Immortality begins with Becoming an Alchemy Grandmaster

”A Transformative Spirit Crystal, such an ancient legendary item!”

In the flying shuttle, Luo Chen held a fist-sized crystal stone, still able to feel a trace of the previous warmth in his hand.

This was precisely the essence of that huge Outer Heaven Star, which, after traversing countless light years, finally descended upon the Mountain Sea Realm.

After a long journey and consuming great energy, and directly taking one strike from Luo Chen’s Thousand Clouds Flowing Together, only this small mass remained.

Upon recognizing the origin of this item, Luo Chen suddenly understood why the meteor was able to withstand a hit from Thousand Clouds Flowing Together previously.

Transformative Spirit Crystal!

It is a very special material.

It can absorb, digest, and even reverse discharge the qi power converted from heaven and earth’s primordial qi.

It is said that in ancient times, a Divine Transformation Great Power of the Tianyuan Daoist Sect mined a piece of Transformative Spirit Crystal from the Mountain Sea Realm and refined a magic artifact called the ”Inverted Yin Yang Mirror” based on it. With this magic artifact, he acted with grand strategy, slaying in the Great Desolate, making other Holy Land Great Powers retreat, and finally ascended gracefully.

The Inverted Yin Yang Mirror claimed to fully absorb enemy killing moves and even perfectly reflect them back; it truly was an unbelievable top-tier Spiritual Treasure.

But in Luo Chen’s view, using the Transformative Spirit Crystal as the main material for an offense magic item was indeed somewhat wasteful.

This item can absorb, digest, and even reflect, but the strength of the reflection is limited; if faced with an attack higher than its own power, not only can it not perfectly reflect, but instead the magic item owner would endure a full-strength attack because it can’t digest it.

That’s too risky!

On the contrary, if this item were refined into a pure defense magic item, it could maximize the effect of absorbing and digesting qi power.

Attacks from those with strength lower than or equal to oneself could be perfectly defended.

Even when faced with an enemy much stronger than oneself, relying on the special nature of the Transformative Spirit Crystal, it can also neutralize a large portion of the attack!

It’s exactly the dream refining material for all defense magic items!

”The Bone Burial Umbrella has been with me for a long time; after adding a lot of materials for smelting, it’s still not completely restored. Now with the Transformative Spirit Crystal, perhaps there’s a chance to fully restore it.”

Luo Chen considered briefly and already made a decision in his heart.

The defense magic items in his hands were not many; the Primordial Chaos Tripod, which combines offense and defense, was not considered, leaving only the Bone Burial Umbrella and Xuan Chen Armor.

The latter has considerable potential, but with only four hundred years of refinement, advancing to a Spiritual Treasure is not possible just by smelting one or two materials.

The Bone Burial Umbrella itself is at the Spiritual Treasure level; after merging with the Transformative Spirit Crystal, it could perhaps be restored to its original state.

At that time, with the Yuan Tu Sword Master attacking, the Bone Burial Umbrella defending, the Primordial Chaos Tripod combining offense and defense with suppression and control effects, and paired with his techniques and divine powers, Luo Chen would have no weaknesses in battle during the Divine Transformation Stage!

With this thought, Luo Chen no longer hesitated.

With a tremble of his finger, a wisp of greenish-white flame began to rise.

It was the Withering and Flourishing Divine Fire!

Once this fire emerged, it burned with spirituality upon Luo Chen’s fingertips, and even began to scorch Luo Chen with its flames.

However, this scorching was very mild, more like a caressing touch of intimacy.

Seeing this scene, Luo Chen could not help but show a satisfied expression.

After devouring the massive vitality of four Fifth Order Great Wilderness Bodies, the Withering and Flourishing Divine Fire finally recovered, and even its spirituality advanced further.

In terms of artifact refining and pill refinement, Luo Chen preferred to use the Withering and Flourishing Divine Fire, which had been with him for hundreds of years, rather than the Nirvana Sacred Fire, simply out of habit.

”It’s just a pity for the Jiao Emperor’s True Flame, which was lost in a battle between heaven and earth.”

Looking at the Withering and Flourishing Divine Fire’s intimate actions, Luo Chen felt a bit regretful about the deep blue flame gained from Jiao Emperor Liu Jun.

That was a high-order flame passed down by the Jiaoren Clan for thousands of years, attributed to Water Cold; though with impurities, its potential was considerable.

After removing the impurities, with proper nurturing, it could have ascended to Fifth Order like the Withering and Flourishing Divine Fire in a few hundred years.

But to defeat the Daoist Sect’s Great Power, Liancheng Ancestor, Luo Chen fused the Jiao Emperor’s True Flame, Nirvana Sacred Fire, and Withering and Flourishing Divine Fire into one, and unleashed a terrifying strike using the Three Flames Fan.

While Nirvana and Withering and Flourishing could retain their fire seeds due to their powerful foundation, the Jiao Emperor’s True Flame, which hadn’t reached Fifth Order, wasn’t so fortunate.

After the battle, the fire seed was completely extinguished.

In the future, if it were to reappear in the Mountain Sea Realm, it would likely rely on the oil lamp in Little White’s hand, supplemented with merfolk oil, to nurture it bit by bit.

The Withering and Flourishing Divine Fire and Luo Chen were in sync, seemingly able to sense his emotions; having witnessed the shared time with the Blue Fish Fire Spirit in the Purple Mansion, it too felt a bit of sadness and empathy, and couldn’t help but emit warm flames brushing against Luo Chen.

”Alright, let’s start refining this Transformative Spirit Crystal. You’ve been eating so well lately, don’t be lazy!”

Luo Chen playfully admonished, flicking his finger, and the Withering and Flourishing Divine Fire completely enveloped the Transformative Spirit Crystal.

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”Husband, the Suspended Temple is here!”

A gentle voice came from outside.

Inside, a bone umbrella hovered in the air, slowly rotating, with the faint shadow of a red-clad woman appearing and disappearing.

Beneath it, Luo Chen sat cross-legged.

Hearing the voice from outside, Luo Chen slowly opened his eyes and first looked at the bone umbrella.

”Not bad, the recovery progress far exceeded my expectations; this Transformative Spirit Crystal truly lives up to its name as an ancient treasure. This trip has indeed brought unexpected fortunes.”

Acquiring the Transformative Spirit Crystal was indeed a small fortune.

During the exploration and treasure hunt at Loulan Ancient City, a meteor suddenly fell from the sky, yielding this exotic treasure, truly a fortune.

But Luo Chen did not take pride in this.

All of this was merely based on his unrivaled position in the God Transformation Realm of this era.