The Journey of Projection Upgrading
Chapter 248

Chapter 248 - Doubt

"If we're talking about alchemists, no one here may be able to compare with you, young master."

Sitting in front of Chen An, Qi Rou smiled and said softly, "But when it comes to formation masters, not to mention the Changyue Sect, I'm afraid there are few places in the entire Southern Domain that can compare to here."

These words sounded a bit arrogant, but Chen An still nodded inwardly.

Because it was the truth.

Chen An had visited many forces within the Southern Domain in previous years and had observed many formation arrays.

Whether it was the Changyue Sect or the Alchemy Tower, the formation arrays within their jurisdiction could not compare to this place.

Especially in the use of teleportation formations, this place was quite advanced, surpassing other places by a large margin.

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Of course, his understanding of the situation was also a reason.

After all, even if he wanted to leave casually, Qi Rou in front of him would definitely not let him go.

Let him go?

Who will refine pills for me then!

"Young master, do you really not want to leave this place?"

After discussing the matter of inviting a formation master to teach Chen An, Qi Rou couldn't help but be curious, "It's been more than two years since you've been here, don't you miss your fellow disciples in the Changyue Sect?"

Qi Rou was quite clear about Chen An's situation, knowing that he had grown up in the Changyue Sect since he was a child.

And from the performance of the past two years, Chen An had a good relationship with the disciples of the Changyue Sect.

But the strange thing was that Chen An never expressed a desire to leave in these two years.

Even this time, he hadn't mentioned leaving.

This unusual attitude made Qi Rou curious and a tinge of curiosity rose in her heart.

Chen An hesitated for a moment, then looked at Qi Rou in front of him with some confusion, as if he was surprised that she would bring up this question.

But in the end, he smiled and said, "Do you mean if I say I want to leave, Miss Qi won't let me go?"

"Why wouldn't I?"

Qi Rou also smiled and asked back.

"What do you think, Miss Qi?"

Chen An spoke, his expression still calm.

Silence fell around.

Neither Qi Rou nor Chen An said anything else, and the atmosphere seemed a bit stagnant.

It wasn't until a moment later that Chen An got up and bowed to Qi Rou in front of him, "It's getting late, so I'll leave first."

"If you need me later, you can have someone call for me."

"Okay."

Qi Rou nodded.

Chen An walked away.

After he left, the servants entered and began cleaning the room and clearing the debris.

Qi Rou didn't care about these trivial matters, she just stared fixedly at Chen An's figure as he walked away, a smile suddenly appearing on her face, her thoughts unknown.

Time passed slowly.

After the Heavenly Pill, more and more materials were delivered in the following days.

After proving his alchemy skills, Qi Rou became more generous with the supply of materials.

The materials for refining the Heavenly Pill were quite precious, and in the past, the supply of these materials was limited, usually only provided at long intervals.

But this time, Qi Rou had ten sets of materials sent over at once.

The meaning was obvious, she wanted Chen An to hurry up and refine the pills.

Refine, refine to the extreme!

Give me as many as you can refine!

After taking a Heavenly Pill, Qi Rou seemed to be not satisfied and still yearning for the elixir.

Chen An estimated that this was due to the insufficient potency of the pill.

The effect of the Heavenly Pill was to slowly transform the body of the user, gradually turning it into a celestial body, returning to the original state.

But obviously, to achieve this effect, one Heavenly Pill was not enough, more were needed.

Qi Rou's problem was quite serious, and one Heavenly Pill was probably not enough.

According to Chen An's previous estimate, to completely solve Qi Rou's problem, at least five Heavenly Pills would be needed.

And now there was only one.

Take it slow, take it slow.

Chen An continued to be busy.

In just over half a month, the ten sets of materials sent by Qi Rou were consumed.

Chen An's alchemy skills were not bad, except for one mishap, he succeeded almost every time with the ten sets of materials.

On average, each set of materials produced about two pills.

But Chen An naturally wouldn't be foolish enough to take out everything.

After all, on the surface, there were only two successful attempts with the ten sets of materials, and each time only one pill was produced.

The success rate directly went from ten out of nine to one out of five, and the number of pills produced was halved.

But even so, no one said anything.

There was no way, these were top-grade pills.

