Corrosive rain lashed against the windows of the apartment building in the Xuanye Outer City, accompanied by howling winds that sounded like countless venomous insects gnawing at rotting wood. Nian Quan sat cross-legged on a cushion in his alchemy room, injecting refined medicinal essences into a new model of alchemy furnace. Suddenly, he heard his door open.
This alchemy room in the Lower City was a secret purchase, intended to avoid contaminating his home if an experiment went wrong. Nobody should have known about it. The fact that the intruder had a key meant it could only be one of two people.
Nian Quan opened his icy-blue left eye slightly and glanced toward the entrance. As expected, Huo Qing was walking toward him, carrying a large bag of bottles and jars, a stack of jade scrolls, and a white cat perched atop his head.
Chapter 804