I've heard that Xing uses medicinal alchemy in my world too.

...France mentioned that, about turning metal into gold. Easy enough, but illegal. [He smirks a little.] It'd do bad things to the economy.

[At the mention of the Philosopher's Stone, though, he leans forward slightly, clearly much more interested in that than anything else.] Do you know if anyone ever succeeded, or how they went about trying?

[He can't help but remember the abandoned city in China's dream, or how England had spoken of a large scale war.]