chapter 2391 – 2395
Chapter 2391
Chandler could not help but shake his head when he heard all of that.
The alchemist’s path was definitely not easy.
It was even several times harder than martial arts, and it required a lot more talent.
“Is it really that hard to condense a pill aura?” Chandler put down the cup of tea in his hand as he asked
seriously.
Even though he had some understanding of alchemy, he had never tried to understand the Way of the
Pill before.
He did not understand how difficult it was to
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understand the Way of the Pill and condense a pill aura.
Mr. Simmons had many years of experience in Heavenly Pills, so he naturally had some authority on the
matter.
“Of course it’s hard! Let me give you an example that you can understand. For a fifth-grade alchemist to
understand the Way of the Pill and condense pill aura is like having an innate realm warrior learn a
having an upper earth rank skill. Isn’t that hard?”
With Mr. Simmons’ example, Chandler had a better idea of it. Of course, it was hard! It was incredibly
hard. It was basically something he was unable to do at all.
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It was considered quite good if he managed to learn an upper red level skill.
Earth rank skills were something he would not even dare to think about in the innate realm.
Those who were able to learn those skills were all excellent disciples within the ns.
If he could do something like that, he would have already been an inner disciple a long time ago.
For there to only be one person capable of doing it out of twenty, he suddenly understood why.
Thinking about that, he pursed his lips helplessly as Jackie’s image shed in his mind.
After a creaking sound, a broken-down wooden door was pushed open by someone.
Sunlight shone in, and a whole floor of dust jumped into vision.
It seemed like it had been a long time since anyone had cleaned the room up.
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There were enough cobwebs on the window to use as a tablecloth.
The room was incredibly small. Other than a table, there was only a bed.
The bed did not even have any sheets on it.
The room waspletely dpidated.
Jackie raised an eyebrow as he turned his head around, looking at Gilbert who had a warm smile on his
face.
Gilbert licked his lips, saying a little helplessly, “I’m sorry. The other rooms are all already taken.
This is the only room that’s still empty. You can make do with it.”
Jackie let out a smallugh as his lips curled up. He looked at Gilbert coldly, ” Are there no other rooms?
Is this the only room left?”
Gilbert nodded, not saying anything.
All Gilbert did was signal with his eyes that Jackie should enter so he could leave.
Jackie turned around and faced Gilbert, “I’ll take the room, but that doesn’t mean I’ve already admitted
defeat. It doesn’t mean you can just bully me around either.It’s just that I can’t be bothered to waste my
time on you right now.”
After that, Jackie turned around and entered the dust-filled room that was in a bad state.
He shut the door behind him with a bang, and Gilbert’s nose was almost hit by the door.
At that moment, Gilbert’s heart was filled
with anger.
He wanted nothing more than to rush inside and kill that guy who did not know his ce.
In the end, his rationality won over his anger.
He snorted and stared viciously at the door before he turned around and left.
After he left, Jackie summoned Nash out of
Mustard Seed.
Jackie did not ask Nash to do anything.
Instead, Jackie took out the cleaning tools and cleaned up the room before he had Nash sit by the bed.
Jackie told Nash everything that had happened recently.
After Nash heard everything, he frowned; and said, “Why do you meet disgusting flies everywhere you
go? You’ve done nothing against this Gilbert person. Why is he trying to make things difficult for you?
Chapter 2392 Jackie kept the rag and replied, “He probably feels like I am threatening his status.
Otherwise, he couldn’t possibly hold so much animosity against me. It’s as if he thinks I’ll steal his things
if I be his fellow student.”
I don’t know about anything else, but even though the students might seem to be working hard at
learning alchemy to be a sixth-grade alchemist, they’re actually more like glorified servants.
They are normally forced tobor away at Heavenly Pills. They have to deal with customers and clean up
the store.
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They need to determine the age of the materials. Only after they finish all these chores are they able to
continue their training
“It’s such a difficult life. Any good chances or good things would naturally have many fighting over them.
