Alchemy of Nature

"To be honest, I don't know it's origin, but I know it's extraordinary..." The Middle-aged shop owner once again began to bullshit about the value of the rock.

Ye Xian quickly interrupted his speech and asked with an irritated look: "Price?"

Seeing the annoyed look on Ye Xian's face, the owner stopped his talk. He knows, the young man before him is a rich customer, but if he trades every item at a high price, the customer may even won't buy anything, so he immediately reduced the price to the minimum range where he will only benefit little out of it.

"500 gold coins", The Middle-aged owner said, since he brought the little rock for only 300 gold coins.

"Deal. Pack this Rock and 100 array plates!" Ye Xian took out 4500 gold coins and paid the middle-aged owner.

Behind Ye Xian, Fu Ziying and Fu Guang are speechless about the way he spends his money as it was water. "He is unquestionably rich." Both of them thought to themselves.

After receiving the array plates and the rock, the trio left the shop. They wandered around the 1st floor of the black crow's dome for some time and eventually left the tower.

Ye Xian also couldn't buy anything for little jade as he doesn't know much about herbs and pills. He planned to ask Fu Ziying about this since she's a Cyan ranked alchemy master.

The trio walked along the streets of the eastern division chatting themselves. Fu Ziying intended to find a place for him and Fu Guang to stay for the next few days till the academy entrance examination.

"What's special about that blue shaded rock?" Fu Ziying suddenly asked; she knows Ye Xian is no fool to buy a worthless rock.

"It's a Pure Thunder metal ore!" Ye Xian replied.

"What?? That rock is pure thunder metal ore!! Are you sure?"

"Absolutely"

She had read it on the books previously, this is an extremely valuable and rare material. If this ore were to be used in the creation of spirit weapon, its effectiveness and destructiveness would at least be ten times than the normal one!

She didn't expect Ye Xian to stumble upon it when he was just casually strolling around. Furthermore, this Pure thunder metal ore looks much bigger, which should be enough to produce two or three spirit weapons.

"Sister, what is pure thunder metal ore?" Fu Guang curiously asked.

"It's a very rare material one can only encounter by chance and it's priceless to buy it in a market. It's worth a minimum of 100000 Gold coins, while it can be sold for a maximum of million gold coins. Moreover, with this material, one can produce a High-Grade spirit weapon."

Ye Xian shook his head when he listened to Fu Ziying's explanation. 'High-Grade Spirit Weapon? Wrong. With this ore, one can create a Holy Grade Spirit Weapon, which is considered to be the zenith of the spirit weapon.'

Seeing Ye Xian's reaction, Fu Ziying doubted her words: "Did I say anything wrong?"

"No, What you said is correct. But with this thunder metal ore, one can create a Holy Grade spirit weapon, not some high-grade spirit weapons." Ye Xian nonchalantly replied.

"Holy Grade Spirit weapon?. You are jesting... Holy Grade weapon is just a myth. In my life, I haven't heard or seen any holy grade weapons. Even the name 'Holy grade weapons' was accidentally learned by me, when I read some books." Fu Ziying refused to believe in Ye Xian's words.

"Sister, What's holy grade weapon? Why haven't I heard of anything like that?"

"You know, weapons are divided into Low Grade, Medium Grade, and High Grade. But apart from that, there is mystical saying if a forger reaches a Zenith of Forging, he/she can create a Holy weapon.

A holy weapon is considered to be King weapon in their own grade nothing will be able to obstruct its path in their own grade."

"Even if you have the pure thunder metal ore, you won't be able to find a forger capable of forging a Holy Grade Weapon." Fu Ziying looked at Ye Xian and said.

Ye Xian simply smiled in response.

Fu Ziying is speechless. 'Who did he think he is? Acting all mysterious...He is really getting on my nerves.'

"I have some work so I have to leave now. If you walk along this street, you will find an Inn named 'Juhu Inn'. You can stay there for the next few days and don't go out anywhere without me; It's not safe. I will come and find you guys, once my work is done." Fu Ziying instructed Fu Guang and left.

She didn't even look at Ye Xian, from this one can understand she is clearly annoyed at Ye Xian.

----

After Fu Ziying left, Ye Xian and Fu Guang walked along the street as Fu Ziying instructed and found an Inn called Juhu Inn.

Once they got the room, they went to their room with the help of a servant. The room is sufficient for them as it had two bedrooms and one hall; Both of them took one bedroom for themselves to rest.

After Ye Xian went into his room, little jade which is hiding in his robe rushed out and complained to him with 'squeak' sounds.

"You are spirit beast if others found out about this, you will be in a dangerous situation. Wait till we reach a clear understanding of the Phantom city, then we won't have to be afraid." Ye Xian grumbled and spoke again: "Go play at one side and don't disturb me."

Ye Xian then took the alchemy book, from inside his robe and placed it on the cable. He took a deep breath and blew the clouds of dust in the book.

In the front page of the book, he could see a clear and neat title, 'Alchemy of Nature'.

He soon tranquilized his mind and began to concentrate his full attention on the book. Within a few seconds, Ye Xian was totally captivated by the profound words in the book.

'Alchemy - It's a creation of something meaningful from nothing.'

'It's simply a process of transmutation, purification, and the creation of something new.'

'In Transmutation, one will analyze and study how to change certain something. Example: Changing base metals into gold.'

'In purification, one will purify the unwanted things that will disrupt the alchemy process.'

'Creation, as the name implies, we create something new using the above two process.'

Each word and sentences gave Ye Xian a unique feeling, as he himself had written the book.

'So, alchemy is not as simple as creating medicinal pills; it hints to everything, which we create from nothing.'

In Medical way, a pill formula is created after careful analysis and research of various herbs mixed together.

After the analysis, one should purify the unwanted attributes in the herbs and using their own technique, they can create a pill.

After the first few pages of introduction to alchemy, the book began to talk about the various herbs, medicinal fruits, and poison-related medicines.

Even though the book only carried basic knowledge, every herb and their characteristics are clearly defined and illustrated. Ye Xian also knows basic knowledge is the key to a strong foundation.

------

Six days passed in the blink of an eye,

In the following days, other than eating, sleeping and some chat with Fu Guang; Ye Xian entirely concentrated in studying about various herbs and medicinal fruits mentioned in the book.

Ye Xian now thoroughly learned about various herbs which are grade three and below. Now, the only thing left is to obtain some Alchemy pill formula and practice according to the book; Then he will become an Alchemist.

'I learned about the basics things in Alchemy, the only remaining task is practicing. The entrance examination for new students is going to start in four days, so I better stop the alchemy practice and continue it after entering the Academy.'

'It's been more than ten days since I entered Early Level 9 of the mortal realm, but my cultivation shows no improvement.' Ye Xian pondered.

'My Cultivation technique is different from others; It seems like only after my physical body reaches a certain degree, my essence energy will improve. Sigh... To Improve my physical body, I need a lot of alchemy pills or natural resources ' Ye Xian sighed to himself.

"Whatever, I will take one step at a time."

Ye Xian came out of his room and saw Fu Guang in the hall, who's practicing his skill. What Fu Guang practicing is set of fist technique which is different from his Snow tiger fist.

Even though the skill looked exquisite and powerful, it lacked a certain intent compared to his skill. From this Ye Xian deduced, Fu Guang's skill is little lower than his skill which his father gave him.

"Brother Gunag" Ye Xian greeted him.

"Big Brother Xian, you came out. Did you finish practicing the alchemy?"

"No, I have only taken a first step in the Way of Alchemy. How could alchemy be easy, I have a long way to finish my practice." Ye Xian said.