Chapter 95: Finally Becoming a Alchemist

Pulling time back a bit.

Heavenly Mechanism Workshop, Old Street.

Although this place was not too close to the explosion, it was also severely affected. Everyone on the whole street was covered in scarlet rust.

Originally, they were all waiting for death. Many residents who had newly settled in Wanfu City were coughing while regretting that they shouldn't have come here.

Just as this miserable atmosphere was spreading, suddenly, an extremely loud voice echoed through the entire street:

"Neighbors, neighbors."

"Your gospel has arrived. My master is a spirit chef of the City Lord's Mansion. He accidentally contracted the blood rust plague last night, but in just one night, he researched a medicinal soup that can alleviate symptoms. Not only is it incredibly delicious, but it can also allow you to temporarily save your lives and bodies."

"A bowl of 【Furnace Refining Body Soup】 only costs five hundred taels of silver."

"There is no life-saving item in the world that is so cheap. Come and buy it quickly."

Originally, most neighbors were unwilling to pay attention to such noisy shouting. They did believe that some people could avoid being poisoned, or even be cured.

In fact, they knew last night that many cultivators had resisted this poison.

But mortals had all been hit.

But being able to resist it oneself and helping others detoxify were two completely different concepts.

Everyone just thought it was a prankster wanting to tease them.

Until the next moment, they all saw a bronze crowing chicken that could be described as "oily and smooth," without a single bit of rust on its body, flying around openly.

While flying, it was broadcasting.

When this ironclad proof appeared, who could not believe it?

You must know that after the blood rust broke out last night, almost all metal objects in the Heavenly Mechanism Workshop became rusted, even the patrol airships, tower ships, and monster buses were the same.

If there wasn't really an antidote, where could one find such a clean bronze chicken?

Consequently, the neighbors struggled to get up one after another and headed towards Li Yu's meat shop residence.

Soon, as they approached while coughing and spitting out rust, they saw a handsome yet disheveled young man standing in front of the meat shop, as well as a pretty maid who was clearly wearing a high-end bionic skin.

In front of the two, three large vats were placed.

The vats contained some kind of liquid, or soup.

The color was yellow and black, somewhat like dirty machine oil, or lard that hadn't solidified yet?

"Can this kind of soup cure the blood rust plague?"

Everyone was full of doubts, and the reason they didn't leave.

Was because the 【Wanfu Badge】 was hanging in front of the door. Who in the city didn't know that being able to hang this badge meant the owner of the courtyard had a position in the City Lord's Mansion.

Conversely, Li Yu looked at everyone with an eager gaze.

In his eyes, the faces of these people began to blur, directly turning into symbols of gold, silver, and wealth.

More importantly, everyone would become a part of his advancement ritual.

For this reason, he rarely didn't order Hongdou around, but spoke personally:

"I work for the City Lord's Mansion. Like all of you neighbors, I personally experienced last night's disaster and was also infected with the blood rust plague. Fortunately, I am good at cooking medicinal cuisine with various spiritual effects. After some tossing, I really managed to cure this blood rust poison, and what I used was this 【Furnace Refining Body Soup】."

"I also know that all you neighbors are suffering, so I didn't sleep all night and boiled some of this."

"Although because the Heavenly Mechanism Workshop is filled with plague poison now, my Furnace Soup cannot be permanently effective. One bowl of soup can last for one day, but it can always support you for a while longer. Neighbors who want it to last longer can buy a few more bowls."

"Because the materials are precious, I cannot sell them at a loss, so I will sell them to you for five hundred taels a bowl."

"And look at the demonstration!"

To save time on persuasion, Li Yu deliberately released his protection before speaking, letting the blood rust virus in the air invade his body.

By the time he finished speaking, his body had also begun to grow a large number of rust patches like everyone else.

Li Yu didn't waste any words, picked up a bowl of "Furnace Refining Body Soup," and drank it in one gulp.

In an instant, it felt as if a furnace had been ignited in his body. Terrifying heat spread through his limbs and bones, and after burning the cold, dirty blood to ashes, it seemed to leave behind some sticky embers, completely covering the rust in his body and gradually forming a protective film under his skin, preventing new blood rust viruses from invading.

The effect was exactly the same as Li Yu had estimated, only the taste was a bit too stimulating.

"Hmm, I added a bit too much devil pepper to this vat."

"Fortunately, other ingredients like fire essence, lard, and machine oil, as well as my Alchemy Apprentice Qi, are the things that truly take effect."

"Furnace Refining Body, it lives up to its name."

When Li Yu's thought fell, all the rust patches on his body disappeared without a trace.

Once again, the evidence was as solid as a mountain.

How could the crowd have any more doubts? In those originally desperate eyes, a light of hope emerged simultaneously.

As for the five hundred tael price that could be called "slaughtering people."

Not a single person had any objections.

Just kidding, this is Wanfu City.

If it were them who had such ability, they would sell it for at least five thousand taels.

"I'll buy it. Give me a bowl, no, two bowls."

"And me, give me a bowl."

"Our family has five people, give me five bowls."...

So the following scene was the scene seen by the pranksters watching the fun outside the barrier.

Soon, a confirmed rumor quickly became known to more people.

