At that moment, everyone’s gaze towards Jiang Yuan became increasingly reverent as if pilgrims had just encountered their divine being.
“Where is the Rune Master Guild?” Jiang Yuan put away the five pills he had just refined and the four runes into his bag.
The Medicine Master pointed in a direction and said, “Also in the central city area, go in that direction and cross the street to get there.”
“Alright, I have other matters to attend to. I’ll take my leave,” said Jiang Yuan and turned away listlessly.
“Wait!”
The Medicine Master immediately stopped Jiang Yuan.
“I still haven’t understood how to refine these tenth-grade pills. Let me ask you one more question, just one more, alright?”
“I said I would only teach once,” replied Jiang Yuan impatiently.
“Please! This question is crucial to me! As long as you answer, I can exchange it with any materials.” The Medicine Master pleaded urgently.
“I don’t need materials anymore. I’ll come find you when I need them.” With these words, Jiang Yuan walked away without looking back.
After leaving the Tang Chamber of Commerce, Jiang Yuan headed straight to the Rune Master Guild. They are also both located in the central city of Zhongzhou.
Following the direction given by the Medicine Master, Jiang Yuan crossed a street and arrived in front of a magnificent octagonal building. On the door of this octagonal building was a three-meter-long plaque with the words “Rune Master Guild” engraved on it.
Jiang Yuan walked directly into the octagonal building, entering the hall inside.
Upon hearing that Jiang Yuan wanted to apply as a runecrafter, he was received by a young maid who immediately showed a skeptical expression.
Nevertheless, she politely escorted Jiang Yuan to meet the vice president of the Rune Master Guild.
The vice president was an obese old man, currently sitting back in a wooden chair, and leisurely sipping tea.
“This is our guild’s vice president, Sikong Ming.” The maid introduced Jiang Yuan with respect.
She then went to Sikong Ming and whispered in his ear, “Vice President, he’s here to apply as a runecrafter.”
Sikong Ming gave Jiang Yuan a disdainful look, then discontentedly scolded the maid, “Do you have a brain? Don’t you know the age of runecrafters? Does he look like someone who can craft runes at such a young age?!”
“Sorry, Vice President. I’ll take him away right now.”
Although scolded and seemingly covered in dog blood, the maid could only apologize.
Just as she was about to lead Jiang Yuan away, he took the initiative to walk up to Sikong Ming and threw the previously crafted runic symbols onto the table in front of him.
“These are the ones I crafted. Check them if you want.”
Jiang Yuan’s voice was flat, devoid of any emotion.
He had anticipated that the people from the Rune Master Guild would doubt his runic abilities because he looked too young.
After all, runecrafting required an extremely high demand for mental power. Only those older individuals possessed enough mental power to craft runes.
Moreover, the knowledge of runecrafting was too complex and required decades of diligent study and practice to become a qualified runecrafter. So to prove his runic abilities, Jiang Yuan had prepared runic symbols in advance.
However, he didn’t expect the vice president to just glance at them and decisively assert, “It’s just the embryonic form of a runic symbol. Do you dare bring it in front of me?”
“Do you really think our Rune Master Guild is a place where anyone can enter casually?”
“You haven’t even checked, how can you be sure it’s just the prototype?” Jiang Yuan said helplessly.
Unlike pills, the quality of runic symbols could only be detected by professional runecrafters using mental power.
Just taking a glance and claiming it’s a prototype is clearly nonsense!
Sikong Ming sneered disdainfully, “I said it’s an embryonic form so it is! Hurry up and take your embryonic form and leave! I don’t have time to chat with you!”
Sikong Ming finished speaking and waved his hand, signaling the maid to escort Jiang Yuan out.
The maid walked up to Jiang Yuan, expressing her apologies, “I’m sorry, our vice president has issued an order to expel you. Please don’t make it difficult for me.”
“Alright.” Jiang Yuan didn’t want to trouble the maid either. He nodded and left with the runic symbols.
If he used violent means, he could easily obtain anything in the world. However, he didn’t want to do that. Having experienced too much bloodshed, he was thoroughly tired of violence.
Of course, even without resorting to violence, he had countless ways to get what he wanted. Because he had time, he could experiment slowly.
After leaving the Rune Master Guild, Jiang Yuan went to the Tang Chamber of Commerce again to find the Medicine Master.
“Help me sell these two runic symbols.” Jiang Yuan handed the two runic symbols to the Medicine Master.
“May I inquire about the quality of these two runic symbols?” After receiving the runic symbols, the Medicine Master respectfully asked Jiang Yuan.
In the Southern Xia Kingdom, the number of runecrafters was ten times less than that of alchemists. Throughout the entire Zhongzhou, there were only a dozen runecrafters. If they were not recruited by the city lord, they would not even have one in the Tang Chamber of Commerce.
Without runecrafters, the chamber of commerce couldn’t distinguish the quality of runic symbols. Hence, the Medicine Master could only ask Jiang Yuan.
“Just sell them as embryonic forms.” Jiang Yuan didn’t tell the Medicine Master that these two runic symbols were tenth-grade.
If he said so even if the Medicine Master believed it, the customers wouldn’t. After all, runic symbols couldn’t be distinguished by the naked eye.
For those who didn’t understand runecrafting, only after imprinting the runic symbols on weapons could they judge the quality through the enhancement effect.
Nobody would want to take the risk of spending a large amount of money to gamble on whether the runic symbols they bought were of high quality or not.
Jiang Yuan wasn’t interested in money, he just wanted to sell the runic symbols. Hence, he deliberately said they were embryonic forms.
“Understood, I’ll find someone to handle it for you.” The Medicine Master turned and instructed Su Yanhong to take care of it.
Su Yanhong immediately took the two runic symbols and went to the Tang Chamber of Commerce’s sales store to have them packaged and sold.
Not long after Su Yanhong left the store, a young female customer arrived.
“Miss Gongsun, what would you like to buy?” Seeing this young female customer, the shopkeeper immediately approached and inquired.
This female customer was named Gongsun Yan. She was the disciple of the exclusive runecrafter of the Rune Master Guild, Yu Wenhao. Because she often purchased refining materials, she was quite familiar with the shopkeeper.
Gongsun Yan pointed at the runic symbols and said in an astonished tone, “Are these two runic symbols really only 800 gold coins?”
The shopkeeper nodded and explained, “These two runic symbols are only embryonic forms so the price is very cheap.”
“Embryonic forms? That’s great!” Hearing that the runic symbols were embryonic forms, Gongsun Yan not only didn’t feel disappointed but was rather happy.
As an apprentice runecrafter, she had been studying under Yu Wenhao for five years without learning any skills. Disappointed with her progress, Yu Wenhao had arranged an assessment for her and the other disciples.
Those disciples who couldn’t pass the assessment would be expelled from the sect and could no longer study runecrafting.
The content of this assessment was to have her produce an embryonic form of a runic symbol within three days. The difficulty of operating runic symbols was extremely high, and even crafting the embryonic form was not that easy.
After numerous attempts over the past two days, she had not been able to successfully create the embryonic form. Just as she was about to give up, she happened to pass by this shop and saw the runic symbols being sold.
Out of curiosity about the price, she entered the shop to inquire.
After asking, she learned that these two runic symbols were exactly what she needed – embryonic forms/prototype. By purchasing one, she could fulfill the task assigned by her master.
“I’ll buy this embryonic form!”
Gongsun Yan didn’t hesitate, directly paid the money and bought the runic symbol.
