Longevity begins with alchemy master

Chapter 746: There are three wealthy families, nine aristocratic families, and only the poor family stands out
As the sky was about to brighten, Luo Chen put away a furnace of pills with satisfaction.

At his current level, even if the Withering and Flourishing True Fire is in a state of transformation and is not convenient to use, he can still activate the Nascent Soul True Fire to refine pills and cast weapons.

In fact, using real fire to refine pills is the norm for most alchemists.

After all, not every alchemist can successfully subdue the right sourceless fire at a low level. At a higher level, those sourceless fires of lower grade are not as stable and reliable as their own Nascent Soul True Fire.

Luo Chen looked at the Great Soul Pill in his hand. It was dark in color with a faint golden glow inside.

"The medicinal power is restrained, but not released. It is ordinary but contains mystical wonders."

"It is undoubtedly top quality!"

Luo Chen took a glance at the attribute panel and sure enough, the proficiency of the Great Soul Pill on it had been quietly promoted to the top level.

In this way, he would be more confident when taking the Great Soul Pill to refine his soul next time.

When it comes to soul refining, Luo Chen's eyes showed a strange look.

I didn’t notice it before, but when I was practicing the Soul-Splitting Technique recently, I gradually became aware of the changes in my soul.

It’s not a split soul!

Thanks to taking one medium-grade Great Soul Pill every month, the split soul has already recovered to the early Nascent Soul level. There is nothing to say about it.

The focus of the change is on the main soul!

At some point, Luo Chen's main soul had made great progress, and there was even a faint feeling of fullness and roundness.

“Is it the improvement brought about by that epiphany?”

Luo Chen attributed the reason to the epiphany that lasted for half a year. Otherwise, he would not be able to find a suitable answer.

After all, this Soul Splitting Technique is based on splitting the main soul. When one's own soul has no more progress, it will continue to split the main soul and strengthen the sub-souls, thereby indirectly improving the soul's foundation. In terms of cultivating the main soul, it is actually not very helpful, at most it makes it tougher.

"Unless I break through the realm, my main soul has reached a bottleneck and there is no further progress."

"In the past, I could only practice slowly and wait for the breakthrough. Now, with the Soul Splitting Technique, I can continue to improve my soul foundation."

Luo Chen knew very well that when the main soul was raised to its limit, it was a signal that it could be split into two souls.

Although the second soul is far from being comparable to the main soul, he doesn't mind splitting out the third soul.

By then, we will be able to move forward together, grow together, and improve together. Wouldn’t that be wonderful?

But it's only then, the Mirage Dragon Cave Heaven Competition is imminent, and it's not the best time to split the main soul and let it fall into a weak period. We have to wait until this matter is over before we can talk about it.

Luo Chen put away the Great Soul Pill, cleaned up the Hunyuan Cauldron, and prepared to go out.

While cleaning the Hunyuan Ding, he suddenly thought of it.

"At that time, how did the Alchemy Saint Chu Yan realize that I was an alchemist, and even an alchemist who might have refined a fifth-level pill?"

Knowing that he might be an alchemist, this is easier to explain.

After all, Fu Chaosheng would definitely provide relevant information to Star Gate. He collected so many medicinal herbs himself, but he didn't ask anyone else to refine pills. We can only speculate that he digested them himself.

But the groundless fantasy of refining fifth-grade elixirs is a bit sensational.

“They may know that I have been to the Sunken Sea, but they definitely don’t know that I seized the alchemy inheritance of the Demon Lord Liantian in the Land of Fallen Demons.”

"There were not many survivors in Ming Zhao Tian at that time. Han Zhan, Xue Sanren, and Xue Yan Mo Luo were all dead. Yue Sanren disappeared, and Haijiao Tianmu was a demon. The Gu family brothers and sisters hid their heads and showed their tails, and dared not show up easily."

"The only ones who really knew that I came from the Dan Palace were the old Taoist Jiyuan from the Penglai Immortal Sect and Yue Sanren's younger sister, Fairy Fei Leng. The former has already died. The latter..."

Luo Chen drew a clue map in his mind.

The two sisters, Fairy Fei Leng and Yue Sanren, are suspected to be from the Penglai Immortal Sect. The Penglai Immortal Sect has a deep connection with the Tianyuan Dao Sect in Zhongzhou. If Fairy Fei Leng joined the Tianyuan Dao Sect to avoid her sister's pursuit, and leaked the information about Luo Chen...

"wrong!"

