Immortality begins with Becoming an Alchemy Grandmaster

After more than a year of hustle and bustle, the Elixir Mountain had finally found tranquility.

Luo Chen’s face remained calm, yet the doubts lingered in his heart as he silently stared at the Primordial Chaos Tripod that had yet to be put away.

”Senior Brother Luo Chen, this time your Pill Refinement was clearly a great success, so why do you still seem somewhat gloomy?”

A gentle and elegant voice came from the side, and Luo Chen did not turn around, but he had already noticed that it was Cang Long.

He pursed his lips and reached out to retrieve the Primordial Chaos Tripod, which still radiated residual warmth.

”It’s just some doubts about cultivation, nothing worth brooding over.”

Turning around, Luo Chen looked at Cang Long, curiously asking, ”Is there something you need, Junior Sister?”

This time, it was Cang Long who hesitated.

Luo Chen looked at her in confusion as the woman opened her delicate lips, then closed them again, repeating this several times without speaking.

This hesitancy was unlike the Cang Long Fairy that Luo Chen knew.

He could only smile and say, ”If you need help with anything, feel free to say it. If you don’t speak now, who knows how long it’ll be before you see me next.”

Cang Long paused for a moment and asked in return, ”You’ve just returned, and you’re planning to leave again?”

Luo Chen brushed off his sleeves as if shaking away the lingering scent of smoke and fire from days of Pill Refinement.

As he walked toward the Dan Dust Hall, he spoke while walking, ”I will leave, but not just yet. I will be going into deep closed-door cultivation for a period of time, and all matters big and small within the sect have been arranged.”

He blinked and said, ”Are you sure there’s nothing, Junior Sister?”

Cang Long pressed her pretty lips together.

Luo Chen smiled, ”Then I suppose we’ll meet next time!”

With that, Luo Chen stepped into the quiet Dan Dust Hall.

With just a wave of his sleeve, the thick doors slowly closed.

Watching the gradually disappearing figure, Cang Long somehow felt her shoulders slump, as if she had let out a sigh of relief.

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After returning to the Dan Dust Hall, Luo Chen did not immediately go into closed-door cultivation but first took a proper sleep.

This sleep lasted a full three days and three nights.

When he awoke, he felt refreshed and energetic.

The fatigue from recent Pill Refinement had been completely swept away.

Inside the hall.

Luo Chen sat cross-legged on a meditation mat, struck a Qi power at the core of the hall.

In an instant!

Buzzing...

With a dull sound, the slightly dim hall suddenly became radiant.

Lines of the Array glowed, nodes began to exhale Spirit Qi, and the Spirit Qi of the entire Elixir Mountain started converging toward the Dan Dust Hall, and even several nearby large Spirit Veins were supplying Spirit Qi here.

This arrangement was set up by Min Longyu personally with others during Luo Chen’s absence for more than a decade, to provide Luo Chen with the best cultivation environment.

After slightly sensing the Spirit Qi concentration, a look of satisfaction appeared on Luo Chen’s face.

Though far from the Fourth-Tier Top-Grade Cave Mansion at Cangwu Mountain, it was still at the Fourth-Tier Middle Grade Level.

”However, it is still not enough!”

With a thought, Luo Chen took out the Ten Thousand Array Gu and set up another powerful Gathering Spirit Array.

With this addition, the speed and range of Spirit Qi extraction increased significantly.

Centered on Elixir Mountain, the Spirit Veins within a radius of ten thousand miles, as if summoned, collectively began providing abundant Spirit Qi to this hall.

”With this concentration, it is comparable to a Fourth-Order Superior Grade Cave Mansion!”

After finishing all of this, Luo Chen took out the Primordial Chaos Tripod.

Clang!

With his gaze falling on the grey cauldron, Luo Chen’s expression was thoughtful.

”Should I refine the Ming Water Spring Eye now?”

Hesitant, Luo Chen decided to try first.

He mobilized his Qi power, and a burst of vigorous flames enveloped the Primordial Chaos Tripod.

Within the space of the tripod, that tranquil spring eye began to tremble violently as if encountering a natural enemy.

Refining the spring eye was not about erasing it to nothingness, but rather erasing the strand of consciousness born within it, and then replacing it with one’s Divine Consciousness.

In doing so, one could fully control the Ming Water Spring Eye.

The Withering and Flourishing Divine Fire was merely an external threat, while the genuine focus of refinement lay on the Divine Soul!

Without hesitation, Luo Chen, with the cooperation of his eight major souls and the main soul, projected his Divine Consciousness into the Primordial Chaos Tripod.

In just an instant, Luo Chen’s expression froze.

Time flowed swiftly.

After about an incense stick’s worth of time, a flush of red suddenly appeared on Luo Chen’s stiff face.

”Pfft!”

He spat out a mouthful of fresh blood, the flames intensified, and Luo Chen abruptly opened his eyes.

Wiping the blood from the corner of his mouth, Luo Chen’s expression turned slightly grim.

Failed!

It was both expected and unexpected.

With the suppression of the Primordial Chaos Tripod, the Ming Water Spring Eye indeed could not escape.

But once he attempted to erode its consciousness, he faced a tremendous backlash, and that consciousness even tried to contaminate and assimilate his Divine Soul.

Unwilling to accept failure, Luo Chen confronted it with his enormous Divine Soul Endowment but still fell short.

”Is this why the Wang Ghost Emperor failed?”

Lacking strength in the Divine Soul, no matter how plentiful, could not wear down that seemingly heaven-and-earth-born consciousness.

Luo Chen fell into contemplation once again.

After a long while, the originally grim expression gradually faded.

Luo Chen consumed a top-grade Soul Pill left at the Luo Tian Sect, restoring his Divine Soul Endowment, and his complexion slowly improved.

”If the strength isn’t enough, then it must be increased!”

”If Divine Consciousness isn’t sufficient, then use Divine Perception, if Nascent Soul doesn’t work, then use Primordial Spirit!”

”I have cultivation plans in this regard anyway!”

With a murmur to himself, Luo Chen began chanting Buddhist Scripture.

It was the Moonlight Purifying Heart Spell taught to him by Master Xuan Du of the Glazed Pure Land. This spell could forcibly cleanse the Divine Soul and forcibly consolidate the Primordial Spirit.

At this moment, under the chanting, the eight major souls in the Sea of Consciousness moved towards the main soul to merge, and in an instant formed an incredibly tall, golden giant that seemed to split heaven and earth.