Many people from other markets, who were originally scattered outside the barrier watching the miserable state of the Heavenly Mechanism Workshop residents, all gathered in the area where Old Street was located.

They watched with their own eyes as those residents who were about to turn into "iron corpses" had all their symptoms disappear and completely returned to normal after drinking a bowl of the so-called 【Furnace Refining Body Soup】.

For a time, exclamations arose everywhere:

"It's actually true? Someone really cured this strange plague virus overnight."

"What is this kid's background? He seems to be from the City Lord's Mansion. What path sequence is he, so clever."

"Furnace Refining Body Soup... looking at that color and appearance, why does it look like the machine oil commonly used by Heavenly Work Sect disciples."

"Heh, cured overnight, could it be that this plague virus was released by him?"

"Where did this fool come from? Even a blind person could feel the big explosion last night, right? If the Sacred Nest hadn't reacted in time, this disaster would not only have affected the entire Southern District, but even the adjacent City Lord's Mansion couldn't have been avoided. You say a mere cultivator who looks like a low sequence did it?"

"Which murderer would be so open and come out to sell the antidote afterwards? Unless it's the Sacred Nest selling it, then it would be reasonable."

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"The City Lord's Mansion doesn't keep idlers. Every position is a ruthless person, so it's normal to have such means."

"I found out, he's a medicinal cuisine spirit chef of the City Lord's Mansion's Ninth Exploration Team, possessing incredible medicinal cuisine means, and has customized special medicinal cuisine with heaven-defying spiritual effects for the entire exploration team. It is highly suspected that he is a cultivator of the 【Food God Path】."

"The Food God Path, that would be perfectly normal."

At this very moment, in front of the meat shop residence.

Li Yu had long since handed over the work of collecting money to Hongdou, and he himself began to enter a very special state.

Since he sold the first bowl of Furnace Refining Body Soup and ignited the lively scene.

In his body, nine completely different spiritual Qis began to emerge. It was exactly the nine elixirs he had taken in advance: Sword Evil, Sorrowful Cry, Diamond, Hundred Filth, Blood Battle... involving a full nine powerful True Gods, both righteous and evil.

And he, Li Yu, was "stealing" at this moment. As these spiritual Qis were absorbed and refined by him, his body, and some invisible places, began to undergo strange transformations. Some essences of the Sequence Eight of the All-Gods Path were being quietly stolen by him in this way.

Theoretically, such behavior!

Without a doubt, is blasphemy.

And, it is also a way to seek death.

Because in this process, there is spiritual response.

Once there is any movement in the spiritual response of any of the gods, Li Yu would alienate and die on the spot.

But very quickly, he didn't need to worry.

As more and more people bought and drank the Refining Body Soup, the scene became more and more explosive. Even outside the barrier, the Old Street area where he was located was already crowded with people watching the fun.

City Lord's Mansion spirit chef... Li Yu... Food God Path... Furnace Refining Body Soup... and other words spread rapidly.

It was thanks to the barrier that isolated sound. Onlookers could know what was happening inside through lip-reading, but they couldn't communicate with the people inside, so they couldn't tell others in the Heavenly Mechanism Workshop that someone was selling the antidote on Old Street.

Otherwise, it might really have ruined Li Yu's plan. He didn't have the ability to detoxify tens of thousands of people in the Heavenly Mechanism Workshop.

If he really did that, not to mention being exhausted to death, this Furnace Refining Body Soup looks like a simple formula, but to boil it, one must exert the Medicinal Cuisine technique to the extreme.

Li Yu really didn't lie; he did stay up all night to get these few vats done.

However, even if he could boil it casually, he wouldn't make this choice.

A plague virus that infected tens of thousands of people, solved overnight by a small person like you at Sequence Eight... The fame would definitely explode, and he could definitely make the headlines of the Wanfu Daily, but what's the difference between that and seeking death?

His plan was just to become famous among the thousand people near Old Street, and this point was perfectly achieved at the moment.

But there was also something that exceeded his expectations!

That is fame!

He thought that becoming famous among a group of a thousand people would be enough for him to refine the Alchemist secret medicine and complete the advancement.

But at this moment, it expanded tenfold.

When those majestic, chaotic, and blurry "Qi breaths" surged over invisibly, were perceived by him, and formed a special protection for him.

Li Yu heard those noisy thoughts directed at him, those discussions, those guesses, and some inexplicable malice.

In an instant, Li Yu realized:

"These are all components of fame."

"Becoming famous is just the appearance. The real ritual is to let these messy thoughts and Qi breaths disturb the spiritual response of the gods for me."

"Wonderful!"

"It's really too wonderful."

"A thief, how can one steal one-on-one? Of course, one must mix in the bustling street to make a move."

"That description of the Spirit Venerable in 'Diagram of All Gods' is indeed incredibly vivid. At the very least, the word 'thief' is simply too appropriate."

"Hmm, I've succeeded."

When Li Yu finished refining all nine elixirs, while blaspheming the True God of his path, and slowly opened his eyes.

The vats in front of him had clearly been emptied.

And he himself, at this moment.

Formally advanced from Sequence Eight 【Alchemy Apprentice】 to Sequence Seven of the Spirit Venerable Path... Alchemist.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 96 =====