If Luo Fan had to read all of these himself, who knew how long it would take?
Normally, one would only choose the categories they were most interested in.
For example, healing potions, poisons, flesh and blood potions, special-type potions…
Healing and poisons went without saying, the meanings were obvious.
Flesh and blood potions included bloodline potions as well.
Besides that, there were also potions that strengthened the physical body or increased bodily size.
Special-type potions referred to more unconventional ones.
After all, even a stone, a blade of grass, or a flower could all be turned into a potion by an alchemist.
When Luo Fan had been doing missions in the Many-Leaf Universe Nation, he had seen the honeybees and Cang Spirit Flowers — those too counted as potions.
Both of those things were cultivated by alchemists.
The inheritance Luo Fan desired most, of course, was the kind related to bloodlines and genes.
In less than a second, his Mechanical Tribe clone had already finished reading the introductions for all alchemist inheritances.
Among the more than a million inheritances, there were a total of one hundred twenty thousand that primarily researched bloodline and gene-related potions.
Luo Fan quickly chose one of them.
The Blood Codex — six volumes in total.
The first volume cost one hundred points.
The first two volumes cost one thousand points.
The first three volumes cost ten thousand points.
The first four volumes cost one hundred thousand points.
The first five volumes cost one million points.
The full six volumes cost ten million points.
(Members of the Endtimes Secret Realm pay full price, members of the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm get ten percent off, members of the Primordial Beginning Secret Realm get twenty percent off, and members of the Origin Secret Realm get thirty percent off.)
When he saw the author of The Blood Codex, Luo Fan's expression became strange.
Grando!
Wasn't that the name of that five-star alchemist he had just met?
Luo Fan checked Grando's information.
Grando: Five-Star Alchemist, one of the directors of the Virtual Universe Company's Alchemist Department, titled Wood Spirit King.
Reading that information, Luo Fan couldn't help feeling surprised.
He hadn't expected that the old man he met today was actually a King-level Immortal.
And moreover, an alchemist himself.
Soon, however, he felt it was only natural.
In the Original Universe, regardless of profession, reaching a certain level required profound comprehension of the laws.
Whether one was a Spiritual Force Master or a warrior, the most common professions, or an illusionist or beast tamer, it was the same.
Even alchemists and artifact refiners needed to master portions of the Origin Laws if they wished to reach great heights.
Otherwise, they were destined never to advance beyond a certain realm.
After all, this was the "Path" determined by the Original Universe itself.
The reason Luo Fan chose The Blood Codex was precisely because this inheritance suited him well.
It contained the best bloodline potions and bloodline evolution potions known to the human race.
In addition, there were many other potion inheritances related to the body and genes.
This inheritance was among the best five-star inheritances in the field of bloodlines and genetics.
That was why Luo Fan had chosen it.
However, before making his selection, he still needed to create a mission.
[Mission: Obtain the Five-Star Alchemist Inheritance — The Blood Codex, first two volumes. Reward: Compendium of Potions, first four volumes.]
When Luo Fan saw the reward, he immediately became excited.
That reward looked quite good!
After he confirmed his inheritance choice, a figure soon appeared at his doorstep.
"Hello, Mr. Luo Fan."
"This is your secret manual. Please sign for it."
A green-skinned man handed Luo Fan a space ring.
The moment Luo Fan accepted the ring, the sound of mission completion echoed in his mind.
He went straight to his study, space ring in hand.
Inside, he found the contents of The Blood Codex to be quite extensive.
There were two volumes included.
Each one was vast in scope.
Although The Blood Codex primarily focused on bloodline and gene-related potions, it also contained other types of potion inheritances.
Luo Fan set aside the second volume and began reading the first.
The first volume mainly covered bloodline potions and bloodline evolution potions for Star-level and below.
It also included many other types of potions.
The contents were immense, aside from potion formulas, there were detailed introductions to countless materials, and even descriptions of the results when certain materials were fused together.
With his Mechanical Tribe clone, Luo Fan finished reading very quickly.
After reading, he could only marvel at Grando's mastery of alchemy, it was truly extraordinary.
This single volume alone contained hundreds of thousands of potion formulas, including a small number from other races.
The materials as well, many originated from territories of the Zerg, Machine, and Monster races.
However, the bloodline potions and bloodline evolution potions here only went up to the Planetary level.
After finishing, Luo Fan felt he had gained tremendously.
Although he had collected a great deal of material information before, 1the materials he knew of were less than one-tenth of what appeared in this first volume.
When he finished reading, his mind was filled with inspiration.
He now itched to gather vast quantities of materials and begin testing his ideas.
However, given his current capabilities, some of those materials were difficult to obtain.
After all, many existed only outside human territory.
Only a small portion of them were smuggled into human regions by certain merchants, and even those were hard to buy.
Naturally, the smuggled ones were the popular, high-priced materials.
Once they appeared, they were quickly bought up.
If Luo Fan wanted to purchase them, he could only do so through the Virtual Universe Company's Alchemist Department, though the prices were far from cheap.
There was, of course, another way.
Luo Fan could go buy them himself!
He had always wanted to do that.
But doing so would take a great deal of time.
It meant traveling to other races' territories to buy what humans lacked.
Previously, that idea was mainly for making money.
After all, with his Space Worm clone, traveling to other races' domains was incredibly fast.
But after obtaining his Mechanical Tribe clone, he had grown lazy.
If he wanted to make money, he could simply sell the technological creations of the Mechanical Tribe.
The robots he produced now could fetch excellent prices in human markets.
So, there was no need to waste time smuggling across races.
The Human, Zerg, Monster, and Mechanical races' territories bordered each other.
Thus, the closest foreign territories to humanity were those of these three races.
Even in a straight line, traveling to any of the three would require traversing billions of light-years.
Moreover, with Luo Fan's current strength, he couldn't simply fly there directly.
After all, where did the four races' borders meet?
The Outer Battlefield!
And that battlefield was under the constant surveillance of Venerables from all four races.
To cross it unnoticed was utterly impossible for him.
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