Traveling through the heavens from swallowing

Chapter 407 Research and Evolution, the Birth of Strange Fire, the Creation of Heaven and Earth, Ouyang Lie!

The alchemy furnace descended, the heat was discharged, and the fire power that burned the sky and boiled the sea rose into the sky and dispersed, making the entire Wutan City a little hotter.

Fifteen emerald green pills the size of longan flew into Liu Mang's palm. Wrapped in fighting spirit, they formed a circle and rotated slightly.

A strange fragrance filled Liu Mang's nose, making him feel slightly refreshed.

He tried 17 times to make the fourth-grade Qi Gathering Powder, consuming a lot of materials, before he finally succeeded once.

This success meant that he had completely mastered the refining of this pill, and even mass production was enough to guarantee 100% success.

However, Liu Mang felt that he had to learn some orthodox knowledge of alchemy.

When refining the fourth-grade elixir Qi Gathering Powder, Liu Mang relied entirely on his superb flame control.

He used his superb fire control skills to ignore various changes in proportions, various grasps of timing, and secret conditions that were not reflected in the pill recipe.

In this way, he used all his strength and almost used up all the fighting spirit of a 3-star Dou Huang before he could refine this furnace of Qi Gathering Powder.

This is only a fourth-grade pill. If the fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth grades above are all refined in this way, he would probably be exhausted.

Sharpening the knife does not delay the chopping of wood. Liu Mang realized from practice that it is not feasible to make alchemy by force. He needs to learn and recharge himself.

It just so happens that he has already fully mastered "Kagerou Kido" and "Aoki Shinpo", and it is time to advance them to a higher level.

The current "Yangyan Qidao" and "Aoki Shinpo" are both lower-level earth-level techniques. If he wants to transform them into a higher level, he will need a lot of knowledge and references about the techniques.

The fighting spirit system is a new thing after all, and his previous experience can only serve as a guide.

The Xiao family currently has 39 yellow-level skills, 15 low-level mysterious skills, and 4 intermediate mysterious skills. These are the gains after unifying Wutan City, which has increased several times compared to before.

Then there are more fighting skills, no less than 800 Yellow Level, more than 40 low-level Xuan Level, more than 20 intermediate Xuan Level, and 3 high-level Xuan Level.

Compared with martial arts, fighting skills are indeed not as precious, especially yellow-level fighting skills. Any fighter with a little ability can create a low-level yellow-level fighting skill.

But this is the limit. The Xiao family that unified Wutan City could not find any earth-level martial arts or fighting skills, except for the ones created by Liu Mang.

Liu Mang directly took all these martial arts and fighting skills, as well as the research content related to fighting qi and some records whose authenticity was unknown. He found a hill in the back mountain, lay down and started reading.

The wisdom of the predecessors flashed in Liu Mang's mind. Whether right or wrong, it was a gain for Liu Mang.

As early as a month ago, he asked the second elder to start acquiring alchemy knowledge. With the rise of the Xiao family's power and the establishment of the mercenary group, once anything related to alchemy appeared in the eight cities around Wutan City, it would be purchased by the Xiao family and sent to Liu Mang.

He even wrote a letter to the imperial capital, the Holy City of Jiama, asking the Nalan family to keep an eye on it.

Now the first batch of knowledge has reached his hands, and the basic alchemy knowledge from grade 1 to grade 6 has been complete.

Of course, there are absolutely no advanced or even secret ones.

Now that Liu Mang has finished studying the martial arts and fighting skills, he has also begun to study alchemy knowledge.

As we all know, the first step in alchemy is to identify the medicine, that is, to identify the materials. If you can't even recognize the materials, what should you put in when refining the medicine?
On the other hand, recognizing medicine also requires mastering the medicinal properties of medicinal materials, learning pharmacology, and studying the coordination or antagonism between various medicinal properties. This is the prerequisite for creating new elixirs.

It is also necessary to study the collection, processing and even cultivation techniques of medicinal materials, suitable refining methods, etc.

There is more to medicine refining than just fire refining. There are also water refining, earth refining, separation, extraction and even gas phase sedimentation and electrolysis. It really opened Liu Mang's eyes.