Soon, Luo Chen overturned the clue map himself.

The reason is very simple. If that were the case, Star Gate would not have given him only a perfunctory identity as a foreign affairs guest.

Being able to refine fifth-grade elixirs in the early Nascent Soul stage, he is definitely the next Alchemy Saint.

Therefore, Stargate had no idea about this information.

Therefore, Dan Sheng Chu Yan's judgment of him was merely based on her own intuition.

"Is it the attraction between alchemists themselves?"

"Or maybe it's the magic of the alchemy principles he cultivated to achieve the Divine Transformation Realm?"

After forming his infant, Luo Chen studied hard on many classics related to higher realms.

Although most of the information is vague, some people have made a lot of records about the road ahead.

There are three thousand avenues and countless rules.

The Tao is unpredictable and difficult to estimate, so weak cultivators can only start by comprehending the laws step by step, and thus continue to approach the true Tao.

Among the countless laws, there is no distinction between good and bad, but there are main laws and left-hand laws.

There is no need to explain the laws of the universe; they construct the yin and yang, five elements, wind and thunder, space, etc. of the entire world.

This type of law is the most complex and tedious. Often, under one law, there are many laws of true meaning. However, once it is cultivated to perfection, it is often the closest to the origin of the Tao.

As for the left-handed rules, most of them often come from the hundreds of arts of cultivating immortals.

Such as music, chess, calligraphy and painting, alchemy, formations, weapons and talismans, and some people who are unconventional have comprehended extreme laws from the massive killing.

If Alchemy Saint Chu Yan really achieved the God Transformation Stage through the unorthodox principles of alchemy, then it seems understandable that he sensed that he had once refined a fifth-grade elixir.

But in this case, how much trust would my denial at that time have in her?
For a moment, Luo Chen felt a little uneasy.

……

It was as warm as spring inside the cave, but freezing cold outside.

Logically speaking, high-level spiritual lands have long had the ability to improve their own weather environment and influence the local water and soil.

But whether it is the Cangwu Mountain that Luo Chen had visited before, or the Tiandi Peak where he lives now, the changes of the four seasons are constantly evolving according to the laws of nature.

Especially the Tiandi Peak, which appears more natural.

When Luo Chen came out of the cave, he looked at the snowflakes falling from the sky. He did not use any magic power to block them, and let them fall automatically on his head and shoulders.

Because of the divine ban of withering and flourishing, his hair turned gray and his face was covered with wrinkles. He no longer looked young and looked more like a middle-aged man.

The white snow fell on her hair, making her temperament more vicissitudes.

For Luo Chen, it is actually very simple to change this situation.

Either by wasting a little mana or activating the source power, one can instantly restore his normal youthful appearance.

But he had no idea.

Even in the world of immortal cultivation where appearance is not the only thing that can determine one's realm, those who are too young will often attract too much attention.

Especially, Luo Chen is really not that old, but his realm is so high!

The admiration of others may make them feel proud, but it may also often bring them extra trouble.

That's fine.

Luo Chen smiled slightly and looked at the person coming in the wind and snow.

Fu Qinglan, wearing a sky blue dress, extended the invitation with a sweet smile.

"Brother Dao, let's go!"

……

Standing beside a gurgling stream, Luo Chen watched Fu Qinglan hand over an invitation to a Jindan cultivator.

He looked around.

The stream was gurgling, without any hurry. There was no sound in front, but there was a surge of spiritual energy behind. It could be seen that many people were rushing here.

The chess master Ke Lianshan played against the famous player Dao Yin, and this battle attracted too many people's attention.

It can be said that it is definitely the top event before the Dan Saint's ascension and the five hundred years' competition, far surpassing the previous minor fights.

"I used to be so humble, but now I can sit here and have a seat at the table. It's really sad!"

Luo Chen felt emotional.

"Brother Luo, you can go in now."

"Ah."

This was the first time that Luo Chen truly stepped into the gate of Tianyuan Taoist Sect.

Taoyuan is the place where the chess master Ke Lianshan practiced.

There is a fourth-grade superior spiritual vein inside. After Luo Chen passed the formation at the end of the stream, the magnificent scenery of Taoyuan instantly came into view.

Unlike what one imagines, with peach blossoms blooming everywhere and the whole mountain covered in crimson red, all one can see are crisscrossing paths and spiritual fields everywhere.

This scene made Luo Chen a little dazed.

Perhaps seeing his doubts, Fu Qinglan reminded him: "Brother, why not release your spiritual sense and look at the area within a radius of a thousand miles."

