Immortality begins with Becoming an Alchemy Grandmaster

Familiar steps, familiar places.

In this cramped cave, Luo Chen performed the Changchun Gong once again.

The fragrance of Anshenxiang, quiet and elegant, calmed his excited and anticipating mood to an ancient well without waves.

A large amount of spiritual energy entered the body, absorbed, devoured, refined, and finally became part of his spiritual power.

But this is not enough!

The qi nourishing pill in Luo Chen's mouth, he muttered and swallowed it.

The greater power of the medicine washes through the meridians, and finally returns to the dantian.

Suddenly, as if there was a feeling that the silver bottle was broken, it was fleeting.

Luo Chen's mind fluctuated slightly, and he had already missed that feeling.

But he wasn't angry. According to Mi Shuhua's "Qi Refining Experience", the late stage of Qi refining and the early and middle stages of Qi refining are two completely different realms.

The upper limit of the spiritual power contained in the former is almost the sum of the first to sixth floors, or even more.

The monks in the early and middle stages of Qi refining have extremely scarce spiritual power in their bodies, which leads to their lack of combat methods.

Even if you have enough magic weapons in your hand, you can't actually use them.

However, once they reach the later stage and their spiritual power capacity increases, they can get rid of this shackle.

Just like on the Taoism platform back then, Zeng Wen frequently used methods, talismans, spells, and magic tools, which almost perfectly demonstrated all the methods that a monk in the realm of refining Qi can use.

The reason for this change.

It is the principle that quantitative change causes qualitative change.

The monks in the late stage of Qi refining have almost opened up all the meridians they can open up.

The capacity of Dantian has also reached a certain level and cannot be expanded.

Therefore, monks in the late stage of Qi refining put more emphasis on the purification of spiritual energy.

With the same volume of the dantian, the spiritual power of the previous realm can be purified several times.

It is said that if the floating spiritual power can be purified to a liquefied state, monks will have the opportunity to break through the foundation-building realm.

Luo Chen didn't know the reason, but he was trying to run the Changchun Kungfu over and over again according to what Mi Shuhua said in his qi refining experience, using the characteristics of the kung fu to circulate around the sky to purify the spiritual power in his body, and use this huge spiritual power to Force, to hit the dantian.

Another qi nourishing pill entered his stomach, and Luo Chen's mind became calm again.

After a long time, that sudden feeling resurfaced again.

This time, Luo Chen caught it perfectly.

The silver bottle was broken suddenly, and the spiritual power suddenly exploded.

Click! Click! Click!

A crisp sound erupted in the body, as if the bamboo joints were splitting.

Suddenly, Luo Chen's face turned pale, and he opened his eyes instantly.

A contradictory aura of weakness and strength emerged from him at the same time.

Qi refining seven layers!

"It took more than two months, and finally broke through!"

Glancing at the attribute panel, he smiled gratifiedly.

However, there was no time to rejoice, and all the attention fell on the meridians in the body.

"In the later stage of Qi refining, when the dantian is solidified and the meridians are opened up, the main thing is to purify the spiritual power."

"But to break through to the late stage of Qi refining, it is mainly to open the upper limit of the dantian and break through more meridians."

"My situation is different from other people's. Grandmaster-level Changchun Kungfu has already fully opened my meridians. But I didn't expect this innate advantage to come here, but almost bad things happen."

"However, it was a success."

Breaking through the later stages should have opened up more meridians.

But Luo Chen had already connected all his veins, which caused all the huge spiritual power just now to rush out from the opened dantian.

Without congenitally blocked meridians being relieved, these flood-like spiritual powers walked around his body unscrupulously.

Now, he has withdrawn these spiritual powers to his dantian.

But those meridians that have been ravaged are in a state of fragmentation.

"The damage to the meridians is a trivial matter. There are many ways to make up for it. I don't have to worry about it."

"On the contrary, after the dantian is expanded, it can almost carry twice the spiritual power of the sixth level of refining Qi."

After some observation, Luo Chen was finally relieved.

Put away the alchemy furnace, and pack the dust on the ground, and take it outside later and throw it away.

The time it takes to break through is not too long.

If it was before, Luo Chen would definitely continue to practice.

But today it is not enough, the meridian is injured, and before it recovers, it has to take a good rest.

It was still early, and Luo Chen didn't feel sleepy for a while.

After all, he just made a breakthrough, so he was still a little excited.

After walking around the cramped and narrow cave, Luo Chen finally sat down on the raw spirit stone mine.

Click!

A piece of transparent ore of spirit stone was gently broken off by him.

