Chapter 95

As the door slowly closed, the warehouse was left with only Li Ang alone.

He stared at the mountain of steel before him, took a deep breath, and calmed his emotions.

The warehouse had a furnace, but Li Ang didn't need it.

His Golden Eyes ignited instantly.

Blood Surge enhances the strength of Spell, and when reflected in Heaven and Earth as Furnace, it naturally increases the range and the degree of metal smelting.

Feeling the nearly fifteen-meter radius around him now under his control, Li Ang exhaled gently.

Heaven and Earth are the furnace; Creation is the craftsman; Yin and Yang are the charcoal; All things are the copper.

At this moment, Li Ang's body became a vast smelting furnace; under the refining of his spiritual fire, the massive steel rapidly turned crimson, melting into droplets that began to spin in midair.

As the droplets collided, impurities turned to ash and slowly drifted through the warehouse.

Under the effect of Heaven and Earth as Furnace, the metal droplets grew brighter and brighter until no more impurities emerged, at which point their spinning slowed gradually.

Looking at the metal droplets now shaped into bullets all around him, Li Ang thought silently to himself:

'The efficiency of Heaven and Earth as Furnace is even more terrifying than I imagined; it seems my plan to return as a weapons merchant is feasible.'

'And it seems Heaven and Earth as Furnace isn't entirely useless in combat—if one day my spiritual strength is sufficient to truly turn Heaven and Earth into a furnace…'

Thinking of this, Li Ang's gaze flickered.

Heaven and Earth as Furnace is a game-breaking combo with almost any craft-based class.

But he knew his Heaven and Earth as Furnace was so extraordinarily efficient because of his own uniqueness.

If he only had the 【Bloodline】 class, he could never have achieved this.

But Li Ang's current spiritual strength had reached 5.1—far beyond any ordinary Bloodline—and with Blood Surge's enhancement, Heaven and Earth as Furnace had far exceeded its original strength.

Ding ding ding—

At that moment, the shaped bullets clattered onto the ground with crisp sounds.

Though these bullets were merely basic Alchemical items with no Alchemical Matrix added, their strength was undoubtedly far higher than ordinary bullets.

But Li Ang had no intention of further processing this batch of bullets; his short-term goal was to level up 【Apprentice Craftsman】, and he could refine truly useful Alchemical items only after reaching max level.

At the same time, the class panel flashed up new information.

【Successful Alchemical operation, Class Experience +11】.

The experience wasn't much, but remember—Li Ang had only completed one Alchemical operation, and the metal in the warehouse was enough for dozens, even hundreds more.

'It feels like 【Apprentice Craftsman (Alchemical)】 will be maxed out soon—no wonder it's a pay-to-win class.'

Let's just say, with money, pay-to-win classes are truly satisfying.

If it weren't even my own money, it'd be even better.

Moreover, Li Ang wasn't just gaining experience for 【Apprentice Craftsman (Alchemical)】; since Blood Surge was active, his 【Bloodline】 and 【Blood Surge】 experience were also slowly increasing.

Under the dual stimulation of money and experience, Li Ang felt he could work nonstop without sleep.

'Grind, grind—it's all about Alchemy!'

Outside the warehouse.

Several Execution Division agents crouched by the roadside, smoking Marlboros.

'So that guy inside is like the Equipment Division's bomb fanatics—he does Alchemy too? I thought he was just like us, only good at fighting.'

As Execution Division agents from New York, they still remembered Li Ang's feat of tearing apart a Fifth-Generation last week.

That had cemented in their minds the image of Li Ang as a rough, brute-type man.

At that moment, one Execution Division agent spoke in a low, eerie tone:

'You think there'll be an explosion in there soon?'

The Cassell Academy's Equipment Division was full of bomb kids—explosions happened every few days, creating a widespread stereotype that Alchemy meant explosions.

'.'

'.'

The Execution Division agents silently moved away from the warehouse.

At that moment, the warehouse door behind them slowly opened, and a filthy, exhausted figure stepped out.

Seeing this, the agents rushed over.

Before they could speak, Li Ang pointed behind him: 'Take the stuff inside away when you get the chance—it'll be useful.'

Hearing this, the agents instinctively glanced into the warehouse—and saw that the mountain of steel had shrunk dramatically, replaced by an astonishing quantity of bullets.

'??'

What kind of human assembly line is this!?

Having dealt with Alchemical bullets for so long, the agents could easily tell the quality of the bullets piled on the warehouse floor was high.

But could one person really do this?

Only then did they finally understand why Li Ang wanted as much metal as possible.

'Take me back.'

Ignoring the strange expressions of the agents beside him, Li Ang opened the car door and got in.

He was truly exhausted—maintaining Heaven and Earth as Furnace had nearly drained his spirit.

It felt just like staying up all night at an internet cafe as a student, then eating breakfast at a roadside stall at dawn.

Fortunately, the outcome was satisfying.

【Apprentice Craftsman (Alchemical) lv7 (43/700), Bloodline lv3 (126/300)】.

【Blood Surge (Proficient 94/200)】.

Looking at the class panel, Li Ang's brow relaxed slightly.

At this rate, the two prerequisite classes for 【Dragon Vein Alchemist】 would be maxed out soon.

That leaves only one final class-change condition.

【The dragon blood within the body reaches the Third-generation bloodline layer】.

Regarding this, Li Ang did have a few ideas.

Since hybrids can never truly become real dragons, what if he used the dragon blood of a pure-blooded dragon to completely replace his own bloodline?

Perhaps for the people of the Dragon Clan world, this would be nothing short of courting death, but Li Ang felt it wasn't impossible for him to succeed.

【Reverse Birth: Three Layers (Expert 238/5000)】.

If something truly went wrong, he could always Circulate mysterious qi again to keep himself alive.

However, if it came to that, he'd probably end up like Zuo Ruotong — never able to exit the Reverse Birth state again from this day forth.

Because the risk was simply too great, Li Ang couldn't recklessly rush in; before that, he'd still have to find a way to obtain the detailed materials of 【Project Nibelungen】 (Note 1) from Kassel Academy.

As for dragon blood—

Is there a more suitable target than Norton?

If Li Ang succeeded in getting Shenzhou's hybrid families to protect Constantine's egg, then this Dragon King should not mind shedding a little blood.

Thinking of this, Li Ang's gaze suddenly sharpened.

'Heaven and earth as the furnace, Norton's dragon blood'

'Could I really be the Bronze and Fire Dragon King?!'

Note 1: Project Nibelungen was designed by Instructor Flamel, combining alchemy and biotechnology. It uses serum purified from dragon blood to awaken the dragon blood within a hybrid, helping them break through the critical blood limit while retaining self-awareness. This inconceivable technology implants an alchemical matrix into the human body, using alchemy to suppress dragon blood.