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

As he ran, he kept replaying what that damned rabbit had said in his mind...

"The starry universe? Could it be that this rabbit isn't a creature from the Dou Qi Continent, but comes from the endless starry sky?"

Thinking of this, Ye Chen couldn't help but look up at the sky, but all he saw was the endless fog high above.

However, upon closer examination, it's not impossible.

Although there are no legends about the starry sky above one's head on the Dou Qi Continent, that doesn't mean there's really nothing there.

Moreover, given the strength of that mysterious Dou Di, who could directly cross space and enter the Great Thousand World, crossing the starry sky should not be too difficult for him.

Who knows, that dead rabbit might be a creature from some medium or small world in this endless starry sky...

Thinking this, Ye Chen suddenly shook his head and smiled. There was no point in dwelling on these things. He was still too weak; traversing the stars was a distant dream. Improving his strength was the most important thing!

Before Ye Chen even reached the outer valley, he encountered Hu Tian, ​​who looked extremely anxious...

Upon seeing Ye Chen, the latter's face clearly showed surprise and delight. He hurriedly came forward and asked urgently, "Young Master, what just happened? How did all those giant beasts enter the valley? I just checked around and found that there isn't a single giant beast left in the outer valley!"

Mentioning this, Ye Chen felt a pang of heartache. He waved his hand and sighed, "Don't worry, remember the rabbit that took me away before? These giant beasts were just nourishment for it. Now it's just time to reap the rewards..."

Chapter Seventy-Seven: Another Breakthrough

Ye Chen felt heartbroken because as the giant beasts were devoured by the dead rabbit, the "Meteorite Stone," which served as the core, also lost its power and became ordinary stones.

Ye Chen even speculated that the meteorites that had circulated on the mainland before might have originated from here. If that were the case, then it would be impossible for him to use meteorites to absorb stellar energy in the future...

"Fortunately, the stellar energy within that silver boulder is still quite dense. There, the rate of absorbing stellar energy is twice that of the outside world, which is not bad..."

Thinking of the stone space where he received the inheritance, Ye Chen felt a little comforted.

More importantly, the valley is surrounded by mist, making it difficult for ordinary people to pass through. This gives him enough time to prepare and completely take over the valley from the Ye family!

"Elder Hu, next I plan to completely refine the Dragon Essence power within my body and directly raise my strength to the Dou Wang level, and then we'll leave..." Ye Chen said.

This choice was made after careful consideration.

Because he switched to cultivating the Heavenly Rank Astrology Technique, even if Ye Chen completely refines the Dragon Essence at this time, he doesn't need to worry about any potential instability in his foundation.

Although Hu Tian had some concerns, he knew that his young master must have had some extraordinary encounter. Since the decision had been made, he only needed to listen.

Thus, for the next few days, Ye Chen spent his time cultivating diligently in the cave outside the valley.

Hu Tian stood guard outside the cave, sensing the increasingly powerful aura within, his heart filled with a complex mix of relief and emotion...

A Battle King who is not even fifteen years old! Such a terrifying growth rate is something I never dared to imagine before!

Inside the cave, Ye Chen sat cross-legged, his eyes closed, a hint of impatience in his expression...

Within his body, a vast amount of energy was rapidly flowing into his dantian through all his meridians, and the urchin-like fighting crystal in his dantian had now expanded several times over, until finally…

boom!

With a loud boom, the battle crystal in his dantian shattered and then rapidly spread throughout his body, eventually merging into his flesh and blood.

Ye Chen, watching from the outside, noticed a slight twitch in his eye and his brows furrowed deeply. However, he didn't seem to care too much and continued to circulate his cultivation technique.

At this moment, a rumbling sound suddenly came from his body again. Immediately afterwards, powerful battle qi, like a flood, surged out from all parts of his body and flowed into his crystal-clear meridians...

As the fighting spirit surged, the crystal-clear meridians, like a pre-built dam, were filled with raging water. The meridians contracted and expanded, emitting an inaudible sound of joy.

"Dou Wang!"

His brows relaxed, and a smile appeared on Ye Chen's face.

Although countless powerful figures exist in the Central Plains, a Dou Wang level expert can still be considered a minor master. This is because Dou Wang level experts, besides being able to condense Dou Qi wings granting them flight, also possess the initial ability to manipulate external energy…

This is the biggest difference between the Dou Wang level and those before that!

Before becoming a Battle King, in battle, regardless of the level of the fighting technique used, everything could only be sustained by the fighting energy within one's own body.

This results in many powerful combat techniques being unable to unleash their true power, especially those reaching the Earth-level...

