Chapter 106 Nalan Yanran Wants to Break Off the Engagement (Part 2)
"The Yunlan Sect does not determine seniority by the time of entry, but by strength. As long as you are strong enough, the disciples of the same generation will need to call you senior brother." When her heart was touched, Nalan Yanran's pretty face turned slightly red, and she explained with some embarrassment.
Xiao Se said solemnly: "It's not that I think Yunlan Sect is bad, but everyone has their own choices. Compared to joining a sect or other forces, I advocate freedom more. If I tie my heart to a sect or a force, wouldn't it be a waste of my life in this world? Instead of doing this, it's better to explore this vast continent. That kind of life is wonderful."
There is also a most important reason that Xiao Se did not say. If she joined the Yunlan Sect, it would be inconvenient for her to date her teacher Yun Yun.
"Freedom?" Nalan Yanran murmured, her beautiful eyes drooping with a hint of yearning and a hint of sadness. She couldn't help but ask herself in her heart, why would she marry a stranger just because of a family marriage contract?
Quietly, Nalan Yanran's determination to break off the engagement became more firm.
When they reached a fork in the road, Xiao Se's eyes were attracted by the hall on the east side of the Alchemist Guild headquarters. There, there were many neatly built square stone platforms, on which were placed various bottles and jars of items. Next to the stone platforms, sat alchemists in long robes. As expected, this was the place where the Alchemist Guild provided alchemists with transactions.
"Miss Nalan, I'm going to visit the trading hall over there, so I'll go ahead." Looking at Nalan Yanran who was lost in thought and absent-minded, Xiao Se pointed in the direction of the trading hall and said seriously.
"Oh, please go ahead, Mr. Xiao Huohuo. My Nalan family is in the imperial capital. If Mr. Xiao Huohuo is free, you are welcome to visit my Nalan family anytime." Nalan Yanran looked up suddenly after her thoughts were interrupted and replied hurriedly.
Xiao Se nodded slowly, turned, and walked towards the trading hall.
Looking at Xiao Se's young figure gradually going away, Nalan Yanran murmured in a low voice: "Freedom? I want to fight for myself too."
After a brief moment of contemplation, Nalan Yanran nodded firmly. She had decided that after the Alchemist Conference, she would ask her grandfather Nalan Jie to break off the engagement no matter what. If her grandfather disagreed, she would ask her teacher Yun Yun for help. With her teacher, Dou Huang, in charge, she didn't believe that the Xiao family in Wutan City would dare not agree.
On the other side, Xiao Se had already arrived in front of the trading hall.
He didn't know that Nalan Yanran decided to break off the engagement early, and even if he knew, he wouldn't care. Whether she broke off the engagement or not, it didn't matter to him. He looked at the dense crowd in front of him again and walked into the trading hall.
Xiao Se was still wearing the robe of a second-grade alchemist, and his ordinary face was covered by the ice silkworm mask, so he did not attract anyone's attention.
Xiao Se walked slowly into the trading hall, looking around. So far, he has never found a good item. This time, with the perspective eye and the soul power reaching the level of a fifth-grade alchemist, he wanted to give it another try. Especially the secret method of the first change of the "Three Mysterious Changes of Heavenly Fire" in the original book, if it has flowed into the trading hall, it would be great.
He walked and stopped along the way and found many rare things, but unfortunately, there was nothing he needed. It can be said that with the ten months of hard life in the Warcraft Mountains, he had visited almost all the caves in the Warcraft Mountains, no matter whether they were high-level or low-level Warcraft, as long as there were good things. Now, unless it was the medicinal materials for refining the seventh-grade elixir, nothing could attract his attention at all.
After walking around for an incense stick time, Xiao Se had lost some of his patience. Just as he was about to return, a stone platform that few people visited caught his attention. He frowned slightly and walked up slowly.
Behind the stone platform, an old man with a serious face sat. What surprised Xiao Se was that although there were all kinds of strange objects and fighting skills on the stone platform, even the extremely rare Ice Spirit Cold Spring, almost no one came to trade. Even if someone came, they just took a look and left.
When he got closer, Xiao Se finally understood why no one was interested. He saw that there were price tags under the items on display. Most of them required fourth-grade elixirs to exchange. The Ice Spirit Cold Spring even required a fifth-grade elixir. It was simply too black.
But the old man with a serious face didn't seem to care much. He was calm and composed, and there seemed to be a hint of laziness in his seriousness.
Seeing that Xiao Se left without even glancing at him as the others did, the old man slowly raised his drooping eyelids. After seeing Xiao Se's young face and the second-grade alchemist badge on his chest, a touch of emotion finally emerged on his serious face. He said calmly, "Little brother, take whatever you need to buy. The prices are all marked on them."
Xiao Se nodded slightly, and his eyes kept sweeping over the stalls, his eyes of clairvoyance fully opened, but he was somewhat disappointed. There were quite a few good things on the stalls, but nothing suitable for him. Just as he was about to look away, an open empty wooden box attracted his attention. The top cover of the wooden box was inlaid with a black jade piece. Although his soul power did not feel anything unusual, this jade piece was different from other ordinary jade pieces. It seemed not to be naturally formed, but rather it seemed to be cast using a special method.
His eyes swept across the black jade pieces on the wooden box without leaving a trace. Xiao Se looked at the price and then asked the old man, "Old sir, why is this wooden box empty?"
The old man glanced at the wooden box and instantly lost interest. He said indifferently: "This thing is what I got when I traveled in my early years. It has not decayed or decayed over the years. Even the real fire condensed by a fourth-grade alchemist cannot damage it. If you want it, you need to give me a fourth-grade pill."
Hearing that the real fire condensed by the fourth-grade alchemist could not cause damage to the wooden box, Xiao Se became more certain of his guess. He immediately took out a jade bottle from his ring and threw it to the old man, saying seriously: "I want it. This is a fourth-grade elixir, the Beast Power Pill. It can increase the strength of the person who takes it in a short period."
The old man opened the bottle stopper and checked it. After confirming that the pill was correct, he looked up at Xiao Se and asked in surprise, "Do you want to exchange it?"
"Why, I've given you the elixir, how could it be fake?" Xiao Se put away the wooden box. He rolled his eyes at the old man, turned around, and disappeared into the crowd. The old man stood there in a daze, not knowing what he was thinking.
After walking out of the Alchemist Guild headquarters, Xiao Se heard the system prompt in his mind.
[Ding. The one-month period has come. The system has been refreshed. Congratulations to the host for getting a chance to exchange. Congratulations to the host for getting a chance to draw a prize on the big wheel.]
"The system helped me replace the doll in the warehouse first."
[Ding, congratulations to the host for obtaining Zhu Zhuqing from the 'Douluo Continent' world]