Immortality Begins with the Master of Alchemy

Chapter 632: Withered Blood Vine, Dead Wood Ridge, let’s go!

 “Qingyangzi, are you sure?”

“Of course, are you unwilling to leave fellow Taoist Duanli?”

In a side hall of the Demon Hunting Department, Luo Chen and Duan Li were talking quietly.

 The latter had a look of hesitation on his face.

"It's not that I'm not sure, but it's just that my favor is only used on such a small matter, so it's not a waste."

Luo Chen smiled slightly and said, "Why waste it? This matter is extremely important to me. One more person means more power. Especially the flower basket magic weapon, fellow Taoist, is the core of my plan, and you are indispensable."

“In that case, I’ll do as you please!”

Although Duanli felt confused, he was relieved.

As Qingyangzi's reputation became more and more prosperous, it became increasingly difficult to repay the favor he owed him.

After all, what I said at the beginning was to do my best to repay the favor of saving my life, but if I really want him to risk his life, how can he be willing?

Nowadays, if a small thing makes the other party choose to consume that favor, he has no choice but to do so.

"I just came back from completing the mission, and I have to submit the mission voucher, so I'll excuse you now." Duan Li clasped his fists and left the side hall early.

 After he left, Luo Chen stayed in the palace, silently thinking about the plans of Ziling Island and his party.

 At Purple Spirit Island, there are three problems!

 One is the poisonous floral fragrance emitted by the purple monkey flower.

The second one is the dozens of third-order purple gas poisonous monkeys entrenched above it.

 Thirdly, once the war breaks out, it will spread to Ziling Island and affect the growth environment of purple monkey flowers.

 For these three problems, Luo Chen has been solving them one by one during this period.

 The improved fourth-level poison-control elixir has been refined, and the quantity is completely sufficient, which can solve the so-called floral poison.

 Then, he invited Sang Jiugong, Lord Lushan, who was in the middle stage of the Golden Elixir, and Duanli, who was at the third level of the Golden Elixir. If he and the Black King were added in, that would be the top five Golden Elixir combat powers!

This type of lineup, with advance planning, is enough to deal with those Purple Air Poison Monkeys who lack means.

 The last question is also the most important.

Luo Chen also worked out a solution after much thought.

 With Duanli's flower basket magic weapon as the core, a formation was arranged to stabilize the ground of Ziling Island.

At the same time, supplemented by a set of mountain-holding talismans that Lushan Jun previously developed, this can ensure that the environment of Ziling Island is not destroyed by the aftermath of the battle to the greatest extent.

Of course, these plans are all based on attacking Ziling Island.

 After defeating it, Luo Chen still needs to improve the other processing methods.

The Purple Spirit Island is located deep in the Demonic Sea, far away from the hinterland of the human race. He cannot take care of it there for a long time, so he has to leave behind backup.

"Originally, I planned to leave the Black King on Purple Spirit Island to take care of the elixir for me, but when it comes to the Sunken Sea Secret Realm, I need help even more, so I have to find another way."

 “Formation may be a means.”

“But what is the situation on Purple Spirit Island? I haven’t landed on the island myself yet, so I can’t prepare the formation in advance.”

“Let’s find a few formations for backup first, and prepare the corresponding formation equipment.”

While Luo Chen was thinking, the sound of footsteps came from outside the palace.

 He thought it was the end of his life, and he left and came back again.

However, before anyone entered, vicissitudes of laughter could be heard outside the door.

“I originally wanted to go to Penghu to find a Taoist friend, but I didn’t expect that we have a close connection with each other. A Taoist friend came to my door first.”

 As the laughter came in, Diaosou, whom he had not seen for a long time, came into view.

Luo Chen frowned slightly, then said: "Diaosou, long time no see. I heard that you have been busy doing things for Master Xue recently, how come you still have the time to go to Penghu to find me?"

 He wanted to change the subject.

Unexpectedly, it was exactly what Diaosou wanted.

“What a coincidence, what I did to you when I came to find you was a real thing!”

At this moment, Luo Chen's expression suddenly became solemn.