With the blessing of spiritual eyes, he can easily detect the remaining traces of pure aura in the transparent ore.

"Huh?"

Luo Chen was startled.

He originally thought that the reason why the aura in the vein could be absorbed directly was because when it spilled out, it was filtered through layers.

But looking at it now, it doesn't seem to be the case?

Obviously, the aura in the vein is so pure that it can be absorbed directly!

"Then why, the aura in our spirit stone is so full of impurities. Once inhaled, it will run wild?"

Luo Chen took out a standard low-grade spirit stone.

He tried to break it, but couldn't break it.

After thinking about it, I tried it with a jasper knife, but it didn't work.

"It's pretty solid!"

Luo Chen lost his temper and directly took out the Soul Breaking Nail.

It is a high-grade magic weapon, and it does not engrave any first-order formations, but engraves a second-order armor-piercing formation.

go!

With a flick of his finger, the Soul Breaking Nail rubbed against the rhombic spar.

A hole burst open.

At the same time, the aura contained in it vented wildly outside.

Perhaps it was too close, and most of them were directly accumulated in the original Lingshi mine.

But there are still a small part, free in the outside world.

Luo Chen's spiritual eyesight was running to the maximum, staring at the spiritual energy of the nearby spirit stones.

"What are these black free spirits?"

Suddenly, Luo Chen saw traces of free black energy in those auras.

They are contradictory to the state of Reiki, compatible yet mutually exclusive.

As soon as it was released, it ran towards the outside world, carrying part of its spiritual energy, and ran around together.

Staring at this strange scene, Luo Chen's mind was full of thoughts, and various guesses emerged.

"This is the unique way Dazongmen can make spirit stones?"

"Anti-counterfeiting mark? Exclusive mark?"

"Is it a means of stabilizing the aura and solidifying it into the spirit stone? Or is it a method specially used to prevent monks from directly absorbing it?"

Luo Chen tried to use his spiritual power to capture the free black energy, but he couldn't catch anything.

You can see it with your eyes, but why can't you catch it?

Luo Chen frowned, watching the black air dissipate into the air.

"Will it just disappear?"

"Kind of like some kind of disposable consumable."

Luo Chen stared at another low-grade spirit stone that he took out.

After hesitating for a while, he put it back again.

Forget it, now I don't have the means to catch this black energy, no matter how many spirit stones I destroy, it's just a waste.

But if one day, I can master the method of eliminating or controlling this black energy, then I can also absorb the spiritual energy in the spirit stone while fighting the enemy.

It is said that the monks in the great sect have similar means.

This is also the case, it is very difficult for ordinary casual cultivators to fight head-to-head with sect cultivators, let alone a protracted battle.

"However, if you don't practice here in the future, you can consider taking this raw ore away as a backup energy source!"

Luo Chen stared at the raw ore of spirit stones, planning to destroy people's foundations.

 ….

After resting overnight, Luo Chen's complexion was much better than before.

But at first glance, he still felt weak and pale.

When Mi Shuhua came here, Luo Chen saw this.

He originally came here full of joy, because yesterday Sikong Shoujia brought back a mid-grade chalcedony pill for him.

This represented a breakthrough in Luo Chen's alchemy.

Low-rank and middle-rank are completely different!

A bottle of low-grade chalcedony pill can only be sold for ten spirit stones, and because of the sequelae, it will make many monks hesitate.

However, a bottle of middle-grade chalcedony pill, because the potency is sufficient, can support the cultivation of early and mid-stage monks, and the price can be raised to forty or fifty spirit stones!

This means that Dantang will usher in huge profits.

Far beyond the benefits of Zhongmiao Pills!

It is also true that the delighted Mi Shuhua did not come empty-handed.

He asked people to bring a large amount of monster meat and ling rice to reward those internal monks in the alchemy hall.

After all, there was one death and one injury yesterday, so don't let your morale go down.

For Luo Chen, he even prepared a big gift, hoping that the other party will continue to work hard.

However, seeing Luo Chen's sickly appearance, his heart was as cold as the coming winter.

"Xiao Luo, Xiao Luo, what's the matter with you!"

Lying on the bed, Luo Chen opened his eyes "weakly", "Master Mi, I'm afraid I can't do it."

"Well……"

Mi Shuhua couldn't hold back anymore, his spiritual consciousness was released, and he knew Luo Chen's situation with just a glance.

"What nonsense are you talking about? It's just that the meridians are damaged. I have a bottle of nourishing and moisturizing fluid here, which is specially used for foundation-building monks. Take it and drink it with water, and the disease will be cured within a month."

