Immortality begins with Becoming an Alchemy Grandmaster

In the Xingdou Hall, the white-robed Taoist sat cross-legged.

Silent and silent, as if dead.

After a long time, he suddenly breathed out another breath.

Such a long breathing rhythm would have been extremely suffocating for other people, but it happened to be full of rhythm in this Taoist's body, as if an ancient black turtle was swallowing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

Suddenly.

The Taoist slowly opened his eyes.

Feeling his condition, he smiled with relief.

"Sure enough, focusing on refining weapons for a long time has a great impact on my practice. Fortunately, my foundation is solid enough and it has stabilized."

Luo Chen spent a whole year refining the demon emperor's remains.

But before that, he barely broke through to the sixth level of the Golden Core.

This was supposed to be a move to strike while the iron was hot after improving his realm, but he didn't expect that such a long process of casting would cause great damage to his spirit and body.

In fact, because he took the top-quality True Flame Pill as a Qi-restoring pill, a large amount of fire poison took hold in the Qi Sea.

I have been immersed in castings before and have not discovered it yet.

Only when the precious fetus was nurtured and the rhythm of cultivation returned to normal, Luo Chen realized something was wrong.

His sixth level of golden elixir, which was worthy of promotion, almost regressed.

For this reason, Luo Chen first used the dragon-slaying technique to remove the fire poison from his body, and then took a large amount of various supplements. Finally, he rested for a month before returning his body to normal state.

In this way, Luo Chen practiced disciplinedly for two months and finally stabilized his state.

At this moment, the entry [Golden elixir six levels 1/100] on the attribute panel hung there quietly, giving Luo Chen a great sense of security.

"The precious fetus has been forged, and all that's left is the nourishment and the carving formation. I suddenly have a lot of time."

"Three months of recuperation has restored my energy and energy to its peak, but I can no longer slack off."

Looking at the attribute panel, Luo Chen planned what to do next.

The time waiting for the baby to be born cannot be wasted. You must find something to do.

The first thing is undoubtedly cultivation.

For Luo Chen, his regular practice is divided into two parts.

Refining Qi and refining body.

In terms of combat power, physical training is naturally the priority, but when it comes to the avenue of immortality, Qi training cannot be slacked off at all.

Luo Chen made a little estimate based on the previous training speed.

With the "Tianhuang Nirvana Sutra" as his natal skill, a large number of high-grade true flame pills as assistance, and even the blessing of the core third-grade high-grade spiritual land in the Star Dou Hall, his cultivation speed is truly the efficiency of a heavenly spiritual root monk.

Finally, Luo Chen came up with an approximate deadline.

"ten years!"

"If there are no external disturbances and I live in seclusion in the Penghu Xingdou Hall, it will only take me ten years to advance to the seventh level of the Golden Core and become a genuine great monk!"

Previously, the fifth level of Jindan was promoted to the sixth level. It was originally estimated to be six to seven years.

As a result, it took nine years.

The extra two or three years were mainly because he went out to guard Quyang's defense line. The cave there only had a third-level low-grade aura environment, which greatly slowed down his cultivation speed.

In addition, during the period, he once again focused on improving the "Convergence of Ten Thousand Daos". When he continued to adjust the physical training methods, it also had a lot of impact on the body.

In the end, it resulted in a waste of three more years before he was promoted to the sixth level of the Golden Core.

This is the case with dual cultivation of Dharma and body.

Immortal cultivators do not pay attention to physical fitness, but physical fitness does affect the efficiency of cultivation.

There will always be conflicts between the two practitioners. Even if Luo Chen has a system panel to help him, he still has to pay the price.

However, fortunately, "The Convergence of Ten Thousand Daos" has been adjusted successfully, and it will not affect his normal practice in the future.

Now he has combat power comparable to that of a great monk. Ten years later, he will have a genuine great monk state. By then, his combat power will increase even more terrifyingly.

If the treasure carving formation is successful, there will be one more defensive magic weapon refined by the demon emperor's remains.

When the time comes, Luo Chen may be able to boldly say: "If the Nascent Soul doesn't come out, who can compete with me!"

Of course, this hope remains only in fantasy.

Now, the road still has to be walked step by step.

After refining the Qi, it’s time to refining the body.

[Ancient third level 81/100]

Looking at the attribute panel, Luo Chen counted the amount of Black Emperor Cream with his fingers.

