Chapter 4: Crimson Flame Fruit and the Mad Alchemist

  Since the beginning of heaven and earth, the creative power of the world has been infused into the entire universe, combining the power of life with various attributes of innate yuanqi to give birth to the first batch of living beings in this world, as well as various innate spiritual roots and innate spiritual treasures. The first batch of living beings born in this heaven and earth were naturally powerful, with abilities such as summoning wind and rain, moving mountains and seas, and their battles could scorch the earth for thousands of miles, freeze a million miles, and flash lightning and thunder as if it were nothing.

  Among the first batch of powerful innate spirits, a small portion were extremely intelligent and all-knowing, able to avoid good and bad fortune, and referred to themselves as Innate Divine Demons. The other intelligent beings beneath them were called Flood Dragons, Flood Beasts, or Savage Beasts by the divine demons, depending on their level of intelligence and ferocity. Among these savage beasts, the most ferocious and feared by the innate divine demons were the Chaos Beast, the Heaven-Devouring Beast, the Reincarnation Beast, and the Brain-Eating Beast. They were the arch-enemies of all innate divine demons, and every time one of the four great savage beasts appeared, it was a disaster for the innate divine demons. Some spirits with low intelligence but high spirituality were referred to as Heaven and Earth Divine Beasts by the divine demons. These heaven and earth divine beasts were gentle in nature, extremely powerful, and many innate divine demons captured them as battle pets.

  The Innate Spiritual Roots are the peculiar life forms of this desolate heaven and earth. They do not possess wisdom, yet they are full of spirituality, avoiding good and bad fortune, automatically choosing their masters, and have a great beneficial effect on the cultivation of the Innate Divine Devils. The characteristics of the Innate Spiritual Treasures are almost the same as those of the Innate Spiritual Roots, only much rarer.

  After the first batch of living beings were born when heaven and earth first opened, after reproduction, there were more and more species in heaven and earth. In an environment filled with pre-heavenly spiritual energy, various species had some peculiar effects. For later generations, these peculiar effects were against heaven!

  The spiritual roots of the several Scarlet Flame Fruits discovered by Yang Le were actually unimpressive among the many spiritual roots in this desolate world. If the spiritual roots of the Desolate World were divided into four levels: Heaven, Earth, Xuan and Huang, with each level further divided into upper, middle and lower grades, then these Scarlet Flame Fruit spiritual roots would be considered Xuan-grade lower quality. Although their function was truly against the heavens in later generations, they were extremely mediocre in this Desolate World.

  The effect of Chi Yan Guo is to purify the blood, activate the high-level genes hidden in the body. At that time, when the heaven and earth first opened, the first batch of living beings were born from the creative power of the world, with perfect and flawless blood vessels, matching the harmony of heaven and earth. Their offspring had dense blood, even if it became diluted, relying on the rich pre-heavenly spiritual energy in the environment of Hong Huang Tian Di to cultivate, their cultivation would be higher, and the density of their blood would also increase. This is the magical creation of pre-heavenly spiritual energy.

  In later generations, they were not so lucky. As the world developed, congenital spiritual energy also gradually evolved into acquired spiritual energy, and congenital spirituality was lost. The inheritance of bloodlines also gradually closed under the condition of losing congenital spiritual energy, and high-level bloodline genes became recessive genes. Later generations' high-level bloodline genes became thinner and harder to activate, becoming ordinary people.

  It can be said that this is Yang Le's good fortune. Yang Le, in the Pangu universe of Chinese humans, has unlimited potential. Whether it is his innate Taoist body, which contains the essence of heaven and earth, or the many superior genetic bloodlines on the Chinese human body, whether he is a descendant of the dragon with the bloodline of the ancestral dragon, or the bloodline of the witch that was passed down from the fusion of humans and witches during the era of the witch's dominance in the primordial chaos, tracing back to the ancestral origins of the witch's bloodline, which is also Pangu, the creator of heaven and earth.

  Yang Le saw the effect of eating the Chi Yan fruit and immediately brought several pieces of thousand-jin heavy Biyan ice python meat to the edge of the cold pool, using a scale knife to cut it into palm-sized thick meat slices, neatly stacked at the edge of the cold pool. After counting, he found that there were still thirty-five Chi Yan fruits left.

  Yang Le still vaguely remembered the last time's miserable appearance, this time she was well-prepared, plucked one and threw it into her mouth, feeling a more scorching **burning all over her body, hurriedly jumped down into the cold pool.

