Chapter 106: Alchemist

The past headlines of the *Wanfu Daily* were all major events with significant impact.

This was the first time for an investigative report like this, with a conclusion that was so gratifying to the public.

More importantly, at the end of the headline, the *Wanfu Daily* had a major scoop:

"Starting from the first day that triggered the conflict between the Jinshen Sect and the Fallen Buddhist Sect, similar conflicts have occurred every day for the following five days, leading to conflicts and slaughter of varying scales among more than a dozen organizations in the city, triggering large-scale regional discrimination phenomena in the East, South, West, and North districts."

"According to our newspaper's reporters' careful investigation, the causes of the conflicts were all minor, but they always gradually fermented into a great farce. The reason lies in someone stirring up trouble in the midst of it, and this person possesses powerful 'shapeshifting abilities,' capable of incomparably perfect transformation and role-playing of other sequence paths, provoking both sides, thereby guiding major organizations into a fierce fight."

"Roughly estimated, the sequences involved after this person's transformation, such as Demon Monk, Flesh-Man, Courtesan, Blood Soldier, Sorrowful Corpse... and so on, have already exceeded more than a dozen types."

"Sequence paths possessing such abilities include, but are not limited to, the God of Thousand Faces, Spirit Venerable, Foolish God, and some unknown or extremely ancient God-Ascension paths."

"It was originally difficult to deduce the truth, but this person was meticulous yet left behind many clues... for example, he did not go to claim the reward; every practitioner of the Spirit Venerable path is a miser, so that can be ruled out... for another example, he left behind residual mystic Qi at some scenes, which was collected by our newspaper's reporters..."

"Therefore!"

"This matter has a conclusion: there is 100% a practitioner of the God of Thousand Faces path in the city, who has at least reached the sequence of Shapeshifting Ghost, with an extremely high cultivation base and extraordinary talent, but a vile temperament, taking pleasure in fooling and playing with the many major organizations in Wanfu City, which also perfectly fits the characteristics of the God of Thousand Faces."

"In addition, according to a tip from our newspaper's informant: this person is also suspected to be a Command Holder who has been making a splash among the Demon Star Command Holder group recently, the Disaster Star."

"Disaster Star Command Holder has only undergone two conquest missions, both times winning the first contribution, and has successively harmed many people on both the righteous and evil sides, including the recently hyped genius under the South District hegemon 【Sacred Nest】, Brother Shang Yang."

"Hiss!"

"So the reason for the chaos these past few days was all caused by a Sequence Seven practitioner?"

"Is the God of Thousand Faces path that powerful?"

"Practitioners of this path are indeed good at these things, and they are all 'fun-seekers'; as long as they can amuse themselves, they don't care about anyone else's life or death."

"Being able to cause so much trouble, no wonder he was chosen by the 【Disaster Star Command】."

"If it weren't for the *Wanfu Daily*, I'm afraid we would still be kept in the dark."

"Heh, actually I had a guess long ago; it's only those stupid barbarians in the North District who would fall for such a vicious trick."

"F*** your mother, you weakling from the South District."

"No matter how stupid the barbarians are, they aren't as stupid as the Flesh-Men who were poisoned silly by the 【Egg Virus】; I'm afraid their brains are all gone, they didn't understand such an obvious sowing of discord, fell for it on the spot, and ran over in the middle of the night to retaliate against our Buddha-Jumping-Wall Restaurant."

"The Demon Monks are the ones who have trained their human brains into beast brains; it's all said to be instigation, don't they know that the incident in the middle of the night was not done by our Garuda Restaurant?"

Obviously, once a conflict is brewed, even if the truth is revealed, it is already useless.

Not to mention that the four major districts and these transcendent organizations already had intense contradictions.

Li Yu had just quietly lit a small fire.

Just as the outside world was incomparably shocked by this latest issue of the *Wanfu Daily* scoop.

In the South District's Heavenly Mystery Workshop, inside the meat shop residence.

Li Yu, who had been an "office worker" for quite some time, asked for leave for the first time and holed up with his maid in that opaque alchemy room.

There was no other way; if he didn't ask for leave to digest the great harvest of these past few days, the extremely strange Alchemist Qi on his body would overflow.

He went to work during the day and worked at night.

He successfully instigated a whole bunch of evil sects, including the Jinshen Sect, Black Maitreya, Blood God Hall, Sacred Nest, Unblemished Buddha Mother, Lust Sect, Hanged King Sect, Innocent Child Sect... to fight each other.

Although it didn't seem serious at all, as if they were all farces.

But the lively and intense atmosphere brought Li Yu a huge harvest.

It was incredible!

But Li Yu had indeed pushed his cultivation base of the 【Alchemist】 sequence to a realm of near-great completion in just a few short days, with the cost paid by the many major organizations in the city.

The signs of this realm were extremely clear, with two types:

Creating an elixir formula according to his own will!

Successfully stealing the strange arts of other sequence paths and modifying them for his own use.

For the first type, Li Yu seemed to have achieved it earlier; after all, he had successively refined 【Compassionate Heart Elixir】 and 【Skin-Peeling Ghost Elixir】, both of which were purely original elixir formulas.

In reality, it was just an illusion.

Both elixir formulas were obtained by accidental epiphany and could not be replicated, so they couldn't be counted as self-created at will.

The second type was the same; the art of medicinal cuisine was obtained by accidental fusion, not stolen after his cultivation base was perfect.

