Brax closes the Alchemy guide and goes through everything he has just learned. In essence, alchemy is just mixing shit with the help of Qi energy.
Unlike the Qi breathing methods and the martial arts methods, Alchemy seems to be much more advanced, though the people of this world still don't know about molecular bonding and atomic reaction, with the help of Qi energy they seem to have come up with different ways to make pills.
For example, they are combining a spiritual plant with a part of a spiritual beast and the only way to do it is by precisely controlling the heat. What they don't know is that it is because of this precisely controlled heat that the atoms of two different biomasses could come together.
Once again, Qi Energy came to the rescue to solve most of the problems that an alchemist could have faced.
Brax knows that there is still a lot more there is to learn about Qi energy, but its existence has changed Brax's perspective on the universe and how every universe can be different with unique energy sources like Qi energy. Brax wants to learn the core fundamentals of the universe itself and what makes a universe different from others to have such a drastic difference.
Bringing his attention back to alchemy, he started going through some pill-making recipes.
After looking through some of them, he focused on Qi-infused pills. These pills are made by melting and fusing a few spiritual plants that are known for storing a lot of Qi energy in them and a stomach sac from a spirit beast called the gluttonous boar.
The idea is to take the Qi energy from the spiritual plants and apply the attributes of the gluttonous boar's stomach sac, which is known for its ability to store things ten times its size.
And this shit somehow worked.
Brax puts the alchemy guide aside. Now that he is done learning everything that is in the alchemy guide, he just needs to take the alchemy test in an alchemy guild.
There should be an alchemy guild close to the sect. He will worry about it later.
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After reading through all those martial arts techniques, he knows that he needs to create his own.
And this time, he is certain that it won't cause a heavenly phenomenon because he can't create perfect martial arts. In terms of the elemental part of the martial arts, he has got it to the tea, but the physical aspect of it? He severely lacks it.
Of course, he will get good as time goes and it will be very fast as it never took him long to master something, but to master something perfectly, it will take a long time. Even for Brax.
Martial arts is not something that is based on pre-existing practices that have already been perfected. It took the people of this world millions and millions of years of mastering and perfecting through trials and tribulations.
So right now he is just focusing on creating a martial art technique that's just useful.
"Let's get started," Brax says and rubs his hands.
Fire occurs when a combustible fuel is in the presence of oxygen and high temperature.
Here, the Qi energy acts as fuel but also is capable of generating heat, making it the best fuel possible, and with oxygen present in the atmosphere, it shouldn't be hard to conjure a hot burning flame.
With this simple theory in his mind, Brax channels his new and improved Qi energy inside his body and guides it toward his hands.
His hands start glowing golden as the Qi energy condenses in them. This change surprises Brax, as it was white before. 'Looks like the color of Qi changes based on the quality of the Qi inside one's body,' he thinks and starts vibrating the Qi energy rapidly.
This causes a sudden rise in temperature in an instant. As this high temperature reacts with the oxygen in the atmosphere, and with the Qi energy acting as fuel, his hand suddenly catches up on fire.
The fire burns bright yellow, making it very hot, but it doesn't burn Brax because the fuel is his own Qi energy.
Brax expects the temperature of this flame to be around 2500 degrees Celsius. And for now, this should be enough.
If he tries to make the flames any hotter, he will exhaust his energy resources very quickly.
This is just but a small peek into Brax's ability. If he increases the temperature even more, he will be able to create plasma.
He has other theories on how to produce more destructive methods, which may include nuclear fission and fusion, but doing so is not within his capabilities right now.
Brax knows he needs to be a lot stronger to be able to withstand the power of his theoretical moves. Since he knows the theory and knows how to execute it, he is certain that he can create those moves, but he also knows he will die in the process because the energy released from fission and fusion is too much for him right now.
So right now, he should just stick to regular flames.
Feeling the heat radiating from his fists, Brax stands up and assumes a boxing position. He then starts practicing some boxing moves with the bright yellow flames burning over his fists.
As he combines boxing with his burning yellow flames, his body starts adapting to this new set of moves.
His current body is a hundred times stronger and faster than his previous body, along with his fast-acting and slow-acting reactions. Assimilating boxing into his new superpowered body is way harder than he expected.
Even simple moves like jabs and straight punches are throwing his body off balance. So he has to take it slow and steady and increase his pace and speed as he progresses.
The reason Brax chose to fuse his fire with boxing is because it's still better than simple movements like punches and arm thrusts he read in those basic-level martial arts manuals.
Plus, it's a very effective martial art that focuses on evading and counter-attacking, which can be very useful against simple attacks like punches and arm thrusts.
As Brax continues to practice boxing along with his white flames, he feels his Qi energy being drained, but he doesn't feel tired because his automatic Qi breathing technique replenishes his energy in an instant.
A few hours go by and you can see yellow flashes in front of Brax as he gets used to boxing with the speed and power of his new body. His fists are moving so fast that it isn't visible to the naked eye of a normal person.
You can also see Brax skip around with sudden bursts of speed as he applies the complex boxing footwork to his movements. Boxing at its core is footwork to place yourself in the right place at the right time to deliver the knockout blow to your opponent.
Brax spends his whole day just doing boxing while using the bright yellow flames. His mind starts to work in overdrive, and the better he gets at assimilating boxing, the more flaws he sees in it.
With access to more speed and power at his disposal, he notices some shortcomings of boxing itself, so he starts modifying it to take advantage of his newfound speed and power to make boxing better.
He realizes that it's not just boxing, he can improve other martial arts from his world as well.
With this revelation, Brax increases the intensity of his training as he wants to quicken his progress.