An abstract trainer who taught Charmander the Incinerate move

Chapter 238 The Power of Nine Dragons Circulates, A Naturally Powerful Body for Drug Use! (Seeking Monthly Tickets)

Master Xiao Gang personally pinned a second-grade alchemist badge to Xiao Huolong's specially made vest.

The badge felt slightly cool to the touch, and an indescribable sense of honor washed over Xiao Huolong's brain. He couldn't help but carefully touch the cold metal with his paw.

The way the other examinees and staff looked at it completely changed. It was no longer the disdain or curiosity they had shown before, but a complex mix of awe, jealousy, and a hint of inquiry.

Its plump body, accentuated by the alchemist's robes and badges, even exuded a certain majesty.

Xiao Zhi's movements were lightning fast. Almost the instant Xiao Huolong pinned on the badge, he rushed to the association's finance window and slammed a subsidy application form with Xiao Huolong's paw print on the counter.

"Hurry up! Collect your alchemist's stipend!"

With a series of crisp clinking sounds, a small bag filled with Alliance universal gold coins was pushed out.

Xiao Zhi grabbed the money bag, weighed it in his hand, and his smile instantly stretched from the corners of his mouth to almost the roots of his ears.

Xiao Zhi, with his nostrils flared, staggered over to Xiao Mao, whose face was ashen.

He deliberately shook the allowance bag loudly, put his other hand on his hip, and imitated Xiao Mao's arrogant posture, speaking in an extremely irritating tone.

"Hey! Isn't this our Xiao Mu Research Institute's genius young master Xiao Mao? What's gotten into you in just a few days? Only a first-grade alchemist?"

He patted Xiao Huolong's second-rank badge on his chest forcefully.

"See that? That's real power! What kind of skill is relying on grandpa! The power of bonds is something you mere mortals will never understand! Hahaha, I'm going to be a Pokémon Master!"

He imitated a classic line from an animation and struck what he thought was a cool pose.

Finally, he suddenly waved his hand and shouted at Xiao Huolong, who was still in a daze.

"Xiao Huolong! My good partner! Keep up the good work! Your strength is my glory! For an even stronger bond between us, this trainer is now off to train for something even more important: [Grinding Bond Points]! Remember, our goal is to defeat all the female trainers... no, I mean, to become a Pokémon Master!"

After saying that, he rushed out of the Alchemist's Association without looking back, like a mouse that had stolen oil, heading straight for the [Pidgeon Spinning Bar].

Xiao Zhi was left to fend for himself, and the phantom of Elder Chi appeared in Xiao Huolong's spiritual world, a profound and unfathomable smile curling at the corner of his mouth under the red hat.

"Young man, your performance today was passable; you barely managed to avoid disgracing me. However, a second-grade alchemist is merely the beginning of alchemy! The true world is vast! Now, the time has come; I should impart to you some... truly forbidden secret medicines capable of shaking the very foundation of the Dou Qi Continent!"

"A forbidden...forbidden secret medicine?!"

Xiao Huolong’s Tang-style eyes instantly burst forth with an unprecedented light, ten or even nine times more intense than when he saw Miss Gardevoir!
The old man's wide sleeves moved without wind, as if they were connected to some otherworldly treasure vault.

He held out his hands, and one by one, precious materials of various shapes and sizes, each radiating a terrifying dragon's might, appeared out of thin air in the void before him as if by magic.

Each piece exudes a breathtaking energy fluctuation and a rich life force!
They are: Dragonite's Mighty Core, Kingdra's Dark Crystal Outrage, Salamence's Blood Wing Bone, Garchomp's Earthshaker Claw, Haxorus's Sturdy Armguard, Hydreigon's Frenzied Lobe, Goodra's Flexible Glow Core, Noivern's Divine Sound Path, and Duraludon's Steel Gate Essence.

Old Chi's voice, filled with unprecedented solemnity, resounded in Xiao Huolong's mind.

[Watch closely, kid! This is the main ingredient for refining the legendary Nine Dragons Divine Pill, a supreme divine object containing the power of nine dragons, capable of defying fate!]

"Nine...Nine Dragon Divine Pill?!"

Xiao Huolong's huge orange-yellow body trembled violently. Although its Tang-type brain could not understand too much complex information, the combination of the words "Nine Dragons" and "Divine Pill" itself carried a terrifying pressure that was enough to tear the sky apart!
It could clearly sense the immense power contained in the nine materials floating before it, each one far surpassing any medicinal herb it had ever seen before.

"Ho-"

It instinctively gasped, and for a moment the air in the entire cave seemed to be sucked away!
The phantom of Elder Chi was more solid than ever before. His fingers traced over the nine floating dragon-type treasures one by one, and his voice carried a seductive power.