Whoosh!

The bottle of elixir was already in Luo Chen's hands before Mi Shuhua finished speaking.

Sitting up, Luo Chen looked at the pill curiously.

"Replenishing the veins moistening liquid?"

Mi Shuhua said helplessly: "Yes, once a monk breaks through the foundation building, his dantian will solidify and become indestructible. It is rare for a monk to break through the embarrassment of his dantian."

"Under such circumstances, the foundation-building cultivator will try to open all the meridians and acupoints in the body, and use these extra places to store spiritual power."

"If you rashly open the meridian orifice points, there will naturally be some minor damage. Therefore, the Lingyao Pavilion exclusively sells this liquid for nourishing the veins, and the effect is extremely good."

After hearing this explanation, Luo Chen felt as if he had found a treasure.

Holding the jade bottle, Luo Chen said with emotion: "Master Mi, you are so kind to me. If you are not too old, I would like to recognize you as a foster father."

Who is old!

I still have a hundred years to live!

A vein twitched on Mi Shuhua's forehead, but he didn't take it smoothly.

Luo Chen's words imply that he doesn't want to recognize him as a foster father.

He wasn't in that mood either. Luo Chen's value was in alchemy, but the other party's aptitude was too poor, and it would be difficult for him to be promoted to Foundation Establishment throughout his life.

My current investment is almost the same.

If you become the other party's cheap father, you won't have to bleed a lot!

When it came to qualifications, Mi Shuhua realized something was wrong.

"Are you at the seventh level of Qi refining?"

Luo Chen's heart skipped a beat, the words interfered just now, but he still didn't fool him.

Sure enough, it was still discovered?

The breath-holding spiritual art of perfect level cannot resist the spiritual prying of the foundation cultivator.

But it seems that it is not without effect, at least when Mi Shuhua checked his injury for the first time, he didn't find it.

Luo Chen smiled helplessly: "That's right, this injury is caused by breaking through the seventh level of Qi Refining forcibly."

"Why are you so anxious?" Mi Shuhua frowned.

"How can we not be in a hurry? The gang needs me to make alchemy, and everyone in the alchemy hall is working hard, even paying the price of their lives."

"Ronaldo only hates his low level and cannot contribute more to the gang."

"I hate it!"

"So, after learning from the pain last night, I used the whole bottle of Qi Yang Pill you gave me to force a breakthrough."

Luo Chen said sadly, and then his face became gloomy again.

"It's a pity that my aptitude is too poor. It was just an attempt, but I was bruised all over my body. Sigh... there is no hope for the road, there is no hope for the road!"

Speaking of the latter, his tone was gloomy, and his expression was tired, as if he was not interested in anything.

Mi Shuhua began to listen, and felt that those words were a bit familiar, as if he had heard them somewhere.

Later, when he saw Luo Chen's mournful expression, he became anxious instead.

"At such a young age, how can you be discouraged after suffering such a setback!"

"And you are successful, you should be proud of yourself!"

"Cheer up, I won't allow you to fall!"

Luo Chen opened Bling Bling's big eyes, "Master, can five spirit roots really build a foundation?"

Mi Shuhua said earnestly: "As long as you have enough resources, even a pig can become a monster king. You...Of course, it doesn't mean that you are a pig."

After thinking for a while, he said seriously: "You can refine the middle-grade chalcedony pill now, and the income of the alchemy hall will get better and better in the future, and the dividends will also increase. You are also very hopeful to build a foundation."

"I can rest assured that!"

Luo Chen got off the bed very quickly.

There is no sign of weakness at all.

After all, as the realm is improved, the strength is increased. A little bit of internal injury will not affect free movement.

In fact, what he wanted was Mi Shuhua's last sentence just now.

With Mi Shuhua's words, it will be difficult for others to handle the dividends of chalcedony pill in the future.

Looking at Mi Shuhua with a smile, Luo Chen spread his hands: "I heard that you always come to reward everyone today, do you have my share?"

Mi Shuhua's face twitched, this guy is waiting here for him!

With a flick of his right hand, a piece of paper fell in front of Luo Chen.

"Here, take a closer look, it should be of great help to your alchemy."

Luo Chen spread out the paper curiously, why does this paper look so familiar?

Wait, isn't this the paper of "Qing Yuan Dan Jie"?

Good guy, you gave me a hand in this regard before!

...

...

Mi Shuhua went to reward the internal monks in the alchemy hall.

With his honorable status as a foundation-building cultivator, doing this kind of thing in person can play a very good role in improving the morale that was originally hit.

