From Prisoner to Si Chen

Jilan looked at the teacher's arm and was secretly shocked.

The white-haired old man who was over 300 years old had no fat on his arms and his muscle lines were very obvious. But what was more eye-catching was the densely packed alchemy arrays that looked like tattoos.

With a quick glance, Jilan saw at least forty or fifty of them.

These alchemy arrays were large and small, as big as a palm and as small as a Pless coin under a fingernail. And these alchemy arrays did not exist independently, but were large and small, layered on top of each other.

Thus, a complex but not messy mysterious "painting" was constructed.

'There are 24 alchemy arrays for decomposition and reconstruction, each nested in each other, and branched out into auxiliary alchemy arrays such as "flow", "guidance", "link" and "acceleration". '

'And these alchemy arrays are almost all high-level knowledge that does not exist in ordinary mysticism, and are most likely developed by the teacher alone...'

Jilan's eyes condensed.

He roughly identified the approximate purpose of these alchemy arrays, all designed to make alchemy more efficient and powerful.

At the same time, Jilan also secretly sighed that each of these alchemy arrays could be regarded as the pinnacle of alchemy and a treasure of knowledge.

It was incredible that teacher Pala could integrate them into one, like the gears inside a mechanical structure, and exert a linkage effect.

The difficulty of designing an alchemy array of this scale almost exceeded the limit of human thinking, which was a miracle.

Crack!

Suddenly, Pala stretched out his index finger.

The alchemy arrays on his arms lit up red one after another, and scarlet arcs suddenly burst out from his fingertips.

Pala smiled at Jilan and flicked his finger again.

Snap! !

The scarlet arc leaped out, as if pulling out a twisting and irregular red light line, and in an instant, it fell on the potted plant in the corner of the room.

Among the blooming geraniums, a pink spherical bud was hit by the electric arc and immediately decomposed into powder, gathered into a stream, returned to Pala's palm, and condensed into a geranium "micro-model" the size of a mung bean.

"This is the result of me spending hundreds of years to develop the 'decomposition and reconstruction technique' to the limit... I gave this power a name, called 'Sage's Secret Mark'."

Pala said in a deep voice.

"In the great knowledge of alchemy, 'decomposition and reconstruction technique' is just a basic high-level knowledge... Alchemists from ancient times to the present have almost only regarded it as a 'convenient tool' when refining items."

"But I think that the more basic things are, the closer they are to the truth... Until today, I still believe it."

Jilan took a deep breath and agreed with his teacher's point of view.

With his current attainments in mysticism, it is clear that the "decomposition and reconstruction technique" is indeed only suitable for research and refining.

Its limitations are too great, which determines that it is almost impossible to participate in battle.

First, "Decomposition and Reconstruction" relies on alchemy arrays and is slow to start.

Second, it is extremely difficult to work on living things. (Alchemists generally agree that it is the existence of spiritual beings that causes serious interference)

Third, it requires a lot of energy to satisfy the principle of "equivalent exchange" of matter.

Fourth, it has a distance limit and can only work through real touch.

But after Jilan witnessed the teacher's ability with his own eyes, he was forced to change this concept.

Para Celsus changed the definition of "Decomposition and Reconstruction" by himself.

Four restrictions, all broken!

And these are not only due to Para's talent, but also a key opportunity...

"Jilan, remember this."

Para said in a deep voice.

"The carving of the 'Secret Mark of the Sage' must rely on the help of the 'Philosopher's Stone', otherwise this power is like a castle in the air."

"The Philosopher's Stone can not only provide a lot of energy, so as to activate so many alchemy arrays at the same time, but also because it contains a lot of soul power, it can suppress the spiritual interference in the body of the organism and achieve the purpose of erasing life..."

Hearing this, Jilan frowned slightly.

Combining the teacher's words, he couldn't help but think of the story in "Silver Bottle", so he asked in a deep voice:

"Teacher, the refinement of the 'Philosopher's Stone' really requires a large number of living people as materials?"

As soon as this was said, the white-haired old man was controlled for several seconds on the spot.

He looked at Jilan deeply, and that look seemed to say "It really has to be you".

