After leaving the imperial palace, Xiao Yan crossed several broad avenues and soon arrived before a magnificent complex shrouded in the rich fragrance of pills.
This was the sacred ground revered by the alchemists of the Jia Ma Empire-the Alchemist Guild!
With the Alchemist Competition fast approaching, alchemists from all over the Jia Ma Empire streamed in and gathered here, making the Alchemist Guild exceptionally lively.
As it happened, Xiao Yan had been the champion of the Alchemist Competition in the original story.
Of course, the current Xiao Yan had already become a Seventh-Rank Alchemist, so there was naturally no chance he would enter this competition again.
His only purpose in coming here today was to obtain the incomplete Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations.
After entering the Alchemist Guild, Xiao Yan swept the area with his spiritual perception, then headed toward the guild's eastern section.
This was the Alchemist Guild's trading and treasure-hunting area. In the original story, the Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations should have been found here.
He just did not know whether he could still snag that bargain this time!
Unlike an ordinary marketplace, the trading area had no vendors loudly hawking their wares.
After all, most of those running stalls here were alchemists.
Alchemists were refined people with their own pride, unwilling to shout their wares like ordinary folk in the marketplace.
They simply laid the treasures they wished to trade on the stalls before them and sat behind them, calm and at ease.
Their attitude all but said: buy if you want to; otherwise, do not come here just to gawk.
Moreover, most stallholders here did not accept gold coins, instead demanding barter.
After entering the trading area, Xiao Yan quickly swept his gaze over each stall.
Unfortunately, the vast majority of the wares were