I, a cultivator, have ended up in the wizarding world.

Chapter 15 Fine Gold
Arriving at the machine, Jemin followed the example of the others and placed his apprentice badge on a detection array below the machine.

Soon, a lot of information appeared on the light screen in front of him. Looking at the mission information, which was even more detailed than that on the big screen, Jemin felt a little emotional.

"This thing can already be called a 'magic network,' right? Although the common people are still in the Middle Ages, the wizards have already entered the network society."

Given the wizards' ability to conquer multiple dimensions, their entry into the online world is not surprising.

"Let me see……"

Jemin first looked through his personal information and was soon surprised to find that his points balance was not zero.

"what's the situation?"

Jemin looked at the six points in his account with some confusion, but fortunately the income details explained the source of these points.

"Because there's less than a month between the start of the semester and next month, they refunded part of the 10 points difference each month according to the contract... Holy crap?"

Jemin was genuinely shocked. Putting aside the enormous resources required to refund so many students, the school's actions alone were hard for him to believe.

"They're being so generous. Even in a society governed by the rule of law like my previous life, I doubt many organizations would do something like this."

While marveling at the sight, Jemin also felt a surge of excitement.

It seems the wizards are more rigorous in their contracts than he imagined. Even though Jemin knew this was likely a way for the academy to win people over, he couldn't help but feel a sense of agreement.

"The willingness to follow the rules, especially when those rules are relatively fair, is certainly something to be proud of..."

With a sudden increase in activation points, the pressure on Jemin immediately eased, and he quickly began searching for information about laboratory rentals.

"A small, low-level lab... it costs five points to rent for 10 hours, but only two hundred points to rent for a month! Wow! What a huge difference!"

Fortunately, he has just enough points now.

Jemin left the machine as if nothing had happened, went to the apprentice canteen for dinner, and then returned to his dormitory.

After closing the door, Jemin sat cross-legged on the bed, seemingly entering a meditative state, but in reality, his consciousness had already arrived in front of the Great Dao Library.

A stream of light descended before him following his will, and Jemin grabbed the book that the light had materialized and quickly began to search through it.

"I remember it being here... I've got it!"

This is a basic book on exercises, mainly recording various methods of extracting materials.

On the page that Jemin was focusing on, the content described a material called "refined gold."

Gold, refined through countless refinements, possesses a secret method that can temper its essence from among ten thousand yi of ordinary gold, yielding the purest and hardest form, known as "refined gold." This substance embodies the solidity of heaven and earth, containing unchanging principles, impervious to all magic and unapproachable by evil. It is the finest choice for forging protective armor and containing Mount Sumeru within a mustard seed—a treasure of unparalleled value.

The gist of this passage is: A material called "refined gold" can be extracted from a large amount of gold. This material has a certain degree of permanence and is extremely stable. It is almost unaffected by any energy and is a good material for refining defensive and storage magic items.

However, back then, Jieming's cultivation level hadn't even broken through to the first level of Qi Refining, and although his family were small merchants, it was wishful thinking for them to come up with a large amount of gold for refining. So he just casually flipped through the book.

When he saw a fist-sized lump of gold in alchemy class today, this was his first thought. "Let me see... Although it's difficult, with enough tools, even someone at the first level of Qi Refining can barely refine refined gold, though the material loss is quite high."

Moreover, according to the book, refined gold is only the most basic spiritual material. Through continuous refining, it can be refined into other higher-level materials.

However, given Jieming's current situation, refining only refined gold is sufficient.

After carefully studying the later methods for refining refined gold, Jemin suppressed his excitement and withdrew from the depths of his consciousness.

He reached out and picked up the ugly golden cube he had just made that day.

Such a large piece of gold is quite heavy; it would be difficult for an ordinary person to lift it with one hand.

However, after mastering the meditation method, the elemental power not only strengthened the mental strength but also the physical bodies of the wizard apprentices. Jemin, in particular, benefited from the dual benefits of the cultivation method and the meditation method, so it wasn't too difficult for him to pick it up.

He kept fiddling with the gold cube in his hands, his face perfectly displaying the expression of a country bumpkin who had never seen the world.

Secretly, Jemin mobilized his inner energy and used the detection methods he learned from the Great Dao Library to investigate whether this piece of gold could be refined in the same way as the gold from the cultivation world.

The results were surprising. The findings showed that the gold structure in the two worlds was almost identical, and both could be refined into refined gold!
"Phew... We can't rush things; the conditions aren't quite right yet..."

After calming his excited emotions, Jemin began to think about what benefits this material could bring him and how to use it to earn his first fortune.

"But in any case, we can't neglect alchemy in order to better cover it up."

Having made up his mind, Jemin took the gold nugget back to the table, reviewing the basic alchemy manual to reinforce the fundamental knowledge that his instructor, Clark, had taught him in class that day, and studying the seemingly complex metal alchemy disk.

For a period of time afterward, Jemin repeated this seemingly monotonous and routine life:
During the day, he would stay in his dormitory studying alchemical theories and trying to reshape the gold cube using alchemy. At night, he would meditate in the quiet of the night, replacing sleep with cultivation.

Occasionally, he would run into Amy in the cafeteria and maintain a just-right level of contact with her.

Amy always brought various college gossip and rumors, providing Jemin with a lot of valuable information.

This process was repeated for more than ten days until Jemin was certain that he had completely mastered the gold refining technique before he began to work on the real plan.

"Mr. Jemin, this is the laboratory you previously booked. As per your request, the laboratory has a window facing the direction of sunrise. From now until 6 a.m. the next morning, this laboratory belongs to you."

"Please note that the defensive array in the laboratory can only withstand spells of level one or lower. Any damage caused will result in compensation being required..."

A silver-white metal puppet opened a fully enclosed metal door while rambling on about various laboratory rules.

"...The laboratory is completely sealed off. If any problems occur, no outsider will know. So please be careful."

"Okay, got it."

Before the puppet could continue its rambling, Jemin decisively closed the laboratory door.

(End of this chapter)