After all, how much fighting spirit can a person have? How could it possibly compare to the terrifying energy outside!

This

This is especially true for higher-level combat techniques. This is also why Ye Chen hadn't previously focused on cultivating powerful combat techniques.

However, breaking through to the Dou Wang realm was not Ye Chen's limit at this time, because there was still a lot of Dragon Yuan energy involved in his body.

Not to mention, because of the Heavenly Rank Astrology Technique, Ye Chen's absorption rate of external energy has reached an incredibly terrifying level, coupled with the rich天地能量 (heaven and earth energy) of this valley...

With various factors working together, Ye Chen's cultivation level actually jumped to the level of an eight-star Dou Wang before slowly stopping and finally stabilizing!

At this moment, Ye Chen's specific attributes are:

Name: Ye Chen

Realm: Eight-Star Dou Wang

Special Physique: Acquired Primordial Star Body (Amplification Effect: Affinity to Stellar Power, able to draw upon the power of primordial stars in the starry sky to refine the body and battle qi.)

Star Essence: +15

Star Soul: 5 points (Note: Special hidden Star Soul, primary Fire, secondary Wood.)

精：100+5；气：100+5；神：60+5；速：50+5；力：100+5；技：10；控魂：30；控火：30

Star Chart: Unicorn Fire Spirit Dragon

星域图，龙首星域（内含10位星宫，已点亮五位星宫）、左前龙爪（内含8位星宫）、右前龙爪（内含8位星宫）、左后龙爪（内含8位星宫）、右后龙爪（内含8位星宫）、龙尾（内含7位星宫）、龙脊（内含12位星宫）

Star Domain Skill: None

Star Trail Skill: Dragon Flame Song. Lighting up three stars will condense a fire dragon to attack. After that, lighting up each star palace will condense a fire dragon. After ten stars are lit up, eight fire dragons can be condensed to attack the enemy.

When star fields and star tracks are connected, star track skills can be generated; when the same star field is fully upgraded, star field skills can be obtained.

The advancement of one's realm, the emergence of special physiques, and the increase in fundamental attributes such as essence, qi, spirit, speed, and strength, even the increase in star essence...

These improvements were all due to Ye Chen's use of his special physical characteristics to refine himself with the power of the ancient stars, rather than relying on the Star Essence Diagram.

Of course, the reason for such a noticeable effect is that Ye Chen's body hadn't been tempered by star power before. Perhaps in the future, once his physique is fully formed, this improvement will become negligible...

After all, a constitution acquired through external means is less potential than that of an innate constitution.

Letting out a long breath, Ye Chen stood up, stretched, and loosened his body...

Crackling!

A series of popping sounds, like popping beans, emanated from his body. Then Ye Chen felt as if he had grown taller, and the clothes he was wearing, which had been decent, now gave him an extreme feeling of constraint...

It felt as if the clothes would tear apart if I stretched out my arms or kicked my legs.

"This cultivation advancement even comes with a growth spurt..." Ye Chen smiled wryly, speechless.

After thinking about it, I ended up tearing half of the sleeve off the shirt, making it a short-sleeved shirt. The same thing happened to the legs…

After this transformation, he went from a handsome young man to an ascetic monk in an instant.

When Ye Chen came out, Hu Tian outside was startled by his appearance, but seeing that Ye Chen was obviously almost half a head taller than before, he instantly understood the reason.

However, Hu Tian was also very curious as to why his young master's height was increasing so rapidly at the same time as his strength was improving...

Chapter Seventy-Eight: First Encounter with Saint Pill City

On the vast plaza built of crimson rock, as far as the eye can see, there is only a blood-red line that seems to have no end.

Standing in the square, a person is like a tiny ant, completely inconspicuous...

The vast square was already packed with people.

An overwhelming cacophony emanated from within, eventually coalescing and soaring into the sky, even causing the clouds on the horizon to thin out considerably.

"Is this the City of Holy Pills?"

Looking at the vast, seemingly endless plaza, Ye Chen couldn't help but take a deep breath.

At this moment, the entrance to the spatial passage behind him was constantly distorting and fluctuating violently. Space ships kept emerging from it, quickly becoming smaller and smaller, while the figures inside were falling from the sky like beans.

"This is just one spatial point in the outer domain of Saint Pill City. There are eight such spatial plazas in the outer domain of Saint Pill City..." Hu Tian glanced around and introduced to Ye Chen in a low voice.

Although the Ye family has begun to decline, members of the Ye family rarely appear in Saint Pill City anymore...

