Immortality begins with Becoming an Alchemy Grandmaster

Chapter 932: Chapter 381 Chu Kui: Luo Chen, are you interested in pulling off a big one?

In the Ten Thousand Li of Yellow Sands Wasteland.

A giant floating island was quietly rooted there; no matter how the flowing sands drifted around it, they could not shake it in the slightest.

That day,

a figure shot through the sky from afar.

Upon seeing this scene, a cultivator responsible for patrolling duty from the Four Sects immediately halted the newcomer.

“Who goes there? Do you have a token?”

“I do!”

A hoarse voice sounded, and a dark wooden token flashed briefly.

The patrolling cultivator stared at the cloaked man under the hood; his expression instantly turned respectful.

“Please, enter!”

The cloaked figure nodded and went straight onto the Golden Sand Floating Island.

Behind him, one of the patrolling cultivators expressed confusion, “Captain, why didn’t you check his identity? Just letting him in so easily, what if he’s a spy?”

The captain glared at him.

“Can’t you see that’s a token only a Golden Core Ascendant Master could possess? This person must certainly be one of the Golden Core Elders from within our Four Sects!”

His comrade was taken aback,

muttering, “But, he doesn’t seem to have the oppressive aura of a Golden Core Cultivator?”

“If you could sense it, would he still be an Ascendant Master? Fool, go patrol somewhere else!”

Scolding carried over from behind.

The cloaked cultivator heard everything clearly but made no response.

“The Ice Castle Elder token given to me by the Jueqing Fairy is quite useful; there’s basically no questioning when entering or leaving.”

Luo Chen mused silently to himself.

He was alone, without Wang Yuan.

In fact, Wang Yuan had also wanted to come back with him.

But after Luo Chen’s persuasion, he dropped the idea and went straight back to Tianlan.

Preventing him from returning was naturally due to the Blood Demon Legend related to him.

Even if the real Blood Demon wasn’t Wang Yuan but someone else,

should Wang Yuan truly return, he would inevitably be investigated and interrogated by the Golden Core Ascendant Masters of the Four Sects, given the absence of sufficient evidence to prove his innocence.

Better safe than sorry.

Once the war was over, relying on his own relationship with the Ice Castle, such baseless rumors could be easily quashed.

Moreover, Wang Yuan had the rationale to claim he had been chased and killed all along, having no time to commit the crimes.

Wang Yuan would return to Tianlan first, then in a few months, Luo Chen would bring back the rest of the Luo Tian Creed.

From then on, their involvement in this war would be largely severed.

After entering the island, Luo Chen tried his best to conceal his aura.

Covered in a black overcoat from head to toe, even his head was adorned with a hood.

Cultivators passing by occasionally gave him curious glances, but they hardly paid him any mind.

This indifference piqued Luo Chen’s curiosity even further.

“Why does everyone seem unsurprised by my attire?”

But soon enough!

He understood why.

On the streets of the Golden Sand Floating Island, the number of cultivators far exceeded Luo Chen’s expectations!

Among them were many dressed like him, as well as others wearing masks or bamboo hats, concealing their identities.

“Could it be that the cultivators from the Sixth Mountain have returned after their rotation?”

The sheer number of cultivators surprised Luo Chen.

This number was almost twice what it had been before!

But his keen spiritual senses allowed him to distinguish clearly that these cultivators weren’t from the Four Sects at all.

“Rogue Cultivators!”

“They’re practically all Rogue Cultivators!”

“There are few young ones, mostly middle-aged or elder folk.”

“Did they specifically come to take part in the war, exchanging for Core Formation Secret Art?”

While Luo Chen pondered silently, his pace quickened as he darted into an alleyway.

Soon after, he emerged wearing Red Cloud Robes and a Three-leaf Crown.

Unlike the usual simple hair-tied crown, this Three-leaf Crown Luo Chen wore was somewhat tall at the top and covered his forehead at the bottom.

Overall, he looked less carefree and unrestrained but now carried an air of steadiness and maturity.

After adjusting his crown slightly, Luo Chen entered the Ice Castle residence.

As he stepped into its domain, he frowned.

“There are more outsiders, but fewer cultivators affiliated with the Four Sects?”

He was baffled, but soon he arrived back at the Luo Tian Creed’s location.

“Creed Master!”

The one greeting him was Xu Huanzhen.

Luo Chen nodded and walked straight into the stone house, with Xu Huanzhen following closely.

“Report on the intelligence gathered on the floating island during this period.”

Xu Huanzhen was not one to dawdle, and he recounted everything in detail.

Luo Chen was quickly brought up to speed on the significant changes that had occurred in just the few short days he had been away from the battlefield.

In summary, it could be characterized as a shift from defense to counterattack by the Four Sects Alliance!

They were no longer holding onto the Fifth and Sixth Mountains but were gathering a large number of cultivators to attempt to retake the lost Seventh Mountain.

And on the Golden Sand Floating Island, rumors about the Four Sects offering the Core Formation Secret Art, and even the Great Technique of Pill Formation, spread by some interested parties, had gotten out.

The entire Yu Ding Realm was abuzz, with Foundation Establishment True Cultivators coming from all corners in droves.

In just this half a month, nearly four to five hundred Foundation Establishment True Cultivators had arrived on the island.

They were Family Cultivators, Rogue Cultivators, and even elders from first and second-tier Sects.

With the promise of the way of the golden pill before them, everyone was tempted!

And this trend was only expanding day by day!

At last,

Xu Huanzhen mentioned, “Before long, the batch of puppets from the Luo Yun Sect that are impervious to ordinary lightning will also be delivered to the Accumulated Thunder Ninth Mountain battlefield under the guidance of the Sect elders.”

“Creed Master, the call to counterattack has been sounded!”

After hearing this intelligence, Luo Chen fell into deep thought.

He had initially thought the internal struggle between the two Nascent Soul Ascendant Sects of Yu Ding would continue to drag on.

But why did it seem now that Luo Yun Sect was intensifying efforts to speed up the process?

Or perhaps, they wanted to regain the upper hand first, then proceed with a war of attrition?