Immortality begins with Becoming an Alchemy Grandmaster

The rain curtain hung like a veil, obscuring the lush greenery of the outer world.

”Is it finished again?”

Luo Chen asked with his eyes closed.

Without waiting for a reply, he added,

”I will need two days; then I will go out to hunt illusion beasts again.”

At this moment, he was in the process of unlocking a critical prohibition in the Penglai Octagon Pavilion.

As the inherited true device of the Penglai Immortal Sect, the interior of the Penglai Octagon Pavilion was established with incredibly complex prohibitions, thereby constructing arrays that segmented its internal space to ensure the herbs inside did not interfere with each other.

These arrays were quite crude, and even Han Zhan at first had only unlocked a very small part, allowing Luo Chen to gain temporary control.

During those years on Longyuan Island, Luo Chen had attempted to unlock it entirely but fell short of success.

Now, since he had ample free time, Luo Chen was inclined to completely unlock it, refining it for his own use.

After half a year, Luo Chen had approximately conquered the fourth-order array and had almost figured out its complex prohibition composition, requiring just two or three more days to fully unlock it.

By then, he might be able to control about eighty percent of the true device’s authority.

Moreover, he would be able to master the fourth-order spatial array related to the space prohibition.

It must be said that unlocking the array prohibitions of the Penglai Octagon Pavilion was immensely beneficial to Luo Chen!

This true device is a multi-attribute magical treasure with various array prohibitions, the most prominent and numerous of which are the space prohibitions and the spatial arrays formed by numerous space prohibitions!

Luo Chen estimated that if he could fully comprehend them, he might even grasp the method to construct teleportation formations.

At least for now, he has mastered a minor teleportation array!

As he was engrossed in unlocking the array, a soft ”hmm” sounded by his ear, accompanied by a sentence.

”This time, may I go with you?”

Luo Chen opened his eyes to see the woman standing cutely at the cave entrance; after three rounds of intense cultivation, she had slimmed down quite a bit, even her cheeks appeared thinner.

At this moment, she was biting her lips and looking at Luo Chen timidly.

”If you want to come, then come along!”

Luo Chen said calmly and then closed his eyes again, focusing on refining the octagonal pavilion before him.

It wasn’t Fu Qinglan who plotted against him, but Fu Chaosheng.

The long passage of time had cooled Luo Chen down, so he wouldn’t rashly blame others, even if it all began because of the woman in front of him.

...

Three days later.

Luo Chen set out again, arriving at the plain where he usually arranged arrays to lure illusion beasts.

Fu Qinglan followed behind, personally watching him set up the bait, the Tianji Pill, and arrange the array.

For some reason, she found his array-setup skills seemed much more proficient than before.

Especially with the minor teleportation array beneath the Tianji Pill, which could easily go unnoticed if not carefully observed.

After completing all preparations, Luo Chen sat cross-legged once again, closing his eyes to rest his mind.

Of course, he wasn’t truly idle; his mind was incessantly revisiting the contents of the ”Withering and Flourishing Dao Scripture”.

In his view, this self-created cultivation technique still had much room for improvement, especially after repeated cultivation, he felt it could be further refined.

An excellent cultivation technique is always like this.

Once created, it needs continuous enhancement and modification until reaching its limit.

Luo Chen did not know the limit of the ”Withering and Flourishing Dao Scripture”, for now, he could only proceed step by step, doing his utmost to make it perfect.

Fu Qinglan stayed beside him, staring blankly at him.

Unlike the last time, when they could relish the breeze, shelling beans, drinking, and chatting.

This time, they were as estranged as strangers.

She intended to strike up a conversation, but his aloof demeanor made it difficult for her to initiate.

The strained atmosphere felt as if it could pierce through a mountain of knives.

The waiting time for the illusion beast to appear felt increasingly lengthy.

One day, two days...

Unknowingly, more than half a month had passed.

Finally, an illusion beast appeared.

It was a big white ox.

With spiral horns on its head, it came running from the mountains and gorges, crashing into the array.

And then Luo Chen made his move.

