Longevity begins with alchemy master

Chapter 730: Dead or mad, missing or missing, ominous sea ( words long chapter, please vote)
Little Qiongshan.

One of the fourth-level sacred mountains in Shenyuan City.

Even though it was only a small fourth-level spiritual vein, the skilled craftsmen of the Tianyuan Business Alliance had opened up hundreds of caves, which could accommodate many cultivators to practice at the same time.

In comparison, the Fulong Mountains of the Ten Thousand Immortals Association are vast, but the utilization of the spiritual veins is too crude.

In the spacious cave, Luo Chen walked out of the quiet room with a look of satisfaction on his face.

The concentration of spiritual energy here is quite high, which is very suitable for his current level of cultivation.

He didn't ask about the rent, as he knew that the rent for a cave of this level must be astronomical, and it was not even worth spending spirit stones to rent it.

Need connections!
It was because he had reached a cooperative relationship with Fu Chaosheng that the other party gave him the use of the software for free for a period of time.

After all, with every increase in Luo Chen's cultivation, he would be more confident in protecting his granddaughter in the future.

Fu Hongzhang waited quietly in the living room. Seeing Luo Chen's satisfied smile, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

"What does the real person think?"

Luo Chen smiled slightly and nodded.

"Thank you for not only collecting resources for me, but also arranging such a comfortable training environment."

Fu Hongzhang waved his hands quickly, "We will do our best to fulfill the orders given by the Patriarch. If you have any other needs, please let me know. I will do my best to meet them."

At this point, he said confidently: "Although I am not very capable, I have been involved in the business alliance's affairs for many years, and I have dabbled in both big and small things. The family head said in the letter that if the real master has any request, I will definitely satisfy it within my ability."

Luo Chen raised his eyebrows. Fu Chaosheng had indeed invested a lot of money!

Not only did he order people to prepare a batch of resources he needed before he arrived, he also put the family monks under his command.

Thinking of this, he pondered for a while.

Suddenly he asked, "I wonder if you know what the three scattered people of the Wanxian Association are doing now?"

Fu Hongzhang was stunned. He originally thought that the other party would be curious about the high-level cultivators in Shenyuan City or the situation in Zhongzhou, and he had already prepared a general response.

But he didn't expect that the other party was more interested in the three independent people from the North Sea.

But then he changed his mind and thought that it was natural for this man who called himself "Huang Sanren" to be interested in a senior who was also known as Sanren and became famous earlier.

Fu Hongzhang thought for a moment and then slowly told the information he knew.

"Crazy Wanderer, originally called Fengling Layman, had been cultivating in Fengling Temple. But later, Fengling Temple was occupied by the Yuanmo Sect, and he became a homeless cultivator. It was also during this time that Feng Wanderer's name gradually became known. After his trip to the Sinking Sea, he went mad. Feng Wanderer, then became Crazy Wanderer. Over the years, he has been wandering around the North Sea, like a dragon that can't be seen from head to tail. The information about him is too trivial. If you want to know more in detail, I can arrange for someone to send you a summary file later."

Luo Chen hummed, without commenting.

He was not very interested in this great cultivator in the late Nascent Soul stage, whose name he had only heard of but whose true appearance he had never seen.

His real target is the other two independent people!

"Yue Sanren..." Fu Hongzhang was a little hesitant when he mentioned the woman.

Luo Chen blinked, "What happened to her? I heard that the Wanxian Association collapsed under the attack of the monster coalition. How is Yue Sanren now?"

Fu Hongzhang hesitated and said, "It's hard to judge the situation of that senior."

"Oh?"

"Before the Monster Alliance attacked, she came to Shenyuan City once and borrowed a cross-sea teleportation array. Later, she returned hastily and led the Ten Thousand Immortals to resist the Monster Alliance. According to our intelligence, Yue Sanren showed an astonishing late Nascent Soul cultivation in that battle, and defeated seven Nascent Soul monster cultivators alone. She even sacrificed a treasure map to defeat the Monster Alliance. But at the critical moment, she withdrew, ignored the Ten Thousand Immortals, and fled alone, never to be seen again."

Luo Chen listened carefully and kept thinking in his mind.

Yue Sanren borrowed the teleportation array, probably to hunt me down at that time.

As the star-chasing monster and his own soul puppet died at the Cliff of Broken Souls, Yue Sanren lost track of himself and had to return empty-handed.

Needless to say, the other party's cultivation level had already been exposed when Ming Zhaotian arrived.

