Rise of the Alchemy God

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Ethan didn't have many tasks to take care of.

First, he informed the sect master that he had emerged from isolation.

Naturally, as it happened before, Xiang Hua wasn't there, as she had gone to the Imperial Alchemy Tournament.

When Feng Huang saw Ethan for the first time in three months, she wanted to examine his cultivation base, but she immediately noticed that she couldn't.

She didn't ask why that was and simply assumed that he had improved.

Even though she couldn't examine his cultivation base, from the spiritual aura surrounding him, she could tell he had made significant progress in his cultivation.

However, she was unaware that her assumption was far from how much he had actually improved.

She didn't even notice that much of his appearance had changed because Ethan, once he returned to his residence, used a technique to make himself look more like he did 25 years ago.

Zhong Hei, on the other hand, returned to Ethan's sea of consciousness, as bringing out a creature like him would only cause unnecessary chaos.

Although Zhong Hei could suppress his cultivation base, he was far from being a normal beast.

He might appear to be a simple black snake, but if one looked closely, they would begin to notice various peculiarities about him.

Ethan wanted to avoid causing any problem for the time being.

Especially because showing Zhong Hei to the sect master would be like presenting him on a silver platter, giving her the opportunity to examine him.

After reporting, Ethan spoke with Da Shu and discovered that his supply of pills, which he had given him, was nearly depleted.

That reserve was prepared to last for much longer than three months, but who would have thought that business would go so well and that the demand for pills would increase so much?

In the end, Ethan gave him some of the pills he had produced in his minor dimension, and when Da Shu saw them, he almost had a heart attack.

The dimensional ring Ethan gave him contained hundreds upon hundreds of vials of pills, most of which were level 1 pills of various kinds.

What surprised Da Shu was that there were also a good number of level 2 pills of all three grades, and they weren't of just one type, but several, meaning Ethan had recipes for this level of pills.

This was impressive considering he wasn't part of any organization, and finding them on the market was difficult, especially those of higher levels.

Ethan didn't think much of this and went elsewhere to handle some other minor matters.

After taking care of those, it was time for him to head to the capital.

At that moment, there were eight days left until the start of the exam, and even with the fastest means of travel, it would take nearly four days of continuous travel to get there.

The Alchemy Pavilion had stations with short-distance teleportation arrays that connected several cities within the same region, so this time was halved.

Ethan knew that using these teleportation arrays would be costly, and while he could afford the price, he had no intention of wasting money unnecessarily.

With his current cultivation base, he could make the entire journey on his own in about a day.

For others, this speed might seem incredible, but for beings at the fifth stage, it was something they could do comfortably.

Of course, some were faster than others, but overall, they all had exceptional physical stats.

In the end, Ethan headed to the Spirit Forest and used his fifth-stage cultivation base to float effortlessly in the air.

Compared to when he was at the second stage, where he could already influence spiritual energy to move small objects, he was able to float a little at the third stage.

But his lack of technique, along with his limited Qi reserves, caused him to tire quickly.

However, now, he no longer had these problems.

He had had 25 years to train in many things, and this was one of them.

With a teacher like Bai Yu, it was no exaggeration to say that he had perfect control over the amount of Qi he was spending.

With a slight burst of energy, he leaped into the air, and once he reached a height of 200 meters, he looked around for the direction of the imperial capital and shot toward it.
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Thanks to the aura suppression technique he had learned from Bai Yu, he didn't risk being noticed by anyone, not even by a fifth-stage cultivator, so he could now speed toward the imperial capital without fear of being detected by anyone.

The further Ethan flew, the faster his speed increased.

20 km/h, 50 km/h, 100 km/h… 1000 km/h.

At a certain point, Ethan had reached a speed equal to Mach 1, the speed at which military jets usually fly.

An impressive speed that would be impossible even to consider for a low-level cultivator.

Normally, at such a speed, vast distances could be covered in very little time, but the reason Ethan expected it would still take him a full day was due to the fact that the capital was about 20,000 kilometers away.

To give an example of how great this distance was:

The Earth's equator has a circumference of just over 40,000 kilometers.

This means that Ethan, at his current speed, could circle the Earth in a little over two days.

At this speed, the landscape beneath him changed constantly, almost every second.

Normally, at such a speed, an ordinary person would have a 100% chance of dying.

This was due to the fact that such a person would have to endure enormous resistance from the friction with the air, the pressure from inertia forces, and the extreme temperatures the body would reach, high enough to burn the person alive.

Clearly, at his current level, Ethan didn't risk suffering from any of these issues because:

One, his body was extremely strong, so he didn't risk damaging it in any way by flying this fast;

Two, he covered his body with a layer of spiritual Qi to protect his clothes from being damaged.

And so, in just about a day, Ethan covered the entire distance of 20,000 kilometers separating the imperial capital from the Phoenix Kingdom.