Pengshan Yuanzi finally gave Lu Ning a bookmark. It was a sealed book sticker with the words "The ink pen is too hesitant to move". Lu Ning didn't know where it came from.
She went to the commercial street in the Amethyst District. Although these places are similar, they also have some regional characteristics. For example, the alchemy material store is more focused on the refining of metals and artificial life.
After finding two random shops, she inquired about the situation nearby.
"You're talking about the gem store. One of them was in trouble a few days ago, but it has reopened now, but the boss is not often in the store."
"Of course, I should be afraid. After all, the troubles caused before were not small."
Following people's guidance, Lu Ning quickly found the store that "something happened" to Yi Lair. She looked outside first and found that Yi Lair was not in the store, and then walked in. The name of the store is very straightforwardly named after the owner's name - [Erwin Gem].
"Hello, how can I help you?" Soon a clerk who was walking around the store came over.
"Uh... I would like to ask, was there a person named Yi Lair who worked here before?"
"He hasn't been here since the accident. It's a shame that the boss is so kind to him." The clerk looked disdainful, "What? What trouble did he cause again?"
"Intent to steal." Lu Ning charged him without hesitation.
"Hmph, that kind of guy who is not doing his job will do something like this sooner or later! I knew he was not a good person! Uh... I'm sorry, guest, I'm losing my temper. Are you just trying to find him?"
It seems that Elaire's popularity in the store is not very good.
"I want a light stone and a porous acanthus stone." Lu Ning said. The clerk immediately took Lu Ning to the counter where these two kinds of stones were sold.
These two kinds of stones may be used in various magic industries. Although they are classified as gemstones, they are not sky-highly expensive. Lu Ning's current assets will not hurt him if he buys them. These two are the exchange materials for refining the crystals of light and crystals of darkness. She doesn't want to refine them now. If she really wants to refine them, the amount of crystals she can refine will start with at least a thousand crystals.
After getting the product, Lu Ning inspected it and found that, as rumored, the gems sold in the amethyst area were all of high quality, and he didn't know why.
Taking advantage of the opportunity to make a purchase, she asked the sales clerk about Yilaire's evaluation, and by the way, she also spread the word about his attempt to steal things, and then left. It was getting late, so she simply found a hotel to stay, and returned to the Moonstone District the next day.
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The result is no result.
Although he had known for a long time that the prince could not sit still and wait for death, Lu Ning did not expect that even the guards were dispatched and he was not caught. Only the one who was the accompanying magician among the two magicians was caught, but he also suffered a powerful memory. Destroying the spell, it is completely impossible to recount what happened at that time.
Evaron issued a wanted notice for the prince and the accompanying royal magician, but everyone knew that if Evaron officials couldn't find them, these two people would either be dead or have a shocking adventure.
The deaths of students still had some impact. First of all, students from various colleges finally began to be wary of various suspicious characters appearing in the Evar Gallery. This also caused nothing major to happen in the next few days, but problems also emerged—— The conflicts between students, locals and outsiders began to become subtle.
The impact on Lu Ning was small, and she didn't hear any bad news from Howard or Boliwell. In the past few days, she finally finished reading the notebook that Soygo gave her. The experience of the great mage alchemist really gave people a feeling of enlightenment. Soygo is the kind of person who is rebellious, knowledgeable and likes to use unscrupulous means. His style of never following existing rules is very suitable for beginners like Lu Ning to reshape their own magic concepts.
The result of spending so many days was that she refined the two gems she purchased together, removed most of the impurities, and produced a yin-yang jade about the size of a lychee with a purity of ninety-nine.
With this result, Lu Ning went to Soygo's lecture again the day before the library opened. This time it was in the Ruby District, which was much closer.
After so many days, some people are still overwhelmed by Soygo's lectures, and his teaching style has not softened at all. Instead, he has become more fond of ridiculing and scolding those who are said to "have something in their heads and will not believe it." theory. And after class, no one was left to ask questions at all. He turned around and left after a roll of teaching aids. Lu Ning hurriedly chased after him to avoid losing track.
