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Chapter 98 Alchemy

"Young master, may I ask who you are looking for?"

Outside a mansion, the doorman politely inquired about Lu Chen's whereabouts.

Lu Chen stared blankly at the spacious gate.

This Li Zhuo looks unremarkable, but I never expected his family to be so wealthy, with local weapons and ammunition.

But isn't this address incorrect?

Li Zhuo's surname is Li, isn't this the Zhuo family?

pseudonym?

Is his real name Zhuo Li, or Zhuo Li?

He tentatively asked, "Hello, do you have a family member named Li Zhuo?"

The gatekeeper was taken aback.

"Li Zhuo?"

He immediately remembered.

When the young master goes out, if it is inconvenient to give his real name, he will say that his name is Li Zhuo.

However, since few people came to him, he was still stunned for a moment before he realized what was happening.

"May I ask your surname, sir, and how you address Ruhe?"

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"My name is Qin Yi. I'll say that an old friend from Shahu County has come to visit."

The gatekeeper sized Lu Chen up and down. Seeing that he was refined and had a clean and elegant demeanor, he didn't seem like a bad person. He probably wouldn't even dare to kill a chicken. So he let him in and led him to the reception room.

"Please wait a moment, young master, I'll go and call him."

Not long after, the doorman arrived with his men.

It was Li Zhuo.

He looked a little embarrassed.

I gave someone a pseudonym, and now they've come knocking on my door.

"Brother Qin! Long time no see!"

Li Zhu clasped his hands in greeting and nodded to the gatekeeper beside him, who then quietly left.

"Brother Li, it hasn't been long," Lu Chen smiled. "You've done a good job of maintaining the Zhuo residence."

Li Zhuo rubbed his nose, gave an awkward smile, and then got back to the point: "Brother Qin, I'm sorry, but I can't just give out my real name when I'm traveling. Let me introduce myself again, my name is Zhuo Li!"

He clasped his hands in a respectful gesture and spoke earnestly.

Lu Chen laughed heartily: "Brother Zhuo, it's normal to be cautious when you're in the martial world. Let's not stand on ceremony, since our eldest brother doesn't call himself the second brother!"

He paused for a moment, then continued, "I came here this time because I have something I want to ask you, a local."

"Oh, what is it?"

"I wonder what Brother Zhuo thinks of your Tianmu County Commandant? What kind of person is he?"

Lu Chen stayed at Zhuo Li's mansion for a while, then went to another person's mansion, said a few words, tossed the other person a key, and returned to the Star Picking Gang.

Picking up the two large sacks, weighing them in his hands to make sure they wouldn't break, Lu Chen immediately soared into the sky.

He didn't leave immediately, but stayed in the sky for a while longer. He saw that the county magistrate of Tianmu County quickly appeared at the Star-Picking Gang. Ignoring the corpses all over the ground, he went to the dungeon immediately and watched him rescue all the children. Looking at the prompt on his system panel, he nodded, turned around and flew away.

[Under the host's influence, the fates of Xie Zixuan and twenty-eight others have changed.]

[Life Points +840, Total 40643]

Lu Chen did not return directly to Qingshan Village, but went to Shanyang Prefecture again.

About ten minutes later, Lu Chen landed in a forest outside the city and walked into the city.

Carrying the valuables he had obtained from the Star-Picking Gang, Lu Chen went to Old Nine Pawnshop and exchanged them all for silver notes.

A total of 210,000 taels.

Adding the 160 million taels obtained from the Black Kill Pavilion, that makes 181 million.

That's enough to buy a lot of precious medicine.

Holding the "VIP card" given to him by Hu Bufan, Lu Chen put the silver notes in a small cloth bag and walked into Huichuntang.

Then he came out carrying two large sacks.

This purchase wasn't just for precious medicines for Lu Tang and Lu Ming; a large portion was also for their own use.

He was preparing to begin his attempt at alchemy.

Holding the precious medicine, Lu Chen left the city and first went to Chen Xianjun's manor outside the city. He found that no one came here at all, and the stench was quite strong.

Lu Chen shook his head.

Yang Ce is truly heartless. Knowing that all the people who helped him here are dead, he doesn't even bother to come and collect their bodies.

Such a person values ​​their life above all else, and upon discovering danger, they certainly wouldn't stay in Shanyang Prefecture any longer.

