Rise of the Alchemy God

Chapter 31: Bai Yu's Shock

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Ethan and Da Shu ascended the long staircase of the Phoenix Sect's mountain as night began to fall, painting the sky in shades of purple and black.

Upon finally reaching the sect, they passed through the mission hall, where the usual attendant, who had been napping all day, was preparing to close up and head home to sleep.

Unfortunately for him, he was interrupted by these two.

Though reluctant, since there were still a few minutes left before the mission hall closed, he couldn't chase them away. He completed his job and recorded the completion of their mission.

Having completed the mission with a number five times higher than required, their reward was correspondingly high.

After heading to their lodging and parting ways, Ethan hurried into his room. They usually had dinner together and shared stories about their day, but Ethan couldn't wait to claim his reward, so he skipped the meal.

After closing his room door, Ethan opened the daily mission screen.

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[Daily Mission]

- Successfully cut down 10 spiritual trees by the end of the day.

Mission Status (10/10) [COMPLETED!]

REWARDS:

- Assignment of a random Rare Flame. [Press here to claim the reward]

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He took a moment to relax.

Although he was excited, he didn't know exactly what would happen once he tried to claim his reward, so he wanted to be prepared for anything.

After a few breaths, he calmed down enough and, without hesitation, pressed the button on the screen in front of him.

DING!

[Assigning a rare flame...]

After several seconds that felt like an eternity to Ethan, another notification appeared.

DING!

[Congratulations, you have obtained the Blue Lotus Flame]

"Blue Lotus Flame?"

Ethan had no idea what type of flame this was.

For him, just having finally obtained a rare flame was enough; after all, now he could awaken his special physique.

He waited for something to happen, but nothing did.

He wondered where his rare flame had gone.

Pressing on the notification to see if it would give him more information about the flame, it indeed worked.

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[Blue Lotus Flame]

Grade: Low

Description: The Blue Lotus Flame is born from the harmonious interaction between the spiritual energies of fire and ice. Although there are only a few places where this flame can form, its strength is still classified at the bottom of the rare flames list.

Note: Absorbing other flame-type energetic entities can elevate its grade.

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Reading the description, Ethan wasn't disappointed by its grade.

"Now I need to ask Bai Yu how to awaken my special physique using this flame," he said to himself, thinking of consulting the expert inside him.

Just then, a shocked Bai Yu spoke in his mind.

"i-is that a rare flame ?!"

From her voice, Ethan could sense a hint of shock.

Not understanding why she was suddenly surprised, he thought of entering his sea of consciousness to take a look.

"Could it be that the flame appeared there?" he wondered as he sat down and focused on his sea of consciousness.

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In Ethan's sea of consciousness, everything seemed calm and harmonious as usual.

At that moment, Bai Yu, who was resting beneath the water mirror, woke up when she sensed strange energy fluctuations.

Opening her eyes, she looked towards the direction from which the energy fluctuations were coming and saw that high in the sky, the Amphora of the Seven Sages was beginning to glow, emitting slight waves of light.

"Hmm? What's happening to the artifact?" she wondered as she watched the artifact start to vibrate like a pot under pressure.

After a few seconds, the lid of the amphora opened, and countless thin blue threads of energy shot out from its interior.

Gradually, these blue energy threads began to gather beside the amphora, condensing together like a tangled mass.

The mass started to glow, and after a few seconds, it transformed into a blue flame, floating around the amphora.

Bai Yu, who had witnessed all this, couldn't help but widen her eyes at the sight of this newly formed object. She recognized it immediately and, with a voice that sounded incredulous, said,

"A rare flame?!"

Although she could tell it was a low-grade flame, the mere fact that a rare flame, usually so difficult to obtain, had appeared out of nowhere here, stunned her.

At that moment, Ethan, who had just entered his sea of consciousness, materialized at the scene and looked up at the artifact in the sky.

Since the flame was the size of a palm, it was impossible to see it from below, but the intensity of the heat it emitted was great enough to be felt from the ground.

"So this is where it appeared, huh?" Ethan murmured.

Bai Yu, snapping out of her shock upon Ethan's arrival, asked,

"How did you obtain a rare flame?" She wanted to know how this human, who wasn't even a cultivator yet, had managed to get his hands on such an object.

Ethan didn't know how to explain it to her.

He couldn't say that the system had asked him to cut down some spiritual trees in exchange for a rare flame.

She would surely laugh in his face and think he was trying to deceive her.

Ethan was now certain she had never heard of the system, and for him, it was better that way.

He had already thought of an excuse while considering how to ask her how to use the flame to awaken his special physique, so he proceeded with that.

"I'm not sure either. While I was cutting down the spiritual trees, I felt a strange energy flow into me, and then I heard your voice, so I came to check what had happened."

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