Checking in at the Alchemist Association: Rewarded with the Heavenly Flame, Void Devouring Flame
"Ding! Master, congratulations on checking in at the Imperial Alchemist Association! Reward: Heavenly Flames Void Devouring Flame!"
"Loli voice Check-in System," it said.
[Void Devouring Flame: Heavenly Flames Ranking, it is born from nothingness, has no form to be found, and is intangible to grasp. It is a very strange Heavenly Flames, and is known as the one that devours heaven and earth, capable of devouring all things. In this world, only a very few things can resist the devouring power of this Heavenly Flames, and its strength has already reached the level of Nine-Star Dou Sheng.]
After seeing the description of this Heavenly Flames on the attribute panel and combining it with the description of this Heavenly Flames in the original novel "Battle Through the Heavens," Qian Ye roughly understood the use of this Heavenly Flames.
It all boils down to one word: eat, eat, eat. This reminded him of a single-player game from his previous life in that world: Snake. All it was was eat, and the more you ate, the bigger and stronger you became.
The Void Devouring Flame is devouring; it can devour everything and make everything its nourishment.
That's certainly impressive, but not for others.
"Ding! Master, the Void Devouring Flame of the Heavenly Flames can be absorbed. Absorb?"
Qian Ye: "Absorb."
"Ding! You are absorbing the Void Devouring Flame..."
"Ding! You have absorbed the Void Devouring Flame, you can use it now!"
Qian Ye immediately checked his Dantian and found that there was indeed a Heavenly Flames. This Heavenly Flames was faint and indistinct, seemingly ethereal, yet it was a real thing. Without a certain level of cultivation, one could not see it with the naked eye.
I didn't think it was that important, but it's definitely a powerful tool for showing off. 69🅂🄷🅄🅇.🄲🄾🄼
It can be used to deal with opponents without them noticing, and the opponent will be reduced to ashes without even having a chance to fight back.
"My lord, do you know that man?" Ning'er asked curiously.
Qian Ye: "Yeah, we've crossed paths before, but it's nothing serious."
"He seemed very unfriendly to you; you could tell from his eyes, his face, and the tone of his voice."
"Yes, but it's alright. He can go his way, I'll do mine."
Ning'er nodded, not daring to say anything more. As a palace maid, she had this much common sense: too much talk leads to mistakes. So she could ask what she needed to ask, but she couldn't pry too deeply. Based on her many years of experience in the palace, she knew that the less you know, the longer you live, and the more you know, the shorter your life.
Of course, you must know what you need to know; this is a fundamental rule for survival.
The inner palace was inherently a place of intrigue and strife. As the center of power in the Jia Ma Empire and the residence of its leaders, everyone, from the emperor down to the palace maids and eunuchs, was scheming and playing along for their own interests. Palace intrigue dramas were endless, making it a battlefield without gunpowder. As long as someone seizes an opportunity, a small mistake, a single word, or a habit can lead to being framed and losing one's head at any time.
Wahaha~
"Ao Ba, what exactly do you want?"
"Don't you have any idea what I want?"
"I know you're doing this on purpose, but I have absolutely no good feelings towards you. Please have some self-respect and stop bothering me, otherwise..."
"Otherwise, what? Is it up to you? You are still your teacher, just a fourth-grade alchemist. He is not worth mentioning in front of my teacher, so you'd better be polite in front of me, otherwise the teacher will know that your teacher is afraid that he cannot bear the anger of my teacher.💣ඏ 69Şђu 🔥♦"
"You... shameless, despicable! Don't think that just because your teacher is a guild elder you can act like a tyrant in the guild."
"Really? You're not convinced? If you're not convinced, you can ask your teacher to challenge my teacher to a duel. If you're not as skilled, don't pretend in front of me, okay?"
Suddenly, Qian Ye heard a man and a woman arguing at each other from the stall in front of him, with quite a few people watching.
"My lord, it sounds like there's a dispute up ahead," Ning'er said in his ear.
