Alchemies

chapter 22 formation

Alex looked at the strange-looking beaker and wondered what it was. The glass of the container is small, wide at the bottom, and narrow at the top. It had a circular metal spot at its base.

The glass itself had a single black line running across it vertically. There are small dots along the side of the black line.

He looked, Kong Yuhan took the pill and put it in a beaker. He then focused as he poured his Qi into the metal part of the beaker. The chemical glass slowly began to fog.

At the bottom of the beaker, the,

Slowly, the fog began to rise upwards.

After a few seconds, he stopped moving and showed no signs of rising again. Kong Yuhan took a closer look at the black dot.

"Ah ... stops at 19%. I'm almost close to 20%." Kong Yuhan sighed.

Alex was confused, and asked, “What do you mean 19%, brother Kong?”

"Look," Kong Yuhan said as she handed the beaker over to Alex. Now that he held it, he could see that the black dots were actually not dots, but numbers. They were too small to be distinguished from far before.

"Is this the degree of alignment of his pills?" She asked.

"Yes," Kong Yuhan said and began packing his qualities.

"How can a glass tell you what the level of harmony of a pill is, brother Kong?" She asked.

"What are you talking about, little brother? Of course not. It's the metal base that shows it." Said Kong Yuhan

"Metals?" Alex is confused.

“Yes, more precisely the formation on metal.” Kong Yuhan explained a little.

“A Formation?” Alex surprised. He had never seen a formation before and had only heard of it. “Wah, it's the first time I've seen a formation,” Alex said as he looked at the metal at the bottom of the beaker.

Kong Yuhan took back his chemical glass, and put the pill into the ceramic pill bottle, immediately closing the bottle.

He then pointed to the lantern in the hallway and asked, “Have you seen what's inside the lantern, junior sister?”

he replied, "Yes. I removed the outer cover last night. Inside was a floating fireball, and a metal..Don't tell me that the metal plate was also a formation?" " his eyes widened in surprise.

then he thought of something.

the lantern does not require someone to put Qi into it like you did on that beaker. She asked.

"'Pill Examiner'? Yes, it is because the formation on it does not have an energy source to work with, so you have to give it Qi to work with. " Kong Yuhan explained.

“Male sister, did you know there is a large formation placed on the ground of the sect.”ucap Kong Yuhan

“Formation that big? I never saw it” alex replied.

"Well, I don't know his real name, but it's unofficially called the 'Running Sect' formation'. He utilized the spirit veins under the sect, and used his energy to run the sect." He explains.

Alex thought of something, and said, "So that lantern was part of that 'Secte Run' formation?" She asked.

Kong Yuhan chuckled and replied. “Not just junior sister lantern. Nameplates, sect medals, doors in the alchemy room, flames burning inside, maps at the entrance, mission boards, puppets, ranking stones. Everything was part of the 'Running Sect Formation."

So everything I thought was magical, it turned out to be just part of the 'Secte Run'.' formation'.' He thinks.

Kong Yuhan explained a little more, "You think how else the rankings keep changing. How else do you think the mission board knows what mission you have taken. How else do you think the elders can call disciples on their signboard. Everything within the sect that runs by itself, is a formation."

“So, it's better that you don't want to say you've never seen a formation before. People will just call you stupid.”

Alex could not calm his mind until he came out of the Alchemy Hall. “Give me your nameplate, Junior Sister.” Kong Yuhan said. Alex subconsciously handed over his signboard.

Kong Yuhan transferred 5 contribution points. “See you later, junior sister.” He said and walked away.

He looked at the signboard in his hand and examined it. 5 points had indeed been added to it. He breathed a little and thought,

‘However, it's time to find food.’

He went in and found a board on it with words on it. He wondered if it was a formation as well, but it wasn't. It was just a normal board that someone had written.

He saw the cheapest dishes in the entire restaurant. Meat stew with some vegetables in it. Most of the outer sect disciples ordered it, so he ordered it as well.

Although it is the cheapest dish, the restaurant is very generous in terms of food and gives a lot. The stew was delicious, and he ate with a full stomach.

He slowly ate it, he took fifteen minutes to eat, After finishing it, he paid 2 contribution points and walked out of the restaurant.

The sun was setting, and darkness was approaching.

the light of the lantern shone, Alex walked all the way, thinking about what to do next.

He looked at the time and realized that it was almost 7pm.time logout

but before logging out he decided he would practice controlling fire first after that he logged out.

There were still a few minutes before everyone else logged out, so he decided to call his parents. He chatted for a while, told me about his first day of college, told me about his friends, etc.

His roommate was out of the game by the time he hung up. They went to the cafeteria together and talked about a few different things.

He had wanted to ask something for a long time, so he did. "Hey guys, why does time sometimes slow down when you're fighting or training?" She asked.

“I think it's called ‘Focus Mode’. Since each player had different strength or cultivation, it was difficult to speed things up in the game to match the players. So, instead of speeding up the game as a whole, they instead speed up the game.just speed up the thought process of players who have higher cultivation."

“In the end, players with higher cultivation do things faster than players with lower cultivation, and achieve the same result. Since they didn't want higher cultivation players to constantly suffer as everything around them slowed down, the developers simply turned it into a sometimes active mode"

Eric gives a complete and precise explanation that greatly satisfies Alex. After they had dinner, they returned to their rooms. Alex is very happy to be back playing.

He opened his eyes in his room, with a brightly lit lantern, hanging from the ceiling. He almost picked up the lantern when he thought, "Wait. I should probably try to move all sorts of items with Qi, rather than throw them all away for the mastery of fire."

He looked around his room to see if there was anything there. His barren room was nothing. So he walked out and brought back some small pebbles.

He placed the small stones in front of him and took a deep breath. He instinctively activated focus mode. Everything around him slowed down once again. He could feel the heat of the lanterns on his skin and saw the rocks brighter than during the day.

If he associates what he sees with color, then he sees about 7 different colors all over his body. But it only lasted one second and disappeared the moment he discovered his Qi.

Unlike yesterday, his Qi was now different. There was a sense of excitement and heat on them. Since he did not follow any techniques, this time there was no special path for Qi.

So, he simply carried everything into his palm and let his qi out.

he was still controlling his Qi even after they left his body.

He slowly pushed them forward until they reached the stone. He let the formless Qi envelop one of the stones as if he was catching it with his own palm. Qi followed his orders and covered the stone completely.

"'Good'". the stone slowly began to float in the air.

"I succeeded"He again concentrated on the stone, keeping it in the air. Next, he wanted to float one more stone. While keeping the first stone in the air, he tried to extract more Qi from his body.

Qi once again escaped from his hand.

"OKAY. Now all I have to do is put the Qi on the rock and—"

Clanking

The rock in the air fell. "Haaa-well, one more time." He did it a few more times and failed

"One more time," but he didn't give up.

After several attempts, he finally managed to float 2 stones at once. That's when he thought of something.

"What if I think of both objects as one entity?" he was expending more Qi, though,

The stones were attached to each other but were easily moved using Qi.