novelraw Chapter 255
Chapter 255
Thus, everyone in the classroom moved towards the Alchemy Room.
Generally speaking, the Alchemy Room is used by students over the age of fifteen at the University. Firstly for safety reasons and secondly because they have more knowledge, which prevents wasting materials.
So for children under fifteen, they either just learn a little about elixirs, or if they decide to pursue alchemy, their families usually spend a lot to buy them an alchemy furnace and materials for them to practice at home.
Skinny Feng Tian has never been very interested in these things. His family follows the Huo Family and is also involved in elixir-related businesses, mostly focusing on beauty and skincare, targeting ordinary people, unlike the Huo Family, which caters to both the Immortal Cultivation World and ordinary folks. His family requires him to learn some so as not to be deceived in business in the future.
Not all cultivators are as noble as the word "immortal" suggests, some of them are no more noble-minded than ordinary people.
Because of this, Skinny decided to learn a little about elixirs. He thinks that when he enters the University, with more detailed specializations, he will no longer choose this path and may even transfer to another proper Immortal Cultivation Sect’s academy, hence he has been coasting along.
However, Freckled Zheng Tuo is different. Although his family doesn’t do elixir business, he has sensed the enormous profits in it. You know, even a simple elixir for anti-aging and beauty can fetch a sky-high price in the mortal world, so he wants to learn more and, if he’s good at it, perhaps make them himself.
Elixirs for anti-aging and beauty are almost useless for long-lived cultivators. Few legitimate alchemists would delve into them. Money in the mortal world holds little importance to genuine cultivators, but Zheng Tuo believes he may not get very far in his path of Immortal Cultivation. He’s rather secular, enjoying the prosperity and wealth of the mortal world. If he could produce those elixirs, wouldn’t he be able to walk unchecked in the mortal world?
Isn’t that how the Huo Family behaves in the mortal world?
Therefore, facing the enormous, still steaming Pill Furnace, Zheng Tuo was full of confidence.
His family is rather supportive, having bought him a pill furnace for practice. He has produced quite a few elixirs, though they were basic ones, he has accumulated a lot of experience, surely he would not lose to this newly admitted kid?
That’s right, in twelve-year-old Zheng Tuo’s eyes, eight-year-old Changgui was just a silly child, a poor kid who somehow got lucky. Look at that shabby appearance; his family certainly couldn’t afford a pill furnace, let alone engage in alchemy.
He did have a top-grade Spirit Root, but no one knows what level it was at. It surely wasn’t as good as his; he was already at the Fifth Rank in Qi Cultivation at a young age. Even his father praised him as a cultivation genius!
As for the so-called "huge investment" Chen Muxue made to buy Changgui new clothes, in Zheng Tuo’s eyes, they were no better than the material worn by his mother’s dowry maid, simply unbearable to look at.
Changgui entered the Alchemy Room and looked at the enormous Alchemy Furnace, almost big enough to hit the ceiling, and couldn’t help but gape in awe.
How come this Alchemy Furnace is so big? It looks terribly cumbersome, how much spiritual power would it take to heat it? Let alone produce an elixir!
He frowned slightly and glanced at those classmates who were used to seeing it. Could everyone’s cultivation level and spiritual power be so high that they can handle such a big Alchemy Furnace?
The Qiankun Cauldron, at its largest, was only half this size!
Zheng Tuo saw Changgui’s astonished look of someone who had never seen the world, and felt even more smug. This kid really hadn’t seen an alchemy furnace before.