He temporarily abandoned his idea of ​​killing Yang Ce, soared into the sky, and returned home.

Afterwards, he went to Shahu County and bought many common medicinal herbs and a lot of charcoal.

Alchemy certainly involves more than just precious medicines; each ingredient has its own role, like the principal, assistant, and adjuvant herbs.

When he got home, Lu Chen set up a shed in the backyard, built a few small stoves, took out the clay pot he bought in Shanyang Prefecture, lit the charcoal, put in the prepared medicinal herbs, and began to boil them.

While brewing the medicine, he looked at the alchemy manual of the alchemist Yan Gudao, and combined it with his own medical and pharmaceutical knowledge to embark on a path of creating his own alchemy technique.

Although Yan Gudao's so-called alchemy uses humans as the main material, which is extremely bizarre, and he himself does not know how to refine such pills, the principles contained therein are still worth learning from.

Lu Chen started with a few simple, commonly used prescriptions.

For example, the Four Gentlemen Decoction is made from four medicinal herbs: ginseng, atractylodes macrocephala, poria cocos, and prepared licorice root. Can it be directly refined into an elixir?

Or take Liuwei Dihuang Pills from Earth. These pills are made through physical processing methods such as processing, decocting, and refining honey into pills. They involve little or no chemical reactions. So, does alchemy require physical methods such as distillation, sublimation, and deposition to control the chemical reactions of different drugs?

Lu Chen operated several furnaces, carefully learning and recreating the techniques recorded in the alchemy manual.

"In the novels I've read before, alchemy supposedly involves spiritual energy, fragments of rules, and the laws of the Great Dao. How do you incorporate these things into the alchemy process?"

Lu Chen stared at the several bubbling clay pots, the shed filled with the strong smell of medicine, and fell into deep thought.

"Could my energy attach to it and be used as a catalyst or fusion agent?"

Thinking of this, he immediately tried to draw out a wisp of golden energy from his fingertips and put it into the casserole, attempting to make the medicinal liquids blend with the energy.

However, after only a few breaths, the boiling medicinal liquid in the casserole instantly foamed up and then exploded.

The shed was filled with scalding hot, dark green liquid splashing everywhere, and the two earthenware pots next to it were not spared either, as they were affected by the shards of the pots.

"How could it just explode?"

Lu Chen was somewhat embarrassed, pondering the reasons for his failure.

The clay pot is gone, so we have to buy a new one.

The capital city, the residence of the Marquis of Zhenbei.

Yang Ce knelt on the ground and explained everything in detail.

"So, you didn't even know what this person looked like, what their name was, or what their background was, yet you ran back in fear?"

Yang Xuan sat in the chair, looking at Yang Ce with a blank expression.

With his handsome, square face, two wispy mustaches, a thick beard, and a full head of hair, he exuded an air of authority without being angry.

Yang Ce lowered his head, not daring to speak.

"This person is lawless, vicious, and may even be skilled in disguise. He must be apprehended as soon as possible to prevent harm to the people."

Yang Xuan spoke calmly, defining Lu Chen's character.

"Your elder brother has a bone-revealing mirror that can identify a person's true face, as well as recognize auras, reflect all things, and trace their origins. Take it, find this person, and execute him on the spot."

After saying that, Yang Xuan stood up.

He was extremely tall, over two meters high, wearing a crimson and purple python robe, a jade-inlaid crown, and a green jade belt. He was playing with a mutton-fat jade ruyi, looking down at his rather useless second son, shaking his head, and turning to leave.

Yang Ce, however, showed a look of delight.

Bone-illuminating mirror!

With this, that beast will surely not escape my pursuit!

I need to bring a few more people with me.

Uncle Zhan and Brother Sha are both experts at the Yuan Realm, possessing formidable strength.

Also, Mother's maid, Sister Piao Piao, is extremely skilled in light-footed martial arts. Please ask Mother to take her along as well.

Yang Ce mentally considered potential candidates, got up from the ground, expertly patted his knees, and hurried off to find someone.

On the other side, the Great Qian Imperial Palace.

"The Yang family's son is back? Did he botch things?"

Inside the Ning Shou Palace, a plump woman in her thirties lay half-reclined on the bed, revealing half of her fair skin.

