For Lu Chuan, They Almost Came to Blows!

Northern Lin City, Lin City Alchemist Association.

"This is where Alchemists get certified. Come in with me."

With that, Teacher Liu led Lu Chuan straight into the Alchemist Association.

Inside the Alchemist Association.

Seeing Teacher Liu enter, a pretty receptionist in professional attire and gold-rimmed glasses came forward with a smile.

"Master Liu, you're here."

"Xiao Zhao, is Master Meng here?" Teacher Liu asked with a smile.

"He is. Please wait a moment."

Seeing that Teacher Liu had specifically come to see Master Meng, the receptionist did not dare neglect them. After pouring them each a cup of water and arranging seats for them, she hurried away.

Before long, Master Meng followed the receptionist into the front hall.

"Moling, what made you come looking for me today?"

"Did you get your hands on another batch of good wine?"

"Hurry up and bring it out. Good things should be shared."

Liu Moling was Teacher Liu's name.

Hearing that, Liu Moling stood up and smiled. "Master Meng, I brought my student here to get certified as an Alchemist."

Then Liu Moling looked at Lu Chuan. "Lu Chuan, let me introduce you. This is Master Meng, Meng Fan."

"Master Meng is not only the president of the Lin City Alchemist Association, but also Lin City's only Second-grade Alchemist."

"This junior greets Master Meng." Lu Chuan hurriedly bowed.

Looking at the rather young Lu Chuan before him, Meng Fan turned to Liu Moling in confusion. "Moling, don't tell me this student you mentioned is him."

"That's right." Liu Moling nodded with a smile.

Meng Fan's face filled with disbelief. He shook his head repeatedly. "Impossible. How old is this student of yours? How could he possibly know how to refine potions?"

"Master Meng, whether he can or not, won't we know after giving it a try?" Liu Moling's face remained wreathed in smiles.

Seeing this, Meng Fan could only suppress his doubts and proceed with Lu Chuan's Alchemist assessment.

Immediately, under Meng Fan's lead, Lu Chuan entered a laboratory.

At the same time, Meng Fan explained the assessment requirements.

"To become a First-grade Alchemist, you must refine a First-grade Potion ten times without interruption and maintain a success rate of at least sixty percent."

"Once you fail the assessment, you cannot take it again for three years."

"Are you sure you want to take the assessment?"

"I'm sure." Lu Chuan did not refuse.

Since he was already here, he might as well get certified as an Alchemist.

Seeing that Lu Chuan did not refuse, Meng Fan nodded, then asked, "What potion do you want to refine? The Association can prepare the ingredients for you."

"Spirit Replenishing Potion," Lu Chuan said.

"Wait a moment."

Meng Fan took out his phone and began contacting someone.

Before long, ten sets of ingredients were placed on the lab table before Lu Chuan.

"Begin."

At Meng Fan's command, Lu Chuan began refining the Spirit Replenishing Potion "clumsily."

The first attempt succeeded. A look of surprise gradually appeared on Meng Fan's face.

The second attempt succeeded. The surprise on Meng Fan's face grew even stronger.

The third attempt succeeded. The surprise on Meng Fan's face gradually turned into shock.

The fourth, fifth, sixth...

Ten consecutive successes left Meng Fan completely rooted to the spot, his expression a spectacular sight.

There was astonishment, wild delight, envy, and jealousy as well.

Suddenly, as if he had thought of something, Meng Fan rushed before Lu Chuan and grabbed his right hand with both hands. The smile on his face nearly piled into a heap.

"Congratulations! You've successfully passed the assessment!"

"From now on, you are a First-grade Alchemist of my Lin City Alchemist Association!"

"By the way, do you have a master?"

At that, the smile on Liu Moling's face instantly froze. "Meng, what do you mean by this?"

"I'm telling you, Lu Chuan is my student!"

"Bullshit!"

Meng Fan completely cast aside all decorum, arguing fiercely with Liu Moling like a shrew in the street.

"Don't think I know nothing."

"Lu Chuan is merely a high school student from your Third Middle School. I only call you Teacher out of respect for your teaching there."

"Do you really think you're Lu Chuan's master?"

While preparing the spiritual herbs Lu Chuan needed for the assessment, Meng Fan had already secretly investigated him.

After learning that Lu Chuan had not taken Liu Moling as his master, Meng Fan had begun entertaining thoughts of accepting him as a disciple.

It was only because of their relationship that he had not hurried to reveal his intentions.

But times had changed. Anyone with eyes could see that, with the talent Lu Chuan had displayed, his future was boundless.

With such an uncut jade placed before him, let alone the fact that the two were merely friends—even if Liu Moling were Lu Chuan's biological father, Meng Fan would not yield.

"You!"

"I can't be bothered to waste words with you!"

With a cold snort, Liu Moling looked at Lu Chuan. "Lu Chuan, are you willing to take me as your master?"

Seeing this, Meng Fan hurriedly said, "Lu Chuan, if you take me as your master, I'll give you all the formulas I possess for free."

"You should know that I'm a Second-grade Alchemist. Even if you added together all the formulas held by Lin City's other Alchemists, they still wouldn't match mine."

The receptionist, Xiao Zhao, was dumbfounded, hardly believing her own eyes.

Since when had Alchemists become so cheap?

When a dignified Alchemist accepted a disciple, they were supposed to put on an aloof air and only reluctantly agree after the disciple begged again and again.

How had everything been turned upside down with Lu Chuan?

Lu Chuan, the disciple, had not shown the slightest reaction, yet Meng Fan and the others, as masters, were trying every possible means to make Lu Chuan take them as his master.

Was this the world of geniuses?

What an eye-opener.

"Ahem, you two, there's no need to rush the matter of taking a master."

To prevent them from continuing their quarrel, Lu Chuan advised, "I'm devoted to martial arts. I only intend to dabble briefly in alchemy, using it to earn some resources for martial cultivation."

"I'm afraid I'll have to waste the kind intentions of you two seniors."

"How can that be?" Meng Fan immediately retorted. "I've heard a little about your aptitude as well."

"A Fourth-grade Talent is decent, but at most it can support your cultivation to Sixth-Rank Martial Artist."

"But judging by the Alchemist talent you've displayed, you will at the very least become a Fifth-grade Alchemist in the future!"

"A Sixth-Rank Martial Artist isn't even worthy of carrying a Fifth-grade Alchemist's shoes!"

"Only a Seventh-rank Martial Artist barely qualifies to follow a Fifth-grade Alchemist and become an Alchemist's attendant."

Meng Fan was not wrong.

On resource-starved Blue Star, Martial Artists who wished to cultivate to higher realms had to rely on the many potions produced by Alchemists.

Not to mention that, beyond potions that aided cultivation, Alchemists could also create countless miraculous potions with unfathomable effects.

Thus, on Blue Star, Alchemists had always held lofty status.

In the later stages, Martial Artists had to attach themselves to Alchemists and become their attendants if they wished to continue cultivating.

Without an Alchemist's support, it was already extraordinarily difficult for a Martial Artist to break through to the seventh rank, let alone reach the realms beyond.

Liu Moling also tried to persuade him. "Master Meng is right. Lu Chuan, if you abandon alchemy to pursue martial arts, that would be putting the cart before the horse."

"Besides, the two can complement each other."

"Once you make progress in alchemy, you won't need to worry about your martial cultivation realm at all."

"Just refining a few potions will make your martial cultivation realm climb higher and higher."