She was the weakest of the three wanderers in the past, but now she has become as good as the Crazy Wanderer, and her mind is clearer and her strength is more stable.

With her strength, combined with the manpower and resources of the Ten Thousand Immortals Association, as long as there is no Demon King in the late Nascent Soul stage among the invading enemies, the Ten Thousand Immortals Association will always be able to survive.

According to the intelligence, she almost managed to turn the tide and save the collapsing building.

But the bad thing lies in the word "almost".

"Why retreat?" Luo Chen asked in a deep voice.

Fu Hongzhang shook his head. "I don't know. Some people say that it was an ancient demon in the Spiritualization Stage who personally attacked her, while others say that she was attacked by the treasure map that might be a spiritual treasure. A more credible guess is that the appearance of the Wild Beast Ghost Fairy Tower frightened her. But in short, she is now completely missing, and no one knows where she went."

Luo Chen continued to think about these three possibilities, and first ruled out the possibility of the ancient demon in the form of a spirit.

As everyone knows, the Demon Alliance only dispatched one ancient demon who had reached the state of deification - the Sea Emperor Whale.

As soon as this monster was born, it confronted the powerful human being Li Canghai. How could it have the time to deal with a Nascent Soul cultivator?

As for the two points of the backlash of the spiritual treasure and the Wild Beast Ghost Fairy Tower, he was more inclined to the latter.

Without him!

Indeed, in the current North Sea cultivation world, the notoriety of the Ghost Immortal Tower is extremely terrible!

Wherever it goes, almost no one can be its opponent.

A big part of the reason why the two forces of good and evil joined forces to stop the war was that they wanted to draw out the great monks in the late Nascent Soul stage to target this beast.

But it’s better that she disappeared. At least I don’t have to be too wary of this woman before I leave Beihai.

However, Fu Hongzhang's next words made Luo Chen relax and his expression changed slightly.

"Speaking of which, the three great wanderers of the North Sea, who were once at the peak of their powers, have gone mad, died, or disappeared, and they have all been to the Sunken Sea. Sure enough, there is a reason why that sea is called the Sea of ​​Unholy Omen."

"Who died?"

Luo Chen blurted out, his eyes full of shock.

He can identify the crazy ones and the missing ones.

Could the dead person be the Blood Sanren?

but……

"Xue Sanren!" Fu Hongzhang spread his hands. "I just got the news not long ago. The battle between Xue Sanren and Xue Yanmo Luo turned the Wanli Lengguang Islands into a purgatory on earth. All the living creatures were annihilated. It was too inhumane. It is said that after the battle, a huge sea of ​​blood with a radius of ten thousand miles lingered, and from time to time, meaningless crazy roars were heard from it. There were even signs that the sea of ​​blood was spreading outward. This kind of movement attracted the powerful Li of the Canghai Zhengdao League, and he personally took action to solve the disaster of the sea of ​​blood. The price was that the Lengguang Islands, which once had the foundation of the fourth-level spiritual veins, completely became a place without spirits."

Luo Chen found it difficult to digest this news.

He whispered, "No matter how powerful a Nascent Soul cultivator is, how can he influence an area thousands of miles wide?"

The destructive power of a Nascent Soul cultivator is indeed terrifying, and Luo Chen has experienced it himself.

But that was in the case of "mobile warfare", constantly moving, constantly venting the aftermath of the fighting, thus affecting the celestial phenomena and landforms.

But according to Fu Hongzhang, after the battle of two bloods, a sea of ​​blood evolved. This sea of ​​blood seemed to have vitality and invaded outward.

Fu Hongzhang thought for a while and said, "According to the patriarch's guess, it may be that the Blood Nightmare Demon Luo has entrusted the power of the Blood Sea Patriarch of the Yuan Demon Sect. During the battle, that power got out of control, which led to the situation getting out of control. Otherwise, it can't explain why Li Da Neng would personally take action to clean up the mess."

The power of the God Transformation level can only be solved by the God Transformation level!
Luo Chen fell into silence.

The once-famous Xue Sanren fell just like that?
And is the Blood Nightmare Demon Luo, who had a grudge against him and from whom he only charged a small amount of interest, really dead?

Do they have the power of the Blood Sea Ancestor? Then when I retreated, I saw a huge shadow under the sea. Was it the manifestation of that power?
No one gave him accurate answers to these questions.

The information of Tianyuan Business Alliance is limited to the once glorious Lengguang Island, which has now become a true "land of no spirits".

