Chapter 834
by Moonlit_Scholar_CIn Du Wan’s room, all of them were Saint-level Low-Grade Alchemists, and the lineup was extravagantly luxurious.
Throughout the Tongxuan Continent, the number of alchemists who have reached the Saint level is estimated to be no more than twenty. Each one is famous and well-known to the world, and here, five of them have gathered.
As for Saint-level Middle-Grade Alchemists, the number is even smaller, only three or five people.
As for the Saint-level High-Grade Alchemist, it seems that there is only the elusive Elder Tiancang, Master Li Rui.
Du Wan carefully introduced them to Yang Kai one by one, and the four alchemist masters also looked at Yang Kai with approving and gratified eyes.
They still had a deep memory of Yang Kai’s outstanding performance in the Alchemy Conference in Floating Cloud City back then. They felt that given time, this young man’s future achievements would surely be higher than theirs, and they regarded him as the hope of the alchemy world.
Mina went and came back again, presenting a fruit plate and tea, and then retreated again.
She was not qualified to stay here for a meeting of high-ranking people at this level. Not only her, but even her master, Ye Xiong, was not here.
Du Wan left only Yang Kai behind, which showed his importance attached to Yang Kai.
These alchemy masters were all old friends, and they didn’t pay much attention to what they said to each other. They said whatever they had to say and didn’t avoid Yang Kai.
Yang Kai also didn’t say a word. He just listened quietly on the side, looking calm and composed, without showing the slightest impatience. Sometimes when someone threw out an interesting topic, he would listen with great interest.
After talking for a long time, Du Wan suddenly said with a smile, “Several of you have come all the way to my Boulder City. It shouldn’t be just to talk with Du about the world, right？ Did you encounter something？”
As soon as these words came out, the four alchemy masters all nodded with solemn expressions.
The old woman Kong Ruoyu said, “There are indeed some things. Let Changbao talk about it. He discovered it.”
Du Wan couldn’t help but turn his gaze to the person in charge of the Alchemy Association in Glittering City.
Chang Bao’s expression was solemn. He rummaged in his Qiankun bag for a while and took out a somewhat incomplete animal skin. This animal skin was clearly something of great age, exuding a simple and ancient atmosphere both inside and out. He handed it to Du Wan and said, “Take a look at this.”
Du Wan took it and carefully spread out the animal skin. Looking at it, he couldn’t help but let out a soft exclamation, and his gaze became focused.
As he looked, Du Wan’s expression became excited and inspired. It seemed that he had discovered something extraordinary.
Chang Bao explained aside, “This spiritual array diagram was obtained by a disciple of mine and then passed on to me. I have studied it for a year but still haven’t been able to solve its mystery. So I thought of going to He Feng who is not far from me…
He Feng smiled bitterly and said, “I’m also powerless. So the two of us went to find Brother Hong and Senior Sister Kong…”
“The few of us couldn’t understand it either. We heard that Senior Brother Du is about to be promoted to a mid-level Saint-grade alchemist, so we came to Boulder City together for you to take a look as well.” Kong Ruoyu took over the words.
“Hmm.” Du Wan nodded slightly, indicating that he understood. After carefully observing for a long time, he shook his head sadly and said, “I’m afraid you all will be disappointed. This spiritual array diagram is complex and profound. It doesn’t seem to be a spiritual array used in recent years, but more like an ancient one. And it’s incomplete. I’m also powerless.”
Hearing what he said, the four of them didn’t show any disappointed expressions.
They had originally come with a try-it-out mentality and didn’t really think that Du Wan could solve the mystery of this spiritual array diagram.
Du Wan smiled mysteriously and said, “Although this old man can’t solve it, I know that there is one person in the world who must be able to know what this spiritual array diagram is used for.”
“Who？” the four people asked in unison.
“Old Man Tiancang！”
Chang Bao couldn’t help but roll his eyes and said, “This master’s whereabouts are erratic, like a dragon that shows its head but not its tail. How can we find him？ When I just started learning alchemy, this master was already famous all over the world. Now that I’m already a Saint-level lower-grade alchemist, I’ve never seen his true face. It’s really a pity in my life.”
Among the five alchemy masters present, perhaps only Du Wan had seen Old Man Tiancang.
However, Du Wan didn’t make it clear. After all, he had also passed the age of showing off.
Looking at Yang Kai intentionally or unintentionally, Du Wan said, “Perhaps besides Old Man Tiancang, there is also someone who can solve it…”
“Du Wan, stop beating around the bush. Just tell us who it is！” He Feng urged impatiently.
“Hehe…” Du Wan gave a dry laugh.
Seeing his appearance, Yang Kai knew that he wanted himself to take a look. Du Wan had always thought that there was some expert behind him giving pointers, and firmly believed that that expert was an existence comparable to Old Man Tiancang. Precisely because of this, he would look at himself with that kind of gaze.
Helplessly, Yang Kai said, “Old Du, can you let this junior take a look as well？”
Du Wan’s face lit up with joy, and he quickly handed over the animal skin.
Chang Bao immediately tensed up and said, “Kid, you have to be careful. Don’t break it for me. If you really break it, I’ll catch you to Flash City.
“Don’t worry.” Du Wan chuckled, looking confident.
The five alchemist masters didn’t pay much attention to Yang Kai either. Besides Du Wan, the others all thought he was just overly curious and continued to discuss the spirit array diagram on the animal skin.
