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  All that could be seen was a pile of several hundred gems inside the leather pouch, with the larger ones roughly the size of a person's thumb and the smaller ones only about the size of a grain of rice. However, without exception, each gem emitted a faint glow, though they came in various colors - black, white, blue, yellow, and many others.

  Chen Chen saw Du Fan's stunned expression and jumped onto his shoulder, taking a glance before sticking out its tongue and saying: "Magic stone!"

  "What did you say? Magic stone!?"

  Du Fan was stunned for a moment before he couldn't help but exclaim, to be sure, if it were just an ordinary gemstone, then they wouldn't be worth much more, but if it were a magic stone, that would be different.

  On the continent of Roland, there is a kind of creature that is different from ordinary beasts, called magical beasts. These magical beasts, regardless of their species, possess great power and absolute speed, and some can even use magic.

  Inside the bodies of these magical beasts, there is something called a "magic stone". However, depending on the type and level of the magical beast, they have different properties and sizes. Smaller magic stones are called "magic crystals", while larger ones are called "magic cores".

  However, no matter what kind of magic stone it is, they all have the same effect. The magical elements contained in them are good materials for refining various magical weapons and are also the raw materials needed for advanced alchemy. Even when mages use them to supplement their spiritual power during battles. Even ordinary people who know nothing about magic consider this type of magic stone as the most exquisite gemstone, after all, the faint magical aura that emanates from it naturally is not something that can be compared to any ordinary gemstone.

  The price of this magic stone is naturally not cheap, and it's unknown which Holy Temple Knight spent half his life accumulating so many, but now they all fall into Du Fan's hands, how can he not be overjoyed?

  After the initial excitement, Du Fan calmed down. Although this thing was valuable, it was also extremely hot to handle. In the transaction, there were unwritten rules at play. With Du Fan's current strength, unless he sold these things under the name of his family, otherwise, he might not even be able to leave the trading floor without being skinned alive. It was a well-known fact that in this era, if one possessed wealth that didn't match their strength, the outcome would often be tragic.

  But Du Fan couldn't sell these things under the family's title, because he simply couldn't explain the existence of these things, so in the end, these magic stones were now all unsellable valuable goods.

  He weighed the bag of magic stones in his hand, and for a moment, Du Fan didn't know what to do either.

  It was Chenchen who looked at him and couldn't help but mutter: "Du Fan, you little guy's luck is really good?"

  "What did you say?"

  Chen Chen stretched out her cat claws and picked out a few large magic cores from the bag, saying: "Originally, with the Mirak medicine, your cultivation speed could be much faster. Now that you have these things, your cultivation speed can be even faster. For example, these magic stones, I'll help you set up a magic array, and when you cultivate inside, your absorption of various elements will naturally be much faster. And those smaller magic crystals, just add some ordinary herbs, and they can be configured into all sorts of medicinal concoctions that are beneficial to your cultivation. You say, aren't you lucky?"

  Du Fan nodded, unable to help but laugh out loud. Being able to accelerate his cultivation speed was naturally better than anything else. After all, he was a genuine magic and martial arts dual cultivator, completely different from those who cultivated magic one moment and internal energy the next!

  It was much simpler afterwards, among the things Du Fan asked Old Mark to buy, apart from some basic items for magicians, there were also a series of alchemy herbs and various ordinary materials.

  But even so, it costs thousands of gold coins, which shows how great the cost is to become an alchemist. This is also another reason why alchemists are so rare and the items they produce are so valuable.

  After bringing everything back from outside and instructing a few sentences not to let anyone disturb himself, Du Fan returned to the third floor of the underground room once again.

  "Alright," Chenchen had already picked out a few larger ones from the bag of magic stones and tossed them to Du Fan, "now everything is ready, we can start."

  Du Fan nodded and put on the box containing the Mirak medicine, holding Chenchen to the second floor of the underground room.

  Chen Chen jumped out of Du Fan's arms, first using her cat paws to draw a huge magic array on the ground, then took the magic stone from Du Fan's hand and arranged it properly. Only then did she stand in the middle of the magic array and say: "You come over here?"

  Du Fan slowly walked over and sat down cross-legged, asking: "What should I do now?"