Several maids were massaging her from behind.

The Empress Dowager held a grape in her slender fingers, but did not eat it.

"Yes. It is said that the other side destroyed the Black Kill Pavilion and Green Seed Hall in Shanyang Prefecture, and also killed the abbot of the Sanyuan Temple. The alchemist is also dead. Yang Ce was scared, so he secretly ran back."

A eunuch prostrated himself on the ground to reply.

"Oh, who is this person, so arrogant?"

The Empress Dowager smiled, but her phoenix eyes remained completely devoid of emotion.

The eunuch shuddered. "I don't know his exact identity, but I do know that he has excellent lightness skills and is also skilled in hidden weapon techniques. Yang Ce seems to have sent someone to Mingde Prefecture to deliver a message saying that the Tang family's hidden weapon techniques have been leaked, and he wants the Tang family to deal with this person."

"Sigh, this child, still so fond of playing tricks. What did Yang Xuan say?"

"The Marquis of Zhenbei ordered Yang Ce to go to his elder brother Yang Hong to get the Bone-Illuminating Mirror, and after capturing the person, to be beheaded on the spot as a warning to others."

"Hmm." The Empress Dowager nodded. "Find a few people to investigate Shanyang Prefecture. Deal with anyone related to this matter appropriately, but don't incur the wrath of heaven and the resentment of the people."

"yes!"

"Furthermore, everything has its limits. If Shanyang Prefecture has fewer elixirs, the other prefectures will have to give them more. What will they think of that? The rules can't be broken. Go down and remember to make them make up for it. If there are no elixirs, then make up for it with grain. I'm tired, you can go now."

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"yes!"

A small town more than a thousand miles north of Shanyang Prefecture.

A bewitching woman with a white veil covering her face stood barefoot in a courtyard littered with blood and corpses.

Her name is Xiangfei, a silver-ranked one-star assassin from the Black Kill Pavilion.

On Xiangfei's white gauze, there were specks of red blood, like plum blossoms embroidered on.

At that moment, she held a small piece of paper in her hand, breathing rapidly, and read the few words on the paper several times in disbelief.

"The Shanyang headquarters was destroyed, and all its members perished."

The delicate face beneath the white veil was now filled with sorrow and madness.

"what!"

A heart-wrenching scream echoed through the courtyard, which resembled a living hell.

On the way from Mingde Prefecture to Shanyang Prefecture, the group of five kept a very low profile and checked into an inn.

"Third Uncle, could it be that our Tang family's cultivation techniques have really been leaked, or could it be that someone else is spreading false information?"

"There's no smoke without fire. Whether it's true or not, we need to verify it! There can't be anything in this world stronger than the Tang family's hidden weapons!"

In the capital city, Yang Ce regrouped his forces and, filled with the desire for revenge, confidently embarked on his journey to Shanyang Prefecture.

In Qingshan Village, Shahu County, Lu Chen was testing his alchemy skills.

His little shed had been bombed several times, and the clay pot had been replaced with a thick iron pot.

A clay pot will crumble easily when fried, while an iron pot is more durable.

Lu Tang and Lu Ming were already a little scared by the occasional "bang" of the furnace exploding, and the smell of the medicinal herbs was also very strong, so they ran to the training ground early in the morning.

After using the precious medicine, their cultivation speed was incredibly fast, progressing by leaps and bounds.

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Lu Chen also carefully taught them breathing techniques, visualization, and meditation, but both of them are only just getting started.

We haven't taught them Qi Refining yet. We'll teach them the prerequisite skills first, and once they have a foundation, they can learn Qi Refining much faster.

"Seventy-eighth failure. This time the firepower was a bit too strong, and the impurities in the medicinal solution weren't completely removed—continue!"

Lu Chen analyzed the reasons for the failure and started the furnace again.

On the seventy-ninth time, Lu Chen skillfully placed the processed medicinal herbs into the pot in order, stirred them with a porcelain stick, and occasionally poked at the charcoal to control the heat.

As the liquid gradually thickened, he stretched out his finger, and a wisp of golden energy slowly flowed from his fingertip, like a golden thread spreading into the liquid. As he stirred it, it turned into diffuse light spots and melted into the liquid.

Lu Chen held his breath.

This time it seems like there's a chance?

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