Chapter 91: A one-horse race

Mr. Xu ….

Faced with this unfamiliar title, Wei Yuan and the others instinctively searched through the internal list of the Sitian Supervisor, searching through the Supervisor’s five existing personal disciples.

No, this white clothes said “Mr. Xu” instead of “Brother Xu”, and the person who opened the lecture was not a disciple of the Heavenly Superintendent, but an outsider.

Surname Xu …. Could it be …. The Eldest Princess’s wonderful eyes flashed, a bold guess in her heart, and she couldn’t wait to verify it.

At the same time, Wei Yuan’s eyes showed a dawning realization and a certain guess.

Song Qing had once told him that Xu Qi’an was an extraordinary alchemy wizard, Wei Yuan did not care too much at that time, after all, Song Qing was the number one person in alchemy in Sitian Supervision.

The wizards he spoke of might just have outstanding alchemical talent, and would never be able to compete with the first person in alchemy, or even be called “my master”.

Wei Yuan glanced at his two righteous sons, and on their faces and in their eyes, they had the same confusion and bewilderment. It was clear that they hadn’t connected Duke Xu with Xu Qi’an, and the two had forgotten what Song Qing had said that day.

“Righteous father, when did a person surnamed Xu appear in the Sitian Supervisor?” Nangong Qianlou was in charge of intelligence and torture, and was extremely sensitive to this sudden appearance of a character.

Yang Yan, who didn’t like to talk, slightly sidled his head and looked at Wei Yuan with a pleading look.

Although the two golden gongs had forgotten Song Qing’s evaluation of Xu Qi’an that day, they still remembered Jiang Lizhong’s words from the day before.

Wei Yuan smiled, “Just go upstairs and take a look.”

Rapunzel has lifted the hem of the skirt, gracefully ascending the stairs, she is tall, excellent proportion, only the back of the infinite beauty to people.

One didn’t need to see the front face to know that it was a magnificent beauty.

….

“The essence of alchemy is equivocation.”

The clever white-clad warlocks used Xu Qi’an’s words to answer his question.

“Extracting the essence from things and turning waste into treasure.” There were also alchemists who gave answers based on their own experience.

The warlocks below the sixth rank did not answer and listened intently, while the alchemists of the sixth rank spoke and gave their own recognizable explanations.

Most are one sided and give answers based on their own experience …. As for the guy who paraphrased my quote, he only knows one thing but not the other …. There is a real lack of theoretical knowledge in the SZC.

Xu Qi’an listened patiently, not agreeing or disagreeing.

The whites finished their speeches and looked at Song Qing in unison.

Song Qing was the personal disciple of the Supervisor, and the first person recognized by the Si Tian Supervisor for alchemy; he was immersed in the realm of alchemy and refused to advance, fascinated only by alchemy, and disdainful of the high grade realm.

The other fourth and fifth ranked brothers were inferior to him in the field of alchemy.

Song Qing shook her head and sighed.

…. What did Senior Brother Song mean by this? As the white-clothed warlocks wondered in their hearts, they heard Xu Qi’an clap his hands.

The crowd immediately turned their attention to the alchemy wizard.

Xu Qi’an met the gazes of the group and sighed tersely, “In the entire Sitian Supervisory Authority, in the field of alchemy, Senior Brother Song is the only one that I admire and regard as a high ranking person that I can compare myself to.”

The white coats of the Divine Master stood in awe.

Song Qing smiled slightly and quietly straightened her back.

Xu Qi’an continued, “What Senior Brother Song means, in fact, is that what everyone here has said is correct, but it’s incomplete, so none of it counts.”

The crowd wore thoughtful expressions.

Xu Qi’an spoke eloquently, “Alchemy is a very broad field, all of you here may understand more or less in your hearts, but they are all rather vague and general …. Well, originally, I only promised Senior Brother Song Qing that I would pass on one piece of knowledge to you all, but it turned out that Senior Brother Song Qing insisted that I return it with interest, so I’ll talk a little bit more about it, make it broader and more thorough.”

Just after these words were said, the white-clothed warlocks’ eyes, in an instant, flamed up.

“Thank you, Senior Brother Song, and thank you, Mr. Xu.”

“Mr. Xu, start now, I can’t wait.”

The sound wave was noisy all of a sudden, just in time to reach the ears of the Rapunzel who ascended to the seventh floor, she paused in her steps, did not go in immediately, but far away, hidden, looking at the young man who stood in front of the case, pointing out impassioned words towards the always high and mighty warlocks.

Xu Qi’an, it’s really him!

Wei Yuan paused in synchronization, and when he saw Xu Qi’an, his expression paused before resuming so.

At the same time Wei Yuan stopped his footsteps, the feminine Nangong Qianlou and the face paralyzed Yang Yan, who had a feminine temperament, crossed over the shoulders of the Eldest Princess and Wei Yuan and vaguely saw Xu Qi’an.

It turns out that what Jiang Ruzhong said was the truth …. Yang Yan stared at Xu Qi’an for a moment and nodded his head in a slightly unnoticeable manner.

This gong can only be under his command, no one can take it.

