Alchemies

Chapter 34: Double Invitation

"I can give you a True Earth Level artifact if you allow me to take it with me now." Wen Cheng saw Ma Rong contemplating, so he offered a transaction.

Seeing Wen Cheng actually offer something so expensive, Ma Rong was very sure there was something he was not revealing at the moment.

The other Tiger sect elders behind started muttering, and wondering why their sect leader made such an offer. Is that child really valuable?

Alex was also surprised. 'Did Luo Mei tell him about me? Is that why he made such an offer?' He wanted to say something but could not think of what he had to say in front of such an important crowd.

"Csect Leader," suddenly, a voice shouted from behind. Ma Rong looked back and found that it was the Great Elder who had just spoken.

What's up, Grand Elder? she asked.

"You know, about a week ago, the eighteenth elder came to me and talked about how useful the exam of the week was, and more than 25 participants had passed at once." He started talking.

No one understood where it was headed, so they continued to listen.

“His cup, one of the participants got a full score on the exam. They have identified 100 materials in their bag, and managed to get a silver library token.” She said.

Ma Rong seemed to know what he was alluding to, so he asked, "Are you trying to say that he is that disciple?"

Ma Rong looked at Alex and asked, "Did you get the silver library token when you entered the sect?"

“Yes, Elder Lang gave me one the day I entered,” Alex replied.

Ma Rong smiled. He finally had a reason to reject Wen Cheng's offer. “See, Wen Cheng, my student is also talented in alchemy. Even before joining the sect, he already knew a lot about alchemy. So, you have to give up on forcing her to join.”

The purple-robed duo was watching the ongoing drama with a slight smile on their faces. Ma Rong and Wen Cheng kept going back and forth talking about the wishes of one of his students, and the others did not want to expel him.

The purple-robed woman finally spoke for the first time. “Then, what about the Sect Leader? Why don't we ask the young man himself which sect he chose?”

Ma Rong and Wen Cheng stopped arguing and thought for a moment. Wen Cheng was the first to agree.

"Yes, Madam Mo is right. We should let his students choose." Wen Cheng stepped forward towards Alex, who was still in a daze. "Your name is Yu Ming right? If you join my sect, you will have free access to all the cultivation methods and techniques in the sect. I'll also allow you to choose 1-NO, 2 artifacts from the sect treasury. And so on besides, I'll make you my direct disciple."

However, among all of them, no one could be surprised as Alex listened to the Tiger Sect Leader. Although his heart said to stick to the Hong Wu Sect, his brain held that this was a brilliant opportunity that he could not pass through.

He joined the Hong Wu Sect so that he could play games and earn money, and alchemy was the best at it. But that's not the only way. Even by playing normally, one can earn a lot of money. If he were to join the Tiger Sect now, he could also do so.

He's in a dilemma. The thoughts flowed in his mind at a speed faster than his comprehension.

Ma Rong looked at Alex and saw that he was starting to get affected. He did not know what this disciple possessed other than good talent in cultivation and knowledge of alchemy ingredients.

From his point of view, Alex was a good student. Maybe even one of the better ones. But there was no way he would give as much as Wen Cheng even to his best disciple.

'He must know something I don't. But what?' he couldn't understand, but he needed to do something quickly.

"Murid, if you stay in the Hong Wu Sect, I will make you my direct disciple as well, and let you stay in the Mountain of the Sect Leader. You'll have full access to both alchemy gardens, and," he reached into his storage.His bag, and took out something, "I'll also give this True Earth Level artifact to you."

The thing he took out was a large cauldron of green and gold. Alex looked at the cauldron in admiration. This cauldron was much better than the one used by Kong Yuhan. It was incomparable when it came to the black cauldron in the Alchemist Hall.

“Umm...” a new offer has arrived that leaves Alex speechless. Now that there was an incentive to stay in the Hong Wu Sect, he became increasingly agitated, unable to make his own decisions.

He almost plucked out his long black hair out of frustration. Both offers were brilliant, so it was difficult to make a choice.

Going to the Tiger sect meant becoming the direct disciple of the sect leader, with access to the 2 items of the sect treasury, and full access to all of the sect's cultivation resources.

Staying in Hong Wu sect meant becoming the direct disciple of the sect leader, full access to all the alchemy ingredients in the 2 alchemy gardens, and also obtaining a True Earth grade cauldron.

'Should I choose the Hong Wu sect because my original intention was to study alchemy, and staying now would give me better access to its ingredients?' he thinks.

He has decided. He was about to speak when the purple-robed man walked forward and spoke.

“I don't think the young man could choose if you both offered him something so good. So, I may have a solution to your problem, Sect leader.”