Chapter 106: Vile Alchemist

The auctioneer happily said, "Of course, we have private rooms here sir, we offer various services to not onl-"

"How much will it be?" He coldly spoke, not being friendly at all.

"It will be 1 Spirit Stone per hour, you can go to the building behind you and can take a private room." He pointed behind Shen Yuan and spoke.

Shen Yuan nodded and tossed him a Spirit Stone, heading inside the building and entering one of the rooms.

Throughout the way the alchemist didn't say anything and neither did Shen Yuan say anything.

After entering the room, Shen Yuan stood straight and looked at the alchemist with cold eyes, making him shudder.

"Wh-why- what do you want from me!?" He asked in a shivering voice looking at Shen Yuan's cold gaze.

"How do you feel killing all of your victims?" He answered with a question instead, looking straight at him.

The alchemist's expression lit up with joy at the mention of his victims, "Ah those were the truly good times, going anywhere and doing whatever I wanted. I was treated like a king due to my status as an Alchemy Master," he paused for a bit, remembering about the old times as he continued speaking in a gate filled voice,

"But those bastards came and caught me one day, fucking hypocrites raising the banner of justice when they are nothing better than me.."

He continued blabbering, Shen Yuan had enough as he raised his hand, "Are you now happy remembering those old times? Now you can die happily."

The vile alchemist's eyes widened as he shouted, "Wait! I can help you in alchemy or even tell you the forbidden formula I found to make an immortal pil-"

His voice was cut short as Shen Yuan thrust his hand through his chest, grabbing his heart and ripping it out.

"You can take the recipe together with you to hell." Shen Yuan spoke coldly to him.

All the alchemist could do was stare at Shen Yuan in anger and hatred, "I will fucking kil-" his voice was cut short as he dropped down dead on the ground.

The heart in his hand turned into thick red liquid and seeped into his skin, he could feel something changing inside of him as the system's prompt sounded.

[Ding!]

[Unknown Bloodline has initiated the absorption of Low-Grade Minor Talent Alchemy Talent.]

[Ding!]

[Due to the effects of Purity Physique, the Tier of Low-Grade Minor Alchemy Talent has been upgraded to Mid Grade Minor Talent.]

She said,

[Yep, rest is necessary at your current level, after you reach Origin Core Formation Realm, you won't even need to sleep. You can just absorb Qi and won't have any further problems.]

Shen Yuan and Yue Lan continued talking for some time until he fell asleep.

...

Shen Yuan woke up early in the morning, feeling refreshed from all the fatigue of yesterday. Even his spirits were lifted which he felt were down since the slave market incident.

He stood up from the bed came in front of the cauldron and sat down.

[Going to start practicing alchemy first thing in the morning?] She asked him as he was bringing out the herbs.

He said as he neatly arranged all the herbs, "It's as good a time as any to start, I will practice for a few days first."

He raised his hand and ignited the alchemy fire, he brought it close to the furnace to heat it up. brought-to-you-by-MvLeMpYr

After he finished heating up the furnace, he started putting the herbs inside in a particular order.

Extracting their essence and mixing them up. Time continued to pass as he continued refining the herbs.

Soon he felt the time was right as he used more Qi to quickly finish the process.

As he opened the cauldron to look at the results, all he saw were black ashes at the bottom of the cauldron.

He shook his head looking at his results.

[You shouldn't be hasty, Shen Yuan. You need to have patience if you want to learn Alchemy.]

"Alright, I will try again." he took a deep breath as he began processing the herbs again.

The second attempt was a failure as well due to him being far too cautious and overburning the essence of the herbs.

The third attempt failed because he lost control of his alchemy fire for a second.

...

He was on his 7th attempt as he carefully prepared all the ingredients and started the process again.