"Is it you?" Soygo caught a glimpse of Lu Ning following him, and then he stopped cursing, but his tone was still unhappy.
"You seem angrier."
"If you attended class for sixteen days in this place that is said to gather the world's talents, and found that there were elm heads all over the floor, you would be as angry as me. I haven't received any questions worth answering since your lecture. !Did they accidentally exchange their brains with pigs when they were doing alchemy? So it turned out that your class was full of talents?"
Lu Ning responded repeatedly, knowing that this guy had to be submissive before he could speak.
"I will go back to my hometown after the exchange meeting. I am very disappointed and disappointed! They are a bunch of scum and useless trash!"
After scolding people, Soygo took Lu Ning to a temporary office. This was much smaller than the last time. It was just an ordinary small room. Even the sound insulation had to be installed by himself.
"Dean with a small belly, didn't I just say that his theories are outdated nonsense? If you are not as good as me, you know how to take revenge here!" Soygo cursed and finished using the sound insulation technique, and then put the things on the table casually. He sat down on the chair.
"It stands to reason that if you feel that the reception is not good enough, you can file a complaint to the president's conference." Because Lu Ning had to attend various lectures, she read the relevant rules carefully. When she said this, Soygo's eyes immediately lit up: "Can you still do this? You have it. Great, I will draft a complaint document this afternoon, and I must let that old guy have a taste of my power!"
Lu Ning wanted to say something, but finally decided to let him go.
"I've seen your notes."
"My stupid student didn't write anything bad in it?"
"...That's what you gave me."
"I'll tell you whether I need to read it or not. I can just flip through it casually. Why should I read what I said again? Is there something wrong with my brain?"
“He embellished your language to a certain extent.”
"I asked why that idiot made slow progress and actually focused on this. Did he originally intend to be a bard?" Soygo raised his eyebrows, "Forget it, I don't know where he went anyway. I'm looking for him today. What's wrong with me? Is it you that...has something progressed?"
Lu Ning took out the yin-yang jade from his pocket and put it on the table. Soygo just picked it up and took a look at it before putting it down.
"It's not bad for your level, but it's far from your goal."
"Yes, but you have to take it step by step, right? I don't believe you haven't tried Void Refining after that day."
Soygo was silent for a moment.
Lu Ning guessed right. Since there was such a new topic, how could he not try it? However, even as a Grand Magister, even if he scorned most of the current theories, he still could not surpass the ultimate absolute axiom of alchemy - equivalent exchange.
Just like exchanging stones for gold, the quantity ratio will definitely be huge. In the same way, as long as materials are put into the refining transformation array, even if it explodes, there will still be output. Either the materials will not be transformed or they will be replaced. What kind of unstable substance has it become.
Natural justice determines that Soygo cannot exchange "nothing" with anything.
After many failed attempts, Soygo also fell into a dilemma on the subject, which further aroused his interest. His knowledge allowed him to know that Lu Ning's idea was probably correct, so he had been waiting for Lu Ning's results.
"It seems that you have expected this situation a long time ago?" Soygo stared at Lu Ning.
"Equivalent exchange. From the beginning, I didn't think it could really refine everything until it disappears. After all, alchemy seems to break through common sense, but it actually adheres to the balance of nature."
"...Very good, then I hope you can provide me with some special ideas on this little glass ball." Soygo fiddled with the yin-yang jade on the table.
"Mr. Soygo, have you carefully observed its material?" Lu Ning asked.
"Material? It feels like glass products... What's special? Crystal? Or light metal? Huh?" Soygo pondered while picking up the Yin Yang Jade again.
An alchemist of his level can usually know detailed data such as the weight and size of items at a glance. This is the result of practice making perfect. And the alchemist's mental arithmetic ability is very strong. In an instant, he has learned all the physical data of the Yin Yang Jade.
