Battle Through the Heavens: The Strongest in the Entire Map, I Will Always Be Above You

"When did a sixth-grade alchemist arrive in the capital? You didn't even tell me. I'm an honorary elder of the Alchemist Guild, after all."

Guhe looked at Fama with a wry smile.

"That master has an eccentric temper, but since you're here, come along!"

Fa Ma chuckled and casually made up an excuse to brush it off. Gu He also felt that Fa Ma was making excuses for him, but Fa Ma was stronger than him and had also done him a favor, so Gu He didn't say anything more and followed him inside.

Soon, as the participating alchemists arrived one after another, Chen Yang and his group, escorted by Hai Bodong, walked up to the high platform.

"It's him???" Gu He spotted Chen Yang at a glance, the peak Dou Huang expert who had stolen Yun Yun and the Strange Flame.

"Master Chen Yang, you've arrived!" Fa Ma, unaware of Gu He's thoughts, greeted Chen Yang with a smile.

"That... that sixth-grade alchemist is him???"

"If it's him, then it's not surprising!"

Gu He instantly understood. This guy was the kind of person who would draw his sword and pull him down from the air at the slightest disagreement. His temper was indeed strange. Thinking of this, he gave Fa Ma a kind look, but Fa Ma, who turned around, looked at him with confusion.

"Master Chen Yang, this is Elder Gu He of the Yunlan Sect, and also the only sixth-grade alchemist in the Jia Ma Empire before him." Fa Ma looked at Chen Yang and introduced Gu He.

"Elder Guhe, it's been a long time!" Chen Yang looked at Guhe, his tone neither warm nor cold.

"Greetings... Master Chen Yang!" Gu He smiled bitterly and bowed to Chen Yang.

"Since you're here, please sit down. If nothing unexpected happens, Elder Guhe's disciple will win the championship today." Chen Yang walked to the middle seat and sat down. Xiao Yan and Little Fairy Doctor sat in their seats from yesterday. Fa Ma sat next to Xiao Yan, Guhe sat next to Fa Ma, and Hai Bodong sat next to Little Fairy Doctor.

"Sigh! Although Liu Ling has some talent in alchemy, he has become somewhat impetuous over the years because he is my disciple. It might not be a good thing if he wins the championship at this alchemist competition." Gu He sighed. Although he had a grudge against Chen Yang, he was serious about training his disciples.

"That depends on how Elder Guhe trains it. Whether a sapling will grow into a towering tree depends on the tree's own roots, but the person who plants it must also take good care of it!" Chen Yang said with a smile.

Those around fell silent upon hearing this.

After a moment's thought, Guhe felt he had benefited greatly.

Xiao Yan felt that what Chen Yang said was quite similar to a few lines of classical Chinese he had learned before.

The old apothecary sighed silently. While Han Feng's betrayal was partly due to his ingratitude, didn't the old apothecary also bear some responsibility?

"Master Chen Yang is absolutely right. After the conference ends, Gu He will definitely give Liu Ling a good lesson!" Gu He said, cupping his hands in greeting to Chen Yang.

"Ok!"

……

The conference officially began with an announcement from Fama.

Compared to yesterday's monotonous refining process, today the entire Royal Square was ablaze with a hundred flames.

Outside the plaza, powerful warriors with wind attributes were already there to stabilize the wind and ensure that not a single gust of wind could blow into the arena.

In the center of the arena, Liu Ling and Yao Yue both pulled out their trump cards and began refining their best fourth-grade pills.

"Tsk... Liu Ling and Princess Yaoyue are both so young, yet they already have the ability to refine fourth-grade pills!" Fa Ma said with admiration.

"He's only good at one or two things; he's still a ways off from becoming a true fourth-grade alchemist," Gu He shook his head.

Outside the square, some older second- and third-grade alchemists looked at Liu Ling and Yao Yue refining fourth-grade pills in the center of the square with great envy. Their stagnation until now was due to both their lack of mentorship and their lack of talent.

Some people are destined to only reach this level in their entire lives.

A few hours later, Yaoyue and Liuling finished refining almost simultaneously.

However, Liu Ling's pills were clearly of a higher grade than Yao Yue's, and the championship of this alchemist competition undoubtedly fell into Liu Ling's hands.

