Chek Nao

"Damn!" Seeing the Medicinal Herbs scattered across the ground and the black Medicine Cauldron, Yun Shu immediately knew what kind of person the owner of this Ring of Holding had been.

He was actually an alchemist!

This Ring of Holding was filled with all kinds of Medicinal Herbs and Magic Cores, along with this Medicine Cauldron.

"What about this one..." Yun Shu stored all the Medicinal Herbs and the Medicine Cauldron into his Storage Space, then released the contents of the other Ring of Holding.

"A book?" Yun Shu said with a strange expression as he looked at the contents of this Ring of Holding.

This Ring of Holding was merely the lowest-grade kind, with only four or five cubic meters of space. The silver-white Ring of Holding that had contained the Medicinal Herbs and Medicine Cauldron had over a hundred cubic meters of space, nearly comparable to Yun Shu's Storage Space.

The key now was the book inside this low-grade black Ring of Holding...

Yun Shu picked up the book and began examining its contents.

"So that's how it was!!"

The book was quite thick, and Yun Shu read it until the next day.

He finally figured out who the original owner of this Ring of Holding had been.

He was not some major figure, not even comparable to Pill King Gu He. This man was Chek Nao, the Chek Family's alchemist mentioned by Gu Ni, the Second-Rank Alchemist of the Mittel Auction House, and Ya Fei in the original story.

Decades ago, the Chek Family, which had once been renowned throughout the Gama Empire, had tried to get their hands on Pill King Gu He's Pill Recipe. In the end, Gu He had hired four Dou Wang experts and wiped their family out completely.

In truth, Chek Nao had not died back then. He had fled to the Monster Mountain Range with severe injuries and eventually stumbled into the special space Yun Shu had entered before. However, Chek Nao had already been beyond saving at the time. He failed to escape and simply died within that special space.

No one had paid it any attention for decades, until Yun Shu received the Treasure Map rewarded by the system and found this fellow.

Chek Nao had been a peak Fourth-Rank Alchemist, already highly proficient in refining Fourth-Rank Pills. Unfortunately, he had no Pill Recipe for a Fifth-Rank Pill, so he planned to start with Gu He. When Gu He refused to give it to him...

As everyone knew, a Pill Recipe was an alchemist's lifeblood. Yet Chek Nao had actually lost his mind and summoned a Dou Wang expert to forcibly seize one. And then...

He dragged the entire Chek Family down with him.

This book recorded every Pill Recipe Chek Nao had mastered, as well as his lifelong alchemy techniques. It could be said that as long as Yun Shu memorized this book, he would have the foundation to become a Fourth-Rank Alchemist.

As for whether Yun Shu's body was capable of becoming an alchemist, there was no doubt about it. Yun Shu had the Attributes Panel, so he had long known his Dou Qi Attribute. He simply had not yet broken through to Dou Zhe and thus could not cultivate a cultivation method.

His Soul Perception had also barely reached the requirement. At the very least, becoming an alchemist would not be a problem.

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Name: Yun Shu

Age: 14

Realm: Dou Qi, Level 5

Soul: Mortal Realm Initial Stage

Attributes: Fire, Wood, Earth

Cultivation Method: (None)

Dou Technique: Heavenly Thunder Break (Mystic Low-Rank)

Strange Fire: Fallen Heart Flame (Infant Stage)

Technique: Divine Concealment Art

Items: Mystic Heavy Ruler, Omni-Pill, Qi Gathering Powder, Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid...

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Although he did not know why he possessed three attributes, one thing was certain: it was not a bad thing.

After all, his long period of cultivation had not produced any accidents or problems because of those three attributes.

"Still, as for alchemy, I should wait until I become a Dou Zhe first!" Yun Shu thought it over carefully before saying so.

Although one could not refine pills without becoming a Dou Zhe.

The reason an alchemist needed to become a Dou Zhe was that only then could they cultivate a fire-attribute cultivation method and use Dou Qi to generate flames for alchemy.

But Yun Shu was different. Since he had already bound a Strange Fire, he could now consume Dou Qi to activate the infant-stage Fallen Heart Flame.

However, the total amount of Dou Qi he possessed at the Dou Qi stage was insufficient to sustain the consumption required for alchemy, so he could only give up for now. He could not possibly drain himself dry just to try refining pills.

That was why Yun Shu planned to begin alchemy only after breaking through to Dou Zhe.

"Alright, I'll deal with the Medicinal Herbs and everything else after I break through to Dou Zhe!" Yun Shu stored everything into his Storage Space, leaving only a low-grade Ring of Holding on his hand.

He did not wear the silver high-grade Ring of Holding, because wearing that thing would clearly bring the current Yun Shu quite a few troubles.

So Yun Shu planned to give this slightly higher-grade Ring of Holding to the system for a Lottery...

"System! Let's give it a try!" Yun Shu tossed the high-grade Ring of Holding to the system and conducted a Lottery.

"Ding! Lottery in progress..."

"Congratulations, Host! Storage Space capacity has doubled!"

"???" Yun Shu's face immediately filled with question marks when he saw the reward. This counted as a reward?

His Storage Space had originally been one hundred cubic meters, and now it had become two hundred cubic meters...

The Ring of Holding he had just thrown to the system for the Lottery had also contained one hundred cubic meters of space...

System, are you sure you did not just add the two spaces together??

"..."

"Forget it, an increase is still an increase! My Storage Space needed to expand anyway." Yun Shu estimated that he would definitely need to store more things in the future, so the larger this world's safest Storage Space was, the better.

After dealing with the Ring of Holding, Yun Shu finally took out the Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid he had obtained from the previous Lottery.

He was now about to reach Level 6 Dou Qi. If he used this bottle of Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid, he would probably be able to reach Level 8 Dou Qi in two months!

He might even reach an even higher level!

After that, Yun Shu would only need to spend some time cultivating diligently before using the Qi Gathering Powder from the beginner reward to directly break through and become a Dou Zhe!

That way, he could formally begin learning the alchemist techniques Chek Nao had left behind.

In the blink of an eye, another two months passed.

"Heavenly Thunder Break!!" In an uninhabited grove, Yun Shu gathered the power of Dou Qi in his hand and punched the mountain rock before him.

Bang!!!

The incomparably hard rock was smashed by Yun Shu's fist, leaving a crack dozens of meters long.

Over the past two months, Yun Shu had not neglected his Dou Technique training. After all, the more proficient one was with a Dou Technique, the greater the power one could unleash.

As for the Dou Qi within his body, just as he had expected, with the help of the Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid, Yun Shu successfully broke through to Level 8 Dou Qi. He even faintly showed signs of charging toward Level 9.

However, Yun Shu was not in a hurry to break through, because he knew that rapidly skipping levels was extremely irresponsible toward himself. Otherwise, he might not even be able to do something as standard for a protagonist as defeating enemies above his level later on.

So Yun Shu forcibly held back the Dou Qi that was about to break through and instead began practicing his Dou Technique. After continuously training in Dou Techniques for around a week, Yun Shu had gradually grasped and even become proficient in this blind guy's E skill.