Rise of the Alchemy God

Chapter 169: Three categories

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Ethan passed through various parts of the city, sealing all the points of the formation he found.

Coincidentally, the outer part of the formation had been left entirely in the hands of the person Bai Yu had captured.

Had it not been for this, Ethan would have had a harder time locating the remaining points.

That said, although he had now neutralized the cultivation suppression formation to some extent, a certain risk remained.

This was because, while the outer part had been neutralized, its core was still intact.

Ethan asked Bai Yu if she knew where the formation's core was, and soon he discovered its location.

"So that's why they joined the tournament," he thought as he headed toward his lodging.

He had wondered why three out of the four corrupted by demonic Qi had participated in the tournament.

Initially, he thought they just wanted to cause some trouble, but then he realized the situation couldn't be that simple.

And indeed, it wasn't.

The core of the formation was apparently in the basement of the coliseum used for the tournament.

He didn't know if they had deliberately placed it there, but he knew he needed to find an opportunity to go there and neutralize it too.

He decided he'd have a friendly conversation with those three as soon as he got the chance.

He was sure they planned to use the tournament to launch their attack, meaning he had just under four days left to act.

The tournament's initial phases were already over, and the intermediate stages were underway.

Ethan had already fought his match for the day, and tomorrow he'd probably have another one.

Arriving at the building where they were staying, he passed unnoticed, and within seconds, he was already in his room.

As soon as he arrived, he transported himself into his minor dimension with Bai Yu.

They had already met somewhere in the city, and from there, he had set out to return.

Now that he was finally inside his minor dimension, he asked if she had taken the demon's body.

He was curious to see what this creature looked like, one that had caused so much trouble even in the celestial plane.

Without delay, Bai Yu pulled a massive body from her dimensional ring, letting it fall three meters from them.

Ethan had given her that dimensional ring, as, due to her cultivation being much lower than before, she couldn't access her internal dimension.

Apparently, she had her own core dimension, but remembering her level in the celestial plane, he understood it was normal for her to have one.

After all, she had already said that upon reaching a certain level in the spiritual realm, a person could access or manifest their core's internal dimension.

It was like their small world, very similar to Ethan's minor dimension.

Ethan knew he was far from reaching such a level, so he didn't think much of it and gave her a high-grade dimensional ring, so she'd have enough space for whatever she wanted to store.

That said, upon seeing the giant body lying before him, he immediately noticed many features similar to those of a human male.

"So, this is the giants race," he thought as he examined the giant's body more closely.

Aside from the giant's great stature, at least five times his own, and the unhealthy skin tone, a dark gray with black veins throughout, the giant otherwise seemed similar to an ordinary human.

Ethan knew the giant race existed in the celestial plane, and that there was most likely no trace of them here in the mortal plane.

"So this is a half-blood demon, huh," he thought as he recalled the information Bai Yu had given him about the demon race.

According to her, there were several distinctions among demons, all of which could be classified into three basic categories:

Starting with the lowest category, there were lesser demons, also known as demonic beasts. Stay tuned with m-v l|-NovelBin.net

As the name suggests, they were demonic creatures imbued with negative Qi, with very low intellect.

A good example was the creature that emerged from the portal, which Ethan later found out to be a demonic creature.

After the lesser demons, there were the half-blood demons, and these were mainly beings infected with negative Qi and turned into demons.

The giant was an example of this demon category.

They, unlike demonic beasts, retained their intellect.

And lastly, the final category, pure demons.

These were beings born and raised directly from negative Qi, the true demon race, the one that had been the main cause of the calamity that struck the celestial plane in the past.

They had an internal hierarchy, but compared to the previous two categories, they were considered far more dangerous, as even one of them was enough to cause tremendous chaos.

They had the power to turn other races into half-blood demons, and depending on how they used this power, it could have very powerful effects.

Ethan didn't know if one of them existed in the mortal plane, but she knew that if there was, it wouldn't be long before this plane fell into complete chaos.

That said, while he was examining the giant demon's body, a familiar sound echoed in his mind, and a blue screen appeared before him.

DING!

[A new energy source has been detected]

[Do you want to proceed with analyzing the source?]

[Price: 1000 SP]

Seeing what was written on the screen, Ethan paused for a moment.

It wasn't the first time the system had asked him to analyze something, but unlike now, before it had only requested it for pill recipes he didn't know.

Not to mention that this wasn't the first time he had encountered demonic Qi, so he didn't understand why the system was asking him to analyze it now and not during the incident a few months ago.

That said, he didn't think too much and accepted.

If it had been him from some time ago, then spending this amount of SP would have been too much for him, but with the large amount of SP he had saved up during the 25 years he spent cultivating in seclusion, 1000 SP was like spending 10 SP.

So he didn't think much before using it, especially now that he was a bit curious about what the system would do after analyzing the demonic energy.