Battle Through the Heavens: The Alchemist Starting from the Ye Family

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"Master? I am Hu Tian. I have important business to discuss with the Medicine Emperor, but due to some special circumstances, I have to resort to this method. Please forgive any rudeness!"

Han Feng carefully examined the other party and, after confirming that the other party was only a one-star Dou Zong, he felt relieved again. He smiled and bowed, saying, "Senior, what are you saying? Everyone has their difficulties. I understand. I just don't know if there is anything I can help you with. Please speak frankly, and if I can help, I will not refuse."

Alchemists build their networks this way!

Moreover, a favor from a Dou Zong is still quite valuable in a place like the Black Corner Region...

Hu Tian was delighted to hear this and said with a smile, "Hehe, my request is not difficult for you, Medicine King, it is... to borrow your strange fire!"

Before he could utter the last few words, Hu Tian transformed into a bolt of lightning and struck Han Feng with a palm strike.

The attack was so sudden that it completely caught Han Feng off guard. Combined with Hu Tian's speed, it caught Han Feng completely off guard.

Fortunately, it was the habit he had developed over the years that made Han Feng always on high alert, which prevented him from being seriously injured in Hu Tian's sudden attack...

He grabbed with both hands, and a stream of blue flame, like flowing water, traveled up his arms to his hands, eventually condensing into two blue flame longswords.

"Ding!"

A crisp collision resounded across the entire sky. Under the influence of this strange sound wave, some weaker magical beasts in the mountains below had their heads explode with a buzzing sound.

Although he blocked Hu Tian's sudden attack, Han Feng's internal organs were still severely shaken, causing him to vomit a mouthful of blood...

However, the injury was not serious. Han Feng's eyes were completely filled with sea-blue flames as he glared at Hu Tian opposite him and said coldly, "Who exactly are you? How did you know that I possess a strange fire?!"

Hu Tian chuckled coldly, his hand reaching forward to grab something. Lightning flashed, and a spear formed from condensed lightning hissed as it materialized. The spear trembled, and Hu Tian said coldly, "You can ask your master, whom you killed, about that problem down there..."

Well, his young master taught him to say that, but he didn't know the specific reason why.

Seeing Ye Chen's confident assurance that the other party would be thrown into a state of confusion upon hearing these words, Hu Tianjin simply spoke up...

To his surprise, his young master was right!

Upon hearing those words, Han Feng's face turned deathly pale. He looked as if someone had seized upon something incredibly sensitive, and he erupted in a frenzied rage...

"Teacher...?! Tell me quickly, how did you find out about this?!" Han Feng once again condensed two flaming longswords with the Sea Heart Flame, pointed them at the ground, and shouted angrily.

Unexpectedly, his young master's idea worked so well, and Hu Tian was overjoyed. He said again, "If you want to know, then go down and ask him yourself!"

With a swing of his lightning spear, he charged straight ahead.

In an instant, the great battle resumed.

Even as Han Feng's aura of violence intensified, his moves lost all their previous composure.

At that very moment, a gigantic, seven-colored tail descended from the sky, slamming Han Feng into the ground before he could react...

Chapter 123 Sealing the Strange Flame

Its body is seven-colored, its pupils are slightly purple, its body exudes a fragrance, and its power reaches the heavens...

These are the characteristics of the Seven-Colored Sky-Swallowing Python.

A full-force attack from a seventh-tier Seven-Colored Sky-Swallowing Python with the power to reach the heavens would likely shatter even a three- or four-star Dou Zong, let alone Han Feng!

Upon arriving at the bottom of the valley, where a huge crater had been smashed open, Ye Chen saw Han Feng's miserable state...

"Tsk tsk, Butterfly, you're being too violent! I think this guy is about to be beaten into a pulp..." Ye Chen glanced at the gruesome sight and teased Queen Medusa, who had already returned to human form beside him.

Unfortunately, this woman had no sense of humor; after glancing at Ye Chen, she immediately looked away.

It seems Her Majesty the Queen is somewhat displeased...

This is understandable, given Her Majesty's arrogance. To attempt a sneak attack on a human who is weaker than herself must have made the proud queen quite uncomfortable.

