"Zhang Ye."

After being read the name, Zhang Ye hurriedly walked up.

The Crane Dao man said to him with a blank face: "You have been approved to be exempted from the trainee stage and directly participate in the official work of the Flying Boat Ring, and you are also the first alchemist to set foot in the Ring Path. I need to do one last confirmation. ”

"Researcher Zhang Ye, do you know that you may encounter unknown difficulties and dangers, including falling meteorites, dust storm attacks, regular turbulence, etc., which may endanger your life?"

"Yes, I know."

"Did you know that when you enter the Ring Road, you will be committed to solving a series of world-class problems such as the controllability of the Elemental Magic Well, the upgrade and supporting of the flying boat, and the handling of the Void Turbulence, so as to serve all those who use the Ring Road?"

"Yes, I know."

"Will you be able to devote yourself to the great cause of the Void Voyage, be grateful to the imparter of knowledge, and keep the relevant secrets strictly?"

"Yes, I can do it." Zhang Ye raised his head and chested.

A smile finally appeared on the face of the crane Daoren, and he stretched out his white and powerful right hand: "Welcome, researcher Zhang Ye, I hope you can enjoy the life in the sky." Let's also see the power of alchemy. ”

"Do your best!" Zhang Ye solemnly shook hands with the other party.

"Then you go home and rest for a month, and then go to the Greentown base to take a flying boat."

"Yes."

……

Zhang Ye sat on the walnut seat of the flying boat and looked down through the window of the crystalline boat.

The flying boat had broken through the thick sea of clouds and moved closer to the ground.

The land is mottled with alternating yellow, green, and brown, and the vast massif is covered by winding and undulating ridges. Slowly, the black-dotted town gradually became clear, just in the air, they looked like little boxes.

As he got closer and closer to his hometown, Zhang Ye was a little nervous.

It has been seven years since he left the Kingdom of Jindan.

It all started with the big brother Zhang Cheng's transaction with the colossus totem.

The will of the gods descended and destroyed the two gods of the past overnight, tearing apart the deceptions and lies they had woven in the name of "gods".

The monk-like deity "Mu Yibo" is a hell demon, and the green monk is a shadow demon sent by it. The purpose of the Qing monk walking in the Jindan country is not to save the world, but only to gain more believers.

Zhang Ye was also vaguely suspicious before.

Although he is not as sharp as his eldest brother Zhang Cheng, he is not a reckless person. To become a qualified alchemist, you must not only master the knowledge and skills of alchemy, but also learn to find new directions from the various tools and techniques inherent in it.

Compared with his eldest brother, whether in the field of technology or expressing his personal opinions, Zhang Ye is more introverted, and he will never open his mouth when he is not stable and mature enough.

Zhang Cheng is more like an alchemist, focusing on practicality and being able to solve problems immediately, and Zhang Ye pursues the principles of perfection and clarity, which is more suitable for alchemists.

Both brothers joked that they should switch careers.

When the eldest brother made the [Calming Pill], Zhang Ye was studying the basic theory of alchemy, and when the eldest brother perfected the [Delusion Breaking Pill], Zhang Ye continued to deduce the alchemy formula.

In the group of alchemists, Zhang Ye is an outlier.

He likes to delve into various phenomena, analyze various alchemical devices and tools, and find and summarize patterns from them, in order to explore the connections and commonalities behind things.

Zhang Ye is often asked.

"What's the use of that?"

It's not going to work at the moment.

Zhang Ye also answered honestly, and then received more puzzled and strange eyes.

Only the eldest brother Zhang Cheng always supports him.

"In this world, everything has its purpose, but what you do has not yet been able to find its place."

Zhang Ye didn't think about it so much, he could get happiness in the formula derivation and calculation of alchemy.

That's enough.

In fact, alchemy has a very complete process, categorical symbols, and formula reaction systems, but this is mostly a simplification of practical application. But little research has been done as to why alchemy can transform one substance into another.

Zhang Ye was very interested.

Alchemy is not about conjuring things that don't exist. These things exist, but they are invisible to the naked eye, or they exist in another way, in leaves, in metal, in the carapace of insects, in the feathers of birds, in dried blood, or even in the invisible air.

For example, alchemists often use an alchemical called "life salt", which is a substance that looks like salt, but it contains great power.

It can be said that the life salt is the key to the magic of the alchemy device. It is extracted by alchemists through a cumbersome reaction process from the materials left behind by many spell worms.

As long as you put the lifesalt into the alchemy device and ignite it, you can release the powerful energy in it.

Common wooden oxen and iron horses need to be driven by lifesalt to maintain the strength to carry heavy loads and the speed to break through various terrains.

When faced with a strong enemy, the warriors will find a special life salt that has been compressed and solidified, and apply it to the blades and arrows, giving them great power, and the arrows can pierce through the iron armor, and the swords will also have burn damage.

The next level is the "Flying Wing".

The flying wings are a masterpiece that alchemists are proud of, and people can fly like birds. Mechanically, the flying wing relies on the instantaneous ejection of the base, and the instantaneous explosive power required by the base can only be achieved by the lifesalt.

Warriors can catapult directly into the air on iron horses and glide in mid-air.

Further, the "Golden Wing" is not only a flying vehicle, but also a combat device. Seventy-two bronze blade wings can be fired as weapons, and a lightning tube is attached to the armor gauntlets.

