Chapter 50: Gabriel: Tier-2 Alchemist! (2)
"Bam!" Harley Graham fell onto his knees. At this moment, he really wanted to cry but had no tears. He felt so wronged, he really thought the young man was playing tricks on him, what kind of medical herbs were those, even he never heard of their mention in his life.
How should he have known that Gabriel Jones would treat Darius this way? Had he known, he would have even respected Darius as an elder! Now what was he supposed to do? He couldn’t stop the ugly expression on his face from showing.
The other people in the shop were all watching and shaking their heads in their hearts. Had Harley Graham been slightly more polite in his speech and not so forceful in his attitude, he would still have a way out now.
But now, he had truly brought this onto himself!
Gabriel Jones immediately turned his head, his wrinkled face showing a fearsome anger.
How could he not be angered?
As an alchemist, the one thing he sought in his entire life was to raise his own level in the arts of alchemy and obtain more pill formulae. Now, here was an obvious "Encyclopedia of Pill Formulae", and that guy actually asked him to get lost? Did he bore some hatred towards him?
"Fool!" He shouted in anger, "What’s going on here? Explain to me!"
At this moment, Harley wanted to die; under the interrogation of Gabriel Jones, he did not dare not to answer, so he just recounted the incident that happened previously while stammering. Although he did not attempt to distort the facts, the insulting words he spoke to Darius were naturally not repeated. He wasn’t that much of an idiot.
"What great authority you have!" Gabriel Jones immediately gave him a hearty slap, causing Harley to spin around on the spot three times before finally stopping, completely silly from the beating. "You haven’t heard of them so that means they don’t exist? Should all the hundreds of thousands of medicinal plants you haven’t heard of be removed from this world then? Let me tell you, these five medicinal plants indeed do exist!
Violet Lotus Grass can be found in Eaglewood Valley, Blue Branch Fruit can be found in one of the valleys in Hundred Linked Mountains, Hundred Year Vermilion Bamboo grows in areas of extreme Heat, Red Leafed Potato is found underneath volcanic ash! Only Rotted Leafed Dried Tree Roots are rarer, it can only be found underneath the old roots of a tree that has rotted for more than one hundred years!"
"I was wrong! I was wrong!" Harley kept apologizing in a panic. What else was there to suspect if even Gabriel Jones himself had said so? He stretched out his hand and slapped himself, saying, "I shouldn’t have been conceited, I shouldn’t have behaved like a snob!"
To get into the sanctuary took so much effort from his family and connections, much less to get a spot in the Apex Medicine Pavilion. If he lost this job, then he would be forced back to earth where a Tier-1 Alchemist of the intermediate level was nothing one in a million.
Gabriel once again turned to Darius and said, "Young friend, many apologies, many apologies."
He suddenly started, because he recalled that before he left his master, he had heard his master mention a particular formula. That was a pill used for increasing the affinity of one’s heart method with the person, greatly benefiting his cultivation and overall abiltiies, and it required the five types of medicinal plants that Darius had wanted to buy.
That time, his master had sighed with regret and said that although this formula did not need to be refined into the form of a pill, the effects were unexpectedly excellent. Unfortunately, possibly due to the passage of time, only the names of some of the main ingredients were known, yet the actual method of creation was long lost.
As such, it left a very strong impression on him, and now he had suddenly recalled everything.
Could it be that Darius was buying these medicinal ingredients to concoct the Element Heart Increase Spirit Powder?
The old man couldn’t help the increasingly rapid beating of his heart. If he could get this formula and place it on the grave as an offering to his late master, then his esteemed master would feel happy in the afterlife!
"Young friend, the medicinal ingredients you’re buying, could it be that you want to concoct-"
"Element Heart Increase Spirit Powder," Darius nodded, and truthfully said, "My Heart Method isn’t that great so I need it."
"Pu!"
Harley immediately puffed in shock. One’s heart method was the foundation of one’s cultivation journey, a poor heart method would be nothing less than shotting one’s self on the foot and stagnating on the early realms for a lifetime!
Any’s eyes brightened as well. She was a member of the Immortal Pavilion, and her brother told her that Darius didn’t plan on only renting the cultivation rooms but pills and whatnot will also be seld. Given her father being a small merchant, she barely got herself a good master in the academy but the heart method they gave was barely medicore.
If Darius planned to sell such a pill inside of the Immortal Pavilion, the value of the pavilion would jump into new heights, making it famous across Dragon City if not outside. At this moment, she couldn’t help but look at Darius in a different gaze.
Darius, ah, Darius, how many secrets are you hiding?
She was getting more and more curious about Darius. Now, even if Darius said that he didn’t want her as a follower anymore, she reckoned her personal curiosity would make her stay; she truly didn’t feel like leaving his side anytime soon and would rather follow him around after working hours.
A/N: A face-slapping scene in a cultivation world is a must hehe. Also Power Stones, Golden Tickers and comments will truly be appreiciated, keep in mind that the Immortal Pavilion isn’t merely the mysterious little store in the corner, I plan to make it a real force that has a say in the world, while not on the same level as kingodom-building novels, it is close on that specterm.
Oh and this will be last Author note at the end of a Chapter so rest assured, rest will be on the real author’s note and i truly didn’t do this to affect the word count. Much love everyone <3