 Diaosou didn’t give in to the matter and spoke directly.

“I have found the location of the fifth-level withered blood vine, and I am now recruiting people to retrieve the treasure for the real person Xue. Qingyangzi, you have great magical powers. Please help me when the time comes.”

 Fifth-level withered blood vine!

Luo Chen's expression changed slightly, "Diaosou, are you kidding me? I didn't accept the real person mission."

Diaosou's smile faded, "Why, aren't you willing?"

Luo Chen shook his head, "It's not that I don't want to, but I have other things to do. Besides, Wu Ending Valley didn't guarantee me before, so I'm exempt from the task of the Monster Hunting Department?"

Diaosou snorted softly, "Those things can't be brought to the table. When there's nothing to do, you can naturally let them take care of themselves. But now it's a big thing that the real person has designated to do. For us, it's a forced recruitment."

 At this point, his vicissitudes of life narrowed his eyes slightly.

“Qingyangzi, don’t forget, you are a four-star demon hunter!”

 Luo Chen couldn't help but remain silent.

Diaosou didn't rush him, he just found a chair nearby and sat down.

 After a long while, a faint sound came from the hall.

 “Is this an order from Master Xue?”

"Yes, he gave me full power to mobilize the power of the Monster Hunting Department. As long as I want to, everyone must listen to my orders."

The Eight-Star Demon Hunter is already the de facto leader of the Demon Hunting Department, but he still has to obey the orders of the three major Sanren who founded the Ten Thousand Immortals Association.

Now that the real person has delegated power, Diaosou can naturally do whatever he wants.

The rewards for the missions previously released by the Xuesanren included knowledge related to the formation of babies. This was a temptation enough for Diaosou, who had been searching for a method to create an infant to no avail, to risk everything and give it a try.

 The friendly relationship with Luo Chen in the past was as fragile as silk paper in the face of this mission.

Luo Chen regretted coming to the Demon Hunting Department today.

 But then I thought about it, even if he didn't come, Diaosu would still come to the door in person.

Penghu is right there.

 He can run away from the monk, but cannot run away from the temple.

 Since the matter is a foregone conclusion, it is useless to feel resentful and regretful.

Luo Chen slowly expressed his concerns, "How can we compete with the power of the fifth-order withered blood vine and Nascent Soul? Diaosou, you shouldn't do that thing of hitting an egg against a stone!"

Diaosou glanced at Luo Chen in surprise. He didn't expect that the other party would consider this in a short period of time.

 He smiled again.

 “Don’t worry, I won’t seek death.”

“For this mission, in addition to you and me, I have also mobilized two seven-star demon hunters and a late-stage Golden Core monk.”

Luo Chen was shocked!

 Seven-star demon hunters are undoubtedly late-stage Jindan people.

And that great monk, even if he is not a seven-star demon hunter, is actually in the late stage of the Golden Core.

With such a lineup, it can definitely be regarded as the Ten Thousand Immortals Association's high-end combat capabilities, except for the Yuanying monks.

How can I be equal to those people in the eyes of Diao Su?

 “It’s an achievement in body refining!”

Luo Chen thought of this.

 Diaosou had many private exchanges of physical training techniques with him in his early years. Although the other party did not make much progress, his understanding of himself was increasing day by day.

 The body refining technique, which is comparable to the combat power of a great monk, is why Diaosou thinks so highly of him.

In addition, the Qingyang Demon Lord is famous, how could Diaosou leave such a good thug unused.

“Qingyangzi, don’t worry too much.”

“In addition to the five of us, Master Xuezhen also gave us another means specifically to deal with the fifth-level withered blood vine.”

"This trip is not dangerous for you, it is just a long trip. Even after completing the mission, you can also get merit points and increase the star level of the demon hunter. The star level of their seven-star demon hunter is too high and cannot be improved too much. It’s a lot, but you’re only four stars now, which is enough to advance to a big level.”

Diosou talked eloquently, and his words were full of confidence in the success of the mission.

 Under his persuasion, the resistance in Luo Chen's heart gradually became less and less.

However, before that, he still had questions to ask.

