Immortality begins with Becoming an Alchemy Grandmaster

Chapter 1076: Chapter 426: Turmoil within the Flame Alliance, Luo Chen Approaches the Incense Burning Ceremony (Seeking Monthly Votes!!!)_2 Chapter 1076: Chapter 426: Turmoil within the Flame Alliance, Luo Chen Approaches the Incense Burning Ceremony (Seeking Monthly Votes!!!)_2 After a while, he flew directly into the underground of Burning Incense Valley.

Upon entering, he passed through row after row of empty stone pillars and arrived in front of a stone platform.

On it, a Daoist sat cross-legged.

By his side, strands of blue flames steamed, expanding and contracting intermittently.

With the continuous expansion and contraction, his weak breath was also steadily recovering.

Hearing the noise, he slowly opened his eyes.

“Senior Brother Qin!”

Qin Tairan hummed in acknowledgment, looking at him with concern, “Junior Brother Xuyang, how are your injuries?”

Ascendant Master Xuyang sighed, and with finger like a sword surrounded by blue flames, he plunged it into his own chest in front of Qin Tairan.

Then, with a fierce expression, he forcibly pulled out a silver thread from inside his body.

Whew!

After pulling it out, he took a long breath.

“With the aid of the Prosperity and Decline Fire, my injuries are continuously recovering.”

“The Puppet Technique of the Luo Yun Sect truly exceeded our expectations; we never imagined they had such bizarre techniques.”

As he spoke, the silver thread he extracted from his body gradually melted in the burning blue flames.

Seeing this scene, Qin Tairan’s expression slightly changed.

Puppet Arts, they in the Flame Alliance were somewhat familiar with it.

It is a method that integrates arrays, tool casting, and soul into one.

As a Tool Casting Great Sect, the Flame Alliance had also delved into puppet crafting before.

But their understanding of puppets mainly focused on close-ranged and long-ranged attacks, releasing Spirit Qi shockwaves and other techniques.

No one thought that the Puppet Technique of the Luo Yun Sect had developed to a stage they had never imagined.

“Such a technique, merging tools into puppets, certainly isn’t something Luo Yun Sect could achieve on their own!”

Ascendant Master Xuyang sighed, “Indeed. Up there, I discovered distinctly the Tool Casting Method of Tian Fan City. These silver threads, made from a special material, could actually merge with the Divine Consciousness of Golden Core Cultivators. Once they attach to us, they instantly pose a huge threat to the bodies and Divine Souls of us Golden Core Ascendant Masters.”

“Even if by luck one survives, what follows is like Bone Creeping Maggots, extremely difficult to get rid of.”

Qin Tairan’s heart shuddered.

A weapon that could merge with the Divine Consciousness of Golden Core Cultivators!

If hit, it’s akin to enduring a direct Divine Consciousness attack.

And such attacks could be activated multiple times.

No wonder the Flame Alliance, despite deploying numerous Golden Core Cultivators, still fell under siege to the Luo Yun Sect.

No wonder the Luo Yun Sect dared to challenge the Sword Sect.

With such a lethal weapon at hand, even if the sword cultivators of the Yu Ding Sword Sect were renowned for their formidable combat prowess, the puppet masters of the Luo Yun Sect remained undaunted.

“Give me some more time, as long as I can clean out these creeping threads, I should be able to recover eighty percent of my strength. Then, the burden on you, Senior Brother, will also be lightened a bit,” Ascendant Master Xuyang said with a forced smile.

Qin Tairan shook his head, “I am still alright, Nephew Xiao has already started to assume the responsibilities of the Sect Leader, reorganizing the Flame Alliance.”

The Nephew Xiao he mentioned was the Budding Cultivator of this generation in the Flame Alliance, Xiao Lian.

Foundation Establishment Stage Finalization.

He was supposed to start challenging the Golden Core Period, but unexpectedly, the Flame Alliance encountered a great disaster, forcing him to come out early to take over as Sect Leader.

Hearing this, Ascendant Master Xuyang nodded in agreement.

The situation was critical, but at least the Flame Alliance had successors, and things hadn’t fallen to their worst yet.

Looking at the rushed and somewhat angry Qin Tairan.

He couldn’t help but ask curiously, “Senior Brother, did you go out on a trip?”

Qin Tairan snorted coldly, “That Luo Yun Sect harbors unrelenting intentions of destroying our Flame Alliance, dispatching people to widely spread detrimental rumors about our sect in the black market. I slightly made a move to intimidate the insignificant. Otherwise, others really would think our Flame Alliance is easy to bully.”

Ascendant Master Xuyang opened his mouth but didn’t know what to say.

Not easy to bully?

They had been attacked at their doorstep and slaughtered rampantly.

In the end, the attackers left with impunity, and they could do nothing but issue a few condemnations.

Probably in the eyes of the outer world, the Flame Alliance had already become a soft persimmon!

Qin Tairan probably guessed what he was thinking and frowned slightly.

“Junior Brother, don’t think too much. That Luo Yun Sect surely dares not act against us again!”

“Is it a promise from the Sword Sect?” Ascendant Master Xuyang asked.

Qin Tairan nodded, “Yes, I personally asked Yao Guang of the Yu Ding Sword Sect, and he promised me this.”

However, in the face of this good news, Ascendant Master Xuyang still looked worried.

A promise from an Ascendant Sect is just a promise.

It’s not an Oath of Dao, so where’s the credibility?

Qin Tairan stood with hands behind his back, slowly pacing in the empty underground stone forest.

“Now that our Flame Alliance has encountered great difficulties, it seems on the verge of collapse, but isn’t this also a chance for a rebirth from the ashes!”

“Previously, we supported too many Golden Core Cultivators, and yet they were a group of old, contributionless waste to the sect.”

“Now that they are dead, it’s just right to free up various resources.”

“Junior Brother, wasn’t the Flame Alliance originally founded by just one ancestor? With our concerted efforts, we can certainly recreate brilliance.”

“Moreover, with this opportunity, we might even have a chance to break through to the Nascent Soul Stage!”

Qin Tairan, speaking fervently, showed a fanaticism rarely seen on his face.

It seemed, he wasn’t at all mourning the previous experiences of the Flame Alliance.

Ascendant Master Xuyang silently watched this scene.

He knew his fellow Sect Brother always had a strong desire for power.

It was manageable when constrained by the Sect Leader before.

But now, with so many deaths in the Flame Alliance creating an immediate power vacuum.

Qin Tairan, a Middle Stage Golden Core, suddenly became a supreme existence over ten thousand people, inevitably becoming somewhat inflated.