Immortality begins with Becoming an Alchemy Grandmaster

Butterflies fluttering, their paths like dreams.

As the butterfly wings vibrated, ethereal rays of light flowed, causing the surrounding Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi to churn and surge.

Upon seeing this object, Luo Chen couldn’t help but feel a surge of joy in his heart, instinctively wanting to possess it.

But in the presence of a Divine Monarch, how could he dare act rashly?

Suppressing the longing in his heart, Luo Chen swallowed and asked, ”Is this the Blessing Gu?”

”Indeed it is.”

”But isn’t the Blessing Gu from legends supposed to bring good fortune and be a powerful Divine Gu full of opportunities for cultivators?”

”Have you forgotten what I mentioned earlier?”

Luo Chen paused, subconsciously recalling what Youli Divine Monarch had just said.

When opportunities become too heavy, blessings turn into disasters.

This is not hard to understand, much like the proverbial example of a man harboring jade being guilty of his possessions, or a child holding gold in the marketplace—as when one’s power is weak, overly precious things are harmful instead.

But can Youli Divine Monarch and the Holy Land Life and Death Gate really be considered weak?

Luo Chen glanced at the omnipresent Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi around him, a thoughtful expression on his face.

Youli Divine Monarch, while manipulating the Blessing Gu, looked at Luo Chen with approval, then personally explained.

”The Life and Death Gate has three Divine Gu; blessings and calamities coexist and live and die together. Since ancient times, the Blessing Gu and Calamity Gu have always existed simultaneously. If separated, they might brew uncontrollable disasters.”

”Back then, my senior brother who managed the Calamity Gu had important matters to attend to in the Mystic Realm, thus he borrowed the Tianyuan Daoist Sect’s Star Gate passage to leave the Mountain Sea Realm. Before his departure, for the sake of my cultivation, he left the Calamity Gu with me.”

”Yet unexpectedly, the Calamity Gu was lost outside.”

Luo Chen frowned, ”Is it the incident where the Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator Feng Jiang from the Eastern Wasteland Mingyuan Sect took it away?”

”Exactly!”

Luo Chen shook his head, ”Though Feng Jiang was powerful, he was ultimately just a Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator. How could he take the Gu under your watch?”

”Haha.” Youli Divine Monarch laughed openly and unreservedly said, ”I let him take it.”

”Uh?” Luo Chen was stunned.

Youli Divine Monarch unreservedly stated, ”Back then, my realm was stuck at the mid-stage Divinity Transformation, unable to break through for a long time. The Blessing Gu was also suppressed by the Calamity Gu, making it difficult for me to take the most crucial step, so I entrusted the Calamity Gu to a younger generation, ignoring Feng Jiang taking it away. Thus, the Blessing Gu was no longer suppressed, and my realm began to progress rapidly.”

So that’s how it is!

Some doubts weighing on Luo Chen’s mind were resolved at this moment.

Although Feng Jiang was strong enough to traverse the Five Continents, how could he dare take a precious item under a Great Power’s nose?

Youli Divine Monarch chose to let Feng Jiang take it, rather than a sect disciple, probably because once the Calamity Gu leaves the Blessing Gu for too long, it would attract too many calamities and disasters.

In this sense, Feng Jiang instead became a Human Tool.

As for how to reclaim the Gu, for Youli Divine Monarch who had reached Completion Stage, it wouldn’t be difficult.

Or perhaps he didn’t even need to act personally, wasn’t I delivering it back to him right now?

As Luo Chen was pondering, the red butterfly circled the Primordial Chaos Tripod for quite some time, yet it still couldn’t entice the gray butterfly.

Youli Divine Monarch subconsciously frowned.

While altering the doctrine, he continued conversing with Luo Chen.

”But what happened afterward was beyond my control. The Blessing Gu not only helped me comprehend the Law’s True Intent, condensing the Primordial Spirit Dharma Form, but also drew in a massive amount of Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi, thus affecting the Southern Border Cultivation World.”

”With a massive amount of Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi pouring in, high-order cultivators found it difficult to maintain their focus, and if they were even slightly careless, they would experience demonic deviation.”

”With my strength, I could only protect the cultivators of the Life and Death Gate, but was powerless regarding other sects.”

”To prevent the situation from escalating, I had to close the mountain gate, prohibiting the Holy Land cultivators from stepping into the mundane.”

As he spoke, he suddenly let out a muffled snort.

”Come out!”

With a flick of his finger, the Primordial Chaos Tripod emitted another deep, sonorous hum.

The gray butterfly finally broke free from its constraints, emerging from the tripod.

Is this the Calamity Gu?

Luo Chen looked up at the gray butterfly; in fact, this was also his first time witnessing the real appearance of this Gu.

As soon as it came out, it entwined with the Blessing Gu.

The dense Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi around seemed to calm down as well.

This change left Luo Chen’s mind unsettled.

”The path of Gu is truly extraordinary and miraculous!”

Watching this scene, Youli Divine Monarch also exhaled a turbid breath, feeling relieved.

”Though miraculous, it is ultimately not the orthodox path of our cultivation. It was merely an accidental acquisition by the Life and Death Gate in the Mystic Realm back in the day, which was developed and grown during the opening of the Mountain Sea. Precisely because of this, there is currently no method to break through to the Void Refining Stage in this path, which is why my senior brother was compelled to go to the Upper Realm, hoping to advance to the Void Refining Stage with the power of the main sect.”

As he spoke, he casually tossed.

The Primordial Chaos Tripod fluttered and flew to Luo Chen.

”Your Natal Magic Item is impressive!”

Seeing the other party actively returning the Natal Magic Item, the large stone in Luo Chen’s heart finally fell to the ground.

Of course, he showed nothing on his face and was more curious about some ancient secrets revealed in the other party’s words.

Youli Divine Monarch seemed to be in a better mood after retrieving the Calamity Gu and wasn’t shy about introducing Luo Chen to some secrets unknown to the world.

Why does the Mountain Sea Realm have the tradition of open war?

Because the process of the Human Clan’s expansion itself is a large-scale open war!

Ten thousand years ago, under the leadership of Tianyuan Daoist Sect, the five sects of the Mystic Realm descended upon the Mountain Sea Realm, launching a campaign to conquer and open this realm.

The transition from Ancient to Archaic times also happened during that period.

When the Human Clan’s Five Sects established dominance over the Five Continents of Mountain and Sea, that’s when the history of the Mountain Sea Realm declared the end of the bloody era of the Human-Demon War in ancient times.