Immortality begins with Becoming an Alchemy Grandmaster

Is this the assessment of the True Monarch’s inheritance?

After Luo Chen finished reading the questions on the jade slip, or rather, the Refining Heaven Demon Monarch’s conjecture, his heart was filled with turbulent waves.

For these ”mature” cultivators, without a Spirit Root is to be unable to cultivate. Only those with a Spirit Root, even the worst of the Five Spirit Roots, are able to embark on the cultivation path, a fact that had long become unbreakable common sense.

But at this moment, someone proposed that with the power of elixirs, one could open the barrier between the immortal and mortal realms and assist those without Spirit Roots in absorbing the Heaven and Earth Qi, which defies common sense, leaving Luo Chen utterly shocked.

”This is truly beyond expectation.”

Shaking his head, Luo Chen was about to put down the jade slip.

Then, a profound and mysterious feeling emerged in his mind.

Luo Chen’s expression changed slightly, ”Can’t pass the first level of assessment without refining this elixir?”

This was the message conveyed by the jade slip.

For a moment, Luo Chen’s stretched-out hand hovered in mid-air.

He had to complete this conjecture and refine the corresponding elixir in order to pass the assessment.

And this was only the first level?

Luo Chen slowly put down the jade slip and his gaze swept over the study room, which was filled with bookshelves stacked with bamboo slips; those books recorded countless detailed information about herbal knowledge, serving as supplementary materials left by the Refining Heaven Demon Monarch for the assessors.

Along with the adjoining pharmacy and pill room, they count as part of the examination venue.

Everything was thoroughly prepared.

But, is it really possible to refine such an elixir?

He slowly exited the study room and came outside the stone house, gazing far into the distance, the green waters and Qing Mountain still in view.

Then, he closed his eyes and focused his mind.

In the next moment, his Divine Consciousness expanded rapidly!

Not in a circular radiation centered on him, but concentrated into a beam, allowing maximum distance with minimal effort.

Luo Chen’s current realm was at the Sixth Layer of Golden Core, his Divine Soul Endowment was very strong, no less than any cultivator of the Golden Core Eighth Layer.

Even the distance to the Ninth Layer of Golden Core was only a step away.

Therefore, the distance of his Divine Consciousness exceeded that of ordinary Golden Core cultivators.

At this moment, concentrated into a beam, he reached the utmost limit.

Nine hundred miles!

Passing Qing Mountain, skirting the large lake, heading north until reaching the furthest point.

Vaguely, an invisible barrier blocked Luo Chen’s further path.

Change direction!

...

After several times, Luo Chen slowly opened his eyes, his jade-like pale face shifting between uncertainty.

Previously unaware of this world’s extremes, he did not know of its boundaries.

Under the promptings of the jade slip, he suddenly discovered, this world was like a huge prison, firmly keeping him inside.

”Could it be that I really have to try...”

”Forget it, just follow the situation!”

In an instant, Luo Chen already adjusted his mindset.

Or rather, upon seeing that jade slip, he already had some preparation in this regard.

However, a different issue lay before him now.

Where is the pill formula?

On that jade slip, there was only a conjecture.

There was no specific formula at all!

Luo Chen’s achievements in Pill Refinement were masterful, but along the way, he mostly followed set diagrams and formulas to refine elixirs.

Even though he occasionally created his own formulas, it was generally based on incomplete formulas and site-specific improvements.

Without a formula, he could not even forcibly enter this case using the system.

For a time, Luo Chen fell into confusion.

The tall figure slowly paced the courtyard.

After a long while, Luo Chen chuckled softly.

”That’s right, I’ve always considered myself a Pill Refinement Grandmaster, but how could a grandmaster only know to mimic others?”

What defines a grandmaster?

Knowledge and wisdom, accommodating various schools, innovating and establishing one’s own practice.

Even creating theoretical frameworks from scratch, involving one’s own influential contributions.

From then on, founding one’s sect, truly becoming a grandmaster of the generation!

Luo Chen pondered, within the path of Pill Refinement, on the first four points, he barely managed to achieve them.

But in establishing theories, especially in self-developing pill formulas, he achieved nothing.

Not to mention high-level pill recipes, he hadn’t even self-developed a Low Order formula like First and Second Orders at all.

If so, no matter if a Pill Refiner reaches Fourth Order, he can only be a masterly person and not yet a grandmaster.

Obviously, this first level of assessment not only posed a difficult question but also required creating a pill formula from nothing.

”I don’t know if I can withstand it?”

Luo Chen smiled self-mockingly, walking freely towards the study room.

The answer should be in those bamboo slips recording countless herbs.

The first row of bookshelves, first layer, third scroll.

[Withered Chen Zhibai: also known as Yellow Shouwu...]

Holding the bamboo slip, Luo Chen, who had already emptied his thoughts, immersed his entire mind into it.

Within the alchemy realm, seasons cycle and the moon rises and sets.

At the beginning of the night, faint moonlight streamed through the window, spilling onto the silent silhouette before the bookshelf.

The quiet study contained only the crisp sounds of flipping bamboo slips.

...

In the study room within the alchemy realm, Luo Chen was completely absorbed in the ocean of herbal knowledge.

He enjoyed reading books.

This habit wasn’t merely cultivated during low realms.

Even before traveling to this world, he liked reading books.

During his youth, he read various extracurricular books; grown up, he immersed in classic tomes; even later when he was a wage laborer, he never stopped reading all kinds of novels.

To the point that some simple and refreshing web novels became his refuge from the troubles of life.

After traveling to this world, this habit remained unchanged, even at the busiest times of cultivation, he always found some time to read discussions about the Immortal Cultivation World.

With the realm advancement, especially after succeeding in Foundation Establishment, Luo Chen’s Changing Meridian and Divine Soul improvement further enhanced his reading habits.