[Excellent! This elixir seizes the essence of heaven and earth, and delves into the mysteries of the sun and moon! It gathers the life essence of nine quasi-divine dragon species into one! Once refined and consumed, it can draw upon the nine supreme dragon powers, transforming them into nine primordial divine dragons that created the world!]

He made a tearing motion with both hands, mimicking the loud noise of a heavy gate being forcibly pulled open.

[They will roar and surge within your body, working together to pull open the ultimate shackles that imprison the life-giving energy of all living beings—the Gate of Life! Once this gate is opened, all shackles will be removed! This elixir is therefore also known as—[Nine Dragons Pulling the Gate]!]
"Nine...Nine Dragons Pulling the Gate!!!"

Xiao Huolong's Tang-like eyes were completely ignited by the grand blueprint described by Elder Chi!
What an incredible opportunity! It seemed to see itself transforming into an invincible dragon!
"Old Chi... Elder Chi! I can definitely learn it! I will refine the Nine Dragons Divine Pill! I will unlock the gates of life! I will become stronger than anyone else! Aa ...

[Excellent! With such ambition, we shall not fail this heaven-defying divine pill!]

With a shout, the illusory figure suddenly transformed into a streak of crimson light and instantly entered Xiao Huolong's body!
Relax your mind and carefully experience this astonishing refining method! Every detail matters to success or failure!

Under the absolute dominance of Chi Lao's soul power, Xiao Huolong's mouth suddenly opened to an exaggerated degree, as if a black hole had been formed deep in his throat!
The nine dragon-type treasures, suspended in the air, were like nine shooting stars of different colors. They were pulled by an invisible force and instantly plunged into Xiao Huolong's bottomless belly!
[Execute by incineration! Rise!]

Chi Lao's voice was like a stabilizing force, and the Lion King Burning Heart Flame within Xiao Huolong's body was instantly activated to its maximum!

The flames, imbued with the refining will of the Burning Technique and Elder Chi's exquisite fire control techniques, precisely enveloped the nine raging torrents of energy.

Nine different colored primordial essences, each containing terrifying life force, began to slowly rotate and approach the core of the Burning Battle Qi vortex under the protection of the crimson-gold flames and the guidance of the Crimson Elder's soul, finally transforming into a peerless divine pill that faintly emitted a dragon's roar!

In an instant, Xiao Huolong felt endless energy enter his body, causing him to let out an incomparably exhilarating dragon roar.

"Aa ...

The roar was deafening, causing rocks to fall from the entire valley, and even the wind and clouds seemed to change color!

It felt as if it had broken free from some invisible constraint and was about to transform into a dragon and soar into the sky!

[Cut! - Act IV of "Battle Through the Heavens: Spirits" ends!]

From then on, Xiao Huolong, this plump orange-skinned lizard, became completely immersed in the great cause of alchemy.

Every day was like a sacred ceremony for Xiao Huolong. Its enormous Tang-style eyes would be fixed on the "rare dragon materials" that Mo Zhen handed over.

It carefully accepted it, as if holding the future of the entire Dou Qi Continent in its hands, and then, with an almost reverent pilgrimage, opened its bottomless maw.

It swallowed all the expensive "dragon materials" whole, and behind it, the fiery phantom [Crimson King], born from the resonance of pure spiritual will and the fighting spirit of the Burning Technique, appeared.

Even in the real world, the Stand's power still works!

With the unseen "mentor" [Crimson King] protecting him, Xiao Huolong's progress in alchemy was practically like having a cheat code.

It transformed directly into a refining furnace that operates day and night at high efficiency!
Under the absolute guidance of the Crimson King, the Lion King Burning Heart Flame within Xiao Huolong's body was instantly activated to its maximum, like the most loyal soldier!

Calcination, separation, purification...

Every step was carried out perfectly under the precise A-level control of the [Crimson King].

Nine streams of energy, each a different color and brimming with vibrant life force, slowly rotated, drew closer, and merged...

Finally, deep within the invisible furnace inside Xiao Huolong's belly, it transformed into a Nine Dragons Divine Pill with its radiance subdued!

Because the [Stand-in-Chief Crimson King] is a manifestation of Xiao Huolong's powerful spiritual energy, it is essentially a creation of the pure spiritual realm. Therefore, apart from Xiao Huolong himself, no one else can observe this mysterious existence.

Even someone as perceptive as Tang She could only occasionally catch a faint and incomprehensible fluctuation from that orange peel can that ate and slept all day long.

Tang Snake flicked its tongue slightly, revealing a hint of confusion and wariness—something seemed to have happened to this stupid lizard that it couldn't understand, something that couldn't be explained by simply overeating.

Xiao Mengzi could also sense Tang Long's strangeness.

However, it only thought that Mo Zhen had given the other party some kind of buff again, and didn't pay too much attention to it.

