Rise of the Alchemy God

Chapter 104: Battle Between Fifth-Stage Beings

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In a hurry, he set off at full speed towards the Spirit Forest.

He was already very close to the capital, so with his cultivation base, he would reach the location quickly.

However, he never expected the being to confront him directly as soon as it sensed him.

Now that the creature was in front of him, he could be certain that it was at the fifth stage of cultivation, almost at level 5.

'Where the hell did it come from?' he wondered.

He couldn't tell if the being in front of him was some kind of beast or a completely new creature.

He was sure he had never seen, nor heard of, such a creature before.

The only way to learn more about it was to defeat the creature and examine the place where it had originally appeared.

He could sense other people in the Spirit Forest, but none of them seemed to be his sister.

This reassured him somewhat, as it meant she wasn't dead.

He wondered, though, where she could be, as he couldn't sense her presence anywhere.

With his spiritual sense, he could scan the area around him for miles, and he couldn't detect her aura.

He decided to deal with the strange creature in front of him before searching for his sister.

And as if sensing his battle intent, the creature roared at him and attacked immediately.

'Haa, this won't be an easy fight,' he thought, and fully unleashed his cultivation base at the fifth stage, ready to attack as well.

It happened that their auras were at the same level, so it would be factors other than their cultivation level that would determine the winner.

With golden scales beginning to appear on his arms and face, and an ethereal golden dragon-like silhouette appearing behind him, the crown prince advanced.

Thus, as the battle between two beings began, a new wave of spiritual fluctuations started to spread through the surrounding environment, much stronger than before.

Even Ethan, who had by now moved quite a distance from the incident site, could feel strong tremors coming from the ground.

The strong vibrations he felt from the ground were almost at the level of a magnitude 6 earthquake.

Ethan could also sense two powerful auras clashing in the distance.

'Is it possible that another powerful being has appeared?' he thought, quickening his pace even more.

He had thought that at this distance they would be off the creature's radar, but it seemed he had underestimated the power of such a being.

According to what Bai Yu had told him, these two auras were clearly at the fifth stage of cultivation, and he wondered for a moment if the sect master had appeared.

After all, it wouldn't have been surprising if she did, especially with an elder already on site, and the situation severe enough to mobilize such an existence.

The more he thought about it, the more he wanted to witness the battle up close.

He wanted to see how powerful beings at the pinnacle of the mortal realm could be.

But reason pulled him from these thoughts.

He had been running at full speed for several minutes.

With his body mostly recovered from the injuries, he could continue running at maximum speed for a while longer.

Ethan knew that inside the small dimension, more than ten hours had passed, in other words, he could afford to keep them inside a bit longer.

That said, Ethan didn't allow himself to slow down.

He knew that even though he was almost out of danger, he was still far from being able to take it easy.

He wouldn't calm down until he had at least reached the edge of the Spirit Forest.

There, he was sure he wouldn't have to face any beast too strong for him, and he would also be far enough from the battle between the two beings.

As he ran, he couldn't help but think about what he had discovered just before leaving that area of the forest.

After he had finished transferring everyone from his sect, including the blonde girl he had met at the city market, at Bai Yu's request, he approached to examine the enemy cultivator's body.

He was in worse shape and on the brink of death.

Ethan tried to interrogate him, but the enemy used a strange power against him.

He didn't know what was about to happen, but he could tell he would be in danger if he let him proceed, so he gave him the final blow.

Immediately after, Bai Yu's ethereal figure appeared outside of his consciousness.

Ethan wasn't sure what she intended to do, but she seemed rather distracted by something, even before he began the battle with the cultivator who had summoned the portal.

He could only think that whatever was bothering her was related to these individuals.

He waited aside while she examined the enemy's body using her spiritual perception.

Not being in a physical body, she couldn't use her spiritual perception freely without any means.

She had to touch the subject directly and circulate spiritual energy within it, and so she did.

Just a second after she started the process, her expression grew troubled, and Ethan, who was just a few steps away, seeing her, asked what she had discovered.

"As I thought, it's demonic Qi," she said with a complicated expression.

Ethan wanted to aske more about the matter, but he understood it wasn't a good time to do so, so he postponed the issue until he returned to the sect.

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With the strange creature having disappeared suddenly, the sect elder stopped the Qi vortex, which had now almost reached the point of no return.

He didn't calm down immediately and tried to sense where the beast had vanished to.

He was afraid it might have headed towards the group of injured disciples.

Just as he began to scout the area with his spiritual sense, he felt the earth vibrating as intense spiritual energy fluctuations struck him and the surrounding environment.

"What the...?"

Although sudden, he did not panic and examined the energy fluctuations.

He immediately sensed the strange aura of the creature within them and realized that the thing had found a new opponent to fight against.

"Where on earth are all these powerful beings continuously coming from?"

He could tell that the other side was also strong, at least almost as strong as the creature.

He had a feeling he recognized the aura of the newcomer, but at the moment he couldn't remember who it belonged to.

He didn't waste time thinking about who it was.

As long as it wasn't an opponent, it was fine.

Sending some of his own energy into his dimensional ring, he pulled out a bottle containing 3 green pills.

Without hesitation, he opened it and swallowed the pills.

Immediately afterward, a greenish light covered his body for a second, and the various wounds on it began to heal at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"With this, I should be fine for the moment," he said to himself as, with the little strength he had just regained, he prepared to find the sect's disciples and head back.

He could sense that the group of disciples he had brought with him for the mission were nearby; from what he could perceive, it seemed they had managed to confront the enemies, although not without injuries.

Several of them appeared to be gravely injured, so he decided to first assist them and then search for the others.

For now, he couldn't locate the group he had come to rescue, so he could only hope they had managed to escape in time.

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FRANK_LEE_JUNIOR:

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