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"Since you have no plans to open a branch store, I wonder if we can reach a cooperation with your store and purchase a batch of pills from you?"

"Oh, of course." Glancing at Wendy who was silent beside him, Yu Qi thought for a moment and asked, "How many elixirs does your Knights of Favonius need?"

While asking Qin, he sent a voice transmission to Wendy and asked, "Is the situation of your Knights' Order very bad? Why does it feel like this Captain Qin seems a little anxious?"

Hearing this, Wendy sipped his wine calmly and replied helplessly: "Have you forgotten what I said before, that the Knights are preparing to go on an expedition to the North?"

"After returning from Liyue last time, I discussed with Captain Falgar and decided to set the time for the expedition to be after this year's Fine Wine Festival. We will leave once the turbulence in the earth veins has subsided."

"You know, expeditions are inherently dangerous. Plus, the situation in the North is unclear right now. No one knows what dangers the expeditionary army will encounter. Qin may be worried about the heavy casualties of the expeditionary army, so she is so anxious to find you to purchase the blood recovery pills."

Wendy spread her hands silently and continued to transmit: "Also, the leaders scheduled for this expedition are Grand Master Falga of the Knights of Favonius, Frederica Gunnhildr of the noble faction, and Simon Page of the Church of Favonius."

"Frederica Gunnhild? Could it be that she and Jean are..."

"Yes, as you think!" Wendy nodded imperceptibly and said helplessly, "She is the mother of Jean and Barbara. One more thing, Barbara's full name is Barbara Page, the daughter of Simon Page!"

"..." Upon hearing this, Yu Qi's mouth twitched slightly. He instantly understood everything and also understood why Qin was so anxious.

Nonsense, my father and mother are going to the battlefield, their life and death are uncertain and their future is uncertain. Who wouldn’t be anxious!

Qin didn't know about the secret conversation between Yu Qi and Wendy, so she didn't think for too long and quickly gave an answer: "Because of the special situation now, trade between the two countries is inconvenient, so I plan to order half a year's share from you at one time. I need 7,000 blood recovery pills, 15,000 body strengthening pills and 2,000 Yuanyang pills. I wonder if it's okay?!"

Before reporting the share she wanted, Qin couldn't help feeling a little nervous. After all, the amount was really too much, and she was worried that Yu Qi would reject her request outright.

But considering Mond's current situation and the Grand Captain and her parents who were about to go on an expedition to the North, Jyn gritted her teeth and stated her needs.

Looking at the silent Yu Qi, she couldn't help but feel anxious. After hesitating for a moment, she couldn't help but said, "If you think it's too much..."

"Isn't what you want a little too little?"

"Ah?" Qin was stunned by Yu Qi's sudden words, and then she reacted and shook her head: "No, this much should be enough!"

"Hmm~ Wendy, what do you think?" After a moment's silence, Yu Qi turned to look at Wendy: "Are these pills enough for Mond to use? If necessary, I can provide more."

Just think of it as a favor to the God of Wind. After all, when all the energy of heaven and earth in Liyue is collected, Yu Qi will definitely go to Mondstadt. It is always a good idea to establish good relationships in advance.

"Well, that should be enough!" Wendy nodded hesitantly, burped, and exhaled a pungent smell of alcohol that made people frown: "I'm not a member of the Knights of Favonius, how do I know how many pills they need? Since Captain Jean said so, it should be enough!"

"That's good." Nodding, Yu Qi turned to look at Qin, and said in her expectant eyes: "Then as you said, Captain Qin, I will provide you with the pills you need as soon as possible."

"However, since the amount you need is quite huge, please give me some time to prepare it. Hmm~ How about I wait until the Immortal Invitation Ceremony is over and then deliver it to you?"

"Okay!" Qin nodded hurriedly and looked at Yu Qi with gratitude: "Thank you so much, Mr. Yu Qi!"

"That's not necessary. It's just a normal business transaction. There's nothing to thank me for."

"I……"

As they were talking, a little girl in red suddenly emerged from the crowd not far away. She looked at Jean and Barbara with surprise, then turned around and waved behind her, shouting, "Brother Albedo, come quickly. Klee has found Captain Jean!"

