With Talent Like That, You Can Do Whatever You Want

Over the days that followed, Meng Chuan studied Alchemy under Yao Chen.

On the Dou Qi Continent, Yao Chen's talent for alchemy could only be called breathtaking.

The Yao Clan was one of the eight ancient clans, descended from the Yao Emperor. Even in a place teeming with Alchemists, Yao Chen's talent had shone brilliantly.

Whenever Yao Chen entered an alchemy competition, the result was almost never in doubt: he took first place.

Han Feng had betrayed Yao Chen, leaving not even his bones behind. Before that, though, Yao Chen had earned the title of the continent's greatest Alchemist and become a grandmaster capable of refining high-grade eighth-tier pills. If his cultivation had not held him back, he might even have become a ninth-tier Alchemist while alive.

What did a ninth-tier pill mean on the Dou Qi Continent? The ancestor of the Pill Tower was a ninth-tier Profound Pill that had taken human form, with the strength of a six-star Dou Sheng. Even among the eight ancient clans, that was no small thing.

One could imagine what kind of beings the ninth-rank alchemists who refined Ninth-Rank Pills were.

So Yao Chen, second only to a ninth-tier Alchemist, had already reached an extraordinarily high level.

They began with the most basic medicinal principles, then moved to the simplest first-tier pills, such as Hemostatic Pills and Blood-Clotting Powder. After that came second-tier pills, third-tier pills...

Yao Chen held nothing back in teaching Meng Chuan everything he knew about Alchemy. Apart from the time he spent instructing Xiao Yan, he devoted himself to teaching Meng Chuan.

Incidentally, after Yao Chen refined the Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid for Xiao Yan the first few times, Meng Chuan made every subsequent batch. Meng Chuan also noticed that this liquid differed from the one in the original story.

Its ingredients had been improved, making it more potent. Add Yao Chen's other methods, and it was no wonder he dared promise to make Xiao Yan a Dou Zhe within a year without leaving any hidden problems.

As for Yao Chen, teaching Meng Chuan alchemy had shocked him so often that he had gone numb.

On the first day, Meng Chuan refined the hardest first-tier pill Yao Chen knew. On the third day, he reached the second tier; on the seventh, the third. Half a month brought the fourth tier, one month the fifth, two months the sixth, three months the seventh, and four months the eighth.

Four months! Meng Chuan had been here for only four months, and he could already refine eighth-tier pills! He had caught up to the Yao Chen of the past.

After joining the Chat Group, Yao Chen had cultivated methods from other worlds. He was now confident that once he had a body of flesh, he could refine Ninth-Rank Pills.

Then, at the half-year mark, Meng Chuan refined a ninth-tier Treasure Pill, catching up to the highest level Yao Chen could theoretically reach now...

Yao Chen thought back to how he had once imagined it would be a long time before he could ask the Great Emperor for advice on Alchemy. He felt a little... miserable.

Ever since Yao Chen began teaching Meng Chuan alchemy, he had taken to sighing.

"Sigh. Great Emperor, tell me, what's the point of living?"

Meng Chuan: "..."

"Sigh. Great Emperor, if someone got crushed in the field he was proudest of, do you think he'd want to jump off a building?"

Meng Chuan: "..."

"Sigh. Great Emperor, tell me... Never mind. Don't say anything."

Meng Chuan: "..."

I wasn't saying anything in the first place!

"Sigh. Great Emperor..."

"How about I give you copies of every ninth-tier pill formula I've collected?" Meng Chuan could not bear watching him any longer and offered some tangible comfort.

Yao Chen perked up at once. His listlessness vanished, and he looked overjoyed.

"Now that's something I can stay awake for, Great Emperor."

Meng Chuan: "..."

Bastard!

Yao Chen, don't you think you're starting to act like Meng Qi? The more Meng Chuan thought about it, the more wrong it felt. The whole Chat Group was turning into Meng Qi! Meng Qi's brand of Meng!

He opened the chat panel and looked at Little Meng's profile picture. The more he looked, the angrier he grew, until he could take no more!

System notice: Administrator Meng Chuan has muted Administrator Meng Qi.

Fei Peng: ???

Bibi Dong: What happened? How did Little Meng get muted yet again?

Yan Chixia: That's not the point, is it? The point is... Little Meng isn't even online...

The Ancient One: ...

Meng Chuan: Nothing to worry about, everyone. I suddenly remembered something that made me angry.

Zhang Sanfeng: Trembling in fear

Bibi Dong: Trembling in lust

Daigu Madoka: Something's wrong with you. @Bibi Dong

After demonstrating his authority in the group, Meng Chuan stopped chatting.