Nangong Qianrou would have liked to go in directly to listen to the audience, watching the boy can say what a son of the ugly, but perceived that the eldest princess and the righteous father are not disturbed willingness, then held back, in place.

Xu Qi’an said, ”The essence of alchemy is equivocation, this is the guideline of the syllabus, but it is not graphic, only a master alchemist such as Senior Brother Song Qing can comprehend the true meaning of this sentence, today from the shallow to the deep, all of you will listen to my slow elaboration.

“When mentioning alchemy, laymen subconsciously think of elixirs and potions. Those who know a little, what comes to mind is definitely this ….” Xu Qi’an said here, pointing at the simple jewelry between Chu Caiwei’s green silk: “Metal!”

The white-clad warlocks nodded slightly.

“What I will tell you is that these are only two of the fields of alchemy, which I categorize as: the field of medicine, and the field of materials. Most alchemists, they only delve into these two fields, occasionally popping into other fields. But Senior Brother Song is the only one whose gaze is already in another separate field.”

The white-clothed warlocks suddenly looked at Song Qing, who was stunned as if he had found a confidant, and his eyes suddenly flamed.

He knew that Xu Qi’an was going to focus on his field of grafting creatures.

Perhaps, this lecture would also be an important step for him to step into the brand new field of alchemy.

Thinking about this, Song Qing breathed heavily.

Outside, the Eldest Princess and Wei Yuan could not help but look at Song Qing, this oddball disciple of the Supervisor Zheng, the two of them were no strangers.

Knowing that he was always tinkering with some terrible alchemy, he was even imprisoned for it.

Was Xu Qi’an’s alchemy really this advanced? He can instruct Song Qing?

“Senior Brother Song Qing’s research direction is in the field of living things.” Xu Qi’an said, “That’s right, alchemy isn’t only for dead things, living things are likewise in the field of alchemy.”

A white-robed warlock rose and said in a deep voice, “Mr. Xu, Teacher Supervisor Zheng said that life is not within the realm of alchemy.”

Although he admired Xu Qi’an’s attainments in the field of alchemy, these words went against the admonition of the Supervisor’s teacher and contradicted his philosophy.

The other white-robed warlocks present also looked skeptical and unconvinced.

The Rapunzel twisted her head and looked at Wei Yuan with a consulting gaze, who smiled and said softly, “I am in agreement with Supervisor Zheng.”

The Eldest Princess nodded and looked at Xu Qi’an anew.

Let’s see what he has to say.

“That’s because Senior Brother Song Qing’s method was wrong, so Lord Supervisor criticized him. But his direction is not wrong.” Xu Qi’an said.

Of course he wouldn’t raise a fight with the Supervisor, even if he won the debate, but in case the Supervisor’s old man was unhappy and couldn’t be coaxed well, he would slap him to death, and find who to cry to.

When Song Qing heard this, she was very unconvinced, but didn’t retort and patiently listened to what he said next.

“Let us recall that we extract metals from ores; we extract harder metals from metals; we make potions from herbs. But we can’t extract potions from metals; we can’t refine metals from herbs.” Xu Qi’an soldiered on, “Why?”

“Medicinal herbs are medicinal herbs and ores are ores, Mr. Xu’s question is so strange.”

“Haha, if metals can be extracted from herbs, won’t we be able to extract gold and silver from white rice?”

To the white-clothed warlocks, Xu Qi’an’s question was as if he was asking why the sun rose in the east; why people had to starve to death if they didn’t eat; and why there were twelve hours in a day.

The white-clothed warlocks exchanged pleasantries, but Song Qing vaguely touched something, and the white-clothed masters were so noisy that he couldn’t quiet his mind.

“Pop!”

Song Qing slammed the table and got up, “Purge!”

After yelling, he blushed and breathed heavily as he stared at Xu Qi’an dead in the face, “Say it, say it!!!”

The white-clothed warlocks stopped talking, they rarely saw such a Senior Brother Song, and at the same time realized that what Xu Qi’an was talking about was truly profound knowledge of alchemy.

Xu Qi’an’s heart sank as he gazed past the white-robed men and saw Wei Yuan across the distance.

…. Crap, pretending to be in the heat of the moment was surrounded by leaders ….. Xu Qi’an’s instinctive resistance was a kind of weakness.

The warlocks of the Divine Constabulary were like a group of strict science nerds who only focused on the alchemy itself and wouldn’t care about the origins of the alchemy.

Even if they felt suspicious, they would automatically ignore it, and they didn’t care about anything else as long as they could learn profound alchemy.

Wei Yuan was different, Wei Yuan was a politician, a military man, a strategist, a smart man with a big halo over his head.

It’s easy to overthink when you’re smart.

Xu Qi’an’s strategy towards the white-clothed warlock was to appear saintly in front of people, the better to pretend to be overly pompous. As for Wei Yuan’s strategy, it was to show loyalty, it was to pretend to be a harmless s**t within reason.

What’s going on right now is obviously not a little pretending, but a straight one-liner.

At that moment, Wei Yuan nodded slightly towards Xu Qi’an.

“Phew …. Think of it another way, showing your value in front of your leaders is also an effective way to gain attention and increase your leverage!”

Xu Qi’an took a deep breath, dismissing distractions and letting her focus return to the classroom.