[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-ten-thousand-laws-of-the-occult-i-am-the-spirit-":3,"chapter-ten-thousand-laws-of-the-occult-i-am-the-spirit--ten-thousand-laws-of-the-occult-i-am-the-spirit--chapter-95":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Ten Thousand Laws of the Occult, I Am the Spirit Sovereign",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2356278,4609,"Chapter 95: Finally Becoming an Alchemist","ten-thousand-laws-of-the-occult-i-am-the-spirit--chapter-95",95,"\u003Cp>Let us pull time back a little.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tianji Ward, Old Street.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although this place was not too close to the explosion, it was still severely affected; everyone on the entire street was covered in scarlet rust.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Originally, they were all waiting to die. Many residents who had recently moved to Wanfu City were coughing while expressing regret, saying things like they shouldn't have come here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as this miserable atmosphere spread, suddenly, an extremely loud voice resounded through the entire street:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Neighbors, neighbors.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Your salvation has arrived. My master is a spirit chef from the City Lord's Mansion. He accidentally contracted the blood-rust plague toxin last night, but in just one night, he researched a medicinal soup that can alleviate the symptoms. It is not only incredibly delicious, but can also allow you all to temporarily preserve your lives and bodies.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"One bowl of [Furnace Body-Refining Soup] costs only five hundred taels of silver.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There is no life-saving item in this world as cheap as this. Come and buy it quickly.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Originally, most neighbors were unwilling to pay attention to such noisy shouting. They did believe that some people could avoid being poisoned, or even cure it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, they had known since last night that many cultivators had resisted this toxin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But all the mortals had been struck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, being able to resist it oneself and helping others cure the toxin were two completely different concepts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So everyone just assumed it was some prankster wanting to toy with them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until the next moment, they all saw a bronze dawn-announcing chicken that could be described as \"sleek and shiny,\" with not a single speck of rust on its body, flying around openly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While flying, it broadcasted the message.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When this ironclad proof appeared, who could still not believe it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One must know that after the blood-rust outbreak last night, almost all metal objects in Tianji Ward had become covered in rust, including the patrol airships, tower ships, and monster buses; they were all the same.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If there really wasn't a cure, where could one find such a clean bronze chicken?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Consequently, the neighbors struggled to stand up and headed toward Li Yu's meat shop residence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, after they approached while coughing and spewing rust, they all saw a handsome yet disheveled young man standing in front of the meat shop, along with a pretty maid who was clearly wearing a high-end bionic skin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In front of the two, three large vats were placed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The vats contained some kind of liquid, or soup.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The color was yellow-black, somewhat like dirty machine oil, or perhaps unsolidified lard?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Can this kind of soup cure the blood-rust plague toxin?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone was filled with doubt, and the reason they didn't leave...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...was because of the [Wanfu Badge] 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 held a position in the City Lord's Mansion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Conversely, Li Yu looked at everyone with an eager gaze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his eyes, the faces of these people began to blur, directly turning into symbols of gold and silver wealth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More importantly, every single person would become a part of his promotion ritual.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For this reason, he very rarely did not order Hong Dou around, but spoke personally:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I serve in 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 toxin. Fortunately, I am skilled in cooking medicinal meals with various spirit effects. After some tossing and turning, I actually managed to cure this blood-rust toxin, and these [Furnace Body-Refining Soups] are what I used.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Knowing that all you neighbors are suffering, I didn't sleep all night and brewed these up.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Although because Tianji Ward is currently filled with plague toxins, my furnace soup cannot be permanently effective—one bowl of soup can last for one day—it can always sustain you for a while longer. If you neighbors want it to last longer, you can buy more bowls.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Because the ingredients are precious, I cannot lose money and give them away for free, so I will sell them to you all for five hundred taels a bowl.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And watch the demonstration!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To save time on persuasion, before speaking, Li Yu deliberately let down his defenses, allowing the blood-rust virus in the air to invade his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the time he finished speaking, his body had also begun to grow large patches of rust, just like everyone else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yu didn't waste any words; he picked up a bowl of \"Furnace Body-Refining Soup\" and downed it in one gulp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant, it felt as if a furnace had been ignited inside his body. Terrifying heat spread through his limbs and bones, burning those cold, dirty blood toxins to ashes. After that, it seemed to leave behind some sticky embers, completely covering the rust inside his body and gradually forming a protective film under his skin, preventing new blood-rust viruses from invading.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The effect was exactly as Li Yu had estimated, only the taste was a bit too stimulating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hmm, this vat had a bit too much devil pepper added.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fortunately, the other ingredients like fire essence, lard, and machine oil, along with my Elixir Disciple Qi, are what truly take effect.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Furnace body-refining, true to its name.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Li Yu's thought settled, all the rust patches on his body disappeared without a trace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once again, the evidence was as solid as a mountain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How could the crowd have any more doubts? In those eyes that were originally filled with despair, a light of hope emerged in unison.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the five-hundred-tael price that could be called \"gouging,\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not a single person had any objections.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just kidding, this is Wanfu City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it were them with such ability, they would sell it for at least five thousand taels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'll buy it. Give me one bowl, no, two bowls.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And me, give me one bowl.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Our family has five people, give me five bowls.\"...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, the following scene was what the pranksters watching the fun outside the protective barrier saw.