Sure enough, alchemy is all about chemistry!
Before, Liu Mang's alchemy was to just throw the ingredients into the furnace according to the recipe without thinking twice. He would use his superb fire control and perception to find the connection between them and forcibly combine the elixir according to its medicinal properties.

This is either impossible or too laborious, which is equivalent to completing the experiment from the beginning every time you make the elixir, because the properties and content of the materials added each time cannot be exactly the same.

By first processing the materials into basically consistent fixed materials and then smelting them into pills, the difficulty of alchemy is greatly reduced.

Time-consuming but labor-saving.

Moreover, the pills made in this way are relatively simple and will not have unnecessary effects, because the unnecessary parts are not added.

"In this way, pretreatment can save a lot of materials." Liu Mang thought to himself.

The same medicinal ingredient can not only be used in one kind of elixir. This elixir requires this ingredient of this medicinal ingredient, and that elixir requires that ingredient of this medicinal ingredient. The different parts can be separated and used separately!
As far as he knew, the vast majority of alchemists in this world had limited abilities. They could only focus on the part of a herb that they needed to use, and could only extract one active ingredient from a herb. The rest were all waste.

It’s not that they don’t know how to waste money, it’s just that their ability can only reach that level.

This is completely impossible for Liu Mang. He has a high enough perception and control ability that he can separate the different active ingredients in a medicinal herb and store them separately. Then when refining medicine, he can use these active ingredients instead of the medicinal herb.

Isn’t this scientific alchemy?

He thought that in the future, he would not need to write down this medicine or that medicine in the pill prescription, but just write down the ingredients and dosage, then throw it into the pill furnace for fusion, and the pill would come out!

Of course, if you need to use some unscientific things like medicine or spirituality, then consider it separately.

In short, Liu Mang found a new alchemy industry chain, which, if placed in other novels, would at least allow him to make a lot of money.

But money has no meaning to Liu Mang. He likes money, but it really has no meaning.

So, in fact, the gain is not that great. At most, it can save a lot of materials when you make pills yourself.

As the research progresses, Liu Mang is gradually updating his configuration.

The first were "Kagerou Kido" and "Aoki Shinpo". By absorbing a large amount of wisdom from predecessors in the techniques and research manuals, and comparing them with the original knowledge system, the two techniques were directly pushed to the peak level of the Earth Rank.

The reason why he did not rise to the Heavenly Level was because the Heavenly Level was in a completely different realm from the Yellow Level, Profound Level, and Earth Level. It was not only the difference in power, but also that once the Heavenly Level technique was cultivated, he could directly control the energy of heaven and earth within a hundred feet around him.

Even if a fighter has mastered a heavenly-level technique, he can gain control over the energy of heaven and earth within a hundred feet around him.

According to Liu Mang's understanding, this is something called Heavenly Grade Authority, which is a function only possessed by Heavenly Grade and above techniques. Other people who practice techniques below Heavenly Grade can only control the energy of heaven and earth by relying on their cultivation, while those who practice Heavenly Grade techniques have this kind of authority.

The combination of this authority and cultivation can greatly increase the scope of control over the energy of heaven and earth, strengthen the control over the energy of heaven and earth, and greatly increase the power of each move.

The Heavenly Grade Fighting Skills also have this function. Once used, one will automatically gain the authority to control the relevant energy of heaven and earth, and can be superimposed with the other two.

Control of cultivation + control of martial arts + control of fighting skills, this is the secret of becoming strong!

That’s why the Douluo Saint in the Douluo Continent is so much stronger than the Douluo Lord, because the Douluo Saint has absolutely all three types of control!
Even if he didn't have any heavenly skills or fighting techniques before, he would be able to create them after becoming a Fighting Saint. Once these three aspects were combined, the energy of heaven and earth that he controlled was simply incalculable.

Liu Mang didn't have any heavenly-level skills at hand, and had no idea what the so-called heavenly-level authority was. It would be too time-consuming to experiment on his own, so he might as well just go and snatch one back later.

As the martial arts techniques were updated, Liu Mang's fighting spirit began to run along a new route.

