"Old man, why'd you stop talking?"
Lu Yuan was deeply engaged, but Wu Changgeng suddenly paused.
He had thought Alchemy was trivial, useless.
But after Wu Changgeng's full guidance, Lu Yuan realized many paths lead to Rome.
Alchemy to the extreme could turn stone to gold and even bring the dead back.
Most importantly, when Lu Yuan began studying Alchemy, his fusion progress with Bronze and Fire King increased notably!
In just three hours, it rose 1%, from 25% to 26%!
Since Bronze and Fire King ruled metal and fire, reaching Alchemy's limit, it made sense Lu Yuan's Alchemy studies increased fusion progress.
"That's all for today. Come back tomorrow."
Wu Changgeng was a bit tired.
He had always crushed others with his own alchemy talent.
Unexpectedly, now he was being crushed in his strongest field.
"Wait, bring something to Old Li for me."
Wu Changgeng called Lu Yuan into the alchemy room, searching among bottles and jars.
Lu Yuan looked around.
The room was filled with strange instruments and glass tubes.
Old photographs hung on the walls.
One photo in a frame was well placed.
It showed a tall, handsome young man.
Sharp brows, striking demeanor, somewhat resembling Wu Changgeng.
In terms of looks, he rivaled Lu Yuan.
Only the style was dated, like someone from Lu Yuan's father's generation.
"Old man, I didn't know your son was quite handsome."
Lu Yuan curiously asked, though puzzled.
Wu Changgeng had devoted his life to Alchemy and didn't seem married.
No wife, so where did his son come from?
Wu Changgeng came over carrying a wine jar, stooped.
Seeing the photo, his expression was complicated.
After a long silence, he spoke.
"That's a photo of me when I was young."
"What? You're saying that's you in the photo?"
Lu Yuan shuddered, startled.
Wu Changgeng wore shabby gray robes with no patches.
His wild, messy hair looked worse than a bird's nest, with a hairline receding sky-high.
His beard grew wildly like an untrimmed thicket.
No matter how much Lu Yuan tried, he couldn't link the elegant man in the photo to the scruffy old man before him.
But looking closely, they did share many similarities.
"In my day, I was the most famous handsome man in Xinghua City, even better looking than you by a bit…"
Wu Changgeng sighed with nostalgia.
But soon he grew excited again.
"Alchemy hides this world's ultimate secrets. 'To hear the Way in the morning and die at sunset' — what does mere appearance matter?"
Hearing this, Lu Yuan was speechless.
Once deep in Alchemy, looks no longer mattered.
This old man was like the Planck of the Alchemy world.
No wonder Alchemists were called lunatics, willing to sacrifice everything for their craft.
Lu Yuan once doubted, but now believed.
He left the Alchemy Guild holding the wine jar, feeling conflicted.
Remembering Wu Changgeng, his feelings about Alchemy wavered.
Strength was temporary, but looks lasted a lifetime.
If he ended up like Wu Changgeng, it would be worse than death!
What shocked Lu Yuan most was that Old Li sold him out for a mere ten jin of Golden Qi Liquid!
...
"You little bastard, getting lucky and acting shameless."
Old Li scolded Lu Yuan with a smile, pouring himself a cup of Golden Qi Liquid while mercilessly training him.
Lu Yuan began a painful yet happy time.
Grinding in hellish training by day, learning Alchemy from Wu Changgeng by night, absorbing Exotic Beast Crystal Cores at midnight to boost cultivation wildly.
Wang Xiaoyun often suspected her son had a girlfriend outside.
Under such grinding, Lu Yuan's progress exploded daily!
As his Alchemy mastery deepened, Bronze and Fire King's fusion steadily rose.
Ten days later, it reached 30%!
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