Chapter 31: Beginning My path to alchemy

Walking towards where she pointed I entered the library, where I saw an oldman was currently reading a scroll.

As I walked in he looked towards my location and rose and eyebrow.

'Who is this youngster? And those strange clothes!' he thought while massaging his beard.

Ken Hai cuffed his fist and bowed "Excuse me senior, I would like to know where I can beginning collecting knowledge."

"Youngster do you have a badge?" Ken Hai nods and shows him proof. The old man inspects and points to a section of the library the far left.

"You need to start from that side, then go down to the far right, those are books for beginners, don't go upstairs that's for the alchemists. You may not leave with the books, but you can take notes and don't forget to place each book where you originally found them." said the old man, Ken Hai only nodded while looking at all the rows of books he had to read, it was alot and he wasn't going to bother count.

Walking upto to the first row he took the first five books and then found a table. Looking around he could see five others, they were much older than he was.

Ignoring them he began to study.

"Hey look over there!" whispered one of the men, the other two looked at Ken Hai. "What's such a youngster doing here? And what is he wearing?"

"I don't know, but it's better to focus on studying, we have to take the alchemist test the next two months." said another one, the others decided to take his advice and focus on their own work, but suddenly a sound could be heard from Ken Hai's table.

*Flutter Flutter Flutter Flutter!* (An/:I don't know any sfx for this.)

Ken Hai was breezing through all the books, each page making a fluttering sound.

Looking on the others couldn't help but be wide-eyed at this. Shouldn't he read slowly to digest all the information he's currently reading?

Was what's on their mind, even the old man looking on could only shake his head in disapproval.

'What does that youngster think he's doing, does he think becoming an alchemist is as easy as cooking an egg.' The old man couldn't help but harrumphed.

What Ken Hai was doing though he was obviously using his sharingan to flip through all the notes, he could've read all the information without it but he wanted to be able to keep up with the speed at which he's flipping.

After a couple of minutes he finished up and went for a few other books, he placed each book where he found it and went back studying.

The oldman couldn't help but sigh and shake his head again, he just focused on his scroll.

Soon time went on and the sun was going down, every one was already gone and only Ken Hai was alone.

He was just beginning the next row "I think this is enough for today." I said as I packed up.

The first book was about what an alchemist needs are and about a few beginner plants that are useful for pill making.

The other books are about knowledge of various plants, pills and elixers along with a few alchemizing methods for some pills. At first I wondered if they have those why don't they have cultivation techniques?

But it was probably due to 'If it ain't broke then don't fix it mentality'. I could see that, the road of martial arts is supposed to be a long and perilous one.

Bullshit! With Rick's intelligence I could speed run my cultivation if I wanted to, just like that Raynor guy from that other fanfic. I honestly just want to take it slow and have an adventure.

Leaving the building I return to the inn ate some food I stored, played some video games and went to sleep.

Waking up the next day I ate some breakfast and brushed my teeth before going to the Alchemist guilds again.

Doing my same routine again, I learned of a couple more things about a few more plants and small poisonous herbs. These things really have some cultivation names.

Like this one herb that can temporarily paralyze a person it's called 'Paralzying Heart Flower' and 'Burning Sun Flower' which collects sunlight, probably contains yang qi, which mean their should be a plant that stores yin qi or collect moonlight.

Finishing this book I went to take up another book, when a hand slammed down on the table surprising me.

I look up to see the old librarian, with a pissed off look on his face and his aura covering his body, I felt the full force of his cultivation weighing down me.

"What do you think your doing stinky brat!"