"I hereby declare that the champion of the 7th Alchemist Tournament is—Liu Ling!"

However, compared to Guhe's year, this year's Alchemist Conference was rather unremarkable, and everyone was more looking forward to the next segment.

"Next, let's welcome Master Chen Yang. All contestants, please move forward and take your seats. Other alchemists, please do not disturb the contestants of this competition!" Fa Ma did not think that Chen Yang was practicing alchemy for those old folks who were about to lose their teeth.

The alchemists outside, who had thought they would be turned away, were overjoyed to find they had a chance to watch, and no longer cared about what was going on inside or outside.

With the soldiers maintaining order, more than three thousand alchemists poured into the venue, while Chen Yang smiled slightly, stepped into the void, and took another step, arriving directly above everyone.

"Gulp..." Gu He and the alchemists below the stage immediately swallowed hard.

"Soaring through the air... a Dou Zong level expert???"

Gu He's eyes were filled with complex and melancholy, while the alchemists below looked on with even greater admiration.

"Young alchemists, I believe that your potential is limitless. It's just that some of you lack excellent teachers and others don't have enough resources."

"But please believe in yourselves. The future of the Dou Qi Continent belongs to every young person, including you!"

"Next, I will explain as I refine the Imperial Extreme Pill. Listen carefully and watch closely. How much you learn is up to you!"

After speaking, Chen Yang sat cross-legged in the void, waved his hand to take out a medicine cauldron, and then waved his hand again to take out a portion of the ingredients for the Huangji Pill from Fa Ma Qiu Yao, and began to slowly refine it.

"The first step in refining pills is heating the cauldron. The heat must be carefully controlled, otherwise, the first batch of medicinal herbs you put in will be burned, and the pill refining will be a failure..."

As Chen Yang explained things from the basics, even Fama and Guhe started to listen attentively.

Little Fairy Doctor smiled and said to Hai Bodong beside her, "My husband is really teaching me seriously this time. Last time he refined the Imperial Extreme Pill, he just stuffed all the medicinal herbs into the cauldron at once!"

During this time, when Chen Yang was refining medicine, besides the Devouring Python that was always coiled around him, there was only Little Fairy Doctor by his side. Therefore, Little Fairy Doctor was extremely familiar with Chen Yang's medicine refining process.

Xiao Yan, on the other hand, was learning on two fronts: he was observing Chen Yang refining medicine while Yao Lao was giving him instructions, making him a true winner in the world of medicine refining.

This training lasted for a full two and a half hours, but even so, Gu He was still shocked.

Although he was a sixth-grade alchemist, he had never successfully refined the Imperial Pill in his entire life.

However, even though he had never refined it before, he knew how difficult it was to refine the Imperial Pill. It would take an ordinary sixth-grade alchemist two or three days to refine a top-grade sixth-grade pill, but Chen Yang only took two and a half hours.

"Whoosh!" A beam of red light shot into the sky, announcing that Chen Yang's alchemy was successful.

"Everyone, don't rush off yet. Stay and digest this properly. Go back when you feel ready!" Chen Yang waved his hand, grabbed the Huangji Dan that was trying to escape, threw it into a jade bottle, and then flew back to the high platform with a smile.

"Here!" Chen Yang tossed the pill to Fa Ma, then took Little Fairy Doctor's hand and left gracefully.

Seeing this, Hai Bodong followed, while Xiao Yan cupped his hands in greeting to Fa Ma and the others, got up, and left as well.

An hour later, an alchemist finally got up and left the entire square with a bitter expression. This was the kind of person who lacked talent; even if you crushed the alchemy technique and stuffed it into his brain, it wouldn't make a difference.

After Guhe and the others woke up, they also bowed in the direction of the Mittel family. Guhe himself had also gained a lot from today's feast!

……

In the blink of an eye, two days later!

The capital city, the Xiao family mansion.

"Brother Yang!" Today, Xiao Yan was no longer wearing his fourth-grade alchemist robes, but instead wore his familiar black clothes, with the Xuan Heavy Ruler slung over his back.

Chen Yang and his group left Mittel yesterday and arrived at the Xiao family. Today, they are going to Yunlan Mountain.

