Immortality begins with Becoming an Alchemy Grandmaster

Upon arriving at Zhongzhou, many things overturned some of Luo Chen’s views.

For instance, on this continent, powerful beings were as numerous as clouds, and clans were everywhere.

The Nascent Soul True Masters, once rare to see, were abundant here.

He convinced himself with the reason that Zhongzhou gathered the essence of the Mountain Sea Realm.

However, some of the high-level practitioners here often left him inwardly critical.

Even those with profound stages like Golden Core or Nascent Soul, whether in dealing with people or in poise, are far below the level of High Order Cultivators from places outside Zhongzhou.

Naive!

These two words were Luo Chen’s evaluation of some ”young” High Order Cultivators in Zhongzhou.

Later, he gradually understood why this was the case.

The cultivators in Zhongzhou had been in peaceful times for so long, their minds were relatively carefree and detached, even if there was competition, it often manifested on the chessboard. Unlike Luo Chen, who had nothing to do with the gentle breezes and bright moons from birth, his life was accompanied by the glint of swords and shadows of blood.

These cultivators in Zhongzhou were like the immortals in storybooks, with no calamities or hardships, practicing freely.

But due to lack of experience, it resulted in them having the realm but not the corresponding bearing.

Luo Chen didn’t know whether this cultivation mode was good or bad for cultivators, but he ultimately couldn’t experience it because he wanted to climb to the pinnacle of this world, and he had to climb up step by step, solidly.

Of course, Luo Chen also knew that not all the noble geniuses of the Tianyuan Daoist Sect were without merits.

They possessed outstanding talents, and from an early age, were in an internal competitive environment of sect and clan competition, so their temperament was not considered poor.

Moreover, they have the foundation of profound realms!

In the future, with just a little bit of training, the unpolished jade can shine and exhibit the demeanor of a true master.

This was what Luo Chen thought.

Therefore, even though he internally despised standing on equal footing with Fu Qinglan and other Nascent Soul cultivators as True Masters, he never showed it on his face.

However!

That was based on the premise that the other side truly was an unpolished jade.

Now, Luo Chen caught sight of those unconsciously intertwined fingers and couldn’t help but furrow his brow.

To be so vulnerable merely because of a glance, is such a temperament really considered unpolished jade?

Could she truly bear Fu Chaosheng’s expectations and revive the fallen Fu Family?

Furthermore, does she have the qualification to glimpse the God Transformation Stage?

”Forget it, after all, she is my employer, how could I let her be humiliated like this.”

Luo Chen sighed inwardly, moved lightly, and stood in front of Fu Qinglan.

His tall figure not only blocked the woman’s silhouette but also obstructed the mocking gaze from the opposite direction.

Fu Qinglan was taken aback, instinctively raised her head.

Broad shoulders and a solid back, like a great mountain, sheltered from the wind and rain.

She opened her mouth, feeling a sense of gratitude in her heart.

But instantly.

Swish!

With eyes that could see, a flush spread from her long neck to her face.

It was the red of embarrassment, the flush of shame.

Because of the cowardice she had shown, discovered by a friend who had recently been treating her as an equal, and even protecting her, thereby producing shame and indignation.

However, this shame did not last long. The socially adept Luo Chen quickly guided the conversation to distract her attention.

”Shi Ju? Is he one of the thirteen participants in this time’s Mirage Dragon Cave Heaven competition?”

”Yes. As mentioned earlier, among the thirteen, the descendants of the Giant House hold three seats, Gu Family’s Gu Yuan, Shi Family’s Shi Ju, Gu Family’s Gu Daosu. Shi Ju is one of the three, and also the strongest among them. It is said that he entered the Mirage Dragon Cave Heaven alone without a protector, showing great confidence.”

”How much do you know about him?”

”He is the most talented and gifted person of our generation. In fact, he shouldn’t count as our generation, should be a younger generation, but because of his rapid cultivation speed, he caught up with us. He was raised with the full support of the Shi Family of the Giant House from a young age, and after joining the Tianyuan Daoist Sect, he practiced the ’Supreme Mysterious Cave Bright Flame True Scripture’ of the Seven Great True Scriptures, winning first place in three minor competitions consecutively. By the time he formed his Nascent Soul, he was barely two hundred years old!”

”Oh?”

Hearing that the other party took only two hundred years to form a Nascent Soul, Luo Chen’s heart couldn’t help but be moved.

Calculating comprehensively, his time to Nascent Soul formation was also around two hundred years.

The reason he was two hundred and sixteen years old when he left the Demon Sea was that he spent twenty years consolidating his realm.

In this way, it was indeed comparable to his cultivation time!

”Could it be that he has the Heavenly Spirit Root aptitude?”

Maybe because of turbulent emotions, Fu Qinglan, usually cold and reserved, became somewhat talkative at this moment, explaining this person’s situation one by one via Divine Consciousness Voice Transmission.

”Heavenly Spirit Roots might be rare in other places, but in our sect, they are not uncommon. At least, among the thirteen participating in the competition, there are seven with Heavenly Spirit Roots.”

”Such aptitude seems to lead to rapid cultivation speed. But if one does not want the Purple Mansion Barrier after Nascent Soul to be too thin, delaying the God Transformation Dao Path, then they cannot over-rely on elixirs before Nascent Soul. Hence, their cultivation time is actually not short. Normally, to cultivate to the Nascent Soul Realm, it takes at least three hundred years.”

”What truly makes Shi Ju so outstanding, apart from his Fire Element Heavenly Spirit Root aptitude, is that he possesses an Innate Nine Yang Dao Body, and can rely on refining Sourceless Fire to temper his own qi power, thus not delaying cultivation.”

Luo Chen raised an eyebrow, listening to the woman’s words, but his eyes couldn’t help but fixate on that young man.

With white clothes like snow, similar cultivation time as him, even the physique was so alike!