My health recovery is incredibly fast.

"By the way, darling, why don't you exchange some powerful spells? I remember you said you had six thousand... no, no, I think it was over seven thousand points. Why don't you spend some of them?"

Now it was Xia Zuo's turn to be stunned.

He stammered, "Well, I've always stayed in the academy making poisons, so I haven't been exposed to anything outside, and I haven't thought about it."

Seeing that the other party still wanted to ask more questions, Xia Zuo quickly said, "I went out for a trip this time and caught an earth elemental that suits me. I will exchange it for the Fireball spell next month."

"Really?" Anru scratched her head, feeling that her boyfriend's answer was irrelevant.

“Of course. I didn’t exchange for the spell before simply because I didn’t have the required Obedience element,” Xia Zuo explained again.

Anru tapped her chin with her index finger and nodded slowly, "Hmm...okay, that sounds about right."

“Let’s continue with dinner.” Xia Zuo touched the soup bowl. “It’s a bit cold. I’ll have my elemental servant heat it up.”

"Ding ding ding~" He rang the bell, and then Anru'er stuffed a piece of tender fried pork chop into her mouth.

Anru chewed on the juicy, fatty pork chop, no longer dwelling on the deeper reasons why her boyfriend was accumulating points.

...

From the night he returned to the academy, Xia Zuo devoted himself to refining poisons, spending his days in the large alchemy lab and his nights reading books before going to bed.

About a month later, Xia Zuo finished memorizing the textbook on the study of quirky objects.

His memory speed was so fast that even he was shocked!

On the very night I finished memorizing the last book.

Xia Zuo sat at his desk, flipped through textbooks from other subjects, and compared them with the textbook on the study of strange artifacts and alchemy. He finally understood why.

The Apprentice level of Wonderful Alchemy mainly introduces common wonder objects, raw materials, conventional hand tools, and handcrafting workbenches.

In the beginner stage, alchemists need to use a crafting table to create ordinary whimsical objects according to the design drawings.

Upon reaching the Proficient level, the study of artifacts undergoes a transformation, where extraordinary artifacts are crafted using an artifact alchemy table. At this point, a crafting diagram is required instead of a blueprint.

Regardless of the type of image, it is always a combination of graphics and text.

As long as Xia Zuo forcibly memorizes the contents of a picture and then draws it again with a pen and ruler, the cheat code will determine that he has successfully memorized it and add the picture to the [Knowledge Reserve].

This is much faster than memorizing an entire book before it's added to your "knowledge reserves".

Heaven knows how many times Xia Zuo copied the text from the book to try and understand a single point of knowledge.

It's common to have your memorization progress delayed by a few key points.

It was quite unexpected that I hadn't encountered this problem while self-studying the subject of whimsical objects.

Xia Zuo closed his book, tidied his desk, glanced at the calendar, and thought that tomorrow would be a good day to practice the new knowledge he had just learned with his tutor.

I spent the night in meditation.

The next morning, Xia Zuo and An Ru'er had breakfast together, and spent the morning and afternoon making poison.

After dinner.

Xia Zuo walked up the spiral staircase and knocked on his mentor's study door.

"Come in," Beatrice's voice came through the door.

"Professor, I'm here."

Xia Zuo stepped into the room, turned around and closed the door, then walked forward and said:

"Professor, I've memorized all the textbooks on the science of 'magic objects,' and I'd like to put them into practice tonight."

"Hmm?" Beatrice stopped the three pens in mid-air and let them float back to the pen holder.

"Have you memorized them all?" she asked, somewhat surprised.

Xia Zuo nodded, his face full of sincerity.

"They've memorized them all..." Beatrice frowned slightly, rubbing her temples as she spoke.

“In a normal teaching process, I should guide you to make ordinary objects by hand, deepen your understanding of the design drawings, help you memorize the design drawings, and engrave the design drawings in your mind, step by step, with the ultimate goal of helping you memorize and refine the design drawings... Now, you say you have memorized them... Wait a minute!”

Beatrice snapped her fingers and asked, "You've even memorized the alchemy diagram??"

“Uh…yes, Professor.” Xia Zuo blinked and shook his head up and down.

Beatrice pressed her brow, gestured to the chair opposite the desk to signal the student to sit down, and then manipulated a large roll of white paper, a pencil, and a multi-tool box to land on the table.

“I want to test you, Xia Zuo. Before 8 p.m. tonight, draw the diagram of the basic life alchemy stone.” Beatrice said, placing her fingers interlaced on the table.

As Xia Zuo sat down, he recalled the corresponding transmutation circle in his mind. "Okay, Professor. I'll draw it for you right away."

He spread the roll of white paper out into a long strip on one side of the table.

Then, with his left hand, he took a ruler from the toolbox and with his right hand, he held a pencil and measured the standard length of the alchemy circle, 1 meter, on a long strip of white paper.

Cut out the 1-meter-long piece of white paper with scissors. The next step is to draw the pattern with a pencil.

