Immortality begins with Becoming an Alchemy Grandmaster

Swish!

A gentle breeze blew, stirring the leaves of the forest, resembling layered waves from a distance.

Luo Chen sat cross-legged on a protruding boulder in the mountain, overlooking the undulating forest waves beneath him, then glanced at the cave mansion behind him, showing some hesitation in his eyes.

”Is it the wind moving, or is she moving?”

It had been three or four months since Fu Qinglan absorbed the Illusion Core for cultivation.

During this time, the other party did not leave her retreat, and Luo Chen stayed close by, constantly guarding outside the cave mansion.

At first, everything seemed ordinary, but gradually Luo Chen sensed something unusual.

Inside the cave mansion, Fu Qinglan’s cultivation seemed completely unguarded?

The Nascent Soul directly escaped from the Purple Mansion, with the Nascent Soul itself taking large gulps of Heaven and Earth Qi.

This kind of behavior, under normal circumstances, is basically courting death!

Without the protection of the Purple Mansion, exposing the Nascent Soul like this, and entering deep cultivation—it was simply waiting to be assimilated by the heavens and the earth.

Yet, she was utterly fearless!

At that moment, Luo Chen recalled some words Fu Chaosheng had said back then.

A top-grade Great Desolate Mirage Dragon inhales clouds and exhales mist, transforming into the sun, moon, and stars, with an internal Cave Heaven of its own. This realm, almost indistinguishable from the outer world, forms a special membrane due to the physical isolation of the Mirage Dragon.

If a cultivator practices within, it can greatly avoid being assimilated by the heavens and the earth.

Even if it’s Divine Fusion with the World, it’s the same!

Thus, Luo Chen understood Fu Qinglan’s unrestrained reasons at this moment.

But here’s the problem!

In this realm, although the Spirit Qi is abundant, it is not condensed and focused. Merely using this advantage of non-assimilation as an excuse to deliberately enter the Cave Heaven for cultivation, needing to do so every five hundred years—was it really necessary?

Changes in Fu Qinglan later on gradually provided Luo Chen with explanations.

She wasn’t practicing Qi Refinement cultivation at all, but rather using the Nascent Soul as an intermediary, allowing the Divine Soul to continuously interact with the world, attempting to comprehend something.

Luo Chen knew that this ”something” referred to the so-called Law’s True Intent.

However, this cultivation mode is usually practiced only by late-stage Nascent Soul great cultivators. For Fu Qinglan to start this step so early, it probably would be in vain.

But everything changed with the presence of this special resource—the Fourth-order Illusion Core.

Fu Qinglan persisted in cultivation for several months, seemingly truly coming in contact with a certain Law’s True Intent?

As of now.

Luo Chen, while observing changes in the outer world, kept an eye on Fu Qinglan’s cultivation.

After several months, he had figured out some clues.

”No wonder the opportunity of a great competition every five hundred years is not given to those senior great cultivators one step away from the Divinity Transformation Realm, but specially reserved for new Nascent Souls like Fu Qinglan.”

”No wonder they are ordered by sect elders not to over-cultivate before entering the Mirage Dragon Cave Heaven, except for consolidating their realm.”

”All just to maintain that state of initially entering the Nascent Soul!”

When a cultivator first enters the Nascent Soul, they instinctively become close to the world, with little barrier between them.

However, in subsequent cultivation, they continuously reinforce the Purple Mansion Barrier to prevent assimilation by the heavens and the earth.

In this way, the realm continually enhances, and safety is ensured.

But at the same time, they gradually become estranged from the world, thereby losing some of the Nascent Soul’s instincts.

This explanation might seem somewhat awkward or difficult to understand.

Let’s use a metaphor, a human baby!

A baby, before birth, resides in amniotic fluid, where humans are naturally able to swim.

Yet, during the process of growing up after birth, to prevent drowning, the instinct to swim is constantly suppressed, and there grows a reluctance towards water, eventually losing the ability to swim.

To regain the innate ability of swimming, one even has to undergo learning and training.

By comparing the Nascent Soul to a baby, water to the world, and comprehending Law’s True Intent to swimming, it becomes easier to understand.

Such is the intention of the Tianyuan Daoist Sect’s sages.

It is to ensure that the new generation of Nascent Soul prodigies master the skill of ”swimming freely” within the world while the Nascent Soul has not yet rejected the heavens and retains its closeness instinct.

Even achieving a mastery of the suitable Law’s True Intent in one leap!

During this process, the trace of Spirit Mechanism inside the Fourth-order Illusion Core is akin to the duct providing oxygen in a baby’s womb.

”The intentions of the Tianyuan sages are truly painstaking and far-sighted!”

Luo Chen was filled with infinite admiration.

This is the benefit of having sect inheritance.

Even on how to practice later, how to take shortcuts, how to master powerful abilities in advance—these are all passed down to the juniors.

He could only be envious without giving birth to any covetous thoughts.

It’s simple, those methods must have many intricacies.

As in how to utilize the Power of the Mirage Dragon, how to unlock the Illusion Core to absorb that trace of Heaven’s mechanism, and the methods related to using that trace of Heaven’s mechanism to comprehend the Laws, etc.

Most importantly, all the Illusion Cores in the Mirage Dragon Cave Heaven belong to the disciples of the Tianyuan Daoist Sect!

As protectors, they can only watch and cannot use them!

To forcibly seize them, once outside, they wouldn’t be able to handle the consequences.

Not to mention those Divine Transformation Great Powers, even just the hundreds of Nascent Soul True Masters of the Tianyuan Daoist Sect are not something Luo Chen dares to underestimate.

What he can do now is to help guard and eat a few pre-prepared Hong Yuan Pills to enhance his cultivation level.

From this point of view, Luo Chen isn’t idle either.

Within the Cave Heaven, Spirit Qi is scattered and not ideal for Nascent Soul True Masters to cultivate; its effectiveness is halved.

But with the assistance of Ascendant Grade Hong Yuan Pills, it does not hinder Luo Chen’s cultivation.