Longevity begins with alchemy master

Chapter 755: A hundred years in the cave, a year in the world, Luo Chen suffered a loss

"Is it still not enough?"

Luo Chen showed a rare look of impatience.

Fu Qinglan apologized, "I'm sorry, my talent is dull, and two phantom cores can't help me make any further progress."

Dull aptitude?

Luo Chen shook his head. How could someone who could form a fetus at the age of three hundred be considered dull?

In the final analysis, the amount of spiritual energy contained in the phantom core is too small to allow the cultivator to persist to the point of comprehending the true meaning of the law.

What he was really unhappy about was “time!”

Extending his hand, while Fu Qinglan was puzzled, Luo Chen said, "Let me see your phantom chess."

Fu Qinglan was puzzled, but did not resist and handed over his phantom chess piece.

Luo Chen looked down and saw that the white phantom chess piece was stained with black light, about 200 to 300 percent of it.

The power of the mirage dragon will erode the black chess pieces of those who enter the cave heaven. The deeper the erosion, the shorter the time they stay in the cave heaven.

And now!
"Two phantom cores have only been eroded this much in a year. In other words, if I cannot comprehend the true meaning of the law, won't I have to stay in this cave for decades, or even hundreds of years?"

This is the main reason why Luo Chen really cannot accept it!

It was impossible for him to spend nearly a hundred years of his time on someone else's training trial.

Moreover, this is very different from what Fu Chaosheng said before, that the Tianyuan Competition would only take one or two years at most.

What went wrong?
While he was in doubt, he saw the hesitant look on the face of the woman opposite him.

Luo Chen asked tentatively: "After absorbing two phantom cores in succession, what did you gain?"

Fu Qinglan hesitated for a moment, then slowly said, "I did get some results, but I'm not sure if they are real or fake. If you want to hear about it, I can tell you."

……

It is still the plain surrounded by three mountains.

It’s still the same formation and bait as before.

However, this time, Luo Chen did not let Fu Qinglan come with him. Instead, he let her recuperate in the cave by herself and came alone to wait for the opportunity.

Standing on a hilltop, Luo Chen's eyes did not linger on the Tianji Pill bait in the plain. Anyway, the Tianji Pill was protected by a formation and his natal magic weapon, so nothing would go wrong.

He couldn't help looking around now, as if he was looking for something.

But no matter how I looked at it, I couldn't detect any clues that were different from the outside world.

Fu Qinglan's words a few days ago were still lingering in his mind.

"The phantom beasts are the products of the remaining consciousness of the mirage dragon. They instinctively try to revive and reproduce the spirit of the mirage dragon in their bodies. The opening of the mirage dragon cave once every five hundred years is not only an opportunity for us, but also a way to clear out high-level phantom beasts to prevent the mirage dragon from reviving. When practicing with the help of the phantom core, we must eliminate the influence of the mirage dragon's soulless consciousness and use its inner spiritual power..."

"From the phantom beast consciousness of the phantom core, I discovered that there is a big difference between this cave and the outside world. That is the difference in the speed of time flow. The specific ratio is about..."

One hundred to one ratio!

Yes, it was this number that made Luo Chen restless for several days in a row.

He never thought that he would enter such a secret place that only existed in legends!
In the countless fairy tales, there are naturally descriptions of various people with predestined relationships entering secret realms.

These secret realms are also different, some offer countless opportunities, some are extremely dangerous, and some are even worse, have various restrictions.

Luo Chen encountered few secret realms in his life, and entered even fewer secret realms.

But I also gained a lot of understanding about these secret places.

For example, the secret realm after the death of a great master who has reached the state of transformation is not suitable for most Nascent Soul masters to enter, because the true meaning of the laws left behind by the great master who has reached the state of transformation will affect the path of those who come after him. Only those who have reached a similar path can enter.

This is a restriction on the road.

Although the Land of Fallen Demons seems to be full of dangers at first glance, in fact, the entry requirements are not overly strict.

Not to mention Yuanying Zhenren, even Jindan cultivators can enter it.

Even some people who have established their foundation in cultivation, if they are brave enough, can give it a try.

If there is any restriction, it is probably that those great gods who have comprehended the laws are not allowed to enter, otherwise they are likely to die like the Blood Sea Ancestor.

