Chapter 23: The Shining Sun Puppet (Please Read On)
"You can be an apprentice, but I don't think you can learn to make pills."
"The junior alchemist supported by our pharmacy feels like his eyes are on the top of his head, and he is so proud. Even my father wanted me to learn alchemy from him, but he refused."
Huang Zhicheng said angrily, and it was obvious that Chen Wei's words evoked his bad memories.
"Forget it, I will find other ways myself."
Chen Wei had no choice but to reply helplessly after hearing this. He just wanted to try it. After all, he didn't want to go to the Alchemist Association to start as a student worker.
A student worker is not as good as an apprentice. An apprentice can at least learn something, while a student worker is just a simple worker who does basic work and has to pass the alchemist's inspection for one or two years to become an apprentice, relying purely on the alchemist's eye.
Don't look down on apprentices. Even if you are qualified as an apprentice, you need to be a person with connections to get it, and ordinary people don't have to think about it.
Of course, if you can awaken your innate talent for alchemy, then you will become a hot commodity.
The door of the Alchemist Association is always open to you. If you want to step into that door, you can easily become an alchemist.
But unfortunately, Chen Wei's talent has nothing to do with alchemy.
He also thought about learning to become an alchemist by himself through online teaching videos. But without a master to lead the way, he made little progress by relying on online teaching videos.
Through online self-study, Chen Wei only learned how to distinguish and confirm the medicinal properties of medicinal materials, and which derivatives of plant pets can be used as medicinal materials for alchemy.
At least so far, Chen Wei has not heard of a self-taught alchemist in Donghua.
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After chatting and running, Chen Wei returned to the apartment with a sweat on his body.
After a while, Chen Wei, who had just finished taking a shower, was sitting on the bed practicing meditation on the source star.
Today he did not plan to go to the Beastmaster Association for training. After all, renting a venue for a day is also a high cost, and the practice of telekinesis can also be carried out in the room.
Not far away, Cai Ling on the sofa was opening her big watery eyes, and the ice crystals on her head were still shining with blue and white light.
She was concentrating and using telekinesis to control the dumbbells to move continuously in the air, but unfortunately her telekinesis could only last for more than ten seconds each time.
"Bang... bang... bang." So Chen Wei could hear the dull sound of the dumbbells falling on the sofa every once in a while.
After going back and forth like this for a few times, it seemed that the weight of the 2.5 kg dumbbells was a bit light, so Cai Ling began to use telekinesis to add dumbbell plates to the dumbbells intermittently, but her progress in adding dumbbell plates was extremely slow.
More than ten minutes passed, and she hadn't installed the dumbbell plates yet, even though it was very simple when she saw the beastmaster operate it.
After trying a few times, Cai Ling, who was mentally exhausted due to excessive use of telekinesis, impatiently slapped the dumbbells with her tail, but she never meant to use her tail to install them.
Chen Wei had told her before: "Try to use telekinesis wherever you can in today's training."
She squinted her eyes and began to rest, preparing to try again later. The addition of dumbbells can be done without using the tail.
Chen Wei sat on the bed meditating on the source star, while Cai Ling practiced telekinesis on the sofa.
Both sides did their own things, but there was an unspeakable tacit understanding. One person and one pet maintained this state of practice for a day.
After a few days, both of them had gradually adapted to such a monotonous and boring life.
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A luxurious villa near the center of Shuishan City has an alchemy room dedicated to alchemy.
In the center of the alchemy room is an ancient black-brown medicine cauldron.
There are two dragon heads in a spitting shape above the medicine cauldron, and below it, there is a dark golden dragon that seems to be roaring.
And there are many fine holes in the huge mouth of the dragon, emitting orange-red flames.
The top of the medicine cauldron is a brown-red lid, and the holes on the lid are emitting hot steam.
In the center of the front of the medicine cauldron, there is a round transparent crystal essence, which can be used to observe the situation inside.
Liu Munging is now pulling open the transparent crystal essence hole door, and then continuously putting various medicinal materials into the cauldron.
Not long after the medicinal materials entered the cauldron, they were all refined into white powder.
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Beside Liu Munging is a brilliant king-level pet [Shuo Ri Puppet] that is constantly spewing flames into the cauldron.
It has a pair of pointed ears, with tiny titanium crystals scattered around the ears, and a cluster of orange-red flames burning in its hair.
There is a pair of bright red gem eyes above the elegant and majestic cheeks, and the body is covered with fiery red hair.
Its limbs are slightly thick, and there seems to be a faint smoke rising from the place where the soles of its feet stand.
"Hongyu, increase the temperature of the flame by three levels." Liu Munging closed the small round door on the medicine cauldron and transmitted it with his mind.
Hearing this, the flames from the mouth of the Shuori puppet changed from orange-red to dark red.
Liu Munging felt the constant changes in the cauldron with a solemn expression. Under the high temperature, the white medicinal powder gradually began to turn reddish, as if glowing slightly.
A few minutes later, she poured the transparent liquid in a white jade bottle into the cauldron. As the liquid and powder merged with each other, the cauldron slowly emitted a soft emerald green light.
After the light disappeared, a pile of unknown medicine in a paste-like state was left in the medicine cauldron.
"Hongyu, stop." Liu Munging immediately gave the order when he saw this.
The flames in the mouth of the Shuori puppet disappeared instantly.
It shook its head. It was obvious that the flames had been continuously output for a long time without moving, which made its neck a little stiff and uncomfortable.
Liu Munging smelled the medicinal fragrance from the cauldron, observed the luster of the paste, and a faint smile appeared on her face.
This batch of third-level Wanling ointment seemed to be successfully refined, and the quality looked good, reaching the excellent level.
"Thank you for your hard work. The temperature was well controlled today."
She touched Hongyu's head affectionately again.
Surprisingly, the flames burning on Hongyu's head did not cause any damage to Liu Munging's tender hands.
Liu Munging put the ointments in the cauldron into the white jade bottle one by one and walked out of the stuffy alchemy room.
Looking at Gu Yun who was waiting outside the door, she smiled and said, "Are there any talents worth noting among the people who came for the interview recently?"
"There are 183 interviewees in the past few days, and only two of them have awakened their innate talents."
Gu Yun added, "One is a junior alchemist who has awakened the talent for fire control, and the other is an appraiser who has awakened the talent for identification."
Liu Munging exclaimed, "Not bad, there are two more. Then let's follow the old rules and finish the interview tomorrow afternoon."
"Okay, President Liu."
Gu Yun took it for granted that every interview of a talent awakener in the Puppet Mall must be personally assessed by the lady.
"By the way, has Chen Wei not come to work these days?" Liu Munging's tone was a little flat.
"Yes." Gu Yun's body stiffened slightly.
"I hope to see him at work in the company tomorrow morning." The phone rang, and Liu Munging said casually after looking at the message.
"I understand."
Gu Yun nodded, then silently followed Liu Munging's steps and left, always keeping a half-step distance back while walking.