You are really proud enough......" Looking at Isaac, who was in the state of fearlessness of the ignorant, Jiang Liu responded: "It's a pity that your skills are just an ant in the eyes of the other party." ”

"What do you say?"

"I said, of course, it's all true. Jiang Liu let go of his hands: "You know, even the president can beat you, not to mention other people, the Philosopher's Stone that they have behind them is beyond your imagination." You used to be of no use other than to send you to death. ”

“...... How do you know?" After a moment's silence, Isaac felt something was wrong.

"Because I have a spy network. ”

After rolling his eyes, Jiang Liu stood up: "That's it, let's make a deal." ”

"Equivalent exchange, I will help you subvert the conspiracy of this kingdom, and you, in addition to giving me the philosopher's stone on your body, how about teaching me alchemy?"

"Alchemy? Could it be that you still don't know alchemy?" Hearing this, Isaac, who just wanted to agree, was stunned: "Then what happened to you before?"

"I didn't even say it was alchemy. Jiang Liu covered his forehead helplessly: "So, how about it?"

“...... Okay!" After thinking about it, it seemed that he had no choice, so Isaac gritted his teeth and agreed.

"Okay, then, let's find a safe place to set you up first, and after you finish teaching me alchemy in a few days, I'll let you go to a safe place." ”

"In a few days?" Isaac frowned, "Alchemy isn't something you can learn in a few days. ”

"Oh, that's for the average person. Jiang Liu even pointed to his skull: "I'm a genius." ”

After speaking, Jiang Liu looked around, and then walked in the opposite direction from Middle City: "Okay, let's go, let's establish a stronghold first." ”

"Wait! I don't know your name yet!"

"Name......" Stopping, Jiang Liu looked at the starry sky in the sky and muttered for a while, and then the corners of his mouth hooked:

"Paul, Paul Kochakin, that's my name......"

At night, the first branch of the National Intermediate Library ......

Inside the grand library, the caretaker inspected it, then turned around and turned off the lights and locked the door. Not long after the administrator left, a burst of white light flashed in the dark library, and then after the white light dissipated, a figure suddenly appeared in the library.

"There are enough of them, but I don't know where the books on alchemy are......"

Jiang Liu, who had reached the library building in an instant, looked at the books that filled the house, and after sighing, immediately searched for what he needed.

If you want to learn alchemy, you can't do it without a reserve of knowledge, from material analysis to refining arrays, you need to learn specifically, and this first branch of the National Middle Library is a good place to learn knowledge.

The bibliography here is majestic and varied, and many of them are things that only the alchemists of the realm have the qualifications to read, so the content is naturally doubly strict. This is also the reason why Jiang Liu came here, and it is necessary to be able to do it from the most essential aspects.

And the river is not only here to learn alchemy. The most important thing in this first branch library is the material that records the stone material of the sage and the research material of Marko, who has been trained in the formation.

As a researcher who has already studied the Philosopher's Stone for the Empire, Marco's study of the essence of the country of Amestris, the essence of many years of study, the refining array of the Philosopher's Stone, about this refining array, Jiang Liu is determined to obtain.

Soon, Jiang Liu found several books on a bookshelf about the names of alchemy, and Jiang Liu did not hesitate to reach out and take down all the books on alchemy, and then put them on the table next to him, and took out a copy of "Complete Knowledge of Alchemy" and opened it.

"......Understand, dissect, and recompose?"

Looking at the content of the first page of the book, Jiang Liu took a deep breath, and then pressed the index finger and middle finger of his right hand together on his temple, and the mysterious energy in his body first operated.

Five seconds later, Jiang Liu opened his eyes again, and his temperament at this time became very different. Even his eyes became clear.

"I didn't expect to be able to start the ...... on my own just after eating so many NTZ48 pills."

That's right, at this time, Li has already turned on the overclocking mode that can only be turned on after eating NTZ48, and he has to go at this time without taking the pill at all. The reason is that Jiangliu's brain has adapted, and it should have remembered the overclocking mode, so Jiangliu at this time relied on himself to turn on the overclocking mode.

"English, ah......"

Quickly flipping through the book in his hand, Jiang Liu squinted his eyes and complained while writing down the content into his brain: "It's Japanese, but the pen and ink in this country is English, it's really confusing......

"Fortunately, I can only understand English, otherwise I would have to spend a little more time learning the pen and ink of this country......"

"Hmm...... The circle of reincarnation of power...... Do you exercise the power of the earth's crust to move......"

"Ah...... After reading it......"