Especially in the previous Dan Tower test, the Ye family ranked last among the five major families, which led the Ye family members to keep their distance from Saint Dan City.

Because I simply can't bear the shame...

However, Hu Tian used to follow Ye Xun closely. Although he lacked strength, he had been to and from Saint Pill City quite often, so he was quite familiar with the place.

Ye Chen merely glanced around, ignoring the dense crowd, and chuckled, saying, "Let's go, let's rest at my Ye family's outpost here first, and then we'll take the assessment tomorrow..."

As one of the five major families in the Pill Domain, the Ye family naturally has its own presence in Saint Pill City.

There is usually a sixth-grade high-level alchemist from the family stationed there, in order to strengthen the connection with Holy Pill City...

Although Ye Chen had never been to this outpost before, he knew its location. In fact, he had even asked Ye Zhong for a map of the outer region of Saint Pill City before leaving, so there was no chance of him not being able to find the place.

After flying for about half an hour, the two finally landed in a region near the southern edge of the outer realm.

This is a relatively spacious courtyard. Because members of the Ye family are still stationed here, it does not appear dilapidated as described in the original novel.

The two landed directly in front of the courtyard and looked at a vermilion wooden plaque above their heads with two large gold characters that read "Ye Courtyard"!

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The moment Ye Chen and his companion landed in front of the Ye Courtyard gate, a powerful aura emanated from within. Then, the gate opened wide, and a rather thin-looking middle-aged man appeared there.

Ye Chen looked at the old man in front of him, smiled, cupped his hands in greeting, and said, "Third Elder!"

That's right. The person currently stationed at Ye Courtyard is the third elder among the four elders of the family, a sixth-grade advanced alchemist with the cultivation of a two-star Dou Zong.

Of the four elders of the Ye family, only Elder Ye Zhong has the strongest cultivation and alchemy level. The other three each have their own special skills.

among them

The Second Elder was even older than Ye Zhong, but his cultivation of Dou Qi and his alchemy level were both mediocre. At present, he was only a two-star Dou Zong and a seventh-grade beginner alchemist.

Due to his age, the Second Elder's potential has been exhausted. So now he is focused on teaching the family's children and refining medicine for the family. It can be said that he has given up his own improvement and devoted all his remaining time to the family.

As for the Third Elder and the Fourth Elder, both are currently under sixty years old, with the latter just over fifty, so they still have great potential for growth.

Of the two, the former has a stronger talent for martial arts, while the latter is more skilled at alchemy...

That's why both of them have now given up their weaknesses and focused all their energy on what they are good at, all in order to better serve their family.

To be honest, when Ye Chen read the original novel in his previous life, he didn't have a good impression of the Ye family, especially since the family was being bullied and needed to rely on a woman from the family and outsiders to help them out of the predicament. This made Ye Chen look down on them even more!

However, having become a member of the Ye family in this lifetime, he can see more directly that although the Ye family is indeed not worthy of praise in terms of family succession.

But every member of the family, from the patriarch and elders to the ordinary members, is striving to dedicate everything they have to the family...

Unlike other families with their constant internal strife and dramatic plots, Ye Chen felt an increasing sense of belonging and respect for the entire Ye family and its members.

The Third Elder looked at the two people in front of him, and he naturally recognized Hu Tian at a glance.

But the young man in front of him, who was bowing with a slight smile, made him momentarily stunned...

"You are... Ye Chen?" The Third Elder exclaimed in disbelief.

Although Ye Chen has changed dramatically compared to the boy he was a year ago, and even looks like a twenty-year-old young man, the familiar face still allowed the Third Elder to quickly recognize him.

"How can this be?!"

I had seen him two years ago when I returned to my family. Back then, this little guy was a rather quiet little kid...

How could he have grown so big in such a short time? He's grown so fast!

Ye Chen was prepared for the Third Elder's behavior. He hadn't expected so much to have changed in the year he'd been away from home.

It took the Third Elder a long time to accept the fact that Ye Chen had grown up so quickly. Then he couldn't help but sigh, "You've only been away from home for a little over a year to travel the continent, right? I didn't expect you to have changed so much. You truly deserve to be the prodigy of the Ye family!"

"It's been one year and two months..." Ye Chen smiled slightly and gave the exact time.

In his heart, he also had many feelings.

After all, this was the first time he had left his family and relatives since coming into this world, and he had been gone for more than a year...

I wonder how things are at home, and whether my mom and sister are doing well.

He chatted with the Third Elder about his experiences over the past year, without hiding anything from him, including his current strength and alchemy skills, which once again shocked the Third Elder!