There are no spiritual veins, no spiritual energy, and even the spiritual energy floating between heaven and earth will avoid that place.

Because of his silence, Fu Hongzhang didn't dare to say anything more.

The living room fell into an unspeakable silence.

It was not until Tianxuan's arrival that this range was broken.

"Master, everything has been counted. They are basically the items you requested in your list. The specific price, according to Fellow Daoist Fu's marking, is a total of 30 million low-grade spirit stones."

Thirty million?

Luo Chen looked up at Fu Hongzhang.

The other party smiled and said, "This is only the first batch. Since the number of herbs you want is too large, we can only collect this much in a short time. But don't worry, with our Tianyuan Business Alliance operating in Beihai for many years and covering business channels across the five continents, the subsequent herbs will be completely collected soon."

Luo Chen nodded, "Thank you for your help."

It’s so easy when you have a powerful force to help you!
To refine the Hongyuan Dan needed for spiritual practice and the Dahun Dan needed for soul refining, there are hundreds of types of medicinal materials needed, and the quantity required is enormous.

If Luo Chen wanted to collect all the information by himself, it would take at least a hundred years.

He was fed up with the days of neglecting his practice and running around just to collect medicinal herbs.

Luo Chen even wanted to give some of the materials for refining the Liquid Condensation Pill and the New Infant Formation Pill to the Tianyuan Business Alliance to help collect them.

Otherwise, once the cooperation between him and Fu Chaosheng ends, this channel will no longer exist.

The Tianyuan Business Alliance is powerful and does not give such preferential treatment to ordinary Yuanying Zhenren.

"By the way, Master, there is one more thing in here that is not on your list."

Luo Chen looked up and saw Tianxuan holding a bone plate and two small jars, one black and one white.

"What is this?" Luo Chen looked at Fu Hongzhang.

The other party was excited and introduced: "This is a set of Go. The chessboard is made of the leg bones of a third-level monster, and the chess pot is made of the same. The black and white chess pieces are made of second-level fluorescent shells, a specialty of the North Sea. Although it is not as good as the well-known chess sets of our Zhongzhou Tianyuan Dao Sect, it is also precious, especially with the local style of the North Sea. This is a personal gift from the owner of the family, and it is not included in the transaction, so the real person does not need to pay spirit stones."

"So, thank you very much."

After Fu Hongzhang left, Luo Chen took out two crystal-clear jade shell chess pieces, one black and one white, from the chess jar and rubbed them carefully, with a thoughtful look on his face.

It is said that the art of Go is very popular in Zhongzhou.

Almost all disciples of Tianyuan Taoist Sect can play a few chess moves.

Fuchao sent this thing to me, presumably to let me familiarize myself with the customs of Zhongzhou in advance, so as to facilitate my future trip to Zhongzhou?
His eyes fell on the vertical and horizontal lines on the chessboard, and Luo Chen became interested.

Before traveling through time, human technology had already developed the so-called "artificial intelligence", but Luo Chen did not know in which industries it had been applied.

But as a spectator, he also knows about the battle between Go players and artificial intelligence.

Before that, Go was known as an intellectual game that represents the highest level of human intelligence. This sport is not just a game, but also a manifestation of wisdom and strategy.

But after several top chess players lost games against artificial intelligence, the scientific community has announced that the sport has been completely conquered by artificial intelligence.

The wisdom of an immortal cultivator cannot be compared with that of the humans before he crossed over.

The vastness of the soul's foundation and the infinite amount of calculations involved in the flow of consciousness are enough to make mortals pale in comparison.

In this case, what kind of scene would it be like for high-level monks to compete in the sport of Go? A battle between humanoid computers?

Luo Chen smiled and put the chess piece back into the jar.

You only need to have a basic understanding of these things; there's no need to spend too much time on them.

He has no interest in becoming a chess master.

On the contrary, now that all kinds of medicinal herbs have been delivered to my door, I should also refine the corresponding elixirs, not only to resume my cultivation, but also to experiment to what extent my cultivation speed in the Nascent Soul stage will be improved with the help of elixirs.

In addition, the soul that was finally separated after forming the infant was only at the late Jindan level. He also needed to refine the Great Soul Pill to improve the strength of the soul and raise it to the Yuanying level as soon as possible.

He didn't even put away the chess board and chess pieces, but just placed them on the table in the living room.

In my spare time, I can study on my own. It doesn’t take much time and it can be a good pastime.

Just before entering the alchemy room, Luo Chen couldn't help but take another look at the chessboard on the table.