"Where is the mission? My own affairs are urgent, so don't delay for too long."

 “Why are you in such a hurry?” Diaosou asked casually.

Luo Chen did not answer.

Diaosou chuckled and took out a piece of jade from his arms.

Seeing Luo Chen reaching out to take it, he paused and held the jade piece. "You and I will make a small oath that the details of this trip will not be leaked to anyone."

Luo Chen frowned and had no choice but to make a small oath of secrecy with Diaosou using their spiritual consciousness as a guide.

 This type of oath is not very binding.

 But once it is leaked, the other party will feel it.

 In this case, the consequences of leakage can be imagined.

Taking the jade piece from Diaosou's hand, Luo Chen's consciousness sank into it and he observed it carefully.

“Start from the Wanxianhui and go eastward...crossing seven mountains and five seas...until Kumu Ridge.”

 “After reading it, give it back to me!”

Diaosou wanted to return the jade piece, and at the same time said: "I will inform you of the specific departure time in three months. During these three months, you should prepare in advance and adjust your status. The mission is said to be not dangerous, but it is really necessary to go out. In the event of an accident, you still have to rely on yourself, but I can’t guarantee it.”

"By the way, the other three people traveling with us are probably not familiar to you as you have been living in seclusion these years. They are... Haha, I'm so busy, how could you not be familiar with Huangfu Song?"

Luo Chen looked a little strange when he heard Diaosou tell the origin of the names of the three people.

Diaosou thought he was uncomfortable with Huangfu Song and didn't think much about it. He gave a few instructions and left in a hurry.

 Luo Chen left the Demon Hunting Department on his own.

Walking on the street, Luo Chen's strange expression gradually dissipated.

 “It’s actually the way to go!”

If he read it correctly, the map on the jade piece was clearly in the same direction as the direction he wanted to go to Purple Spirit Island.

 It's just one after the other.

Kumulin Ridge is in front and Ziling Island is in the back.

 In an instant, an idea flashed in Luo Chen's mind.

"Yes, the Black King mentioned that on the route to Purple Spirit Island, he took a long detour just to avoid an extremely dangerous mountain. Now it seems that there is clearly a fifth-level withered blood vine entrenched of Deadwood Ridge.”

After thinking about this, Luo Chen's heart suddenly became alive.

He is such a master caster, and he has basically lived in seclusion in Penghu these years.

If he leaves suddenly and attracts attention, it will not be easy for him to deal with Wuzhigu and the Zhou family and Chen family.

If someone pays attention and learns about the Purple Monkey Flower, I'm sure there will be knowledgeable people who can guess Luo Chen's plan.

At that time, it will easily lead to disaster.

  But if he was forced to go out in the name of the Sanguer mission, there wouldn't be much controversy.

Even if someone is curious, they will only focus on the famous Xue Sanren.

 “Three months?”

“It would be better to let Mr. Lushan and the others take a step earlier.”

Luo Chen murmured in his heart.

 …

Since the return of the Monster Hunting Department, Luo Chen has been staying at home again.

Only a large amount of materials were collected from the Zhang family and then sent to the Alchemy Palace through Tianxuan's hands.

 In the outside world, there are indeed people who are paying attention to Luo Chen's movements at all times.

 For Wu Ending Valley and the Zhou family, Luo Chen was only there to refine defensive magic weapons for them.

To Ding Yi of Moyun Mountain and the master of Moyun Cave, they thought Luo Chen was hurriedly refining the black turtle treasure that had crossed the Sunken Sea.

Diaosou also learned about Luo Chen's movements through his subordinates, and he just smiled after hearing it. Luo Chen was so busy, it seemed that he was really focused on the task.

 Three months passed by in a blink of an eye.

On this day, Ding Yi took the time to take the initiative to visit Luo Chen.

However, Tianxuan told him that he had gone out.

“It’s a mandatory mission from the Monster Hunting Department, and my master has no choice.”

Ding Yi was stunned, with a gloomy expression on his face. He only left one sentence: "When your master comes back, please immediately invite him to come to Moyun Mountain."

 Looks like he's a little anxious.

