Immortality begins with Becoming an Alchemy Grandmaster

Half a year later.

Outside Tianming Palace, Tian Douzi was holding a Compass, carefully breaking the Array.

His eyes were slightly narrowed, expression solemn; every Dao Law Method he cast out was done with extreme caution.

This wasn’t his fault; this was, after all, the long-term Cave Mansion of a Divine Transformation Great Power. Even with the Sect’s protection, even the simplest Array often contained unfathomably powerful might.

If he made a mistake, a single misstep could bring about backlash.

Though he was one whose Lifespan was nearing its end, he still did not want to die a violent death on the spot; he at least wanted a complete ending of sitting in meditation and passing away.

Just as he was carefully probing, a rumbling sound suddenly came from outside.

The sound was faint at first, but immediately surged in overlapping waves, like a chain of falling dominoes.

This also caused the entirety of Yanfu Mountain to tremble.

Fortunately, Deng Taiyue made a timely move, employing great methods to forcibly stabilize Yanfu Mountain, preventing the tremors from spreading to other places.

Tian Douzi realized something, and a look of surprise appeared on his face.

”Luo Chen actually broke the Array of Heavenly Water Palace in just half a year?”

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At the location of Heavenly Water Palace, Luo Chen looked at the slowly opening great gate, and couldn’t help but show a smile on his face.

Speaking of Array attainment, let alone the Fifth Order, even compared to Tian Douzi he fell quite far short.

If one were to divide the Realm finely, his current Array attainment lay somewhere between master and Grandmaster.

He had proficiently grasped various basic Prohibition arrays, and could lay them with ease; in fact, in terms of speed, he was even above an Array Master.

But so-called Grandmasters were those who encompassed all rivers, founded their own schools, and possessed their own understandings—a special existence.

Luo Chen had yet to reach the point of creating Arrays from scratch; he could only improve some ancient Arrays, achieving a certain degree of innovation.

As for why he had completed in only half a year the three-to-five-year time frame Tian Douzi had predicted for breaking the formation, the reason came down to a single point: strength!

He possessed the might of a Divine Transformation Realm Great Power!

When testing the Array’s reaction, he had no need to be as cautious as Tian Douzi; even if the Array launched a fierce counterattack, he could suppress it with an even more overwhelming force.

Coupled with his pair of Red Eyes Golden Pupils that could peer through illusion and reality, Luo Chen’s breaking formations was simply like crushing dry weeds and smashing rotten wood.

Now that the Big Formation was broken, Heavenly Water Palace no longer had any defenses against him!

Luo Chen strolled in at a leisurely pace, calm and composed.

What entered his sight was a main hall completely different in splendor from Tianming Palace, instead exhibiting a somewhat deep and aged style.

There was nothing much to see here; Luo Chen went straight toward the rear hall.

The first thing that attracted him was the dense Spirit Qi leaking out because the Array had been broken.

Opening a certain palace hall, Luo Chen merely sensed it briefly and nodded in satisfaction.

”More than two hundred years have passed since Yan Fu fell; the scattered Earth Qi has recondensed, and the Fifth Order Spirit Vein has also recovered by more than half. The Spirit Mechanism in this place is quite abundant; if someone wanted to use this to break through to the Divine Transformation Realm, they might give it a try.”

Within the quiet palace hall, there were exquisite incense burners, Jade Meditation Mats, bells, and other items that aided cultivation.

None of them were mundane objects!

But Luo Chen only gave them a sweep of his gaze before leaving.

The next place was his main target in breaking the formation.

A study!

Just like Luo Chen himself, at the very beginning he basically carried all his belongings on him, but as Luo Tian Sect gradually prospered, Luo Chen would also leave part of his property within the Sect.

This included, but was not limited to, various Cultivation Resources, as well as his personal Cultivation Method, insights, and all sorts of cultivation experiences.

This study was obviously the place where Heize Ancestor had resided for long years back then.

Luo Chen stood within, his Divine Perception spreading like a spiderweb, falling upon each and every classic.

These classics were sometimes on paper, sometimes on Beast Skin, sometimes Bamboo Slips, and most were Jade Slips.

Very few of them had Prohibitions left on them.

After all, who would lay layer upon layer of defenses in their most private space?

Luo Chen swept with his Divine Perception, then his heart stirred, and he lightly beckoned with his hand.

A piece of Beast Skin, a Jade Slip, and a thickly rolled Bamboo Slip flew toward him.

Spreading open the Beast Skin, a look of sudden realization appeared on Luo Chen’s face.

Recorded on it was a Fifth-tier Pill Recipe called the ”Shining God Pill,” extremely difficult to refine. Judging not by effect but purely by difficulty, even among Fifth Order pills it surpassed the Guiyuan Pill Pill Formula of Tianyuan Daoist Sect.

The reason Luo Chen suddenly understood was because the main ingredient of this Pill Formula was precisely the Black Shining Lotus that had once been nurtured in the Elixir Saint’s Blessed Land!

”Just as I thought back then, that Black Shining Lotus was indeed prepared for a Divine Transformation Great Power, and it was specifically used to nourish the Primordial Spirit. In terms of effect, it has some similarities to the Dang Hun Pill I refined with Black Shining Lotus.”

Luo Chen smiled and put the Pill Formula away.

If, in the future, his soul stone was completely consumed, and he encountered Black Shining Lotus again, perhaps he could switch to this method to refine a similar Elixir.

His gaze fell upon the Jade Slip, and Luo Chen’s expression grew slightly more solemn.

This was one of the rare items in the study that carried both Qi Power and Divine Soul Imprint.

It seemed that even for Heize Ancestor, this was something rather precious.

Now that Heize Ancestor was dead, the Divine Soul Imprint he had left behind was incomparably weak, and besides, even at his Peak, his Divine Perception might not have been stronger than Luo Chen’s current Divine Perception.

Luo Chen swept over it once with his Divine Perception and shattered the Divine Soul Imprint.

What remained was to convert his Qi Power imbued with Water Origin and slowly break the Magic Power Mark.

A moment later, the Jade Slip trembled softly.

Buzz...

Radiance burst forth; the Jade Slip’s true appearance emerged before Luo Chen’s eyes.

Lines of text floated up like schools of fish, like tadpoles.