The majestic fighting spirit gradually lifted him up to the sky. The scorching destruction of flames and the fresh vitality of green wood intertwined on his body at the same time. A large amount of energy from heaven and earth poured into his dantian, and then was crushed and refined by destruction and vitality, turning into the purest fighting spirit and being absorbed by him.

His cultivation level rose step by step, and soon he broke through to 4-star Douhuang, then 5-star, and 6-star.
More and more energy from heaven and earth was attracted to him. Dark clouds gathered over the entire Wutan City. The invisible power of fire and wood intertwined and merged in the clouds, turning into a funnel and compressed into Liu Mang's body.

The people in the city noticed that the sky was getting darker and looked up at the sky.

"Is it going to rain?" someone asked curiously, "It was sunny just now."

The other person rolled his eyes when he heard this: "The clouds are obviously moving, it's obvious that a storm is coming, hurry home and close the doors and windows, or you won't be blown away by the storm!"

He guessed that he was not the only one who was afraid of the coming storm. The whole city began to pack up and go home. In less than an hour, the streets of the entire city were deserted. Everyone was waiting for the storm to pass at home.

The Jiama Empire is huge and there are all kinds of weather. They have seen storms and have experience with them.

The inexperienced ones were persuaded to go back by the experienced ones. As for those who refused to listen, they were left to go. If they were willing to endure the baptism of the storm outside, no one could stop them.

Liu Mang gradually rose to a height of one thousand meters, and the clouds above his head began to rotate like a whirlpool with him as the center.

But as the energy of heaven and earth gathered, the scorching heat continuously evaporated the water vapor in the clouds, making it impossible for rain to fall.

The water vapor merges with the energy of heaven and earth to become spiritual liquid, which then gathers into water droplets again, and is evaporated by the fire to repeat the previous process.

With repeated evaporation, fusion and condensation, the energy contained in the rain becomes more and more concentrated, and less and less light can pass through.

The fighting spirit in Liu Mang's body has accumulated to the limit, and he cannot refine it even if he absorbs it with all his strength.

It would be a pity if this gathered energy were to dissipate, so Liu Mang planned to use this energy to test his ideas.

The lines of "Kagerou Kido" and "Aoki Shinpo" that had originally run independently suddenly began to intersect.

Suddenly, a sun glow rose from Liu Mang's body, and a fresh green tree shadow appeared behind him.

The endless energy suddenly paused, then rushed madly towards the flames and tree shadows.

The energy of heaven and earth that came into contact with Yang Yan was suddenly ignited, and the energy of heaven and earth that came into contact with the tree shadows suddenly turned into emerald green leaf shadows.

The sky was divided into two halves, one half was burning red, and the other half was growing green.

The internal energy circuits further overlapped, and the flames in the sky began to contact and collide with Ye Ying, causing bursts of roars like thunder.

Countless people in Wutan City hid in their homes and shivered. They had not encountered such a terrible storm in many years.

The sky and the earth became almost completely dark, the thunder roared with a deafening roar, and even strange phenomena appeared in the sky. It was as if the end of the world had come.

This was the kind of city that Master Fenghuo saw when he arrived: horrible, dark, destructive, and deadly!

The three huge words "Wutan City" on the city gate emitted a faint green light in the darkness, like the gate of hell.

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Venerable Fenghuo stared blankly, feeling that he might not have woken up yet.

Has he entered some dangerous secret place?
At this moment, the overlap of the two skills in Liu Mang's body reached its limit.

The shadows of the trees and the flames in the sky paused in unison, and then began to intertwine with each other. Leaves grew in the fire, and fire burned in the leaves. Destruction and vitality seemed to merge at this moment, and the flames and green trees seemed to become one.

"Boom!" A shocking roar resounded through the earth, and the two distinct skies suddenly merged into one. There was no longer the red of fire, nor the lush green, but instead yellow, as if the loess earth covered the sky!

Venerable Fenghuo retreated in horror. His perception told him that what covered the sky ahead was a kind of fire, but his eyes told him that it was a continent!
A boundless sense of danger crept into his heart, making it almost impossible for him to breathe. The flames were just a breath, and yet they made him feel that life and death were not in his own hands!

He took one last look at Wutan City, and at the Xiao family's gate at the center of the vortex, shuddered, and directly cut through the space and left.

