Immortality begin with Alchemy Grandmaster

Chapter 1667: Chapter 613: Natal Magic Item, First Glimpse of Marvels_2

Because of Huangfu Song’s provocation, Luo Chen was forced to halt his magic item forging and leave the raw materials to idle inside the Primordial Chaos Tripod.

The subsequent fusion refining, and even the adaptation phase after engraving arrays, were all done with the materials placed in the Primordial Chaos Tripod.

Especially during the past six months on Quyang Island, he had been engrossed in using soul essence to cultivate the Slaying Dragon Technique, unknowingly nurturing the embryo of the Youlan Xuan Armor within the Primordial Chaos Tripod for half a year.

Luo Chen, full of doubt, flew into the air.

Under the wide-eyed stare of the Black King, he flew directly into the Primordial Chaos Tripod.

Bear in mind, the blazing flames under the tripod hadn’t been extinguished yet!

”Is the master planning to stew himself in the great cauldron?”

Inside the tripod.

Luo Chen extended his hand, ignoring the searing heat, and touched the solid surface of the tripod.

Its texture felt neither entirely metallic nor entirely woody, yet it exuded a delicate warmth. Upon closer perception, there was even a ceaseless turbulence of wind and thunder emanating from it.

All along, Luo Chen had been nurturing this natal magic item within his Sea of Qi. His assessments of it had mostly been through his divine consciousness scans.

This time, he tried a different approach.

From outside his body, he chose to sense it through physical touch.

The moment he made contact, a surge of bloodline resonance washed over him.

A natal magic item, intrinsically tied to both life and cultivation—a sensation like this was entirely natural.

Through continuous perception, Luo Chen began to gain a faint sense of enlightenment.

This tripod had been nurtured by him for nearly thirty years since its creation!

At the time of completion, although it was of Ascendant Grade, this was primarily due to the raw materials used; its inherent powers were not particularly exceptional.

Over years of nurturing, the impurities within the tripod had diminished significantly, and its various wondrous aspects began to reveal themselves gradually.

In previous battles, nine red chains often appeared on Luo Chen’s body. These chains were one of the tripod’s great utilities; they possessed potent capturing abilities. Additionally, centered on the Primordial Chaos Tripod, they included a minor automated enemy-targeting feature.

This feature was one of the reasons Luo Chen could instantly detect the sneak attack by the white-clothed cultivator Yan Zhixian during the Demonic Beast Hunter assessment task.

Moreover, the tripod’s suppression capability had also started to demonstrate its brilliance.

At the time, under Luo Chen’s full exertion, the tripod forcibly suppressed Qian Ting, who was at the Golden Core Seventh Level, and later suppressed a Golden Core Ghost King comparable to the Late Golden Core Stage—these were clear proofs.

But evidently, the functions of the Primordial Chaos Tripod as a natal magic item were not limited to just these.

It inherently possessed five major capabilities.

Suppress, confine, bind, nurture, refine!

As mentioned above, only the suppress and bind functions had begun showing results.

Ordinarily, the Black King resided inside the tripod, which demonstrated the ”confine” utility, thanks to the internal self-generated spatial pocket.

However, as one of the three sacred tripods of Qingdan Valley, the tripod’s primary functions clearly lay in the latter two.

Nurture and refine!

Nurturing refers to cultivation, refining pertains to crafting.

Over the years, Luo Chen had used it for pill refinement, finding it extremely handy. Occasionally, during pill refinement, it even surpassed its order, producing higher-quality elixirs.

However, he had rarely tested the effects related to ”nurturing.”

If the magic item could be forged successfully this time in a single attempt, searching for the reason, the foremost possibility would be the nurturing capability of the Primordial Chaos Tripod playing a significant role.

”But why haven’t I discovered this ability’s magnitude before?”

According to Luo Chen’s estimation, the purification of impurities in the tripod would take at least several hundred years to reach perfection.

By then, only would the item achieve full harmony and unity. After all, during the initial forging of the item, far too many unprocessed raw materials had been incorporated.

Suddenly.

Luo Chen opened his mouth and spat out a small basin that landed in his hand.

”It’s because of this Dragon Rearing Basin!”

The definitive answer escaped his lips confidently.

The Dragon Rearing Basin acquired from Qian Ting primarily served to nurture magic items.

For the past five or six years, he had been using this treasure within his Sea of Qi to nurture the Primordial Chaos Tripod, Breaking Moon Wings, and other precious items.

Unbeknownst to him, the Breaking Moon Wings had gradually advanced to a Medium Grade Magic Item, thanks to their inherent years of accumulation.

The Primordial Chaos Tripod appeared unchanged on the surface but had, in fact, accelerated nurturing, quietly achieving enhancements.

The most significant improvement stemmed from the nurturing capability that shared its origins with the Dragon Rearing Basin!

”If this is the case, it also explains why I was able to forge the Youlan Xuan Armor, this Lower Grade Magic Item, while the system determined that I hadn’t reached the level of a Third Order Tool Casting Crafter.”

”Because, strictly speaking, I didn’t forge it at all—it was the Primordial Chaos Tripod nurturing it for me!”

Upon realizing this, Luo Chen’s mind immediately cleared.

All doubts vanished in an instant.

In fact, various stray thoughts began to arise in his mind.

”If it can nurture Youlan Xuan Armor, wouldn’t it mean it could also nurture the other five types of Mysterious Armor?”

”Perhaps even that Demon Emperor’s Metamorphosis!”

”No, not limited to that. By leveraging the Primordial Chaos Tripod, I can massively refine other magic items. Even if the system doesn’t recognize my Tool Casting Technique proficiency, being successful more often will still uncover the keys to mastery!”

Failure may be the mother of success.

But the successful will always succeed!

The two are not contradictory; the latter, however, can bring Luo Chen unimaginable gains.

Take defensive magic items, for instance!

Their value far exceeds that of ordinary offensive magic items.

Typical Lower Grade offensive magic items cost no more than a hundred thousand. Even with frequent warfare and skyrocketing weapon costs in the North Sea, the price increase barely breaks past the hundred-thousand threshold.

In contrast, defensive magic items are intrinsically priced one to two times higher than offensive items of the same order.

Given the current North Sea turmoil, a decently crafted defensive magic item could easily sell for three to four hundred thousand.

This isn’t even factoring in supply shortages.

At large-scale auctions, where the item aligns perfectly with the bidder’s Spirit Root attributes or personal affinity, it wouldn’t be surprising for someone to go to the lengths of impoverishing themselves.