Let Me Explain, Fairy
Chapter 855 - 536: Heart Riot

Chapter 855: Chapter 536: Heart Riot

Bai Muxi was still dressed in her figure-hugging purple chiffon gown, a scarf covering her well-kept, fair features, standing sideways to the door, seemingly unaware of the arrival of Xu Yuan and the three others as she continued to focus on the task at hand.

Following her gaze, Xu Yuan saw three miniature formations in operation at the center of the pharmaceutical room.

The glowing formation patterns engraved on the floor emitted light that formed a hovering dust in the air, supporting three globs of dark brown liquid mid-air, though the objects wrapped inside the liquid were indistinct.

Xu Yuan was about to step forward when Lou Ji’s voice suddenly stopped him, with a teasing tone:

"Changtian, if you walk in there like that, you might just drop dead."

Xu Yuan raised an eyebrow and looked back in confusion.

Lou Ji smiled slightly and explained:

"The process of adjusting new medications often produces various strange and toxic gases. Although there are specific formation patterns designed to cleanse these gases, there are always some residues left behind. After so many years of accumulation, even a Saint would be affected by long-term exposure."

With that, Lou Ji took out two light blue handkerchiefs and handed them to Xu Yuan and Ran Qingmo:

"These are scarves that filter poison gas. Put them on."

Xu Yuan paused for a moment, took the scarf, and wore it, then casually asked:

"Isn’t the entrance affected?"

"There’s a formation blocking it."

Xu Xinyao suddenly interjected, pointing to the formation patterns beneath their feet:

"The Five Elements Sealing Spirit Formation, a superior formation to the Chaotic Inheritance Formation, can isolate space. Inside and outside the formation, whether it be airflow, sound, Origin Qi, or will-spirit, they remain completely separate from each other."

Seeing Xu Xinyao, who had been silent along the way, finally speaking, Xu Yuan took the opportunity to continue the conversation with a smile:

"How come I didn’t see this formation in your Geometry Institute just now?"

Hearing this, Xu Xinyao silently took out her own poison-filtration scarf and put it on, then whispered softly and faintly:

"The materials are expensive... I can’t bear to use them..."

"...." Xu Yuan chose to be selectively deaf.

After taking the necessary protective measures, the four of them crossed the entrance where the Five Elements Sealing Spirit Formation was placed.

Inside Lou Ji’s pharmaceutical room, everything was neatly organized, giving off an impression reminiscent of a sterilized laboratory from his previous life, many times cleaner than a certain fourth sister’s Geometry Institute.

Looking at a gentle and kind girl, yet her workspace was like a battle had taken place, with bottles and pots scattered everywhere, various precious materials casually thrown about, resembling a garbage heap.

Thinking this, Xu Yuan glanced sideways at the red-clothed young girl, Xu Xinyao, who was still paying attention to her third brother nearby. When she caught his glance, she immediately whispered in defense:

"It’s just a habit... My place is a bit messy, but it’s not like things can’t be found."

Her Geometry Institute might be untidy, but she clearly remembered where she had tossed the thousands of materials in her mind.

"I didn’t say anything, so why are you explaining?"

Xu Yuan teased his fourth sister before turning to ask Lou Ji:

"Sis, this Alchemy room is surrounded by deadly toxins, why not rebuild a new one?"

Lou Ji didn’t even think before blurting out:

"Just waiting for someone fated, let’s see who dares to enter my boudoir without permission."

Typical of you, turning a room full of toxic gases into a boudoir.

Mentally scoffing, the four of them slowly approached the busy figure of the second sister.

This was Xu Yuan’s first time witnessing the "laboratory" of this world since crossing over. The professional equipment here was not much less sophisticated than the high-end sterile scientific laboratories of his past life.

In just over twenty steps, Xu Yuan used his Spiritual Vision to notice more than forty dazzling, intricate apparatus, most of which were locked beneath the ground by formation mechanisms. Apart from those three hovering formation patterns, there were also six golden furnaces gleaming in their operation.

Watching those six furnaces attentively for a few moments, a sense of agitation began to rise in Xu Yuan’s eyes.

He suddenly realized that habitual thinking had somewhat restricted his imagination.

His understanding of Alchemy was that it was a precise technical work.

It required manually controlling the heat, manually adding the spiritual herbs in strict accordance with the process without any deviation, and using the will-spirit to control the furnace temperature. Any slight error in this process would result directly in an explosion.

But what he saw now was that one only had to throw the ingredients into the furnace according to the prescription, and the furnace could refine the spiritual herbs into pills on its own, based on the pre-adjusted formation patterns.

An assembly line operation...

Thinking this, Xu Yuan suddenly felt something was amiss and asked Lou Ji in a low voice:

"Sis, what is this furnace?"

Lou Ji replied in a slightly puzzled tone:

"Law Pattern Furnace, why are you so surprised? Haven’t you seen the reports and archives about this Law Pattern Furnace in Xu Yinhe’s study?"

Xu Yuan rolled his eyes:

"There are so many archives in my dad’s study; how could I have possibly seen them all?"

"You see it now," said Lou Ji nonchalantly.

Xu Yuan frowned slightly and said softly:

"But I remember from last year’s Prime Minister’s Mansion financial expenditures, the summary of the annual silver provided for Alchemy worship saw nearly a hundred million liang..."

Lou Ji’s slender, bewitching snake-like eyes took on a hint of chill as she said:

"Now the entire Prime Minister’s Mansion is preparing for war. Yet those alchemy priests are just like before; each one is more arrogant than the last, demanding higher and higher prices and all falling ill together at the slightest provocation.

"Not only that, these alchemy priests also like to hoard their knowledge under the guise of tradition, so the Geometry Institute had to come up with the Law Pattern Furnace."

Saying this, Lou Ji gave a charming smile and added:

"Of course, the cost of this Law Pattern Furnace is still somewhat high, and it might need another year or so before mass production is possible. Changtian, remember not to go around spreading rumors—otherwise those families with alchemy priests will definitely rebel. For the time being, we can’t afford to fall out with them."