This time, the secret realm of the Mirage Dragon Cave was unexpectedly a time-limited secret realm as described in the legend: "One day in the cave is a thousand years in the world."

It's just that the flow of time is in reverse.

A hundred years in the cave, but only one year in the world!
The ratio of the time flow rate between the Mirage Dragon Cave Heaven and the Mountain and Sea Realm reached one hundred to one.

Moreover, if a cultivator is in a cave, his lifespan will flow normally, and will remain the same even after he goes out.

It won't happen that one comes in at 500 years old, spends one year in the outside world, and then goes out at 100 years old, and then the life span is still 501 years old. Instead, when the deadline comes, it will indeed be 100 years less than the cultivators of the same realm who have experienced the cave heaven!

Luo Chen didn't know why this was happening. It might be related to the laws and principles mastered by wild beasts like the Mirage Dragon.

What Luo Chen finally understood was why Tianyuan Dao Sect only reserved this opportunity for those who had just reached the Nascent Soul stage!
The life span of a Nascent Soul cultivator is no more than a thousand years.

Minus the hundreds of years of cultivation before reaching the Nascent Soul stage, there are only a few hundred years left in total. How could one be willing to waste a hundred years for nothing?

Only the newly promoted Nascent Soul cultivators, with particularly good aptitude, who broke through to the Nascent Soul stage at a very young age, have sufficient lifespan to withstand the consumption of the Mirage Dragon Cave Heaven.

This is the biggest restriction in the Five Hundred Years Competition!

As for other factors such as the initial Nascent Soul state and the instinctive closeness to heaven and earth that Luo Chen speculated, they were only a small part of the considerations.

“No wonder in the legends, when a large sect encounters an unknown secret realm, they often let their disciples explore it first. If they accidentally encounter a secret realm with an uncertain flow of time, it would be too terrifying for a high-level cultivator with a limited lifespan to go out and die of old age in an instant.”

"But in this case, Fu Chaosheng is going too far!"

Luo Chen was angry because Fu Chaosheng did not tell him the secrets of the cave in advance.

In other words, when Fu Qinglan mentioned the discovery of different time flow speeds, he lost his composure. The sudden burst of terrifying momentum made the other party silent for a while. The reason why he did not hunt the fantasy beast together this time was also because he was still afraid.

a hundred years!

How many hundred years do we have in our life?

Luo Chen had only practiced cultivation for about two hundred years in his entire life. If he had known that it would take a hundred years in the Mirage Dragon Cave Heaven, no matter how good the conditions Fu Chaosheng offered, he would not have agreed to this cooperation.

"I don't know if the other protectors know this information, or if they are heading for the tiger mountain even though they know there is a tiger there."

"But from my perspective, it seems that Fu Chaosheng had been giving me all kinds of benefits before, but in fact, he had already secretly marked the price, which was my 100-year lifespan!"

"I was careless and suffered a huge loss!" Luo Chen took a deep breath and found a stone to sit down.

First practice the "Micro-Dust Element Technique" to calm yourself down.

Then I began to think carefully.

The first is the possible loss of a hundred years of life. Although he is angry, this price Luo Chen can still afford.

His lifespan was already far beyond that of his peers, and when he was promoted to the Nascent Soul stage, it reached 1,500 years in one go!

Although it is no longer like the previous realms, where the lifespan limit increases with the advancement of the small realms, it is stuck at fifteen hundred years.

But fifteen hundred years is far longer than the ordinary Nascent Soul's lifespan of one thousand years.

He could afford a few hundred years.

Moreover, it is not necessarily necessary to lose so much. As long as he can capture enough phantom cores and help Fu Qinglan comprehend the law sooner, he can get out sooner...

As he thought about it, Luo Chen's calm mood turned violent again!
Since Fu Chaosheng didn't tell me first, why should I try my best to help Fu Qinglan?
This anger is not only because of Fu Chaosheng's concealment, but also because of his own "arrogance".

Since embarking on the path of spiritual practice.

At first, he was in awe of the monks from the sect. He was in awe of the power behind them and their powerful strength.

But as my strength improves, I am no longer afraid of these things.

On the contrary, they began to look down upon these sect monks who were trained in a greenhouse.

In particular, the inferior character of the younger generation of Tianyuan Dao Sect contributed to his contempt.

