novelraw Chapter 261
Chapter 261
The old gentleman snapped out of his conflicting emotions and, usually kind-hearted, couldn’t help but glare at Zheng Tuo: "Nonsense! This is not the Qi Smoothing Pill, and yours is?!"
Huo Ting scoffed at Zheng Tuo, just like before: "If you know so little, read more books. You don’t even know about the Ancient Qi Smoothing Pill, how can you be so confident?"
The onlooking classmates glanced at each other; seeing that none of them knew about the Ancient Qi Smoothing Pill, they sighed in relief.
They were terrified; with Huo Ting’s tone, they almost believed they knew too little!
Zheng Tuo’s face turned red from holding back. He recalled everything mentioned in the textbooks and even previewed the upcoming courses, but not a single mention of anything like the Ancient Qi Smoothing Pill!
He understood now, it had to be Changgui using his connections to have the elder and the younger of the Huo Family deceive him!
Unfair!
Huo Ting obviously noticed his discontent and couldn’t help but laugh: "What, you’re upset? It’s true it’s not in the textbook, but weren’t you boasting about entering the elixir business? I heard your family even bought an Alchemy Furnace? Yet, you don’t even know about the Ancient Qi Smoothing Pill, such a joke!"
Zheng Tuo was fuming; he had said he would enter the elixir business, but his focus was on beauty and skincare...
But he knew he couldn’t say that out loud.
Just because it’s about beauty and skincare elixirs doesn’t mean you shouldn’t deeply understand elixirs. Clearly not, it’s just that the threshold is lower, and he thought having just enough knowledge would suffice, no need for in-depth research...
If word got out, he wouldn’t need to think about pursuing this business anymore; people would simply avoid him completely.
After all, these are high-priced items ingested into the body, the more professional, the better. The public isn’t foolish, and those with the financial means for these are even shrewder.
The old gentleman finally calmed down and quietly put away Changgui’s Qi Smoothing Pill: "The records of ancient elixirs are alchemist myths. Every alchemist aspires to recreate those remarkably unique elixirs mentioned in books, and those unwilling to understand them are destined never to be excellent alchemists."
Not only Zheng Tuo, but even many onlooking classmates lowered their heads.
Since they chose the Huo Family Academy and worked hard to get into the Celestial Armor Class, many sought to become alchemists. Whether for family business or personal ambition, anyone without the heart for it and who hasn’t delved deeply into the relevant knowledge would lower their head hearing the old gentleman’s words.
Turning to Huo Ting, as someone from the Huo Family, of course, he fully understood all this. No wonder the Huo Family can dominate the elixir industry!
Zheng Tuo, although red-faced, still felt a bit unwilling. Was he really going to lose to a newly enrolled young newbie? A youngster so poor and with an unknown family!
If it had been to Huo Ting, he certainly wouldn’t feel this resentment!
"This... Qi Smoothing Pill?" Changgui suddenly picked up the elixir Zheng Tuo refined and said, "The addition of Scutellaria was too late. Although it looks melted, there are still fine powder fragments that can’t completely integrate into the elixir, hence it’s not perfect."
As he spoke, seeing someone beside him curiously craning their neck to look, he casually handed the elixir to them.
"Really! You wouldn’t see it if you didn’t look closely against the light!" That person held up the elixir, eyes wide in amazement, exclaiming.
"Amazing!"
Seeing this, Zheng Tuo clenched his fists even tighter.