"Klee?!" Looking at the little girl who suddenly appeared with some surprise, Jean stood up and greeted her. After taking a look at her to make sure what was wrong, she turned her head and looked at another young man who walked out of the crowd: "Albedo, why are you here with Klee?"

"Didn't I tell you to take Keli back to the inn to rest first?"

“Captain Qin, you know that Klee is a lively and active child.” Sighing, the young man named Albedo looked at Klee who was jumping beside him, with a helpless look on his face: “This is her first time in Liyue, so she is naturally curious about everything. How can she go back to rest!”

"So after you guys left, she acted like a spoiled brat with me and insisted on coming to the market. It just so happened that I had some ideas and wanted to buy some materials for experiments, so I brought her here for a stroll."

As he spoke, Albedo turned his head to look at Yu Qi and Wendy, and nodded at them: "But I didn't expect to meet you here."

"Hello, I'm Albedo. I haven't asked you yet, who are you?"

Seeing Albedo looking at him, Yu Qi stood up and bowed to him: "I guess you must be Mr. Albedo, the chief alchemist of the Knights of Favonius in Mondstadt. Nice to meet you, nice to meet you. I am Yu Qi, a businessman from Liyue."

As he spoke, Yu Qi looked at Albedo in front of him vaguely.

His brown hair was parted in the middle and tied into a ponytail at the back of his head. He had a handsome face, but for some reason he looked a little dull. His expression changed very slightly while he spoke, and it was impossible to notice it if you didn't look closely. There was an unsettling indifference in his blue-green eyes.

A white hooded coat with black and yellow accessories, lined with a dark blue turtleneck with dark embellishments, shorts and over-the-knee boots.

There was a brown-yellow Eye of God hanging around his neck, and through the collar, one could vaguely see a star imprinted on his throat.

A wise, calm but extremely dangerous character!

This was Yu Qi’s first impression of Albedo.

"Hello!" Albedo nodded to Yu Qi and looked him over. Then he seemed to have discovered something that surprised him, and a strange look appeared on his face: "Sir..."

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Chapter 191

"Sir Yu Qi..." The dim lights on the roadside were reflected in his blue-green eyes, and his pupils swayed with tiny beautiful ripples. Staring at Yu Qi in front of him, Albedo's expression seemed to become much more excited.

He extended his hand to Yu Qi, as if to shake hands with him: "Nice to meet you!"

Looking at Albedo with some doubt, Yu Qi frowned slightly in his heart. He could vaguely feel that Albedo's mood seemed to become a little strange.

But for some reason, Albedo's condition seemed a little abnormal, so much so that Yu Qi could not clearly perceive the changes in his inner emotions.

After a slight hesitation, Yu Qi also stretched out his hand and shook it gently with him.

However, at the moment when their palms touched, Yu Qi clearly felt that Albedo's body trembled suddenly, and the palm holding Yu Qi couldn't help but tighten a lot.

At the same moment when Albedo lost his composure, Yu Qi's heart moved, and he clearly captured a hint of powerful force from the body of the young man in front of him, which made him couldn't help but look sideways.

"Follower level? No, that's not right, it seems a little off!"

But Yu Qi is certain that the power contained in Albedo's body is far more than what is revealed on the surface. If he can really fully exert all the power in his body, he will be considered a top-level existence even in the human world.

Although he may be weaker than the Seven Gods, he may not be much worse than the average demon god.

'This person...' Yu Qi looked at Albedo thoughtfully. Coincidentally, Albedo also looked at Yu Qi. Their eyes crossed in the air and then disappeared in an instant.

Letting go of Yu Qi's hand, Albedo pondered, and then slowly said in the shocked eyes of Qin and Barbara, "I wonder if Mr. Yu Qi is interested in learning alchemy?"

"Hmm?" Yu Qi raised his eyebrows and looked at Albedo with interest: "What does Mr. Albedo mean?"

"If you are interested, I am willing to teach you all the alchemy I know. What do you think?"

"..." Barbara opened her mouth in surprise and looked at Albedo with a solemn expression. Then she couldn't help but look at Yu Qi again, her face full of confusion.

On the side, when Qin heard Albedo's words, her eyes couldn't help but move, as if she wanted to refute his proposal.

As the deputy leader of the Knights of Favonius, Jean naturally knew how profound the alchemy mastered by Albedo was, and she also knew the significance of this knowledge to Mondstadt.

