Battle Through the Heavens: The Rise Begins at Jia Nan Academy, Section 51

"Certainly, sir. Please follow me."

The Complete Three Mysterious Changes of Heavenly Flame

Inside the Mittel Family's VIP room.

Gilded, carved beams and pillars supported a lavish space. Mind-Soothing Incense burned in glazed lamps, its wisps of green smoke spreading a faint medicinal fragrance that mingled with the room's air of gold and jade.

A thin middle-aged man stood awkwardly beside a rosewood chair, repeatedly rubbing the hem of his clothes between his hands.

He was merely an alchemist apprentice, usually drifting from place to place without a fixed home. When had he ever seen a place where even the floor was paved with warm jade?

However, recalling the respectful attitudes of the attendants, a hint of delight spread across the middle-aged man's gaunt face.

The young man who had traded with him that day was certainly of no low status, and the Tier 2 Alchemist inheritance he had promised was most likely genuine.

In truth, he had obtained those two jade fragments from his companions several days ago.

He knew that anything valued by someone like that could not be ordinary. After going to great lengths to buy them, he had once entertained greedy thoughts of keeping them for himself.

Yet no matter how he studied them, even trying to soak them in water and burn them with fire, he could never uncover anything unusual.

After all that effort, he could only extinguish those unrealistic fantasies and honestly bring the jade fragments to the door.

"Creak..."

The carved wooden door was gently pushed open, interrupting the middle-aged man's thoughts. Qin Chen, dressed in green, slowly walked inside.

"Master!"

The middle-aged man hurriedly straightened up, his face filling with a fawning smile.

"No need for such formality." Qin Chen raised a hand in a token gesture, his gaze falling upon