Six hours later, Jiang Liu rubbed his slightly sour eyes, and then put the book in his hand back on the table.

In the past few hours, he had read almost forty books, each of which was about alchemy, from complete to practical, from beginner to advanced, all of which he had read through. At this time, this knowledge has also been engraved in Jiang Liu's mind, but it is one thing to remember, and it is another thing to understand. So all that Jiang Liu had to do was to understand all the knowledge in his head.

There is no doubt, it is much more difficult to understand than rote memorization, and for Jiang Liu in overclocking mode, even if you want to understand all the knowledge in your head, it will be enough for a week at most.

"At this point......"

Looking at the still dark night sky outside the window, Jiang Liu looked back at the books on alchemy on the table, and then stretched out his hand, and at the same time, the energy in his body ran first.

"Copy. ”

shout

Then, a white light flashed, and suddenly a pile of books on the table was almost the same as the pile next to it.

"It's a bit magical, but it's science. Leave it to Einstein and they might be able to figure out what tricks they can figure out. ”

Putting the copied books into the space in his belt, Jiang Liu then used the recitation of the chicken charm to return the original books to the bookshelf one by one.

"And then there's the study of the human body and Marko......"

Marko's research materials are okay, but they are disguised by Marco as 100 kinds of today's recipes, this kind of book is easy to find, but if the human body refines it......

"I guess it's the only ones in the intermediate research institutes that have these materials. ”

Looking at the countless bookshelves in the room, Jiang Liu fell into silence:

"Forget it, let's go and ask Isaac directly if the human body refining team and the philosopher's stone are refining into a formation, I don't bother to look for ......"

"What we need to do at this time is to plan something......

Since he promised Isaac to help him smash the plot of the villain's land refining array, then Jiang Liu will definitely do it.

And the shortest and most brutal method is that Jiang Liu is now directly in the middle, first kill all seven artificial people, and then break into the ground to kill the villain in the bottle, anyway, Jiang Liu's war power at this time is in addition to the true meaning, for fear that only the villain in the bottle who will put part of the true meaning into the body in the later stage does not know whether there is a chance of victory, Jiang Liu can be said to crush this world, and an energy singularity is estimated to be gone to the kingdom of Amesdotus.

In that case, it feels very unfun, and the story of the world of Fullmetal Alchemist will be gone, so it is a good way to let Isaac go to the protagonists of the original book, and then follow the original plot all the way, and then successfully crack the conspiracy of the villain in the bottle.

Moreover, Jiang Liu didn't want to stay in this world for too long, he was originally here to learn alchemy, not to make trouble, so it was better not to drag it here.

Of course, in addition to coming here to learn alchemy, Jiang Liu has one purpose, that is, to see the door of his own true meaning.

But if there is no Stone of the Philosopher, if you open the door, you will have to pay the price of the part of your body, and those who desire to be intoxicated will have their legs empty, those who desire to witness the coming day will have their eyes empty, and those who desire freedom will always be deprived of their freedom, which is the true meaning: to give the arrogant the appropriate hopelessness.

And if Jiang Liu opens the door, he will definitely be robbed of some of his body, but the question is, which part will be taken away?

"The ...... I crave at this time What will be taken away from you if you want to do something?"

Although Jiang Liu wants to know the answer to this mystery, if it is left to himself, it is better to forget it. Therefore, in order not to be deprived of the ability to make trouble, it is really necessary to go and collect the Sage's Stone first.

The Philosopher's Stone, ignoring the law of equivalent exchange, can be refined into any material by experiencing the energy of the Waste Stone, and can even be used to retrieve the part of the body that has been taken away, and can also be used to pay for the opening of the door. This is how the Elric brothers in the original book pursued the Philosopher's Stone, and their purpose was to obtain the Philosopher's Stone and then restore the body that had been taken away due to the taboo of violating the prisoner's body.

Of course, when the Elric brothers appeared on the back of the material of the Philosopher's Stone, they abandoned this thought, because the material of refining is: people!

No, it should be the soul of a person specifically.

The Philosopher's Stone is not the so-called infinite energy, but is determined by the number of souls it condenses, and the more souls in the Philosopher's Stone, the greater the energy.

Let's take advantage of it, the Philosopher's Stone can also be regarded as a very hard object, because this thing will not be destroyed by external forces, and can only experience the disappearance of energy consumption, but the pity is that the Philosopher's Stone can only get a small piece even if it is practiced with a large number of souls, so if you want to make it a defensive object, you have to lose your conscience to use a lot of souls.

