DOUPO: From the Insignificant to the Emperor

The reason why alchemists can enjoy such treatment is naturally related to its rarity and practicality. The conditions for becoming an alchemist are extremely harsh.  Firstly, its attribute must be fire. Secondly, there must be a trace of wood in the fire to act as a catalyst in refining medicine.

  You must know that the properties of human bodies in the Douqi Continent are determined by their souls. A soul will always have only one attribute and it is impossible for it to be mixed with other attributes.

  Therefore, it is basically impossible for one body to have two attributes of different strengths.

  Of course, nothing is absolute. Among billions of people, there will always be some mutated souls, and those who possess mutated souls have the potential to become an alchemist.

  However, just possessing a soul with the attributes of fire and wood is still not enough to become a true alchemist.

  Because there is another necessary condition for the alchemist, which is also indispensable, that is: the perception of the soul, also known as the soul shaping ability.

  Under such harsh conditions, the number of people who are qualified to become alchemists is of course rare.

  With fewer alchemists, those magical elixirs are naturally scarce. Scarcity makes things valuable, and that is why the alchemist has such a noble and even somewhat abnormal status.

  Like Hai Bodong and Tianhuo Zunzhe in the original novel, they went through life and death countless times in order to ask Xiao Yan to refine the medicine. In the end, Xiao Yan delivered the elixir, and they had to thank Xiao Yan and owed him a favor.

  From this, we can see how high the status of the alchemist is!

  The next day.

  "Lin Feng, you are finally here. Now go to the back door and help load the goods." In the store, the shopkeeper saw Lin Feng coming and hurriedly called him, looking a little anxious.

  "Okay, I'll go right away." Seeing the shopkeeper's look, Lin Feng was a little curious, so he asked, "Shopkeeper, why are you so anxious?"

  Hearing this, the shopkeeper put his hands behind his back, raised his head proudly, and said, "You were not here yesterday, so of course you don't know. When I went to Zhenbei City yesterday, I met a first-class alchemist in Wanhua Tower. I found out about the master's hobbies, gritted my teeth, spent tens of thousands of gold coins to buy a snake girl and sent her over."

  At this point, the shopkeeper thought of the charming and seductive snake girl from yesterday. A hint of heat and reluctance flashed across his eyes, and then he was filled with excitement.

  He clapped his hands and said excitedly, "After receiving the message from the snake girl, Master Liu Xi has agreed that not only will the herbs he needs to refine medicine in the future be given to our company, but also that 20% of the medicine he refines every month will be sold to us."

  The shopkeeper thought about the huge and continuous profits in the future and couldn't help but imagine his happy life in the future.

  Hearing this, Lin Feng already understood why the shopkeeper was so happy today.

  The business he works for is one of the best in Wutan City, with a net profit of several thousand gold coins every month. If he could hook up with a first-class alchemist, the profit would probably double.

  Wait, Liu Xi?

  Lin Feng thought about it. Isn't this the alchemist who helped the Jialie family and the Xiao family in the original novel?

  He remembered that Liu Xi was also a disciple of a third-grade alchemist. So, his family property should be quite rich.

  Thinking of this, a strange light flashed in Lin Feng's eyes.

  "By the way, I was so happy today that I almost forgot. You go and help immediately. If you delay me from delivering herbs to Master Liu Xi, I will make you suffer." The shopkeeper suddenly remembered that Lin Feng was still here and shouted.

  "I'll go now." Lin Feng replied, then ran towards the back door.

  Town North City.

  Lin Feng followed the freight team of the merchant company to Liu Xi's residence. After unloading all the medicinal materials with everyone else, he ran to the shopkeeper and said, "Shopkeeper, I want to resign."

  "Resign?" After hearing Lin Feng's words, the shopkeeper was stunned, and then asked, "When?"

  Lin Feng replied: "Today."

  Hearing this, the shopkeeper was stunned and said, "Today? So urgent?"

  "Yes." Lin Feng nodded. After a month of indirect questioning, he had already learned about Liu Xi's life trajectory from the shopkeeper.

  Now is a good time to realize his plan. If he misses this opportunity, he will have to wait for a few more months.

  "Okay." The shopkeeper didn't pay much attention to a porter. He took out a few gold coins and said, "This is your salary for this period of time."

  "Thank you, shopkeeper." Lin Feng took the gold coins, then left with a large cloth bag on his back.

  After walking for a distance, Lin Feng quickly changed direction, ran out of the city,

  ran along the road for a few miles, found a suitable tree in the woods nearby, and climbed up in a few steps.

  Holding a bag of explosives containing one hundred kilograms of black powder in his hand, Lin Feng carefully hid on a big tree, patiently waiting for the target to arrive.

  His target this time was Liu Xi!

  After Lin Feng learned about Liu Xi's information from the shopkeeper a month ago, he decided to take a risk and began to plan to kill Liu Xi.

  If successful, not only will you be able to obtain advanced skills, but you can also get various items needed to learn alchemy.

  Later, after some indirect inquiries, he learned about Liu Xi's life trajectory from the shopkeeper.

