Immortality begins with Becoming an Alchemy Grandmaster

The void sways, and vision distorts.

Unable to distinguish whether it’s a change in the outer world or an illusion of perception, Luo Chen is transported within the stone house to a new realm.

The second challenge!

Luo Chen hasn’t yet found his footing and instinctively probes his divine consciousness into the storage ring.

Those precious bamboo slips couldn’t be brought along, but what about the Spiritual Root Pills and other elixirs he personally refined, with some surplus?

Under the perception of divine consciousness, Luo Chen breathes a sigh of relief.

”Luckily, they’re all here!”

These three kinds of elixirs aren’t of high order, merely First and Second Order.

However, the auxiliary materials needed for refining them are extremely rare in the Mountain Sea Realm.

Several of these, Luo Chen had never heard of before, only recognized them through bamboo slips in the Alchemy Realm.

In other words.

Even if he leaves the Land of Fallen Demons, it’s difficult to replicate and refine such elixirs outside, unless he expends great effort to improve the pill formula.

While feeling fortunate, Luo Chen also feels increasingly regretful.

”If this elixir could spread throughout the Mountain Sea Realm, it might change the realm’s structure!”

The Mountain Sea Realm, dominated by immortal cultivators.

Yet, the vast majority are countless mortals, difficult to estimate.

These mortals, when placed in the Eastern Wasteland, are nurtured by the Great Sect to help collect basic materials and provide logistical support for cultivating seedlings, when placed in the North Sea, their utility is slightly higher, but still limited to assisting various forces with miscellaneous tasks.

But if these vast mortals could use Spiritual Root Pills for cultivation, even if only to the early or middle stages of Qi Refinement, it would bring earth-shaking changes to this Immortal Cultivation World.

By then, everyone could cultivate, everyone like a dragon, such prospects...

”I am probably overthinking it, even if it could truly be like this, there aren’t such abundant resources to support their cultivation.”

Luo Chen sighed, shifting his focus to the newly stabilized realm.

”Is this the second challenge?”

He walked forward slowly, his gaze falling on the exotic flowers and herbs spreading before him.

Just like the first challenge, all kinds of medicinal herbs.

The difference is that the spirit Qi contained within the herbs below is much stronger than in the first challenge.

By his estimation, the general age has been improved from less than five hundred years to a level below a thousand years, but among them, the excellent ones have ages of around seven or eight hundred years.

Herbs of higher order mean that the spirit pills refined using them as materials will also be of higher order.

This was indeed within Luo Chen’s expectations.

The second challenge being slightly harder than the first is quite normal, isn’t it?

Aside from his eyes, Luo Chen’s divine consciousness spreads continuously, seemingly searching for someone.

Finally.

As he arrives at a stone house similar to the first challenge, his divine consciousness finds no traces of a second person except himself.

Facing this outcome, Luo Chen is uncertain whether to feel relieved or worried.

Relief, naturally, for not encountering any competitors, thereby avoiding potential conflict.

Anxiety arises from the possibility that the other might have already surpassed the first challenge, now even the second one.

Calculating the days.

Luo Chen has been in the Land of Fallen Demons for about four years.

He spent two years at Li Wangtian and Five Elements Heaven, and another two years in the Alchemy Realm of Ming Zhao Heaven refining pills.

Realistically, the Land of Fallen Demons had already been open for five years!

Luo Chen was delayed by a year before entering this place.

This means that the predecessor in the Heritage Land has had two to four or five years.

In such a short time, conquering two challenges indicates an outstanding proficiency in pill refinement techniques!

Therefore, Luo Chen must consider whether the predecessor might pass all evaluations ahead of him and obtain the Refining Heaven Demon Monarch’s inheritance of the Dao of Alchemy.

Faced with this finding, a sense of urgency hangs invisibly on his mind.

”Forget it, better to check the exam questions first!”

Buzz...

The Red-Robed Daoist pushes open two stone gates, revealing a stone path and three rooms filled with Alchemy Book Medicine.

The same arrangements indicate similar subsequent evaluations, differing only in the exam questions.

...

[Humans are the spirits of all things, demons are the pure essence of heaven and earth.

Yet humans and demons have diverged paths, short lifespans bestow the Human Clan with wise spirit intelligence, while prolonged years make the Demon Clan dull, thus in the same realm, the Demon Clan is by no means a match for the Human Clan.

In my view, the disparity is not merely in utilizing external objects, the greater issue lies in the differences in cultivation approaches.

We Pill Masters... refine the corresponding elixirs to break the divergence between humans and demons]

On the same mahogany desk, Luo Chen holds a jade slip, slowly reading the exam questions left behind.

However, after finishing, his face is full of confusion.

In his perspective, the disparity between humans and demons does indeed lie in the utilization of external objects!

A Qi Refinement Cultivator against a First Order Demonic Beast, a Foundation Establishment True Cultivator against a Second Order Demon Beast, or even a Golden Core Cultivator facing a Third-Order Demon King, the reason they hold advantage is due to auxiliary use of magic tools, magic items, array talismans.

How is it possible for him to refine specific elixirs to bridge this gap?

Shouldn’t the focus be on teaching low-order demon clans to become proficient in using external objects?

Bewilderment remains on his face.

But at least there’s one point where Luo Chen vaguely senses a pattern.

The first challenge asked by the Refining Heaven Demon Monarch opened the gap between immortals and mortals, focused on the Human Clan.

The second challenge, with its divergence between humans and demons, seems to focus on the Demon Clan.

According to Tai Sui’s words... assuming he didn’t deceive Luo Chen, the Refining Heaven Demon Monarch has a very peculiar origin and background, could be said to be neither human nor demon nor magic, yet possesses all three elements.

Because the opposite, is simultaneously imbued with the bloodlines and body of the human, demon, and magic clans as a ”hybrid.”

Perhaps this is a bit disrespectful.

But the fact is exactly like this.