Rise of the Alchemy God

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Ethan was initially hopeful about discovering more information about the Demon King, but unfortunately for him, this subordinate had never seen him before, and Yi Tiao's soul was lost, so there was nothing he could learn from him either.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

That said, the information obtained from Yi Tiao's subordinate was still very useful, especially regarding this base and, most importantly, the functionality of the portal.

He had discovered that the large space at the center of the teleportation station was an area where portals could be opened.

A separate platform wasn't necessary for each portal.

That large area sufficed, where, depending on the coordinates entered into a device, portals could be opened.

These devices, however, were only the property of demon commanders and were assigned to them upon their appointment.

As for the coordinates, the demon didn't know them, but Ethan learned that perhaps the shadow demon, the second strongest in Yi Tiao's squad, might know them, as he was Yi Tiao's right-hand man.

Ethan, therefore, decided he would also absorb that demon after recruitment.

That said, although the demon was the weakest in the squad, he wasn't useless and provided Ethan with a lot of useful information, as well as many stat points.

Moyan, who had only recently advanced, had given Ethan a considerable amount of stat points, so when Ethan absorbed the demon of the spiritual rank, he expected something a bit more—and indeed, he was right.

[You have gained +14,000 STR]

[You have gained +12,500 AGI]

[You have gained +5,000 INT]

[You have gained +4,000 Soul Strength]

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Name: Ethan

Cultivation: Soul Awakening (advanced)

QI: 100M / 100M

Physique: Minor Demonic Physique

Strength: 42,787 → 56,787

Agility: 36,577 → 49,077

Intelligence: 21,289 → 26,289

Soul Strength: 5,014 → 9,014

[Shop]

[Storage]

[System Points]: 468M

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As usual, Ethan's stats didn't increase uniformly.

From the strength and agility stats, which, as usual, were the ones that saw the largest increases of well over 30%, to the intelligence and soul strength stats, which, as always, had the smallest increases among the four, rising by 20% and 80% respectively.

The soul strength might seem like the stat that increased the most, but over time, it would revert to being the lowest of all, for obvious reasons.

For now, the stat was already low, so such a large boost appeared significant, but it obviously wouldn't always be like this.

That said, even so, Ethan had gained a quantity of soul strength that would take others tens of thousands of years to accumulate.

According to him, he would reach the quantity of soul strength necessary for divine ascension long before reaching the sixth stage.

If Ethan had wanted to estimate his power before and after this increase, he would have noticed that his overall total strength had increased by 33%, a significant boost, considering that all he had done was feed the weakest of the four demons to his special physique.

Needless to say, Ethan couldn't wait to absorb the remaining two demons, but for now, he would make do with this one.

He regretted a bit the loss of the demon named Yi Tiao, as he was certain it would have been the one to provide him with the highest number of stats.

He had always believed that demons were the fastest way to increase his strength, and now he was more certain of it than ever.

Ethan could form an idea of the average statistics of a demon at the peak of the first stage of the spiritual realm and could say that they wouldn't exceed 30k.

Meanwhile, he had already reached that limit during the initial phase of the first stage of the spiritual realm.

At the moment, he wasn't certain of his maximum limit for this stage, but for now, it didn't matter.

He still had a long way to go and still had that condensed demonic energy sphere inside his sea of consciousness.

He was certain that the amount contained within it would be high enough to allow him to reach the stat limit for this stage very quickly.

That said, he wasn't the only one who received a power boost.

Next to him, the elf girl, who now appeared much healthier, had also undergone her fair share of improvements.

Just by looking at her, one could tell that her physical form was much better, as if she had been training her body for years, and the same could be said about her cultivation.

At this moment, she had reached the peak of the body-refining stage, just one step away from entering the next stage.

Ethan told her not to advance.

Although her body could withstand such a rapid advancement, it wouldn't benefit her in the long term, even more so because she wouldn't have time to adapt to her newfound strength. Therefore, he told her to stop at this stage for now.

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Although Ethan had also helped her learn some basic combat techniques, both armed and unarmed, she was still at a very early stage.

That said, he had to admit that despite it being her first time, she learned very quickly.

He was certain that if he sent her to train in his minor dimension, she would surpass the Guo brothers in no time.

This was because not only was the concentration of spiritual Qi there extremely high, but she would also have more opportunities to improve in terms of experience.

Currently, his small world had grown enough and was populated with enough beings to be considered a true world, with various species, both intelligent and less so.

If he were to throw her into the middle of the forest, as he and Bai Yu had done with the Guo brothers, he was certain that she would not only survive but also grow stronger at a very rapid pace.

He wasn't sure if all elves had such a high talent for cultivation, but she certainly did, and he intended to help her make full use of her talent.

Ethan wondered how Bai Yu would react when they met again next time.

He was certain that she would want to train the elf girl personally.

While he was lost in his thoughts, the line of participants continued to dwindle until, after several hours, it was finally Ethan and Lin Yu's turn.

By this point, Ethan already had an idea of how the test was conducted, and it was exactly as he had heard.

The test itself wasn't anything complicated or something that required too much time.

In short, to put it simply, they would first examine the cultivation base of the participants and then give them the opportunity to fight for 5 minutes against someone of their same level.

If they managed to hold out, they would pass; otherwise, they could try again next time.

Ethan had noticed that, unlike for those at the first rank, those at the third rank were given a choice of whether or not to fight, as their cultivation level was already high enough to be accepted into any squad.

That said, although many were given this choice, none decided not to fight, and this was because there was an audience watching the tests, and this audience consisted precisely of officials and, more importantly, squad commanders.

Although the commanders of the top 10 squads weren't present, that didn't mean there weren't other famous commanders there.

In fact, there were several, ranging from those in the top 50 to even some from the top 20.

All the participants intended to perform their best in this demonstration of their abilities, hoping to catch the attention of one of them.

Especially after seeing that the commander holding the 17th position had already recruited one of the cultivators from the third stage of the mortal rank.

This event had raised everyone's expectations.

Many knew they wouldn't have the same opportunity as that participant, but they hoped to at least receive an invitation from a strong squad, even if it wasn't in the top 20.

For soldiers of their level, even those in the top 30 were already significant, so after that participant, the subsequent examination became a bit more intense, and everyone anticipated seeing some good performances.