Immortality begins with Becoming an Alchemy Grandmaster

”Who do you want to save?”

The earlier words made Jueqing Fairy’s already pale complexion turn even paler.

Fortunately, Luo Chen finally asked about the situation, and she no longer hesitated, reaching out to sway her hand.

A miniature fortress appeared in the palm of her hand.

Luo Chen’s gaze concentrated; it was the inheritance magic treasure of the Ice Castle—Moonlight Ice Castle!

However, it was different from the hurried glance he caught back at the Great Snow Mountain. At this moment, the Moonlight Ice Castle had three of its nine layers gone, and the remaining six were full of wear and tear.

It bore cracks from water and fire, forces of metal and stone, and even traces of thunder and lightning strikes.

An Ascendant Grade Magic Item had been reduced to such a state.

Qi Power circulated, and the small castle gradually expanded.

As it reached two zhang, a portal slowly opened.

Jueqing Fairy looked tense, struggling to output Qi Power to control this Ice Castle.

She was not very skilled, clearly having not truly mastered this magic item, hence the difficulty.

Yet despite this, something eventually emerged from that portal.

An ice coffin exuding cold air!

Swish!

Luo Chen stood up, his gaze falling upon the person inside the ice coffin.

Vivid and as gentle as he remembered.

Her delicate brows slightly furrowed as if enduring great pain.

This sleeping ice beauty was the old acquaintance Luo Chen often reminisced about.

”Cang Long... Senior Sister.”

Thud!

The Moonlight Ice Castle landed on the ground, but the ice coffin still hovered in mid-air.

Only this time, it was Luo Chen’s Qi Power holding up the ice coffin, preventing it from falling.

Jueqing Fairy heaved a sigh of relief upon seeing this; only the Sect Master and Supreme Elder of their sect had the doctrine to control this Moonlight Ice Castle. However, with Cang Long asleep and the former Sect Master Bingbo having long perished,

In the absence of the doctrine, her forced control came with a tremendous burden.

Seeing Luo Chen staring blankly at the ice coffin, Jueqing Fairy explained: ”Senior Sister Cang Long forced a breakthrough to Nascent Soul back then but failed, damaging her Essence Qi and the three treasures—spirit, essence, and soul. Thanks to True Master Han Zhan of the Luo Yun Sect, who used a secret technique to gather her remnants, our sect’s treasure coffin preserved her physical body, allowing her to linger to this day.”

Luo Chen pursed his lips; this explanation matched exactly what Han Zhan had talked to him about back then, without any discrepancies.

”Originally, barring any accidents, this treasure coffin kept in the Ice Castle’s forbidden area could sustain Senior Sister Cang Long for several hundred years. We just awaited a Nascent Soul True Master emerging from our sect to potentially rescue her.”

”But with the destruction of the Ice Castle, the treasure coffin lost the nurturing of ten-thousand-year-old mysterious ice, and the effectiveness of protecting Senior Sister’s physical body was severely reduced.”

”From my judgment, at most, it would only last a few more decades before the treasure coffin fails. By that time, with Senior Sister reappearing under the green sky, I’m afraid she would perish instantly.”

Luo Chen’s hands hovered above the ice coffin, already having a plan in mind.

This ice coffin was not some magical treasure true artifact but a piece of top-grade ten-thousand-year-old mysterious ice, supplemented by an array, thus preserving the body without decay and isolating the encroachment of Spirit Qi from the Outer World.

Without the support of a frigid environment, this coffin wouldn’t last long.

”Has anyone been asked for help?” Luo Chen inquired.

Jueqing Fairy shook her head, ”No.”

”Why not?”

”Don’t dare!”

Seeing Luo Chen’s confusion, Jueqing Fairy softly said: ”In the current situation, people’s hearts are like ghost realms, and no one is trustworthy. Moreover, Senior Sister’s physique is unusual; if it falls into the hands of villains, the consequences would be unthinkable.”

”Unusual physique?” Luo Chen frowned.

Jueqing Fairy hesitated for a moment, then steeled herself and said: ”Actually, even I didn’t know about this initially. Later, when the Hehuan Sect was annihilated by a powerful Demon Emperor, I happened to encounter a Golden Core Cultivator from the Hehuan Sect who escaped. During a battle with him, I learned that the reason True Master Yun He chose the Ice Castle as a partner to open the Great Snow Mountain was actually because he coveted Senior Sister’s physique. However, with True Master Han’s protection at that time, they did not dare act openly.”

Luo Chen’s frown deepened; there were so many hidden stories?

Han Zhan had never mentioned any of this!

Looking at the woman in the ice coffin with delicately furrowed brows, Luo Chen grew a bit impatient.

”What kind of physique is it exactly?”

At this juncture, Jueqing Fairy seemed to have resigned herself.

She no longer hesitated or prevaricated and straightforwardly said: ”Senior Sister Cang Long possesses a Seven-orifice Exquisite Body, with an additional heart acupoint outside her Sea of Qi, capable of accumulating vast Qi Power. Even after her failed breakthrough to Nascent Soul, her realm did not fall, and her prowess was no weaker than an ordinary Golden Core Great Finalization cultivator! Therefore, True Master Han Zhan secured her soul, our sect’s ice coffin protected her body, but we never worried about her Qi Power.”

”And this Seven-orifice Exquisite Body not only grants the cultivator innate intelligence and abundant Qi Power but has another peculiarity—it can forcibly enhance the realm of the partner during dual cultivation!”

”This is what True Master Yun He coveted, so he wanted to take advantage of the open war at the Great Snow Mountain to rationally annex our Ice Castle, then attempt to target Senior Sister.”

”Senior Sister never married, even in the face of an outstanding man like True Master Han Zhan, remaining chaste and pure. She feared falling into depravity, becoming someone else’s Furnace Ding.”

Luo Chen was left speechless.

Never would he have imagined such a convoluted and hidden story.

Previously, he always felt there was something unusual about the relationship between Senior Sister Cang Long and Han Zhan. The former had helped him practice the ”Soul Cleaving Technique” ahead of time during his Foundation Establishment, and the latter had braved the White Bone Mysterious Snake to forcefully aid Cang Long’s tribulation, yet the two never ended up together.

Han Zhan’s explanation was that the Ice Castle focused on nurturing Cang Long, forbidding her from marrying outside, and he himself was too proud to force anything regarding fate.

But on closer thought, the Ice Castle never had such a stipulation.

Jueqing Fairy herself had once had a Dao Companion Cultivator.

Her disciple Shi Lan even had a daughter with Xu Xiao Liu of the Luo Tian Sect, didn’t she?