I’m a new student and might be fighting over the same things with him. He’d naturally not be happy with
me.”
When Nash heard Jackie’s exnation, he felt like Jackie was right. Yet, he still felt very exasperated.
Jackie had clearly done nothing wrong, but he was still being hated.
Nash looked up at Jackie. “What do we do next then? Alchemy is a very time-consuming thing. You must
make sure you don’t sacrifice too much for it.
“If you waste all your time here and neglect your training, it’d be hard for you to make up for it in the
future.”
Jackie nodded. He was not that naive.
The two of them talked for a long time.
When noon came, Jackie followed Chandler to a nearby tavern. The two of them ordered some alcohol
and some dishes. After that, they went into a separate room to eat and chat.
Chandler told Jackie everything he had heard from his uncle.
When Chandler saw Jackie’s calm expression, he could not help but let out a deep sigh.
“I knew you wouldn’t be worried about this. However, some things will still happen even if you don’t worry
about them. Do you know what the students usually do inside?”
As Chandler spoke, he was incredibly anxious.
Jackie nodded Before Gilbert led him to the room, Gilbert had been holding a piece of cloth.
It was obvious with just a bit of thought that the students were definitely not living easy lives there.
Otherwise, Mr. Simmons would not have agreed so easily. After all, another student meant another free
servant.
Even though they were regarded more highly thanmon riff-raff, what they did was stillbor.
Chandler felt even more anxious when he saw Jackie nod so calmly. “I really can’t tell what you’re
thinking. With your talent, you would receive special attention no matter which n you go to.
“As long as you focused on training, your future would be incredibly bright. Why would you make yourself
suffer as a student doing petty chores? You’d have to do all those things daily, how would you have time
to train?”
Why don’t you listen to my advice? Stoop wasting your time on this useless matter.
Just focus on your training. Even if you’re able to be a sixth-grade alchemist, it would take you quite
a lot of time.”
After saying that, Chandler paused, not willing to be too direct. After thinking about it, he felt like Jackie
was not that sensitive either, so he decided to continue.
He took a deep breath as he said earnestly, “If you be a student, your time would be split between
working and studying. Truthfully, Heavenly Pills doesn’t want to provide that many materials for their
students to practice.”
After all, these materials aren’t cheap.
If the students aren’t careful, they would destroy those valuable materials.
The higher-ups at Heavenly Pills naturally don’t want to waste any resources.
“However, they’re still forced to train all of you. That’s only because raising proper alchemists is the best
way to bring them even more profits.”
After he said that, Chandler took another deep breath. He ced the ss in his hand back on the table.
Chapter 2393 “Due to that, they’ll do their best to make sure you get as little valuables as possible to
reduce the losses. You will be suffering.”
Chandler said many heartfelt words mostly because he felt like it was a big pity that Jackie was wasting
his talent just like that.
Another reason was that he wanted to repay Jackie for saving his life.
If he had not advanced with Jackie, he would definitely have died against the three zing One-Eyed
Bulls.
Jackie could feel the good intentions in Chandler’s words and nod at them.
There were some things that Chandler would not be able to understand. After all,
Jackie had too many secrets, there was no way to exin it all.
He was not willing to reveal all his secrets to Chandler either, so he was forced to find an excuse that did
not sound too ridiculous.
“Once I’ve set a goal for myself, I won’t change it easily. Plus, I’m incredibly confident in my talent. I’ll
definitely be able to be a sixth-grade alchemist. Being a sixth-grade alchemist isn’t even my end
goal. I’ll even be a seventh or eighth-grade one.”
Chandler’s lips twitched when he heard that, not knowing what to say suddenly.
He felt like Jackie had way too much confidence.
However, he understood that there were Some people who would never let go of their goals unless they
were forced to.
Unless Jackie realizes for himself how absurd his thoughts were, Jackie would not listen to any advice.
