Immortality begins with Becoming an Alchemy Grandmaster

Crack!

Snap!

Thunder roared again and again.

Flashes of white lightning lit up the vast waters.

In the pitch-black Nether Abyss, a great turtle pushed the waves aside, seeming slow yet actually swift as it swam forward.

Luo Chen sat cross-legged on the turtle’s back, frowning as he looked at a neatly organized bamboo slip.

It had been submitted by Sang Jinghe.

On it was recorded the situation of using Golden Dragon Lion blood to feed the Demonheart Tree, along with a large amount of Sang Jinghe’s analysis and research.

”Jinghe’s initial line of conjecture was correct; Wild Beast Essence Blood indeed benefits the growth of the Demonheart Tree.”

”But if we want it to condense fruit, that’s still far from enough.”

”Or rather, relying on low-order Golden Dragon Lion blood isn’t enough!”

Luo Chen held the bamboo slip and muttered in a low voice. According to Sang Jinghe’s analysis, the Demonheart Tree’s rank was far too high. Although it had no Spirit Intelligence, from the moment it sprouted it was Fourth Order, and at maturity it would be Fifth Order.

For such a High-level Spirit Plants, the resources required for cultivation were naturally extremely high.

Just Wild Beast Blood wasn’t enough; it had to be High-level Wild Beast Blood!

Moreover, that was still a shortcut. Sang Jinghe believed that the proper method of cultivation should be to use the heart blood of Ancient Demon and Ancient Demons to nourish it; its growth might be even faster.

After all, its very name was ”Demonheart Tree.”

”Forget it. In the short term I won’t be able to use this thing anyway.”

Luo Chen put away the bamboo slip, no longer thinking about this Spirit Plants he had obtained from the Land of Fallen Demons.

Whether High-level Wild Beast or Ancient Demon and Ancient Demons, they were not things he could concern himself with at present.

While he had the time, it would be better to cultivate another Divine Power for himself.

Thinking of Divine Powers, Luo Chen’s gaze fell upon this Nether Abyss.

The Xuan Turtle beneath his feet continued forward in silence, while Bai Meiling was happily flitting about nearby.

Because Luo Chen had agreed to take Bai Meiling along on this trip out, she was extremely pleased; it had been a very long time since she had traveled outside.

Considering that Little White had worked so hard collecting low-level ghost souls for him for twenty years, Luo Chen naturally agreed to take her along as a reward.

”Master, the Nirvana Sacred Fire above the Nether Abyss has pretty much all disappeared!” Bai Meiling cheered from afar. With the Nirvana Sacred Fire no longer Suppressing them, Yin Souls like them were completely in their element within the Nether Abyss.

It could be said that the reason Bai Meiling was able to collect so many low-order Souls in just twenty years was also related to the sudden disappearance of the Nirvana Sacred Fire.

Yet at this matter, there was no expression of delight on Luo Chen’s face.

He pressed his lips together, and his mind stirred.

The next instant!

Bai Meiling stared in terror as a Fire Phoenix flew out from Luo Chen’s body, circled once above the pitch-black surface of the Abyss, swept away layers of Ghost Qi, and then slowly flew back into Luo Chen’s body.

That was no mere Technique!

It was genuine Spirit Communication in nature!

In fright and awe, she asked in a small voice, ”Master, could it be that those Nirvana Sacred Fire were collected by you?”

Luo Chen shook his head, but after shaking his head he gave a slight nod, indirectly admitting the matter.

The Nirvana Sacred Fire in the Nether Abyss had already, with the passage of time, been continually worn away by the endlessly flowing Ming Shui.

Last time, Luo Chen had stirred a change in the heavens, drawing in a great amount of Nirvana Sacred Fire.

He had used the Blood Jade Three Flame Fan to absorb part of it, and the remaining portion had also rushed into the Primordial Chaos Tripod when his Divine Soul underwent Nirvana.

At that time Luo Chen had lost consciousness and did not know what happened afterward.

He only knew that when he awoke, the Nirvana Fire Spirit in his Purple Mansion had expanded several dozen times over, leaping to become an existence on par with the Withering and Flourishing Fire Spirit at its peak.

Coupled with Luo Chen completing Divine Soul Nirvana, only now could the Nirvana Sacred Fire truly be considered a Fifth-Order Divine Fire!

”But in the end, is this good or bad?”

Luo Chen subconsciously pressed his chest, his expression somewhat clouded and uncertain.

The original Nirvana Fire Spirit had come from a bit of fragmentary Fire Spirit he’d obtained from the Refining Heaven Cauldron, whose consciousness had already been completely worn away.

So back then Luo Chen could act without scruples, boldly refining it into his own True Fire.

No matter how weak it was, even if it wasn’t as powerful as the Withering and Flourishing Divine Fire.

But the current Nirvana Fire Spirit had absorbed a great amount of Nirvana Sacred Fire left behind by Qi Xia Emperor. Even though, after Luo Chen’s inspection, this Fire Spirit still belonged to him, if Qi Xia Emperor harbored ill intent, with her ancestor-level mastery in the way of fire...

Luo Chen did not dare imagine what the outcome would be if it really came to that point.

However, Luo Chen quickly had a plan in mind!

In the actions to come, the Nirvana Fire Spirit that had grown to Fifth Order would be a great aid, no less than the Withering and Flourishing Divine Fire; for now, it could not be dealt with.

But once this matter was resolved, he would have to set about handling the Nirvana Fire Spirit.

”I wonder what Qi Xia Emperor’s injuries are actually like, and whether she still has the strength to act?”

All of a sudden, such a thought surfaced in Luo Chen’s mind.

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”Xuanming, go back!”

The dainty young girl crouched by the shore, waving farewell to the great turtle that rose and fell with the waves.

The great turtle spouted a jet of water, then sank its swaying head into the Nether Abyss and gradually swam off into the distance.

Luo Chen asked, ”You call it Xuanming?”

Bai Meiling stood up and said proudly, ”Yes. You never gave it a name. These twenty years, he’s been carrying me everywhere, so I simply took Xuan Turtle as his surname and Ming Shui as his given name, and gave him the name Xuanming. He really likes this name; every time I call him, he responds.”

Luo Chen glanced at the Xuan Turtle’s shadow departing with obvious reluctance, and couldn’t help but smile.

”Xuanming is a good name.”

Praising once, Luo Chen flicked his sleeve, and a Flying Shuttle dropped before them.

It was the Frost Eagle Shuttle!

This shuttle’s flying speed was extremely fast and it was exceedingly stealthy, perfectly suited for this trip of Luo Chen’s.

”Let’s go. Before we leave the Eastern Wasteland, we still have to go visit an old friend.”