Rise of the Alchemy God

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Ethan did not need this refined spiritual Qi pearl because, although the amount of Qi contained within it was not insignificant, for someone like him who was already beyond the mortal realm, that quantity was far too small, almost negligible.

It was like a drop of water in an ocean. Too little for his current level.

He had designed it to help the two Guo brothers when they were still in the early stages of their cultivation.

As is well known, cultivation consists of gathering Qi from the surrounding environment and using it to refine one's body.

In the early stages, this Qi is used to strengthen the body and establish the foundation upon which the rest of one's cultivation is built.

The process of gathering Qi had always been something Ethan could skip thanks to the system, which would supply him with the Qi needed simply by producing a couple of pills. All he had to do was allocate the Qi to establish his cultivation foundation.

Naturally, things changed as he progressed further, but for the first two stages, this method was highly efficient and fast.

From the third stage onward, he needed to put in his own effort to prepare the core, assimilate a spiritual beast, fuse his soul with it, and so on...

However, even at higher stages, the process of gathering Qi, which he had skipped thanks to this "cheat," remained an essential step.

He was now doing a very similar thing by creating this pearl of spiritual Qi that not only gave the ready-made amount of spiritual Qi to the user, just as he received it from the system, by creating the pills, but it was also refined, in other words ready to be used.

Ethan asked the elven girl if she knew how to assimilate it.

After all, she might not necessarily have a cultivation technique suited for the mortal realm. Indeed, she had no idea how to do so.

Consuming the pill and absorbing the refined Qi naturally could make one stronger, but there was a reason cultivation techniques existed.

Doing it naturally was fine for beasts, which didn't need techniques or other tools.

Their bodies automatically handled the rest. However, it was different for humans and similar species, including elves.

While they could naturally absorb Qi, and since this Qi was already refined, it wouldn't harm her and would help to some extent, without a proper cultivation method, there was no way she could progress very far.

Thus, Ethan decided to provide her with a technique himself.

He didn't give her the standard one he had received from the Phoenix Sect but instead tailored one specifically for her, basing it on the anatomy of elves, which was not too different from that of humans, though it had its unique distinctions.

After mentally receiving the cultivation technique from Ethan, the elven girl immediately sat cross-legged and began cultivating, while Ethan secured the surrounding area by slightly expanding his demonic Qi intent.

The effect was immediate, as the moment he released it to a certain degree, all the beasts within a mile radius scattered and fled.

While all this was happening, Lin Yu, who had just started absorbing the refined Qi in the pill, didn't perceive anything and immediately immersed herself in her cultivation.

Thanks to Ethan's pill, her cultivation would progress much faster, not to Ethan's level, but fast enough for her to break through to the Body Refining stage in less than a day, a feat that was difficult even for elves, who had slightly higher cultivation talent compared to other races.

Thus, while Ethan instructed the elven girl, not only helping her with cultivation but also later with basic combat techniques, both unarmed and armed,

Elsewhere, someone else was losing their mind over recent events.

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After confirming the information in the possession of the soldiers' mess hall owner, Jing Xia wasted no more time with the now half-dead owner and swiftly severed his head without hesitation.

What seemed like a quick death to ordinary people, however, was far from it to those who knew her.

Everyone who knew Jing Xia and her achievements on the battlefield understood that what she had just done to the mess hall owner was far worse than death.

Not only had she extracted all the information directly from his soul, but she had also fed the remnants of his soul to her sword, an artifact very few knew was a demonic soul weapon.

The real reason why no one wanted to cross her wasn't that they feared losing, but because they dreaded ending up as food for her sword.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

That demonic sword had another name, and just hearing it made everyone shudder.

Tūnshì Shēnyuān (吞噬深渊)

This was the name of the weapon, which meant "Devouring Abyss."

This weapon was a demonic artifact naturally forged in a source of highly condensed demonic Qi, said to have been produced from the corpse of a demonic emperor, a rank above that of a demon king.

In other words, a demon who had ascended to divinity, becoming a true demon god.

Many demons had attempted to wield this sword in the past, but all of them were inevitably devoured by it over time.

This fact alone discouraged all demons in the spiritual realm from trying to claim it.

However, there was one exception to this rule, and that exception was none other than Jing Xia, who had not only managed to resist the sword's power so far but had also subdued it to some extent, making her one of the most formidable beings in the spiritual realm.

She might still be at the peak of the third stage, but thanks to this sword and her natural strength, which was far superior to others at her level, she could be a threat even to fourth and fifth-stage beings if she unleashed the full power of the sword.

The terror of this weapon was deeply imprinted in all who knew it, and they sympathized with the fate of the soldiers' mess hall owner, whose soul had been fed to the sword.

This was also why Xuè Shà, the protector of the Xuè family, the same family to which the new owner of the soldiers' mess hall belonged, was now trembling with anger.