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

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However, for an eighth-grade alchemy master like Ye Chen, refining a seventh-grade high-level pill is a piece of cake.

……

……

A hundred miles away from the Skeleton Mountains, on a mountain peak, space suddenly fluctuated, and then a dark spatial rift quietly opened, from which figures flashed out.

This group was Ye Chen and his companions who had just left the ruins.

"Zi Yan, summon the powerful members of the Ancient Dragon Clan beside you. The Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit is no ordinary fruit; you must return to Dragon Island now." Even Ye Chen dared not be careless about this.

Zi Yan pouted somewhat reluctantly. She had only been out for a short time, and now she had to go back...

but……

"Brother, how did you know those old guys would send people to protect me?"

Ye Chen rolled his eyes at him: "Even when my Ye family members go out to train, they are accompanied and protected by powerful figures, let alone the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan?"

Besides, you don't really think you can hide your escape from the ancient dragon clan elders on Dragon Island, do you?

"Humph!"

Although she was very reluctant, Zi Yan still chose to compromise, after all, she knew the seriousness of the matter.

The space cracked open again, and a burly figure walked out. It was Hei Qing, who had met Ye Chen once before.

"It's you again, you brat..."

The moment Hei Qing saw the figure standing next to Zi Yan, his face darkened.

Clearly, Hei Qing disliked Ye Chen intensely; that was his first impression. But there was nothing he could do about it, because he couldn't influence Zi Yan's thoughts.

However, after hearing from Zi Yan that Ye Chen had helped him obtain the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit, Hei Qing's dragon eyes widened like bowls...

"The Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit? It's such a treasure!"

Turning around again, the dark face had disappeared, replaced by an incredibly warm smile.

"Hahaha, kid, you're pretty good! I could tell you were no ordinary person at first glance. I knew my judgment was spot on!"

"..."

Ye Chen stared speechlessly at the burly, dark-skinned man.

He really wanted to ask, "Are you really a dragon? How come you have such a dog-like face? The transformation was too fast..."

"Senior Hei Qing, you're too kind. I don't need to elaborate on the importance of the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit, so please, Senior Hei Qing, protect Zi Yan and return to Dragon Island first..."

"Hey, don't call me senior, just call me big brother. I'll take the little guy back first then..." Hei Qing patted Ye Chen's shoulder and laughed heartily.

Zi Yan had a pained look on her face, clearly unwilling.

"Big brother, I'll be going now. Once I've improved my strength, I'll come find you to play. You'll have to make up for the pills you owe me then..."

Ye Chen was initially quite touched by the young girl standing there recruiting him, but upon hearing the next sentence, he couldn't help but roll his eyes.

"Alright, alright, I know, you greedy little thing..."

As the two disappeared into the spatial rift, Ye Chen led Xiao Yan and the others directly away from the Beast Domain.

Instead of returning to the Pill Domain, Xiao Yan was eager to leave and return to the Starfall Pavilion. After all, his priority now was to revive his teacher.

"Take this leg bone. You can add it when you're refining the body for Elder Yao. With the Dou Sheng essence contained in these bones, it will definitely give you a pleasant surprise..."

Chapter 389 Strange Movement

After returning to the Pill Domain with the colorful butterfly, Ye Chen immediately went into seclusion to study the remains of the Dou Sheng he had obtained.

As Ye Chen gently stroked the jade-white bones, a warm and smooth sensation flowed into his palm, as if he were caressing a piece of warm jade, without any of the roughness of bones.

Ye Chen's attention was mainly focused on those three ribs that concealed the secrets of Heaven-Rank Battle Techniques...

Ye Chen discovered that the ribs were covered with tiny, strange characters. These characters were extremely mysterious and gave people a sense of obscurity.

"The seal? It's alright..."

If it's a seal, it can be broken. Besides, Ye Chen has more than one way to break this seal.

With a stretch of his hand, purplish-brown flames rose from his palm, enveloping the three jade-like ribs. The terrifying temperature quickly dried out the air in the room.

Even the bones of a Dou Sheng (Battle Saint) cannot escape the scorching heat of the strange fire.

A moment later, when Ye Chen put away the strange fire, the three ribs that had been there had disappeared, leaving only a mysterious ball of golden viscous liquid...

