Me and nie li along with ziyun and Ning'er made our way to the alchemy association while the other girls heading home to eat.
The alchemy here has degraded down to basic potions and powder medicines used for baths and such.
Back when glory city was the peak of humanity there where probably proper alchemists. But then the wars happened killing off most of humanity and they hid behind the walls treating it like a safe haven. They don't even know there are actually other groups of humans in the world.
We walked in gathering a lot of attention due to the girls being both from major families and well recognized.
One of the desk girls approaches us. "Hello do you need any help with anything?"
"Uh yeah apparently some people here have been looking for us for a few days while we were out of town do you mind finding out who needs us." I tell the woman.
"Your names please?" she asks.
"Ryan and Nie li." she jots it down before walking off to talk to some people.
We sit down in the waiting area and chat for a while.
Soon there's the sound of hurried footsteps scrambling towards us and the door is pushed open by a frantic looking woman.
"Your finally here do you know how long I've been looking for you two?" The woman says with a huff.
"Well as much as I love being chased by beauties I also enjoy finding treasure in ancient cities." I said with a laugh.
she looks at me and nie li curiously.
"Your both pretty young I was expecting someone older. Did your teacher give you those formulas?" She asks curiously.
I just laugh as nie li chuckles.
"This idiot right here could probably be what you call an alchemy grandmaster in your association and crush even your higher ups with knowledge." I say pointing at nie li.
"Stop joking around how can someone this young have so much knowledge that even our elders can't compete." she sneers.
"Alright ask him any questions you like and if he can't answer we will leave and go find our 'Masters'." I say with a mocking look.
This woman happens to be the director of the alchemy association and thought we were messing with her.
"Alright follow me." She says and our group follows along behind her through the halls to a nice big room.
On the wall was a giant board filled with questions about problems alchemists have been having for years.
"If you can answer any of these questions I'll believe your claim of being an alchemy grandmaster let alone an alchemy master." She says with a winning look.
Even the president of the alchemy association couldn't answer these questions.
I browse over them and see they are all pretty simple.
Nie li laughs "Do you have a pen?" he asks the woman.
With confusion she hands him a pen and paper and he starts zooming through formulas and problems making corrections as she watches in shock reading over his shoulder as every single problem seems to be logically solved. She watches with a gaping mouth as problems that have plagued the association for years get solved in minutes.
She finally catches my smug look before clenching her teeth and biting out. "Well that's him I haven't seen you answer anything yet?!" nie li practically breaks down in laughter.
"Alright tell me do you have these ingredients here?" I pass over a list of plants she looks over before having an aide go fetch the supplies.
A few minutes later the aid returns with some plants and passes them over to me.
"are you planning on making medicine? Do you need tools or a cauldron?" She asks curiously.
"Amateur." I laugh as phoenix flames appear in my hand and I throw the herbs into the fire and they start melting right in front of her face all the impurities vanishing in seconds before there's a wonderful medicine smell filling the air. The swirling green liquid bubbles and boils before turning into multiple ball shaped pills and solidifying perfectly.
I toss one over to Ning'er and ziyun.
"Eat those." no questions asked Ning'er throws it into her mouth.
The change is almost instant as her skin becomes more beautiful and her hair more radiant. Beautification pills of high level are simple to make. The change is like watching a normal woman become a super model in seconds. Ziyun seeing this throws the pill into her mouth in a hurry and goes through the same change.
I toss one into nie lis mouth with a chuckle as he chokes. His hair becomes more flamboyant and majestic and he looks more girlish and pretty. I just laugh madly as he frantically touches his now feminine looking face and pale white skin.
"Nooooo my manly looks!" he cries collapsing on the floor.
Yang Xin the director just eyes the pills with shock and want. I toss one into her mouth aswell.
"To me your alchemy association is an absolute joke. I could out alchemy all of you at the same time and still have a nice cup of tea. Your medicines are trash that aren't even in pill form. I could literally crank out pills in an hour and put you guys out of business in a day." I laugh.
looking at the tens of beauty pills floating in the air she could believe it the women would absolutely go wild for this and women control the men's money most of the time.
"I apologize for my earlier offense." She says bowing her head.
"It's whatever." I shrug looking around the room at all the alchemy books before walking over and browsing through them.
Xiao Ning'er follows me. "Thank you for the pill." she says happily.
"Oh? That pill was made of garbage materials here take this one it will make you look young forever and has better effects." I casually toss her a golden pill that she instantly swallows which woman didn't want to look young forever.
Yang Xin hearing the effect of the new pill and calling the other one garbage almost wishes to die on the spot from embarrassment.