Alchemies

Chapter 63: The Missing Ingredients

“Good Night, Elder Wang. Is the list ready?” Alex arrives at the foot of the alchemy garden late at night. He deliberately waited as long as he could without doing anything before coming here.

"Oh, you're here, Disciple Yu. Yes, Elder Zhan has prepared the list. Here it is." He handed Alex a list of ingredients.

Over the past few days, Alex had started to get to know the elders quite well. He respected them as an older person and they respected him as someone who was talented.

They would still be shocked every time he came out of the park within an hour.

“How do you do it, Disciple Yu? The mountain is quite large, so how can you find the ingredients so quickly.” The elders asked.

"Oh, hehe. I can tell you, it's because I know where every ingredient is. So I'll just take it. I don't have to waste time looking for her."

Ma Rong had told him not to reveal to anyone about his Spiritual feelings, so he tried to overcome the question and answer it without actually answering the question.

"Then I leave, Elder Wang." Alex walked into the valley to look for the ingredients. He quickly scanned the list and thought about where all the ingredients were.

'There's 2 there, 3 next to him, only 1 near the top.' he revises the location in his mind and walks away.

The materials started flying by themselves and landed inside his storage bag. His Qi manipulation and coordination of his Spiritual senses became as good as that.

One by one, he began to find all the ingredients on the list. It took him half an hour to finish everything, so he got out.

Student Yu.” Elder Wang spoke as he watched Alex walk out of the garden.

Alex just smiled and said, "I'll go to another park." He walked across the valley towards the other park and entered.

He once again started looking for the ingredients.

“Hmm... missing.” Alex knew there must have been material here yesterday, but it's not there anymore. 'Did any animals take it?' he wonders.

He kept looking for other materials. Once again he found another missing ingredient.

“That's the second time. Are there really animals here?”

He's looking for more materials. In the end, he found about 4 different ingredients missing. And that's just what he's looking for because of the list.

'Let's check everything.' He immediately sent out his spiritual senses and looked at all the different materials growing in the valley. He found more than 20 materials had been stolen by now.

He immediately thought of the ingredients and realized that it was the ingredient for the [Heart Stopping Pill] pill. It was a common grade pill that would kill anyone under the Tempering Mind realm by condensing their blood and stopping their heart from pumping blood.

Of course, this was with his limited knowledge of 200 pills. There were many other pills out there that he didn't know about.

"Teacher, I think I'm the only one allowed to pluck from the garden for now. There were others who were taking the ingredients for the Heart Stopping Pill in the alchemy garden." He sent out a message using the communication talisman that Ma Rong had given him.

He walked out of the valley and gave his materials to Elder Wang and Elder Zhan.

“You spent quite a lot of time today, Disciple Yu? Are the ingredients hard to find this time?” Elder Wang asked.

"Oh no. I just found some missing material than I should have. So I looked around for a while and realized that a lot of ingredients had been taken in the past few days. Are parents allowed to take materials at this time? I think I'm the only one."

Elder Wang and Zhan lost their joking smiles and immediately became serious. “Someone took the ingredients? Are you sure you didn't make a mistake?”

I counted and realized about 20 ingredients were missing. All the necessary ingredients for Heart Stopping pills are gone.”

Elder Wang pondered a little. “If that is true then we need to call the sect leader.”

“No need. I'm already here.” Ma Rong flew over to where Alex and the elders were.

“You said someone took a potion for a Heart Stop pill?” He asked Alex.

I don't know when they were taken because I just found out they were missing today, but I guarantee they were there 3 days ago, and I didn't take them.

Ma Rong knew about the incredible memories of someone who possessed the spiritual sea so he immediately believed it.

Who else is in besides my students? Ma Rong looked towards the elders.

The elders just stood outside every day and received requests from the disciples so they did not know about it. Ma Rong immediately sent out a message to the entire sect for every elder who had to enter the park in the past 5 days to gather here.

Within 10 minutes, a group of about 10 old men stood in front of Ma Rong.

"Have any of you taken the materials from the garden in the last 5 days?" Everyone denies having consumed any ingredients. At least not since the sect leader took over their authority as well.

Ma Rong frowned and took out 2 pill bottles, and 10 pills flew from the bottle into the hands of the elders.

The elders looked puzzled as they looked at the pill. Immediately, their eyes widened in shock. All the elders knew what the pill was.