Luo Chen was behind, holding the piece of paper, and began to study it.

He confirmed that this is a page on "Qing Yuan Dan Jie".

The reason why I didn't find a missing page before is because the things recorded on this page have nothing to do with the previous ones.

On the contrary, it looks like a kind of alchemy that the author Qing Yuanzi added later.

Yes, alchemy!

Just like Ling Zhifu, there will be some specific spells, which are useless for combat, but they have a great effect on the daily cultivation of Ling Zhi.

What Xiaoyunyujue, Binghuo Burning Barren Technique, Taiyin Yimu Biogas Technique and so on.

They alchemists, in fact, also have some auxiliary spells, which are called alchemy by the world.

For example, the folding jade hands and Su Xin hands that Luo Chen learned before are the most basic alchemy techniques.

It has outstanding effects in processing mineral materials, vegetation, flowers and fruits.

And on this separate piece of paper, there is a record of a kind of alchemy called "Qingyuan Nourishing Alchemy".

This kind of alchemy has no effect on processing raw materials and alchemy, and it is not beneficial to the battle between monks.

However, if you practice this technique, you will have the opportunity to forcibly raise the elixir with a fixed rank to another rank.

"There are such alchemy techniques in the world?"

Luo Chen's eyes fell on the alchemy room, where there was a group of alchemists he had trained.

Although there is also the word "raising pill" in the name, what they usually do is to store and take care of the pills, so as to prevent the potency of the refined pills from being lost due to improper placement.

But this Qingyuan alchemy technique is completely different.

With a specific method and a specific environment, there is a chance to upgrade the fixed-grade pill to a higher level.

Back then, the reason why Qing Yuanzi was able to refine the third-level elixir during the foundation-building period was because he used this elixir technique.

This alchemy technique is not difficult to learn, after Luo Chen saw it, he was very confident that he could learn it in a short time.

However, the "specific" methods recorded on the paper made him very embarrassed.

"The last time it has to be a first-tier high-grade pill furnace, the best grade is the best, and the magic weapon pill furnace is the best!"

"The elixir you choose must be a top-grade elixir."

"At least ten parts of raw materials are kept in the furnace at all times to supplement the medicinal power."

"The location of the elixir room should preferably be a place of spiritual veins, and at the very least it must be a special environment that is beneficial to the elixir."

"Cultivators need to use the foundation-building real fire to refine the quality of the elixir at all times. If there is no real fire, they can be replaced by various sky fires, earth fires, and strange fires."

"The time limit for cultivating alchemy starts at least half a year, and the longest can reach a hundred years."

Scalp numb!

After reading those "specific" methods, Luo Chen only felt his scalp go numb.

None of these things is something he can easily do.

Seemingly the simplest ten raw materials, there is actually a premise of "at least".

In other words, if the raw materials are low, they have to be replenished at any time.

And starting with a half-year time limit, who knows how much raw materials will be consumed.

Also, another "spiritual land" that he seems to be satisfied with is actually whimsical.

The spiritual vein cave I discovered was just a branch.

It is barely enough to support him to practice alone.

But if it is used to support Yangdan, it is absolutely impossible.

"No wonder Mi Shuhua didn't give me this piece of paper before, because he was afraid that I would be so ambitious and whimsical!"

"It's no wonder he decided to give it to me now. It's probably because I was stuck in the low-grade refining chalcedony pill before, and I couldn't break through. He gave me this piece of paper because he wanted me to use it to attack jade with the help of mountain stones. Order something else."

Generally speaking, this Qingyuan alchemy technique is very tasteless to the current Luo Chen.

There are too many constraints.

"Put it away first, I may have the opportunity to use this technique in the future."

Luo Chen sighed, but still put it away happily.

Anything that is beneficial to alchemy is an improvement for him!

Now that he has been refining alchemy for so long, the more he has been in contact with, the more he feels that the way of alchemy is broad and profound.

In the past, it was all small and small households, and the real scenery is now just a glimpse of the tip of the iceberg.

Perhaps the real contact with the Alchemy Dao must be promoted to the Foundation Establishment Stage.

Just when Luo Chen was thinking about the story, Mi Shuhua had already dealt with the rewards and came to him.

"Next month is the day when the auction will start. Are you sure you want to participate?"

Luo Chen patted the storage bag, "I'm rich!"

The old man smiled, quite disdainfully.

Luo Chen blushed, "Even if you can't afford anything, just take a look and gain some insight!"

"Okay, I count you as a quota, and then I will go with the old man to open my eyes."

...

Luo Chen didn't stay in Dantang after get off work today.

