39- Alchemy Exchange [I]
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Adel's figure caught the young woman's attention as she squinted her eyes. But she had a peculiar smile on her face, as if she had expected everything...
The elder coughed nervously, then pulled Adel to him through his shoulders and started talking:
"Excuse me, Alchemist Alder. I'm sure that there's a misunderstanding between us. " An elder who resembled a monk, with a bald head and a black dot on top of his head, which indicated that he was most likely a Buddhist, in addition to his alchemist profession.
"You have one final chance, Alchemy Alliance. I don't have ample time, so if you could please hurry up and start this alchemy exchange of information, that would be wonderful. "Adel stated stiffly, sounding upset by the previous incidents.
The elder who grabbed his shoulder hurriedly nodded, with the best smile he could muster on his face. Though he was inwardly gloomy as he saw the arrogant treatment of the other party. But what could he do? He could only save that humiliation in his heart until... hehe.
Adel was oblivious as he didn't read the other party's mind with his mind-reading arts. And even if he knew, he wouldn't care.
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The young woman was seeing everything that was currently happening with a smile on her face, though inwardly she was confused, thinking: 'Could it really be him from the divination? Although he indeed looks the same, the way he's talking is entirely different from the divination... Could it be from my interverence today? '
Her mind became perplexed as a swarm of thoughts raced around it, citing her to make several guesses, but to no avail.
She could only sigh helplessly inwardly and proceed with the situation as it was.
Shortly afterwards, everyone got up as they started an alchemy exchange.
Because Adel was here for a different purpose: to win the Alchemy Exchange!
Despite knowing that his chances of winning the Alchemy Exchange were less than ten percent, he was still optimistic.
After all, there were third-step cultivators on hand who could construct 3-star pills, making it much more difficult for him to succeed with his current prowess. However, he saw this as a challenge to test how much he could use his abilities at his current level.
Alchemy relied on one's ability to control energies, which Adel mastered despite only being at the second step at the time. Then again, he was a former sixth step cultivator in all three cultivation pathways, so even if there were others only a step above him, he could get the gist of it.
Apart from his special soul, Adel would not lose his advantages over others until he reached the sixth step.
As a result, he needed to use his cultivation technique to lay a stronger foundation than his previous one in order to triumph over others in terms of strength in the future steps that would ensure him the strength to protect his loved ones...
Besides, he had a feeling he'd run into at least four of his harem members on this plane. Hence, he wasn't in a hurry to leave this plane. Apart from that, he had to remain vigilant. He knew the calamity would strike once he reached the sixth step's high stage, and he needed to prepare as much as possible.
As for the alchemy exchange, it was all about exchanging knowledge of equal worth and then concocting pills that were above their capabilities. As a result, Adel planned to stun them by producing a 2-star pill to raise his perceived value in their eyes...
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Adel came closer to a spot with the name "Alchemist Alder" hovering above it.
To be able to visualize his name like that, it looked like somebody had a high degree of control over their energy.
Adel had no idea that his actions had changed people's perceptions of him. Thus, they would use all of their efforts to persuade him to remain in their alchemical alliance.
Adel didn't ask any more questions because it seemed that perhaps the concocting of pills came before the exchange of knowledge, so he just started concocting the pills with the recipes he'd obtained with the cauldron.
Adel thereafter waited for the indication before starting to make the pills according to the recipes he'd received.
He could utilize the [Alchemy's Divine Technique] to purify the liquified ingredients beyond what they could be, even if he only obtained the ingredients to forge a 1-star S grade at best.
It was a method that made use of his soul energy. Hence, his soul energy was large enough to support a tier 6 spell, so unless he intended to construct a 3-star S grade pill, such a matter wouldn't be too taxing.
He could achieve it, but it would be at the expense of his soul. The fee, however, would be easily removed after a night's rest, so it wasn't a massive strain. Besides, he couldn't make a 3-star pill with 1-star pill ingredients, and it would be weird if he could, since medicinal properties vastly differed in their uses between stars.
The ingredients were many, including: Green Viphiage, Red Lotus Ebasil, Akegrass...
He then casually seized them with his soul energy, before converting the water attribute to fire with the [Alchemy's Divine Technique], before burning them into the purest liquification form the herb could possibly attain...
He then turned the fire attribute back to water before condensing the liquid into a little cylindrical pill.
Shining lights flew out in all directions as the pill formed from his concoction technique, drawing everyone's attention.
Adel couldn't say anything. He expected it would do something like that, but not to the extent of dazzling everyone! And besides, if it required crossing a full star with the highest grade and the ingredients of a whole star below it, it needed to cause some sort of phenomenon upon its creation.
He sighed, shook his head, and then took the pill, indifferent to the elders' puzzled looks...