Chapter 104: Alchemy

Shen Yuan accepted the price as he had already calculated it, he retrieved a large pouch of spirit stones from his storage ring, and tossed them towards her, "Here, count them."

The young woman hurriedly caught them, she quickly verified the amount of coins in them. Soon she raised her head in confusion, "Sir, the amount is excessive, there are a total of 150,000 Spirit Stones, and you gave 4,400 extra."

Shen Yuan smiled lightly, "You can take them as your tip, I liked your attitude."

The young woman didn't refuse it and put away the pouch with a smile. "I will bring your recipes shortly, sir. Please wait a bit."

Within moments, She returned with a storage ring filled with recipes. Shen Yuan scanned the storage ring and nodded after checking all the contents inside of it.

"Thank you for your help, Sir. I can now return home to settle some matters." At the end, her voice held a hint of sadness as she mentioned home.

Shen Yuan looked at her for a bit, "Don't mind it, I just gave you the spirit stones because I liked your attitude. You deserved them. Will you close this pavilion now that you are leaving?"

The young woman shook her head, "You misunderstood sir, I am not the owner here. I'm here all alone because it is my shift now, after some time Sister Bai will come to take over. I will just inform the store owner before leaving for my home."

Shen Yuan and the young woman were already near the entrance by now after walking for a while.

Shen Yuan looked at her and spoke with a gentle tone, "I hope whatever you are going to do will go well."

The young woman nodded her head heavily, as if a great duty was on her shoulder as she looked him in the eyes and said, "Thank you for your well wishes, Sir. My name is Han Qingyu, it was a pleasure meeting with you."

Shen Yuan nodded his head and replied in the same gentle tone, "My name is Shen Yuan, let's meet again if fate wills it."

With that, he left the pavilion.

...

After leaving the pavilion, Shen Yuan made his way through the bustling streets of Green Mountain City. Yue Lan spoke to him, "That woman had a dormant physique, she is quite a genius but with the resources in her possession, she might never awaken her Physique.]

Shen Yuan paused slightly, but soon continued walking forward, 'Everyone has their destiny, let it be for now. If we cross paths again then I will help her.'

Yue Lan dropped the topic and he continued to look around for a bit more but after not finding anything worthwhile he left to look for accommodation.

'Time to put these herbs to use.' he thought inwardly. After all, he had bought all these recipes for a reason, to make his alchemy foundation more solid.

He glanced around, looking for a quiet place to practice alchemy. After some searching, he found a high-class establishment named 'Verdant Flame Alchemy Hall'.

It was a well-known building in the city as alchemists came to practice their alchemy here due to their top-tier facilities.

He entered the hall and was greeted by an elderly man sitting behind the counter. There was a thick smell of herbs roaming around the old man, making it obvious that he was an alchemist or at least someone who refined herbs quite frequently.

Shen Yuan looked at the prices for different tiers and asked the elderly man, "What is the difference between each tier?"

"Better cauldron, better room, and more Qi." The answer was precise as if he was afraid he would run out of words.

Shen Yuan had enough of him as he directly asked, "Give me the best room for a hundred hours."

He said and took out a pouch filled with exactly 5000 Spirit Stones, not a single stone extra.

The elderly man slightly opened his eyes and counted the money from the counter. He waved his hand stored the money inside and threw a gold-plated token towards Shen Yuan.

"Here, you can use this token to access the 3rd Tier room of our establishment in any other cities that have our branch."

Shen Yuan accepted the token and looked at it for a bit before moving deeper into the hall and ascending the stairs to the top floor.

The elderly man looked at Shen Yuan's leaving back for a bit before closing his eyes and sleeping again.

...

Shen Yuan soon reached the top floor and used the token to enter one of the empty rooms.

Just as he entered the room, he felt the change in the quality of the qi as it was filled to the brim with qi.

He took a deep breath as he walked inside, "Cultivating in such a place would be multiple times faster than the outside world."

The room was simply decorated with a bed in the corner and a furnace in the middle, formations were etched all over the walls to gather qi inside the room.

Shen Yuan went to the middle of the room and sat down cross-legged in front of the cauldron. He took out one of the Low-Grade Tier 1 recipes from his storage ring.

He started analyzing it, and after some time he placed it back, "Phew... from here will the hard work begin."

He started taking out the herbs necessary for the pill. Placing them in order. After he finished putting all the herbs in order, he began processing them one by one.

Grinding some herbs into fine powder, or soaking others into some special liquid, and preparing the rest according to the instructions.

It took some time as this was his first time doing it. But he soon finished the process as he now sat in front of the cauldron with all the herbs at one side.

"Phew, the time to try my hand at it has come," he said as he was about to start the refining process.

Just then Yue Lan's amusing voice sounded from the top of the cauldron, she sat there leisurely, looking at him

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