Light Cultivation
Eps. 49 — An Alchemist
Jian Chen and Miou Yue went out of the Academy towards the Miou Yue residence in the middle of Qianshan city.
Academy disciples like Miou Yue were not the only ones who had a residence outside, Meily and Ziyun who were princesses of the clan head even had 2 residences outside the Academy.
This meant that they had their own privacy, as there were times when they were called by their clan while in the Academy it was not a good place to talk about clan affairs.
The two left on a leisurely walk, initially Miou Yue offered the services of a horse carriage but Jian Chen refused and said that he wanted to take a look at the atmosphere of Qianshan City.
During the trip Jian Chen observed many surrounding areas, buildings, people's traffic and activities.
This gave rise to memories of his previous life when Jian Chen was 27 years old, he had lived in this city for quite some time.
“Despite the time gap with now 13 years away but Qianshan City has not changed much other than its growing population.” Jian Chen shook his head slowly.
Qianshan City has a large population, every year there are many newcomers, either from those who only travel or are pitting fate in the Capital City.
Some did succeed but not a few of them even became vagabonds or beggars.
The only majority of the newcomers were merchants in Qianshan City, they brought merchandise from their villages before being sold here.
The profits obtained are not kidding, the traders who come from the village when the average return of his life become more prosperous.
This made those who heard him become interested and they wanted to do the same, it was inconceivable that economic growth in Qianshan City was far faster than other cities.
Jian Chen took an hour until Miou Yue's residence, the place was quite large, surrounded by walls around the courtyard.
“Aibi! You're here?”
Miou Yue had just entered her courtyard when in front of her residence there was a woman sitting. The woman was around 22 years old, she was the teacher and aunt of Miou Yue in the alchemist field.
As part of the Miou clan naturally Miou Yue studied alchemist for her future let alone all her family were alchemist experts.
Miou Yue rushed over to her aunt and gave her greetings, Jian Chen beside her did the same.
“Yue’er, isn't the schedule to teach you tomorrow, why did you come here earlier?”
“Auntie, I just want to use my limbs for a while for my friend.” Miou Yue turned to Jian Chen.
Jian Chen gave his regards to him. “My name is Jian Chen, greetings Madam.”
The 22-year-old girl glanced at Jian Chen from bottom to top before nodding softly. “I'm his aunt Yue’er, Miou Lin.”
Miou Yue then explained that Jian Chen needed an alchemy furnace to concoct a pill potion. Miou Lin on the other hand furrowed his brows, he had never heard of Miou Yue's friend also studying alchemist science.
“Jian Chen, you can make pills?” asked Miou Lin.
“I'm not too sure, Madam, I can only make a few basic pills.”
“Oh, it's interesting.” Miou Lin became curious to see Jian Chen say that humbly so he watched the two teenagers behind as the two walked into the house.
First Jian Chen took out the ingredients as well as the herbs that were within his s.p.a.ce Ring. There were seven plants that he used for pill making. These plants he obtained while in the Silent Forest before.
‘What is he making, I have never seen a recipe from ingredients like this?” Miou Lin from behind observed him in surprise.
When the ingredients were put into the furnace Jian Chen stretched out his hand and then drained the power inside to control the fire in the furnace.
Jian Chen did so with great concentration, Miou Yue beside him paid attention to what Jian Chen was doing with mixed feelings.
On the same side Miou Lin also looked at him with a look of disbelief, his eyes widening as Jian Chen could control the fireplace in the furnace with a stable state.
“This child-! He could perfectly control the fire without the slightest drop in the temperature of the fire decreasing or rising.”
Miou Lin even had to rub her eyes both times to confirm this truth. Miou Lin himself had witnessed something similar and the only one who could control a fire this perfect was an alchemist at the Master level.
Alchemists were divided into several tiers according to their ability in making pills, those tiers started from Beginner level alchemists, Intermediate level, High level up to the top were Master level alchemists.
One of the hallmarks of a high-ability Alchemist lay in the way they controlled the flames in the furnace and what Jian Chen did was now arguably perfect.
For Miou Lin who was indeed an alchemist to also naturally realize this, he alone who had plunged into the Alchemist world a few years ago could not control fire as well as Jian Chen had shown.
Miou Lin's shock was actually nothing when Jian Chen had already finished his pill making. It turned out that with those strange ingredients Jian Chen could form a pill inside.
Jian Chen took the pill then researched it every inch, he made sure that the pill was made perfectly.
“Brother Jian, what pills did you make?” Miou Yue had been silent since then finally asking, she was curious about the blue-colored pill.
“This is a Blue Moon pill, helping a swordsman to practice bone strengthening by 30 percent.”
“Thirty percent!?” Miou Yue and Miou Lin were startled together when they heard that.
Miou Lin sat down next to Jian Chen, “Jian Chen can I see the pill?”
Jian Chen nodded then handed the pills to Miou Lin. The young girl shortly trembled as she inspected the pill further, the pill she was in hand was truly a high quality pill.
Miou Yue might not be able to discern this if she looked at it but Miou Lin was different, she as an alchemist certainly knew the quality of a pill just by looking at him.
“Jian Chen, did you make this new pill concoction?” asked Miou Lin to make sure.
“I'm not too sure but it seems to be so.”
The two Miou clans inhaled a cold breath hearing Jian Chen's direct statement. Concocting a new pill by just making a pill alone were two different things, the difficulty of concocting a new type of pill was much more difficult because it had to go through many experiments and stamps.
“Brother Jian if I may ask, how old are you now?”
“It... 14 years old.”
Miou Lin coughed at hearing it, he turned his head towards Jian Chen's face but found the young man was not being joked. Miou Yue who was beside him was no less surprised, he only found out that Jian Chen was still 14 years old.