Chapter Thirty-Six: Night Talk

  Outside the Tiancai Casino, Chen Le looked at the 50 gold cards in his hand (each card worth 10,000 gold coins, actually a kind of check) and sneered to himself: "Do you really think I'm an idiot? Can't I see through such a simple trick?"

  Vivian looked at Chen Le who was standing with his back to her, sneering coldly. She was terrified in her heart and stood there carefully, afraid of disturbing Chen Le.

  Chen Le turned his head and looked at Vivian, feeling a warmth in his heart, then smiled and said: "Take me to see your little brother."

  Vivian's heart was like a deer running wildly, her face red as she said: "Sir, it's getting late, let's talk about it tomorrow."

  Chen Le looked at the sky with plum blossoms on the moon and also felt that it was getting late. He nodded and said, "Okay, tomorrow I have to prepare for the auction, so I won't be able to see your brother. The day after tomorrow, I should be able to find someone to rescue your brother."

  Vivian's tears rolled down her face, she didn't know why Chen Le was so dedicated to helping her, Chen Le also saw her confusion, he smiled and said: "I just see the past me in you."

  Chen Le thought for a moment, handed over a gold card to Vivian, and then left without looking back.

  I am YD.

  The Divine Inn

  "About time you're back, kid." Connor lay on the horizontal beam supporting the entrance of the Divine Warrior Inn, his eyes slanted sideways, with a bottle of wine and a plate of meat beside him.

  Chen Le couldn't help but laugh at the situation and said: "You, who were once the number one killer on the mainland, are now acting like this. Aren't you afraid of being ridiculed by others?"

  Kang Na jumped down from the beam and laughed, saying: "What am I afraid of? And you said it was once the first continent, so what."

  Chen Le looked at this guy who used to dream of taking him as an apprentice, now acting like a little kid, and couldn't help but think of how he cried like a tearful person last night.

  Connor let out a heavy sigh and said, "Thanks to you, this afternoon when I came back, I found that there were no less than 20 waves of people who wanted to visit you while we were away. After I came back, there were no less than 30 waves of people visiting you again. I really think that the profession of alchemist is a monster. I've been running the Divine Fist Inn for so many years, and never have I had so many visitors. And yet, you only appeared in public once, and yet so many people came to find you."

  Chen Le smiled and said: "Don't worry, I've been practicing hard for so many years myself."

  Kang Na looked up at the bright moon in the sky and then spread his arms to bask in the moonlight. He closed his eyes and said, "Can you tell me about your past?"

  Chen Le felt that he needed a background, so he looked at the moon and said: "I don't know who my parents are. In my memory, there is only one grandfather who took me to live in seclusion among the beastmen. He passed away when I was three years old. So I worked hard to become an apothecary."

  Connor looked at Chen Le in astonishment, knowing what it took to become a pharmacist. But he couldn't believe that a three-year-old child could endure so much suffering.

  Chen Le smiled, his smile very sorrowful: "When I was three years old, I encountered a large adventure team. The team had an alchemist, who let me help him because I was small and clever. He would ask me to deliver bottles or fetch medicine, but I secretly learned from him... after all, everyone knows what an alchemist looks like! Later, until I was nine years old, the adventure team encountered the Tiger Clan of the Beastman Empire and was annihilated... I barely escaped."

  Connor handed Chen Le a glass of wine and fell silent.

  Chen Le drank it all in one gulp, then said: "Later, I came to a giant demon tribe, but I didn't expect that the tribe had an intermediate alchemist, and that alchemist also took me as his apprentice."

  Chen Le took out an ancient gold coin from his bosom and said, "He accepted me as his apprentice and taught me how to learn to be a pharmacist. However, the good times didn't last long, he died when I was 13 years old, and this gold coin is his only legacy. The ogre tribe also allowed me to stay in the ogre tribe because of our master-apprentice relationship and provided me with a large amount of medicinal materials for practice."

  Chen Le retrieved his gold coins and walked towards the main gate of the inn, saying: "Then I had some strange encounters that caused my alchemy skills to advance by leaps and bounds."

  Chen Le walked into the Dou Shen Inn, leaving Connor still there lost in thought.

