Age Does Not Reflect One's Knowledge

Hearing Shen Fei's words, Ye Hong's eyebrows slightly twitched while anger flashed across his eyes. Shen Fei was a little too overbearing! This thing was a bit too much!

If Shen Fei wanted to lay a hand on Xiao Ning'er, Ye Hong would definitely stop him!

Ye Hong snorted and left.

Shen Fei looked at Ye Hong's back. A dim smile was shown on his mouth.

'Don't think that my Sacred Family will fear your Snow Wind Family. Don't think that having a Legend rank Demon Spiritualist is so great. There will be a day when my Sacred Family replaces your Snow Wind Family!' he silently chided.

--- On the streets ---

"Nie Li!!" A sharp and clear voice called out.

As he looked towards the origin of the sound, Nie Li saw Xiao Ning'er, currently wearing an elegant and simple dress.

"Hey! Ning'er, haven't seen you for days and it seems that you have gotten more beautiful!" Nie Li lightly smiled. However, Nie Li got slightly awkward when he thought of the Huyan Lanruo matter.

Hearing Nie Li's words, Xiao Ning'er's eyes flashed with a hint of joy and her face slightly reddened. She took out an interspatial ring, handed it over to Nie Li and said, "The Purple Haze Grass that you gave me to sell has all been sold, this is the money."

After listening to what Xiao Ning'er said, Lu Piao and Du Ze looked at each other, puzzled. They wondered what sort of magic potion Nie Li had given to Xiao Ning'er, seeing how Xiao Ning'er simply obeyed whatever Nie Li said.

This also made Lu Piao and Du Ze speechless. Was this still the Goddess Ning'er that they knew? Goddess Ning'er was cold to others, making it impossible to get close to her. However, it was completely the opposite with Nie Li.

"Thanks!" Nie Li unceremoniously accepted the interspatial ring. Friends didn't have the need to be polite with each other.

"Goddess Ning'er, you fought with Huyan Lanruo?" Lu Piao blinked as he gossiply looked at Xiao Ning'er.

Xiao Ning'er raised her head and looked at Nie Li. She was slightly embarrassed and asked, "It's nothing much. I only argued with her a couple of times. Nie Li, you really like that woman?"

"No way. That woman is too annoying. Don't bother with her next time," Nie Li waved his hand in denial.

"Oh.." Xiao Ning'er lightly replied. However, in her heart, she was relieved. Someone as seductive as Huyan Lanruo... made her feel threatened.

"The training these last few days made us all drenched in sweat. Our bodies are starting to stink. We're preparing to go to the showers. Do you want to join us?" Lu Piao laughingly teased.

"I'm... I'm not going!" stuttered Xiao Ning'er, staring hard at Lu Piao.

"You can be together with Nie Li. We won't bother you guys," Lu Piao laughed.

Hearing Lu Piao's words, Xiao Ning'er's face instantly blushed red.

"Lu Piao doesn't have anything constructive to say, so don't bother with him!" Nie Li slapped the back of Lu Piao's head and said to Xiao Ning'er.

"En," Xiao Ning'er nodded. That shy look of hers had an unspeakable charm in it.

"Nie Li, you're not respecting the brotherhood code! You actually said that I don't have any constructive things to say. Hoes over bros then?! It's not like I'm fighting with you over her!"

Seeing how Nie Li and Lu Piao argued, Xiao Ning'er felt a little envy. It had been a long time since she had had any friends like that around her. Her mind flashed to a figure, it was Ye Ziyun. When she was young, both her and Ye Ziyun had been very good friends. It was a pity that the distance between them has grown as they had.

Furthermore, the one that Nie Li liked was Ye Ziyun!

Xiao Ning'er secretly thought to herself that she definitely wouldn't lose to Ye Ziyun!

A good distance away, a group of around ten people were slowly walking in their direction. The leading man was roughly thirty years old and his figure was quite large. His slightly yellowed hair covered more than half of his face and his eyes were as sharp as a falcon's.

As the man swept his gaze across Nie Li, his eyes flashed a hint of astonishment but then immediately returned to calm. He was talking to some people as he walked in Nie Li's direction.

Nie Li's eyebrows slightly twitched. That strange look by the man had been captured by him.

Nie Li secretly thought to himself, 'Have I seen that man before?'

When the man passed him, Nie Li suddenly caught a hint of his aura. This group of people were the same as those Dark Guild people from the Ancient Orchid City Ruins.

Nie Li's expression remained calm as they walked passed him. He did not show any sort of reaction. If he showed a hint of a reaction and was caught by that man, then they would definitely try to silence him.

After walking a good distance away, the man turned around and took a glance at Nie Li.

"Boss, this brat probably did not recognize us," an underling beside him said.

"Yeah," the man replied with a slight nod. This man was Deacon Yun Hua. Because of his special identity, he had to be extremely careful within Glory City.

"Do we need to eliminate him?" another underling asked.

"No need!" said Deacon Yun Hua as he shook his head. If they were to kill someone within Glory City, it would be troublesome if the City Lord Mansion started to investigate.

After walking down two streets, and making sure that those people were no longer in sight, Nie Li sighed with relief.

" Ning'er, who were those people?" Nie Li lightly smiled and asked.