"It's almost like water..."
Soygo became interested, took out a cup, filled it with water using the water purification technique, and threw the yin-yang jade into it.
The hard sphere floated on the water.
"It's not metal or jade. It's interesting. Lilian, what is this?"
"It doesn't look like you know all the material in the world."
"Nonsense! I am an alchemist. I only know what materials I need, not what materials I am looking for!"
Lu Ning quickly brought the topic back: "This is anger."
"Gas?" Soygo narrowed his eyes, "Isn't that floating...wait, I remember this thing is...yin and yang?"
"It seems that you have a wide range of interests. Yes, the material of this Yin-Yang Jade is exactly the two elements of Yin and Yang."
Soygo nodded.
"Interesting, I didn't expect these two elements to have such special properties. It stands to reason that if yin and yang are combined, they will either neutralize each other or cause a violent reaction. How can they coexist so stably?" He squinted his eyes and looked carefully at the gap. He looked around and said, "You are quite courageous."
"Yes, it is not a stable coexistence, but there is still a distance." Lu Ning was also a little surprised. The gap left in the middle of the jade was a perfect solution that she managed to find after a long time of calculation. The size was close to several At the molecular level, Soygo can actually see the secret.
"But what does this have to do with what we are pursuing?"
"Before answering this question, I would like to ask you if you know the situation in the library?" Lu Ning suddenly changed the topic.
Soygo immediately became impatient: "Book stack? When we came here, we were invited to go in and take a look around. If you have anything to ask, please ask!"
"Nothing, I just want to know what the first floor of the library looks like, which is the floor that will be opened tomorrow. I think you will know it with your skills."
"Huh? Preview before class? You are still such a studious and inquisitive student." Soygo raised the corner of his mouth slightly, "It seems that you are going to go there tomorrow, and it is very important to you, and you even want to use this matter Come and make conditions.”
"I don't dare, I just go with the flow."
Soygo slapped his temple with his hand, and a brick-like object slipped out from the other side of his head. He took it over and pinched it twice, shaped it into a bowl, and placed it on the ground. In front of Ning.
"……What's this?"
"Copy of memory." Soygo grinned, as if he was happy to see Lu Ning's surprise, "You haven't seen it before, right? Do you want to learn?"
Lu Ning looked up at Soygo speechlessly. She knew that this was also a transformational application of alchemy. She was not interested in the move itself. What she wanted to know was how Soygo could instantly refine the memory into a carrying entity. Isn't this instant alchemy skill what she has been pursuing?
"Come and tell me, what bad thing do you want to do when you go to the library tomorrow? Make it clear that I will not only give you this, but also teach you this skill." Soygo had a persuasive expression on his face, and the method Lu Ning just used was suddenly He used it again in turn, and it was hard to refuse.
"You...really want to know?" Lu Ning glanced at Soygo again and concluded in her heart that this person was definitely not a tourist. She suddenly decided to try to give this person more information and what would happen.
Soygo's character represents a variable. Now this variable is only in a peaceful state, but what if it is triggered?
"You are a smart girl, you don't understand what I mean." Soygo didn't know Lu Ning's plan yet, so he immediately continued to persuade her.
"But this will be a long story..."
"It doesn't matter, I packed your lunch for you today. You must have discovered something, what? As the instructor, I should have the right to know, right?"
Taken the bait.
Lu Ning squinted her eyes and ignored things related to tourists. She mixed her own guesses while picking up the magic book and took them all as facts to string together a story for Soygo.
Her eloquence is average, and she is not particularly good at telling stories. However, the clues to the various mysteries here are complicated. It is enough to mix the true and false, and there is no need for much polishing. Soygo's face turned gloomy after hearing this story. The weather is getting uncertain.
Lu Ning ate the free lunch and left Soygo to hang out to slowly digest the information.