I vaguely remember that the poem at the entrance of Ming Zhaotian seemed to be about Go.

Does Demon Lord Liantian also like to play chess?

……

Luo Chen is waiting.

Wait for Fu Chaosheng to come back.

The other party is serving as the Grand Elder of the Beihai Tianyuan Merchant Alliance. His two hundred year term is about to expire. In addition, Fu Chaosheng is already old, so he is ready to step down and return home.

After he has dealt with all the matters, big and small, in the North Sea, he will come to Shenyuan City and go to Zhongzhou with Luo Chen.

At the same time, Luo Chen was also waiting for the Black King.

When they set foot on the Giant Whale Harbor, the Black King quietly hid and swam towards the former site of the Ten Thousand Immortals Association.

Luo Chen asked Hei Wang to see if he could find out the whereabouts of some old friends.

The Fulong Mountains have been occupied by monsters. It would be troublesome for Luo Chen to go there, so it would be more appropriate for Hei Wang to go.

During the waiting time, Luo Chen was not idle.

After the baby is formed, many things need to be replanned, and it is difficult to know where to start.

But along the way, Luo Chen has gradually sorted out his plan and prioritized it.

The life-defining skills are the most important, but not the first thing to be solved, because the Great Perfection of the "Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Sutra" is still available. Even if you want to create your own skills, it will not be done overnight.

The same is true for body training.

Therefore, he put the priority on the matter of elixir.

He had been studying the recipes of Hongyuan Pill and Dahun Pill for some time and thought he had memorized them by heart.

In addition, he had experience in refining fifth-grade divine elixirs in the alchemy world. Even though he had not yet been promoted to a fifth-grade alchemist, refining fourth-grade elixirs was no longer a difficult task for him.

While processing the medicinal materials, Luo Chen began to try to practice.

In his spare time, he would guide Sang Jinghe in his practice.

The other party had only been in the Dan stage for a short time, yet he had been accompanying him everywhere and personally handling some trivial matters for him. Luo Chen naturally could not treat him harshly.

Tianxuan's practice has already been on the right track, so Luo Chen doesn't need to worry about it.

Therefore, Tianxuan’s main task recently is to communicate with Fu Hongzhang and seek some resources that Luo Chen needs through him.

For example, books on puppetry.

Puppets are a minor method that is troublesome, costly, and far less convenient than enslaving monsters or making connections and hiring thugs. Therefore, they have never been mainstream in the world of immortal cultivation.

The difficulty of searching for the manuals on this kind of martial arts is no less than that of the fourth-level martial arts.

Luo Chen left these matters to Tianxuan and Fu Hongzhang, while he himself stayed at home, practicing in the cave in Xiaoqiong Mountain.

In the huge Shenyuan City, there was a new Nascent Soul Real Person, but for a while it seemed that no one knew about it.

But it’s not true that no one knows.

Fu Hongzhang's recent frequent actions have attracted the attention of some interested people in the Tianyuan Business Alliance.

In the white tower.

Shen Wandou, the great elder of the Beihai Tianyuan Business Alliance, narrowed his eyes slightly as he listened to the report from the cultivators below.

Finally, the monk concluded:
"Elder Fu's term of office should be coming to an end, so he sent the family monks to collect a large amount of resources from the North Sea and prepare to bring them back to Zhongzhou!"

In response, Shen Wandou shook his head.

"Although his wealthy family has a long history, it has never had many descendants. Most of the cultivators in his family serve as stewards in the sect and have little experience in alchemy. Those various medicinal herbs are obviously not prepared for his family."

The subordinate hesitated and said, "I heard that Elder Fu's granddaughter, Fu Qinglan, achieved enlightenment at the age of 300. She is truly a genius among the younger generation. Perhaps these resources are prepared for her!"

Shen Wandou sneered.

"A true genius of our sect, except when they are breaking through a realm, has always disdained to frequently use elixirs to assist in their practice. Fu Chaosheng cannot be so unwise as to seek momentary pleasure and ruin his granddaughter's lifelong path."

"This..." The subordinate was confused.

Shen Wandou stopped sneer and started to think carefully.

If Fu Chaosheng wanted to take some resources back for trading before leaving and make some last-minute extra money, that's not impossible.

But the resources he learned about were extremely diverse, but not of high quality, and except for a few types, they were not rare. Even considering the price difference between Beihai and Zhongzhou, he actually couldn't make much money.

Obviously, these resources are not for my own use.

