’Alchemists really are a money-burning profession. Renting an Alchemy Room is so expensive, a regular new student would probably go bankrupt!’

’Good thing I cleaned out the Ape Race’s wine collection. I’m reasonably wealthy now. Otherwise, with what I had six months ago, even renting a simple Alchemy Room would’ve been a struggle!’

After a moment of thought, Qin Feng looked up and said, "Miss, I’d like one Xuan-level Alchemy Room."

"Of course!" The black-robed apprentice girl took out a beast hide form.

Name, affiliated academy, intended rental period.

Qin Feng filled it out column by column, pausing when he reached the rental period.

He mused that using the Alchemist Guild’s Alchemy Room to complete the Refinement of the Heaven-Burning Fire Seed shouldn’t take too long.

Just in case, however, with a stroke of his pen, Qin Feng wrote down thirty days.

Thirty days—nine hundred Points! Qin Feng winced at the number.

The next column was for Alchemist Level.

Seeing this, Qin Feng hesitated slightly before lightly writing "Level Zero."

The black-robed apprentice girl had been watching his pen. She froze at the sight, her small, crimson lips parting in surprise.

"Sir, you’re not an Alchemist?"

The girl scoffed inwardly. ’If you’re not an Alchemist, why are you renting an Alchemy Room? Is this some kind of joke?’

’Is he here to just experience the life of an Alchemist?’

Qin Feng glanced at her and asked in return, "Why? Is there a rule here that says non-Alchemists can’t rent an Alchemy Room?"

The apprentice girl looked at Qin Feng with a complicated expression in her large eyes.

’It’s rare to see a senior brother this thick-skinned.’

After a long moment of hesitation, she bit her lower lip and said, "Since you insist on renting the Alchemy Room, Sir, please show me your Points Card."

Qin Feng casually took out his upgraded Seven-Color Glaze Points Card.

A seven-colored brilliance pulsed from the thin, crystalline Points Card. The dazzling light left the black-robed apprentice girl in a daze.

’It’s actually a Seven-Color Glaze Points Card!’

’Isn’t that a Points Card that only some Elders and top geniuses can possess?’

It was said that only after spending over one hundred thousand points would a Gold Card be upgraded to a Seven-Color Glaze Points Card.

Slightly dumbfounded, a strange look flashed in the apprentice girl’s eyes as she thought, ’No wonder. To think he has a Seven-Color Glaze Points Card.’

’Sigh... a fool with more points than sense.’

Her outward expression became much more respectful. She took Qin Feng’s Seven-Color Glaze Points Card, carefully deducted nine hundred Points, and soon returned it to him.

"Senior Brother Qin Feng, this is the token for Room C-17! If you follow this hallway and take a left after a short walk, you’ll see a series of C-grade Alchemy Rooms. You should be able to find it easily."

Qin Feng, unaware of the girl’s private thoughts, accepted the token she handed him.

The token was made of a strange material, feeling like neither gold, nor jade, nor wood to the touch.

Qin Feng’s eyes shifted slightly. He could see traces of an Array inscribed by an Inscription Master on the token.

Under the girl’s head-shaking gaze, Qin Feng set off, following her directions down a corridor.

After several hundred paces, Qin Feng could clearly feel the Fire Attribute Spiritual Energy in the air growing denser.

The stone rooms here were distributed in a pattern resembling the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams.

GURGLE GURGLE!

As he passed through a gallery, Qin Feng heard the strange sound of bubbles popping. The temperature was rising, high enough that a raw egg would cook.

Hurrying forward a few steps, a terrifying lava pool appeared before his eyes. Crimson lava surged and roiled within the pool, a truly fearsome sight.

A blast of hot wind rushed toward him, but before it could get close, a faint, crimson Spiritual Light on Qin Feng’s body soared into the air like a Spiritual Serpent and swallowed it whole.

The Sun Spirit Vein swallowing this wisp of Fire Attribute Spiritual Energy was a small but welcome supplement.