Luo Chen hesitated, "Wouldn't that be a bit rude?"

“Just avoid other people and just observe the landscape.”

Luo Chen understood and released his spiritual sense.

In an instant, the general topography of Taoyuan came into my mind.

After seeing this, Luo Chen felt it was amazing.

Those crisscrossing paths look like fertile fields, but when you look down, they are actually just square lines.

Every time the lines intersect, there is a spiritual spring.

In the spiritual field, the large number of flowers, plants and trees planted are like chess pieces, playing against each other.

There are gladioli with leaves and branches like swords, sharp as swords, and there are ghost trees with shade to protect against foreign enemies...

For a moment, Taoyuan, which seemed peaceful and harmonious, gave people a feeling of war and brilliance.

Luo Chen withdrew his spiritual sense and took a deep breath.

"The Chess Saint has used the Peach Garden as the chessboard, the fields as the lines, and the spiritual plants as the chess pieces to construct a grand chess game!"

Fu Qinglan smiled slightly, "Brother Dao, you have good eyesight. I didn't notice it at first. It was only after the elders of the sect reminded me that I knew Brother Ke's exquisite method. Brother Ke is not only a chess master, but also has an excellent skill in cultivating spiritual plants. He combined the two and arranged this natural chess game. With the help of the competition between flowers, plants and trees, the direction of the chess game naturally changes... It is said that when the chess game is over, Brother Ke has a great chance to comprehend the law and ascend to the godhood!"

Luo Chen blinked, half believing and half doubting.

He admitted that the chess game was extremely exquisite, but can something man-made be called "natural"?

Luo Chen didn't know and had no intention of finding out. He followed Fu Qinglan and walked towards the depths of Taoyuan.

Wherever he passed, the figures of monks became more and more frequent.

Fu Qinglan seized this opportunity and began to introduce some people to him unilaterally.

"That's Xiang Qi, the most outstanding genius of the Xiang family this generation, and one of the most dazzling prodigies of our generation. He was in the Dao stage at the age of twelve, practicing Qi at the age of sixteen, and building his foundation at the age of twenty-six. At the age of a hundred, he successfully formed a pill. Ten years ago, he was promoted to the Nascent Soul stage. At this time, he is less than two hundred and fifty years old, and his talent is still better than mine."

"And the Xiang family is the head of the thirty-six noble families!"

"This time, he will also enter the Mirage Dragon Cave Heaven. His protector is said to be a newly promoted Nascent Soul master invited by the family from the Western Desert, known as the Wrathful Vajra. But today, the Wrathful Vajra did not appear. I guess he is not very interested in the grand event of the chess world."

Luo Chen watched from afar a young man flying across the sky, surrounded by many followers, like the moon surrounded by stars.

Elephant home?
He had heard of the name of this family and had even dealt with its affiliated faction, Wanxiang Tower.

He indeed has the aura of being the head of the thirty-six families. He can set up a separate banner outside the Tianyuan Business Alliance and trade in the North Sea.

Although it is impossible to detect the other party with spiritual sense, judging from the fluctuations of magic power that seem to echo with the heaven and earth, he is indeed at the initial stage of Nascent Soul.

It's almost the same as Fu Qinglan.

"That one is Liu..."

"Master Long Yuan!" Luo Chen's eyes fixed and he said so.

Fu Qinglan was a little surprised, but then he understood.

"Brother Liu Yuan, when he was traveling in the North Sea, he did use the name Long Yuan as his Taoist name. Brother Luo, could it be that you had contact with him when you were in the North Sea?"

Luo Chen curled the corners of his mouth, neither admitting nor denying.

True Man Long Yuan was once one of the seven true men of the Ten Thousand Immortals Society. He was also the only independent cultivator who, as a nine-star demon hunter, obtained the resources of the Ten Thousand Immortals Society and advanced to the Nascent Soul stage.

Now it seems that he is not a casual cultivator at all, but a disciple of Dao Sect, who just came into the world to gain experience.

Fu Qinglan transmitted his consciousness and said solemnly, "Among the thirteen Daoist Yuanyings who entered the Mirage Dragon Cave Heaven this time, Senior Brother Liu is the only one who is from a poor family and not a wealthy family."

"He could have led the Liu family to be promoted to the rank of aristocratic families a long time ago, but he kept delaying. He must have wanted to gain something in the Mirage Dragon Cave Heaven, so as to promote his family in the future and obtain more resources."

