My health recovery is incredibly fast.

Both the starting point of the research and the alchemical products are related to raw materials, so it is classified as basic alchemy.

It is worth mentioning that the branch of bioalchemy—biomaterials science—also falls into this category.

This subject involves processing monster materials.

Its raw materials will no longer be limited to gentle monsters.

Even the giant whales that live deep underwater are on its list of research subjects.

When Xia Zuo read the introduction to biological materials science, he rubbed his chin, covering half of his face, concealing the strange expression on his face with a thoughtful look.

Judging from the few words in the introduction...

The Biological Materials Society deals with the essence of monsters.

The refining method it used was surprisingly similar to that of magic alchemy.

Both methods require familiarity with the habits of monsters to cultivate monster materials of perfect quality.

The difference between the two lies in the handling of monster materials.

Magical alchemy involves blending various parts of a monster together to create an essence potion.

During this process, not a single part of the monster will be removed; even its hard skull will be ground into fine powder and melted into the boiling slurry.

Biological material science takes a different approach to extraction.

The specific operating methods are unknown, and the introduction to alchemy in the booklet does not provide further details.

Only one term was mentioned—"elementalization".

The introduction states that elementalization can be simply understood as "being tainted with elemental traces," and this alchemical operation is also known as elemental dyeing.

The alchemical approach of bio-alchemy involves transforming substances that do not contain elemental traces into alchemical raw materials that do contain elemental traces, and then using alchemical techniques from different schools of alchemy to process them.

Biomaterials science is responsible for cultivating monsters, refining their essence using dyeing methods, or processing other alchemical products into raw materials needed for bioalchemy.

Bio-Alchemy is responsible for using the raw materials provided by Biomaterials Science to refine various alchemical products that conform to the laws of the Mage Temple.

These two are branches of bioalchemy that only appear at the master level.

This concludes the introduction to the 20 alchemical disciplines of the Alchemy School.

Xia Zuo pondered for a few minutes and first ruled out basic alchemy other than biological materials science.

The reason is simple...

Although any major breakthrough in basic alchemy could trigger a major change in related alchemy.

However... these alchemical studies are too boring.

It can be said that no matter what discipline it is, as long as it is associated with the word "fundamentals", it will definitely have a huge amount of knowledge points, a large number of repeated experiments, and extremely difficult challenges.

The profit curve for basic alchemy is quite distorted.

Normally, the returns are zero, or even negative.

Once a key threshold is breached, the returns tend towards positive infinity.

The time cost of this distorted revenue curve is something Xia Zuo cannot afford.

After removing 10 basic alchemy disciplines, Xia Zuo also removed the discipline of giant creation.

He was finding it difficult to choose when faced with the remaining nine options.

Elemental representation is directly related to elemental bodies. Choosing to study this alchemy might allow you to condense elemental bodies more quickly and effectively.

Moreover, this subject is the main focus of the study of magical artifacts; choosing the study of ingenious objects or the study of giant creations is not as good as choosing the study of elemental representation.

Pharmacopoeia and poison alchemy are closely related, with the latter's products being used to create medicines.

Weapon alchemy and oil alchemy have relatively low priority.

As for poison alchemy... well... if you really can't decide, using both study opportunities to study poison alchemy and do two months of practical training is not an unacceptable option.

Bio-alchemy is the subject that Xia Zuo hesitates about the most.

If it weren't for Sylvia's earlier advice to think things through calmly, Xia Zuo would likely have chosen alchemy directly to obtain materials for crafting monsters, properly arming his Blood Element servants in Stillwater Town, and thus achieving his goal of grinding experience.

But now, his resolve has wavered.

There are two main reasons.

First, the raw materials for bio-alchemy primarily come from biomaterials science. These raw materials, after undergoing elementalization processing, are rich in elemental traces.

This shows that biotransformation also relies on elemental traces to function.

The monster materials from Stillwater don't contain any elemental traces, so biotransformation techniques might not work there.

Secondly, Xia Zuo was eyeing the monster alchemy manual of the bearded alchemist Aganna.

As long as one finds an opportunity to copy his Bone Sac Alchemy and Flesh Alchemy, one can also find a way to arm Blood Element Servants.

Therefore, biotransformation is no longer a high priority.

Just as Xia Zuo was pondering this, Sylvia said softly:

"If you find it difficult to decide, I have a suggestion."

Xia Zuo snapped out of his daze and looked into the other person's green eyes.

“Master Adanavados was also present when you were being tested by the Temple’s expedition a few years ago. If you are going to study poison alchemy, he should be your mentor. You might as well ask him for his opinion.”

“Uh…” Xia Zuo was taken aback. “But I don’t have Master Adanavados’s secret communication ring.”

“Just write a letter.” Sylvia took a piece of stationery and a sealed brown envelope from the drawer.