  This time the temperature was really scorching, and the ice water on the surface of the cold pool had a greatly reduced cooling effect. Yang Le had no choice but to swim deeper into the cold pool. Speaking of this cold pool, don't underestimate it just because the water level isn't very low. When Yang Le first moved into this cave, he didn't pay much attention to the cold pool either, and only occasionally drew water from it to drink. It wasn't until one time when Yang Le accidentally kicked a football-sized rock into the cold pool that he realized how cold it was. Through the crystal-clear water, the football-sized rock broke into four pieces after falling more than thirty feet, and completely disintegrated after falling another ten feet or so.

  Yang Le's whole body felt like it was being roasted by fire, especially with his blood boiling and surging wildly. He descended about five zhang (a unit of length) before the refreshing feeling of ice and fire returned. Yang Le immediately stopped swimming downwards and carefully sensed the changes in his body, particularly the change in his body temperature. As soon as he felt his body temperature drop, he swam upwards. After reaching the shore, a more intense hunger pangs hit him, and Yang Le used both hands to devour block after block of icy cold python meat until he had eaten over 100 kilograms before stopping.

  Yang Le felt the icy energy of the Biyan cold ice python meat wrapping around his body, and as it passed through, his bones and flesh were undergoing a wonderful transformation, becoming more compact and solid. After an hour, the strange changes finally began to subside. Clenching his fists, he scanned the surrounding cave, wanting to try out his power, but when he saw the collapsed rocks, Yang Le wisely restrained the excitement in his heart. Walking out of the cave entrance, he gazed out at the endless ancient forest and the sparkling Qin Ze Lake, a heroic sentiment surged in his chest, looking at the entire vast world, the hundred million zhang high mountains seemed like a grain of sand dust, Yang Le looked down from the three thousand zhang high cave entrance, his feet exerting force, the cave entrance collapsed nearly twenty zhang square, but his body shot up like an arrow, when his strength was exhausted, he was already two hundred zhang high in the air.

  Then the body fell rapidly from a cave five hundred feet below the foot of the mountain, with a loud crash. In an instant, Yang Le stood upright in a huge pit. Then, he transformed into a ray of light and sprinted down the mountain like a madman. From afar, it was clear that the speed of this light was increasing gradually, and the figure dodging obstacles was becoming smoother and more agile.

  In an instant, a gust of wind blew by, and the figure suddenly stopped, revealing Yang Le's long hair fluttering in the wind, with a hint of ruggedness and a bit of handsomeness. Standing at the foot of the mountain, feeling that electrifying speed, he couldn't help but feel a little complacent, but it was still not enough.

  Ka, boom, ka, boom, at the edge of the endless ancient forest, hundred-zhang-tall giant trees fell one after another under Yang Le's iron fist. More than a dozen giant trees lay east and west on the ground. Yang Le was quite satisfied with the effect he had achieved. Immediately afterwards, he carefully looked around left and right, and then shot up the mountain at a speed three times faster than when he came.

  Back in the cave, Yang Le heavily patted his chest, earlier he was so carried away that he was a bit reckless. In this dangerous and desolate place, it's better to be cautious at all times. However, after the outburst just now, the depression and unease that had been building up since coming to this desolate land were all vented out, and his heart felt completely relieved.

  Less than a week later, Yang Le fell into a crazy tempering process. If one was not enough, then two, if two were not enough, then three. Like this, the Bixi Ice Scale Python meat kept decreasing, and the Red Flame Fruit also decreased one by one. During this process, Yang Le's blood vessels reversed in pain, just like the phenomenon of fish and snakes transforming into dragons in the Pangu world.

  Until Yang Le swallowed six Blazing Fruits at once with almost no effect, he stopped his crazy actions.

  Yang Le could no longer dare to try seven or eight more, and the effect was not great either. The Red Flame Fruit only had fourteen left, and it couldn't be done step by step anymore. He had to use all fourteen together to see if there would be a major breakthrough. Yang Le had been trapped in this desolate land for almost nine months now, and he hadn't even gotten to enjoy the beautiful scenery of the Desolate Land yet. Yang Le was unwilling to give up, so he might as well take a gamble. If he died, it would be a heroic death; if he didn't die, he would live forever.

  With a determined heart, Yang Le felt like he had put down a heavy burden. He cut the remaining 10,000 jin of Biyan Hanbing Qianlong meat into pieces and placed them by the pool. Ever since eating the Chi Yan Guo, his appetite had increased dramatically, comparable to that of a thousand-year-old Lingzhi or a hundred-year-old Ren Shen. He needed to eat 100 jin of Biyan Hanbing Qianlong meat every day, and it was still increasing. To prevent accidents, Yang Le ate another 1,000 jin before eating the Chi Yan Guo, feeling like he couldn't eat anymore. Wearing clothes woven from leaves, he stuffed more Biyan Hanbing Qianlong meat into his clothes until they were full. Don't mention anything about being disgusting or shameless - the sky is big, the earth is big, but one's own life is the biggest!