Frowning, Ye Chen tried hard to recall the original story, then inserted his right fingers into the liquid.

"hiss!"

The dark golden liquid quickly spread from his fingers, enveloping his entire right palm. An uncontrollable, excruciating pain surged from his palm, causing Ye Chen's face to contort in agony...

Enveloped in that dark golden liquid, its palm began to writhe strangely, and even faint sounds of bones squeezing could be heard, as if it were about to deform.

After the wriggling stopped, the golden liquid quickly seeped into Ye Chen's palm through the pores, eventually transforming into familiar golden runes that adhered to his hand bones, which had become glowing!

"This……"

"Could this be the cultivation method of the Great Creation Palm? It's directly engraved on the bones in the form of runes?"

This was the first time Ye Chen had ever heard of such a method for cultivating combat skills.

However, he then learned from the remaining information of the Great Creation Palm that it was just a special method of tempering the palm.

Because the Great Creation Palm is incredibly powerful, it also puts a huge burden on the user's hands when used. Therefore, it can only be used with hands that have been tempered, otherwise, it will inevitably backfire!

After understanding, Ye Chen breathed a sigh of relief. He had thought he had encountered some ancient secret cultivation method, but it seemed he had been overthinking it.

However, this also proves the power of the Great Creation Palm. Although it is also a low-level Heaven-rank combat skill, it is obvious that my Luan Killing Spear is slightly inferior to it.

Three days later, after Ye Chen had completely mastered the Great Creation Palm, the other party had already arrived, fulfilling his promise to help Tang Zhen, the Valley Master of Burning Flame Valley, refine pills.

"President Ye, this is really troublesome." As he spoke, Tang Zhen handed over a storage ring.

Don't misunderstand, these are just medicinal herbs for refining the Fire Bodhi Pill, not a reward for Ye Chen.

"Hehe, Valley Master Tang, you're too kind. Let's begin."

It was just a high-grade seventh-rank pill. Even though the refining method was a bit complicated, it was still far inferior to an eighth-rank pill, so Ye Chen could easily obtain it.

However, Ye Chen paid special attention while speaking.

He glanced at the girl in red who was following Tang Zhen...

Well, calling her a young girl isn't quite accurate. This woman is probably about the same age as me, which means she's already beyond the category of a young girl.

However, when Ye Chen turned his gaze, he saw a pair of eyes that were also filled with curiosity and inquiry.

With a slight smile, Ye Chen quickly withdrew his gaze and then led the Tang father and daughter directly to his alchemy workshop.

With the strange fire and the Star Cauldron, Ye Chen only needed one day to refine all the medicinal materials. That speed made Tang Zhen feel ashamed.

"As expected of the most talented alchemist in the Pill Tower in hundreds of years, his technique and speed are beyond my reach, even if I were to try and catch up!"

Unbeknownst to Tang Zhen, his daughter was also watching the young man refining medicine with rapt attention, lost in thought.

During the final elixir-combining process, the two types of blue and red energies in the Fire Bodhi Elixir suddenly erupted with strong energy fluctuations, seemingly indicating a repulsive phenomenon.

Tang Zhen and his daughter's expressions changed upon seeing this, because they had failed at this very step when they were refining pills before.

However, judging from Ye Chen's expression at this moment, there was absolutely no change...

Then, Tang Zhen keenly sensed a powerful surge of soul force erupting forth, forcibly compressing and fusing the two energies...

Such a violent method left Tang Zhen dumbfounded; this was the first time he had ever seen such a method used to combine pills.

Of course, this was only because his soul power was strong enough; otherwise, Ye Chen would not have dared to take such a risky move.

Rumble!

Dark clouds gathered and thunder roared.

A divine lightning strikes, and the elixir is complete!

Without any complications, the Fire Bodhi Pill was successfully refined.

When Tang Zhen saw the fiery red pill in his hand, he was filled with excitement.

"Thank you very much, Young Master. I will remember this kindness. If you ever need anything from Burning Flame Valley in the future, I will do my best to help!"

Ye Chen chuckled lightly: "Hehe, it's just fulfilling someone's request."

Besides, he hadn't trained for nothing. Tang Zhen had even brought out the "Three Mysterious Transformations of Heavenly Fire," the treasure of Burning Flame Valley, as a token of his gratitude, so Ye Chen naturally had to do his best.

