Donglou Mansion, one of the four mansions of Jiang State, was once the head of the four mansions.

However, for various reasons, Donglou Mansion has shown signs of decline, and the position of the capital is now replaced by Nanhe Mansion.

As the warship sailed, it soon entered the Jiang Imperial City.

The entire Jiang Imperial City is incomparably huge, and within the Imperial City, there are five majestic peaks.

These five peaks......

Just like the five fingers of a giant, each of the four mansions occupies a peak, and the royal family of Jiang Guo occupies a peak.

The moment the warship entered Jiang Imperial City, Chu Nan had already felt the magnificent momentum of the entire Jiang Imperial City, and at the same time, Chief Zhou on the side was no longer indifferent, explaining to Chu Nan a lot of things about Jiang Imperial City and the situation in the East Building.

"Our Donglou Mansion, there are three divisions, the War Spirit Department, the Alchemy Department, and the Spirit Weapon Department, each of which has its own rules and does not interfere with each other, although I am the head of the three departments, but I will not interfere in most of the affairs of the three departments. Of course, if you are in trouble, you can always come to me. ”

Mr. Zhou said with a friendly face, judging the two of them from the indifferent appearance earlier.

The guards around looked at Chu Nan with respect in their eyes, although they were from the War Spirit Department, they clearly knew that with Chu Nan's talent in alchemy, when they entered the Alchemy Department, they would inevitably become a pivotal figure in the Alchemy Department.

Especially Feng Ying, now that he is under Chu Nan's spirit pill, he has directly broken through from the middle stage of the Spirit Fusion Realm to the late stage of the Spirit Fusion Realm, which makes him look at Chu Nan with fanaticism and gratitude in his eyes.

The entire Jiang Imperial City was extremely open, and there were many warships coming and going in the sky, and Chu Nan also saw the warships of the other three provinces and their unique flags.

"Jiang Guosi Mansion...... Donglou Mansion, West Blood Mansion, South Crane Mansion, North Zhong Mansion. ”

Through General Manager Zhou's lectures along the way, Chu Nan already has a preliminary understanding of these four prefectures.

Now the strength of the four provinces is ......

The strongest in the south of the Crane Province is the capital of the four provinces.

North Bell House is second.

The Donglou Mansion is on par with the West Blood Mansion, and the competition is also the most fierce, and the warship that was in a stalemate with them earlier is the warship of the West Blood Mansion.

At the same time, from General Manager Zhou's complaint, Chu Nan also knew that the earliest Donglou Mansion was actually the head of the four mansions, but now it is declining, so it was robbed of the capital by Nanhe Mansion.

The relationship between the four governments is special, it cannot be said that it is good or bad, and everything is based on interests......

Under the sailing of the warship, they soon arrived at the peak belonging to the Donglou Mansion.

There are dense buildings throughout the mountain, and the top of the mountain has been flattened, and an incomparably huge city has been built.

Over here......

It is the city of Donglou Mansion.

Call!

The ship flew straight into the city.

When he was on the warship, Chu Nan's magic sense always remained dispersed, so that he could see more things, but now after coming to this mansion city, Chu Nan withdrew his magic sense.

Although from Chief Manager Zhou, Chu Nan learned that there were no Heaven and Earth Realm powerhouses in the Donglou Mansion today, but just in case, Chu Nan still did not use his magic sense to investigate the entire mansion city.

After returning to Fucheng, Manager Zhou couldn't wait to take Chu Nan to the Alchemy Department.

The entire prefecture is extremely large, and the three departments have their own territories.

The moment Chu Nan came to the territory of the Alchemy Ministry, the pervasive Dan incense suddenly came to his face, and the buildings in the Fucheng had a strong ancient style, and the clothes were also the same.

Among them, the territory of this alchemy department is the most obvious.

Along the way, the alchemists he met all respectfully greeted Mr. Zhou, and they all looked at Chu Nan and Dong Yuchen curiously.

Chu Nan also looked at the alchemists here.

He found that these alchemists were all wearing similar robes, and their robes were embroidered with different numbers of Dan furnaces, but most of them only had one Ding Dan furnace, and occasionally he could see a few two Ding Dan furnaces.

