Chapter 53

Er... I'm just curious.

Hearing that, Lin Feng also hurriedly pulled some distance from those wooden racks.

Going to the innermost part, Hua She'er used the token to open another stone door again and continued walking inside...

After passing the second stone chamber, the two finally arrived at a stone chamber storing items related to alchemists.

With the stone door opening, a strong medicinal fragrance assailed the nose.

It instantly filled Lin Feng's nasal cavity with various medicinal scents.

Your Snake-People Tribe's collection is quite rich, huh.

Smelling that rich medicinal fragrance, Lin Feng sighed.

Hmph.

Hua She'er glanced at him but did not tell him that this place was merely a treasury for medium-grade items.

If this were a high-grade treasury, they definitely could not bring an outsider like him inside.

Entering the third stone chamber, Hua She'er pointed at the wooden racks here and said, 'Hurry up and choose; you can only take two fourth-grade prescriptions, no stealing.'

Er...

Hearing those extremely distrustful words, Lin Feng smiled and said, 'Under your Fighting King's nose, even if I wanted to steal, I'd need the ability to do so.'

However, Lin Feng did not receive an answer.

He glanced at Hua She'er, who stood beside him like a wooden post.

Lin Feng said no more and began selecting here...

Approaching a wooden rack, Lin Feng flipped through for a moment, found they were all second-grade prescriptions, then put them down and walked forward.

Soon, Lin Feng arrived before a wooden rack.

He glanced at the scrolls above; their quality was somewhat better than before.

Huh?

After observing it closely for a moment, he let out an exclamation.

He picked up that scroll, opened it, and examined it carefully.

He exclaimed in surprise, 'Alchemist's notes! I didn't expect this place to have not only prescriptions but also this.'

Tsk, making a fuss over nothing; it's just that some conceited alchemists used to like coming to the Tagor Great Desert to search for herbs, were discovered and killed by our tribe's experts, and their belongings were naturally taken back by us.

Seeing Lin Feng's surprise, Hua She'er pursed her lips and said.

Hearing Hua She'er's words, Lin Feng also came to understand.

The Tagor Great Desert, due to its special geographical environment, contains many heavenly treasures and earthly riches.

Surely some alchemists would enter it to search for medicinal herbs.

Looking at the notes in his hand, he guessed it belonged to some unlucky alchemist who was killed, and his things ended up with the Snake-People Tribe.

Lin Feng let out a slight sigh and continued walking forward.

Arriving at the third rack of wooden shelves, Lin Feng casually picked up a scroll and discovered a fourth-grade prescription.

A smile immediately appeared on his face as he searched for the prescriptions he wanted: the Three-Pattern Azure Spirit Pill and the Purple Heart Break-Barrier Pill.

After flipping through over a dozen prescriptions and alchemist's notes, he finally found those two scrolls on the bottom layer.

He grinned, picked up the two scrolls, waved them at Hua She'er, and then slipped them into his bosom.

Huh?

Just as Lin Feng was about to turn around, his peripheral vision suddenly caught a pile of herbs not far away.

He hurriedly stepped forward, picked up a few stalks, and saw they were all third- to fourth-grade herbs.

No, you just store the herbs like this?

Pointing at the herbs on the ground, Lin Feng's expression instantly turned excited as he turned to look at Hua She'er behind him.

With such a crude storage method, any alchemist seeing it would likely have an expression no different from Lin Feng's.

It's none of your business; since you've picked what you want, come out with me.

Faced with Lin Feng's questioning, Hua She'er urged him on displeased.

What a waste!

Gazing at the herbs before him, many had lost their potency due to improper storage.

Suddenly, Lin Feng seemed to have been pressed on a stop button and fell silent.

Looking at the herbs before him, Lin Feng immediately understood.

The Snake-People Tribe probably has no alchemists.

Otherwise, they wouldn't store the herbs this way.

He then put on what he thought was the friendliest smile and turned to stand beside Hua She'er.

What do you want to do?

Seeing Lin Feng's strange smile, Hua She'er furrowed her delicate brows and said disdainfully.

Hehe.

Lin Feng chuckled, rubbed his hands, and then said, 'You have so many herbs just piled up here; you must have no alchemists to refine them.'

Nonsense, do you need to say that?

Looking at the somewhat impatient Hua She'er, Lin Feng tempted: 'If that's the case, I'll help you refine these herbs into medicinal pills, taking no payment, only taking thirty percent of the pills; however, for the refining you must provide the prescriptions, and also allow me to read the alchemist's notes here—how about that?'

Regarding Lin Feng's identity as an alchemist, Hua She'er felt no surprise.

After all, the compensation Lin Feng demanded were all related to alchemy.

If he couldn't refine pills, it would be better to demand a volume of cultivation techniques and fighting skills.

However, upon hearing Lin Feng's conditions, she also felt somewhat moved.

After all, their Snake-People Tribe is also quite lacking in medicinal pills.

If they could have more medicinal pills, then in battle they could lose far fewer of their people.

After a moment's thought, Hua She Er also felt that this deal was not a loss for them.

Anyway, keeping these things in the treasure vault is useless; it would be better to trade with Lin Feng for some medicinal pills.

She nodded and said: "Sure, but as long as you don't take the alchemist's notes, you can freely look at them; I won't stop you. As for the formulas, you may only view the formula for the pill you intend to refine, and nothing else."

Hua She Er had also heard that formulas are consumable—each reading reduces the chance—so she naturally dared not let Lin Feng read them at will.

As for those alchemists' notes, it doesn't matter; just don't take them away.

"Then let's settle on that."

Lin Feng felt a surge of excitement; although he was already a Three-Star Alchemist.

But his alchemy techniques were only based on a few One-Star Alchemist methods he had seen in the materials left by Liu Xi.

The rest he had figured out himself, and he certainly could not compare to those alchemists with proper instruction.

He believed that once he finished reading these alchemists' notes here, his alchemy skill would greatly improve.

At the same time, these alchemy techniques would also make his foundation more solid.

In the secret chamber, Lin Feng gazed at the deep-yellow fifth-tier Beast Fire filling the medicine cauldron, and at the three-star Qi-Raising Pill wrapped by the Beast Fire, a smile appeared on his face.

He waved his hand, and the pill steadily landed in his palm; after observing it for a while, he nodded in satisfaction.

This fifth-tier Beast Fire was indeed not comparable to the flames he could produce with his battle qi.

Since obtaining it, refining pills has become much easier.

Of course, his cultivation of Mo Cheng's Mysterious Tier advanced technique also contributed, as he had advanced to three-star Fighter a month earlier.

"Congratulations, young man; this Qi-Raising Pill that helps stabilize battle qi is relatively difficult to refine even among three-star grades."

At that moment, an alluring female voice came from beside him.

A snake-woman swayed her tail and slowly approached Lin Feng.

After comparing the formula for a moment and confirming Lin Feng had not falsified it, she also nodded in satisfaction.

"I've said it—I haven't deceived you in my three months of alchemy; there's no need to be so wary of me."

Looking at the snake-woman sent by Hua She Er to monitor him, he spoke irritably.