Immortality begins with Becoming an Alchemy Grandmaster

Chapter 915: Chapter 374: Third-Order Formation, Violent Thunder Waves_2

Unless the Four Sects Alliance can provide a way for them to ascend to greater heights,

it is best to stay quietly in the rear.

Perhaps, the only thing that everyone is not accustomed to is the sparse Spirit Qi in the vicinity of the Accumulated Thunder Ninth Mountain.

It’s not suitable for normal Cultivators to cultivate here!

In fact, it’s not that the Spirit Qi is sparse, but the Five Elements Spirit Qi is too scarce.

The world is filled with a vast amount of thunder-element Spirit Qi, unless one is a powerful Cultivator with a Lightning Spirit Root, it’s basically impossible to meditate quietly in this place.

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Moreover, even Cultivators with a Lightning Spirit Root do not dare to absorb the Spirit Qi that the might of heaven and earth disperses easily.

It’s too furious and chaotic, requiring a long time to refine.

Unable to cultivate does not mean one cannot practice cultivation.

Luo Chen has not stopped practicing cultivation for a single month.

He has been continuously working on using the Earth Fire Evil Qi for Orifice Unblocking.

In one month’s time, he has opened up more than fifty acupoints.

After beginning, the further Luo Chen went, the more skilled he became, almost able to open two acupoints per day.

With such progress, even Wang Yuan would be dumbfounded if he heard about it.

But Luo Chen was not surprised; Orifice Unblocking is different from other minor realms of the Blood River Realm’s cultivation.

Organs Refinement requires cumulative hard work, gradually tempering the five organs so as to nourish the five energies within the chest!

Meridian Unblocking requires grand opening and closing, like rivers flowing furiously, washing away the delicate waterways, leaving a deluge wherever it passes!

However, Orifice Unblocking is all about meticulous effort!

After all, acupoints are far more fragile compared to the viscera and meridians, and carelessness can easily lead to self-injury.

It’s similar to threading a needle; one needs good vision and steady hands.

Luo Chen’s vision is particularly good, his Divine Soul Endowment is immensely strong, far surpassing Wang Yuan by unknowable margins.

His mastery over Evil Qi manipulation is also extremely proficient due to contact with countless amounts of Earth Fire Evil Qi from refining Blood Ignition Pills.

Now, it’s just a matter of switching to a higher Order of Earth Fire Evil Qi.

After becoming slightly familiar with it, he naturally advanced swiftly.

“Perhaps, after finding Wang Yuan, I can gift him this Orifice Unblocking Technique I researched myself, to hasten his Body Refinement path.”

“But he’s still ahead of me in Body Refinement, he may very well have already opened all 720 acupoints, achieving the inner and outer Zhou Tian movement, where my body’s acupoints are like the stars in the sky.”

Shaking his head, Luo Chen took out another piece of Floating Rock Stone.

He was about to draw out the Earth Fire Evil Qi, but then he froze.

Gone!

All used up!

Regaining his wits, Luo Chen could not help feeling helpless.

He originally thought that these hundred or so portions of Earth Fire Evil Qi would last a long time, but they ended up being not so durable after all.

It probably had something to do with him forcefully combining three strands to rush through the acupoints, making it an extravagant waste.

Without Evil Qi, how can one unblock acupoints?

The time on the Sixth Mountain can’t just be wasted, right?

To practice Techniques?

Luo Chen’s Techniques are almost all at Perfection.

Apart from the Third Order Technique Thousand Miles Travel, his demand for new ones isn’t very high.

Moreover, he has explored Thousand Miles Travel to the Perfection Level, just a small step away from Grandmaster Level, making it unsuitable to practice in the presence of many people.

“Orifice Unblocking must continue!”

“The battle at the front line is ongoing, and the Four Sects Alliance has inner gate disciples or True Disciples falling occasionally, the Flame Alliance is likely the same, their inheritances must contain a large amount of Earth Fire Evil Qi.”

“Instead of waiting to go back to Golden Sand Floating Island to buy it, I might as well purchase it on the battlefield.”

With his mind made up, Luo Chen immediately summoned a Qi Refinement Stage Cultivator, the same Bu Junjie who had dared to stop Qu Zhenbiao.

He instructed him to go to the front line base and inquire around.

If someone had Second Order Earth Fire Evil Qi, Luo Chen was willing to buy it at a high price.

After Bu Junjie left bearing the order, Luo Chen, having nothing better to do, inspected the defensive line of the camp and then went to the Thunder Strike Wood Forest where the Traveling Eighteen Array Disks were buried.

Looking at the scorched, low-lying forest, it was hard for outsiders to associate it with the precious Second Order Thunder Strike Wood.

But the occasional flashes of thunder and lightning on it confirmed that it was indeed Second Order Thunder Strike Wood containing traces of electricity!

Checking the Array Disks, Luo Chen nodded in satisfaction.

In a month’s time, it had cost him thirty thousand Lower Grade Spirit Stones and two hundred Medium Grade Spirit Stones, but now the Array Disks were more than half charged with thunderous light.

In another month or so, they would be ready to activate at any moment.

Then, everything would be in place, except for the right conditions.

Luo Chen replaced the crumbled Spirit Stones with fresh ones, ensuring the Array could continue to operate.

Just as he was about to leave, a crisp sound reached his ears.

Crack!

A bolt of lightning descended from the sky, striking a First Order Thunder Strike Wood.

Upon impact, the Thunder Strike Wood trembled violently, shedding most of its branches.

“It didn’t catch fire, which means after achieving First Order, it has gained a certain level of resistance,” Luo Chen remarked, ready to leave.

Yet his steps instinctively halted.

Activating his Spirit Vision, he stared intently at the stricken Thunder Strike Wood.

After the lightning strike, it seemed heavily damaged, but its core became even more robust and sturdy.

The roaming Spirit Qi of the surrounding world was slowly converging towards it, its Quality Rank slowly transforming.

This one strike had induced the critical step for its advancement to Second Order!

“Thunder is synonymous with destruction, and also a harbinger of tribulation,” Luo Chen mused.

“But it is well-known that thunder also carries the connotations of revival and the symbol of life.”

“The spring thunder sounds, and all living things are born… In the Five Elements, the east is associated with the Zhen trigram, Zhen represents thunder, belonging to wood, hence the Yi Mu Green Dragon among the seven major stars in the east also governs the vitality of thunder.”