Even if he didn't need to go into detail with General Manager Zhou, Chu Nan knew that the number of these Dan furnaces represented the level of these alchemists.

A first-grade alchemist has only one Ding Dan furnace.

A second-grade alchemist will have an extra Ding Dan furnace on his robe.

In Donglou Mansion, alchemists of different levels enjoy different statuses, rights, and resources.

At present, the chief alchemist of Donglou Mansion is a five-grade alchemist.

"I don't know what kind of product I belong to now?"

Chu Nan was curious.

His situation here is different from that of ordinary alchemists, and the elixirs that ordinary elixir masters can refine are consistent with their own level.

For example, the elixir refined by a first-grade alchemist is all first-grade, and it is impossible to refine second-grade or even higher-quality elixirs.

However, there are two different situations in the elixir that Chu Nan can refine here, there is a huge difference between the elixir that has been improved by the Divine Tree and the elixir that he has refined under normal circumstances.

Of course, the elixir after Chu Nan was promoted through the Divine Tree was inconvenient to expose, and he generally took it himself after refining.

However, it is certain that the level of the elixir that has been upgraded by the Divine Tree is much higher than the quality of the elixir under normal circumstances.

As he continued to move forward, the level of alchemists that Chu Nan saw became higher and higher, and third-grade alchemists began to appear.

These third-grade alchemists, although they also took the initiative to greet Mr. Zhou like those first-grade and second-grade alchemists earlier, but the respect in their expressions was much less, and they looked a little arrogant, and they didn't bother to look at Chu Nan beside Mr. Zhou.

Apparently in the East Building......

The third-grade alchemist already has a lot of status and power.

The entire alchemy department is very large, not only has many houses and buildings, but also has many medicinal fields for growing medicinal herbs, the medicinal fields here are not only wide, but also have a wide variety of types, and the growth environment of medicinal herbs is also quite good.

Usually, according to different levels of alchemists, the quota of herbs that can be obtained will also be different.

The higher the level of the alchemist, the more herbs can be obtained, including some rarer herbs, which can be obtained at will.

And if the level of the alchemist is not enough, not only will there be a limit on the quantity, but at the same time, those precious and rare herbs will not be able to receive them normally.

Under the leadership of General Manager Zhou, Chu Nan went all the way to the depths of the Alchemy Department.

Over here......

There is a huge forest of herbs!

The road to the forest is guarded by a number of powerful guards, and this place is not accessible to anyone.

Now, under the leadership of General Manager Zhou, Chu Nan has successfully entered this medicinal herb forest.

The entire medicinal herb forest is extremely huge, and all kinds of medicinal herbs can be seen everywhere in it, and the aura that fills here is even more intense.

At the same time, the herbs grown under this rich aura are even different from ordinary herbs.

Chu Nan saw that these medicinal herbs grown under the rich aura were different from ordinary medicinal herbs in terms of form first.

Some of the herbs are in the form of weapons, some in the form of swords, some in the form of spears, and some in the form of sticks......

There are also herbs that look like human form......

Under the flood of aura, it seems to have a sense of agility.

These were all herbs that Chu Nan had never seen before, which shook his heart.

At the same time, Chu Nan had a hunch that if he wanted to pick these herbs, he needed to pick them in a special way, and if he picked them rashly, there might be a crisis.

"These earth spirit herbs, even in the entire Jiang Country, are very few. Manager Zhou on the side sighed.

"Earth Spirit Herb?"

Chu Nan was slightly puzzled.

Mr. Zhou explained today.

The aura on the earth today can be divided into three qualities, heavenly spirit, earth spirit, and anti-spirit.

The medicinal herbs that grow in the environment of the earth spirit qi are the earth spirit herbs.

Chu Nan nodded suddenly.

"Is there a Heavenly Spirit Herb?"

"Heavenly Spirit Medicinal Herbs are extremely rare, and it is rumored that there are only three in our Jiang Kingdom, one of which is in the hands of the Jiang Kingdom's royal family, the other is in the hands of the North Zhong Mansion, and the last one is ...... It is owned by my Donglou Mansion, but I have not seen it, and it is one of the most important treasures of my Donglou Mansion. ”

Manager Zhou said with a sigh.