Pills like the Golden Lotus Pill and the Heavenly Pill were very difficult to refine in the first place.

If it were another alchemist, even a so-called Grandmaster of Alchemy, succeeding once in ten attempts would be considered a good probability.

And Chen An's success rate was one out of five, double that of those Grandmasters.

So what else is there to say?

Therefore, Qi Rou and Lin Qiu were all very satisfied with Chen An's performance during this time, and they praised him endlessly, each one praising him to the skies.

For a moment, Chen An felt a little embarrassed.

In their eyes, he was already comparable to a Grandmaster of Alchemy.

This was only the part of Chen An that he showed.

If they knew the actual success rate of Chen An's alchemy, wouldn't they go crazy?

Of course, it was more likely that they would want to get rid of Chen An.

After all, Chen An had taken quite a big share this time.

Other than taking a small share, he had taken most of it.

In appearance, Qi Rou and the others had only received three Heavenly Pills from Chen An.

But Chen An's inventory in the White Tower had nearly twenty Heavenly Pills.

That was the benefit of taking a share.

Of course, compared to these pills, Chen An's greater gain was the Source Force.

The Source Force that he had previously consumed to deduce the Heavenly Pill formula had been completely replenished.

As mentioned earlier, there was an issue with the Heavenly Pill formula that Chen An provided to Qi Rou and the others, with twenty extra pieces of Earth Crystal on the formula.

An additional twenty Earth Crystals per set of materials, which totaled two hundred for the ten sets.

That was four thousand Source Force, just enough to completely make up for the losses Chen An had incurred during alchemy earlier.

It seemed pretty good, didn't it?

Chen An was quite happy about it.

As for Qi Rou and Lin Qiu, they seemed equally happy.

They were very satisfied with Chen An's performance during this time, so the conditions Chen An had requested from them were quickly met.

In a short period of time, several formation masters were summoned and became Chen An's teachers in the way of formations.

These formation masters were very skilled, and in Chen An's eyes, they were probably not far from the level of a formation Grandmaster.

So in the following days, Chen An's life returned to peace.

His daily life was quiet, either refining pills when he had tasks to do or studying formations with the formation masters.

Although life was simple, it was still comfortable.

"Is he really learning formations?"

In the quiet room, Qi Rou looked at Lin Qiu in front of her, her face full of surprise.

"Indeed."

Lin Qiu nodded, seeming to understand what Qi Rou was thinking, and a bitter smile appeared on his face, "To be honest, I also thought he was hiding something, but after careful observation, it seems that he really is like that."

"During this recent period, Chen An has not shown any difference. He is just learning with the formation masters after refining pills."

When he said this, Lin Qiu also looked surprised.

Qi Rou and Lin Qiu were both serious practitioners of the Magic Sect.

As practitioners of the Magic Sect, what they were most used to doing was to speculate about others with the worst intentions.

They had done the same with Chen An before.

But then they found that their usual way of understanding didn't seem to work with Chen An.

Lin Qiu had never relaxed his vigilance towards Chen An during the two years he had been around, monitoring him whenever he had the chance.

But no matter how much he monitored, Chen An always seemed to be there, looking like a truly honest person.

He was really that honest.

Because whenever Lin Qiu monitored him, he saw almost the same scene.

Chen An was either refining pills or researching pill formulas, living a truly simple life.

In theory, this should not be the case.

If an ordinary person was taken captive by them, even if they had to cooperate with them, they would still try to do something, secretly do something, it would be quite normal.

But Chen An was not like that.

He had truly cooperated with them for these two years, doing whatever they asked him to do.

Such a cooperative appearance that anyone would find hard to fault.

Even the formula for the Heavenly Pill, Chen An had only taken two years to perfect it himself, a very fast speed.

His performance could be said to be perfect.

But here came the problem.

A person with such outstanding talent and extraordinary abilities, would he really be willing to stay here all the time, knowing that Qi Rou and the others wouldn't let him leave easily, without any other thoughts?

Qi Rou found it hard to believe.

"Maybe, this Chen An is really a person who is content with a simple life."

Lin Qiu pondered for a moment, and in the end, could only come to this conclusion, "Such people exist, but they are not very common."

(End of this chapter)

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