Immortality begins with Becoming an Alchemy Grandmaster

Therefore, a Star Gate was specially established as an institution to accommodate external powerhouses.

Once one joins, ordinary guest elders can directly enjoy a Fourth Order Spirit Vein for free, without spending any Spirit Stones.

If, after becoming a guest elder, one makes special contributions to the Daoist Sect, or their realm advances to the Late Stage Nascent Soul, they can become a Tianyuan Emissary.

At that point, some resources within the Tianyuan Daoist Sect will be opened to the Emissary.

As for the five Heaven and Earth Peak Elders, they are even qualified to participate in some major decisions of the Tianyuan Daoist Sect.

Besides these, there are two other benefits that are difficult for outsiders to know.

One is that after joining the Star Gate for five hundred years, one can recommend their descendants or disciples to join the Tianyuan Daoist Sect, formally becoming a part of the sect.

The other, however, involves the secret of ascension!

For this last aspect, Shen Wandou did not elaborate, but even what was mentioned before was enough for Luo Chen to digest.

Being a Star Gate elder has so many benefits, it’s no wonder that the world’s powerful people all flock toward it eagerly.

”Now, the North Sea is in chaos, Demon Beasts are thriving, and many North Sea powerhouses have lost their footing. This time, I have introduced several North Sea True Masters to join the Star Gate. Huang Independent Cultivator, if you have time, I can organize a gathering to introduce you to them, and we can also exchange cultivation insights; shutting the door to build a car is always unhelpful for us cultivators.” Shen Wandou stroked his beard and laughed.

Luo Chen sipped his tea, and politely declined.

”Thank Daoist Shen for the kind offer, but you have seen my current situation, the Secret Technique is not yet complete, my Divine Soul is active and scattered, not very suitable for interactions, my apologies.”

”Indeed so!”

Shen Wandou looked at Luo Chen, sensing that all-pervasive Divine Consciousness, vaguely feeling a needle-prick sensation on the skin.

He knew the opposite was not intentional, but it did make fellow cultivators of the same order displeased, unsuitable for exchange.

”Thus, so be it.”

Then, he changed the subject, ”No wonder you are so interested in Puppet Technique; such a powerful Divine Consciousness is indeed suitable for cultivating Puppet Technique. I happen to have an Ancient Puppet Technique on hand, which might be of assistance to you.”

Luo Chen hesitated, ”Not sure of its value?”

Shen Wandou laughed heartily, ”Why talk about money matters, today our conversation has been delightful, I’ll make it a gift upon your visit for you!”

Seeing Luo Chen still somewhat hesitant, he generously said, ”It’s just a transcript, and useless to me, so you don’t need to refuse it, friend.”

Luo Chen had no choice but to accept the jade slip imprinted with the Puppet Technique.

Afterwards, they chatted about the customs of Zhongzhou, with Luo Chen personally escorting Shen Wandou out of the Cave Mansion.

On Little Qiong Mountain, Luo Chen held the jade slip, his face still smiling, but his heart felt somewhat heavy.

He only thought his journey to Zhongzhou was a brief episode to fulfill his promise to Fu Chaosheng.

Now it seems, the place he was going to is a vast entity, even just the tip of the iceberg feels somewhat overwhelming.

Star Gate, Heaven and Earth Peak...

Below Little Qiong Mountain, Shen Wandou’s smile persisted, his mouth subtly raised.

”This trip was indeed worthwhile.”

”This Huang Independent Cultivator has remarkable potential, having such a realm at a young age; once joining Heaven and Earth Peak later, they will surely grow even faster.”

”But that’s in the future; for now, the Nascent Soul has just formed, and even the Divine Consciousness cannot be controlled freely, showing that combat power is ordinary. In the five-hundred-year grand competition in Mirage Dragon Cave Heaven, he won’t pose any threat to Liuyuan.”

”I’ve merely given a transcript of a Puppet Technique that is useless to me, and I can distract him with it so he won’t grow his power quickly in the short term, and it can make him grateful to me. When he makes some achievements in the future, he can provide external assistance to my Shen Family.”

”Speaking of it, Fu Chaosheng really has a good eye, able to dig out such a genius!”

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The matter of Shen Wandou visiting Luo Chen cannot be hidden from people.

Soon, the high-order cultivators in Divine Yuan City knew that a Nascent Soul Stage rogue cultivator had come to the city.

They intended to visit, but basically all faced closed doors.

No one had any complaints though, because Little Qiong Mountain explained that ”Huang Independent Cultivator has just formed his Nascent Soul; he needs time for closed-door cultivation to consolidate his realm.”

The high-order cultivators all understood, as after all the person was a rogue cultivator.

Being able to break through to Nascent Soul Stage was already not easy; now having a Fourth Order Spirit Vein Land temporarily, it is only natural to seize the time to consolidate his realm.

But the true situation was nothing like this!

Within the Cave Mansion, Luo Chen takes one Great Soul Pill each month.

In merely three months, the Divine Consciousness he couldn’t retract was completely under his control.

For him personally, this symbolized considerable progress in his cultivation of the ”Soul Cleaving Technique.”

[Soul Cleaving Technique Proficiency 1/100]

Luo Chen looked at the new vocabulary on the Attribute Panel, relieved.

At this moment, within his Sea of Consciousness, two soul phantoms, one main and one secondary, both remained silent.

In terms of size, although the split soul was far inferior to the main soul, its strength was not inferior to the main soul of an ordinary First Layer Nascent Soul cultivator.

”In just three months, I have grown to this extent; this Great Soul Pill truly is marvelous!”

Even someone as calm as Luo Chen couldn’t help but feel stirred, somewhat excited.

Even without complete ”Soul Cleaving Technique,” without a method to accelerate split soul cultivation speed, he ultimately compensated for this deficiency through the Dao of Alchemy.

And the Great Soul Pill, a single successful batch yields about twelve pills, enough for a year’s needs.

One vial of soul essence containing tens of millions level amount, enough for thousands of pill refinement.

Everything is moving in a good direction.

The only concern for Luo Chen is probably the newly formed split soul, strong it may be, but somewhat weak.

It seems contradictory, but in reality, there is inherent logic to it.