The familiar fire phoenix reappeared, severely injuring and scattering it.

Dense clouds gathered and dispersed across the plain, but this time Luo Chen did not immediately use the Primordial Chaos Tripod to seal and collect it, instead casting techniques repeatedly.

Fire Phoenix, Flame Dragon, Qingyang’s Great Handprint... he even tried to use the Senluo Fire Prison twice, despite its ineffectiveness against the illusion beast.

Under his continuous bombardment, the white ox gathered and scattered, the roars echoing endlessly.

Fu Qinglan watched this scene, clenching her hands tightly.

She did not know Luo Chen was using the illusion beast as a moving target to enhance his technique proficiency; she only saw his senseless slaughter of a feeble Fourth-order magical beast repeatedly.

Those techniques were so dazzlingly colorful, immensely powerful.

But each release consumed Qi power.

Such pointless acts, how are they different from venting one’s anger?

”He’s still sulking at me!”

Amid her internal torment, Luo Chen had unknowingly dealt with the white ox illusion beast.

He stood silently on the plain, looking at the mountain peaks and cliffs he’d shattered around him, frowning slightly.

He contemplated something in his heart but did not dwell long, soon soaring up, intending to head back.

After flying a few hundred meters, he suddenly looked back.

”Are you going to stay here?”

The dazed Fu Qinglan on the mountain top snapped awake, quickly following after an ”oh” of realization.

Seeing her absent-minded appearance, Luo Chen frowned.

”This is the fourth illusion core; do you have any grasp of it?”

The woman’s small mouth opened slightly, then she lowered her head in grievance.

Luo Chen shook his head, sighed,

”If you don’t mind, share the confusions in your cultivation process with me, for two heads are better than one. Perhaps I can give you some advice. If you can comprehend the law’s true intent a little earlier, I can leave Mirage Dragon Cave Heaven sooner.”

”Of course, if there are rules in the Tianyuan Daoist Sect, you don’t have to say anything.”

Fu Qinglan hesitated.

But after some consideration, she slowly spoke.

”I can’t find the Origin Power.”

...

It’s still that same mountainside.

Luo Chen is still guarding outside, but this time he isn’t indulging in his own matters, instead, he releases his Divine Consciousness, cautiously perceiving something.

Regarding the specific Cultivation Technique for comprehending the Law’s True Intent, Fu Qinglan did not divulge to him, as that is the core inheritance of the Daoist Sect.

But the general method, the other party did mention once.

The world has spirits, but the Primordial Qi lacks consciousness.

If a cultivator can find the Origin Power corresponding to a certain law, they can thereby endow the Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi with consciousness, borrowing the might of the heavens to manipulate Qi.

This is why Divine Transformation Great Powers can control the secrets of Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi.

And how to search for it, Fu Qinglan gave a general method.

Use the Nascent Soul to carry the Divine Soul, merging into the world to seek the most suitable Origin Power.

To describe vividly, the Nascent Soul is the ship, the Divine Soul is the person; the person sits within the ship, fishing for treasures in the boundless ocean of Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi.

The Spirit Mechanism is the line that connects the person to the corresponding Origin Power!

Previously, when Fu Qinglan released her Nascent Soul, taking large gulps of Spirit Qi, she wasn’t cultivating, but was in the process seeking the corresponding Origin Power.

And this so-called Origin Power, according to Tianyuan Daoist Sect records, is surprisingly the most fundamental and easily comprehensible form of Law’s True Intent!

”Fu Qinglan mainly cultivates Wood Type, what she needs to find is the Origin of Wood, so her Nascent Soul absorbs Wood Type Spirit Qi, bringing her Divine Soul into the omnipresent Primordial Qi ocean, searching bit by bit for the Origin of Wood.”

”This kind of search, initially without any signs, requires accumulating luck over time. But with the Spirit Mechanism guiding, there is a certain feasibility.”

”But, is the slight Spirit Mechanism from one Illusion Core enough?”

Luo Chen observes the other’s cultivation movements, day after day.

Gradually, his heart senses something.

