Immortality begins with Becoming an Alchemy Grandmaster

”The Huang Independent Cultivator is Alchemy Sect, and Alchemy Sect is the Huang Independent Cultivator.”

Luo Chen smiled softly, lifting the black hood, and casually sat on a chair next to the elder.

Zhou Yunshen remarked, ”An independent cultivator from the Eastern Wasteland, it seems you revealed your origins from the very beginning. It turns out, the name Luo Hai was just an alias, wasn’t it!”

Luo Chen poured and drank for himself, the hot tea down his throat, and smiled, ”A speck of dust enters the North Sea and claiming the name Luo Hai isn’t too much.”

With just a few words exchanged, Luo Chen explained his disguise from the past clearly.

Zhou Yunshen observed his familiar demeanor and the wrinkles on his face quivered slightly.

”The rumors say the Alchemy Sect possesses unparalleled abilities, slaying demons countless times upon returning to the Eastern Wasteland. Decades ago, he was once evenly matched with the Demon Emperor Qing Shuang, claimed to be the strongest below the Divine Transformation Stage. I wonder if it’s true or false?”

”This rumor probably came from the Ancestor of the Daoist Sect; how could it be false?” Luo Chen with a hint of amusement retorted, ”Or perhaps you’re half-believing and half-doubting?”

Zhou Yunshen calmly replied, ”Rumors are often exaggerated. I recall my years rest nearly a thousand, yet my realm is only at the sixth layer of Nascent Soul. Friend Luo, you’re much younger than me, having attained the Dao after me, yet you’ve advanced so rapidly, it’s almost like a dream. I vividly remember when you left Zhongzhou, your realm was but in the early Nascent Soul stage...”

The word ”early” became elongated in the elder’s mouth, leaving the rest unsaid.

Only because a breath like an abyss and sea began to rise and spread within the hall, making those present feel anxious and overwhelmed.

The aura originated from Luo Chen.

Looking closely, it seemed like a grand divine sun rising, causing the elder’s divine soul to tremble and his mind to panic.

A rough, hoarse voice uncontrollably burst from Zhou Yunshen’s mouth, his aged, turbid eyes filled with astonishment.

”Yin Soul Crossing Yang, Nascent Soul Transformation God, you’ve reached the Divine Transformation Stage!?”

Swish!

All the aura, all the phenomena, vanished in an instant, as if nothing had ever happened.

Only Luo Chen, in his black robe, sat there leisurely sipping spirit tea.

Freed from the disturbance, Zhou Yunshen finally regained normal judgement, staring deeply at Luo Chen, ”Not yet in the Divine Transformation, but merely a step away.”

Luo Chen chuckled, ”Old friend, your keen insight and broad knowledge remain as sharp as ever. You’ve seen clearly through this outwardly divine, but inwardly hollow realm of mine.”

”It’s not hollow. Just a moment ago, I almost mistook you for Li Canghai of North Sea,” Zhou Yunshen abandoned any inappropriate thoughts, even the very basic probing intentions were dispelled. He directly asked, ”You quietly returned to Zhongzhou, for what purpose?”

Luo Chen caught the mention of a notable person in his words and raised an eyebrow, ”Can’t I come to see old friends without any particular reason? After all, aren’t both of us still Guest Elders of Star Gate?”

Zhou Yunshen shook his head, ”Star Gate is no more, Heaven and Earth Peak is severed, so how can there still be talk of Guest Elders of Star Gate.”

”But I still clearly remember those days we resisted the Demon Clan together, crossing the seas,” Luo Chen sighed nostalgically and added, ”I recall the celestial gathering at Coral Sea with guests seated everywhere, celebrating the Zhou Family Ancestor’s 800-year birthday; what a festive occasion that was.”

On Zhou Yunshen’s 800-year birthday long ago, Luo Chen personally attended as the Master of Peng Lake.

Their interactions were few, yet their connections ran deep.

Even Luo Chen’s former mundane affairs agent Zhang Jiadi married a girl from the Zhou Family, thereby establishing cooperative relations with Coral Sea Zhou Family.

One can say Luo Chen and Zhou Yunshen were collaborating long before.

Perhaps due to age, or maybe influenced by earlier conversations with the younger generation of his family, Zhou Yunshen couldn’t help but reminisce deeply as Luo Chen brought up the past.

But this reminiscence was quickly cast aside.

”Coral Sea no longer exists.”

Luo Chen curiously asked, ”Did Friend Zhou see it in person?”

Zhou Yunshen sighed, ”A hundred years ago, Tianyuan Daoist Sect waged war on the North Sea. Due to my origins from the North Sea, I was enlisted. Naturally, I took some time to revisit the Dragon Raising Land of the Zhou Family once, but unfortunately, things have changed, and there’s no familiar sight to see anymore.”

Luo Chen thoughtfully remarked, ”Coral Sea isn’t located in the core region of the North Sea Cultivation World. For you to revisit, it seems Tianyuan Daoist Sect’s earlier conquest of the North Sea progressed quickly!”

Zhou Yunshen glanced at Luo Chen, not challenging his conclusion.

”Friend Luo observes keenly; indeed, Tianyuan Daoist Sect almost fully occupied the North Sea Cultivation World.”

Luo Chen expressed surprise, ”That fast?”

He had personally experienced the vastness of the North Sea.

While it might not have many contiguous landmasses like the Eastern Wasteland or West Desert, the islands are scattered like stars. Even excluding those fringe areas, its total area surpasses that of the Eastern Wasteland and West Desert cultivation worlds.

Such a vast area boasts rich resources, unparalleled in the Mountain Sea Realm.

Tianyuan Daoist Sect crossed seas to North Sea, and within such a short time, despite not being native combatants, nearly conquered all of North Sea?

Were the native cultivators of North Sea too incompetent, or was the Demon Clan army too weak to withstand?

Luo Chen recalled Zhou Yunshen mentioning the North Sea Great Power earlier, he tentatively asked, ”Did you personally meet the Great Power Li Canghai?”

Zhou Yunshen acknowledged with a sound, ”When first arriving in North Sea, the Ancestor Zhan of the Daoist Sect brought us along to meet Master Li. It was due to his cooperation that the Canghai Righteous Alliance did not stubbornly resist, speeding up the Daoist Sect army’s conquest and expulsion of the Demon Clan from North Sea.”