The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 237 Study Time

The following days were the time when Ryan studied the hardest. Although Ryan could not remember who this Luo Zhen was, he could tell from his first glance that Ryan was a visitor from another world that he was the most powerful person who was willing to communicate with him after Ryan had traveled through so many worlds.

So Ryan took the time to ask him about the problems he encountered in his studies and practice. Although the practice system was different, Luo Zhen still answered Ryan's questions with his strong strength and rich experience. After discovering that Luo Zhen was indeed giving his guidance, Ryan also took out all the knowledge except the knowledge that was not allowed to be disclosed when he obtained it as a communication.

As the saying goes, "A stone from another mountain can polish a jade." The different power systems from different worlds did bring new inspiration to Luo Zhen, who had already reached a certain pinnacle in alchemy.

On the basis of mutual benefit, the two of them had become very familiar with each other in a week. During this time, Ryan also took the time to tell Luo Zhen about his daughter Alice's love and hatred for him. Luo Zhen was shocked after hearing this, because he had never raised a child before, and thought that as long as he gave his daughter good material things, it would be enough. In addition, he was very busy during normal times and was very tired when he got home. This made him ignore his daughter's condition, so that his daughter almost died of illness this time.

After Ryan explained all this directly, Luo Zhen began to reflect seriously and then tried to communicate with his daughter. Although Ryan didn't know the specific situation, he could tell from Luo Zhen's smiling face that it was progressing well.

The same goes for Alice. Ryan feels that she now hates her father less and interacts with her father more during meals.

After discussing the knowledge Ryan gained from dissecting the Dementors last time, Luo Zhen suddenly asked, "Hey, little guy. Would you like to learn some alchemy knowledge from me? At least I think your character and knowledge meet my requirements for accepting students."

"Of course, of course I am willing." After all, he ventured into so many worlds just to learn more knowledge. And after such a long time of communication, he also realized Luo Zhen's powerful strength and profound knowledge. Especially in Ryan's eyes, Luo Zhen is indeed a good person.

Soon, Ryan began to learn alchemy, and Luo Zhen's first lesson benefited him a lot.

After breakfast that day, Luo Zhen took Ryan to his alchemy laboratory. The alchemy laboratory was located in the basement of the utility room behind the house. After going up the stairs to the alchemy laboratory, Ryan was deeply attracted by the various magical things in the alchemy laboratory.

"After you learn these things from me, you will be able to make them too. They're not complicated." Looking into Ryan's eyes, Luo Zhen encouraged Ryan.

After the two of them found a place to sit, Luo Zhen began his lecture.

"If you want to learn alchemy, you have to know what it is. Some people define it as a skill that aims to transform base metals into gold or prepare immortality. But this explanation is superficial and incomplete. Some people also define it as a sacred technology that makes humans equal to gods. Although this statement hits the point, it does not highlight the characteristics of alchemy." After seeing that Ryan's attention was completely attracted by this opening, Luo Zhen cleared his throat and said seriously.

"So what is true alchemy? I think it is a means of analyzing and understanding everything in the world and changing everything in the world."

After introducing what alchemy is, Luo Zhen turned the conversation to Ryan. "From what you said before, I felt that you seemed to be a little worried that what you learned was too complicated?" "That's true." Ryan nodded. "The power systems I now master even come from different worlds and civilizations. I am really worried that one day they will conflict with each other."

"Then let me tell you, you don't need to worry. Because from the perspective of alchemy that I know, the forces in your body simply cannot conflict with each other." Luo Zhen said very firmly at this time.

"As I just said, alchemy is a means of analyzing, understanding, and changing everything in the world, and the power you control, regardless of its source, is actually within this category. So I think the powers you control don't even belong to the different powers that will conflict with each other. Or to put it simply, there is actually no difference between them."

"This..." Ryan fell into thinking, because he had never thought about the problem from this angle before, so he temporarily couldn't understand what Luo Zhen said about these powers being actually the same. After all, in his opinion, these powers are both Eastern and Western. Some strengthen magic and some strengthen the body. Even the sources are completely different. How can you say that they are essentially the same?

Seeing Ryan lost in thought, Luo Zhen said, "Look, let me demonstrate it to you, and you will roughly understand what I mean."

After saying that, Luo Zhen took out a piece of lead and placed it on the ground. Then he made a few gestures, and an alchemical array with red light appeared on the ground. The alchemical array was a simple hexagram with a circle on the outside connecting the six corners of the hexagram. Rays of light flowed on the lines of the array.

It looked no different from an ordinary magic circle, and could even be said to be more crude. Because there were no runes on it except for the hexagram and the outer ring. But when Ryan got closer, he was surprised to find that all the patterns of the magic circle were made up of tiny runes.

After careful observation, Ryan found that the runes that made up the magic circle came from many different sources. At least he saw the ancient Egyptian sacred text, the Mesopotamian cuneiform script, the Cretan linear script, Latin, and even the Eastern cloud and water seal script and bird and insect script.

As the alchemical process ended, the alchemical array disappeared, and the lead block that was previously placed in the center of the alchemical array had turned into a small silver unicorn statue.

"What the hell is going on here?" Ryan was a little shocked by the demonstration. He was not shocked that lead could be turned into a silver statue. He was shocked that the alchemy array he saw just now had runes from various ethnic groups and cultures. In Ryan's impression, these could never be confused.

"That's what I said. In fact, all the powers you possess don't make much difference in my eyes." Luo Zhen bent down and picked up the statue, then said, "Whether you know Eastern Taoism or Western magic, or even some special training methods that focus on strengthening the body, these are actually the means for you to move the world after you have learned so much knowledge and used it to improve your abilities."

After saying that, Luo Zhen handed the statue to Ryan and said, "Take this as a gift. I'll go over there and do some experiments first. When you figure this out, come find me."

Ryan held the statue in his hand and fell into deep thought. After a long time, a gleam of light flashed in his eyes. "Yes, it should be like this. I understand!"

(End of this chapter)