  Inside Dou Shen Inn

  Chen Le Gang had just stepped through the fifth gate when he saw a group of his own slaves, Alice and Mondo standing in front of the sixth gate.

  They walked over and respectfully called out: "Master!"

  Chen Le nodded and said: "Lei Ao.Hard! Lich mage! Mondo also come in! The rest of you arrange yourselves."

  Lei Ao Hade, the necromancer, bowed and then walked into Chen Le's room.

  Chen Le walked into the room and looked at Mondo sitting upright, then smiled and said: "Don't be so tense, relax."

  But Mondo's expression was still a bit awkward, Chen Le felt that he had no way out.

  He walked into the midst of the three and said: "This time I called you here is just for us to get along well with each other in the future."

  "Provided you show me the respect due a knight, I have no objection to serving as your attendant."

  Chen Le smiled and said: "I can give you the respect that a knight should have, but I hope that in the future you will do your best to assist me. Of course, I won't let you do anything that goes against the spirit of a knight."

  "Ah, your majesty!" Rayo Hadd said humbly, going down on one knee.

  Chen Le heard the two words "Wang Shang" and also smiled. He didn't expect that this newly recruited knight would guess his own ambition.

  Chen Le looked at the peaceful expression of the deceased Spirit Master and felt that this guy was a bit like Ding Fei, because their smiles were identical.

  The necromancer's face was very pale, perhaps due to long-term contact with the undead, making himself also become like the undead.

  Chen Le looked at him slowly and said: "Lich mage, aren't you going to introduce yourself?"

  The lich mage smiled and bowed with a noble gesture, saying: "Greetings, my revered master. Your humble servant Fizz offers you his most sincere respects."

  Chen Le thought that if he hadn't known this guy was a necromancer, he might have thought the guy was a noble.

  "Chen Le asked: 'What level of necromancer are you?'"

  "Master, I was once a 9th-level necromancer, but I offended a noble of the Tianchao Empire and was pursued and killed. As a result, I lost my magical powers."

  Chen Le was puzzled and asked: "How did you lose your magic power, what does it have to do with being hunted?"

  Fayi's voice became somewhat low and he said coldly: "Because of a bishop, he used the sacred level magic Dark Seal on me!"

  "What's the effect of Dark Sealing Magic?"

  Faye smiled wryly and said, "Dark Sealing was originally the ultimate magic used by the Pope, but some ninth-level Light Priests can forcibly cast it with the help of certain light-based divine artifacts."

  Chen Le asked in puzzlement, "I think the backlash from that bishop using such magic shouldn't be small, but what exactly did you do to offend this bishop that he's willing to pay such a heavy price to eliminate you?"

  Fitz smiled and said: "I killed his son, a beast who oppressed the common people."

  Chen Le patted Fei Zhi's shoulder and said: "How can we lift that dark seal?"

  Fei Zong's smile was very miserable: "Only by finding a broken mirror-level alchemist to refine the Dark Sacred Medicine can we avoid sacrifice! But it's not easy to find a broken mirror-level alchemist! Throughout the entire continent, there is only one person, the president of the Alchemists' Guild, and I don't have anything that can make him help me refine this medicine!"

  Chen Le burst out laughing: "Who said that there's only one broken mirror level alchemist on the entire continent?"

  Fey said hesitantly: "Is there someone else? But I think I also don't have the ability to pay a sufficient price for him to refine the forbidden sacrifice."

  "No no no, you don't need to pay anything."

  Fey saw hope and said: "Master, why say so?"

  Chen Le smiled and said: "I am a pill alchemist! And I am a broken mirror level pill alchemist!"

  Fei couldn't believe his eyes as he stared at his new master. He just couldn't convince himself to believe it, his new master was too young.

  "What does it take to prohibit sacrifice?"

  "Ten thousand year old dry bones, nine-grade magic crystal, dark spirit cloth."

  Chen Le thought for a moment and recalled: "These things should be very evil."

  Fey said: "In these years, I only found nine-level magic crystal, Wan Nian Ku Gu and Yin Ling Bu, I haven't got any news yet."

  "Alright, you guys go first, let's gather again tomorrow night."

  Fei Zhi, Lei Ao Ha De and Mondo bowed together, then all retreated.

  Chen Le sat on the cold iron chair and muttered to himself: "Is everything behind the light darkness?"