CHAPTER 18: The Small Stone Cauldron

CHAPTER 18: The Small Stone Cauldron.

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The Medicine Pavilion was divided into two sections:

The outer section and the inner section.

The outer section was primarily dedicated to transactions and was also where apprentice and adept alchemists mainly worked.

They had their study rooms and refinement chambers there.

The inner section, on the other hand, was where expert and master alchemists primarily worked.

This was the heart of the Medicine Pavilion .

Only individuals with a certain status could come here and commission work from the alchemists.

It was a place where not only the top experts of the Medicine Pavilion worked, but also where various ancient relics and legacies of ancient master alchemists were kept.

It was a place of alchemical history and culture, which only a few had the opportunity to visit.

In this place, in one of the rooms, a certain object began to glow.

It was a small refining cauldron.

In fact, it was so small it could fit in the palm of a hand.

This stone cauldron was an object that the researchers of the Medicine Pavilion had found in a ruin where it was said that a grand master alchemist once lived.

Unlike the other valuable objects the explorers had found in the ruins, this stone cauldron did not seem special in any way.

Initially, the explorers thought it best to leave it there, but some of them, admirers of great figures of the past like this alchemist, decided to take the small stone cauldron as a collectible item.

The object was evaluated by many experts, but they all said it was just a simple stone sculpture of a cauldron.

Thus, the small cauldron ended up being set aside in the Pavilion.

The cauldron, which was starting to glow with a blinding light, transformed into a ball of white light and flew away from the place where it had been kept for centuries.

In another area of the Medicine Pavilion, Ethan, who had been wandering back and forth for the last half hour, couldn't help but curse:

"Who is the incompetent who designed this place?

Damn it, it's worse than a maze.

And would it have cost so much to put up some signs to make navigation easier in this place?" he said, calling one of the richest associations in Sun City poor.

Fortunately for him, no one was there to hear him, because otherwise, he would probably have been beaten to death by the locals.

He was currently in a corridor with several rooms on either side.

Ethan had tried knocking on all the doors of the rooms, but received no response from any of them.

He had even tried forcing some of them open, but without success.

These doors, covered with various protection inscriptions, did not budge an inch under Ethan's assaults.

Seeing that everything was futile, Ethan continued to walk in a direction that he believed was the one he had come from.

'Come on, this will be the one,' he told himself, for the umpteenth time, as he hurriedly walked towards a corridor.

At that moment, he heard a strange sound coming from behind him.

He didn't know what it was, but whatever it was, it was approaching him quickly.

Just as he turned to take a look, a ball of intense light hit him square in the face, sending him flying several meters into the air.

By chance, the point where Ethan was flung was right at the exit of the inner section of the sect.

The attendant, who had been tirelessly searching for Ethan for a while, happened to pass by and saw Ethan coming in his direction.

"Ah, here you are. How could y—"

Just as he was about to complain to him for disappearing from the waiting room, he noticed that Ethan was not stopping.

When he was closer, he saw that Ethan was facing away and flying towards him.

"Damn, stop," he said, but it was no use.

Swoosh

The attendant didn't have time to get out of Ethan's trajectory and ended up being hit by him.

Both fell to the ground, rolling for a bit before crashing into the door of a room, which was destroyed due to the force of the impact.

Ethan, who had fainted after being hit by that ball of white light, didn't know the trouble he had gotten into.

In fact, inside the room, there was someone who was finishing refining a pill.

It was an extremely complicated pill for the person, but after several hours, she had finally managed to complete the refinement.

Few seconds were left, and the person would have created the pill that would pave the way for her's second adept alchemist star.

Just as a few seconds were left for the refinement to be completed, the door of the cultivation room was blown open, and two shadows streaked past her view.

The person didn't immediately understand what had just happened.

Everything had been too fast.

Before she could register what had happened, the boiling cauldron containing the pill disappeared from her sight.

"Huh?"

That was all that came out of her mouth as she turned to see the spot where the two figures had crashed.

To the side, towards the wall opposite the door of the room, two people were lying on the ground with a cauldron that now had a large dent in it, overturned beside them.

The contents of the cauldron had spilled only on the figure that was on top of the other figure.

Fortunately, or perhaps unfortunately, the boiling liquid had only partially soaked the top figure.

Too bad that the soaked part extended to the waist of the figure's body.

The attendant of the Medicine Pavilion, who had been hit by Ethan, was lying on the ground unconscious, foam coming out of his mouth, and his eyes tearing up.

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FRANK_LEE_JUNIOR:

Here is today's chapter. Sorry for the delay in uploading, but I didn't have a chance to write it this morning as I spent most of the day on the highway, driving back and forth between cities.

If it weren't for the fact that I'm trying to be consistent with releasing the chapters of my novel, I'd probably be asleep right now.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy the chapter, and if you have any complaints, error reports, or comments, feel free to leave them below.

Good night. 🥱😪