Damn it, there is such a horrible city and family in this barren land in the northwest corner of this continent. I don’t want Qingxin Ding, and I won’t avenge Xiaoyu. It’s just my bad luck!

In the space channel, Venerable Fenghuo shed a tear.

It doesn’t matter that Xiaoyu is just a pet, but the loss of Qingxin Ding makes him heartbroken. That was his hope for alchemy, and now he has nothing.

He regretted exploring the damn Chunheng Mountains. He was trapped there for a thousand years and finally escaped. Even his hometown was ransacked!
He might as well die in Chunheng Realm!
In Wutan City, above the Xiao family, Liu Mang suddenly looked towards the place where Venerable Fenghuo left, and then stopped paying attention to it.

It’s just a little spatial fluctuation, it’s not important. The self-created strange fire in front of you is the key.

The earth-yellow flames covering the sky gradually shrank and turned into a burning small tree and fell into his hand.

Upon spiritual contact, there is an immediate response from the flame, which is a feeling of intimacy, fascination, and obedience.

This means that the flame he created by relying on the infinite energy of heaven and earth has already developed intelligence, and has mastered the power of life and destruction. It can absorb the energy of heaven and earth to grow on its own, and is now a real strange fire!
As the body of the strange fire was collected by Liu Mang, a large amount of uncontrollable energy in the sky naturally dissipated, part of it merged into the clouds and water, and part of it was directly returned to the heaven and earth.

The heat disappeared, and the rain finally condensed and fell. The rain containing the energy of heaven and earth fell on the ground, causing the concentration of heaven and earth energy in the entire Wutan City to surge.

The plants in the city grew wildly, and a large number of ordinary herbs directly evolved into magical medicines. All creatures in Wutan City gained a lot of benefits.

Some have greatly increased their cultivation, some have made direct breakthroughs, and there are countless people whose aptitude for cleansing their tendons and cutting their meridians has improved.

They went out to welcome the baptism of the spiritual rain, bowed down sincerely, and thanked God for the blessing.

However, he did not expect that this so-called earth-shaking creation was just the aftermath of Liu Mang's creation of the strange fire.

As the center of energy convergence, the Xiao family obviously gained the greatest benefits.

Liu Mang sent a message asking everyone to come out and receive the baptism of the spiritual rain, and some people achieved breakthroughs in their cultivation on the spot.

The rain lasted for an hour. After the rain, the overall cultivation level of the Xiao family increased significantly. Many old members of the family became 4 or 8 years younger. The number of great fighting masters in the family increased from 17 to 35, and the number of fighting masters increased from to .

The number of fighters increased the most. Except for a few children who were really young, all of them condensed into the vortex of fighting spirit and entered the fighters.

This rain almost saved the Xiao family seven or eight years of daily practice. It also allowed a large number of elderly people who originally had no hope of making a breakthrough to resume their practice of Yi Jin Xi Sui. The harvest was enormous.

However, such a good thing can only be encountered by chance. Even for Liu Mang, it is extremely difficult for him to create such a scene again. It requires luck.

This time it just happened that his perception increased greatly, his skills were upgraded and he fell into enlightenment, which attracted such a huge amount of energy from heaven and earth. Coupled with the vitality, spirituality and magical substances brought by the creative fire, this good fortune came about.

Ordinary spiritual rain does not have this effect.

Liu Mang held the strange fire and looked up at the sky, and his heart moved.

"You were born from the extremes of wood and fire, with both life and destruction. Your nature is earthly and wood-like, and you descended from the sky. Why not call yourself Azure Sky Earth Fire?"

The little tree jumped for joy, as if rejoicing in its own name.

Liu Mang expelled a piece of top-grade Nashi, took out the Naling inside it, refined it into his body, and opened up a different space inside his body.

The Blue Sky and Earth Fire was so obedient that he swallowed it and circulated it for a few rounds before settling into the Na Ling. From this moment on, he became an alchemist who mastered the strange fire.

However, compared to its terrifying power when it was just born, it has now lost a large amount of uncontrollable energy from heaven and earth, and its properties have gradually stabilized, and its power has also plummeted.

