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In fact, Faleau didn't know that Lin Yun was already aware of the presence of the Twin Moons Splendor's Alchemist.

While researching the stone tablet, Lin Yun had a stroke of inspiration and wanted the old butler to recall Raymond. But when the old butler came, Lin Yun didn't have the time to mention Raymond before the old butler told him about the Alchemist dispatched by the Twin Moons Splendor for ”interaction”.

The old butler relayed this news to Lin Yun with a look of worry plastered all over his face.

After being at Locke Merlin's side for so many years and seeing so many matters, how could the old butler not know what this meant? It was an attempt to suppress them. They wanted to seize the market by showing that they had superior skill.

An exchange of skill sounded nice, but its true purpose was to make a competing business lose its reputation.

”Haha, it really came.” Lin Yun wasn't surprised at all. He knew that something like this skill exchange would have come sooner or later when the Monchi Family organized that alchemy exhibition.

The Monchi Family couldn't get involved in the alchemy market without fighting the Gilded Rose. The appearance of the Hope Potion made the Gilded Rose one of the best alchemy shops of Thousand Sails City. By the time the shop expanded, the ”one of” part could be removed. Although the Twin Moons Splendor had been quite famous, they had still been lacking a signature potion like the Hope Potion.

But now that they held the alchemy exhibition and announced the Nothingness and Berserk Blood potions, they had the confidence to pressure the Gilded Rose in term of skill.

Lin Yun would have doubted Monchi's intelligence if he hadn't taken that opportunity.

But Lin Yun wasn't anxious at all.

Lin Yun guessed that the Nothingness and Berserk Blood potions were knockoffs of his Ghost potion and his Volcano potion.

Monchi had spent 4,000,000 golds to buy the two potions in the Black Horn Auction, after all. Lin Yun knew that they had bought them to try to learn what techniques had been used to create them.

But so what if they researched them?

Alchemy skills couldn't be learnt so easily.

A decently skilled Great Alchemist might be able to analyze some of the skills used if he spent enough time, perhaps regarding the processing of magic materials, the theoretical planning, or the usage of manipulation skills.

But in Noscent's long history, there has never been a Great Alchemist able to copy the work of a Master Alchemist!

Let alone a Master Alchemist, a Great Alchemist has never been able to copy the work of another Great Alchemist solely through potion analysis.

Only the most superficial skills would be obtained through analysis, as some of the core content would never be able to be analyzed.

Thus, alchemy knowledge would only be spread through master-disciple inheritance.

Some things could only be understood from the mouth of one's teacher.

Those things were the core of alchemy.

Only if one was an Artisan Alchemist would one be able to easily analyze an Apprentice Alchemist's work and instantly understand it.