Cheng Shanhe returned to his office and had barely sat down when Wei Sijian pushed open the door and walked in.

"What's up?"

Cheng Shanhe, who was usually unfazed by praise or criticism, only showed a displeased expression when facing Wei Sijian.

Wei Sijian seemed not to hear, but looked dazed and blank.

"Teacher, I was wrong."

Just as Cheng Shanhe was losing patience and preparing to throw Wei Sijian out, Wei Sijian suddenly spoke.

Cheng Shanhe was taken aback at first, then a thought crossed his mind.

Could it be that my disciple has finally come to his senses?

"Tell me, where did you go wrong?" Cheng Shanhe asked calmly, his expression softening.

"For the past few months, I was blinded and believed that Brother Chen was on par with the teacher. Only just now did I realize how wrong I was..."

Wei Sijian gradually came to his senses and said with great excitement.

This child is teachable!

Cheng Shanhe revealed a long-lost auntie smile, "Tell me more about it?"

"How can a teacher be compared to Brother Shen!"

Wei Sijian could no longer contain his excitement and stood up, shouting, "Brother Chen is truly the greatest man in the world!"

Cheng Shanhe: "?"

Raise your hand and lower it, raise it and lower it again...

Wei Sijian is a promising talent, with rare genius in alchemy. It is our duty to cultivate talent for China. Impulsiveness is the devil, only calmness can reveal our true selves. Namo Amitabha Buddha, Heaven cherishes life...

After brainwashing himself like this several times, Cheng Shanhe took a deep breath and managed to suppress the urge to slap the other person to death.

"Teacher, Brother Shen actually deciphered the complete prescription for 'Creation'! He told me everything just now!"

"What did you say?"

Upon hearing this, Cheng Shanhe's gaze sharpened immediately. He no longer cared about arguing with Wei Sijian and stared intently at him.

"Teacher, the complete prescription for 'Creation'!"

Wei Sijian waved his arms, "It's that prescription you've been researching for ten years without success!"

"Is he really such a flamboyant person?"

To everyone's surprise, Cheng Shanhe showed no joy as expected; instead, he frowned deeply.

"Teacher, why did you say that about Brother Chen?" Wei Sijian was very indignant.

“You don’t understand.” Cheng Shanhe shook his head. “The ‘Creation’ formula is simply impossible to develop.”

"Why?"

Wei Sijian was stunned.

"Because this is a dead end."

Cheng Shanhe's expression was unusually melancholy. "Actually, a year ago, the dean and I discovered that the prescription itself had a huge problem. It was impossible to deduce the subsequent steps. Otherwise, why do you think I gave up the research?"

Seeing that Wei Sijian was still confused, Cheng Shanhe could only explain it more clearly.

"I'm asking you, what is the third theorem of alchemy?"

"Yin and Yang clash."

Wei Sijian could readily recall this basic knowledge.

That's it.

Cheng Shanhe got up and walked to the window, gazing at the setting sun on the horizon and sighing softly, “Of the three main ingredients used in the ‘Creation’ prescription, the Rejuvenating Grass is a neutral herb, but the other two main ingredients, the Immortal Head Old Man and the Thousand Grass Frost, are both yin in nature, which violates the theorem.”

“I initially thought that as long as the adjuvant was positive enough, there might be a way to neutralize it, but in the past ten years I have tried almost every possibility, but I simply cannot achieve a balance.”

"This prescription violated the theorem from the very beginning, so it was impossible to develop it successfully."

"It's my fault, I was too far-fetched..."

Cheng Shanhe was making fun of himself, while Wei Sijian frowned, as if he was thinking about something.

"But what if... the entire alchemy world is wrong?"

Wei Sijian murmured.

Although his voice was soft, Cheng Shanhe heard it and turned his head in surprise, "What did you say?"

"Besides giving me the prescription, Brother Shen also said a few words, which I didn't understand at the time."

Wei Sijian fell into a trance-like state again, "But, but what if what Brother Chen said is true, then the third theorem doesn't actually hold true?"

Cheng Shanhe's body trembled, but he still instinctively shook his head. "This is impossible. The Seven Theorems of Alchemy have been proven over a long period of time. How could they be wrong?"

But Cheng Shanhe had a vague feeling that something had cleared his long-disordered thoughts.

"Didn't you say he gave you the prescription? Where is it?"

At this moment, Cheng Shanhe suddenly remembered that he had written down the complete prescription before the incident, and his breathing became rapid.

Wei Sijian took out the prescription he had written down from his pocket, and Cheng Shanhe eagerly took it and began to examine it carefully.

During this time, Cheng Shanhe frequently frowned and closed his eyes in deep thought, as if he were simulating the entire process in his mind.

This deduction took only a moment, and then it was already dark.

Although Wei Sijian was so anxious that he wanted to ask questions from time to time, he held back.

With his current knowledge, he is still somewhat lacking in the ability to deduce prescriptions of the Mountain and Sea level; he can only wait for his teacher to make a conclusion.

As time passed, Cheng Shanhe finally opened his eyes and slowly sat down in the chair, somewhat lost in thought.

"teacher?"

Wei Sijian first called out softly a few times, but when Cheng Shanhe did not respond, he couldn't help but raise his voice, almost calling him by his name. Cheng Shanhe finally came to his senses.

He shoved Wei Sijian aside and was about to leave.

Fortunately, Wei Sijian was quick-witted and clung tightly to Cheng Shanhe's leg.

Cheng Shanhe's expression was a mixture of anxiety and joy, as well as a sense of relief that the clouds had parted and the sun had finally broken through. He paid no attention to the extra leg accessory he had acquired, and with Wei Sijian in tow, he took off and sped toward the China Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences.

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