Xinghua City, Alchemy Guild.
This was a place capable of driving the entire elite class of Xinghua City crazy.
Because here resided a group of immensely respected figures.
Alchemists!
At the edge of science lies theology.
Five hundred years ago, before Blue Star's spiritual energy revived, many top figures revered Alchemy, seeking immortality.
Among them was a certain famous genius who, obsessed to the point of madness with Alchemy, had been struck by an apple.
This pioneer in physics abandoned fame and fortune in his later years to study Alchemy for thirty years.
After his death, he left countless alchemical manuscripts, becoming a model in the alchemy world.
Alchemy was a mysterious, vast, and ancient discipline.
Its traces can be found in historical records of Yan Country, ancient Egypt, and Mesopotamia, even tracing back to prehistoric times.
Since Blue Star's revival, this ancient study blossomed anew.
Some said Alchemy had never vanished—only stepped out from behind the scenes.
After five centuries of development, the Alchemy Guild became one of the world's indispensable giants.
Its deep roots and connections made it impossible for even Yan Country to ignore.
At this moment, a graceful figure paced before the Alchemy Guild's palace, seeming troubled.
Indeed, the Alchemy Guild was housed in a palace!
In Yan Country, no force dared build a structure more splendid than the city lord's mansion.
Because the official city lord's mansion symbolized secular royal power.
But the Alchemy Guild dared to surpass!
They stood above the secular world and all powers.
This was the Guild's privilege!
Zhao Shiqi hesitated long before entering the palace.
The Alchemy Guild was home to many eccentric, hard-to-deal-with old masters.
They alchemized everything—artifacts, pills, poisons, even clockwork puppetry.
Anything imaginable, nothing was too daring.
Once, a reckless Level 8 Alchemist sneaked into a pharaoh's tomb, trying to transform a mummy into a puppet.
An accident caused a huge explosion, nearly leveling the tomb, leading to centuries of pursuit by the pharaoh's descendants.
These Alchemists were fanatically devoted to creating the perfect alchemical masterpiece, adding mysterious powders and liquids to furnaces or turning themselves into barely living puppets—routine for them.
If Zhao Shiqi had no urgent matters, she wouldn't step foot in such danger.
She came mainly for two things:
First, to buy a healing potion.
Second, to repair her Silver longsword.
For broken teeth, she could've gone to a hospital for cellular regeneration.
But that bastard Lu Yuan broke her Silver longsword.
Only Alchemists could repair it.
The Alchemy Guild was like a vast, luxuriously decorated maze.
Everyone inside wore splendid formal attire; even guards and maids bore airs of superiority.
Zhao Shiqi was clearly familiar, heading smoothly to a side courtyard.
"Junior Zhao Shiqi pays respects to Master Wu!"
She entered and respectfully bowed to a small old man in gray robes.
He was slender, face dark, with a wild, frizzy hairstyle.
Only his bloodshot eyes shone brightly.
He was pouring a green liquid into a bubbling vessel.
Suddenly green flames rose, blackening his face.
The old man was unfazed, happily transferring the liquid into a clean glass tube, handling it like a precious beauty.
"Master Wu."
Zhao Shiqi waited till he finished before speaking again.
He put down the tube and took a Crystal Core from a pile in the yard, intending to grind it to powder.
Hearing Zhao Shiqi, he snapped impatiently:
"If you've got something, say it; if not, leave me be! Can't you see I'm busy?"
Zhao Shiqi pouted, unhappy with his rude tone.
But she knew his temper—if not for her grandfather's face, newcomers would be kicked out immediately.
"Master Wu, the Silver longsword you made me has a small problem."
She took off her Silver necklace and handed it over.
"When your grandfather asked me to forge this longsword, I said clearly it was a fixed-price deal."
"If there's a problem, that's not my problem."
The old man waved irritably, wanting her gone.
But when his eyes caught the Silver necklace, he jumped like someone stepped on his toe.
"Damn, someone actually broke my alchemy matrix?"
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