Unfortunately, Ye Chen didn't see anything wrong with this at all. As long as the goal is achieved, the simplest method is naturally the best choice; why worry about anything else…

In Medusa's words, Ye Chen has absolutely no pride as a strong person!

"He's not dead yet. What are you going to do? Kill him?" Queen Medusa glanced at her masterpiece and said calmly.

Ye Chen shook his head immediately: "No, please don't kill him!"

"This person possesses the Sea Heart Flame, ranked fifteenth on the Strange Flame Ranking. If we kill him, it will be difficult to control the Strange Flame..."

Although Han Feng's body has been smashed into a pulp, his soul has not dissipated under the protection of the strange fire, so he is not completely dead yet.

This state is similar to Yao Chen's, but because Han Feng's soul realm has not yet reached its peak in the mortal realm, it is impossible for him to be compared with Yao Chen when he was at the Great Perfection of the Heavenly Realm.

Next, Ye Chen's task is to seal Han Feng's soul and the strange fire within this broken body, then take him back to the Ye family to find a new master for the Sea Heart Flame. After that, Han Feng will be completely useless...

Without hesitation, Ye Chen immediately began to use Han Feng's still-energy-rich body as a foundation to cast the Sealing Flame Curse, completely sealing the Sea Heart Flame within Han Feng's body.

After doing all this, Ye Chen directly threw Han Feng, who was between life and death, into his Star Emblem Ring.

Of course, Ye Chen was able to achieve this thanks to the special nature of the Star Emblem Ring in his hand. After a long period of exploration, Ye Chen discovered that the storage ring he obtained from the mysterious Dou Di ruins was completely different from all the storage rings on the continent at present...

Besides its vast interior space, which is like a small world, it can also accommodate living creatures...

This alone surpasses all existing high-level storage rings. Perhaps the only difference between this Starshine Ring space and a true small world is that living beings within the Starshine Ring space will fall into a state of unconscious, unresponsive suspended animation, and all bodily energy consumption will be minimized, thus ensuring that they will not suffocate due to the lack of air in the space.

After putting away the sealed Han Feng, Ye Chen's gaze then fell on the dark blue storage ring he had taken from the other's hand.

The Nether Sea Storage Ring—that's the name of Han Feng's storage ring. It's an extremely rare and high-level storage ring on the continent.

It has been placed in the ranks of those who receive the ring.

Even in the Central Plains, the quantity of such items would be extremely limited. For example, the Ye family, as far as Ye Chen knew, possessed no more than three in total…

Playing with the deep blue storage ring in his hand, Ye Chen tentatively tried to intrude with his soul power, but was surprised to find that the storage ring reflected his soul power back.

However, this was not surprising. Ye Chen was well aware that a high-level storage ring could have its soul imprint set by the owner. In this way, even if someone else was lucky enough to obtain the storage ring, they would have to erase the soul imprint if they wanted to take anything from it.

To erase the original owner's soul imprint, one needs to possess a stronger soul power than the original owner. Furthermore, the owner of the storage ring will sense that the imprint has not been erased. This near-autonomous protective function is unique to high-level storage rings and is one of the biggest reasons for their skyrocketing value.

However, since Han Feng was now completely under his control, Ye Chen was naturally not worried about being sensed by him. Therefore, a fierce soul power surged out instantly, directly erasing the soul imprint left by Han Feng in the most brute force...

However, he did not leave his mark on it. After all, he already had the Star Emblem Ring, so this high-level storage ring was of no use to him. It would be better to leave it to the Ye family.

What he's concerned about now is what kind of surprise Han Feng's collection will bring him...

With that thought, Ye Chen's mind stirred, and his soul power entered the storage ring without any hindrance.

The investigation lasted only a short while before Ye Chen slowly withdrew his attention from his storage ring...

Even though he was mentally prepared, a hint of undisguised surprise still flashed in his eyes.

The things Han Feng has amassed in the Black Corner Region over the years are countless. There are quite a lot of medicinal herbs that are extremely rare in the outside world in his storage ring. Moreover, all kinds of cultivation techniques and combat skill scrolls are casually placed. Obviously, these are all items exchanged by those who come to him to ask him to refine pills.