  Knowing that Teacher Liu Xi lived in another city not far from Zhenbei City, Liu Xi came to Zhenbei City in order to avoid his teacher's supervision.

  However, Liu Xi would go to see his teacher once every once in a while, and today was the day that Liu Xi went to see his teacher.

  Although he knew Liu Xi's schedule, Lin Feng's tenth-level fighting power cultivation level was obviously no match for Liu Xi, not to mention that he had several fighters guarding him. So, Lin Feng played to his advantage as a time traveler, and after a while, he finally made a black powder explosive pack!

  Although it is difficult for this thing to kill a fighter head-on, it is still very likely to kill him by a sneak attack.

  After Lin Feng waited for a while, four strong men supporting a young man in white slowly appeared in his sight.

  The leading young man in white looked to be in his twenties and was quite handsome, but the lewd look that flashed in his eyes from time to time ruined his appearance.

  The young man's face was full of impatience at this moment. Apparently, his happy sexual life every day in Zhenbei City made him not want to meet his teacher.

  Seeing everyone approaching, a hint of madness flashed in Lin Feng's eyes.

  After traveling through time once, he originally just wanted to make his life better, but, the Douqi Continent was too cruel, and if he couldn't become stronger, he would just be bullied!

  When they came not far from the tree, they quickly lit the fuse with a tinder, threw it downwards, then quickly hugged the tree trunk and hid behind it.

  He had tested the burning time of the fuse, and it was less than two seconds. Plus, these fighters didn't know what an explosive pack was, so they most likely wouldn't be able to avoid it.

  "Um?"

  "Who is it?!"

  The people below saw something suddenly flying towards them from above, and they shouted and instinctively picked up their weapons to block it.

  Two of the strong men even drew their weapons and stabbed towards the explosive pack.

  At the moment when the explosive bag was about to come into contact with everyone's weapons, a dazzling light was emitted, and then everyone heard a loud "bang" and the cloth bag exploded above their heads.

  A large amount of broken iron pieces in the cloth bag were also rapidly washed around by the hot airflow. Many branches of trees in the surrounding woods were cut off, and more of them sank into the bodies of Liu Xi and others.

  Several people below were also knocked several meters away by the impact of the explosion, and two unlucky guys even had their bodies blown into several pieces.

  As the explosion sounded, large amounts of meat and internal organs fell to the ground along with branches and leaves of the surrounding trees.

  After a while, seeing that there was no movement below, Lin Feng's hands and feet became weak, and he climbed down the tree tremblingly. Looking at the debris on the ground, he breathed a sigh of relief.

  His action this time could be described as a case of failure or death. However, seeing the body parts all over the ground, Lin Feng suddenly felt a little nauseous.

  But he also knew that the people around him would definitely come over here if they heard the noise, so he suppressed his nausea and groped in the minced meat.

  "Hey, there's something."

  Looking at the storage ring that he had taken from Liu Xi's finger, Lin Feng grinned. The inheritance of a first-class alchemist was a huge sum of money for him now.

  However, he didn't have time to count them carefully now, so he put them away and continued to search.

  Not long after, Lin Feng had a few more scrolls and gold coin cards in his hands. Looking at the gold coins scattered on the ground, there were probably several thousand of them.

  "Forget it, let's get out of here quickly. With such a loud noise, others must be on their way here."

  Picking up the things he had just seized, Lin Feng casually picked up a piece of rag to wipe the blood stains on it, ran to the woods, led out the horse that had been prepared long ago, and quickly rode away from there

  . A few hours later, Lin Feng came to a cave and decided to practice his skills here first before continuing on his journey. Otherwise, if he encountered robbers or bandits, he would not be able to cope with them without practicing any skills.

  He took out the storage ring he got from Liu Xi, and his soul perception slowly penetrated into the ring in his hand. After a moment, an expression of joy that was hard to conceal welled up on his face.

  The collection in Liu Xi's storage ring is extremely rich, including the martial arts skills, prescriptions, medicine cauldrons, gold coins, pills, medicinal materials and other items that he urgently needs.

  "No wonder the ancients said that killing people and setting fires can bring you a golden belt. It's true!" He sighed as he looked at the storage ring on his palm.

  He took out a scroll and read the small words on it: "Intermediate Xuan-level technique, Scarlet Fire Art!"

  Then he picked up several other scrolls. Except for a low-level Xuan-level fighting skill, the Red Fire Palm, the others were recipes for first- and second-grade elixirs.

  Seeing the fighting skills, Lin Feng was a little disappointed. He originally thought that the fighting skills would be the same as the martial arts, which would be mid-level Xuan-level, but he didn't expect it to be a low-level Xuan-level. It seemed that Liu Xi didn't like fighting.

  However, this volume of fighting skills and martial arts are complementary, and when performed, it should be stronger than ordinary fighting skills of the same level.

  After a while, Lin Feng counted his gains and curiously picked up a gold coin card to take a look. This was the first time he saw a bank card from the Douqi Continent.

  The gold coin card is similar to Blue Star's savings card, with a number of 100,000 on it, which seems to be the balance in the card.

  Putting away the card, Lin Feng picked up the volume of Xuan-level intermediate skills and began to practice.