Chu Nan nodded.

These herbs grown in different environments will also have great differences in the effect of alchemy.

Good herbs can not only increase the success rate of alchemy, but also greatly improve the effectiveness of the elixir.

Traveling all the way, Chief Manager Zhou quickly took Chu Nan to the interior of this medicinal herb forest.

Over here......

A simple house was built.

Outside the house, there were many medicinal herbs planted, and before they got close, bursts of danxiang emanated from the house.

"The old situation. ”

A smile appeared on Mr. Zhou's face, and he stopped after coming to a hundred meters outside the house.

There was silence in the house, and it was a long time before an old voice, accompanied by a cough, came from the house.

"Lao Zhou, rare guest......"

With his words, the door of the house opened by itself, and it was pitch black inside, Chu Nan stood here and looked inside, but he couldn't see anything.

Soon, a tall and thin old man came out of the house, his complexion was dark, his hair was gray, but his face was sickly, and he was coughing constantly.

"Donglou Mansion, the head of the alchemy department, the ...... of the sea cliff"

Chu Nan looked at the tall and thin old man in front of him.

Before he came, Chief Manager Zhou had already told Chu Nan about the situation of the Alchemy Department.

Especially this Alchemy Department Leader Guo Haiya, who is the head of the Alchemy Department.

Although he is not the chief alchemist of the alchemy department, he is only a fourth-grade alchemist, but the other party has extremely high attainments in alchemy, even the chief alchemist of the alchemy department today, in front of the sea cliff, he also thinks of himself as a junior and does not dare to make a mistake.

At the same time, Haiya is not only a four-grade alchemist, but his cultivation is even more of a knot realm, and it is usually rare to have an alchemist who can have this kind of knot realm cultivation.

"Anyway, this time I've brought you a genius in alchemy. ”

Manager Zhou said with a smile.

"Wizards?"

Haiya shook his head and smiled, noncommittal.

He and Mr. Zhou have been friends for many years, and they know that the other party is not an alchemist, and they almost don't know anything about alchemy.

The genius in the eyes of Mr. Zhou is viewed from the perspective of their professional alchemist, but this may not be the case.

Guo Haiya's expression fell in the eyes of Manager Zhou, which immediately made him understand the other party's thoughts.

"Old man, don't believe it, you are more familiar with the Spirit Healing Pill than me, but have you ever seen the Spirit Healing Pill that can make people cultivate to a breakthrough?

Manager Zhou asked with a smile.

"The Spirit Healing Pill that makes people cultivate into a breakthrough, or does it allow the Spirit Fusion Realm to break through?"

Haiya was stunned, although his attainments in alchemy were amazing, even though he was only a fourth-grade alchemist, whether it was his experience in alchemy, his familiarity with all kinds of pills, and the pills he mastered, they were far from being comparable to ordinary four-grade alchemists.

However, in his cognition, there had never been a Spirit Healing Pill that could make a Spirit Fusion Realm cultivator directly cultivate to a breakthrough.

After all, the Lingyu Pill ......

It is a recovery-type elixir, not a strength-enhancing elixir, usually those that are known as the best Lingyu Pills are also in terms of recovery, stronger than ordinary Lingyu Pills, and will never have the effect of breaking through cultivation.

This couldn't help but make him focus his eyes on Chu Nan and look at Chu Nan carefully.

"If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have been able to believe that there were people in the world who could refine a spiritual healing ......pill that broke through cultivation," Manager Zhou sighed.

Although he is not an alchemist, he has seen a lot of elixirs, and he has a certain understanding of all kinds of elixirs.

Moreover, Sea Cliff here is even more clearly aware that under normal circumstances, the Spirit Healing Pill will not have the effect of cultivating for a breakthrough under any circumstances, unless it ...... It's Chu Nan here, who has changed the refining materials!

"You changed the refining materials?"

The sea cliff squinted slightly.

"Yes. ”

Chu Nan didn't hide this, and there was no need to hide it, so he simply said the materials he had changed.

This made the gaze of the sea cliff even deeper.