Chandler sighed, shaking his head as he stopped making more advances. He poured a drink for himself,
thinking of a lighter topic.
At that moment, Jackie suddenly said, “Do you know Gilbert?”
Chandler raised an eyebrow and nodded,” I know he’s quite a good sprout. I heard that he’s about to
umte two hundred merit points. With those merit points, he would be able to earn the right to learn
the Way of the Pill.”
“My uncle even said that it should not take too long for him to shed his status as a student and be a
sixth-grade alchemist.”
Jackie frowned when he heard that. “Merit points?”
Chandler was stunned.
He immediately pped his forehead, wondering how he could have been so careless to forget
something so important.
He hurriedly exined, “After you be students, it doesn’t mean you can just casually learn the Way
of the Pill with thatbel. If you want to learn the Way of the Pill, you have to exchange merit points for it.”
“Only by umting two hundred merit points would you be able to obtain the rights to even look at the
Way of the Pill”.
After all, the Way of the Pill is an incredibly important inheritance.
“It’sparatively even more valuable than martial skills and techniques. Any ce that has a Way of
the Pill would ce incredible importance on it.”
Jackie nodded.
After such an exnation, he more or less understood. However, he still could not understand why
Gilbert would suddenly target him like that.
He was a new student. ‘There was no way He could gather two hundred merit points in a short time.
Naturally, there was no way Jackie could fight Gilbert for the right to learn the Way of the Pill.
Chapter 2394 Why was Gilbert treating him so badly? To even arrange for Jackie to sleep in such a
shabby room. Thinking about that, he looked at Chandler.
He had clearly been rmended by Chandler. Chandler’s uncle was Mr. Simmons. Was Gilbert not
worried that Jackie would reveal everything to Mr. Simmons?
He was basically defying Mr. Simmons by doing so. Was he not worried that Mr. Simmons would do
something about it?
Jackie could not figure it out.
Jackie decided to just push those thoughts aside. He sipped his drink and said,” Thank you for all your
guidance. When you’re back in your n, you cane to find me at any time if you have any troubles.”
Chandler let out a small smile. He knew that Jackie was someone who would keep his promises.
He nodded and replied, “I will.”
The two of them continued to chat for a while longer before Chandler excused himself.
After all, Chandler could not remain there for too long. He still needed to return to his n to participate
in the ranking battles to earn more resources for himself.
After Jackie returned to Heavenly Pills, he changed into a students’ uniform. The clothes were tighter
around the cor, it was obvious they were prepared specially for all the chores the students would do.
Looking at the clothes, Jackie sighed helplessly. If it were not to earn a rmendation, he would never
have worked at Heavenly Pills.
After all, he still needed to be rmended into the Middle Province Alchemists Alliance’s test.
The moment he changed his clothes and left the room, he nned on looking for Mr. Simmons to ask
about his duties.
However, he encountered Gilbert the moment he opened the door. Gilbert let out a sly smile as if Gilbert
had been waiting there deliberately.
Gilbert let out a smallugh and said, ” Where are you headed to, Jackie?”
Jackie coldly nced at him, not wanting to bother bickering with Gilbert.
He walked forward, nning on looking for Mr. Simmons. Yet, Gilbert quickly stood in front of Jackie,
blocking his way and not allowing him to move.
Looking at Gilbert, Jackie frowned. If he was not holding back, Jackie would have easily killed an initial
stage innate level brat like Gilbert.
“What’s the meaning of this?” Jackie coldly said.
Gilbert let out a smallugh as he said calmly, “Are you nning on looking for Mr. Simmons? How
unfortunate, Mr. Simmons works here on a rotational basis.”
He goes somewhere else every month.
Today is precisely when he’s changing offices.
“Today, the person-in-charge is not Mr. Simmons, but Mr. Winston.” Jackie raised an eyebrow, suddenly
realizing why Gilbert did not seem worried that he wouldin about him at all.