One is that the meridians are damaged, which is not suitable for cultivation.

Secondly, if you stay here every day, you will always be suspicious.

Moreover, the life of Dantang is indeed relatively poor, every day is either alchemy or cultivation.

For monks in the Qi refining period who have not yet established a foundation, few people can endure this kind of life.

It's not that Luo Chen can't bear it, but if he does this every day, sooner or later he will go crazy.

Sometimes, some necessary relaxation adjustments are still necessary.

After returning to the yard, Luo Chen first used the cleaning technique to do a general cleaning, and then went out to do some shopping.

By the way, I went to Yuan's house, looked for Yuan Lao and Yuan Xiaoyue, and calculated the income of the food stall last month.

"Six hundred and twenty spirit stones, um, not bad, it seems that the monthly income has stabilized now."

Luo Chen took the spirit stone and made a simple calculation.

Then give Yuan Xiaoyue thirty pieces of Lingshi, which is her salary last month.

Another hundred spirit stones were taken out, which was almost the purchase price of Yuan Lao's batch of pineapple wine.

After Yuan Xiaoyue took the Lingshi happily, she raised her oval face and said, "Actually, I made more than 900 Lingshi in the previous month, and I feel that I can sell more."

"oh?"

Luo Chen became interested. He didn't expect such a small snack stand to have such a big market.

Do you want to think about it, make it bigger and stronger, and create another glories?

"But since this month, other people have also started selling various snacks." Yuan Xiaoyue pursed her lips and said very unhappy: "Aunt Li next door launched a kind of bean curd rice, which is said to be learned from Zhong Ding. Homemade simple recipe, it can replenish spiritual energy even if you are full.”

"There is also a small stall opposite me, which specializes in selling all kinds of monster jerky. Although it is not as good as the spicy beef jerky you made by Brother Luo, it has more varieties."

"besides……"

Seeing her chattering about those competitors, Luo Chen, who originally thought that monks in this world would follow suit, couldn't help laughing.

He rubbed the little girl's increasingly dark and beautiful hair.

"Xiaoyue, you can't earn enough spirit stones. Others have to earn money to practice their lives. We just need to sell our own."

This little girl was weak and timid at first.

After setting up the stall for many months, it has become more generous.

It's just getting more and more fussy.

Yuan Xiaoyue broke away from Luo Chen's hand, opened her big round eyes, "But some of them obviously copied your secret recipe, Big Brother Luo!"

"It's like the monster jerky seller across the street. He bought beef jerky from me for half a month before setting up the stall. He was obviously trying to figure out the tricks in it."

"There is also the one who sells popping beans, which is very similar to our Xiandou."

Luo Chen couldn't help laughing.

After a while, I shook my head and chuckled: "A secret recipe that can be copied is not a secret recipe."

"And... have they paid the protection fee?"

"Well?"

Yuan Xiaoyue was dumbfounded.

Old Yuan, who sipped his wine beside him and said nothing, also put down the wine gourd curiously.

Luo Chen tapped Yuan Xiaoyue's forehead, "Idiot, the wine that you are asked to give Jiange monks every month is not for nothing."

"Tomorrow, go find that Jiange monk, and tell me that the square has been too dirty recently, which has affected the Dao Discussion platform environment that Jade Cauldron Jiange has finally created."

"Also, I remember that the area in Baishi Square is still full of scattered stalls!"

"You give me a suggestion, let Yuding Jiange get a big stone slab, and regulate the booths. Each booth will receive one or two spirit stones."

"Remember to reserve the booth with the best location and the largest flow of people in advance, and we will also hand over the spirit stone!"

After hearing these words, Yuan Xiaoyue was taken aback for a while.

Her grandfather next to her was also dumbfounded.

Luo Chen didn't say too much, the trick of "finding the city management" has been enough for a long time.

As for future competition?

The booth with the best location is already invincible.

If you take time off yourself and research a few new snacks, won't the product competitiveness rise again?

There are so many people in the alchemy hall, and the alchemy furnace usually has free time.

It was a breeze for those internal monks to help him fry some snacks.

I don't believe it, individual retail investors can still compete with him, a manufacturer with one-stop service?

"By the way, it's my birthday next month, and there will be wine in the courtyard. Are you coming?"

Seeing the two hesitate, Luo Chen added a sentence.

"It's not a big deal, just have a meal with a few friends and drink some wine."

Yuan Xiaoyue was a little moved, her grandfather had already spoken.

"I, an old guy, won't go. Xiaoyue can go and have fun. It's also a good thing to meet some seniors."