  "Are you mentally prepared? Once you are, you can take the Mirak medication. The process of altering your physiology may be painful, but it will pass. Are you ready?"

  Du Fan nodded and took a deep breath before slowly opening the box in front of him, inside which was a transparent bottle containing a blood-red liquid.

  Du Fan looked at these priceless **for a moment, and then without hesitation opened the bottle cap and poured all the medicine into his own mouth.

  Then, Du Fan only felt a contradictory feeling of heat and cold simultaneously coming from his abdomen, accompanied by waves of severe pain, that kind of feeling was simply devastating.

  In less than a few seconds, the pain had spread all over Du Fan's body. If it weren't for his incredibly strong willpower, he would have cried out in agony by now.

  This torture didn't know how long it lasted, anyway Dou Fan finally only felt his whole body relax, and he fainted.

  When Du Fan woke up again, he only felt that his mind was extremely clear. Although he had just closed his eyes, he seemed to be able to perceive the general situation of this underground room. His body had a comfortable feeling to the extreme, as if every pore could breathe. The feeling before he fainted earlier had all disappeared, making Du Fan feel that his whole body was full of energy.

  Du Fan slowly opened his eyes, only to find himself lying alone in the center of the magic circle. His entire body was covered with a layer of black impurities. Morning had also transformed back into her human form at some point, wearing one of Du Fan's shirts. Her slightly crouched posture made the cleavage on her chest almost pop out, making one's eyeballs nearly fall out.

  Du Fan swallowed a mouthful of saliva, almost reaching out his hand, but fortunately he still knew what was important, and quickly shifted his gaze to another place, saying in a low voice: "Chen Chen... can I start practicing magic and Dou Qi now?"

  Chenchen smiled faintly, and the smile on her face made Du Fan's blood boil. She wrapped her long hair around herself and chuckled: "The effect of this Miraclous medicine is beyond my expectations. Originally, your physique was the most ordinary and useless, but unexpectedly, after shaving and washing your marrow, although it can't be said to be a rare talent that appears only once in a hundred years, it's still not bad. With your current qualifications, plus the help of magic arrays and medicine, I'm afraid your growth rate is even beyond my imagination."

  Du Fan nodded and said seriously: "Then what should we do next?"

  "Hey, go take a bath in that pool over there first. After that, we can start our training. It's best to do everything you need to now because for the next few months or even longer, you won't be able to move at all, got it?"

  Du Fan nodded slightly and walked to the nearby pool to wash off the impurities on his body. After changing into a clean set of clothes, he returned to his original seat and said, "Alright then... Chenchen... let's begin..."

  "Alright, I'll check your magical element affinity first. Although I know you can cultivate magic and Dou Qi, I still don't know which system of magic is best for you to cultivate."

  Du Fan furrowed his brow and said, "Isn't cultivating magic just about cultivating spiritual power? Can't using any system of magic be done with just incantations?"

  Chen Chen shook his head and said, "It's not that simple. My cultivation method can indeed allow you to cultivate magic and internal energy at the same time, but under the premise of similar cultivation methods, your magical element affinity is different, so the cultivation process is also different."

  For example, if your magical element affinity is fire-based, then naturally, when you cultivate, you will subconsciously absorb the surrounding fire-based elements. As a result, not only will your spiritual power grow faster due to the elemental affinity, but your fighting spirit will also rapidly strengthen. It's worth noting that what's known as spiritual power is strengthened by the magical elements tempering your 'soul', while what's known as magical power is enhanced by absorbing the surrounding magical elements. As for fighting spirit, its principle is similar to that of cultivating magical power; it's just that magical power involves storing the absorbed heavenly and earthly elements in your conscious space, whereas cultivating fighting spirit involves storing the heavenly and earthly elements within your physical body.

  "In the end, my method is to let you absorb the elements of heaven and earth, evenly distributing them in your consciousness space and physical body, so that you can grow both magical power and internal energy together. This is also the fundamental reason why this method is slower than other single-practice methods after cultivation. Therefore, when practicing this method, the most important thing is to increase the amount of elemental absorption, whether it's setting up a magic array or taking medicine, it's all for this purpose. And after knowing your elemental affinity, subconsciously absorbing the same elements will naturally be faster than unconscious absorption."

  Du Fan nodded and said: "Then... what should I do now?"