I Became the Alchemy Master by Picking Up Trash-Chapter 56 - 55: The Maverick Path

Ye Qingting returned home, and the first thing he did was to visit his grandfather.

"Qingtian, you’re back." Ye Chun waved away the servants, leaving only his trusted Housekeeper Hu and his grandson, Ye Qingting.

Ye Chun was over a hundred years old but appeared to be just in his thirties, sporting a short beard, and had a dignified appearance.

"How is it? Any progress?"

After his grandson got injured, Ye Chun was so worried his hair fell out in clumps. Apart from his deep familial affection, the tangled web of benefits between noble families was so intertwined that even a small incident could cause a significant impact.

Many of the Ye Family’s businesses leveraged his grandson’s influence. If anything happened to him, the blow to the Ye Family would be enormous. The family his grandson belonged to was even more powerful than the Ye Family, with broader connections, so the news of his grandson’s injury had been kept under wraps.

No matter how anxious Ye Chun was, he dared not openly purchase Spirit Fruits in the market and could only send trustworthy people to find them discreetly.

"Grandfather, I went to Datang City and found quite a few."

"That’s wonderful! The previous batches of Spirit Fruits were not very effective. Your uncle and I went to the Heaven-Reaching Tower, found a recipe in ancient texts that might be effective for your cousin. Your batch of Spirit Fruits came just in time, quickly take them out!"

"Uh..."

Ye Qingting was in a dilemma. If he had known his grandfather had found an ancient recipe, he would have brought back the other half of the Spirit Fruits Li Xing had left. 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦

Why hadn’t his grandfather informed him ahead of such a significant trip to the Heaven-Reaching Tower?

"I didn’t bring the Spirit Fruits back."

"Not brought back? What happened?" Ye Chun’s face darkened. He found them but didn’t bring them back; what was Ye Qingting up to?

Ye Qingting: "In Datang City, I encountered an amateur Healing Master with remarkable talent in pharmacology, so I made a unilateral decision to have her make the Spirit Fruits into medicine. What I brought back is the finished product."

"You! You, you, you—foolish!"

Ye Chun was so angry that he slapped his thigh. Was this his clever and wise grandson? How could they trust the level of an amateur Healing Master!

Ye Chun’s cheeks flushed red with anger. The more he thought, the angrier he got, and he slammed his palm onto the solid wood table, causing it to crack:

"What amateur Healing Masters, they’re all just back-alley practitioners! Because of the stringent conditions for entry, there are fewer and fewer qualified Healing Masters, so those with some talent in alchemy but lack the qualifications brazenly call themselves amateur Healing Masters. Lacking the essential skills of Healing Power and Purification, yet having the audacity to form a sect with just alchemy?

Hmph! Healing Masters are just Healing Masters, where is there a distinction between amateur and professional! Playing word games to cover their incompetence! Thanks to the rule of law, they get to jump around freely among the folks; had it been hundreds of years ago, they’d be swindlers everyone’d chase down, not even comparable to ordinary doctors, calling for execution once caught!

Finding an amateur Healing Master to make medicine, you might as well throw the Spirit Fruit into a foul gutter! Lao Hu, you tell me, what nonsense has he done?"

Housekeeper Hu quickly advised, "Master, don’t get angry. Young Master Qingtian isn’t thoughtless; he must have his reasons for doing so. Why not listen to his explanation first?" Housekeeper Hu, being close to Ye Qingting, couldn’t bear to see him scolded and urgently signaled him with his eyes.

Ye Qingting knew Ye Chun would definitely oppose his decision, as he also hadn’t thought highly of amateur Healing Masters before meeting Li Xing.

Ye Qingting: "Grandfather, I am a member of the Ye Family. Even if I am not a Healing Master, I do have discernment. I can distinguish the level of alchemy proficiency."

Ye Chun was silent but admitted in his heart. Although Ye Qingting didn’t have the Primordial Spirit qualification for a Healing Master, growing up by his side, he was perceptive and not easy to deceive.

Ye Qingting: "I can vouch for her skills and talent in alchemy are absolutely on par with my uncle."

"You’re insane!"

Ye Chun could hardly believe his ears. His eldest son was the Ye Family’s most advanced Healing Master after him, at the eleventh level of the Earth Rank, just two levels shy of advancing to the Heaven Rank.

Had Ye Qingting gone mad, or developed a tumor in his brain, to compare a back-alley practitioner to a near Heaven Rank Healing Master?

Just as Ye Chun was about to start yelling again, Ye Qingting cleverly produced a bottle of Spirit Fruit Powder, offering it to Ye Chun with both hands.

"If grandfather doesn’t believe it, see for yourself, this is the medicine she made."

Ye Chun’s first instinct was to smash the bottle into pieces, but he couldn’t bear it. Spirit Fruits were becoming increasingly scarce, and even if ruined by a back-alley hack, there might still be potential for component extraction and reuse, so he suppressed his anger and carefully examined the contents after opening the bottle.

As he continued to inspect it, Ye Chun sensed something was off.

Having interacted so much with Spirit Fruit concoctions over the past few months, he could immediately tell that not only was the medicinal property preserved in this powder, but it was also fully realized, with the addition of several unknown herbs that made it gentler and more easily absorbed.

The more he observed, the more astonished he became, even rubbing some powder with his little fingernail to taste it, his eyes brightening with each taste.

"This—was this really made by a back-alley practitioner? Qingtian, you didn’t lie to your grandfather, did you?"

"Qingtian wouldn’t dare."

"What kind of Primordial Spirit does this person have?"

"Grade A Fire Elemental Spirit, without spiritual power."

Ye Chun held the bottle, his expression changing unpredictably.

Qingtian wasn’t wrong; he didn’t know about other aspects, but in terms of the purification of the medicine and controlling the timing of preparation, this person was indeed better than his eldest son.

The fire used to concoct the medicine could very likely be her elemental fire. Mastering the timing might not be difficult, but without a Wood Element Spirit, how was she perceiving the changes in medicinal properties?

Could it be that even among those without Wood Element Spirits, there were talents with such natural ability? This, this is unbelievable!

Seeing Ye Chun remain silent, Ye Qingting dropped another bomb.

"Grandfather, she took only four hours to prepare the medicine."

"What—!"

Ye Chun himself was a Healing Master; he knew all too well how difficult it was to speed up the preparation process, but Ye Qingting was the grandson he personally raised, and he knew better than anyone if he was lying.

No matter how unbelievable this might be, it was an indisputable fact; the excellently made medicine bottle in his hand broke all records with its swift completion.

The things proper Healing Masters couldn’t achieve, a back-alley practitioner managed to pull off, making Ye Chun feel as though the world had glitched.

"Ah, having lived comfortably for too long, I have become a frog at the bottom of the well, unaware of the talent abundance in the world, with one mountain always higher than another." Ye Chun carefully closed the lid, sighed, and handed the Spirit Fruit Powder to Housekeeper Hu.

"Qingtian, you did very well in this matter. That back-alley—uh, amateur Healing Master, you must win him over; money and goods, don’t let him lack anything. Whatever he needs, just let Housekeeper Hu know, as long as it’s not excessive, the Ye Family will fully support you in building a good relationship with him!"

"If he is willing to work for the Ye Family, you can offer him the status of Honored Guest Elder, equivalent to other Honored Guest Elders in the Ye Family."

Ye Chun really wanted to meet this person, but he couldn’t completely rid his heart of the disdain for amateur Healing Masters. Besides, truly skilled people usually had peculiar personalities, having grown used to a life of freedom, possibly unwilling to be constrained by a family. It’s better to have his grandson win this person over and proceed gradually.