Pala was silent for a while, and sighed slightly:

"Jilan, you are too murderous."

He nodded first, then shook his head.

"As the first person in the world to refine the 'Philosopher's Stone', I have also had such doubts... But I can tell you very clearly that the human soul is indeed the main material of the 'Philosopher's Stone'-"

"But it does not necessarily require a living sacrifice!"

Pala leaned forward, put his head close, and said seriously:

"I believe you have already known the nature of this world. There are two rules that override the twelve laws of truth."

"Well..." Gilan nodded.

He remembered that he had triggered the back-up plan arranged by the "director" of Er Yue Si Chen in the "Enlightenment Spark" series of films, awakening his apostle "royal actor" Mr. A, and thus conveyed the message from the "director" to him:

"Everything exists, and existence has traces; everything will dream, and dreams are a reflection of reality."

Gilan said this sentence word for word.

Pala nodded, very pleased.

"Yes, everything has traces of existence, this is the supreme rule of the world...I was inspired by this and found another way to refine the 'Philosopher's Stone'."

He paused for a moment and continued:

"After death, the soul is a trace and proof of existence in the material world... Its essence is actually a kind of energy, which will remain for a short time after a person dies completely, and then disappear."

"Through hundreds of years of research, I found that the final destination of the soul is 'God's Hometown·Toyalan'."

"To be precise, it is the 'Corridor' of 'God's Hometown', a place called 'Black Cemetery'... The outer area there is called 'Hell Border', which is also the birthplace of the devil."

Pala looked directly into Gillan's eyes and said in a deep voice:

"The essence of the devil is also a kind of spirit body. I have studied them with Sadie Balbina, and I can be sure of this."

"Based on some of Sadie's research records, I have unearthed a truth..."

"What truth?" Gillan listened to the teacher's serious tone and asked with bated breath.

"Devils are another form of existence transformed from human souls."

Pala said.

"Their appearance is inevitably linked to the disappearance of July Sichen's 'Noon Dawn'."

"The devil is transformed from a human?" Gillan was stunned.

"This statement is not accurate."

Pala shook his head.

"Everything dissipates after death. I said that the soul is just a kind of energy, without any mark of its life... and in hell, there is a law of truth that can transform this energy into a devil."

A flash of lightning flashed through Gillan's mind.

He almost blurted out:

"Equivalent exchange?!"

"You can say that..." Pala sighed. "But this is a degenerate equivalent exchange. After I figured it all out, I had a sense of déjà vu."

"Hell is like a huge furnace. It is constantly absorbing the dead in the world and constantly creating devils through the effect of the law."

"This process seems to strictly follow the 'mercury sulfur salt theory' of alchemy, except that what changes are no longer sulfur, mercury and salt, but the body, consciousness and soul."

"..." Gillan fell silent.

In the office, there was silence.

Jilan was shocked by the truth explained by the teacher. He had never thought that all this was so consistent with his impression of "hell" and so reasonable.

In his previous life, he also had a certain understanding of Western religious culture. The so-called heaven and hell seemed to have similar concepts, which were the destinations of people after death.

But in this alien world, all the similar definitions are only similar on the surface, but the essence is completely different...

They follow the two supreme rules of the alien world and the twelve laws of truth, like a machine that fits perfectly without any flaws.

After a long while.

Jilan raised his eyes and asked:

"Teacher... Could it be that your alternative way is to use the devil as material to replace the human soul and use it to refine the 'philosopher's stone'?"

"Yes." Pala nodded.

Jilan raised his eyebrows, and didn't expect it to be like this.

Pala added:

"But if only ordinary devils are used as materials, the number required is huge and it is extremely difficult to gather them. Therefore, the existence of the Lord of Hell and the devil noble is the best choice."

As the teacher said this, Jilan felt that the sapphire ring on his middle finger trembled slightly.

It seemed that Weiwei felt an inexplicable fear.

'Devils suck human souls to strengthen themselves, and Teacher Pala created a method for alchemists to use devils as materials to refine philosophers' stones...'

Jilan couldn't help but have a sense of déjà vu of a strange ecological chain in his heart.

