Immortality begins with Becoming an Alchemy Grandmaster

In the Annihilation Nine Rings, like the endless universe, time seems to have lost its concept.

Or rather, for Returning Ruins Martial Artists, time and space both seem so meaningless.

Even with Longevity and everlasting vision, they would still turn into dust with the advent of the Great Destruction Era.

Five years later.

Xiao Lin, as promised, came to visit Luo Chen.

But what awaited him was merely a note pressed under the stone table.

[Brother Xiao: I, Luo, have pondered deeply on the method of Martial Arts Divine Power and have some ideas. However, the Sixth Ring cannot satisfy my requirements, so I left early for the Fifth Ring and Fourth Ring. Next, I will challenge various masters to hone the True Meaning of Martial Arts and improve myself. I apologize for not bidding farewell to Brother Xiao. However, I, Luo, have only gone ahead a step. With Brother Xiao’s talent, you will surely catch up. I hope one day we can drink and enjoy ourselves in the Upper Three Rings — Luo Chen]

”The Upper Three Rings, huh? That is the Martial Arts Human Immortal Realm.”

Xiao Lin sighed in admiration, not angry at Luo Chen’s silent departure, but rather greatly inspired.

In the decades of discussion with Luo Chen, he has gained a lot.

After all, Luo Chen has mastered the strengths of hundreds of schools, has profound insights in physical body cultivation, and has brought some Path of Martial Arts concepts from the Outer World.

Through mutual exchanges, Xiao Lin naturally gained insights.

Not to mention other aspects, just in terms of his own realm, he has gradually ascended to the Peak of Mid-stage Leakless Realm, only needing some thorough Kung Fu to reach the Late Stage Grandmaster Realm.

”When I cultivate to the Late-stage Leakless Realm, I will attack the Fifth Ring. I won’t let you wait too long.”

Xiao Lin murmured to himself, his expression firm and confident.

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The same year Luo Chen left the Sixth Ring, a Grandmaster from the Late-stage Leakless Realm fell into the Sixth Ring from the Fifth Ring.

No one dared to provoke the bad-luck Grandmaster and ask what had happened.

But Xiao Lin knew that it was someone who had lost to Luo Chen and was forced to give up their Cultivation Stone.

The Sixth Ring has thirty-six Cultivation Stones, the Fifth Ring has eighteen, and the Fourth Ring has only nine.

Luo Chen advanced, naturally squeezing someone out of their spot.

Xiao Lin also anticipates the day he will move up.

Ten years later, he finally realized his wish.

With the identity of a Grandmaster in the Late-stage Leakless Realm, he broke into the Fifth Ring and even challenged a Grandmaster.

After a hard-fought battle, he established his position as a newly-promoted Martial Arts Grandmaster.

Then he began to inquire about Luo Chen’s whereabouts.

However, the news he received left him shocked.

Luo Chen had long departed!

It is even said that his stay in the Fifth Ring was extremely brief, less than half a year.

During that half year, he challenged a Grandmaster every ten days.

Completely ignoring the unwritten rules and the fatigue from continuous battles, he almost fanatically challenged everyone.

In the battles, he never used his terrifying physical body, never displayed the Heaven and Earth Reversal that could extinguish nine Leakless Realm Martial Artists, nor even revealed any ordinary martial arts techniques.

In every battle, he only used the purest Gang Qi against his opponents.

Every exchange was just striking, striking, and striking again!

Yet, even so, all eighteen Grandmasters of the Fifth Ring were defeated by him.

Half a year later, Luo Chen fought his way into the last ring of the Middle Three Rings, the Fourth Ring.

There, aside from the Upper Three Rings occupied by Martial Arts Human Immortals, is the place where only the strongest martial artists of the Annihilation Nine Rings deserve to stay for long.

The Leakless Realm martial artists there have all lived for hundreds of years, near the end of their lifespan, like old monsters.

Whether it’s the purity of their Gang Qi or their martial arts skills, they have all been honed to the limit.

They are considered the strongest existence below Human Immortals, and together, they are even claimed to be able to slaughter all Lower Three Rings martial artists.

However, Luo Chen still marched in without hesitation.

Since Xiao Lin arrived, nine and a half years had passed.

”I still can’t catch up, huh!”

Xiao Lin sighed deeply, yet he felt no sense of defeat, still unwavering in his determination.