"Speaking of which, can the seven billion malice in the Holy Grail be used to refine the Philosopher's Stone?"

In the early hours of the morning, the library building ......

"It's a little slower than expected......"

Looking at the whiteness of the fish belly on the horizon, Jiang Liu put down the "Detailed Explanation of the Alchemy Array" in his hand and couldn't help but sigh, it seems that this alchemy is really not such a short thing.

Originally, Jiang Liu thought that after memorizing all the complete knowledge, he would be able to understand it slowly, but after these few hours, he found that the speed of understanding was much slower than he imagined, and the next four hours were actually only to understand this book. If you understand all 40 books at such a rate, and carry out your own alchemy, one week may not be enough, and if you want to reach the scale of a kingdom alchemist, it may take a few more days.

Come to think of it, the protagonist Edward also seems to have spent several years learning completely.

So self-learning is still not very stable, and if there is no teacher to lead the door, the learning rate will be much slower.

"It seems that it is better to go to Isaac, the alchemy alchemist of the Frozen Ice, to learn alchemy, and he is also a country-level alchemist, and he is also one of the candidates for the human pillar, so it shouldn't be bad to come to alchemy. ”

Click

"Huh?"

As he pondered the question, he suddenly heard some voices from the side of the door, and he who had withdrawn from his train of thought looked at the door, which had already been opened by the administrator of the library.

"Well, that's it for now, let's learn alchemy first. ”

Putting the book back on the shelf, Jiang Liu stood up and hugged his eyes, and then disappeared into the library in a white light.

"Do you want to learn alchemy?"

In the underground of the outskirts of the middle city, in an underground hengyu forged by alchemy, Isaac, the alchemy alchemist of Ice, was staring at the river that had returned to the basement in an instant with puzzled eyes.

"That's right, didn't we agree on it at the beginning, the equivalent exchange, I will help you handle the matter of the land refining array, and you will teach me alchemy. Of course, there must be a human body refining array and a sage stone refining array. ”

"The human body is refining into an array?!The Sage's Stone is refining into an array?!"

As soon as he heard these two terms, Isaac's expression immediately changed: "What do you want these two for?"

"Peace of mind, I have my own measure, and I won't fool around. Looking at Isaac's important face, Jiang Liu waved his hand.

"So, can you teach me alchemy first at this point?"

“......”

Staring at the river, Isaac wanted to see something on his face. But in the end he sighed: "It's just that you don't fool ......"

"You want to learn alchemy, right? Isaac stood up and said, "I see that you are still young, and your brain should be quite useful, if you want to learn, I will teach you some complete knowledge first."

"If you can meet the requirements of the scale, I will teach you to become an alchemist. Of course, if you want to study, you have to study for at least a year. ”

"Before I get into it, I want to know how much you know about alchemy. ”

"Really...... I've pretty much all the knowledge. Looking at Isaac, who had entered another state in an instant, Jiang Liu replied with a trembling brow.

"Don't talk nonsense, little ghost!" Isaac frowned and held back the impatience in his heart: "You said last night that you don't know alchemy, and today you say that you have understood? Those things have to be memorized for at least a year or two! Don't report to me, you have memorized them overnight!"

"You may not trust it, but I did memorize it all in one night. ”

"If that's the case, then tell me all about alchemy. ”

"Okay......"

After shrugging his shoulders casually, Jiang Liu spoke the contents of the dozens of books he had memorized in turn, and as time passed, Isaac's expression became more and more panicked.

"Stop!

After talking for nearly 20 minutes, Isaac let out a loud cry and stopped the river, at this time, he trusted that this aberration in front of him had really memorized the complete knowledge of alchemy in one night!

"You guy...... Isaac really memorized all of this?!" Isaac's eyes widened in shock: "And it only took one night?!"

"...... right"

"It's just one night!!" Isaac, who had come to the answer to the riddle from Jiang Liu's mouth, felt his heart twitch first, thinking that in the past, he had spent a whole year and a half memorizing these alchemy knowledge! And this was not counting the later learning!

"Isn't that a deranged little ghost?!!

Facing Isaac's shock, Jiang Liu let go of his hand: "It's okay." ”

Three days later......

In the middle city train hall, on a train to Riol......

Looking at Edward and Al, who were sitting in the seat in front of him, Jiang Liu, who had finished learning alchemy from Isaac and had reached the level of country-level alchemy, couldn't help but sigh.

Naturally, Jiang Liu knew that the Edward Brotherhood would go to Leol in order to explore the secret of the Philosopher's Stone, but he didn't know the specific time, so Jiang Liu continued to pay attention to the Edward brothers in the past few days. It was the day they were going, so he chose the same train.