If he integrates this method into the ”Withering and Flourishing Dao Scripture,” would it complete the shortfall before reaching the God Transformation Realm?

And how should this method be specifically operated?

Luo Chen desires to experiment.

But currently, the samples observed are too few, and he doesn’t dare to risk himself.

Moreover, he also lacks the Spirit Mechanism to serve as that fishing line, to cast it into the Primordial Qi ocean to catch the hidden Origin Power.

”I’ll use Fu Qinglan as the sample, observe carefully, maybe I can deduce that method.”

Luo Chen thinks thus.

...

Half a year later, Luo Chen goes out again.

Fu Qinglan obediently follows behind.

After the last exchange in cultivation, the awkward relationship slightly improves.

Luo Chen is a person who holds grudges, but it depends on the target; the one who truly made him suffer is Fu Chao Sheng, as for Fu Qinglan, it was merely a spillover of resentment.

The other party is even willing to discuss cultivation secrets with him, he naturally wouldn’t put on a deliberate face.

The Array surrounding the three mountains has been activated for several days.

This time, nearly a month has passed.

Luo Chen finally cannot hold back, fully activating the Array, exponentially spreading the fragrance of the Tianji Pill.

The original coverage was only about a thousand miles.

This time, it spread over several thousand miles.

After this act, it didn’t take long for him to wait when disturbances arose among the mountain group.

Fu Qinglan exclaimed beside him, ”They’ve come, and it’s even two fourth-order magical beasts!”

A giant python and a flying eagle.

One from above, one from below, as if racing towards the plain under Luo Chen’s feet.

Luo Chen lifts his eyes, showing a different expression.

”They’ve come, but it’s not just them.”

Fu Qinglan is puzzled, Luo Chen has already moved.

Once the two illusion beasts enter the plain, they lose the sensing of the Tianji Pill and begin to rage.

Before they can search for the Tianji Pill, a figure descends like thunder.

Thunder Kick!

With just one kick, Luo Chen disperses the giant python illusion beast.

With a rumbling descent, his feet sink into the soil.

Then, raising his head, he forms seals to cast techniques, the Fire Phoenix with a long comet tail charges toward the sky, attacking that flying eagle.

Not only that, the Cloud Probing Divine Claw descends from above, enveloping the flying eagle from top and bottom.

Upon contact, the flying eagle as if struck heavily, instantly collapses.

Massive clouds spread across this world.

Amidst the faint mist, two figures are about to converge.

But with the activation of the Array Luo Chen had prepared long ago, all the clouds surge into a Small Tripod like tides.

Without any resistance!

Fu Qinglan witnesses this scene and cannot help but marvel at Luo Chen’s deep strength.

The illusion beasts are weak, yet their power can rival that of the Early Nascent Soul Stage cultivators who have no skills.

Yet under Luo Chen’s hand, they collapse with mere touch.

Also due to the Array and the True Device of the Small Tripod, the most potent life-saving escape techniques are unable to be executed.

Simply like lambs ready for slaughter, with no difference.

”Two Illusion Cores at once, quite a harvest.”

”And this time he didn’t vent his anger on these illusion beasts, seems his opinion of me has greatly lessened.”

Just as Fu Qinglan thinks so, the massive cloud Qi on the plain completely dissipates, and Luo Chen’s figure is revealed.

With one hand he carries behind, and the other hand filled with Qi Power holding two Illusion Cores, he fiddles with them.

His eyes distant, looking towards the sky.

”You two friends have come, why hide? Could it be, you intend to play the role of mantis stalking the cicada or the yellow sparrow behind?”

Fu Qinglan is surprised, instinctively looking towards where Luo Chen’s gaze is directed.

The path the illusion beasts took, one to the left, one to the right.

On the left is a lean figure entirely cloaked in a black robe, true visage unseen. And the right person has a shiny bald head, wearing a large string of prayer beads around their neck, eyes bright and intimidating, making one wary to meet their gaze.

With just one look, the woman’s face pales, blurting out.

”Tianshan True Master!”

”Wrathful King Kong!”