However, at this very moment, right inside the alchemy room, both began to happen and became reality.

Li Yu sat upright, like a big eater, and under the service of Hongdou, he wantonly devoured various spirit materials and elixir materials.

The skin all over his body had become incomparably red, and even strange fire patterns appeared; obviously, he had entered the state of internal refining. The elixir fire that had evolved again could already burn through his whole body, allowing him to transform into the world's top alchemy furnace, like a furnace body.

Looking closer, those elixir materials were things like sludge, Geng metal ore, tears of a hundred ghosts, diamond, blood stone, soul bone... and so on, clearly containing the characteristics used when configuring secret medicines for at least twenty or thirty God-Ascension paths.

If it were someone else, even a practitioner.

After eating so many elixir materials with different characteristics or even conflicting ones, there would be no other outcome besides sudden death.

But Li Yu accepted everything and took it all into his belly. In the process, he still had the "leisure" to take out the *Handwritten Notes of Ultimate Goodness* he had previously obtained in the Mystic Realm, reading it while recalling the Demon God path inheritance he had peeked at earlier.

These two inheritance secret books were very precious, but the previous Li Yu couldn't steal the many forbidden arts contained within them at all, let alone modify them for his own use.

This time, it was very different.

After completing the manipulation and instigation of the infighting among many organizations, Li Yu had completely entered an unimaginable state of "high inspiration."

Whether it was the operation of Qi in his body or his wisdom and inspiration, it was far higher than usual, very much like the movie *Limitless* he had seen in his previous life, and like that protagonist who had taken a special spirit medicine.

Multi-tasking, everything was fine.

And he didn't know how much time had passed!

Suddenly, a muffled, thunderous roar came from within Li Yu's body.

Immediately, scorching elixir Qi began to gush out from every pore of his body.

The next moment, he produced the elixir, as disgusting as ever.

Li Yu's entire face melted.

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As if he himself were a wax figure, after being baked, his entire face began to fall off.

With a *pat-pat* sound, Li Yu turned into a "Faceless Man."

And in his cupped palms, there was an extra special elixir: it had no traditional shape, looking more like a mass of smoke with a sickly color, with chaotic Qi surging inside, as if it had a life of its own, wriggling and crawling, releasing intense malice toward the whole world indiscriminately.

Not knowing when it started, Li Yu, who had already recovered his face, looked at the elixir with surprise and joy.

"It's done, my first self-created elixir formula: 【Chaos Elixir of Thousand Faces】."

"The elixir formula is to melt as many characteristic elixir materials involving the paths of the gods as possible into one furnace, then condense all the essence into the face skin of the person refining the elixir, which then falls off and turns into a mist; only then is it considered a successful elixir."

"After taking this elixir, one can directly possess part of the abilities equivalent to the Sequence Seven 【Shapeshifting Ghost】 of the God of Thousand Faces path, with a time limit of one hundred breaths."

"The cost is that one's temperament will be distorted somewhat; one will be very fond of teasing others and enjoy watching the fun, and will have no scruples for the sake of one's own happiness."

When Li Yu moved his thoughts, the smile in his eyes became even brighter.

The efficacy of this elixir!

Undoubtedly, it crushed the elixirs like Sword Fiend, Sorrowful Cry, Jin Gang, etc., that Li Yu had refined in the past.

The two sides were separated by one sequence.

This was not only Li Yu's first true self-created elixir formula but also the first Sequence Seven-level elixir.

And this was not the end.

After Li Yu put away the elixir, he continued to stare and flip through the *Handwritten Notes of Ultimate Goodness* again, then closed his eyes tightly, immersing himself in the Demon God inheritance.

Another full half-hour passed, and suddenly, Li Yu changed.

Everything external remained unchanged.

But his whole person seemed to have become another "species"; although he still had the appearance of a human male, the feeling he exuded was incomparably demonic and non-human.

Like a demon, but even stranger.

At this time, Li Yu, even if he used his human appearance to mix into a group of demons and strange creatures, would not have the slightest sense of incongruity.

Even more incredible were his subsequent actions and commands.

He saw him directly extend an arm in front of his mechanical maid and then said:

"Hongdou, cut off my hand."

"Okay, Master!"

This pair of master and servant seemed to have gone crazy.

One dared to say it, and the other dared to do it.

Accompanied by the *whirring* sound of the chainsaw sword, Li Yu's arm fell directly to the ground, with speed reaching the extreme.

Obviously, whether it was cutting enemies or cutting his master, Hongdou was very proactive.

However, the point at this time was that after the severed arm hit the ground, not only did it not splash a drop of blood, but it also "came alive."

The five fingers spread out, crawling everywhere with a *clatter*.

Until the cross-section turned pale, it crawled back and jumped to reconnect.

At the wound, it could be seen with the naked eye that it was self-healing.

Before long, it merged into one, and no cutting marks could be seen anymore.

This!

The smile on Li Yu's face could not be hidden.

"It's done again, the newly stolen strange art 【Demon Body】."

"This art is a new spell formed by combining the flesh modification technique in the *Handwritten Notes of Ultimate Goodness* with the method of turning into a demon in the Demon God path."

"Besides being able to be used for some flashy operations and strange wonderful uses, the key to this art lies in... greatly improving my defensive ability."

"With this art, even the existence of 【Sword Hero】 or 【Blood Rider】 of the same sequence, who are invincible in fighting, won't be able to kill me for a while; it can be called perverted."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 107 =====