Longevity begins with alchemy master

Chapter 823: Cruel Demonic Path, the Old Man Passes Away

The old man in this small shop may look ordinary, but he is actually at a very high level, having reached the Golden Elixir realm.

In public, low-level cultivators would have to address him as “Master” respectfully.

Therefore, his knowledge is definitely not bad!
After obtaining the "Soul Absorption and Essence Extraction Technique" from the gray-robed man, he only flipped through it for a moment and instantly realized how extraordinary this technique was!
It clearly records a secret technique that can extract the essence from the soul of a living being.

Soul is something unique to spiritual beings.

It seems invisible and intangible, but it actually exists.

And it has many uses, and it is the most important one in the practice process, no doubt about it!

The path of cultivating immortals is, on the surface, about refining Qi, but in reality it is about refining the spirit.

From the soul, to the derived spiritual consciousness, and then to the transformation into divine consciousness after the Jindan stage to interfere with the outside world, this is a complete transformation route.

If one can achieve the Nascent Soul stage, the Nascent Soul can be used as the second container of the soul temporarily.

It is rumored that the realm of transformation is named "transformation of the spirit" because the Nascent Soul can be transformed into the Primordial Spirit.

When one reaches that realm, the spirit, soul and primordial spirit are completely integrated. Even if the physical body is destroyed, the cultivator can rely on the primordial spirit to survive alone, and no longer be afraid of assimilation by heaven and earth or natural disasters.

Why has it been said throughout history that only those who have reached the Spirit Transformation Realm can ascend to heaven?

It is also because of the existence of the primordial spirit that during the process of traction and ascension, the powerful primordial spirit can lock on to the spiritual light and ascend to the fairyland.

Far away.

Back to "The Art of Soul Absorption and Essence Stealing"!

This secret technique can be used to refine the soul essence of living beings. Not only high-level beings with accomplished spirits and souls, but even some low-level creatures can use this technique to refine their weak and hard-to-find soul essence.

It is truly vicious and evil!

The old man asked the gray-robed monk while eagerly flipping through the pages.

This tattered little notebook looks very old. I wonder how many years ago it is.

However, the secret techniques recorded above are quite complete, and even the production method of the "Soul-Calling Banner", a tool needed to extract soul essence, is described in detail.

The old man quickly realized the importance of this technique.

According to the above description, soul essence is quite strange. It can be used to cultivate and increase the foundation of the soul, and it can also be used to practice some insidious soul secrets.

As long as it can be produced, there will be no shortage of buyers!

Who knows, it might even become the treasure of his store!

As for the biggest problem in refining soul essence, it is not the difficulty of practicing the secret technique or making the soul-summoning flag, but the acquisition of raw materials.

But this problem is not a problem at all at the moment.

What time is it now?
The battle between humans and demons, the battle between races!
The most violent and direct collision occurred between the immortal cultivators of the Eastern Wasteland Overlord Race and the demon race that had been accumulating power for three thousand years.

Every day, no one knows how many lives are lost and how many souls disappear into thin air.

Those are the best raw materials!

Facing the old man's urgent questioning, the gray-robed monk stretched out his hand with a vigilant look.

"Just tell me whether you want to change it or not? If not, return it to me!"

The old man immediately clenched the tattered animal skin book, licking his face and smiling, "Why are you so nervous? I'm just asking a few more questions. What if you got this secret technique from some famous sect? If I get it, I will be in endless trouble."

The gray-robed monk suddenly realized what was going on, and then explained, "Don't worry about that. I got this book from an ancient monk's cave, so I guarantee there won't be any problems."

Ancient monk’s cave?
The old man carefully studied the animal skin paper and the writing on it, and nodded.

It does look very old.

In terms of the value of this technique, let alone exchanging it for a piece of Azure Blood Grass worth three thousand spirit stones, even if the premium was ten or a hundred times, it would still be completely worth it!

This young foundation-building guy really doesn't know what's good!

That being the case...

"Change!"

……

The gray-robed man who got the Zhanxue Grass was overjoyed. As soon as he went out, the shop behind him slammed its door shut, and even the small window at the entrance was closed.

As if afraid that he would go back on his word.

However, the gray-robed man didn't care at all, and the smile on his face gradually faded.

He casually put the blue blood grass that he had previously valued into his storage bag, turned around and went to the next dark street.

There are many remote trading markets like this in Lingtian Pass.

Most of the transactions involved involve resources that are not allowed to be seen in public.

Some were bold enough to go to the demon area to pick medicinal herbs, secretly dig up minerals, and even some stolen goods from killing and looting during the chaos.

In the past, the transactions were all carried out underground, but only recently due to the actions of the Yuanying elder of Dongyang Sect, they have slightly come out.

Based on the information he had gathered along the way, the gray-robed monk kept going in and out of those remote shops in Lingtian Pass.

For most of the transactions, he chose barter.

Among them, the tattered animal skin booklet was often sold.