Every time the Nine Dragons Divine Pill was successfully refined in his body, Xiao Huolong could clearly feel an indescribable power erupting within him!
It seemed as if it could hear the roar and surge of nine ancient dragons in its meridians and blood vessels, the power of the nine dragons frantically impacting the life gate that bound its life source!
Through internal vision, it sensed that its meridians were becoming stronger and wider at an astonishing speed under the influence of the power of the nine dragons!

Every day, Xiao Huolong could clearly sense that the Burning Qi in his dantian was expanding wildly at an unprecedentedly terrifying speed!

If the previous progress was a trickle, then now it is a river bursting its banks, surging and surging forward, making rapid progress every day!
Of course... in the real world, where would Mo Zhen find those legendary dragon-type quasi-god organs?

Even if he could actually get his hands on this stuff, who knows what the effects of consuming it would be? Most likely, besides being aphrodisiacs, it wouldn't have any other benefits…

Ultimately, all of this was just a carefully designed gimmick by Mo Zhen to make Xiao Huolong believe more deeply in his own potential and to stimulate stronger psychological suggestion, so that his eating behavior was self-hypnotized as "refining divine pills".

What Mo Zhenzhen was really doing was entrusting his hardworking slave Wanlong to obtain nine kinds of mixed forbidden drugs that were strictly prohibited from circulation on the market and were used to forcibly promote rapid leveling up through certain special channels.

These banned drugs are extremely potent and have severe side effects; they are usually only used on Pokémon in certain illegal Pokémon arenas.

After receiving the drugs, Mo Zhen didn't even blink. He mixed them into the tree fruit that Xiao Huolong was showing off every day, using 200 times the maximum dosage indicated on the safety instructions.

Then, using the ability of soul vision, I added cool [Dragon Material] visual effects to these tree fruits.

The alchemy techniques he taught Xiao Huolong were essentially methods to incinerate the impurities of tree fruits with battle qi beforehand, allowing the tree's body to function like an incinerator, continuously consuming more tree fruits as a digestive aid.

Poor Xiao Huolong was completely unaware of this, spending his days immersed in the grand narrative of "refining divine pills," tirelessly showing off the tree fruits with potent additives.

In a state of self-congratulatory euphoria, he frantically "refined" the non-existent Nine Dragons Divine Pill, while incidentally absorbing massive amounts of banned drug ingredients into his body.

At first, Mo Zhen was a little apprehensive looking at Tang Long's overwhelming manner.

200 times the safe dose—that's enough to send ten monstrous creatures flying to a steroid planet.

He kept a close watch, fearing that bad news would come the next day.

However, after a period of observation and research, Mo Zhen was astonished to find that apart from his originally round bald head, which seemed to have become slightly pointed, Tang Long was perfectly fine in every other aspect!
He eats as usual, sleeps as usual, and still looks the same as always.

After carefully studying the cases of drug reactions and side effects, he stroked his chin and finally came to a jaw-dropping conclusion.

Since Tang Long's brain was already beyond redemption, the side effects of those banned drugs that could turn people into idiots or cause mental derangement were nothing compared to his native Down syndrome brain, which was the size of a walnut.
In other words... this guy is practically born to do drugs, a "naturally gifted drug addict"!
Mo Zhen looked at the empty bottle of banned drugs in his hand, then at the energetic Tang Long in the distance, and could only sigh.

200 times is not the upper limit of Tanglong, but the limit of drug concentration!
Every day, Xiao Huolong put in 200 times the effort of an ordinary elf!

This isn't some nonsensical cartoonist's offhand remark; it's a precise number that can be quantified using drug data!

As time passed, the scene shifted to the Three Monkeys Restaurant in Sanyo City.

Xiao Huolong was sitting next to Mo Zhen, with a small mountain of "dragon materials" piled up in front of him.

Its eyes were closed, its plump body trembled slightly, and it was immersed in another crucial moment of refining the "Nine Dragons Divine Pill".

Within its self-perceived spiritual world, nine illusory dragons roared around the soon-to-be-formed crimson-gold divine pill, as the final surge of power was about to be infused!
"Aa ...

A deep, muffled dragon roar, seemingly originating from the depths of his soul, suddenly burst forth from Xiao Huolong's throat!

The diners in the restaurant were startled by the sudden commotion and turned to look.

Tang She's icy snake eyes instantly locked onto Xiao Huolong, its tongue rapidly flickering in and out. Sensing the sudden surge in energy levels emanating from the other's body, a hint of astonishment flashed deep within its snake eyes for the first time.

At this moment, after putting in 200 times the effort of an ordinary elf, Xiao Huolong broke through the nine-star Dou Shi level and reached the level thirty mark.

Now, it is just one step away from becoming a legendary Grand Master!

(End of this chapter)