Materials, Alchemist
Leaving Teacher Li Ming's office.
Lin Xuan first contacted the person he traded life water with last time.
His identity was the head of the Treasure Pavilion, a large business association in Jianghai City.
The Treasure Pavilion's business was similar to a Professionals trading house.
However, since trading houses could only be used in main cities,
there were certain restrictions.
What they did was utilize a large amount of manpower and resources.
They would sweep goods from the trading house and acquire materials in large quantities at low prices in the wild.
Then, after processing, they would sell them directly at high prices in the monster zones outside the city.
When Lin Xuan was in Divine Grace Cemetery before,
the trading area there was set up by the Treasure Pavilion.
Beep beep—
The call ended.
Being in Jianghai City, phone contact was relatively smooth.
The other party indicated that he just needed to go to the location of their last transaction.
However, they could only provide a maximum of three drops.
“Three drops, one more than I expected. That's enough,” Lin Xuan closed his phone and paid for a tiger demon mount at the school gate to head to his destination.
“I need to level up quickly.”
“Otherwise, my Skeletal Dragon can't be ridden on these narrow city streets.”
“Walking takes too much time.”
“And I can't always ride someone else's mount.”
Soon, costing two academic credits, Lin Xuan arrived at the transaction location on the tiger demon.
This transaction was quick and unexpectedly smooth.
The person he was trading with didn't even show up.
The three drops of life water.
Were left by that person at the club, intended for trade with others.
They said it was given to him directly out of respect for Lin Xuan.
That's what they said.
Lin Xuan didn't believe he had that much influence.
The most important thing for a business association was its reputation.
The other party was most likely acting out of respect for General General Li, the number one person in Xia Kingdom.
Ever since the last life water transaction,
after he learned that the other party's identity was not simple,
Lin Xuan had looked up some information.
It turned out that the four people next to General General Li at Spark Guild that day corresponded to the four major families of Jianghai City: Jiang, Song, Kong, and Chen.
They were also the heads of the four major business associations in Jianghai.
Back then, due to some business associations in Xia Kingdom deliberately raising the prices of red and blue potions to profit from national hardship,
General General Li personally intervened, leading to the Blood Potion Incident.
The business associations controlled by the four major families.
Were the first targets to be cleaned up during the Blood Potion Incident.
However, at that time, their attitude of admitting mistakes was very good.
Later, they also followed General General Li to deal with other business associations.
Only then were they not completely wiped out.
life water was settled.
Lin Xuan carefully stored the three newly acquired drops.
He planned to visit Modu University in a few days.
His Brother Xu was there.
It would be better for Brother Xu to hand the life water to his aunt.
If he went to deliver it,
he might be rejected again.
Just like the house during the college entrance exam.
On his way back, Lin Xuan was not in a hurry.
He walked slowly along the road.
While enjoying the beautiful city scenery, he communicated with Irena in his mind.
“Irena, the Shapeshifting materials you mentioned last time were life water, Soul Summoning Pill, and Hua Xing Grass.”
“I have life water and Hua Xing Grass now. Can I substitute soul summoning grass for Soul Summoning Pill?”
“I'm not sure. I can feel that the soul summoning grass is useful to me.”
“But whether it can complete the shapeshifting, I have no certainty.”
Irena's voice echoed in his mind, full of uncertainty.
Lin Xuan was also a bit hesitant.
He couldn't find any information about Soul Summoning Pill online.
And he had asked Li Ming about it before.
He didn't know either.
“I almost forgot, when he gave me the Hua Xing Grass, he also gave me an address.”
Lin Xuan took out a business card.
It read, “312 Mingzhu Road.”
According to Teacher Li Ming.
General General Li's divine beast, White Phoenix, could shapeshift.
It was only after using Hua Xing Grass to refine a Transformation Pill that it successfully shapeshifted.
And the person who refined the Transformation Pill was a hidden profession alchemist.
Then he was very likely to know about Soul Summoning Pill.
“Perhaps this soul summoning grass is the material for directly refining Soul Summoning Pill.”
Lin Xuan knew very little about alchemy.
There wasn't much information online either.
He composed himself and looked at the address.
Then, asking for directions along the way, he arrived at the alchemist's residence.
This place was located in the suburbs, a large manor.
The manor gate was made of antique bronze metal.
There were also some patterns on the gate that Lin Xuan had never seen before.
It looked quite luxurious and grand.
Lin Xuan stood in front of the gate.
Through the hollow metal gate.
He could see a road paved with red and white bricks, leading directly to a huge villa inside.
There were many low-lying plants on both sides of the road.
Not far away, he could faintly see some rotating sprinklers watering the plants.
There was an iron pillar next to the manor gate.
An iron plaque hung on it.
On the iron plaque, written in white font, was:
“Kong Family Manor”
“This place, is it the Kong Family's property?”
Lin Xuan was slightly surprised.
He had previously investigated the four major families. The Chen Family was in charge of the Treasure Pavilion, mainly dealing with various items.
While the Kong Family specialized in alchemy and potion making.
There were many such lifestyle Professionals within the family.
No wonder Li Ming told him to come here.
It's just, could the alchemist he needed to find coincidentally be the person he met at Spark Guild?
Lin Xuan thought to himself, stepping forward to knock on the door.
Knock knock knock—
Soon, a female Professional wearing a maid's outfit came to open the door.
She had a beautiful face and a hot figure.
But she had two light blue cat ears on her head and a cat tail behind her.
She was a cat demon.
The cat girl's gaze was somewhat cold as she sized up Lin Xuan.
“Who are you? What do you want?”
“I'm a student from Jiangcheng University. Teacher Li Ming sent me here.”
The cat girl frowned slightly, seemingly disbelieving.
Lin Xuan took out his business card, and only then did the cat girl open the door and let him in.
“Follow me.”
The cat girl turned, her long white legs leading the way.
Lin Xuan was surprised and followed the cat girl into the manor.
Upon entering the manor.
Its luxury was truly revealed.
The red and white brick road underfoot was flat and neat.
In the flowerbeds on both sides of the road, various colorful flowers bloomed.
Not far away, there was also a rockery with gurgling water.
“This place is truly a paradise on earth,” Lin Xuan exclaimed in his heart.
As expected of the Kong Family, one of the four major families.
Just this manor alone was probably worth a fortune.
But what he was most curious about was this cat demon maid.
She seemed to be like Irena.
Both possessed intelligence.
Yet such an intelligent being.
Was being used as a maid.
“Ahem, it seems I also planned to have Irena be a dragon maid.”
Lin Xuan shook his head, casting aside the distracting thoughts.
His main purpose this time was to understand alchemy.
And to ask this alchemist if he knew about Soul Summoning Pill.
If he could help refine the soul summoning grass, even better.
“Teacher Li Ming said that this person has a bad temper. If it doesn't work, I'll try the Spark Guild badge.”
“Irena's shapeshifting matter, I'll try to resolve it today.”
“We're here.”
The cat girl stopped, pointing to a villa ahead.
The villa's door was tightly shut.
But Lin Xuan could vaguely hear scolding from inside.
It seemed to be about them not being able to properly guard the herbs.
“This is where Master Kong lives.”
The cat girl gave Lin Xuan a cold look and turned to leave.
Lin Xuan walked forward and gently knocked on the door.
Knock knock knock—
The door was quickly opened, and a middle-aged man in a white robe appeared at the doorway.
He had a dignified face and sharp eyes.
Seeing Lin Xuan, his eyebrows raised.
“Oh, Lin Xuan.”
“Why are you here at my place?”