At present, if taken separately from the Blue Sky and Earth Fire, their energy levels are only around Dou Zong, which is similar to Liu Mang's cultivation level.

By chance, not only was the strange fire created, but Liu Mang's cultivation also leapt to the nine-star Douhuang level.

With the help of the strange fire, it is no problem for him to emit the pressure of Dou Zong.

Although Liu Mang created a strange fire with the help of "Yangyan Qidao" and "Qingmu New Method", the two techniques did not change much in essence. They were neither upgraded to the heavenly level nor merged into one. It was just that the pure operations were connected, which was more suitable for stimulating the power of the blue sky and earth fire.

This is certainly not a good thing. Practicing only one technique is definitely easier than practicing two techniques at the same time. If it were not for refining pills, Liu Mang would definitely not practice two techniques at the same time.

The wood attribute in his fighting spirit all comes from "Qingmu New Method". If he gives up this technique, he will lose the wood attribute and will not be able to accurately sense the properties of the medicine. He will also not be able to rely on the wood attribute to weaken the conflict between the medicinal properties, which is basically equivalent to losing the ability to refine pills.

So there is no way. He still hasn't solved the problem of the source of innate attributes. He can only rely on the acquired attributes brought by the exercises to make pills. Anyway, for him, the difference is not that big.

Afterwards, Liu Mang asked the Great Elder to compile a statistics of the cultivation levels of all current members of the family, including servants, household guards, maids, stewards, etc.

The Xiao family currently has a total of 8 Grand Fighters, among whom the three elders and Luo Shan are already high-level Grand Fighters, and the four who have just broken through are all low-level Grand Fighters.

There are 35 fighting masters, ranging from 1 star to 9 stars. They are basically brothers and sisters of the same generation as Liu Mang. A small number are uncles of the older generation, and there are only 2 family generals.

There were 975 fighters, most of whom were servants, family generals, stewards, etc., and less than 80 were members of the Xiao family. Among them were Liu Mang's elders, peers, and juniors, ranging in age from 17 to 87.

There are currently only about 120 members of the Xiao family's bloodline, supporting the Xiao family's top combat power.

The fighters with low-level combat power are basically servants and family generals supported by the family.

This is also the composition pattern of the vast majority of family forces in the Douqi Continent. The bloodline clan members take the elite route and occupy the upper level. As the pillars of the family, they are responsible for managing the industry and practicing in peacetime, and fighting against powerful enemies in wartime.

As for other members of the family who were given surnames or those without surnames, unless they were gifted, they all followed the common route and served as servants, household generals, guards, minor stewards, etc. They acted as grassroots and were responsible for the rise and fall of the family, but in fact they had little influence on the rise and fall of the family.

The workers and managers recruited from the many industries do not belong to the Xiao family. They are all migrant workers who just work for the Xiao family. They are not responsible for the rise and fall of the family, but only for their own positions and jobs. Even if the family is destroyed, they will basically not be killed.

There are only a little over a thousand people in the entire Wutan City who can be called members of the Xiao family, but the number of people working directly or indirectly for the Xiao family is no less than 50!
Nearly half of Wutan City’s industries are under the control of the Xiao family, so naturally a lot of staff are needed, including the military.

Among this group of people, Liu Mang only counted the combat-capable city defense troops that could be mobilized. The 3 city defense troops have been recruited. Currently, the third elder is also the commander of the legion, and he has three great fighting masters who have just broken through and 20 fighting masters under him.

However, there are far more fighters than the Xiao family, more than 9,000. All the soldiers who were originally not fighters have broken through to fighters, and their strength has increased by who knows how many times.

Liu Mang estimated that if we only looked at the fighters, the 15 cities in the northeastern region of the Gama Empire combined would only have as many as the city of Wutan.
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Most of the Gama Empire from south to north is divided into east and west by the Demonic Beast Mountains, almost dividing the Gama Empire into two halves.

Wutan City is located in the northeastern part of the Jiama Empire. There are 15 large cities here, including Wutan City. Among them, Wutan City is not the largest city in the northeast.

Wutan City is adjacent to the Warcraft Mountains, located in the northern end of the Warcraft Mountains.