"Originally, we wouldn't care if a poor family member participated in the competition."

"But Senior Brother Liu is different. He took the longest time to form his infant, nearly a hundred years. After forming his infant, he never took action and suppressed his realm with secret methods. Only in this way did he gain the qualification to enter the Mirage Dragon Cave Heaven. Rumor has it that Senior Brother Liu went through life and death in the North Sea and has a lot of experience in fighting. By then, not only will his protector be a big threat, but he himself can also be regarded as a combat force!"

Luo Chen nodded carefully.

He had heard the name of Master Long Yuan countless times.

Being able to obtain the status of a nine-star demon hunter as a casual cultivator is a testament to one's past achievements.

Back then in the Ten Thousand Immortals Association, none of those high-star monster hunters were easy to deal with.

In the battle at the same level, Diaosou Zihou and others are no less inferior to the upper sect disciples, and they are only eight-star demon hunters.

Zhenren Longyuan's demon hunter star level is higher than theirs, which shows that his ability is superior to theirs.

Speaking of which, after comparing Fu Qinglan's introduction with previous intelligence, Luo Chen has already figured out the general situation of this competition.

There is no need to explain much about the competition at a lower level.

There are a total of thirteen people in the Nascent Soul stage.

In terms of their background, there were three from wealthy families, nine from aristocratic families, and one from a poor family.

True Man Long Yuan happens to be the outstanding one among the humble families!

"I wonder who his protector is? But the weak woman beside him?"

After Luo Chen estimated the chances of winning or losing in a fight between himself and Master Long Yuan, he asked casually.

Fu Qinglan was about to answer when loud laughter came from behind them.

"It's Huang Sanren, long time no see!"

"Fellow Daoist Luo!"

Luo Chen turned around and saw the two familiar faces, Winter Mountain Man and Lu Qiuzhen.

"It's you two fellow Taoists. It's been a long time since we last met. How have you been?"

He smiled back.

Although they were not close friends, at least on the surface, they all came from the North Sea immortal cultivation world.

Now that they have all joined the Tiandi Peak Star Gate, it is only natural for them to move around occasionally.

Fu Qinglan greeted him coldly, not as casual as he was with Luo Chen.

After all, he is a disciple of the holy land, so he has a sense of pride.

Normally, apart from things related to Go, she was always cold and arrogant. Luo Chen was an exception, because he was a protector and it was related to the big match, so he had to build a good relationship, so he took the initiative to lower his posture and get closer to him.

The two of them didn't mind her cold attitude. They smiled and chatted with Luo Chen about the past of the North Sea and the latest information.

They are official guests of Star Gate and have the right to access some relatively new intelligence, unlike Luo Chen who still has to rely on the relationship with the Fu family.

From Lu Qiuzhen, Luo Chen learned that the war in the North Sea was intensifying, the Ghost Immortal Tower was becoming more and more arrogant, and two late Nascent Soul cultivators from the Canghai Righteous Alliance had personally taken action, but they were unable to stop the Ghost Immortal Tower head-on.

Li Canghai, a powerful god who had always been elusive, had also begun to frequently appear in the North Sea's immortal cultivation world in the past two years.

The strange thing is that he showed up not to support the war, but to collect the sacred mountains and seas.

This action undoubtedly confirmed Luo Chen's guess back then.

The powerful Li Canghai is really using the North Sea spiritual land to refine treasures!
I just don't know if Tianyuan Taoist Sect has discovered this clue?
Because of the interruption of the two people, the conversation between Luo Chen and Fu Qinglan had to be interrupted for a while. Unknowingly, they had arrived at the chess game scene.

It was in a peach orchard.

Amid the falling petals, there were two people, one old and one young, sitting inside.

There were shadowy figures all around, and the atmosphere was lively yet depressing because no one was talking.

Before Luo Chen focused his attention on the two players playing chess, he suddenly became aware that someone was looking at him... and Fu Qinglan next to him.

At this moment, Luo Chen clearly felt the woman next to him tremble slightly.

Luo Chen looked over there openly. In an area of ​​the peach forest that was most suitable for watching the game, there was a man with luxurious clothes and outstanding temperament, holding a white fan and staring at them with great interest.

Facing Luo Chen's gaze, the young man's mouth corners slightly raised.

"Who is that?"

Fu Qinglan lowered her head, her black hair covering her eyes, and her fingers were unconsciously entangled together.

"Shi family, Shi Ju!"

(End of this chapter)