"You should be able to hold on until you reach the third level of body refining, right?"

He was a little unsure.

This self-created method of body refining went smoothly at first, and later used fire instead of thunder to speed up body refining. Not long ago, the fake weapon casting method was perfected both internally and externally.

At least, it was also flawless in Luo Chen's current vision.

But this road is still relatively rough and barbaric on the whole. Even the system classification is not divided into levels one, two, three, four, five and six like the Golden Core stage. It only uses a large ancient third-level Boundary division.

This also leads to Luo Chen's overall perception of improvement at each level being relatively vague.

In particular, the cultivation of any great path becomes more difficult as you go to the later stages.

The eighty-one progress bar was one hundred years away from perfection. Luo Chen had no idea how much resources would be consumed during this period.

"Let's take a step and see!"

There was no way to follow this road, and there was no precedent to follow. Luo Chen could only cross the river by feeling the stones.

After refining his energy and body, Luo Chen's attention fell on the formation column.

Fourth level formation: Liangyi Liujia formation

This is a set of combined formations, with the third-level formation Liangyi as the core, supplemented by six third-level defensive formations.

Among them, he has practiced six third-level defensive formations to the master level and above, and refined six sets of mysterious armor based on them.

But when it comes to refining the precious fetus made from the demon emperor's remains, the core of the Liangyi Formation must not be neglected at all.

This formation is only at the third level, but its power has almost no upper limit.

What affects the power of the formation lies in the materials used to set it up.

As mentioned before, what is Liangyi?

Yin and Yang are two things.

Heaven and earth are also two rites.

Odd and even or hard and soft, Xuanhuang and Qiankun can also be two forms of each other.

Even the pure and turbid water and fire, men, women, old and young all have the meaning of two rites.

In short, taking the opposite meaning, the array arranged has the true meaning of Liangyi.

Its power also depends on the two.

From this point of view, this third-order Liangyi Formation is a bit like the third-order Heavenly Craftsman Soul Seizing Formation in Guishen Valley back then, both of which are said to have unlimited power.

At that time, Han Zhan admired the Liangyi Five Elements Sword Formation as a means of killing, and he also regarded the upper limit of the Liangyi Formation.

After Luo Chen got this set of casting drawings, he learned the Liangyi Formation from Han Zhan and got started easily.

But in subsequent exercises, the progress became slower and slower.

To this day, it is still stuck at the level of perfection, unable to reach the Grandmaster level, which is the minimum requirement in Luo Chen's mind.

As the core of Liangyi Liujia Formation, how can we lag behind Liujia?

"It seems that I have to take some time to visit Han Zhan and ask for his advice."

Luo Chen sighed, but there was a bit of reluctance in his eyes.

Perhaps when outsiders learn about the relationship between the two, they will be surprised by Luo Chen's reluctance.

We were obviously friendly, helping each other and living in harmony before, so how could we not want to meet each other now?

This has to mention the fear in Luo Chen's heart.

Back on the Langya Mountain merchant ship, Luo Chen helped Han Zhan remove the bad luck from the soul-nurturing tree, but encountered a bad luck attack on the sea of ​​consciousness.

That time, it was quite dangerous.

In the sea of ​​​​consciousness, the illusion is reborn, and even the soul defense magic weapon Lanke Heiqi cannot resist.

It was Han Zhan who personally took action to solve the illusion crisis for Luo Chen.

Because of this, Luo Chen got a blessing in disguise. He was about to practice the Dragon Slaying Technique to the Great Perfection, and he took the opportunity to upgrade the Illusion Technique Mirror Flowers and Water Moon, and he had a second level of illusion. After Flowers in the Mirror, the Ghost Fairy Building reappeared. The name of the latter was inspired by the three words "Ghost Fairy Building" blurted out by Luo Chen from the monk in white during the demon hunter assessment mission.

But because of this incident, Luo Chen felt worried.

That is, Han Zhan ignored Lanke Heiqi's defense and invaded his sea of ​​consciousness!

I don't know if it was a common method used by Yuanying monks, or Han Zhan's special secret technique in soul refining. In short, in front of Han Zhan, Luo Chen felt the naked and undefended fear of the soul for the first time.

Luo Chen had never shown any similar fear along the way before, and he still got along well with Han Zhan.

But since he came to Wanxianhui and entered the eight hundred miles of Penghu, he and Han Zhan deliberately separated in two places.

