Chapter 4: Four times the speed, unexpected discovery"Twice the speed, that's 50,000 gold coins a year. Quadruple the speed, that's 100,000 gold coins... let's do it!" One hundred thousand gold coins were enough to buy a year, but in reality only three months had passed. Han Cheng felt it was worth it! An inch of time is worth an inch of gold, and an inch of gold cannot buy an inch of time. Han Cheng feels that any amount of money is worth it if he can exchange it for time. Although it only costs half of his net worth in one year, it is worth it. Han Cheng was very satisfied after getting familiar with life at Canaan College in a week. The room, board and tuition were almost free. He did not need to rush for food and drink every day, and he did not need to worry about not being able to practice for several weeks due to rain or snow. In Canaan College, all he needed to do was to study carefully the knowledge taught by the teacher in class. When an alchemist came to give a lecture, I carefully wrote down all the key points throughout the lecture. When I was hungry, I would go to the cafeteria and eat a big meal until I was full. The rest of the time, I would practice in the four-fold time state. In such an atmosphere, Han Cheng's once buried talent shone extremely brightly.
He had only been in Canaan Academy for less than two months, and practiced for a little more than half a year in four times the time, and he had gone from a one-star fighter to a nine-star fighter! "This is a bit too exaggerated, am I going to be the monster that the protagonist defeats above his level?" Han Cheng twitched the corner of his mouth. He felt that he should stop practicing fighting spirit for a while. Fighting skills and alchemy should also be put on the agenda. The technique he is currently practicing is the intermediate Xuan-level "Red Flame Art", and his fighting skill is the matching intermediate Xuan-level fighting skill "Red Flame Force", which is comparable to the advanced Xuan-level one. In Ya Fei's words, either don't invest, or invest to the best of your ability and make the biggest bet. She may never meet another lonely genius like him in her life. The Red Flame Force is not so much a fighting skill as it is a method of refining and utilizing fighting energy. Because his martial arts technique was the Red Flame Art, it was not difficult for him to practice the Red Flame Force fighting skill. After trying for ten minutes, Han Cheng felt a hot energy coming to his palm according to his wishes. "It seems that I have a pretty good talent?" Han Cheng raised his eyebrows and was in a good mood. Next, what he needs to do is to continue to practice this process, and it would be best if he could add the Red Flame Power every time he attacks. And as long as he doesn't speak, then his normal attack is a big move! Suddenly, Han Cheng had an idea and tried to practice fighting skills at four times the speed. Ten minutes would normally have passed, but forty minutes had already passed for Han Cheng. He could now use the fighting skill Red Flame Force without having to accumulate energy for several minutes. Han Cheng came to a small river near the college and started at four times the speed! After accumulating strength for less than a minute, Han Cheng punched the river water, which exploded with a bang. A two-meter-high water column flew up. Seeing that he was about to wash his face, he quickly took two steps back. After exiting the four-speed mode, Han Cheng shook his head helplessly. He still needed to practice more. He would accumulate strength for a whole minute, and when he really fought, he would probably have already touched the opponent's body. Han Cheng adjusted his mentality and prepared to continue practicing. Suddenly, he lowered his head inadvertently and his eyes widened. Squatting down, Han Cheng touched the stones on the river bank in front of him. Not a drop of water! Han Cheng pondered for a moment, a terrifying light flashed in his black eyes, and he forced himself to suppress the excitement in his heart and entered the quadruple speed again. After accumulating strength for more than fifty seconds, he punched the river again. A water column more than two meters high flew up and splashed in all directions. He saw with his own eyes that the stones were splashed. After exiting the four-speed mode and seeing that there was not a drop of water on the stone, Han Cheng closed his eyes. After a long time, he punched the river water several times in a row. He heaved a sigh of relief when he saw that the area within several meters was splashed with water. There was a burning pain in the meridians in his body, his face was flushed, and sweat appeared on his forehead, but Han Cheng's heart was already in ecstasy. It turned out that when time was accelerated, he was equivalent to entering a special simulation space. This space not only affected him, but also seemed to affect the surrounding environment. Moreover, in this space, some negative effects on himself will not take effect, but the impact on the environment can be perfectly simulated.
The reason why Han Cheng punched the river water just now was not only to verify his guess, but also to hide this secret. Because Han Cheng found a shortcut that was very suitable for him and had extremely low cost to improve his alchemy skills! As we all know, in the early stages of their career, alchemists need to constantly burn medicine to increase their experience, which can also be called: burning money. If there is no proper teacher to teach, and the apprentice has to rely on himself, then it will take at least 100,000 gold coins to train a first-class alchemist. However, Han Cheng may be able to gain experience by "hanging up". The Alchemy Department has medicine cauldrons and alchemy rooms specially prepared for junior alchemists. After all, alchemists have a very high status in the Douqi Continent, and Canaan Academy has invested a lot of money in it. For the academy, if they can train a fifth-grade or fourth-grade alchemist in the future, it will be a huge profit! After all, some good fourth-grade elixirs start at 300,000 or 400,000 gold coins. If it's a three-striped green spirit pill, which is fourth-grade but actually better than many fifth-grade elixirs, the starting price of that one is even 500,000 gold coins! If one of these students in the Alchemy Department can become a sixth-grade alchemist in the future, then the favor of a sixth-grade alchemist cannot be measured by money alone! A Douling Pill would cost at least three million gold coins, and an Huangji Pill would be worth six or seven million. Not to mention the Pozong Pill, you would be lucky enough to buy it with tens of millions of gold coins. It can be said that a favor from a sixth-rank alchemist is worth a fortune! This is also the reason why Canaan College made up its mind and invested a large sum of money in the alchemy department. You can earn gold coins again if you lose them. In order to provide students with a good learning environment, what do a few gold coins mean? Besides, the president of Canaan College is definitely a rich man! Han Cheng shook his head, feeling excited for a moment, and even imagined that he could get the dean to pour him tea with a pill... He took out the medicinal materials for ten first-grade hemostatic powder that he had bought with two thousand gold coins and put them aside, then took out a small notebook and began to follow the steps, placing his hand on the fire mouth of the medicine cauldron and inputting his fighting spirit. A pale yellow flame appeared, and Han Cheng, who was well prepared, closed his eyes and began to use the wood energy in his body. In less than ten minutes, Han Cheng had already controlled the fire in his palm. Next step, quadruple speed, on! He failed the first time, failed the second time, and failed more than ten times in a row before he successfully extracted the first batch of medicinal materials. However, Han Cheng was not disappointed. A smile could not help but appear on his originally serious face. (End of this chapter)