But in the end, she just sat on the stool, holding the teacup and silently watching the situation in front of her, and did not choose to speak.

Without paying attention to the reactions of the people around him, Yu Qi looked at Albedo with a sincere expression and frowned slightly: "Why? This should be the first time we meet, Albedo, why do you want to teach me all your alchemy skills?"

"Well, there aren't many reasons." After a moment's silence, Albedo shook his head: "If I have to say, I can only say it's talent and fate!"

"Mr. Yu Qi, I believe that your talent in alchemy will surely reach a level far beyond mine in the future. Since we have met by chance, I will certainly not let a genius like you be buried. Otherwise, it will surely be the most tragic loss in the history of alchemy!"

His eyes flashed slightly, and what Albedo didn't say was that Yu Qi's talent was far more terrifying than he described!

If he was the son of Cretaceous who was about to become gold, then Yu Qi in front of him was a natural born 'gold'!

"Gold", the final stage of alchemy, worthless things finally find their own meaning and turn into gold.

Yu Qi's existence gave Albedo the feeling that it embodied the ultimate meaning of all things in the world; it was a kind of perfection that could not be described in words, like the beginning and the end, like infinity and the only one.

Opposition and unity, contradiction and harmony, all kinds of wonderful phenomena are brewing and changing in his body, but they do not destroy that perfection. Instead, they continue to evolve it towards a realm that even Albedo cannot understand.

It was a situation that was enough to drive all alchemists crazy. Even at Albedo's level, he couldn't help but become obsessed with it the moment he sensed Yu Qi's situation. After a long time, he finally awakened his consciousness with great willpower.

No scary behavior was done.

It is for this reason that Albedo is so sure of Yu Qi's talent in alchemy; it is also for this reason that Albedo is so eager to pass on his alchemy to Yu Qi.

only because……

"It is natural gold that should be eternal and perfect, but it is still constantly 'growing', and each moment is more 'perfect' than the next moment! It is really curious, if he learns alchemy, what realm will he reach?"

'Stop at 'gold' and never break free from the shackles of nature, or transcend the 'perfection' of the soul that we mortals can achieve, and surpass the ultimate 'gold'! '

"This..." Not knowing what Albedo was thinking, Yu Qi looked at him in surprise. He never expected that Albedo would brag about his talent so much.

How could he not know his talent in alchemy? Although he could indeed be called a genius, it was far from the outrageous level that Albedo said.

After thinking about it, Yu Qi flicked his fingertips and cast a layer of simple magic around the few people, making the passers-by around them ignore their existence.

"Thank you Mr. Albedo for your kindness, but I am actually an alchemist!" As he said that, Yu Qi stretched out his hand and casually swiped the teacup on the table beside him. The simple alchemy array flashed by, and the originally yellowish-brown tea instantly turned into a pool of clear ice crystals.

"Huh..." Looking at Yu Qi's operation, Albedo's face showed a strange expression again. He reached out and picked up the teacup and looked at it carefully. He turned his head to look at Yu Qi with an unsettling heat in his eyes.

"Mr. Yu Qi doesn't seem to be using ordinary alchemy?"

Although the alchemy used by Yu Qi contained many shadows of elemental alchemy, Albedo still saw the foundation of this alchemy array at a glance.

That was an 'alchemy' that he had never seen before, and it was completely different from all the alchemy popular in Teyvat today!

"Mr. Albedo figured it out?" He looked at him with some surprise, and then Yu Qi remembered that the person in front of him was the best alchemist in Teyvat, so how could he not notice such a thing.

Thinking of this, Yu Qi smiled slightly and nodded to acknowledge Albedo's guess: "Yes, just as you thought, this is my personal experience."

"So that's how it is..." His eyes flickered, and Albedo suddenly exerted a little force with the palm holding the teacup. A faint light flashed, and the ice crystals in the cup suddenly melted. Then, a butterfly with transparent crystal wings slowly flew out of the cup with trembling antennae.

"Wow, what a beautiful crystal butterfly..." Keli couldn't help but sighed softly, looking at the flickering crystal butterfly wings, her eyes flashing with a gleam of excitement.

