Immortality begins with Becoming an Alchemy Grandmaster

Chapter 1168: Chapter 455: Core Formation!_2

After completing the first step,

Luo Chen didn’t rush into the second step.

Instead, he took a good two-day rest.

Though he could endure the pain, cutting his Main Soul had indeed caused damage to his Divine Soul.

The necessary recovery time had to be given.

Of course!

During these two days of rest, his basic cultivation practices did not stop.

What lay before Luo Chen was not just the practice of secret techniques.

There was also the task of pushing his realm to Finalization!

It had already been three years since he stepped into the Ninth Level of the Foundation Establishment.

In these three years, with the assistance of the Second Order Ascendant Grade Immortal Mansion and the Top Grade Blood Increase Pill, as well as the Dustfall Pill, he maintained a steady cultivation pace.

Such a speed of cultivation appeared terrifyingly fast to others!

But under Luo Chen’s vast foundation, the progress was quite slow.

In three years, Luo Chen’s realm advancement had only increased by four or five points.

[Ninth Level Foundation Establishment: 5/100]

This was Luo Chen’s current state.

Based on this pace, he would need at least fifty to sixty years to reach realm perfection.

The Fengyue Fairy’s perception was extremely sharp and accurate; she had really assessed that Luo Chen would need around fifty years to achieve Core Formation.

But this assessment overlooked Luo Chen’s utilization of resources.

Second Order Ascendant Grade Immortal Mansion?

No!

Luo Chen had already rented Tianlan Peak’s Third Order Lower Grade Cave Mansion for himself in advance.

And this time, Luo Chen did not use the Array Forbiddance-weakened Weak 3rd Order Spiritual Land as before.

Instead, relying on his robust physique and a Divine Soul Endowment comparable to the early Golden Core stage, he directly cultivated in the normal Third Order Lower Grade Spirit Land.

So, his cultivation speed skyrocketed once again!

No longer the previous eight or nine times faster, but a solid ten times boost!

This way, the time it would take Luo Chen to reach perfection in the Foundation Establishment Realm could be shortened by tenfold.

Perhaps in just five or six years, he would be able to cross the last realm of the Foundation Establishment stage.

After two days of cultivation, Luo Chen fully confirmed this judgment.

Inside the Cultivation Room,

Luo Chen awoke from a night of cultivation.

Feeling the immense increase of Spirit Qi inside his body, the Spirit Qi Cloud Clusters kept falling like raindrops into the vast Sea of Qi as pure Spirit Liquid.

Just like rain.

He nodded in satisfaction.

”As long as the body can endure it, using resources to exchange for time, is always the fastest shortcut!”

This phrase could really only be said by him.

If it were a Rogue Cultivator at the Foundation Establishment stage, even the wealthy ones like Chu Kui, would not dare make such a claim.

Because they simply didn’t have that many resources!

A cultivation environment costing a million Spirit Stones a year is something not even Golden Core Cultivators can afford, not to mention those at the Foundation Establishment stage.

Even the Budding Cultivators of a Golden Core Great Sect wouldn’t dare say such a thing.

Even though the Sect would provide them with suitable Weak 3rd Order Spirit Land, their bodies couldn’t withstand it either!

Tao Wen had reached the Ninth Layer of the Foundation Establishment long ago and became a Budding Cultivator for quite some time.

But it was only twelve years ago that he just barely achieved the way of the golden pill.

Too many trivial matters? Poor talent?

No, it was merely because they dared not use the Third Order Spirit Land for an extended period.

This time, it all came down to one word.

Endowment!

The immense endowment Luo Chen had accumulated both internally and externally allowed him to be so reckless and to unleash his potential at the ninth layer of the Foundation Establishment.

Having confirmed his current pace of cultivation, Luo Chen had more confidence in the future.

Next, what he had to do was the second step of the ”Bead Curtain Lock”.

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One month later.

Luo Chen’s attention was carefully focused on the blue Spirit Bead in his Sea of Qi.

It looked like the most common elixir pill he had seen.

But on its surface, the liquid flowed endlessly.

Such a unique sight was dazzling.

Suddenly!

A drop of Spirit Liquid was about to fall from the blue Spirit Bead.

Luo Chen, however, was unhurried.

From within that Spirit Bead, a strand of blue silk shot out like a darting fish, swiftly threading through the falling Spirit Liquid.

The first Spirit Bead was formed!

”The texts record that after a cultivator advances to the Golden Core, Spirit Power is converted into Qi Power. The fundamental difference between the two is that Qi Power is a mixed energy that has been infused with the Divine Soul after contact with Spirit Power,”

”It’s more powerful, and simultaneously, control over it is much more at will.”

”And a single Golden Core is a condensed body of countless amounts of Qi Power. This is what gives rise to the saying: ’With a golden core swallowed in my gut, I command my fate, not heaven.’

”Now it seems that my Spirit Bead does indeed possess some attributes of Qi Power.”

”If I use it to attract all the Spirit Power in the Sea of Qi, allowing it to continuously expand and compress, I should be able to fully achieve the Golden Core!”

Countless thoughts flashed through his mind.

But in the end, Luo Chen suppressed that impulse.

This was only the first bead!

A single Spirit Bead simply did not have enough attraction to devour all the Spirit Power in the Sea of Qi.

”The journey is still long!”

Luo Chen remarked with emotion.

After a short rest, he began another task.

Cultivating ”Wind-Calming Wave”.

The more he practiced this secret technique, the more comfortable it felt.

Even though Luo Chen’s mind became filled with distracting thoughts like bamboo shoots after a spring rain during cultivation, and various trivial thoughts occasionally stirred up waves, he always managed to calm down in the end.

Though he could not achieve the level of cutting off all other thoughts and emotions with a sword of wisdom,

he did indeed experience the wondrous state of being undisturbed by any thoughts and focusing solely on calming the winds.

”Cultivating a path is a long and distant journey. Internal Heart Demons and external disasters abound on the lengthy path to immortality, with countless temptations.”

”Even though I consider my Dao Heart to be steadfast, with a Solid Foundation, often I find myself falling into obsessions and Demonic Obstructions.”

”Even faced with temptations of mere beauties like Hui Niang and Caiyi, I sometimes struggle to hold back, let alone other thoughts of revenge, compassion, or anger.”