Of course, these weren't the things that excited Ye Chen the most. As the young master of the Ye family, he had seen far too many medicinal herbs, cultivation techniques, and fighting skills...

What excited him most was the vast collection of pill formulas within!

As the disciple of the former number one alchemist on the continent, and the one who obtained most of Yao Chen's collection, Han Feng possesses a number and level of pill formulas that are no less than those of an alchemist family like the Ye family, which has a history of hundreds of years!

Especially those unique pill formulas created by Yao Chen, such as the sixth-grade pill Earth Spirit Pill that Xiao Yan needed to subdue the Fallen Heart Flame, and the Yin-Yang Profound Dragon Pill that Yao Chen created on the Fallen God Ice Plains, etc...

In addition, there are also pills such as the Fighting Spirit Pill, the Imperial Extreme Pill, and the Breaking Sect Pill.

The reason why Han Feng was able to escape from Zhongzhou and then subdue the Sea Heart Flame, which ranked fifteenth on the Strange Flame Ranking, was largely due to the special pills left behind by Yao Chen!

What Ye Chen didn't expect was that he also found Han Feng's Burning Technique inside...

Although it is only a fragment, it still records the secrets of the fusion of different flames.

This was unexpected for Ye Chen. He had originally thought that Han Feng hadn't obtained the Burning Technique, but...

Thinking about it, it makes sense. Han Feng already possessed the Sea Heart Flame, yet he still went to great lengths to plot the Fallen Heart Flame of Canaan Academy. If it weren't for the ability of the Burning Technique to fuse different flames, he wouldn't have dared to risk his life!

Chapter 124 Sky-Supporting Mountains

After summarizing his gains, Ye Chen instantly felt that his trip to the Northwest Continent had been worthwhile.

Although there were no high-level items like Heavenly Rank cultivation techniques, this time they not only obtained two kinds of strange flames and gathered several exceptionally talented individuals, but also acquired a vast collection to enrich the Ye family's foundation...

All of this can only be described in two words—

perfect!

I glanced at the rolling mountains behind me...

If the original text is correct, the inner courtyard of Canaan Academy should be located somewhere in these mountains.

Unfortunately, although the Fallen Heart Flame and the future Dragon Emperor Zi Yan were there, now was not a good time for him to get close to them, so Ye Chen did not force it and instead chose to leave, embarking on his journey back to Zhongzhou.

Tianya City is located in a mountain range called Tianqing, thousands of miles away from the Black Corner Region. As the only city within a thousand miles that has a spatial wormhole leading to the Central Continent, Tianya City is second to none in terms of prosperity within this area.

Of course, Ye Chen, who had read the original novel, knew very well that the space wormhole in Tianya City was not as safe as the space wormhole in Luoyun Imperial Capital...

However, traveling from the Black Corner Region to the Falling Cloud Empire would be more than ten thousand miles away. Taking such a long detour and passing through several massive empires would be completely unnecessary.

Moreover, compared to the original story where Xiao Yan and his companions were still about ten years away from reaching the Central Plains, the spatial wormhole in Tianya City should still be relatively stable...

At the speed of the giant eagle, it would take at least half a month to reach Tianya City in the Tianqing Mountains from the Black Corner Region. However, Ye Chen didn't care about that. They had already spent more than a month just traveling and flying, so he didn't mind another ten or fifteen days.

During the flight, Ye Chen also took the opportunity to give Queen Medusa and the other women a general introduction to the situation in Zhongzhou, especially Danyu and the Ye family, as these were places where they would be living for many years to come, so it was natural for them to have a basic understanding of them.

"Within the Central Plains, the real power can be roughly divided into one palace, one tower, two sects, three valleys, and four pavilions," Ye Chen said.

"One of these towers refers to the Pill Tower, which is the holy land of all alchemists on the entire continent, the most powerful alchemist organization, and one of the two top forces on the continent."

"And the Pill Domain where my Ye family resides is within the sphere of influence of the Pill Tower. My Ye family is also one of the five great families recognized by the Pill Tower within the Pill Domain!"

These words meant nothing to Little Fairy Doctor and her daughter Qinglin, because they had no idea what the Pill Tower or the Five Great Families were; they only knew that they were very powerful...