She pushed the letter and pen in front of Xia Zuo, "After you finish writing, I will take it to the Temple Camp, and they will pass it on to Master Adanavados for you."

“Okay, thank you, Sylvia.” Xia Zuo picked up his pen and began to consider his words.

...

10 o'clock in the morning.

Xia Zuo and Anruer were waiting for Sylvia to return in the office.

Sylvia then took Xia Zuo's letter and left to deliver it to the Mage Temple's outpost near Poseidon City.

Xia Zuo did not know where the temple's stronghold was.

After arriving in Poseidon City, he passed by the temple guards who came to deal with the Blood Demon several times, without ever seeing their faces.

Their attire was likely similar to that of Nina, the Secret Chosen Apprentice whom I had met a few times; they wore alchemical equipment resembling that of the Fourth Age, making them look like people who had come from the previous era.

Out of caution, although he was very curious about the location of the temple stronghold, Xia Zuo wisely refrained from placing a blood mark on Sylvia to spy on her secrets.

After watching Sylvia leave, he and Anruer stood by the bay window, watching the pedestrians coming and going below, and chatted idly to pass the time.

“I guess Master Adanavardos wouldn’t recommend you study the three disciplines of artifact alchemy,” Anru said thoughtfully, crossing her arms and stroking her chin.

"Why?" Xia Zuo asked, blinking.

Anru'er's lips trembled slightly. After thinking for a moment, she decided it was better to say it in her heart.

“When I worked at the Energy Research Institute, I spent most of my time in deep meditation, and sometimes I would wander around to see what other people were doing.”

Anru touched the hair behind her ear and murmured:

"Well... how should I put it... my colleagues are all master-level elemental figurative artists, and each of them has studied alchemy at the temple."

"When they're at work, they cast a light-dancing spell, summoning many beams of light two or three meters long. Then they adjust the thickness and brightness of each beam to a suitable level, and make each beam continuously change its brightness at a specific frequency..."

"I estimate that this is the knowledge that will be taught when you enter the temple to study the materialization of elements."

Anru snapped her fingers and thought to herself, "Ah~ that's right!"

She pointed to the pendant under her collar, "They shrink the constantly changing light and finally collect it in a crystal container. The crystal looks similar to the small element, but it only has 4 to 6 facets, which is 2 to 4 fewer facets than the small element."

"What would they do with the crystal containers?" Shazamer asked.

“Well… I don’t know.” Anru’er shook her head, her gaze drifting to the window. “The work group I joined specializes in making these crystal containers. The crystal containers that are made during work hours are taken away by designated personnel and sent to other work groups. Moreover, I can only move around within a designated area and cannot go to the office areas of other work groups.”

"I see..." Xia Zuo muttered to himself.

This was expected.

The numerous research groups in the Posing Building operate in the same way. They maintain a state of independence from each other, but follow a unified command, focusing only on completing their assigned research tasks.

This not only improves overall operational efficiency but also ensures that classified information is not leaked. If someone intends to explore secrets, they will be easily identified due to the system's mechanisms.

Thinking of this, Xia Zuo silently reminded himself, "Don't inquire about other jobs because of me. It would be terrible if the supervisor caught you. Besides, I'm not really curious about what they would do with crystal containers."

“Mmm!” An Ru’er nodded. “Don’t worry, I’ve been behaving myself at the research institute.”

Xia Zuo smiled and wanted to pinch the other person's cheek, but since this was Sylvia's office, it would be inappropriate to do so, so he rubbed his own chin instead.

...

Outside the glass partition of the office, Sylvia walked from the end of the corridor, holding a letter in her hand.

Xia Zuo and An Ru'er sat back down in their chairs.

Sylvia closed the door and placed the letter in front of Shazo. "This is Master Adanavados's reply. Take a look."

Shazor's first mentor, Kulov, once mentioned that Master Adanavados had lived for at least a thousand years and was born in a country that has been lost to the annals of history.

The advice given by such a powerful and cunning expert, a master of poison alchemy, was essentially the decision to set Xia Zuo's second course of study.

Biological materials science.

Huh? Why is it this?

Xia Zuo scratched his head.

Biological materials science was also within his considerations, but to a relatively low degree, and was ranked last.

Constrained by the rules of the Temple of the Masters, Master Adanavados did not reveal more details in the letter; his exact words were as follows:

A biomaterialist must first become a master-level poison alchemist before they can be promoted to a master-level biomaterialist.

Xia Zuo recalled a piece of information from the promotion assessment handbook:

Each successful completion of a master-level advancement test in alchemy grants the student an opportunity to study at the Temple.

Xia Zuo is now a master-level poison alchemist.

He was far ahead of other alchemists in terms of biomaterials and could advance to the master level in a much shorter time.