He used a very reasonable reason.

That is, Han Zhan obtained the soul-nurturing wood and wanted to restore his cultivation and strength. I have a lot of things to do here, and if I stay together all the time, I can't help but disturb him.

Han Zhan was naturally happy with his success, or maybe he had a glimpse of Luo Chen's thoughts and took the initiative to avoid suspicion.

All in all, the two have been "separated" for many years.

Even when he encountered confusion in improving "The Convergence of Ten Thousand Daos", he relied on his own groping and did not seek Han Zhan's guidance.

But now, I still have to take the initiative.

"It's time to meet him, so as not to get into trouble."

Luo Chen muttered something and sent a transmission note to the outside of the hall.

…

An isolated island in the eight hundred miles of Penghu.

Unlike other places, there are no flowers, grass, water birds, insects, ants, or animals here. The barren island ecology even gives people a feeling of extinction.

But unfortunately, this is where Han Zhan lives alone.

A few days ago, Luo Chen and Han Zhan agreed on a time to meet.

Today, Han Zhan took time out to meet with Luo Chen.

"There is something I have always wanted to say. Your way of practicing formations is a bit rigid, or a bit astray."

"I used to think that you had a talent for formations. You could easily master various low-level formations as soon as you learned them. Once you got started, you would make rapid progress. Some formations were even deployed, and the effect was even better than that of Yuanying Yuanying. It's true. Incredible.”

"But later I discovered that you seemed to be obsessed with tracing and engraving in a rigid manner, focusing only on the shape and not the meaning."

"This set of learning methods may be feasible when used in low-level formations, but it is a bit insufficient once high-level formations are involved."

"You have to know that all powerful formation masters never stick to stereotypes when setting up formations. They will adapt to local conditions, but they will also modify the environment and arrange the most suitable formations in their minds. Why can they do this? To this point? It’s because they understand the true essence of the formation!”

“Because we understand, we are not restricted.”

"You don't understand, so you are restricted everywhere."

"Every set of high-level formations has the concept of the creator when designing it. You can only lay out the perfect formation to show your attitude, but you cannot touch the real core. It is just a mere appearance."

"It's like the Sea Sealing Bagua Formation. You can only set it up in a place with strong water vapor, but I can forcibly set it up in a place where a volcano erupts. Can you understand the difference?"

"Another example is the two ritual formations. You were very fast when you got started, but now you are stuck in the realm of Xiaocheng. The power they have deployed can only make the early Golden Core monks feel troublesome at best. Do you know the essence of the two ritual formations? ?”

Luo Chen never expected that it would be an ordinary meeting where he asked for advice and Han Zhan gave guidance.

The other party actually gave him a head start on learning the formation.

The self-righteousness of the past seemed so ridiculous in the midst of these instructions.

He thought that through the proficiency panel, he could learn various formations without limit, but now it seems that he has obviously gone astray.

While reflecting in my heart, I found the general truth of what Han Zhan said in the process of alchemy.

In his alchemy technique, even after the Great Perfection, the rate of producing high-grade elixirs is still around fifty, which means there is a half failure rate.

This probability is actually very high.

It is enough to be called a master of alchemy.

But there is something wrong. Luo Chen has become a fourth-level alchemist since he refined the fourth-level transformation pill.

Such existences, not to mention a single individual elixir, can also be called alchemy masters in the refining of various elixirs. Compared with the alchemy master, they are only a thin line away.

Similarly, when these beings face low-level elixirs, their success rate should be 100%, if not 100%.

But he can't do it!

It's not impossible. Luo Chen has already discovered that the longer he refines a certain elixir, the rate of elixir success can still slowly increase even after the Great Perfection. In fact, it is not far from the so-called certainty.

At that time, he only thought that the truth was "nothing else but familiarity with your hands."

Now it seems that it is clear that "the meaning of the book will be apparent after reading it a hundred times"!

He was clearly on the path to alchemy, subconsciously comprehending the essence of a certain elixir.

At this moment, Han Zhan was walking along the formation and suddenly woke him up, which actually made him understand another meaning beyond the proficiency panel.

That is more than proficiency, and more sincere!

From a high position, Luo Chen pushed back on the past.

After the completion of the Fireball Technique, there will be more "Fire Sun Technique" effects, which is the true meaning of the Fireball Technique itself.

After the spiritual eye technique is perfected, the eyes are rooted. When this technique was first created, it should be to transform the monk's eyes so that they can have good vision, see life and death, and avoid dangerous places.

