Immortality begins with Becoming an Alchemy Grandmaster

The blood-red maw opened wide, swallowing the entire ten-foot-sized Tai Sui original body.

The Tai Sui entered, its sharp teeth frantically chewed.

As juice flowed freely, an overwhelmingly rich vitality infused into Luo Chen’s body.

Before the Qi power could touch, the Origin Force began to seize this vitality.

As a Fifth Order Spirit Plant, and once enlightened, understanding part of the Wood Element Laws, the Tai Sui original body contained such a vast vitality that even among thousands of Spirit Medicines, it was a top-tier existence.

Even back then, the Refining Heaven Demon Monarch relied on the terrifying vitality contained within the Tai Sui original body to cultivate and save the hybrid spirit plants he experimented on.

At this moment, having obtained this complete Tai Sui vitality, Luo Chen was caught off guard and unexpectedly burped.

”Burp...”

The Origin Force surged suddenly!

In an instant, Luo Chen recovered his composure.

At this moment, he finally had the mind to pay attention to his own body.

However, upon Inner View, it was a scene of devastation.

The Sea of Qi was completely destroyed.

Less than one-tenth of the Meridians remained.

Hundreds of acupoints painstakingly opened, once shining like stars within, were now either destroyed or blocked by chaotic Qi power.

The five viscera and six bowels were even more ravaged and unbearable to look at.

If not for the immense vitality provided by Tai Sui, Luo Chen would now be a dying man, merely a human shell clinging to life.

”My Wuling Dao Body!”

...

”My original body!”

Somewhere in the world of Ming Zhao Heaven.

A plump cultivator trudging arduously suddenly clutched his head, emitting a wailing cry.

Just now, a heart-wrenching pain suddenly struck his Divine Soul.

After the pain, he was horrified to discover that his connection with his original body was severed!

Gone!

That was the shell he had cultivated painstakingly for ten thousand years and only three thousand years ago had birthed Spirit Intelligence!

Without the shell, he could forget about cultivating transformation to glimpse the Great Dao, there was not even a sliver of possibility to advance to Divine Transformation.

”How could this be...”

”What on earth did Luo Chen do!”

In a mix of anger and despair, the plump cultivator no longer moved cautiously, making calculated steps, and instead, started rampaging through this world.

He wanted to escape!

He wanted to find Luo Chen!

He wanted to recover his shell!

...

”No way!”

”The Meridians may be reconstructed, and the five viscera may return to their place, and even the acupoints can be created anew. But without the Sea of Qi, my path in this lifetime is broken.”

”Even though Body Refinement is strong, its future is unclear.”

”Especially, my Wuling Dao Body!”

Luo Chen’s body trembled incessantly, unable to accept the current scene.

Then, at this moment.

In his inner view, he saw a glimmer of golden light flickering within a blocked acupoint.

In an instant, Luo Chen recognized the culprit.

The detestable root of all evil—Nirvana Sacred Fire!

If it hadn’t entered his body, how would Nine Refinement Beacon Fire have been drawn, and how would he have fallen to this pitiful state.

”So you’ve hidden well!”

Luo Chen gritted his teeth, about to forcibly expel it from his body.

But just as he started, Luo Chen suddenly paused.

”Nirvana Sacred Fire...” ”Phoenix Nirvana Sutra”... Nirvana...”

Like a divine inspiration, Luo Chen forcibly adjusted his body, adopting the meditation posture of Five Hearts Facing the Heavens.

Subsequently, he started to operate the ”Phoenix Nirvana Sutra.”

At this moment, with his Sea of Qi collapsed, Meridians shattered, and acupoints either destroyed or blocked, he was utterly unable to fluently operate any cultivation technique.

But Luo Chen followed his memory, stubbornly mobilizing his Qi power, aiming to cultivate in the void within his body.

The Qi power from the explosive Second Prime Elixir continued to rampage, causing repeated failures in his attempts.

”Out!”

With a low roar, a bright red Golden Core leaped within.

It was the Lifebound Golden Core hidden within the Primordial Chaos Tripod!

When the Lifebound Golden Core appeared, it pressed down with the might of a great sun within his universe, making the rampaging Qi power converge centered around the Golden Core, akin to a violent torrent finding a channel to be channeled through.

Luo Chen finally had a chance to construct the operational route of the ”Phoenix Nirvana Sutra” within the void.

As time slowly passed.

No one knew how much time had elapsed, but Luo Chen, driven by instinctive memory, barely constructed the operational route of the once ”Phoenix Nirvana Sutra.”

Then!

”Reverse!”

A mad glint filled Luo Chen’s eyes as he resolutely reversed his Natal Qi Technique.

If other Immortal Cultivators knew of this wild act, they would only curse him as a madman.

Who would dare reverse their Natal Qi Technique?

That was tantamount to suicide!

Just like self-detonating a Golden Core.

But to Luo Chen, this was perhaps the only chance to seek life from death.

No!

