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Join the ServerThough Ye Xingchen was an alchemist from the cultivation world, he had also studied alchemy for three years in this magical world. However, his main focus had always been on alchemical constructs and enchantments. When it came to potion compounding, he had to admit that while he had researched it, he wasn’t particularly skilled. The reason, if he had to say, was mostly because he had grown accustomed to pill refining in his past life—potion compounding always felt somewhat awkward to him.
Even so, compounding a rank 5 potion was naturally not a problem.
As for the strongest senior present, a fifth-year student, his peak was likely only at rank 5. If Ye Xingchen could produce a rank 4 potion of decent quality, it should be more than enough.
While Ye Xingchen was still lost in thought, the audience on the stands had already noticed that everyone else had started work long ago, yet that perennial last-place student, Ye Xingchen, hadn’t moved at all.
“Hey, hey, did you see that? That guy is Ye Xingchen, right? I heard he’s the notorious bottom-feeder of the third year. The competition started ages ago—why hasn’t he moved? Even Liu Yuxuan, who’s second to last, started a while ago. Could he be so scared that he froze up on his first ranked match?”
“No kidding. It’s normal for many third-year rookies to be nervous on their first time. But I wonder who gave him the title ‘Alchemy Maniac.’ I don’t think this dead last is anything special.”
“Exactly. I don’t understand how the number one school beauty, Su Liyue, could fancy him. A waste like him—probably weaker than me—yet he won Su Liyue’s heart. I’m the first to object!”
Even the Alchemy Professor Tang Wanrou in the stands found Ye Xingchen’s current behavior hard to understand. After all, she had been watching him ever since the first practical drill of the third year.
But potion science remained the foundation of alchemy. The core of alchemical constructs was the harmony between magic arrays and materials; potions were the fusion of magical energy and herbal essence.
The two seemed different, yet both boiled down to one word: ‘balance.’
If one couldn’t even grasp the basic logic of potion compounding, they would inevitably hit a bottleneck when dealing with complex core inlaying or rune combinations later on.
There were also many similarities. Although she had seen Ye Xingchen’s upgraded magical broom and thought he might be a promising talent in the alchemical system,
Now, she felt she needed to observe more carefully. A lack of magical talent wasn’t a problem; having ingenious ideas and talent in alchemy was acceptable. But if he only had ideas and talent without proper character, he might not necessarily become a good seedling.
After all, she had taught students for so many years and had seen many talented individuals. But often, many geniuses were ultimately buried by their impetuous mindsets or arrogant complacency.
Ye Xingchen’s magical talent was mediocre; it would be good if he continued to delve deeply into alchemy. But his current performance made her think she still needed to keep observing.
Though talent was important, mindset was equally important.
It wasn’t until the murmurs from the stands nearly drowned out the magical hum of the arena that Ye Xingchen finally moved.
His fingertips stirred slightly, and a faint azure current silently coiled around the Moonlight Grass. This was not the magic of this world, but the immortal spiritual energy hidden within his body, cleverly disguised as the fluctuation of psychic magic.
As the current passed over the blade, the silvery-white grass even took on an extremely faint luster, retaining thirty percent more active components than ordinary handling methods.
This scene happened to catch Tang Wanrou’s eye. Her fingers paused on her pendant, and a flicker of surprise passed through her eyes.
“That handling technique… is rather interesting.”
To be honest, although Ye Xingchen had no affinity with the four elemental magics, as a cultivator, his spiritual power was naturally far beyond what these magic students could compare.
He could even say that even the mental strength of the Saint Magus he had encountered at the Duke’s mansion was no more than a weakling presence before him. If he wished, his control over mental strength alone was already formidable enough.
Moreover, in this magical world, mental power served as the leader of the four elements yet was not an element itself. This reminded him of the books on Western magic he had seen back on Earth—specifically the pentagram magic array formed by mental power leading the four elements.
What impressed him most was that, as the leader of magical elements, sealing magic also used mental power as its core.
This was why, since arriving in this world, he had focused on researching materials. There were too many things in this world that puzzled him, including why he had come here, and why this world held so many things and knowledge related to Earth.
It seemed that none of this was coincidence. But even someone as powerful as him, combined with deductions from the Art of Divination, could not figure it out. Clearly, there might be secrets hidden within that even a transcendent powerhouse like him did not know.
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