"Phew..."
The essence of the medicinal herb had been completely extracted. The Ice Spirit Flame Grass had turned into a pile of powder, and as Su Luo exhaled a breath of stale air, the powder formed from the Ice Spirit Flame Grass was swiftly blown away.
"I've finally reached the Dou Master level. It wasn't easy."
After finishing his cultivation, Su Luo stretched lazily. A black Dou Qi Gauze Robe covered his entire body, proving that his cultivation had reached the Dou Master level.
"You just reached the Dou Master level?" Han Yue asked in surprise as she looked at Su Luo after hearing his words.
"Mm." Su Luo nodded in acknowledgment.
"Then what was with the speed at which you absorbed the medicinal essence just now? And how did you, a Dou Practitioner, become a Third-grade Alchemist?"
As everyone knew, when Xiao Yan had gone to test for Second-grade Alchemist in the original story, Otto and Frank of Black Rock City had asked whether he had reached the Dou Master level. At the time, one needed to be at the Dou Master level to become a Second-grade Alchemist.
However, considering that a place like the Gamma Empire was practically a backwater, where a few Grand Dou Masters could support a major family in a second-rate city, and where only the Patriarchs of such families generally possessed Xuan-tier cultivation methods—while the Jia Lie Family's cultivation method had remained merely low-grade Xuan-tier for a long time—it was understandable. Even alchemists at lower levels could at most rely on low- or mid-grade Xuan-tier cultivation methods, meaning the amount of Dou Qi they possessed restricted their alchemical talent, eventually giving rise to that rule.
If it were a place like the Central Plains, where Han Yue came from, then even in relatively remote