The mirror flower, water moon, etc. are like this, and the dragon-slaying technique is like this.

All kinds of things are like this.

As for the other spells that do not have special effects, is it because their upper limit is not high, or is it because they do not understand the true meaning, so they stop at Dzogchen?

For a moment, Luo Chen fell into deep thought in Han Zhandong Mansion.

Han Zhan didn't bother him either.

It was not until Luo Chen woke up that he returned to the topic and handed him the advanced cultivation method of the Liangyi Formation.

When Luo Chen walked out of the barren and lifeless island, he couldn't help but look back at Han Zhan.

"On the contrary, I use the heart of a villain to judge the heart of a gentleman."

"There is no better selfless teacher or close relative or elder than this kind of teaching and guidance."

"That's right. With the great oath he made back then, how could he have any evil thoughts towards me?"

Luo Chen laughed at himself and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

It's not only because of Han Zhan's selfless guidance today, but also because he knows how to practice the Liangyi Formation to a higher level.

…

Night falls.

The white jade plate ripples slowly in the water.

Deep in the deep lake bottom, in a water curtain cave filled with algae and colorful corals, a huge dragon is entrenched here, sleeping soundly with its eyes closed.

But beside him, there was a slender figure, sitting cross-legged with his back straight, his hands clasped in front of him, breathing in and out the pure spiritual energy of this place.

Looking carefully, the figure is that of a young girl.

Wearing aqua clothes, the white lotus embroidered on it is lifelike.

The white stockings are looming under the skirt, and the slender waist seems to be held in one hand.

As for her cheeks, she has thin eyebrows, fair skin, and a straight bridge of nose.

It's a pity that while the aura is compelling, it is also too elegant and lacks the baby fat unique to girls.

Suddenly, a deep voice came to the girl's ear.

"It's time for you to go back."

The girl opened her eyes, a cunning look flashed in her eyes.

"Uncle Long, how did you know I was awake?"

The Black King looked at the girl helplessly, "What you have absorbed is the pure spiritual energy that I have refined and swallowed. Don't I know at what point it is time to stop the practice?"

The girl curled her lips and said, "Tah, it's boring."

The Black King sighed, "Go back. I heard from the master that today is the Mid-Autumn Festival. Don't you want to reunite with your family?"

The full moon is the time for reunion.

Zhang Jingqing stared outside blankly, speechless and choked for a moment.

There was a rustling sound, and the Black King squirmed his huge body.

The girl panicked and said, "Uncle Long, just let me stay at your place for one night, okay? I beg you."

The Black King was puzzled, "You don't want to see your mother and your father that much?"

"Father? He only has that younger brother in his eyes." The girl lowered her head and was in a low mood. "As for the mother, she went to Quyang Island two years ago to give spiritual stones to Lord Lushan and became her disciple. , I gave up my job at Qingyang and devoted myself to practicing under the master of Lushan. I will go see her in a while. "

In his words, there is still some attachment to his mother, but he is full of resentment towards his father.

As the Black King listened, his body began to gradually slide outward.

Seeing this scene, the girl almost burst into tears.

"Don't you like Xiaoqing too?"

The Black King turned around helplessly, rolled up his mana, and carried it on his back.

"Master has something to do with me. It has nothing to do with whether he likes you or not. The little girl has a lot on her mind. Come out with me. Taking advantage of this good time, maybe master will be in a good mood and accept you as his apprentice."

The master in Uncle Long’s mouth?

The girl sat on the dragon's back, with many complex emotions on her face.

There is both admiration and admiration, awe and fear, and there is even more uneasiness between the eyes.

I don’t know how I can have so many emotions at such a young age.

The dragon swam very fast. After exiting the water curtain cave, it broke through the water waves and dived all the way.

With a crash and splashing waves, the dragon appeared on the surface of Daze Lake.

On the dragon's back, the girl looked up.

Under the bright jade plate, a man and a woman stand in the air.

The woman is at the back. She is a familiar person when the girl was young. The outside world calls her Tianxuan Fairy, but she will sweetly call her Tianxuan Auntie.

And the man in white robes who lives right in front has skin like fire and body like a mountain. Even if the bright moonlight falls on him, he looks like a volcano that can erupt at any time.

Jiaolong bowed his head, "Master, what do you have to tell Lao Hei?"