Rise of the Alchemy God

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The next few days were pretty calm for Ethan.

He would wake up in the morning, do his usual workout routine to keep his body in shape, and then spend at least three hours cultivating and consolidating his cultivation base.

After that, he'd wash up and have breakfast.

Once done, he'd lock himself in his room until evening, producing batch after batch of pills.

This kind of routine might be tough for a normal person, but not for a cultivator, especially someone like Ethan.

Even an alchemist dedicated to their craft wouldn't spend all day making pills, mainly because they'd be overwhelmed by the mental fatigue from refining, which would lead to a higher failure rate in creating the pills.

But this wasn't a problem for Ethan.

He had every single step of the process ingrained in his mind, so he could refine without stopping for hours on end.

Ethan had confirmed that no matter how casually he approached the refinement of this level of pills, the final product would never be lacking in quality.

So while refining, he could also dedicate part of his attention to other things, like calculating how many materials he had left and mentally noting how much more he'd need for the coming days.

He often spent time chatting with Bai Yu, asking her for more information about the Heavenly Plane, and so on.

This routine continued for almost two weeks, and in these two weeks, the number of pills he produced was nearly double that of previous batches.

Material shortages weren't a problem at the moment since he had plenty of money, and thanks to Da Shu's connections, he could always find them at a good price.

At first, Da Shu was happy about this sudden surge in pills, but even he couldn't help worrying about his friend's health, so he tried to talk to him.

But he soon discovered that his worries were unfounded, as his friend seemed to be in good shape and showed no signs of excessive fatigue.

He didn't know how Ethan managed to stay healthy and continue producing so many pills in such a short time, but he eventually came to terms with it.

The sales of his pills didn't seem to decrease, and gradually, more and more customers who wanted to buy from his stores started showing up.

For any merchant, this was a dream come true, and it was the same for Da Shu.

The days passed, and nothing special happened, except that Ethan made yet another breakthrough, reaching level 8.

That's right, level 8.

While the rest of the sect's disciples struggled to reach level 3, with the more talented ones at level 5, Ethan was climbing the levels like he was walking up the steps of a regular staircase.

If others knew about his cultivation speed, they'd die of envy, wondering what on earth they were doing wrong to have such a huge difference in cultivation between them and Ethan.

Ethan, on the other hand, didn't worry much about his breakthrough and continued with his usual routine.

And so Ethan kept producing pill after pill for a while, until there were less than two weeks left before the end-of-year trial.

At this moment, Ethan was in his dorm room.

Usually, at this time of day, he should be busy refining new pills, but right now, he was standing still, examining a system window in front of him.

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Name: Ethan

Cultivation: Body Refining (Lvl. 8 --> Lvl. 9)

QI: 632/1000

Physique: Heavenly Body of the Sacred Flames

Strength: 79 --> 90

Agility: 71 --> 82

Intelligence: 80 --> 91

Soul Strength: 126 --> 128

[Shop]

[Storage]

[System points]: 1007

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"1007 points, finally."

Ethan had been tirelessly refining pill after pill in the last few days, allowing himself only brief breaks, which mainly consisted of meals and sleep.

With his current cultivation, he could avoid sleeping for a few days and not suffer much, but he didn't. One of the things he rarely gave up was sleep.

He had a love-hate relationship with sleep.

He hated the fact that a normal human spends at least one-third of their life sleeping.

When he was in his previous world and was still in university, he wanted to have more time to dedicate to his studies.

With university and part-time work, he only had a few hours to rest, and from those, he had to save at least an hour or two for studying.

If it were up to him, he would have gladly skipped sleep, but he knew that skipping even one day would do more harm than good, so he tried to get at least a certain number of hours of rest each day.

The situation had changed a bit since he arrived here.

Besides practicing and cultivating, he didn't have much else to do, so he had more than enough time to dedicate to his sleep.

One of the things taught in every sect in this world was how to balance the various needs of your body.

During the few lessons given by the sect elders each month, they always explained how to cultivate more efficiently without causing any harm to your body or mind.

Ethan had to admit that these little lessons given by the sect were somewhat enlightening.

So even though participation in these sessions wasn't mandatory, Ethan would sometimes attend them.

This had obviously changed in the last few months.

With the constant pressure of his cultivation problem, Ethan was always anxious while constantly trying to break through.

But now he didn't have to face any of those problems, and in fact, his mood had greatly improved recently.

So even though he spent many hours a day refining, it didn't constitute any kind of burden to him.

Seeing that he had finally reached a thousand points, Ethan took some time to admire the hard-earned points gained with so much effort and sweat.

Taking a deep breath to calm himself, Ethan proceeded to open the shop's status screen.

In a flash, a floating blue window appeared in front of him, and on it, several options could be seen listed.

Unlike before, Ethan now had at least five new options available, which reflected the recipes he had learned in the last period.

But Ethan didn't waste time examining them and proceeded to choose the first item on the list.

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[Basic Recovery Pill Recipe]

Level: 1

Grade: High

Description: A pill capable of restoring fatigue after intense physical exertion and accelerating the healing of minor superficial wounds.

The purity of this pill cannot exceed 95%.

[Upgrade] (1000 Sp)

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"Level 2 recipe, here I come."

He pressed the [Upgrade] button without hesitation and waited for the process to begin.

Immediately after, a stream of information started to flow into his head.

Ethan was used to it by now, and with his ever-increasing cultivation, his mental resistance to pain had increased as well, so he didn't prepare himself like the last few times to receive the pain.

He knew that at most, he would get a slight headache.

The information continued to flow little by little into his head, and as Ethan calmly waited, he decided to examine the information that had already arrived.

"Let's see."

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FRANK_LEE_JUNIOR:

Here's today's chapter. I hope you enjoyed it.

As usual, if you have any comments, suggestions, or errors to report, you know where to do it.

See you tomorrow.