It’s not seeking life in death, but Nirvana Rebirth!

”Phoenix Nirvana Sutra” is the cultivation technique practiced by Qi Xia Emperor, derived from the rebirth method of the Phoenix Clan.

To truly reach that rebirth realm, one must go through three stages.

To be precise, it’s called ”Nine Tribulations and Three Nirvana”!

The Golden Core Fragmentary Scroll Luo Chen obtained, though not detailing the Nine Tribulations, records the method of the Three Nirvana.

Luo Chen clearly knows that he has completed a Nirvana once.

That was a Nirvana of Qi Power.

It encompasses Spirit Root, Sea of Qi, and Golden Core, the three major aspects.

Also known as Spiritual Roots Tribulation, Qi Sea Calamities, and Golden Core Tribulation.

He passed these three tribulations, transforming his Five Spirit Roots into a Fire Spirit Root comparable to a single Heavenly Spirit Root, his Sea of Qi into a Sea of Fire, and even his Five-Colored Golden Core into a Red Golden Core. All his Qi Power underwent complete Nirvana, turning into the domineering Phoenix Force.

After three tribulations, Nirvana is achieved.

From that moment on, Luo Chen entered the ”Phoenix Nirvana Sutra”.

This is one Nirvana!

Pass three tribulations, achieve one Nirvana!

And the second Nirvana Luo Chen knew corresponds exactly to the Nirvana of Physique!

Once the Nirvana of Physique is completed, his originally ordinary body can be transformed into a Fire Spirit Body, more suitable for cultivating the ”Phoenix Nirvana Sutra”.

All along, Luo Chen never considered this aspect.

For him, the Nirvana of Physique was a perilous move of being reborn from the brink of death.

Especially since the stronger his physique, the greater the dangers Nirvana would present.

Thus, he never dared to think about it.

Especially!

After soaking in that peculiar Spirit Spring within the Ming Zhao Heaven Pill Hall, he acquired the Wuling Dao Body.

This physique is even superior to the single Fire Spirit Body.

It promised unobstructed progress on the Nascent Soul Dao in the future, no longer constrained by cultivation techniques.

If he underwent the Nirvana of Physique to transform into a Fire Spirit Body, the Wuling Dao Body would become an illusion like the Mirror Flower, Water Moon; even if it enhanced his Fire Techniques significantly, he would ultimately lose more.

So, he buried the thought of the so-called Nine Tribulations and Three Nirvana deep within his heart.

But now!

”I am already at the brink of death, the Wuling Dao Body has already become fleeting like the dying petals, what of the future? What of the Dao Path?”

”Only by seizing this opportunity for Nirvana Rebirth, can there be a glimmer of hope!”

”Whether this shattered body can recover again depends on this desperate gamble now.”

Luo Chen never lacked the resolve for life-and-death gambles!

With his mind set firm, there was no longer any hesitation.

Luo Chen boldly reversed the ”Phoenix Nirvana Sutra”!

From within his Lifebound Golden Core, the overwhelming Qi Power surged out, engulfing the violent Qi Power left after the fragmentation of the Second Prime Elixir, and began to scour every corner of Luo Chen’s entire body.

As the scouring continued.

His bones began to break piece by piece.

His muscles began to fall off in chunks.

Suddenly.

Boom!

With a loud explosion inside the hall, Luo Chen’s body burst apart!

In the vast blood mist, countless Blood Pearls floated in the void as if time had stopped.

Even the head was not left intact.

Only a single large spine bone, flickering with tiny lightning sparks, stood like a dragon in the void.

A wailing sound simultaneously rang out.

”Master!”

The gale swept through, and Tian Xuan suddenly arrived.

Behind her, the rumbling sound of crawling kept echoing, as if something enormous was charging recklessly.

Suddenly.

A huge Unicorn Dragon’s head extended into the hall, looking at this scene, its eyes almost bursting.

”Master!”

”Tian Xuan, what happened to the master?”

Tian Xuan, eyes filled with disbelief, trembled as she reached out, trying to touch the intact Thunderbone.

This was the vertebral bone Luo Chen condensed during the Foundation Establishment Stage, using the power of Heavenly Thunder for Body Refinement at the Bai Ye Cave Mansion on the Accumulated Thunder Ninth Mountain.

All these years, though it didn’t show any mystical prowess, it remained rooted in Luo Chen’s body.

And now, the only thing left of Luo Chen’s entire body was this bone, preserving its integrity...

”Crack!”

Tian Xuan’s hand stopped.

In her eyes, glimmering with tears, a slight crack appeared on the intact Thunderbone.

Then, the crack rapidly spread.

Continuous cracking sounds echoed.

Until it completely disintegrated into tiny bones.

At this moment, a hint of relief flashed through the minds of the two.

That was the slavery prohibition Luo Chen had set on them early on.

And the lifting of this prohibition signified something the two demon spirits understood clearly.

In the silent hall, only the woman clutching a complete set of black armor whispered with despair:

”Master has fallen.”