When facing an enemy, the Thunder Light Tube will release a strong light, blinding the opponent for a short time, and at the same time, it will shoot a blast of almost electric light with lifesalt to kill the enemy.

It's just that the production cost and consumption are too high, and in the past, only the lord of the country Feng Danzi had a set.

Zhang Ye's long-term research has found that the life salt itself exists in nature, and after being digested by the curse insects, it is further concentrated, so it can be refined.

The life salt admired by alchemists is called the Almighty Stone in the Yao civilization. The all-round stones of the Jindan Kingdom were all refined and collected in the form of gravel, but the Yao tribe was transported back and forth one by one, which shocked him greatly.

Zhang Ye was brought to the Yao world because of an inconspicuous research.

"Did you deduce it yourself?" The crane Taoist asked him, pointing to the alchemy formula on the paper.

Zhang Ye said yes.

He thought he was worthy of an apostle, able to read all kinds of words and languages.

"Speculation ...... the salt of life"

The Crane Daoist stared at the paper and read out the words on it: "The use of life salt, like the universal transformation of alchemy, has an inevitable loss, and this loss far exceeds the calculated loss...... Therefore, it can be proved that the life salt has been transformed or combined with an unidentified substance, resulting in the loss of parts. ”

"According to the basic principles of alchemy, matter does not disappear out of thin air, and the loss of life salt will inevitably lead to the birth of other substances."

"In the enclosed hut of the experiment, Lifesalt drove several wooden oxen to and fro in it for a whole day, without producing any new sights, no smoke like flames, and no additional increase in wind. There is no measurable matter added to the house, but the amount of life salt is reduced, so it can be inferred that when the power of life salt is realized, the matter that is transformed and combined has the ability to pass through most matter, or it can enter another world. ”

"This kind of material that comes and goes freely like the wind is very likely to be the real product of the reaction of life salt, and it is called "invisible wind" for the time being."

Crane Daoren's face became more and more serious.

He continued: "...... The invisible wind has the power of space, and it is the result of the reaction of the life salt. And the life salt has been continuously consumed for many years, so it can be inferred that this world is full of invisible winds, which pass through each other with us, and do not directly affect each other......"

"The whole world is filled with this substance, which means that it is harmless to normal life, but it cannot be observed and touched, but this space power is everywhere. Its presence represents a special transformation, from a power that can be felt, to a space that cannot be felt. ”

The apostle looked at him suddenly: "You have researched it?" ”

"It's not." Zhang Ye said honestly: "Many of them are also questions discovered by alchemists in the past, as well as the formulas they deduced, and I just wanted to find out the answers on their basis, so I made this speculation. ”

"You come with me."

The Crane Dao people grabbed Zhang Ye and brought him to the resurrection kingdom of the Yao civilization. Before Zhang Ye could observe this vast new world, he was surrounded by a group of apostles, and all the big people who exuded a strong sense of oppression began to question him in turn.

……

After theoretical discussion and experimental testing, we finally came to a conclusion.

The "invisible wind" deduced by Zhang Ye is the "dark element" that the Yao civilization has been studying.

The dark element has spatial attributes, and this discovery broke the existing thinking and bottleneck of the Yao people, and allowed the apostles of the Mystic Research Institute to find the right direction.

Zhang Ye became a researcher over there.

Then he was ignorant, and while studying the theory of alchemy and the theory of elements with big figures like the apostles, he made up for the knowledge base of the Yao tribe. By now, he's basically followed.

After a while, he took the initiative to apply to go to the [Flying Boat Loop].

The reason is also curiosity and interest.

A man-made ring road around the world, like the reins of taming a giant beast, makes Zhang Ye feel very handsome and crazy.

……

As the flying boat landed steadily, Zhang Ye patted a box behind him: "Zequill, let's go." ”

The Mimic Zequill jumped out of the cabin with him.

Seven years later, when he returned to Jindanguo again, Zhang Ye smelled the familiar sour air, and his body relaxed.

"Zhang Ye."

Zhang Cheng, dressed in iron armor, stood beside the two iron horses and had been waiting for a long time.

"Big brother!"

Zhang Ye laughed, fixed the treasure mimic monster Quezel behind, and then rode all the way with his eldest brother.

"It's good to go to heaven, manly man, and be ambitious."

Zhang Cheng supported his younger brother as always.

Zhang Ye said, "Brother, you take off your helmet." ”

“……”

Zhang Cheng did not answer.

For this reaction, Zhang Ye had already expected it, and he sighed: "Big brother, are you already a ghost?" ”

Zhang Cheng slowly took off the helmet, revealing an old face inside, but under the neck was a body made of metal splicing.

Zhang Ye was dumbfounded: "This, this ......"

Zhang Cheng grinned: "I'm not going to be a flesh and blood person anymore!" ”

He moved his arms and made a metallic click, "How's my mechanical prosthetic?" I didn't want to bow to death so early, so I forgave my weak flesh and blood in favor of this set of mechanical prosthetics that covered the entire body, leaving only the head and internal organs. Based on the heart erosion print, my internal organs are not bad now, but my bones and muscles are severely atrophied. ”

"Thank you Yaoshen, now I am the first mechanical alchemist, and in the future, there will be more and more alchemists like me, embracing the mechanical body!"

Zhang Cheng clenched his fists with five fingers, his eyes flashing with confidence: "We will soon let everyone know what an amazing achievement we will make when an alchemist has a long lifespan!" ”

(End of chapter)