Starting from Wutan City and heading south along the Warcraft Mountains, you can reach the starting point of the Empire's regular exploration of the Warcraft Mountains - the Warcraft Town Community, which stretches for a long distance outside the Warcraft Mountains. The more famous one is called Qingshan Town.

With the Warcraft town community as the boundary, to the north is the northeastern region of the empire, and a large section to the east belongs to the eastern region. Here is the largest desert in the empire - the Tagor Desert. Deep in the desert lives a terrifying race called the Snake People.

The capital of the Gama Empire, the Holy City of Gama, is located in the northern part of the Gama Empire, the only part not separated by the Monster Mountains, and is quite far from the city of Wutan.

Due to the existence of the Warcraft Mountains, most of the maps of the Jiama Empire are actually located in the northern periphery, like a cover wrapping around the Warcraft Mountains.

To get from Wutan City to the Imperial Capital, one has to almost cross from east to west, and one has to bypass the Monster Mountains and cannot go in a straight line. The distance is really far.

However, Wutan City is not far from the northern big city of Black Flame City, so it is not remote and it is not on the frontier, so it is still easy to do business there.

Then naturally, information flows faster.

Black Flame City is one of the great cities of the empire, and its lord is a two-star Dou Wang.

A big city is not a large city, but a city that is prominent in economy, politics, military, culture, etc. Of course, big means really big. A large city only represents size, and is one of the grades of city area.

Black Flame City is an important city in the empire. Even a strong man like Dou Wang is not allowed to serve as the lord of such a city for a long time. The term of office is changed every 8 years.

The current city lord has been in office for more than two years. His name is Ouyang Lie. He has been mediocre and has not seen any chance of making any achievements.

This made him very conflicted, because if he continued like this, in more than five years, he would definitely be sent to the frontier to guard the border, and would have no chance to go further and enter the core.

This was hard for him to accept, but he had to accept it because he really couldn't find any opportunity.

However, today, a piece of news reported by his subordinates gave him a long-lost opportunity, an opportunity to make a contribution.

"Wutan City was blessed by a mysterious rain, and it seems that a rare treasure has been born."

This was the news his subordinates gave him. He recalled that a few days ago, he had vaguely felt a large-scale disturbance of vital energy, and the direction seemed to be exactly Wutan City!
So, he was sure that a rare treasure had indeed been born.

A rare treasure that can cause such a large-scale fluctuation in the energy of heaven and earth is obviously a high-level treasure. If we bring it here to present to Mr. Jia, would we still be afraid that it cannot enter the center?
"In Wutan City, I heard that the new patriarch of the Xiao family, Xiao Zhan, has advanced to Dou Wang and was named the city lord?"

The rare treasure was born in Wutan City. As the only strong man there, Xiao Zhan knew a lot of information about the rare treasure even if he didn't get it.

He shook his head: "Xiao Lin, you were much stronger than me in your early years, but you were plotted against and your talent was destroyed. You never broke through to Dou Wang until you died, and I surpassed you later. On the contrary, your son broke through to Dou Wang without showing off. You really should learn from him!"

However, Xiao Zhan has broken through to Dou Wang, so I can't just force him. Is it possible for me to cooperate with him? Ouyang Lie frowned and thought.

After a while, he sighed. The Xiao family was different after all. They were no longer the fledglings under the protection of the Nalan family. He could no longer use the old methods to deal with them.

"Come here, prepare a generous gift for me. I want to go to Wutan City to visit City Lord Xiao!" he shouted outside.

Then he thought of the news that the Xiao family was searching for alchemy inheritance, and added:
"Take out my collection of Three Element Alchemy Techniques and put it in a separate gift box for me!"

Since the Xiao family needs the alchemy inheritance, he will cater to their needs and show his sincerity first before discussing the next cooperation.

After all, Dou Wang is not a cabbage, each one of them deserves to be treated seriously, even if the opponent has just broken through.

Moreover, that person is a 32-year-old 1-star Dou Wang. It is believed that he will definitely break through to the Dou Huang level in the future. He, a 58-year-old 2-star Dou Wang, dare not offend him.

Even if the two of them started a one-on-one duel now, he had no confidence in defeating such a genius.

He sighed: "The Xiao family is really rising"

(End of this chapter)