"Those people from earlier?" Xiao Ning'er thought for awhile, then chuckled. "Those people are from the Star Restaurant, and the Star Restaurant is one of the Sacred Family's businesses."

Xiao Ning'er didn't know why Nie Li would ask this kind of question.

Glory City was really dangerous all around. It seemed that he needed to reveal some of his ability, and gain some life insurance.

"We'll first head to the Alchemist Association," Nie Li said after thinking for awhile. It seemed that the situation with Glory City appeared to be more complicated than he had originally thought. He didn't know how many people from the Dark Guild were lurking around. Therefore he had to be extremely careful. Nie Li carefully recalled the people that had fought for Glory City to the last stand in his previous life. Those who had heroically died in the last fight, should be the ones that he could trust.

Nie Li had to obtain as many resources as possible, as soon as possible.

In Glory City, the Alchemist Association's position had slightly declined. However, it was still a monster-like existence. It was only slightly weaker than the three Major Families.

Within Nie Li's brain, there was all sorts of knowledge regarding alchemy. If it was used properly, it might be able to strengthen the Alchemist Association. Only when the Alchemist Association was strengthened Glory City would be strengthened. This could also be considered Nie Li's contribution towards Glory City.

The Alchemist Association was a vast construct. The courtyard pavilion alone took up a huge amount of space. The hall in front had lots of alchemists wearing different coloured robes walking in and out.

Although the Alchemist Association had slightly declined, one could see how glorious the Alchemist Association used to be based on the magnificent constructs.

Alchemists were differentiated into Apprentice, Master, and Grandmaster. Every rank was then further split into Primary, Intermediate, and Senior levels. Apprentices would wear grey robes, Masters would wear white robes and Grandmasters would wear silver robes. Most of the alchemists that walked in and out were Apprentice ranks. As for the Master rank, they were rarely seen. Only one or two of them were normally seen.

Because of the decline of the Alchemist Association, geniuses were reluctant to spend their time in alchemy. They would focus more on cultivation instead. Hence, the amount of alchemists and younger generation hotshots was getting less and less.

After entering the Alchemist Association, Xiao Ning'er, Du Ze, Lu Piao, and bunch all looked around. They still didn't understand why Nie Li would come here.

Nie Li carefully recalled that within the Alchemist Association, there was a six-man elder group that had the most power of speech. They were all a bunch of old men with the lowest of them being Intermediate Alchemy Masters, lead by two Senior Alchemy Masters. As for the Grandmaster level, currently, the Alchemist Association didn't have any. Aside from this six-man elder group, there was the director that managed the various matters of the Alchemist Association.

In the final battle for Glory City in his previous life, the Alchemist Association had contributed a lot. In the end, everyone had heroically died in battle. At the very least, Nie Li could confirm that they were not with the Sacred Family.

"Nice to have you here, what can I do for you?" A lady wearing a grey robe walked over and asked. She was the receptionist of the Alchemist Association Hall.

"I'm here to take the Alchemist Exam," Nie Li stated as he looked at the tall lady, and lightly smiled. "May I know how I can address you?"

Xiao Ning'er, Du Ze, Lu Piao and bunch looked at Nie Li in shock. They originally thought that Nie Li was here to look for someone. They had never, in their wildest dreams, imagined that Nie Li would be here to take the Alchemist Exam. Could it be that Nie Li was also good at alchemy?

After being together with Nie Li for so long, with all kind of monster-like events happening around Nie Li, Du Ze, Lu Piao and bunch no longer found it surprising.

This lady also looked at Nie Li with a little surprise. The amount of youngsters coming to the Alchemist Association to become an alchemist was already very scarce. Since there was a newcomer, naturally the Alchemist Association welcomed them.

"You can call me Xiao Lan. You're here for the Apprentice test, right? Have you been preparing well? Alchemist apprentices must be familiar with over ten books of alchemy foundations," Xiao Lan said, lightly smiling. Those books had more than hundreds of thousands of words about the foundation of alchemy, and that alone made countless people flinch. However, that couldn't be helped. In order to become an alchemist, if they did not even know the foundations and principles of alchemy, that could cause deaths.

"Miss Xiao Lan, can I take the Alchemy Master exam?" Nie Li asked, looking towards Xiao Lan.

Hearing Nie Li's words, Xiao Lan was stunned for a moment and said, "Although it's possible, but do you know how much practice is needed in order to become an Alchemy Master? Aside from those books about foundations, there are also over hundreds of books about various herbs that you need to be familiar with."

Xiao Lan swept her eyes across Nie Li, and thought to herself that Nie Li was bullshitting. Even if Nie Li had begun reading those books ever since he had been in the womb, he wouldn't be able to finish them, not to mention being familiar with them. An ordinary Primary Alchemy Master had more than a decade of experience as an Apprentice, hence Nie Li probably had not even come in contact with an alchemy furnace before. Even if he passed the first round, the second round was about refining elixirs. He would never be able to pass it.

Nie Li was being a little unrealistic. He had not been spending his time to learn properly and was wishing to go to the sky with one step.

Nie Li blinked, looked at Xiao Lan and said, "Age does not reflect one's knowledge, correct? Miss Xiao Lan, just bring me to the Primary Alchemy Master exams."