Chapter 4754 — The Conditions for Alchemy
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Though it was Liu Ziqi holding it, this was Huo Yudie's room, and the Thunder Mystic Vine was useless to Liu Ziqi. Ren Zhongyuan instantly guessed the truth. A towering jealousy surged in his heart, and he began to suspect faintly that there was something fishy about that photograph of Li Yuzhou and Sun Baolu.
But now was not the time to probe that. The two stood locked for a moment. Then Ren Zhongyuan's eyes flickered; far from retreating, he slipped inside and even shut the door behind him with his back hand!
"You're not leaving? Trespassing into another's room—and in the island master's palace, no less—are you truly not afraid to die?" Liu Ziqi's eyes narrowed at once. Had it been Huo Yudie who witnessed this move of Ren Zhongyuan's, her heart would truly have quivered, and she might have thought the man had unleashed his beastly nature. But Liu Ziqi was Liu Ziqi; in her eyes, this peak Nascent Soul Ren Zhongyuan was nothing but a somewhat stronger ant.
"Ha ha, Vice Principal Liu, don't be angry yet. If I'm not mistaken, this should be Thunder Mystic Vine, shouldn't it?" Ren Zhongyuan asked, knowing full well what it was.
"You know, and still you ask?!" Liu Ziqi gave him a cold glance. She had heard something of the relations between Li Yuzhou and Sun Baolu and Ren Zhongyuan, and so her impression of this fellow was now exceedingly poor. Expressionless, she said, "Do you have business here?"
"The Thunder Mystic Pill is a seventh-grade pill; only a seventh-grade alchemist has the ability to refine it. But looking across our Eastern Continent's Yellow-Rank academies, there are only a handful of seventh-grade alchemists..." Ren Zhongyuan paused on purpose, watching her shifting expression. "I think Vice Principal Liu must now understand my meaning?"
Liu Ziqi frowned at his words. This was precisely her greatest worry these past days. Fine as the Thunder Mystic Vine was, if it could not be refined into a Thunder Mystic Pill, it was of no use whatsoever.
Originally their Morning Pride Academy had a seventh-grade alchemist in residence, but unfortunately two years ago an alchemy accident occurred, and this seventh-grade alchemist suffered a severe backlash. Ever since, he had been in seclusion recuperating. The highest-ranking alchemist now presiding over Morning Pride Academy was only sixth-grade, so refining the Thunder Mystic Pill was no small trouble!
But Ren Zhongyuan's father was the chief alchemist of Soaring Cloud Academy, a seventh-grade cultivator! That was the pinnacle of Yellow-Rank alchemy, a single step from the legendary Mystic-Rank alchemist!
"You mean to say you can help me refine the pill?" Liu Ziqi glanced at Ren Zhongyuan. A seventh-grade alchemist was not so easily summoned; without sufficient ties, even with her status it would be hard to engage one—yet Ren Zhongyuan plainly had that ability.
"Seventh-grade pills are very difficult to refine; the slightest carelessness brings backlash—Vice Principal Liu should be well aware of this!" Ren Zhongyuan smiled and continued in the tone of a connoisseur. "And from what I know, among seventh-grade pills, refining the Thunder Mystic Pill carries the greatest risk of all. The Thunder Mystic Vine naturally bears lightning; one misstep and the furnace explodes, with consequences beyond imagining. Ordinary seventh-grade alchemists are unwilling to take on such a deadly job, heh heh."