let this man go!” Had’s face reddened out of agitation.
Wei Xi was stupefied upon seeing a docile person like Mr. Had was going wild over a mere man.
”Mhm, very well! He actually exposed his identity to us, that he could be an alchemist of the ancient faction! Then we should not have a reason to let him go. Those fools from our Sanctuary could barely make the simplest skeleton parts, even after analyzing the parts. Yes, yes, yes, if we kept him, this could be solved, since you know, skeleton parts are great parts.” The aged eyes of the elder were glossing in eagerness.
”Yes, sir,” excused Wei Xi herself, back to the outside of the room. She could not stay calm. She never foresaw all these. That young Mr. Ye being so highly regarded by the elder and Mr. Had. Wei Xi’s heart ran cold however… upon recalling the fate of this genius in that dark room just now. And obviously he was not the one in command of his own fate.
Sigh, a mere pawn like her could barely do a thing. Plus, the elder made his decision for the Sanctuary’s own good. Maybe his stay at the Sanctuary would be far more beneficial to him.
She comforted herself and tried mustering her last few bits of happy-go-lucky nature, even though that hint of grief kept haunting back.
The order she received from the elder was to fully assist Mr. Ye while reporting her observation from time to time.
She went to Master Fan and passed him the list.
The face when Master Fan got the list from Wei Xi was certainly priceless. That popping eyes of his and that never-before-seen epic wriggling of his face was amusing to Wei Xi.
Ye Chong soon received all the listed reagents and apparatuses.
If it was not the supreme advancement of these apparatuses, running through about 300 formula could kill Ye Chong simply at mixing stage alone. In spite of that, mixing all 300 formula still took 3 days. That was not annoying. Wei Xi, was however. Ye Chong was puzzled as Wei Xi no longer spent a portion of her time with him. She literally stayed with him 24/7 ever since.
The only saving grace though, was that Shang no longer expressed his flaring passion of terror towards Wei Xi. So his ears were spared. His inner peace was bestowed.
Wei Xi was watching every move of his and no doubt the cautious chemist had noticed everything. He sneered as he found her action rather ridiculous. Considering the complexity of the formula, even one with amazing memory like Ye Chong could not digest and remember everything at once facing the table minutes to minutes. That aside, he was performing metal transmutation to the bones - a very new concept in the field. There were tons of gimmicks inside the technique, without any proper instruction, people would not have the slightest idea on what he was doing, not even for one with alchemy background like Wei Xi.
So the possibility of learning by peeking was heading towards zero to infinity.
As he predicted, Wei Xi gave up her meaningless action not too long later, as these formula were utterly god-written. She tried her very best to memorize one simplest formulae once and passed it to Mr. Had, hoping to hear some insights from her favorite teacher. ”What is this?” Mr. Had seemed to be at the bewilder camp as well. He did not understand the working on the list.
And there she was impressed again, by the fact that Mr. Ye, one with similar age as hers, was already running through formulation that her teacher did not understand.
Sadly, eventually, such a brilliance, his fate shall…