But now, reality hit him hard.

The younger generation might not be very scheming, but the older generation of the sect's monks are all shrewd people, so how can I get a big advantage from them?

"Next time you deal with these old guys, you have to think twice and weigh the pros and cons."

After calming down, Luo Chen analyzed what he had paid and what Fu Chaosheng had paid, and found that the other party had indeed calculated to the extreme.

If he worked hard enough, he could help Fu Qinglan comprehend the laws earlier and leave the Mirage Dragon Cave Heaven, and at most he would lose a few decades of his lifespan.

The other party provided a large amount of soul essence, withered fire marrow, elixirs, the status of a foreign affairs guest of Tiandi Peak, and the use of manpower and material resources of the Tianyuan Merchant Alliance to collect massive resources for him...all these benefits added up were barely enough to hire a Yuanying Zhenren to run around for decades.

Even if Luo Chen were to do those things and collect those resources by himself, it would still take almost the same amount of time, and he would even have to put in extra energy and encounter extra problems.

"Forget it, let's go out and talk to that old man!"

Luo Chen exhaled and continued his previous thoughts.

They come, the security!

He couldn't just let decades of his best years go to waste.

The spiritual energy in this world is scattered, and it is not very suitable for practicing Qi training.

Also, because he had to protect Fu Qinglan, he could not release his Nascent Soul body like the other party did, to merge into the heaven and earth without any guard and try to comprehend the laws.

Thinking of having to protect that stupid yet clear-minded woman, Luo Chen felt nauseous as if he had eaten a fly but had to swallow it.

He shook his head violently, forcibly suppressing the nausea in his heart.

"It's difficult to improve your realm significantly, but slight adjustments are no problem. The second level of Nascent Soul is just around the corner."

"For the rest of the time, I need to spend more time on myself."

"I can improve my proficiency in the two fourth-level spells, Fire Phoenix Spreading Across the Prairie and Flame Dragon Coming to the World."

The Mirage Dragon Cave Heaven is extremely vast, and it is extremely convenient to practice here.

Not just spells!
There is also the transformation of the Withering and Flourishing True Fire. After obtaining the Tianji Pill, Luo Chen can take the final step at any time as long as he wants.

In addition, the refining of the white tiger puppet and the refining of the restrictions of Penglai Octagonal Pavilion...

Finally, Luo Chen focused his attention on the "Soul-Splitting Technique"!

His main soul has reached the limit of the current realm and can completely differentiate into a soul.

Han Zhan began to practice the Soul-Splitting Technique during the Foundation Establishment Period, and strengthened his soul during the Golden Core Period. After forming his Nascent Soul, he possessed nine souls in just a hundred years.

With the help of the miraculous elixir like the Great Soul Pill, it is not impossible for Luo Chen to reach that step!

"Let's do it step by step!"

In desperation, Luo Chen formulated the next action plan.

Life is like this. We will always suffer some losses inadvertently, but we still have to live our lives.

Not only must he live, but he must live better and better, so that those who have caused him losses will look at him with new eyes, regret it, and even pay a price!

……

"Here, this is the third phantom core."

A fourth-level phantom core was thrown in front of him, and Fu Qinglan hurriedly took it.

When I wanted to say something, the other party looked at me and said, "Keep away from me!" and put up a protective formation.

Being blocked outside the formation, Fu Qinglan opened his mouth and smiled bitterly.

Sure enough, I should have foreseen this result after I revealed the biggest secret, which is the different speeds of time flow.

But what can she do?

The rich family had been in decline for a long time and could not train a loyal servant of the right realm. The Yuanying Zhenren hired from outside, not to mention whether the conditions were suitable, was completely inferior to Luo Chen in terms of strength.

Grandpa had no choice but to hide the truth from the other party and trick him into coming in.

Now, the other party is still willing to hunt phantom cores for her, which is an extremely upright and gentlemanly act.

I can only say that grandpa was right about the person.

The only thing is that the way I get along with the other person, which we finally got to know each other, has become unfamiliar again.

"Forget it. I can only understand the true meaning of the law as soon as possible and let him leave this cage as soon as possible."

Fu Qinglan smiled bitterly, clenched the phantom core, and entered the simple cave.

(End of this chapter)