"This is..." Yu Qi was equally surprised at Albedo's behavior. He looked at the crystal butterfly fluttering gently around him, feeling the faint but real breath of life in it, and couldn't help but take a deep breath: "Creating life?"

Fortunately, the surprise only lasted for a short moment, and then Yu Qi suddenly reacted. This method seemed magical, but it was actually just a manifestation of the alchemy of "life". Then, through his own understanding of life, he perfectly replicated it.

"It's a pity that although the life created in this way is realistic, it has lost the soul that is unique to life. After all, it is just a form without substance!"

"Pa pa pa~" Hearing Yu Qi's words, Albedo suddenly raised his hands and clapped his hands: "Mr. Yu Qi is indeed quite knowledgeable about alchemy. The field I delve into is the subject of 'life', and I focus more on the branch field of 'creating life'."

Looking at the crystal butterfly flying in front of him, Albedo raised his hand to catch it, and then handed it to Klee who was looking at him eagerly.

Watching Klee happily playing with the crystal butterfly in her hand, Albedo smiled slightly, and then continued: "Although it is possible to create pure creatures like this without relying on the characteristics of the elemental force itself, it is difficult to maintain the stability of life itself. Other substances must be added as solvents. However, this will cause the created creatures to lose their 'pure' nature..."

At this point, Albedo seemed to have remembered something, and a trace of trance flashed in his eyes: "To an alchemist, such a creation is flawed and destined to become a failed product that will be abandoned."

"Is that so? That's right. After all, what alchemists pursue is perfect 'gold', not 'chalk' that has lost its essence." Nodding, Yu Qi had some knowledge of Teyvat alchemy, so he naturally understood what Albedo meant.

"Ah, sorry, I got off topic." Shaking his head, Albedo came back to his senses and continued, "Although Mr. Yu Qi has a profound understanding of alchemy, I believe that the alchemy I have can still be of help to you."

"How about it, are you willing to learn from me?"

"This..." Looking at Albedo's firm attitude, Yu Qi hesitated for a moment and nodded: "Since Mr. Albedo insists, then I will not refuse it!"

"Haha, it's my honor." Seeing that Yu Qi agreed to his proposal, Albedo showed an obvious smile on his face: "We don't have much to do these days, how about we start learning from tomorrow?"

"Okay!" Yu Qi nodded. Naturally, he would not refuse such a good thing. Then he thought of something and nodded at Albedo: "That's right, I have something I want to ask Albedo for a favor!"

Recalling the 'Nature' that he had sealed in the alchemy workshop, Yu Qi raised his eyebrows: "I think you should be very interested in it."

"Oh? Then I'll wait and see!"

"Burp~ You two have finished your chat, right?" Seeing that Yu Qi and Albedo had made a plan to study alchemy tomorrow, Wendy, who had been drinking silently, finally stood up shakily.

"It's getting late, let's go home; if we don't leave now, the boss will probably kick us out!!"

After hearing Wendy's words, Yu Qi and the others looked up and around, only then did they notice that the people on the surrounding streets had become sparse, and even the owner of the wine stall where they were located had already started to pack up.

If there weren't two tables of guests nearby who hadn't finished their drinks, they might have really been kicked out by the boss - provided he noticed that there was another table here.

"That's it, Mr. Yu Qi, we'll take our leave now." Qin stood up and held up the drowsy Klee. "I'll prepare the transaction contract tomorrow, but I may not have time to be there in person. Albedo, I'll trouble you to help sign it when the time comes."

"can!"

"Then, see you tomorrow!"

"Yu Qi~Brother, let's meet tomorrow..." She waved to Yu Qi in a daze. Before she could finish her words, Ke Li tilted her head and fell asleep in the arms of Captain Qin.

"Well, little Keri, goodbye!"

After saying goodbye to Mond and his group, Yu Qi did not stay on the street for long and soon returned to the shop.

It was already late at night, with only one light flickering in the shop. In the dim light, Alicia was reading a novel with great interest.

"Hey, boss, you're finally back!" Noticing Yu Qi's footsteps coming in, Alicia looked up at him and couldn't help muttering, "I thought you weren't going to come back today and were going to spend the night outside!"

"How can that be possible!" Shaking his head helplessly, Yu Qi could naturally sense the resentment in Alysia's words: "Why should I stay out all night when I have a home?"