In addition to Ding Yi, Zhou Shanshan also came to visit with a young Jindan monk from the Zhou family, but he was also rejected.

 Both are displeased.

 But after returning to Zhou's house later, I learned some inside information, and the resentment gradually dissipated.

 There have always been rumors among the Ten Thousand Immortals Association about the tyranny of the Xue San people.

Except for the Yuesan people, few of the other monks in the Ten Thousand Immortals Association dared to disobey the tasks he assigned.

 This is true even for big forces such as Wu Ending Valley and the Zhou Family that have Nascent Soul cultivators.

Just because Xue Sanren is a monk in the middle stage of Yuan Ying, and he has a glorious record of escaping from the great monks of the Empress Yuan Dynasty.

 But the ancestors of Wuzhonggu, Coral Sea Zhou family, and Tianqu Chen family are only early Yuanying monks, how can they disobey him?

 No matter how much trouble there is behind you.

 Just talking about the present, Luo Chen met two seven-star demon hunters who were traveling with him under the introduction of Diaosou.

 “The Hook Star Envoy, who is good at the art of starlight, is from the annihilated Sky Demon Star Sect.”

Luo Chen was extremely surprised and looked at the man with extraordinary appearance and a bright star robe.

“But three hundred years ago, the Heavenly Demon Star Sect claimed to have killed countless demons and used demon pills as its stars?”

Hearing that someone was remembering the deceased sect, Gou Xingshi had a wry smile on his face.

“The glory of the past is nothing but a handful of loess now, and even the mountain gate has been buried in the ocean.”

 “Sorrow.”

Luo Chen sighed with emotion, and his condolences came from the bottom of his heart.

Beihai has many spiritual veins, which has also led to the emergence of sects and families in endlessly.

Tianyao Xing Sect is one of the most famous people.

This sect has a very good relationship with the Yuan Mo Sect. Even the former sect’s territory is close to the Yuan Mo Sect. Their inner disciples have many means to target the demon clan and are proud of the number of demons they kill.

But three hundred years ago, the Sky Demon Star Sect was destroyed by a powerful monster, resulting in numerous casualties and almost no survivors.

At that time, outsiders just thought it was the Sky Demon Star Sect that provoked a big demon that shouldn't be provoked.

Later on, I realized with hindsight that it might just be that the Beihai Monster had cut off its wings in advance in order to counterattack the Yuan Mo Sect.

After the Gou Xingshi, the other person is a taciturn man.

Luo Chen only knew that the other party's name was Dao Lan. He was an iconic casual cultivator in the Ten Thousand Immortals Association and rarely went out.

 In other words, it’s not that he rarely goes out, but he has always been on the Liuyang defense line, performing guard duties.

According to outside rumors, Dao Lan is also the next person most likely to be promoted to an eight-star demon hunter.

 This is an ascetic monk who is practicing Buddhism!

 And use fighting to hone yourself as a means of cultivation.

Having a strong murderous aura, keep away from strangers.

 After getting to know the two seven-star demon hunters who were traveling with him, Luo Chen couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

Diosou really put a lot of thought into this mission!

 with the former Shang Zong strong man, the top master of the first line of defense, plus myself who is good at body training, oh, there is one more person.

Luo Chen glanced at the room with the closed door on the flying boat.

Huangfu Song was inside, but he was very arrogant and had no intention of coming out to meet them.

However, this arrogance seems a bit out of place when the mission is about to be carried out.

"Speaking of which, Queen Purple once said that she would come to my door to pour me tea and apologize. Could this be the reason why he doesn't want to go out?"

 Inexplicably, Luo Chen chuckled.

Diaosou gave Luo Chen a strange look. He was about to carry out the task of Master Yuanying. Everyone else was very cautious, but Qingyangzi was quite calm.

　　Clapping his hands, he said loudly: "The mission is about to begin. Let me introduce you to the situation in Deadwood Ridge in detail to avoid any surprises later."

　　While saying this, a spiritual consciousness also extended out from the closed door.

 When the four Jindan monks saw this, they looked at each other.

 You are not a fool either!

 (End of this chapter)