They had observed it for many days and naturally had some of their own insights and ideas. They gathered them together, Youdaoplaceholder0 to find a way to crack the spirit array diagram and complete it.
Yang Kai looked at the spirit array diagram, and after a long time, his brows furrowed.
The spirit array diagram on this animal skin was indeed too cumbersome. It seemed that several spirit arrays were combined together with ingenious techniques, but it appeared a bit bloated.
After those spirit array diagrams were disassembled, they were somewhat similar to those recorded in the true alchemical formula, but not exactly the same. They should not be from the same era.
Alchemy is constantly evolving, and the spirit arrays used in alchemy have also been developed and studied by alchemist masters all over the world. They are changing with each passing day. It is common for the spirit array diagrams used in each era to be different.
With Yang Kai’s current vision, he could naturally see the flaws and drawbacks in this spirit array diagram.
But compared with the spiritual array currently in use, the wealth contained in this spiritual array is very huge. Once cracked, it can bring great development to alchemy.
Du Wan obviously expected Yang Kai to take action, and Yang Kai didn’t refuse.
Immediately began to ponder, comparing the knowledge he inherited from the True Alchemy Technique while repairing and perfecting this damaged spiritual array in his mind.
After a long time, it was finally completely repaired.
The alchemy masters were silent at this moment, all a little listless.
Du Wan was constantly paying attention to the change of Yang Kai’s expression, while the other four were a little downcast. Because even with the combined efforts of the few of them, they couldn’t complete the spiritual array, which was really a big blow.
“Have you got a clue？” Du Wan suddenly asked.
Yang Kai nodded slightly： “Yes.”
The expressions of the four people froze, and they all looked over in surprise. Hong Fang said： “You wouldn’t have cracked the secret in it, would you？”
He Feng even shouted： “Boy, don’t talk big casually. Even we old guys are helpless with this, how could you crack it？”
“Whether it’s big talk or not, we’ll know by looking.” Du Wan chuckled.
Yang Kai also remained calm, took out several pieces of high-quality jade from the Black Book Space, and then held them in the palm of his hand. Using his spiritual sense as a pen, he left some marks in each piece of jade.
A moment later, he handed the jade stones to Du Wan and said, “After disassembling, several spiritual array diagrams are all here. However, what each one is used for still needs to be verified in alchemy. I hope it will be helpful to you masters.”
Du Wan took them solemnly, kept one jade stone for himself and quickly checked it, and distributed the remaining ones to the other four people.
Seeing that both the old and the young had serious expressions, the few people stopped making a sound and all probed their spiritual thoughts into the jade stones.
A moment later, the expressions of the crowd changed variously, which was particularly wonderful.
The several jade stones were passed around in the hands of the five people. After checking the spiritual array diagrams contained in them, He Fang couldn’t help but murmur in surprise, “Is it really cracked？”
Several scattered spiritual array diagrams put together were indeed the array diagram on the animal skin. Not only was it improved and completed, but there were also some ingenious constructions.
The problem that had stumped several saint-level alchemists for a year was solved so easily, which made them a little unacceptable.
“Lad, how do you know these？ These should all be long-lost spiritual array diagrams. With your age, it is impossible to have the opportunity to learn these.” He Feng stared blankly at Yang Kai.
Yang Kai hesitated for a moment and said, “To tell you the truth, actually I got the guidance of Old Li and studied with him for a while.”
“Old Li？ Old Man Tiancang？” Kong Ruoyu exclaimed in surprise.
“No way？”
“You have seen that expert？”
“Where did you see him？ What does he look like？”
At this moment, these people didn’t have the demeanor of experts at all. They were all shouting and extremely excited.
Yang Kai cast a gaze for help towards Du Wan. Du Wan quickly coughed lightly and said, “Actually… I have also seen him.”
“Du Wan, don’t brag！” He Feng obviously didn’t believe and curled his lips continuously.
“It’s true.” Du Wan vowed, “It was in Floating Cloud City. At that time, Old Li was also there, but he didn’t reveal his identity.”
“Do you still remember the other young alchemist who was on a par with me in the Alchemy Conference？” Yang Kai opened his mouth and asked.
“Remember！” Hong Fang recalled for a while and said, “I remember that he was protected by several experts of the City Lord’s Mansion at that time… What does this have to do with Old Li？”
“Oh, he is the closed-door disciple of Old Li！”
“What？ Closed-door disciple？”
“No wonder… no wonder he is so young and actually has such alchemy attainments. I have been suspecting which expert cultivated him.”
“That kid is so lucky. He was actually accepted as a disciple by someone like Old Li. His future is bound to be limitless.”
Several people sighed with emotion, as if they all quite envied Zhai Yao’s good fortune.
“It was after that period of time that I studied under Old Li for a while. Well, these spirit array diagrams were all learned from Old Li, so I can complete it.” Yang Kai explained.
“So that’s how it is…” He Feng stroked his chin. It seemed that he believed what Yang Kai said. Even Du Wan nodded slightly, and the doubts in his heart were instantly dispelled.
But when they thought that they had once been so close to Old Li and yet didn’t go to pay their respects, the four of them, He Feng and the others, were extremely frustrated and extremely envious of Du Wan’s good fortune. They gritted their teeth for a while.