After seeing off the people from Burning Flame Valley, news came from Starfall Pavilion that Yao Lao had gone into seclusion to replenish his soul essence. Xiao Yan invited Ye Chen to Starfall Pavilion to prepare for the process of resurrecting Yao Lao.

"Is everything ready? I also need to go back to the Ye family to see if Grandpa has come out of seclusion yet..."

Refining a body requires three different kinds of strange fire. The reason Xiao Yan sought out Ye Chen was because of the two kinds of strange fire that the Ye family possessed.

Two hours later, Ye Chen arrived at the Misty Valley of the Pill Domain. After returning to the Pill Domain, Cai Die went straight back here.

However, when Ye Chen arrived in the valley, he saw Cai Die, whose expression was somewhat strange, and his mother Song Chun'er. He asked in confusion, "What's wrong? Did something happen?"

Upon seeing Ye Chen, his mother's face lit up with joy, and she quickly said, "You're finally back! Otherwise, I would have sent Cai Die to look for you. Look, I don't know what's wrong with this big rock, it's been emitting silver light from time to time these past few days, but when we try to find out why, it goes quiet again..."

Chapter 390 The True Inheritance

Ye Chen was stunned for a moment after hearing his mother's words.

He naturally knew what the big rock his mother was talking about was; it was the strange boulder from which he had obtained the inheritance of that mysterious Dou Di.

But ever since I received the inheritance, this stone has become nothing special, except for the vast and boundless starry space inside...

However, only those with star power can enter this space, which means that currently only Ye Chen and Ye Xinyue from the entire Ye family can enter.

Because of his physical condition, Ye Chen could only absorb about the same amount of star power inside and outside the space. Moreover, the star space lacked the energy of heaven and earth, so he rarely entered it.

Only Ye Xinyue would occasionally enter, using the starlight inside to purify the medicinal power she absorbed from consuming pills, which increased her cultivation speed by 30%...

Unexpectedly, I heard news today that this giant rock is moving strangely...

"Where's Xinyue? She's not inside, is she?" Ye Chen asked quickly.

Song Chun'er shook her head and said, "Ever since this strange rock started acting strangely, Xin Yue hasn't been able to get inside. She returned to Ye City with Han Yue a few days ago, and we don't know where she's gone again..."

Ye Chen nodded.

After such a long period of secluded cultivation, Ye Xinyue's strength has broken through to the level of a five-star Dou Zong, and Han Yue also broke through to Dou Zong a month ago, so Ye Chen is not worried about the two women getting into trouble.

After a moment's hesitation, Ye Chen said, "How about this, I'll see if I can go in later. If I can, I'll go in and see what changes have occurred inside..."

Song Chun'er was a little worried, but she also knew that although the boulder looked ordinary, it was the source of her son's inheritance, so she didn't say anything more.

Ye Chen arrived at the boulder and was about to reach out and touch it when he suddenly noticed that the boulder was moving again. Layers of silver light were spreading outward, just like a real star releasing its light!

"This……"

Ye Chen raised an eyebrow, slightly surprised.

However, he didn't stop; he pressed his palm directly onto the rocky mountain...

call out!

An invisible suction force came, and Ye Chen felt dizzy for a moment. Then, the surrounding environment completely changed, from a lush valley to a pitch-black night sky.

Looking up at the starry sky above, Ye Chen discovered that the stars in the sky were now as large as the moon, emitting boundless starlight.

What surprised Ye Chen the most was that these starlight gave him a hazy, ethereal feeling, as if each star possessed its own life...

"What...what exactly happened?"

Such a huge change made Ye Chen feel uneasy, and he had no idea what had happened.

After all, it concerns his own inheritance, and the owner of this thing was a former ancient Dou Di, so Ye Chen couldn't afford to take it lightly.

Just then, a voice tinged with dissatisfaction suddenly rang in his ear...

"What kind of nonsense is that dead rabbit? Why did it give me a constitution acquired later in life?"

The sudden sound startled Ye Chen. When he turned around, he saw a figure that had silently appeared to his left at some point.

This man was dressed in a purple, star-studded crown, like an emperor descending to earth. His face was like jade, his eyebrows like swords, his eyes like stars, his gaze so intense it seemed to look into an abyss, drawing one in irresistibly.

Enter it.