Corrosive rain lashed the windows of the buildings in Xuanye's outer district, driven by raging winds. The sound was like countless poisonous insects gnawing at rotten wood. Nian Quan sat cross-legged on a meditation cushion in the alchemy room, injecting batch after batch of prepared medicinal essences into a new-model alchemy furnace. Suddenly, he heard the front door open.
The alchemy room in the Lower District was a place Nian Quan had bought specifically to avoid contaminating his home if an attempt at alchemy failed. No one else should have known about it. The fact that the visitor had a key meant it could only be one of two people.
He cracked open his ice-blue left eye and glanced at the entrance, thinking, Just as I thought. Huo Qing walked toward the alchemy room with a White Cat perched on his head, carrying a large bag of bottles and jars along with a stack of jade booklets.
"The materials you asked for, and the Spirit Net information."
Tall and slender, with an air of almost complete harmlessness, Huo Qing was very young, yet his first impression on most people was that of a diligent employee who had worked for decades and was now barely alive, worn to the bone. That was how the vast majority of people saw him. But Nian Quan saw something different. He could clearly tell that Huo Qing's apparently skinny frame was actually packed with refined flesh and blood. His soul was even more formidable, fused with his body and faintly forming a continuously flowing, perfectly rounded array diagram.
That guy's gotten stronger again. Vegetation Wither-Flourish Returning Flame and Earth is probably close to completion.
Nian Quan looked away, pondering.
Though Huo Qing couldn't compare to him, his strength was indeed growing rapidly. Especially after following