'Sure enough, whether it is a wizard or an alchemist, this kind of researchers are the nemesis of non-human creatures. '

"Jilan, I will teach you the refining method of the 'philosopher's stone' later... But remember not to leak it. This is the precious wealth of the empire and the dream of the superiors."

Pala solemnly instructed.

Jilan knew the importance of the matter and nodded in agreement.

The "self and other" of the superiors must rely on the body to walk in the world. Since ancient times, gold has been regarded as a perfect material, but even so, the body created based on gold can only accommodate the power of level 5.

It was not until the birth of the Philosopher's Stone that this upper limit was raised to the limit of the world, level 6.

The reason why the empire can have its current strong position is not only the strength of the head of state and his knights, but also the key figure of Para Celsus.

Whether it is the various theories of mysticism that have raised the strength of the knights, or the later refinement of the "Philosopher's Stone", which enabled the apostles of the "Remnant King" to walk in the world with the strength of the world's limit, it is all because of this.

"Okay, let's stop here for today's class."

Para looked at the night outside the window and said.

"It's getting late, go back and rest."

"Yes, teacher." Jilan nodded, stood up and saluted. "Thank you for your teaching today."

Para waved his hand.

"'Decomposition and Reconstruction' may seem simple, but it is not easy to fully understand the 'Secret Mark of the Sage'. Think more... and the 'Secret Mark of the Sage' you finally engrave does not need to be the same as mine. Only what you understand yourself is your power."

"I understand, teacher." Jilan said.

He took off his hat, saluted the white-haired old gentleman again, and then turned and left.

…

…

After returning to the single-family apartment at No. 9 Morales Street, after a simple wash, the first thing Gillan did was to sit on the bed in the master bedroom, close his eyes and call out:

‘Colorful, add some. ’

In the corner of his dark vision, the colorful number "510" flashed quickly and dropped directly to "10".

This time, Gillan consumed a full 500 points of mysterious energy.

And the "decomposition and reconstruction technique" learned from Teacher Pala today instantly understood it.

But there is still a long way to go to understand the "Sage Secret Pattern".

'The teacher's unique skill seems to be too profound. After consuming 500 points of energy, it is just barely enough to get started. '

Gillan opened his eyes and couldn't help but secretly shocked.

He sighed again immediately.

‘All the points are used up…’

‘Whether it is the deduction of the fifth-order essence, or the bodybuilding technique “Life Star Track”, the meditation method “Dream of Ten Thousand Flowers”, the secret sword technique “Universe Sword”, and even the “Secret Pattern of the Sage”, they are all “big consumers”. ’

‘If you want to get them done in a short time, the required mysterious points will be a very exaggerated number! ’

Jilan rubbed his temples with a headache.

Then, he took out a black film from his alchemical leather pocket. The note on it was marked with blue-black handwriting:

“The Legend of the Unbeaten”

This is the commissioned item of Ms. Crow.

After returning to China, Jilan has not had time to get in touch with the other party.

He looked down at the film reel, and after a little thought, he decided to watch the movie himself.

In the commission requirements, Ms. Crow did not clearly state that if the target item was obtained, Jilan would not be allowed to watch the movie without authorization.

In the mysterious field, if the commission is not specifically noted, it is tacitly approved.

It just so happened that Gilan was in urgent need of Mystic Points, so he planned to accumulate some energy through this film to improve his strength.

He did it right away. Gilan first went to the kitchen and took some candied haws that the cook had prepared in advance, and then returned to the master bedroom on the second floor.

According to his previous experience of "bribing", he played the film without any difficulty, and met Ms. Hera Nibal, the "Assistant Scriptwriter" of the February Apostle, by clapping, and got a chance to stay.

After that, he officially started watching the film.

As usual, he summoned Weiwei, and then sat on the ground with the little demon, looking up at the screen.

After a burst of noise and vertical spots flashed, the black screen dissipated and slowly turned into a bird's-eye view of the desert.

In the desert, the wind and sand swept.

A towering city built in an oasis, composed of stone and wood buildings, slowly came into view...