In just one or two days, he had distributed dozens of copies of "The Art of Absorbing Souls and Seizing Essence"!
And all this has not been discovered in a short period of time.

As for what would happen if someone found out?

Inside the cave residence of Danzong in West City, a calm man in a gray robe activated a formation, blocking anyone from detecting him.

Afterwards, one saw the bones all over his body crackling and his body quickly rose higher.

The originally sallow complexion also became fair.

The facial features were distorted, finally forming Luo Chen's young and handsome face.

After glancing at the remaining animal skin booklets in the storage ring, he gave up the idea of ​​continuing to spread the secret technique of refining soul essence.

"That's almost enough."

"If you really want this kind of secret technique to work, you need a large number of people to make it work."

“They’ll help me keep spreading it.”

This is a preparation for Luo Chen to continue practicing the Soul-Splitting Technique in the future.

Cutting the split soul would affect the strength of his current main soul and make him fall into a weak period.

But there is another disadvantage, which is the reason why Luo Chen suppressed the increase in the number of souls.

That is the Great Soul Pill!

He did not have the complete method of "Soul Splitting Technique" and could not quickly improve the level of soul splitting, so he had to rely on the Great Soul Pill as an aid.

In order to refine the Great Soul Pill, precious soul essence must be used.

The amount of soul essence he now has is more than enough to support the cultivation of the main soul and two split souls.

But if the number of souls increases, three, four, five...

By then, he would probably only have a large number of souls, but the overall quality would not be improved, and would become a burden to him.

This can actually be seen from Han Zhan.

Han Zhan started learning the Soul-Splitting Technique when he was in the Foundation Establishment stage, and after entering the Nascent Soul stage for a hundred years, he possessed nine souls.

It seems extremely strong, but in fact it is "vulnerable".

As Luo Chen's realm increased, his understanding of Han Zhan's nine souls became clearer. Each of them seemed to be at the early Nascent Soul stage, but they fell one after another under his Dragon Slaying Technique and had no power to resist.

Obviously, the strength of those soul fragments is not even comparable to the true Nascent Soul soul.

It is not even as good as the two souls that Luo Chen is now carefully cultivating.

In view of this, Luo Chen began to prepare for a rainy day.

He spread the method of making the Yuanmo Sect's soul essence obtained from Fu Chaosheng, and with the help of the war environment, let those desperate criminals make soul essence for him.

Once more soul essences are produced, someone will definitely take them out to sell.

Perhaps many high-level cultivators would be interested in soul essence, but they do not have the correct methods to use it.

At that time, Luo Chen can start the harvest openly.

As for why Luo Chen would personally disguise himself and do this kind of thing instead of handing it over to the cultivators of Luo Tian Sect?
Are they even going to go to great lengths to imitate the old deeds of the Lord of Baizao Mountain and use the weapon refining method to make the animal skin book look old?
The reason is simple. The Soul Absorption and Essence Extraction Technique is a magic technique after all! It uses the souls of living beings as materials, which is harmful to the world and extremely vicious.

Even the Yuanmo Sect handed it down to its vassal forces instead of doing it themselves, which shows how harmful it is.

Compared with the Yuanmo Sect, the Luotian Sect is extremely fragile.

Let the subordinates do this, once it is discovered, there will be endless troubles.

Even the reputation that Luo Chen had worked so hard to build could easily be tainted.

"It is a bit mean, but for the sake of longevity, it is not worth mentioning."

Luo Chen smiled slightly and put the matter aside for the time being.

The attention then turned to the refining of the Mirror of the Heart.

The properties panel expands.

With just a thought, you can spend ten achievement points and get started directly!

I have a vague feeling that there are some new experiences.

"I should take advantage of my free time to refine this thing. The materials needed..."

Luo Chen narrowed his eyes slightly and had some thoughts in his mind.

……

Sometimes, when you feel sleepy, you find a pillow.

And it just so happens that many people are thinking of handing him a pillow now!
This day.

Fairy Jueqing had just seen off a Jindan cultivator and came back with a visiting card in her hand.

There was helplessness in his eyes.

This is another visiting card sent by a Nascent Soul cultivator through his disciples.

There were many such posts in the past five years, but many of them were people she couldn't easily offend.

Especially today's letter.

"Master Lu from the Dongyang Sect said frankly that he has a history with him and came to invite him. But he is in seclusion, so I can't agree on his behalf."

Just as the Jueqing Fairy was feeling depressed, the clouds covering the mountain suddenly dissipated.

She was stunned for a moment, then realized something in an instant, and immediately set up Fayun and flew up.

……

Inside the cave, Luo Chen was flipping through visiting cards.

[Lord Luo Tian Tai Shang Dan Zong: I have often heard of your great name. You are good at making elixirs and are proficient in everything... If you are free, please come and teach me. I pay my respects to Yao Ping, the head monk of Hongdan Peak in Qidong Mountain.]

Qidong Mountain was an early Nascent Soul sect among the thirty-six regions of the Eastern Wasteland.

The time when the sect was founded is roughly the same as that of Dongyang Sect, and it also participated in the ancient war between humans and demons.

