The brothers look at me in shock.
"you must have found a good cultivation manual to be able to get so strong so fast." The eldest brother says with a bit of jealousy. In this world there where all kinds of cultivation elements however the most common were fire water earth and wind. There was an abundance of manuals for these elements as they made up most of the population.
However these brothers weren't so lucky. They got lightning and wood elements so they where stuck with trash manuals and almost no attack methods.
I pondered for a moment.
I waved my hand and 4 manuals popped out.
"I have a surprise for you boys. I have cultivation manuals the best of the best and you can pick whichever you want. However there is a difference. One of them let's you cultivate all elements evenly the other is for the element you currently use." They nabbed the personal element ones.
"Why try to learn stuff we aren't used to besides it makes me feel special having an odd element." said the younger of the two.
I pop put two more books these would be a kind of test. "Now this book has moves for both lightning and wood however they are from a different system of cultivation and I want to see how well they work. They have been adjusted so it's up to you if you want to try them." These were ninjutsu moves but adjusted for cultivation use to see if we could combine them.
The eldest more intelligent brother decided to test one out. He flubbed the hand signs like twice before getting it and lo and behold a giant wooden spike fires up from the ground through the roof.
"I'm not paying for that." I point out.
He looks up at the destroyed roof and the destroyed floor before sighing. "I really should have thought more about that however I got a bit too excited."
understandable. They set the manuals down.
"So where have you and father been hiding all this time." Xiao li asks.
"I've been in the town directly before the beast mountains I run a clinic and a few other shops I'm also the leader of the thunder wolves mercenaries." I tell them.
"What your the leader of that group? We have heard rumors about them in the mercenary circles they have a 100% completion rate on anything. From escort missions to killing off bandits." Xiao ding says in shock.
Well they better it's basically like having 100 people with my skills and power running missions.
"Yeah they are pretty efficient." I reply.
"Why are you running a clinic anyway?"
"Well I'm a doctor and a tier 4 alchemist so it seems kind of logical from my point of view." Thier eyes snap to the patch on my chest. "No fucking way when did you become an alchemist?"
"Like a day ago. Youngest alchemist in the empire." I brag.
They are both rather excited for me and chatter on asking a billion different things.
"So why are you out here exactly? Surely not to visit your amazing older brothers right?"
"I'm searching for something in the desert. It's a heavenly flame." I tell them.
"Oh a heavenly flame. We had had a lot of different people asking around about it mostly some alchemists from the empire however Noone can find it." Xiao li explains.
"Queen Medusa has it that's one of the reasons no one can find it the other reason is that it grows underground." I explain.
"Are you planning to rob Medusa?! you must be mad." they shout.
"Well yes and no. But first I'm going to steal the stuff she left behind." my divine senses spread out through the desert locking onto a lava filled area.
inside the area is a glowing green lotus platform but the insides are completely empty of the Lotus core flame. This is a good item to have because in another 1000 years it will grow another heavenly flame. We take the whole item. The platform can be cut off and used as a meditation bed to cultivate on. I never saw any uses for things like that though so we are just going to transplant the whole thing into the kingdom.
"So your planning to rob medusa?" They ask just to make sure they heard me right.
"Something like that but it will take a few days as I'm expecting some guests." I tell them much to thier confusion.
"There's going to be a mad scramble in the snake kingdom once the information is magically released around the empire and I'm going to happily loot the burning fires of the kingdom." I say with a smile.
I'd already had some clones releasing the information and there were quite a few alchemists and clans already gearing up including the misty cloud sects alchemists. there was going to be a war and I was going to sit by with some popcorn and watch.