Qin Feng’s eyes lit up. The density of the Fire Attribute Spiritual Qi here was not the least bit inferior to that of a High-Level Fire Attribute Spirit Mountain!

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H.

Qin Feng looked at the stone signs, found the directions for the C-grade Alchemy Rooms, and headed toward number seventeen.

Room C-1, Room C-2...

He walked deeper inside, and after about a hundred paces, a tall stone room appeared before him.

Room C-17!

Looking at the stone door, Qin Feng’s gaze shifted. He raised his hand and pressed the C-17 token into a token-shaped indentation on the door.

RUMBLE!

The stone door vibrated and rumbled open.

Qin Feng stepped inside, flipping over the sign on the door before he entered.

"Do Not Disturb!"

The Alchemy Room was enormous and felt quite spacious. The expert who designed it was clearly well-versed in the arcane arts of geomancy.

In the center stood a massive, three-legged bronze cauldron. Beneath it, crimson Earth Fire blazed fiercely, and a scorching heat washed over anyone who drew near.

The force of this heat was no weaker than a casual strike from a warrior of the Martial Arts Twelve Heavens.

The copper tripod was connected to an underground Fire Vein, continuously channeling the Earth Fire.

A few Fire Bricks were placed beneath the cauldron to filter out the violent Evil Qi from the Earth Fire.

Along the stone walls were numerous niches for storing elixirs. At a glance, they were arranged in exceptionally neat and orderly rows.

Not far from the Alchemy Furnace, Qin Feng found a purple cattail cushion woven from Concentration Grass.

As he stepped into the Alchemy Room, a rich and abundant wave of Spiritual Qi washed over him. He took a shallow breath, and a fiery sensation filled his lungs.

’The Fire Attribute Spiritual Qi is so abundant! It’s not the least bit inferior to some Seventh Level Fire Attribute Spirit Mountain Blessed Lands. If a Xuan-level Alchemy Room is already like this, I can’t imagine what the Earth-level Fire Attribute Spirit Mountain Blessed Land and Heavenly Attribute Spirit Mountain Blessed Land must be like.’

’But looking at it this way, those nine hundred Points were well spent!’

With that thought, Qin Feng’s figure flickered, and in the next moment, he appeared on the cushion, sitting cross-legged.

After regulating his breath for about thirty minutes, Qin Feng cleared his mind of stray thoughts and began this session of closed-door cultivation for Condensing Vein.

The secrets of Condensing Vein from the Mixed Element Star Technique appeared in his mind.

The text of the Circulation Five Elements Meridian Condensation Method flowed through his thoughts.

The Heavenly Dao Level Star True Power in his body began to circulate, with strands of it enveloping the plundered Heaven-Burning Blood Flame Seed. He began the Refinement of this exceptionally precious fire seed.

The Heaven-Burning Blood Flame was extraordinarily rare. It was the Lifebound Flame of the Ancient True Spirit, the Heaven-Burning Finch, and ranked extremely high among the many powerful flames.

If its full potential could be unleashed, it could burn mountains and boil seas with ease.

Qin Feng sat cross-legged, his entire Spiritual Consciousness focused between his palms. His ten fingers intertwined, rapidly forming one profound Seal Technique after another.

Inside his body, the Star True Power transformed with each Seal Technique, becoming strange Runes imbued with a mysterious power.

Within each strange Rune, the Heaven-Burning Blood Flame Seed began to transform. It was condensed, stretched, and twisted, following a trajectory so profound it defied explanation.

「Several hours later.」

A blood-red, burning Spirit Vein appeared within Qin Feng’s body.

A blood-red flame soared into the air from his body. It was the color of blood and carried a Destructive Power that seemed to devour all living things.

Between Qin Feng’s palms, the bending and straightening of his five fingers reached their absolute limit, then froze in an instant.

At the same time, a wisp of blood-red flame appeared between his hands.

The Heaven-Burning Blood Flame.

This was the second powerful flame Qin Feng had mastered after the True Sun Fire.