But up to now, it has long since declined, and there is no longer the scene of the seven peaks' leaders all reaching the Nascent Soul stage.

However, Yao Ping, the head of Hongdan Peak, has quite some attainments in alchemy and is respected as Mr. Yao.

It seemed that he wanted to ask Luo Chen for advice on alchemy from this visiting card, but the tone of the card was not very good.

He praised Luo Chen to the utmost, but at the same time he secretly wanted to compete with him.

Luo Chen just glanced at it twice and then let it go.

With his current status and reputation, he is too lazy to compete with others in alchemy.

Victory is what we deserve, and losing would only enhance the reputation of the declining Qidong Mountain.

Open another visiting card.

This one looks very familiar. A certain force wants Luo Chen to refine a kind of elixir for cultivation that has been lost in the sect.

Luo Chen usually refuses such requests.

It is often not possible to refine elixirs for cultivation in just one or two batches.

It requires a large and steady supply, which takes up too much of his time.

Even if this force is willing to pay a large amount of spirit stones and the Chixiao Qi he needs.

But Luo Chen still looked at the contents of the visiting card carefully, stroking his chin with a thoughtful look.

The resource of Xiaoqi can only be collected by Yuanying Zhenren, so it is extremely precious, but it does not seem to be rare?
Most Yuanying Zhenren can come up with one or two.

Later he even discovered that Jiuling Yuanjun's great skill, that river of light, was actually the product of the condensation of nine kinds of celestial energy and magic power.

Therefore, that method was so domineering that even the physical body of Thunder Prison God Peng was destroyed.

The Jiuling Sect where Jiuling Yuanjun is located is not very old. With their foundation, they can accumulate a large amount of Xiaoqi for Jiuling Yuanjun to cultivate this skill, and even have enough Xiaoqi left to trade with Luo Chen.

What if it was the more ancient Qidong Mountain, Dongyang Sect, or the Holy Land of Huashen?

Was the circle of your friends in the past a bit limited?

Luo Chen pondered and asked casually, "Wasn't Xu Xiaoliu responsible for delivering the invitations in the past, and you were responsible for receiving the visitors? Why did you come to deliver the invitations in person today?"

Although Fairy Jueqing has now joined Luotian Sect and has accepted the fact that her and Luo Chen's status have been reversed, she still subconsciously avoids meeting him most of the time.

awkward!

It is rather unusual for me to deliver the post in person today.

Unexpectedly, when Fairy Jueqing heard this, a complicated look appeared on her cold face.

The woman whispered, "He's gone."

Luo Chen was stunned, and his hands froze for a moment.

"When?"

"In the third year of your retreat, you passed away. Your wife and daughter saw you off, and your body was buried in Baili Qingchuan. Sect Master Li, in the name of an elder, made an exception and enshrined your spirit tablet in the Luotian Sect's ancestral hall."

Luo Chen opened his mouth, but finally just sighed slightly.

Five years, for someone at his level, was just a trivial period of cultivation.

And the purpose is not to practice, but to break through the bottleneck of the third and fourth levels of the Nascent Soul.

However, just like that, a person close to me passed away quietly.

If he wants to break through to a higher realm in the future, which may take decades or even hundreds of years, when he comes out again, how many familiar faces will be around to congratulate him?
Shaking his head, Luo Chen quietly picked up the next visiting card.

And this one was exactly the pillow he needed.

"Dongyang Sect, Master Lu!"

Fairy Jueqing explained, "This person said that he and you have a past, so even if his post was just to invite you to a party, I picked it out."

Luo Chen nodded and admitted it.

Master Lu did have an old acquaintance with him, although they had only met once.

When borrowing the teleportation array from Dongyang Territory to Baihe Territory, Gu Zuokai found Master Lu from Dongyang Sect as the middleman.

At that time, Luo Chen also specially gave the other party a bottle of high-quality fourth-level Hongyuan Dan.

I still remember that Master Lu was quite excited at first and repeatedly asked Luo Chen whether he still wanted to continue selling this medicine.

"The Dongyang Sect has a very deep connection with the Mingyuan Sect. It can even be considered a vassal force directly under the Mingyuan Sect."

“Therefore, as soon as Elder Lu arrived at Lingtian Pass, he received strong support from the Lord of Lingtian City, and he had no problems doing anything.”

"He promoted the formation of the Lingtian Trade Fair, formulated relevant rules, and sent people to maintain order. He has a very good reputation among low-level cultivators. Not only that, he also held exchanges between Jindan and Yuanying level cultivators from time to time in the name of Dongyang Sect."

"He would love to have you attend in person!"

As Fairy Jueqing told the story, Luo Chen learned the whole story.

And that kind of exchange gathering is an excellent environment for high-level monks to share what they have and exchange resources.

Luo Chen asked without hesitation:
"When is the next gathering?"

"Three days later!"

"Okay! Please reply on my behalf. I will definitely attend the meeting on time."

(End of this chapter)