"Not bad, very energetic!" Chen Yang reached out and patted Xiao Yan on the shoulder. Xiao Yan was slightly taken aback, and felt that the words sounded familiar.

However, Xiao Yan quickly put it out of his mind and chuckled, "Hehe, thank you for your support over the past three years, Brother Yang. Although you swindled a lot of my money, it has all been transformed into my strength. I am really, really grateful to you, Brother Yang!"

Chen Yang put his arm around Xiao Yan's shoulder and said, "It's pointless to talk about such trivial matters. In the past three years, you have achieved your current strength mainly because of yourself. If you hadn't been able to withstand the beatings during those two cycles, you would only be a Great Dou Master at most. Your current strength is the result of your repeated fractures."

Upon hearing this, Xiao Yan smiled freely: "Let's not talk about these things anymore. Today, I can draw a perfect end to my youth. After today, Xiao Yan of the Xiao family will strive for greater goals, not this small, three-year agreement..."

Xiao Yan felt that his three-year agreement was very much like his high school life, from fifteen to eighteen years old, and today's three-year agreement was like his college entrance examination.

He believed that he could definitely deliver a satisfactory result!

"Let's go!"

"Let's go up Yunlan Mountain!"

Chen Yang nodded and strode towards the main gate of the Xiao family with Xiao Yan.

Today, only Chen Yang and Xiao Yan, along with a Devouring Python and a Medicine Elder, are going up Yunlan Mountain together.

Meanwhile, Little Fairy Doctor and her companions had already set off with the Mittel family and the Nalan family, escorted by Hai Bodong and the Amethyst Winged Lion King.

As they walked out of the capital, the two encountered coachmen along the way and saw the imperial legion stationed at the foot of Yunlan Mountain. Finally, they arrived at the foot of Yunlan Mountain.

"Here you go, Yang-ge!"

Xiao Yan took out a water bag and handed it to Chen Yang. Chen Yang took two sips and then threw it back to Xiao Yan. Xiao Yan chuckled, drank a few sips as well, and then looked up at the towering Yunlan Mountain.

"This Yunlan Sect is truly magnificent and imposing!" Xiao Yan exclaimed. "Three years ago, when I learned that Nalan Yanran was supported by Sister-in-law Yun Yun to break off the engagement, I was actually very scared."

"Living in Wutan City, the Yunlan Sect is like a mountain pressing down on our Xiao family. To resist it is merely the helpless roar of the weak."

Chen Yang also looked up at Yunlan Mountain.

He came into this world three years ago, and it has been three years since then.

From starting with just a pair of underwear to now possessing the cultivation of a Dou Zong, a sixth-grade alchemist, and having a beautiful woman by his side, it all seems like a dream.

That blue planet, and that city that had instilled despair in him, seemed to still be right before his eyes.

"Brother Yang, are you homesick?" Xiao Yan asked with a smile, looking at Chen Yang.

"Think about it..." Chen Yang gave an ambiguous answer.

"Haha, when people are young, they all want to escape their hometown, but after a while, they can't help but miss it!" Xiao Yan, having lived two lives, deeply understands this.

"You talk like you're old!" Chen Yang rolled his eyes at Xiao Yan, then slowly floated up.

"I've walked the path I needed to walk in these three years. Now, let's fly up for the last leg of the journey!" Xiao Yan smiled freely as he watched Chen Yang take off, his azure wings unfurling behind him as he leaped into the air.

"brush!"

The two moved with incredible speed, tearing through the void and quickly arriving above the Yunlan Sect, gazing at the plaza below.

"Xiao Yan of the Xiao family, a one-star Dou Wang, has come to keep the three-year agreement!"

Looking at Nalan Yanran standing in the center of the square, Xiao Yan's resolute voice instantly resounded across half the mountain.

As Chen Yang floated to Little Fairy Doctor and the others, a system notification sounded in his mind:

【Ding……】

Chapter 87 Three-Star Dou Zong, Seven-Rank Alchemist!

【Ding! 】

[Detected: The strongest member of the Yunlan Sect is Yun Shan, with a strength of one-star Dou Zong. Host's strength has increased to three-star Dou Zong!]

[The highest-ranking alchemist detected in the Yunlan Sect is Gu He, a sixth-grade alchemist. The host's alchemist rank has been upgraded to seventh-grade alchemist!]