Chapter 15

Coming to the machine, Jie Ming learned from others and placed his apprentice badge on the detection array under the machine.

Soon, a lot of information was displayed on the light screen in front of him; looking at the information that was even more detailed than the big screen, Jie Ming felt a bit of emotion in his heart.

"This thing, it can already be called a 'Magic Net'? Although the commoners are still in the Middle Ages, the wizards have already entered the internet society."

Judging from the strength of wizards being able to conquer multiple planes, entering the internet society was not something worth being surprised about.

"Let me see..."

Jie Ming first flipped through his personal information, and soon was surprised to find that his credit balance was not zero.

"What's the situation?"

Jie Ming looked at the six credits in the account and was a bit puzzled; fortunately, the income details introduced the source of this credit in detail.

"Because it's less than a month from the start of school to next month, so part of the difference of 10 credits per month was refunded according to the contract... holy crap?"

Jie Ming was really a bit shocked this time; not to mention how much resources it would take to refund the difference for so many students, just the behavior of the school made him a bit unbelievable.

"Actually so generous, this kind of thing... even if it were placed in the rule-of-law society of the past life, I'm afraid there wouldn't be many organizations that would do this, right?"

In addition to exclamation, a sense of excitement also surged in Jie Ming's heart.

It seems that the wizards were a bit beyond his imagination in terms of contract rigor; even though Jie Ming knew that this was very likely a means for the academy to win people's hearts, he still couldn't help but feel a sense of identification.

"Willing to abide by the rules, and the rules are relatively fair, it is indeed enough to make people feel identified..."

Suddenly having an extra point of starting credits, the pressure on Jie Ming was immediately much less, and he quickly searched for information about laboratory rental.

"Small low-level laboratory... renting for 10 hours costs five credits, but renting for a month only costs two hundred credits, damn! The gap is so big!"

But fortunately, his current credits were just enough.

Jie Ming left the machine as if nothing had happened, went to the apprentice canteen for dinner first, and then returned to his dormitory.

Closing the door, Jie Ming sat cross-legged on the bed, seemingly entering meditation, but in fact, his consciousness had already come to the Great Dao Library.

A stream of light fell in front of him with his will, and Jie Ming grabbed the book transformed by the stream of light and flipped through it quickly.

"I remember it's here... got it!"

This was a basic book related to practice, and the content recorded in it was mainly various extraction methods of materials.

And on the page Jie Ming was concerned about, the content told about a material called "Essence Gold."

【The gold is the essence of a hundred refinements, but there is a secret method in the world, which can refine its marrow from ten thousand taels of ordinary gold, and obtain its purest and strongest, named "Essence Gold." This thing bears the solidity of heaven and earth, contains the truth of constant unchanging, ten thousand laws are difficult to invade, and all evils are not close. It is the best choice for casting body-protecting armor and storing Sumeru in mustard seeds.】

The general meaning of this text was: from a large amount of gold, a material called "Essence Gold" could be extracted; this material had a certain concept of eternal unchanging, its properties were extremely stable, almost unaffected by any energy, and it was a good material for refining defensive and storage magic treasures.

However, when Jie Ming's cultivation base hadn't even broken through to the first level of Qi Refining, and although his family was a small merchant, it was wishful thinking to take out a large amount of gold for refining, so he just flipped through this book casually.

Seeing a fist-sized lump of gold in the alchemy class today, his first reaction was this.

"Let me see... although it's very difficult, if there are enough tools to assist, the cultivation base of the first level of Qi Refining can barely refine Essence Gold, it's just that the material loss is a bit large."

And from the book, Essence Gold was just the most basic spiritual material, and after continuous refining, it could also be refined into other higher-level materials.

However, for Jie Ming's current situation, refining Essence Gold was enough.

Carefully studied the refining method of Essence Gold behind, Jie Ming endured the excitement in his heart and withdrew from the depths of his consciousness.

Reached out and picked up the ugly gold square he had just manufactured today.

Such a large piece of gold was quite heavy, and it was not easy for an ordinary person to pick it up with one hand.

But after the meditation method entry, the elemental power also strengthened the bodies of wizard apprentices while strengthening mental power, and Jie Ming ate the double gain of the cultivation method and meditation method, so picking it up was not much effort.

Hands constantly fiddling with the gold square in his hand, his face showing the expression of a country bumpkin who had never seen the world at just the right time.

Secretly, Jie Ming mobilized the true essence in his body and started to probe through the detection method learned from the Great Dao Library to see if this gold could be refined like the one in the cultivation world.

The result was surprising; judging from the detection results, the structure of the gold in the two worlds was almost the same, and both could be refined into Essence Gold!

"Hoo... can't be too anxious, the conditions are not perfect yet..."

Calming down the excited mood, Jie Ming began to think about what benefits this material could bring him, and how to use it to earn his first pot of gold.

"But no matter what, in order to better cover up, alchemy cannot be left behind."

Making up his mind, Jie Ming took the gold block and sat back at the table, consolidating various basic knowledge explained by Mentor Clark in class today against the "Basic Alchemy Manual," and studied the alchemy disc that looked very complex.

After a period of time, Jie Ming repeated this seemingly boring and procedural life:

During the day, he shrank in the dormitory to study alchemy theory and tried to reshape the gold square with alchemy, and at night, he meditated in the dead of night, replacing sleep with cultivation.

Occasionally he would meet Amy in the canteen and maintain a just-right connection with the other party.

Amy would also always bring various academy gossip and rumors, providing Jie Ming with a lot of valuable information.

This was repeated for more than ten days, until Jie Ming confirmed that he had completely mastered the Essence Gold refining technology, and only then did he start to carry out the real plan.

"Mr. Jie Ming, this is the laboratory you reserved before. According to your requirements, the laboratory has a window facing the direction where the sun rises. From now until 6 o'clock tomorrow morning, this laboratory belongs to you."

"Please note that the defensive array in the laboratory can only resist spells below the first ring; if damage is caused, you will be required to pay compensation..."

A silver-white metal golem chattered about various laboratory rules while opening a fully enclosed metal door.

"... The laboratory is completely enclosed, and outsiders cannot know if any problems occur, so please pay attention to safety."

"Okay, okay, got it."

Without waiting for the golem to continue chattering, Jie Ming closed the laboratory door neatly.