But such a large-scale move to Xiaoqiongshan...

"Go check the recent entry and exit of Xiaoqiong Mountain to see if there are any strangers, especially that fourth-level cave."

……

"Is this the Great Soul Pill?"

Inside the alchemy room, Luo Chen held a dark pill in his hand, his eyes filled with surprise.

Especially in the depths of his soul, he felt an instinctive desire.

Like, hungry?
After two months, he finally used soul essence as the main ingredient to refine a fourth-level elixir from the alchemy tradition of Lord Liantian Mo, the Great Soul Pill, which could improve the quality of Nascent Soul cultivators!

When the elixir was formed, a strange phenomenon appeared!
At that time, inside the alchemy room, there were ghosts howling and complaints, as if countless wronged dead souls burst out at that moment.

There is only one reason for this situation, and it must be caused by the soul essence of the main material!

However, the method of producing soul essence passed down by the Yuanmo Sect has clearly expelled all the remaining thoughts of the dead souls, and what remains is the extremely pure soul energy.

The soul essence he extracted from Duanli that year was just like this, with only a few remnants of the original demon's remnants.

It is normal for some disciples of the Yuanmo Sect to have regrets, after all, their soul essence has been refined by someone else.

Belonging to someone else.

But the batch of soul essences he had in his hands now were unrefined raw materials, and should not contain any remnants of living souls.

Now it seems that the Yuanmo Sect still has a trick up its sleeve!

The vassals under his command are simply unable to completely eliminate the lingering thoughts of the dead.

In this case, it would be strange if the Nether Fire Monster did not suffer backlash when he used such soul essence to feed his own original Nether Fire and gave it spiritual intelligence.

He was lucky because the pill recipe stated that a special alchemy technique was needed to deal with the residual thoughts in the soul essence. He found that alchemy technique in the seventy-two volumes of the alchemy book. After some study, he was able to refine a great soul pill without any side effects.

"Soul-pulling technique, this kind of wonderful technique, can it be considered as alchemy technique?"

After Luo Chen sighed, he subconsciously licked his dry lips.

He was a little impatient and wanted to try the Great Soul Pill.

It’s better to choose a day than to hit it!

Luo Chen left the alchemy room, took a shower and washed up, then entered the training room with the Great Soul Pill.

Not long after, Shen Wandou came alone outside Xiaoqiong Mountain.

Looking at the misty Xiaoqiong Mountain, his eyes narrowed slightly.

"Fu Qinglan just had her baby, so logically she shouldn't be so greedy to participate in the 500-year competition. But the Fu family has been in decline for a long time, and the reputation of the family is shaky. There's no guarantee that Fu Chaosheng doesn't have that idea."

"If he can find strong external aid to support Fu Qingqing in her cultivation in Mirage Dragon Cave Heaven, maybe there will be a chance."

"Liu Yuan is the person I have my eyes on. Although his aptitude is not outstanding, his character is extremely strong. He has the ambition to promote the Liu family to an aristocratic family, and there is no one in my Shen family who is suitable to enter the Mirage Dragon Cave Heaven. If I help him succeed, I will not only establish a good relationship with him, but also ensure that the Shen family will not fall in the Dao Sect for a thousand years."

"This time, I want to find out more about this Huang Sanren for Liu Yuan!"

With his mind settled, he continued moving forward.

Wherever he went, the monks from Xiaoqiong Mountain all respectfully called him "Grand Elder".

He kept a stern face until they arrived at the fourth-level cave, then he smiled and released his faint Nascent Soul aura.

Tianxuan hurried out, feeling the vague sense of oppression, and his face tightened.

"Tianxuan, hello, senior!"

Shen Wandou looked at Tianxuan suspiciously. There was something strange about the aura of this woman.

But he didn't think much about it, and smiled and said: "I am Shen Wandou, the great elder of the Beihai Tianyuan Merchant Alliance. I came here just to pay a visit to Huang Sanren."

Tian Xuan hesitated and said, "My master is currently practicing, so I'm afraid it's inconvenient for him to see guests."

Shen Wandou frowned.

"Is that so? I heard that Huang Sanren was searching for puppetry, and I happened to have an ancient book, so I wanted to exchange ideas with him. If that's the case, then that's it."

After saying that, he turned around and left.

At this moment, a special force came like ripples.

"Fellow Daoist, why don't you come in and have a chat?"

Shen Wandou showed a look of surprise, "What a powerful spiritual sense!"

He took a deep breath and strode into the cave.

(End of this chapter)