Yao Chen was watching him with eager eyes. Speechless, Meng Chuan waved a hand, and a small pile of pill formulas appeared.

These were all the ninth-tier pill formulas Meng Chuan had collected! There were more here than existed throughout the rest of the continent.

Meng Chuan's divine sense had swept across the entire continent. No pill formula could hide from him, no matter where it was stored; the same went for Dou Qi cultivation methods and Battle Skills. And if something had long been lost? Simple!

Meng Chuan went straight back up the river of time and searched history for what he needed.

He could memorize a pill formula, cultivation method, or Battle Skill with a single glance. He did not need to take or change anything. Besides, while he was in the state of the Dao Fire Furnace, some forms of backlash were practically nourishment to him.

Watching Yao Chen happily set off to study the formulas, Meng Chuan smiled faintly. He had intended to give Yao Chen a copy of them all along.

"Still, I've gained a great deal during this time..." Meng Chuan felt the Heavenly Dao of the entire Dou Qi Continent and found himself somewhat satisfied.

His approach had been right. Learning Alchemy and analyzing Dou Qi cultivation methods and Battle Skills had indeed helped him comprehend the Heavenly Dao of the Battle Through the Heavens World.

"The spatial forces on the Dou Qi Continent are a little too easy to stir up. Using spatial power is practically standard for anyone above Dou Zong." As a result, space on the continent was rather fragile, and the same amount of force caused greater destruction here.

When Meng Chuan explored the continent with his divine sense, he did not dare spread it too recklessly, for fear of triggering a disaster such as a Space Storm.

After all, from Meng Chuan's comprehension and comparisons over the past six months, a Dou Di of the Dou Qi Continent was only equivalent to a Saint in Shrouding the Heavens.

Of course, the Dou Qi Continent was merely a lower plane of the Great Thousand World. In Meng Chuan's judgment, a Dou Di who went to the Great Thousand World would likely reach the threshold of Heavenly Sovereign, perhaps the level of a Spiritual Grade Heavenly Sovereign.

And Heavenly Sovereigns were divided into the Spiritual, Immortal, and Saint Grades, with the Ruler Realm beyond them. Taken as a whole, this world might not match Shrouding the Heavens, but it was hardly weak.

"If I weren't in the wrong state for it right now, I'd really like to visit that Great Thousand World above..." Meng Chuan sensed the world at the far end of the passage through the void and spoke wistfully.

He knew what mattered most. The chief purpose of this visit was to perfect the Dao Fire Furnace. Even if he went to the Great Thousand World, he could not gain as much as he would from perfecting it. No outsider could imagine how highly Meng Chuan valued this supreme technique.

And in Meng Chuan's perception, even the strongest person in the Great Thousand World could pose no threat to him despite his current weakened state. Not even someone in the Ruler Realm, which would appear in the distant future, could threaten him.

"Another half a year. Soon, I'll have comprehended all the Dao of the Dou Qi Continent..." Meng Chuan closed his eyes and sank into the deepest state of Dao comprehension, where his terrifying talent and insight could shine brightest.

After transmigrating, Meng Chuan had gained a tremendous boost to his talent and insight. Over the years, he had discovered that the higher his cultivation rose, the more astonishing that change became. If he had possessed his current talent and insight before becoming a Great Emperor, he would not have needed the Chat Group's help.

The moment Meng Chuan became a Great Emperor, he could have leaped straight to Heavenly Emperor level!

For the next half year, Meng Chuan devoted himself entirely to comprehending the Heavenly Dao of this world, so different from Shrouding the Heavens.

He even sent his divine sense through the Space-Time Passage into the Great Thousand World and some of its lower realms, sensing the laws of heaven and earth in those worlds.

He did not want to travel around much in his current state, but that did not mean his divine sense could not roam wherever it pleased, did it?

By comparing different worlds, Meng Chuan discovered that although their Daos varied greatly, certain things held true in every world. Whether in the Great Thousand World or its lower realms, some aspects of the Dao remained eternally unchanged.

He also obtained some Origin Emperor Qi, which had vanished from the Dou Qi Continent ten thousand years ago, and studied it.

Along the way, Meng Chuan discovered another interesting world: a sibling world to the Dou Qi Continent...

It was the Martial Ancestor's homeland. Of course, the future Martial Ancestor was still practicing the Tongbei Fist.

In that world, Meng Chuan found several interesting things. For instance... the Ancestral Runes!

The Devouring Ancestral Rune in particular gave Meng Chuan some inspiration. That inspiration alone made the trip worthwhile.

Yes, Dao Shi never came away empty-handed!

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