Queen Medusa was somewhat shocked... She originally thought the Ye family was just a powerful alchemist family, but she didn't expect that they were actually one of the five great families of the Pill Domain, a terrifying existence backed by the behemoth that is the Pill Tower!

However, once she understood this, Queen Medusa felt somewhat relieved, glad that she had made the right choice.

With such a powerful force as her backer, her safety in Zhongzhou would be greatly guaranteed. Even if her identity were exposed in the future, she wouldn't have to worry about any fools coveting her...

Although this idea is frustrating, it is a very real problem!

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The experiences of more than one Medusa Queen have taught the Serpent People that the Central Plains is a truly dangerous place!

The reason why Yue Mei so readily imagines human men to be so despicable is not simply because she harbors prejudice...

"One hall, one tower, two sects, three valleys, four pavilions—besides the Pill Tower, what other forces are there? And what is this 'one hall' that ranks before the Pill Tower?" Queen Medusa asked with a look of curiosity.

"The two sects are the Heavenly Nether Sect and the Flower Sect. These two sects possess extremely strong power in the Central Continent, with numerous powerful figures within them. Although they cannot compare to the Pill Tower and the Soul Palace, they are still formidable forces. As for the three valleys, they are the Ice River Valley, the Sound Valley, and the Burning Flame Valley. As for the Starfall Pavilion, the Myriad Swords Pavilion, the Yellow Springs Pavilion, and the Wind and Thunder Pavilion, they are also known as the Four Directions Pavilions because they stand in a square formation in the Central Continent," Ye Chen patiently explained.

"The strength of these forces decreases in that order. The two sects are the strongest, second only to the one palace and one tower. The three valleys are much weaker, and the four pavilions are even weaker, only considered to be among the top-tier forces in the Central Plains."

After saying that, Ye Chen reminded her again, saying, "Although I said they are inferior, even the Four Directions Pavilion has a Dou Zun with at least a two-star cultivation level in each of its forces, so they should not be underestimated. Cai Die, you must be careful."

Having reached the Dou Zun level, one belongs to a completely different world from others. Therefore, Queen Medusa nodded solemnly after hearing Ye Chen's reminder and kept it firmly in mind.

Although the Seven-Colored Sky-Devouring Python is said to be an ancient magical beast comparable to a Dou Sheng (Battle Saint), that's only after she has fully grown up. Revealing her identity now would only attract the covetousness of outsiders!

"As for the last 'hall', it refers to the Soul Hall!"

The Soul Hall is extremely mysterious in the Central Continent; ordinary people rarely encounter anyone from it. Even its branches are largely unknown, let alone its headquarters. Yet, despite this, the Soul Hall is still on par with the Pill Tower, demonstrating just how terrifying its hidden power is.

Ye Chen didn't reveal too much about the Soul Palace, because in the current situation, no matter how strong the Soul Palace was, it didn't have much to do with them.

Although the Soul Hall and the Pill Tower are practically irreconcilable enemies, even the Soul Hall doesn't dare to act too recklessly in the Pill Domain.

Time passed quickly as everyone talked.

That day, shortly after the sun rose above the horizon, the three Yao brothers, who were leading the way with a map, cheered with delight.

"Young master, we have arrived at the Sky-Piercing Mountain Range!"

A gasp startled the bored girls on the giant eagle, who immediately perked up and looked down from the sky.

Suddenly, they found themselves having crossed a vast, boundless plain and slowly entering the Tianqing Mountains...

Upon entering the mountain range, wide roads appeared in all directions, leading to Ye Chen and his companions.

On that main road, one could see many people coming and going, and even from such a distance, Ye Chen and the others could faintly hear some noises coming from the ground.

The silhouette of a massive city stands faintly, nestled among the lush green mountains...

Chapter 125 Spatial Wormhole

As they drew closer, the massive city came into full view of Ye Chen. He carefully examined its scale and nodded slightly. While such a colossal city was not uncommon in the Central Plains, it was comparable to the capitals of powerful empires in the Northwest Continent.

"Let's go down..."

With a light step on the giant eagle, Ye Chen and the others stopped two hundred meters away from the city.