Immortality begins with Becoming an Alchemy Grandmaster

For cultivators, what measure can be regarded as the most powerful move?

Spell bombardment?

Magic item sharpness?

Or perhaps a soul attack that is impossible to defend against?

No!

Strictly speaking, these are not the strongest move.

The most formidable move is something even the cultivator cannot control, capable of devastating dozens or even hundreds of miles – ”self-destruction”!

Yes, self-destruction!

Especially for Golden Core cultivators, once a Golden Core is shattered, the unleashed attack will be indiscriminately terrifying.

In such an attack, even enemies with higher realms must retreat.

The reason lies in the fact that the ”Golden Core” is the culmination of hundreds of years of Dao cultivation.

It represents the essence gathered from endless days and nights of arduous cultivation.

This essence, accumulated over countless nights, when suddenly released, is extremely terrifying. No Golden Core cultivator willingly chooses this path unless in utter desperation.

In fact, many Golden Core cultivators never even consider self-destruction of their Golden Core until the moment they are killed.

Once the Golden Core is self-destructed, it spells certain doom!

This undoubtedly concludes in defeat and death!

The subconscious resistance prevents many from contemplating such an act even until death.

Throughout the years, Luo Chen has only heard of one instance of a cultivator self-destructing their Golden Core and witnessed one such event personally.

The former occurred during the Eastern Wasteland Luo Yun Sect’s war-opening era, when a Supreme Elder of the Wanxiang Sect faced a Demon King assault and self-detonated, covering the retreat of disciples.

The latter was after he came to the North Sea, at the Feileng City Wharf, when a cultivator named Wu Di from the Wu family attempted to kill him with a Golden Core self-destruction, but Luo Chen was preemptively prepared and escaped the blast range.

Luo Chen is unwilling to face the self-destruction power of a cultivator of the same order head-on, and never thought that one day he would be forced to take this path.

Although it’s not his Lifebound Golden Core, this Second Prime Elixir refined from Third Order Great Finalization Hidden Dust Sand’s quality is no less than a Golden Core of a Late-Stage Great Cultivator!

The power it contains, if released gradually, is still manageable.

But if suddenly detonated...

At this moment, an unimaginable storm of Qi Power is ravaging inside Luo Chen’s body.

Anyone else would have perished in the eruption of the Nine Refinement Beacon Fire as the Second Prime Elixir detonated, turning into a mist of blood.

But he somehow managed to endure.

Everything relies solely on the powerful physique of this primordial Fourth Order!

This scenario resembles a late-stage Great Cultivator exploding inside a small-sized Savage Beast.

Yet, precisely due to the body’s ”smallness,” the explosive power is extraordinarily concentrated.

Instantly, Luo Chen’s body begins to falter and gradually disintegrate.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

In the hall, a burst of blood mist appears.

Blood pearls shoot out from the fissures that have opened on Luo Chen’s body.

Visibly, his condition deteriorates further, almost beyond endurance.

Moreover, the excruciating pain of the Sea of Qi’s collapse stirs violently within Luo Chen’s Sea of Consciousness, causing him to lose consciousness momentarily.

Then, due to the pain, he suddenly awakens.

Even renowned for his indomitable will, the agony proves unbearable for Luo Chen.

Between continuous fainting and awakening.

”Ah...”

A beast-like growl erupts from Luo Chen’s mouth.

His distorted face shows throbbing veins.

”I refuse to accept!”

”I absolutely will not accept this fate!”

A silent roar of resistance echoes through his chaotic soul.

He, Luo Chen, never wavered, toiling tirelessly, persevering in cultivation for a hundred years to reach his current realm.

Only by threading through countless life-and-death crises did he garner numerous opportunities.

Having endured ordeals to finally obtain the True Monarch’s inheritance, possessing the Wuling Dao Body capable of directly advancing to the Nascent Soul Stage and even Divine Transformation Stage, how could it all collapse here?

He denies such an outcome!

Waves of Origin Force mobilize throughout his body, barely stabilizing his precarious condition.

It’s not enough!

Still, it’s not enough!

Gritting his teeth amidst chaos, Luo Chen extracts Original Source from the depths of his being, forming Origin Force to forcibly quell the Qi Power storm within!

Scarlet Qi Power, fierce Origin Force, form a battle of explosion and suppression in Luo Chen’s body.

It all stems from that Nirvana Sacred Fire and Nine Refinement Beacon Fire.

The former borrows his body to combat the latter.

The latter, knowing it cannot win, simply attempts to destroy the ”home ground” of Nirvana Sacred Fire.

This bitter consequence falls upon Luo Chen to bear.

Gradually, Luo Chen feels his Origin Force, already insufficiently gathered, growing ever more scarce.

He’s nearly unable to suppress the rampage of the Second Prime Elixir’s Qi Power.

The issue is not that Origin Force is weaker than Qi Power, but that there is too little of it!

Ultimately, Luo Chen’s achievement of Ancient Desolation Fourth Order has been too brief.

Hardly having advanced, he’s already ventured to the Land of Fallen Demons with Ding Yi and Mo Yun, leaving little time to extract and accumulate Origin Force.

Moreover, some Origin Force was expended in battles against Jiao Emperor Liu Jun and while refining Law Extension Pills in the Alchemy Realm.

All this resulted in this embarrassing scenario of lacking follow-up Origin Force.

”Yes!”

”Supplement Origin Force!”

In a daze, Luo Chen arduously gathers his focus and retrieves an item from his storage ring.

It’s the Tai Sui Original Body!

Previously, about one-tenth was consumed for pill refinement, leaving nine-tenths of crystalline white gelatin.

This time, desperate and rash, Luo Chen intends to swallow it whole.

He forms a seal with his left hand.

Rumble...

Luo Chen’s head suddenly enlarges, as if a giant monstrous head burst from a human body.