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, a confirmed rumor quickly became known to more people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many people from other wards who were originally scattered outside the barrier, watching the miserable state of the Tianji Ward residents, all gathered in the area where Old Street was located.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They watched with their own eyes as those residents who were about to turn into \"iron corpses,\" after drinking a bowl of the so-called [Furnace Body-Refining Soup], had their symptoms completely vanish and fully returned to normal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a time, exclamations arose everywhere:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's actually true? Someone really cured this bizarre plague toxin overnight.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What is this guy's background? He seems to be from the City Lord's Mansion. What path sequence is he, to be so brilliant.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Furnace Body-Refining Soup... looking at that color and appearance, why does it look like the machine oil commonly used by disciples of the Heavenly Craft Sect.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Heh, curing the toxin in one night, could it be that this plague toxin was released by him?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Where did this fool come from? Even a blind person could feel last night's massive explosion. If it weren't for the Holy Nest reacting in time, this disaster would not only have affected the entire South District, but even the adjacent City Lord's Mansion couldn't have avoided it. You're saying a mere low-sequence cultivator who looks like this did it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What murderer would be so open and aboveboard, then come out to sell the antidote afterward? Unless the Holy Nest came out to sell it, then that would be reasonable.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>=9+Shu_ba\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The City Lord's Mansion doesn't keep idlers. Everyone with a position is a ruthless person, so it's normal to have such means.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I've inquired about it; he is a medicinal spirit chef from the Ninth Expedition Team of the City Lord's Mansion. He possesses unfathomable medicinal meal techniques and has customized special medicinal meals with heaven-defying spirit effects for the entire expedition team. It is highly suspected that he is a cultivator of the [Food God Path].\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Food God Path, that would be perfectly normal then.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this very moment, in front of the meat shop residence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yu had long since handed the work of collecting money to Hong Dou, while he himself began to enter an extremely special state.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ever since he sold the first bowl of Furnace Body-Refining Soup and ignited the lively scene,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nine distinct types of spirit Qi began to emerge within his body. These were the nine elixirs he had consumed in advance: Sword Evil, Sorrowful Cry, Vajra, Hundred Filth, Blood Battle... involving a full nine powerful True Gods, both righteous and evil.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And he, Li Yu, was currently \"stealing.\" As these spirit Qi circulations were absorbed and refined by him, his body, as well as some invisible places, began to undergo bizarre transformations. Some essences of the Sequence 8 of the All-Gods Path were being quietly stolen by him in this way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Supposedly, such an act!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without a doubt, it was blasphemy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And, it was also a path to certain death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because in this process, there was spiritual response involved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once there was any movement in the spiritual response of any one of those gods, Li Yu would immediately mutate and die on the spot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But very quickly, he no longer needed to worry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As more and more people bought and consumed the Body-Refining Soup, the scene became increasingly explosive. Even outside the barrier, the Old Street area where he was located was already crowded with people watching the fun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>City Lord's Mansion spirit chef... Li Yu... Food God Path... Furnace Body-Refining Soup... and other words were spreading rapidly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was fortunate that the barrier blocked sound. The onlookers could know what was happening inside through lip-reading, but could not communicate with the people inside, and thus could not inform others in Tianji Ward that someone was selling an antidote on Old Street.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, it might have really ruined Li Yu's plans. He didn't have the ability to cure the tens of thousands of people in Tianji Ward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he really did that, not to mention being exhausted to death, this Furnace Body-Refining Soup might look like it had a simple recipe, but to actually brew it required pushing the art of medicinal meals to the extreme.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yu really wasn't lying; he had indeed stayed up all night to finish these few vats.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, even if he could brew it at will, he wouldn't make that choice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Plague toxin infecting tens of thousands of people, solved overnight by a small fry of Sequence 8 like you... the fame would definitely explode, and he could certainly make the headlines of the Wanfu Daily, but how is that any different from seeking death?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His plan was for the thousand or so people near Old Street, and this point was currently being perfectly achieved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But there was also something that exceeded his expectations!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was the reputation!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had thought that becoming famous among a group of a thousand people would be enough for him to refine the Alchemist secret medicine and complete his promotion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But at this moment, it was expanding tenfold or more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When those massive, chaotic, and blurry \"Qi breaths\" surged over invisibly, were perceived by him, and formed a special protection for him,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yu heard those large amounts of noisy intentions directed at him, those discussions, those guesses, and some baseless malice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant, Li Yu had an epiphany:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"These are all components of reputation.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Becoming famous is just the appearance. The true ritual is to let these messy intentional Qi breaths disrupt the spiritual responses of the gods for me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wonderful!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It is truly wonderful.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"As for a thief, how could one steal in a one-on-one situation? Naturally, one must blend into a bustling, crowded street to make a move.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That 'Illustrated Guide to the Gods' description of the Spirit Venerable is indeed incredibly vivid; at the very least, the word 'thief' could not be more fitting.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mm, I have succeeded.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Li Yu finished refining all nine elixirs, while simultaneously blaspheming the True God of his own path, he slowly opened his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The jars in front of him had been completely emptied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And he himself, at this very moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Formally advanced from Sequence 8 [Elixir Apprentice] to Sequence 7 of the Spirit Venerable path... Alchemist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",2082,"2026-06-21T04:11:00.205Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","cebcd361e4fa81f124f2e4c8a41f2227b60ef86fc6864c3be94e3ce5f61bd341","ten-thousand-laws-of-the-occult-i-am-the-spirit--chapter-96","ten-thousand-laws-of-the-occult-i-am-the-spirit--chapter-94",427,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Ften-thousand-laws-of-the-occult-i-am-the-spirit--cover.jpg"]