"Let's go take a look too." Qian Ye immediately walked forward, wanting to join in the fun.
Ning'er followed closely behind, also wanting to see what had happened.
The little girl had probably been in the palace for too long, so she naturally wouldn't miss any opportunity to watch the excitement since she finally got to go out.
Qian Ye stepped forward and immediately saw a woman and a man arguing in front of a medicine stall.
The man was tall and imposing, followed by a group of more than a dozen lackeys. They looked at the aloof and beautiful woman with complete disregard, a hint of provocation and a meaningful sneer on their faces.
These men were all dressed in clothing with distinctive patterns and symbols characteristic of alchemists.
Qian Ye then looked at the woman. She was tall and slender, and her silver robe looked so clean and dazzling. She had regular features and her eyes were as clear and bright as the cold spring water on a snow-capped mountain.
Coupled with the woman's pretty, cold, and beautiful face, her slender and delicate eyebrows were as if painted with artistic conception, and her tall and exquisite body was incredibly sexy. The silver dress and her warm jade-like skin complemented each other, making her reveal her unusual cold charm even more.
Moreover, the woman's hair was neither black nor golden, but a natural silver head, with three thousand long silver strands hanging down to her waist, radiating an unusual luster and as soft as silver threads. Her silver hair alone, which was rare in the world, was very attractive.
Her looks and curvaceous figure further enhanced her appeal.
Now Qian Ye roughly knows who she is: a silver-haired woman in her early twenties who appeared in the Alchemist Association's trading area. Who else could it be but her?
Xue Mei, a disciple of a branch president of the Alchemist Association, has a teacher named Frank, the president of the Black Rock City Alchemist Association. The Imperial Capital Alchemist Association is part of the headquarters of the Jia Ma Empire, while the Black Rock City Alchemist Association is just a branch, so her teacher is naturally inferior.
The man opposite them, dressed in an alchemist's robe, was none other than Ao Ba, a Second-Tier Alchemist and disciple of Fu Yan, the elder of the Imperial Alchemist Association.
As for the grudges between the two, Qian Ye also learned some of them from the original novel of Battle Through the Heavens. Actually, it couldn't really be called a grudge; it could only be said that the two developed feelings for each other over time, and it was the kind of unrequited love.
One was being pursued, the other was pursuing someone else. Ao Ba had always been lusting after Xue Mei's beauty and relentlessly pursued her, but he was always ignored and rejected by Xue Mei. Over time, it naturally turned into a situation where love turned into hatred. Otherwise, he wouldn't have targeted Xue Mei for no reason, making things difficult for her and getting jealous whenever they met, instead of targeting others.
Although Xue Mei avoided him like the plague, Ao Ba never gave up and would pester her every time he saw her.
Furthermore, because he was the disciple of Fu Yan, an elder of the Alchemist Association in the Imperial Capital, no one dared to provoke him, so he became unscrupulous. Even Xue Mei did not dare to offend him. Every time she was harassed by him and spoke rudely, she could only endure the humiliation.
However, Xue Mei is now Third-Tier Alchemist, while he is still at the Second-Tier Alchemist level. Being one grade lower, the gap between him and Xue Mei has widened considerably.
As a result, Ao Ba felt that he was inferior to her and even less worthy of her. Coupled with her rejection, his feelings went from love to hate and then to resentment. So every time he saw Xue Mei, he had to use his status as Xue Mei Fu Yan to put her down and speak rudely and mockingly to express his dissatisfaction with her.
He wanted to vent his anger on her, to satisfy his sense of superiority that he was inferior to her but could still overpower her, and to balance the gap between them.
Of course, Ao Ba's behavior is merely his personal act, a somewhat morbid mentality, where he builds his happiness on the suffering of others and uses their pain to fill his own emptiness.
He had a mindset that if he couldn't have her love, no one else could either; he'd rather be a broken jade than a whole tile, preferring to destroy her than let her be with someone else.