Ríol, a small town on the eastern border of Amestris, is an important place in the realization of the Realm Formation Array. Since this will be the blood crest, there will be no less unrest and death.

And turmoil and death mean that there will be people who will control it, such as Lust Rust and the boss Gulat and Gratoni of gluttony.

And the purpose of Jiang Liu's trip to Leol this time is for these two artificial people, maybe it is said that the philosopher's stone in the human body of these two artificial people.

"You ...... Is it Edward, the youngest alchemist in the legendary realm?"

"Alas...... Ah, yes!"

"I thought of being so young......"

Looking at Edward, who was only 1.65 meters tall with heightened shoes and a total height of only 1.65 meters, Jiang Liu didn't know why he always wanted to laugh.

"Hello, I'm Paul Kochagin, and I'm an alchemist. Jiang Liu stretched out his right hand and shook hands with the two.

"Oh, could it be that you're also an alchemist of the realm?!" Edward asked in surprise.

"No, I'm not a realm alchemist, at least not at this time. ”

"Speaking of which, what do you want to do when you go to Riol? ”

"Well, just to find something important. Brushing over the question, Edward asked, "What about you, what are you doing over there?"

"It's a trip. Jiang Liu smiled: "I am a traveler who roams the 'world'. ”

Of course, this 'world' is not another 'world'

"That's right. Edward nodded, "I really admire you, Al and I are back in shape, and we are going to roam around, right, Al." ”

"Yes, brother!"

"Are you recovering......"

Jiang Liu "hesitated" for a moment, and then spoke: "...... You guys...... It's taboo to fight......"

“！！！”

"Your body...... No, inside the armor...... It's empty......"

Pointing at Al, Jiang Liu frowned and said, "It should be a fixed soul formation, right?

"......" was near, and the Edward brothers fell silent.

"When I want to recover my body...... As such, the important thing you are looking for is the Philosopher's Stone. ”

Looking at the Edward brothers, who lowered their heads and were silent, Jiang Liu then took out a philosopher's stone the size of a coin from his pocket: "If you want to find a philosopher's stone, I have one here." ”

This piece of the Sage's Stone was naturally the one on Isaac's body, but at this time, that guy gave only one piece of his body to Jiang Liu.

"What!"

In an instant, Edward Alphonse raised his head and stared firmly at the philosopher's stone in Jiang Liu's hand.

"That's what it is...... The Philosopher's Stone......"

"I can give you this Philosopher's Stone. Looking at the two brothers who were calm and generous, Jiang Liu said this sentence quietly.

Equivalent swaps!

"Fullmetal Alchemist, Edward, you want to teach me advanced alchemy!"

"And, taboo refining!"

Riol, a quiet town in the east of the country......

But even so, it is much more fertile than in many places, even the fountains in the central square are full of red wine, and a magnificent church has been built in the middle of the town.

"O son of God who lives on this earth, pray and believe, or else you cannot be redeemed, God of the Sun......"

"Sun God ......" looked at the broadcast of a small shop on the side of the road, Jiang Liu's heart was not bumpy, and he even wanted to laugh.

"If there really is a god in this world, then God should be the true meaning of this world. ”

"Of course, if you insist on counting, I can also be regarded as a god at this time, I don't have to say anything about my skills. All kinds of skills and magic can also do many things, and even the new living and dead have the talent to check the river of time or pull people out of the river of time, and to some extent, I can become a god in most worlds. ”

Jiang Liu muttered to himself, and then looked up at the church not far away, and someone should be coming soon.

Judging from the follow-up plot, it should be jealousy, lust and gluttony, and when the time comes, take out all the philosopher's stones in the bodies of these three guys, then you should see a lot of knowledge after opening the door to the true meaning.

At least, all of them will not be less than what Alphonse sees.

"Ah, the sun is so big here......"

Straight and glanced at the sun in the sky without relying on anything, Jiang Liu took out the alchemy experience that Edward had given him on the train before, all of which were related to the materials of the human body.

"At this time, it's still accidental, so let's find a place to watch the materials to spend this boring time period. ”

During the night, due to the daylight of the Edward brothers, the townsfolk who heard the bishop's true purpose were all in an uproar, and gathered all the way to the church to ask for an explanation, while the head of the church, Gao Nairo, hid in the main castle.

"Let those bastards mess with my merits!" said Gao Nairo in a straight rage, but then a voice came from behind him.

"It's such a pity. ”