Turns out, Mr. Simmons was going to manage somewhere else. After the change in personnel, Jackie
would have no one to turn to.
Considering Gilbert had been there for so long,
if he ever does anything to trouble Jackie, Jackie’sints would only fall on deaf ears.
Thinking about that, Jackie let out a cold smile and said, “What do you want?
Gilbert smiled sinisterly, “It doesn’t matter what I want to do. More importantly, I want to tell you this. No
matter what you want to do, you’d better just stay out of my way.”
Chapter 2395
“Don’t think you can do whatever you want just because you had someone backing you, understand?”
Jackie frowned.
He was really tempted to send a punch over at that moment.
He wanted to let that brat know that some things should not be said. However, he remembered the
reason he was there, so he swallowed those words.
Jackie paused and said, “I haven’t even done anything, and you say I’m doing whatever I want?’
Gilbert raised an eyebrow. “Were you nning on getting some tasks? How unfortunate, all the tasks
have been imed. There won’t be any merit points for you. Just go back and wait for next month. There
might be tasks for you then.”
Jackie furrowed his eyebrows, finally understanding why Gilbert was challenging him.
Gilbert was trying to tell him that there would be no trouble as long as Jackie did not im any tasks.
Gilbert did not want Jackie to earn any merit points.
Jackie felt like it was such a joke.
Did Gilbert deal with all the other students like that as well? He stopped the others from earning merit
points so he could earn them all by himself.
Then, he would use the points to earn the right to learn the Way of the Pill.
Was that not too absurd?
Jackie did not think too much about the matter.
Gilbert standing in front of him clearly meant Gilbert was not going to let him head over.
Thinking about that, he let out a smallugh, turned around right away and returned to his room.
That caught Gilbert by surprise as he had not expected Jackie to be so obedient. Jackie had left so
abruptly, not even spending any time talking smack.
Gilbert raised his eyebrows, he wondered if Jackie had left to figure out a way to deal with Gilbert.
Would Jackie just turn around to go im the tasks the moment Gilbert left?
Thinking about that, Gilbert could not help but let out a coldugh. He would not give Jackie the chance.
Gilbert had already said that he would not allow Jackie to im any tasks, so he would absolutely not
give Jackie any leeway.
With a wave, he called one of the servants over, “John, keep an eye on this brat for me. As long as he
goes out to im any tasks, stop him immediately. After that, find a chance to report it to me.”
After John heard that, he nodded his head obediently. “Don’t worry, I’ll definitely keep an eye on him all
day. As long as he does anything, I’ll report it to you immediately.”
Gilbert nodded before he turned around to leave.
Jackie might have entered his room, but he had been observing the movements outside.
He saw everything that Gilbert did earlier.
It seemed like Gilbert really did think that Jackie went back because he was scare of Gilbert. In truth,
Jackie’s goal for iming tasks were not for the sake of merit points.
After all, he did not need to look at Heavenly Pills’ Way of the Pill at all. He only did so because he did
not want to attract too much attention.
He was therepletely for the rmendation to the tests.
If it had not been for that, he would not have been willing to waste his time there. Gilbert’s actions were
precisely what he wanted.
Jackie would not need to waste his time doing chores, and could spend all his time training!
Jackie closed the door properly, and immediately retrieved the soul-gathering crystal from Mustard Seed.
The soul-gathering crystal was the same as always.
There were many soul fragments scattered within the crystal. All those soul fragments were voluntary
contributions from the strongest warriors of the Divine Void World.
After absorbing that great warrior’s memories, Jackie was able to determine who these soul fragments
belonged to.
Jackie found the soul fragment of someone who had been at the pinnacle of alchemy.
He muttered, “You’re the one!”
Then, he reached out and absorbed the soul fragment.
The moment the soul fragment touched Jackie’s body, it suddenly turned into dazzling light and fused
with Jackie’s body.
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