Even with his achievements in alchemy, although he was able to change the refining materials of some pills, after the change, there was no guarantee that the pills would definitely be refined.

After all, the refining of each elixir, the combination of various materials with each other, all need to be refined with different refining techniques, even if it is just a change of one material, in terms of refining, a lot of changes need to be made.

Even if it can be refined in the end, the Dan effect after refining it is likely to be not as good as before.

However, after changing the materials, Chu Nan not only succeeded in refining the elixir, but also made a huge breakthrough in the effect of the elixir.

Although Guo Haiya hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he knew that Mr. Zhou was a person, and he knew that the other party would not exaggerate the matter.

"What's your name?"

Guo Haiya stared at Chu Nan and asked.

"Fu Shuang. ”

Chu Nan replied honestly.

"Huh, your surname is Fu!"

Haiya's eyes flashed, and there was shock in his expression.

Manager Zhou on the side suddenly realized something, and his face changed, but after thinking about it carefully, he shook his head.

"Old man, you are too worried, Fu Shuang was introduced to my Donglou Mansion by Wang Lao, and you also know that Wang Lao has been guarding that prison, and Fu Shuang has lived in that prison in the past. ”

Haiya nodded.

When he thought about it, he felt that it was unlikely to be what he imagined.

Chu Nan was puzzled in his heart, this was the second time he had heard the same words.

Wang Jin also said such words earlier, which made Chu Nan realize that in the Chiyue Alliance, the surname Fu seemed to have some kind of special ......

"Old Zhou, did you bring him here on purpose to get him to join our alchemy department?" asked Guo Haiya.

Manager Zhou nodded.

"Yes, with Fu Shuang's talent in alchemy, if he can get good guidance, he may be able to let a fifth-grade alchemist appear in my Donglou Mansion again. ”

"Lao Zhou, although you are the chief manager, the rules of the Alchemy Department still cannot be broken. Guo Haiya shook his head, his expression solemn.

"Although Fu Shuang has a good presence in alchemy, if you want to join our alchemy department, you still have to follow the rules of our alchemy department and start from low......

The meaning of Haiya's words is very clear, and he will not have any special arrangements and care for Chu Nan because he is special in alchemy.

This was somewhat out of Chief Manager Zhou's expectations, he originally thought that with Chu Nan's extraordinaryness in alchemy, it would be normal for Haiya to directly accept him as a disciple here.

However, Haiya will not have any special arrangements and care for Chu Nan, and will start from a low level just like those alchemists who have just joined the alchemy department.

Although Manager Zhou couldn't understand the intention of Guo Haiya's doing this, he knew that since the other party had arranged it like this, he must have his reasons.

Said with a smile at the moment.

"The Alchemy Department has always been up to you, but don't bury your talents. ”

"You can rest assured of that. ”

Haiya nodded.

Manager Zhou comforted Chu Nan a few more words, worried that Chu Nan would be dissatisfied with the other party's arrangement.

Chu Nan was not dissatisfied with this, he could more or less see some of the other party's intentions in arranging it like this.

He refined such an amazing elixir, in the eyes of the other party, it was inevitable that there would be suspicions, I don't know if such an elixir was refined by chance, or if he really had such ability.

And the best way to test it is to let him start from low, if Chu Nan is really talented in alchemy, he will definitely be able to rise quickly.

At the same time, there are other reasons for this.

"In the past, when you were in prison, you must not have mastered many alchemy methods, but now you need to start with the most basic alchemy methods, so that's good, you belong to Chen Ze's team first. ”

As he spoke, Haiya threw a spirit bag towards Chu Nan.

After Chu Nan stretched out his hand to catch it, he opened it and saw that there was a robe, a jade slip, and some spirit stones in the bag.

The robe is the exclusive robe of the alchemist, and at present, there is only one Ding Dan furnace on the robe, representing the identity of the alchemist.

The jade slips in the spirit bag, in addition to being used to transmit sound and call, also record a lot of alchemy methods, but there is no pill recipe.

In the alchemy department of this Donglou Mansion, most of the alchemists exist in the form of teams.

Each third-grade alchemist can form a team.