The alchemy diagram is composed of the language of alchemy.

This language has many similarities to the language of elemental patterns, and Xia Zuo memorized it in no time.

With the finished product design in his mind as a reference, he completed the line drawing of the design in just over an hour with fluent handwriting.

When Xia Zuo put down his pencil and stood with his hands on his hips admiring his drawing, he noticed that Beatrice was staring at him from across the table.

"Uh... Professor, I've finished the line drawing. I'm going to color it now." Xia Zuo shrank his neck and reached into the toolbox to grab the colored crayons.

"Hmm." Beatrice nodded, looked away, and continued to work with her pen.

Xia Zuo bent down to color the line art.

The alchemy diagram is not an artwork; it does not concern itself with artistic conception, but only with precision.

Only four colors will appear on the image: red, brown, cyan, and light blue. Each color corresponds to a type of elemental servant.

If blueprints guide alchemists, then transmutation diagrams guide elemental servants, who are called transmutation servants.

The patterns and lines on the alchemy diagram look complex and diverse, nested in circles, like randomly drawn doodles.

However, in the process of creating a language, each graphic has its own meaning, and thus a corresponding color.

Xia Zuo first used a red crayon to color in all the red shapes—this was the most common color.

Next came brown, cyan, and the least abundant aquamarine.

When the wall clock struck 8 p.m., Xia Zuo finally completed the alchemy diagram assigned by his mentor.

No, it's not finished.

There's still one step left—the rubbing process—that hasn't been done.

Xia Zuo scratched the back of his head and asked, "Professor, should I transfer this transmutation diagram onto the adhesive paper?"

Upon hearing this, Beatrice put down her pen, got up, walked around the desk, and came to examine the transmutation diagram closely.

She crossed her arms, her eyes slowly scanning the transmutation diagrams covered in four colors, her full chest heaving noticeably as she exhaled slowly.

"Xia Zuo, have you found it easier to memorize these images than words?"

Xia Zuo nodded, spread his hands, and said, "Yes, Professor. I've discovered that."

“It seems Kulov was right.” Beatrice paused, looked at the student with a puzzled expression, and continued:

"It is indeed your experience in the cave that has severely damaged your spiritual ocean. Otherwise, with your original level, you would have been fully capable of entering the field of elemental representation."

"???" Xia Zuo tilted his head back, his face full of question marks.

Beatrice raised the corners of her mouth, a hopeful smile appearing on her face.

"However, it's not too late to learn elemental representation later. The three branches of magical alchemy are interconnected at the expert level. I believe you can advance to the expert level."

"Expert level?" Xia Zuo muttered, wondering why his mentor was so sure he could become an expert-level artifact alchemist.

"Hmm. That's right. I originally thought your exceptional memory was limited to memorizing text. Now it seems..."

Beatrice raised a hand to lightly stroke her chin, pacing a few steps in front of the meter-long transmutation diagram. "You can even draw the transmutation diagram for a basic life alchemy stone without a single mistake. Having you handcraft intricate objects would be a waste of time..."

Beatrice pondered for a few seconds and said, "I intend to promote you to the advanced level of skilled crafts alchemist."

Skipping two levels? Jumping straight to the proficient level? Xia Zuo's eyes widened.

If what Beatrice said is true, and the teaching content before the proficient level is just to make students memorize blueprints and transmutation diagrams, then it is indeed possible to skip directly to the proficient level.

Despite having a mentor's endorsement, Xia Zuo still found it hard to believe that he would be promoted in this way.

Beatrice glanced at the wall clock. "It's getting late. Come to my study tomorrow evening. We'll practice in the Alchemy Lab and see if a breakthrough promotion is feasible."

"Yes, Professor. I'll go and rest now."

Xia Zuo nodded, tidied up his mentor's desk, and then waved goodbye.

Chapter 23 The Mysterious Alchemy Table (Bonus Chapter for Donations)

The next morning.

Xia Zuo and An Ru'er had breakfast together, encouraging each other to start a new day.

The daytime was spent refining poison, and before they knew it, it was evening.

After dinner, Xia Zuo escorted Anruer into the potion alchemy area, and then went to the tower.

Beatrice knew her student was always punctual, so she timed her exit from the study and bumped into Xia Zuo as he walked into the corridor.

The two walked deeper into the corridor and stopped in front of a metal door at the end.

The words "Alchemy Chamber of Wonders" are carved on the door panel.

Beatrice used the key to open the metal door, stepped inside, and snapped her fingers to turn on the alchemical lamps in the Oddity Alchemy Chamber.

The Alchemy of Wonders is an independent system of alchemy.

Its alchemical apparatus, tools, raw materials, and products differed significantly from those of pharmaceutical, poison, and oil alchemy.

For example, alchemical crucibles.

The crucible used in drug refining is a metal container that does not react with the toxins.

The crucible of the strange alchemy has a pitted and uneven surface with small holes and patterns on its outer wall. It looks like some kind of rough stone material, but it can withstand very high furnace temperatures.