Rise of the Alchemy God

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DING!

[You have gained +18670 STR.]

[You have gained +13000 AGI.]

[You have gained +9000 INT.]

[You have gained +1000 Soul Strength.]

Ethan already anticipated that the number of stat points he would gain would be quite significant, given that the corruption on the demonic continent was at an extremely advanced stage.

In a sense, it was a continent entirely corrupted, with its inhabitants, vegetation, and land all affected.

This was evident from the amount of demonic Qi he managed to extract at the end.

Even at a glance, one could estimate it to be hundreds or even thousands of times greater than what he had gathered on the bestial continent.

Now, seeing the massive number of stat points he metabolized from all that demonic Qi, Ethan had to admit he was a little surprised.

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Almost all his stats had increased by 100%, with some even exceeding that threshold.

Even his most difficult stat to increase ,the Soul Strength, had received a substantial boost, and Ethan could feel it rising several levels.

His physical strength had more than doubled, and the same applied to his agility and intelligence. Although they had improved slightly less than strength, as usual, they had still increased significantly.

'Hm?'

While savoring the sensation of overwhelming power coursing through his body, Ethan immediately perceived something unusual.

'It feels as though I've hit a bottleneck?' he thought, comparing the sensation to when he had previously encountered bottlenecks in his cultivation.

But this was strange, he should still have a long way to go in the basic tier of the first stage of the spiritual rank.

With this doubt in mind, he opened his status screen to see how it had changed and to possibly identify the source of this feeling:

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Name: Ethan

Cultivation: Soul Awakening (Basic)

QI: 23M / 50M

Physique: Heavenly Body of the Sacred Flames

Strength: 11,906 → 30,000 (+576)

Agility: 10,573 → 23,573

Intelligence: 7,114 → 16,114

Soul Strength: 982 → 1,982

[Shop]

[Storage]

[System Points]: 518 M

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Seeing his updated stats, he had to admit they were not bad at all.

"And to think I used to be happy with just an increase of a few dozen stats not too long ago," he thought.

Compared to the days when his stats grew by tens or even hundreds, this increase was far more significant.

He became increasingly convinced that hunting demons was one of the fastest ways to grow stronger, at least for him.

If the beings of the celestial plane heard this, they would undoubtedly spit out several liters of blood.

They were glad the demons were sealed away somewhere, as they lacked proper means to eliminate them, and for them, demons were a major headache.

On one hand, there were beings who wanted nothing to do with demons anymore. On the other, there was Ethan, who, if he could, would hunt demons for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

That said, Ethan immediately noticed his strength stat.

Seeing that it had reached a level where any additional points were stored separately, he couldn't help but think of one thing.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

'It's just like back then when I couldn't surpass the initial bottleneck,' he thought, recalling how his cultivation journey had begun.

Back then, due to his unawakened physique, he had to endure the frustration of his cultivation base never increasing directly and instead being stored.

He wondered if there was some specific requirement he had to meet this time to continue increasing his attack power.

"I wonder if this is the limit for the other stats as well," he pondered.

He began to suspect that perhaps 30,000 was the strength limit for the basic tier of the first stage of the spiritual rank. In other words, he might have to advance to the intermediate tier before he could hope to increase his strength again.

Although this discovery was a bit unexpected, he didn't dwell on it much.

Judging by how much his strength had increased upon ascending, he could already estimate how strong someone at the basic tier of the first stage should be. His fight with the demon Mo Yan had only confirmed this.

He was confident that he was already at the peak of this cultivation tier, perhaps even slightly beyond it.

Though he wasn't entirely sure why, something told him he might even be able to take on others at the peak of this cultivation tier with ease.

In the end, he simply shook his head, closed the status screen, and prepared to assess the state of the demonic continent, which had now been restored to normalcy as it once was.

But just as he shifted his attention away from the system, he sensed the auras of two women nearby.

Hm?

He was certain that the green-haired woman was in his core when he began absorbing the demonic Qi, yet now she was outside and not only that, she was with Bai Yu.

At first, this wouldn't have seemed so strange. After all, they were both women, and it was normal for them to meet and talk or do something else together.

But after the incident of the previous day, Ethan was sure that Bai Yu would have transformed the elemental spirit into a living fairy-like ice statue if she had had the chance.

He had to promise 200 liters of cola and a date to the dragon woman to calm her down.

He was certain that if he hadn't done so, his future would have been bleak, very bleak.

He vanished from his position and reached a grove below him, where under a tree the two women were sitting around a table, as if they were having a typical friendly chat.

Ethan might have thought that everything had gone well and that the two had managed to get along, but the rest of the frozen grove prevented him from thinking that.

He approached the two women and, deciding not to mention the disaster they had caused in the surrounding area, he said, gesturing to both of them to stand:

"Ladies, would you like to take a look at the continent with me?"

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Ethan traveled far and wide with both women to visit the now purified demonic continent, to see how the place looked now that every inhabitant residing there had finally returned to normal.

With Bai Yu, in her rounded beastly form curled around his neck, and Yao Hua, he explored every border of this continent to observe the current situation of the place. He had to admit, it was better than he expected.

A couple of hours had already passed since he finished purifying the continent, and during that time, it seemed that the people who had finally regained their senses had realized they had returned to normality and had even begun to accept the situation to a certain degree.

What Ethan thought as he witnessed the touching scenes of different races, mainly humans and beasts, reuniting, and some even celebrating, was that all these beings were inhabitants of this plane from two thousand years ago.

At first, when he thought about purifying this continent, he wondered what would happen to its inhabitants. After all, most of these people were individuals who had lived more than two thousand years ago and since then, in the form of half-demons and other corrupted creatures, had roamed this continent.

He wondered if time would catch up to them and they would eventually die after being freed from the demonic energy, or if they would remain the same, as if time had not passed for them.

And now, seeing that they were all alive and well, with no one seeming to exhibit any anomaly, he understood that his second assumption was correct.

Although this was, in a sense, a reason for joy, he wondered how these people would interact with each other from now on.

After all, he intended not only to eliminate the demonic race from this plane but also to reconnect all the continents by creating transportation arrays.

This would have led the people from the other two continents to arrive here and eventually meet the inhabitants of this continent.

At first, he had thought that perhaps it was better to keep the three continents separate, so they could continue developing as they had for all this time, allowing the people of the newly purified continent time to recover and restore some order.

But then, he reconsidered.

In the end, he stopped overthinking this matter and decided that it was more of a problem for the people of this plane of existence.

He had a feeling that the conflict between the two races wouldn't start as it had in the past.

On one hand, there were those who had already joined forces and perished together, and on the other hand, there were those who, although separated, had communicated and prepared together against a possible demonic invasion in the future.

Moreover, Ethan had had the chance to meet the main rulers of both continents and had already ensured that the past would not repeat itself.

Therefore, he didn't dwell too much on this matter and decided to make an inspection of the human continent, where he intended to check if any traces of demonic Qi remained, as well as to visit an acquaintance he hadn't seen in several years.

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