Now Chu Nan was divided into one of the third-grade alchemists, Chen Ze's team.

After Guo Haiya made arrangements, Chu Nan didn't stay here too long, he could see that Guo Haiya and Manager Zhou obviously had something to discuss, so they retired immediately.

After Chu Nan left the forest, he quickly joined Dong Yuchen.

Although Dong Yuchen has now joined the Donglou Mansion with Chu Nan, his identity is just Chu Nan's medicine boy, so he can't go with Chu Nan in important places like the Herb Forest, so he can only wait outside.

And during the time when Chu Nan entered the herb forest, Dong Yuchen was not idle, he heard a lot of things, and he already had a certain degree of understanding of this alchemy department.

After the two sides reconciled, he quickly told Chu Nan all the things he had heard.

"Let's go find that Chen Ze first. ”

Chu Nan knew that although he had mastered the alchemy method in the jade slip, he did not have a pill formula, and if he wanted to obtain more pills, he could only obtain them from their respective teams.

At the same time, for the arrangement of the sea cliff, Chu Nan could vaguely feel that under this arrangement, there were other deep meanings hidden.

The specific situation needs to be known only after Chu Nan contacts Chen Ze's team.

After changing into the alchemist's robe, Chu Nan officially became a first-class alchemist in the alchemy department of Donglou Mansion, and according to the news that Dong Yuchen heard, there are nearly 100 alchemist teams in the entire alchemy department, and these teams are large and small, and there is competition between the teams.

At the same time, every alchemist team can apply for an alchemy territory belonging to the team itself in the alchemy department.

Now they only need to go to the alchemy territory of Chen Ze's team.

Immediately, Chu Nan and Dong Yuchen inquired about the alchemists in the city.

Soon he knew the location of Chen Ze's team's alchemy territory.

However, when they came to Chen Ze's team's alchemy territory, they frowned.

The alchemy territory of Chen Ze's team......

It's just a dilapidated mansion, compared to the other territories that Chu Nan and Dong Yuchen saw along the way, it is completely different.

"This ...... That's shabby......"

Dong Yuchen was speechless for a while.

Even those territories of small alchemist teams will have separate medicine fields, separate alchemy houses, separate living places, etc......

Now Chen Ze's team's territory is just a dilapidated mansion.

In the entire Donglou Mansion Alchemy Department, there is no more shabby alchemist territory than this.

Chu Nan's gaze narrowed slightly.

A scene in front of me......

made him more sure of the arrangement of the sea cliff, with ulterior motives!

When they came to the door of the house, they tried to knock on it, but they found that the door of the house was not locked at all, and they pushed it open with a light push......

In the front yard of the house, there is a deserted medicine field, the soil is dry and cracked, and there are some withered and necrotic herbs in the soil, and when the wind blows, the air is filled with a smell of rotting herbs, which is very unpleasant.

Although the medicine fields in the entire front yard are not as good as those independent medicine fields, they are also relatively open and can grow a lot of medicinal herbs, but now they are completely deserted, and I don't know how long they have not been taken care of.

"Is there anyone here?"

Such a scene made Dong Yuchen suspect that there was no one in this mansion at all.

Chu Nan didn't say a word, walked straight into the mansion, and walked towards the mansion.

His magic sense has swept through the entire mansion, and he already knows the branch of this mansion.

This house is divided into a front yard, a middle yard, and a back yard.

The front yard is a medicinal field for growing medicinal herbs, the middle yard is a place for refining elixirs, and the back yard is a residence.

Chu Nan walked all the way through the front yard, and after entering the middle courtyard, the situation here was the same as the front yard, there was a sense of ruin everywhere, and there were even cobwebs on those alchemy furnaces.

Chu Nan didn't stay here too much and came to the backyard.

In the backyard, there was a big tree in the sky, and under the big tree, there was a man with a cloak like a beggar, lying there, drinking wine.

From a long distance, you can smell the stench emanating from its body.

The arrival of Chu Nan and Dong Yuchen did not attract the slightest attention from this person, and he was still drinking.

"Your Excellency is Chen Ze Chen Danshi?"

Chu Nan took a step forward and asked seriously.