Chapter 1740

With the result of this battle, the Alchemy World won't launch an attack in the short future. Thus Great Qin can continue to build its defense. Zhao Fu didn't stay in the Alchemy World but instead participated in the research of the Philosopher's Stone.

If the Philosopher's Stone isn't fully understood, there's no way to gain an advantage with it. When fighting in other worlds, facing immense danger, only possessing such an advantage can one ensure their safety.

Zhao Fu didn't want such a defeat to happen again, while understanding the Philosopher's Stone would be a sure way of making sure it didn't happen.

Arriving at the research institute, numerous scholars were focused on researching the Philosopher's Stone, attempting to first break it down and study the most fundamental particles that make it up.

Currently, a black Philosopher's Stone floated in mid-air, with a decomposition array beneath it constantly splitting it apart. Particles were then being continually decomposed and then collected by the scholars.

"Greetings, Your Majesty!"

Seeing Zhao Fu's arrival, the researchers stopped their work one after another, bowing respectfully and saying.

Zhao Fu nodded and spoke to Bai Shan, "How is the research going? Have you figured out how the Philosopher's Stone is formed and found any weaknesses?"

With regret, Bai Shan said, "Your Majesty, we've currently only figured out how the Philosopher's Stone is formed, we've also grasped its most basic principles, but we must rely on the power of alchemy to use it. We have no way of synthesizing the Philosopher's Stone with any other power."

"As for the other areas, we haven't conducted any research yet, but various measures are already being prepared, and we may have results in a day or so."

Zhao Fu nodded and said, "Then tell me how the Philosopher's Stone is formed!"

Bai Shan detailedly explained it to Zhao Fu and even took him to the side for a demonstration.

On the ground was an alchemy array with alchemy stones inserted all around it. These alchemy stones were stones containing alchemy power that the people of the Alchemy World used as items for cultivation.

Now there is a young man standing next to them, he was one of the ones who wisely surrendered to Great Qin, named Mu She.

Bai Shan spoke, "Mu She! Show His Majesty how the Philosopher's Stone is formed."

Mu She then came to the front of the alchemy array and crouched down before placing one hand on the array. A powerful force burst out from him, injecting into the alchemy array.

The alchemy array emitted a strong light, and the alchemy stones around it poured out streams of alchemy power, floating into the array and condensing above its center.

The alchemy power first turned into a mist ball, then began to solidify, finally turning into a white mechanical metal ball.

Bai Shan explained, "Your Majesty! The Alchemy power is a power of creation, life, and metal. This is the basis for the Philosopher's Stone. The composition of the Philosopher's Stone is also related to twenty-four alchemical runes."

"These twenty-four alchemical runes represent various attributes and powers. It is they who gather the alchemy power and build the Philosopher's Stone. Therefore, the Philosopher's Stone in the alchemy world has twenty-four different attributes."

Zhao Fu asked seriously, "What are these twenty-four runes and attributes?"

Bai Shan replied, "They are the extreme yang, yin-yang, extreme yin, yang-yin, yang metal, yin metal, yang wood, yin wood, yang water, yin water, yang fire, yin fire, yang earth, yin earth, yang wind, yin wind, yang thunder, yin thunder, yang ice, yin ice, yang time, yin time, yang void, yin void."

"In the alchemy world, all attributes are divided into yin and yang, containing the mysteries of alchemy. With our current abilities, we can roughly understand alchemy, but true comprehension is not possible."

After listening to Bai Shan's explanation, Zhao Fu fell into deep thought, "The Eight Forbidden Blood Magic contains the power of creation and life, it only lacks the power of metal. If I possess the power of metal and can control the twenty-four alchemical runes, I should be able to create the Philosopher's Stone with my own abilities."

"Now the first thing is to find the power of metal, as well as the twenty-four alchemy runes," Zhao Fu said after thinking it over. "You don't need to worry about researching the synthesis of the Philosopher's Stone. Instead, focus on the weaknesses of the Philosopher's Stone and alchemy."

Baishan nodded in understanding.

Now that Zhao Fu had figured out the principle behind the Philosopher's Stone, he began to look for ways to obtain powerful metal strength. He had many powerful and terrifying abilities, but lacked a strong metal power.

Because the alchemy battlefield had opened up, the surrounding area had also fallen into calmness, without the tension or the oppressive fear of imminent war. The alliance, the Devil Horn Empire, and the Second Wind God Empire had all set their sights on the world of alchemy.

The same was true in other areas, and the entire Heaven Awaken world had become much quieter because no one wanted to be punished.

Zhao Fu was quite pleased with this situation because the alchemy world had too few troops, and they could be attacked at any time by enemies who number far greater. Without the threat of attack from its enemies, Great Qin could send some more troops to support the base in the alchemy world. Zhao Fu first sent people to search for powerful metal treasures to obtain powerful metal strength. The most direct and fastest way to gain the power of metal was to fuse the treasure into one's body.

Soon, Zhao Fu had found what he was looking for. In the domain next to the Ancient Stem domain, which was the Green Circuit domain, there was a forbidden area called the Metal Periphery. It not only contained a large amount of metal, but also housed countless metal-devouring beasts.

These metal-devouring beasts contained a kind of metal-devouring power, which was also a kind of power and could obviously restrain other metal powers. If used as a base of the newly synthesized Qin Philosopher's Stone, it might have unexpected effects.

Zhao Fu naturally didn't care about ordinary metal-devouring beasts, but was interested in the metal-devouring beast king, which had royal-level metal-devouring power which was obviously far more powerful than the average metal-devouring beast.

After learning this information, Zhao Fu immediately left without taking anyone with him, because he had his numerous armaments with him this time and should not encounter too much danger in the foreign domain.

Half a day later, Zhao Fu arrived at the forbidden area. There were no plants here, everything, including the mountains, the ground, and the boulders, was a light yellow metal. There were also holes of different sizes littered everywhere, all surrounded by sharp teeth, which looked quite scary.

At this time, some creatures similar to pangolins ran out of the holes. They were the metal-devouring beasts, the size of a bulldog, with yellow scales, white eyes, and sharp teeth with a cold gleam.

Zhao Fu didn't pay attention to these ordinary cannon fodder beasts and directly turned into a stream of light, arriving at the deepest part of the forbidden area.

These metal-devouring beasts liked to hide in the holes, thus Zhao Fu took out the Emperor Killing Sword and hummed, "Chaos Sword!"

A huge sword energy storm spread out, causing the world to change color. The strong and chaotic momentum immediately frightened many metal-devouring beasts.

TN: Pangolins are scaly anteaters.