Rise of the Alchemy God

Chapter 62: Advancing to the Next Level

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In the end, Ethan decided to set aside the issue of his special physique for the time being.

There wasn't much he could do about it right now.

He wasn't sure what kind of resources would be needed to nurture his special physique.

The only thing giving him a glimmer of hope at the moment was the system.

He remembered that when he became a true cultivator, the system had helped him, so he wondered if it would assist him again when he reached the limit of body refining.

Therefore, he put the matter aside and focused on what was more important to him right now.

Namely, accumulating Qi.

Another week had passed, and Ethan continued his routine, spending most of his time refining high-grade pills.

He had learned the low-grade recipes for several other pills, which he asked Da Shu to procure for him at a good price.

With the quality of his pills now being high-grade, his earnings in recent days had been quite good, allowing him to afford some essential and highly sought-after pill recipes on the market.

His mastery of these pills was a bit lacking at first, but he quickly got the hang of it, and before long, he received a system notification saying he had successfully learned the recipes, meaning he could now view them in his system shop.

He upgraded all the low-grade recipes to mid-grade, but no further, as each upgrade cost several dozen system points.

Raising them to high-grade would have been too expensive, and he didn't need that level of pill just yet.

Even at this grade, his sales were going quite well, so much so that even Da Shu was a bit shocked by it all.

He didn't know how his friend did it, but somehow Ethan always managed to produce a large quantity of pills in a short amount of time.

Da Shu was even starting to question everything he knew about alchemy and alchemists in general.

Could it be that other alchemists are lying about their success rates?

Such questions couldn't help but surface in his mind every time he saw the sales sheet at the end of the day.

The sales themselves weren't anything too extravagant, especially for someone like him, who had seen large sums in his life.

It was the rapid growth of these sales that excited him.

It wasn't uncommon for one out of ten pills from an alchemist to be slightly flawed or defective compared to the others, which often frustrated buyers, but this had never happened with Ethan.

Da Shu didn't know if Ethan weeded out these pills in advance before passing them to him, or if he was just skilled enough to avoid them in the first place, but one thing was certain:

the quality of his pills had remained consistent, thus boosting his reputation among buyers.

And this was a good thing because it meant that current customers would likely stay, and in the future, they might even recommend Ethan's pills to their friends or loved ones.

Da Shu had agreed with Ethan that he would sell his pills for a certain period to see how they performed on the market, and then they would decide what to do next.

'I'd say it's time to take this collaboration to the next level.'

He thought, quickening his pace as he returned to the sect.

Unfortunately for him, he would have to wait until the next day to talk to Ethan about this matter.

That's because, at that moment, in Ethan's dorm room, he was just finishing preparing another batch of pills and was getting ready to advance to level 7.

Yes, in just one week, he had already broken through once, and now he was about to do it again.

Bai Yu, who was in the sea of consciousness, seeing what was about to happen, settled in to watch the show.

With not much else to do, she entertained herself with things Ethan had given her, like chess, games, novels, etc, anything to distract her from boredom.

Of course, Ethan chose carefully what to have her read: cultivation novels he had read himself or fantasy stories that didn't delve too deeply into her world but focused more on magical elements that didn't exist in reality.

He had to admit that his collection of things to offer a superior being from a different world was quite limited.

He quickly discovered the capricious side of this woman.

Even the novels he suggested were rejected as too 'STUPID.'

Her exact words were: 'Who's the idiot who wrote these novels?

It's as if this person spent most of his life under a rock, given that he got nearly every single concept of cultivation wrong here.

Not to mention that almost all the protagonists think more with their lower halves than with their brains.'

Ethan had to admit that at a certain point, he didn't even know how to counter her words, so he simply said that these were novels a friend of his used to read.

He didn't want to die a social death so soon, even though in this case, it couldn't exactly be called a social life.

He was glad that at least she liked games like chess because otherwise, he would have just left her to her own devices.

He couldn't spend all his time trying to please her.

He was already doing this little because, in a sense, she was his guest, if she could even be considered as such.

He wanted to maintain a good relationship with her because he knew how much help she could provide him in the future, not only in terms of knowledge about the cultivation world, which was clearly superior to the norm, but also in terms of strength.

Just the fact that she came from a higher plane assured him that she was at a level far superior to that of the inhabitants of this plane.

Ethan didn't know what situations he would find himself in the future, but it was better to prepare in advance for anything.

And so, the process began, and Ethan successfully advanced to level 7.

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FRANK_LEE_JUNIOR:

Here are today's 2 chapters.

I know many of you will not be happy that I went premium, and I understand, but I can't just keep writing for free forever.

After all, I have a greedy cat to take care of ? .

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