Immortality begins with Becoming an Alchemy Grandmaster

The sky, the wind howling, black clouds looming.

The earth, surrounded by mountains, stands majestic and imposing.

Palaces are scattered across the endless mountains, and today many cultivators have stepped out of the palaces, gazing at the expanse of sky above the Tian Nan Dao Palace.

Their eyes are fixed on where the central Tianyuan Temple stands, where a white figure is seated cross-legged in the void, ethereal as if a banished immortal.

Under the oppressive dark clouds, the cultivators’ feelings toward the man in white are quite complex.

Awe, admiration, and even envy and jealousy.

The great battle by the East Sea continued sporadically for three years.

After the Master of Sea Suppression City, Master Wen, joined forces with Qing Lan Fairy, the Houtu Hall Master, to defeat the Three Great Demon Emperors, the outcome of the war was essentially decided.

The reason it lasted so long is that the Nascent Soul True Masters no longer took action, instead giving opportunities to the lower order cultivators, especially the true disciples of the Dao Palace.

This can be seen as a kind of trial!

A different kind of sect competition!

Using the number of demons killed, realm, and even the reclamation of lost lands as the measuring standards, determining the strength ranking of this generation of true disciples of Tian Nan Dao Palace.

In this way, it eliminated the demon menace and tempered the combat experience of the new generation of disciples without internal conflict.

And in these three years of demon-slaying trials, the performance of that man in white was the most outstanding!

He initially defended Liubo Mountain with an early Golden Core Stage realm. Then he survived from a savage beast that broke through the six-layered Sea Suppression Gate. The subsequent results of hunting and killing demon beasts were also extremely brilliant, whether in number or Demon King-level strong foes, far surpassing his peers.

Therefore, when the true disciples returned to the Tian Nan Dao Palace at last, the man in white was already the nominal first among his peers.

The reason it’s only nominal is that there were still some formidable Golden Core true inheritors who did not go to the East Sea to participate in the battle.

But no one cares about this!

Because the man in white is too young, he advanced to the Golden Core Period at just over forty, an unprecedented genius in the Mountain Sea Realm for a thousand years. With his monstrous cultivation talent, catching up to the realm of those senior brothers is merely a matter of time.

As for strength, people have even less doubt about him.

In the three-year demon-slaying trial, the Divine Consciousness and Qi Power that the man in white displayed were unmatched, and even his combat skills increased at an astonishing speed. Even a Great Demon Emperor, when faced with him, was easily slain under his precious ruler. That kind of dazzling combat talent seemed innate and enviable.

To commend his outstanding performance in the demon-slaying trial and to encourage his continued excellence, the Observatory Master, Zhan Bingtao, decided to personally craft a Natal Magic Item for him!

Yes, with such an astonishing performance, he doesn’t even possess a Natal Magic Item yet.

The grand occasion today is precisely for refining a Magic Item!

”Zhou Fuqiu, are you ready?”

A booming voice came from below in the Tianyuan Temple.

It was the voice of the Tianyuan Temple’s Master, Zhan Bingtao, the strongest figure in the Tian Nan Continent today, and also a master of artifact refining!

How could a skillful warrior lack a weapon? Within the realm of artifact weapon crafting, the Zhan Family, one of the Twelve Great Houses, has always been a leader, and Zhan Bingtao is a leader among leaders.

Zhou Fuqiu, seated cross-legged in the void, had his eyes half-opened.

”Master, this disciple is ready!”

”Then let’s begin!”

With these words, a dazzling light slowly emerged over Zhou Fuqiu’s head, flying towards the infinite sky shrouded in dark clouds.

At the same time, from the four directions—southeast, southwest, northeast, and northwest—strong Qi Power was being remotely injected into the Tianyuan Temple.

Layer upon layer of array pathways unfolded, and Zhan Bingtao softly chanted.

”Sunlight reveals the day, divine thunder descends upon the world, open!”

Bang!

The next moment, a giant light column, as thick as a water barrel, shot up from the Tianyuan Temple into the sky.

As if in response, in the thick black clouds, electricity danced like dragons and snakes, silver flashes glimmered, and a grand thunderbolt also emerged with a roar.

This scene truly frightened many people.

Heavenly Tribulation!

These celestial phenomena were almost identical to the heavenly tribulation experienced by cultivators breaking through to the Nascent Soul Stage.

The Observatory Master, Zhan Bingtao, is indeed a master of artifact refining; he can work with the Four Great Hall Masters to forcibly draw down the divine thunder of the heavenly tribulation.

For a moment, many lower order cultivators were breathless; if only the Magic Item forged with the combined efforts of the Five Nascent Soul True Masters were theirs!

The light column and thunder intertwined instantly, wrapping around the light that Zhou Fuqiu had released earlier.

Furthermore, thunder snakes and electric flood dragons from all directions were aggressively rushing towards that light.

Zhou Fuqiu watched silently, gathering Qi Power in anticipation to capture the treasure at any moment.

The crafting of this Sea-Stabilizing Pearl required resources beyond ordinary imagination.

One of the main materials, the Water Lotus Seed, was a precious item produced by the Five Elements Lotus Stand, and its order far exceeded the usual Ascendant Grade Four-Order Five Elements Lotus Stand. After being tested by the master, that Water Lotus Seed was something that could only be crafted by a lotus stand that was at least about to reach the Fifth Order.

As for the other materials, they weren’t any cheap items either.

The Withered Marrow Fire Spirit Drill left by the ancestors, Zhou Yunshen, a small piece of Top-Grade Jiuyang Geng Metal.

The Shen Tong Wood, gifted by the Qing Lan Fairy, the mentor.

Finally, the Observatory Master, Zhan Bingtao, exerted great effort to extract a piece of the Reversed Dragon Scale from the Netherworld Earth Dragon he had slain in previous years. Although the Reversed Dragon Scale did not surpass the Dragon Spine and Dragon Heart, it was still the best Fourth-Tier Earth Element Material.

Any one of these main materials could be used to refine a Medium Grade, or even Ascendant Grade, Magic Item.