Immortality Begins with the Master of Alchemy

Chapter 96: Spiritual Eyes Rooted, Seeing Through Earth Veins (Please subscribe)

 “What should I say, you don’t know?”

“I entered the Tianxiang Tower when I was on the fifth level of Qi Refining. I danced there every day and never fought with anyone. How could I know this?”

 “Haha, weak!”

 Luo Chen looked at Gu Caiyi with disdain, causing the other person to look at him angrily.

But slowly, Gu Caiyi also sighed.

“I really need to become more proficient in combat methods. The Poshan Gang is no better than Tianxiang Tower and does not have a strong background. The same thing as before will happen again without warning.”

 The previous incident was about a fight between two gangs.

That time, a lot of people died. Even Xu Renke, who had the broken sword and the fragment of the magic weapon, died on the Taoist forum.

 And this kind of thing cannot happen only once.

 Historically, many gangs emerged in Dahefang.

 Poshan Gang and Dajiang Gang have only emerged in the past hundred years.

But...no background?

Luo Chen rubbed his chin, does the Poshan Gang really have no background?

I’m afraid that’s not the case!

On the way out of the city, the two chatted about some things in the city.

“Speaking of which, Fu Xiuxiu has left and the east wing is still vacant. Do you want to move there?”

“Forget it, the renovated house has no shortcomings except for its cold spots.”

“Winter is coming soon, I’m afraid it will be even colder!”

 Is winter coming soon?

Luo Chen then discovered that some leaves on the streets in the outer city had begun to turn yellow.

Monks have strong bodies and rarely feel temperature differences unless they are in extreme weather.

 Unknowingly, he had gone from midsummer to autumn.

 Behind him, two bodyguards followed.

They gradually realized that the route was wrong. Luo Chen didn't seem to be going in the direction of Xianyue Valley.

Zhou Yuanli was puzzled, "Master, where are we going?"

Luo Chen said with a smile: "Go to the main altar and see if the gang leader is there. I have something to ask him."

 It’s a pity that Mi Shuhua is not here.

 Actually, Mi Shuhua doesn’t spend time in the Poshan Gang every day.

He also has his own social circle, and behind him there is a small family of cultivators, the Mi family.

Old man Mi was a casual cultivator, but after building the foundation, he spread his wings and established the Mi family.

 Nowadays, the Mi family is relatively well-known near Dahefang, no worse than some foundation-building families who have migrated from other areas.

 Even because they control the Poshan Gang, they are even stronger.

It is also true that many of the Ji-building families who have moved here will take the initiative to visit Mi Shuhua.

Luo Chen felt a little regretful that he didn't see each other.

 But to verify his doubts, he had other ways.

 Arrived at Xieyue Valley, I first practiced the four furnaces of Zhongmiao Wan in the morning.

Then Luo Chen did not rush to refine the chalcedony pill, but approached an old monk in the fire industry.

 As mentioned before, most of the internal staff of the Alchemy Hall are old, weak, women and children.

And this old monk named Qu Hancheng is the one with the highest level of cultivation among them, reaching the sixth level of Qi Refining.

The other party is currently married in Dahefang and has a son and a daughter.

It’s a pity that neither of the two children have spiritual roots.

He only hopes that he will have another child, or that one of his grandsons will have spiritual roots and continue his dream of cultivating the Qu family.

 “Hall Master, do you have something to do with me?”

  Qu Hancheng looked at Luo Chen doubtfully.

Luo Chen smiled slightly, "It's a good thing if something happens! From today on, you will be the squad leader, in charge of all the monks who watch the fire, responsible for scheduling and rotation. Oh, I will give you an extra spiritual stone in salary every month. But..."

 Hearing such a good thing, the old man became excited.

 I’m tired of watching the fire!

Always keep an eye on the size of the fire, add or remove firewood. When the firepower is not enough, you have to release the fireball spell yourself.

 It was okay once or twice, but after more than a month, he felt like he was going to have a fever.

 If he becomes the squad leader, he can no longer watch the fire himself, but direct others.

Of course, he knew very well that there must be conditions for being the squad leader.

 The condition lies in that "but"!

 Looking at Luo Chen staring at him like a rare treasure, he felt slightly uncomfortable.

“Master, please speak out, if you can get me, I will do my best.”

“It’s very simple, come on, come with me!”

Without letting anyone follow him, Luo Chen took Qu Hancheng out of Xieyue Valley and came to the back of the valley.

As far as the eye can see, a huge virgin forest spreads quietly.

Qu Hancheng swallowed and said, "Hall Master, if you go over here, you'll reach the Xiaoyue Mountains. There are a lot of monster wolves over there, so we'd better not get too close."

 “It’s okay, just stay here!”

Luo Chen fixed a place with a smile, and then said: "Do you know the fireball technique?"

"meeting!"

“Okay, now you use all your strength to cast the fireball spell, as much as you can, until the mana is exhausted.”

 “Every fire ball must be injected with maximum spiritual power!”

It's that simple?

Qu Hancheng was stunned for a moment, and then followed the instructions and used the fireball technique.

Luo Chen watched carefully from the side, comparing the difference between ordinary monks and his own Dzogchen Fireball Technique.

 Generally speaking, monks put the least effort into magic.

The spell is indeed very powerful, but its release speed is slow. It requires kneading, chanting incantations, and mobilizing spiritual power before it can be formed.

 And many spells, even after they are formed, have very slow attack speeds.

Like fireball, it is a low-level attack spell as famous as golden spear and water arrow.

 But speed has always been its shortcoming.

 In comparison, the magic weapon Talisman and Seal Script are much better.

 One only requires spiritual control, the other is instantaneous.

Moreover, spells consume high energy, which will affect the monks' ability to accumulate spiritual power and achieve breakthroughs.

 Hence, only those monks who have no hope of breakthrough and do not have magic weapons on hand will focus on spells.

Qu Hancheng is such an old monk who perfectly meets the conditions.

His fireball technique, in Luo Chen's opinion, is about as good as his own mastery level.

 This is already excellent!

  She is proficient in pinching, quick to form, and quick to release, but cannot control the direction of the fireball very well.

There is no way he can fire dozens of fireballs at every turn like Luo Chen, and he can also control the degree of steering.

 But Luo Chen’s goal is not here either.

 “One, two…sixteen, seventeen. Continue?”

 Qu Hancheng looked pale and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"It's no longer possible. The spiritual power in my body is only enough to release these seventeen fireballs."

Only seventeen?

Luo Chen frowned and his eyes fell on the dark potholes.

“What spiritual root do you have? How long have you been advanced to the sixth level of Qi Refining?”

“I have three spiritual roots. I reached the sixth level of Qi refining when I was seventy-five years old. It has been eighteen years now.”

 Ninety-three!

"You still go out to work at such an old age. It's hard work for you." Luo Chen spoke in a more polite tone.

Qu Hancheng took a breath and said with a forced smile: "It's not hard. I have to thank the hall master for his support. It will be easier when I get old."

Luo Chen hummed and fell into deep thought.

Eighteen years have passed since I advanced. Even if there is no supply of elixirs, relying on the qualifications of the Three Spiritual Roots, I should have reached the sixth level of Qi Refining by now.

　　 No, considering that the monks in the early and middle stages are very strapped and cannot afford to live in a first-level spiritual place in the inner city.

 Hence, the improvement of realm must be slower.

 This old man is approximately in the middle of the sixth level of Qi Refining.

 Even so, it is much higher than my current progress.

 But his total spiritual power is not even half of his own?

Luo Chen raised his brows and realized that his total spiritual power might be far higher than that of ordinary people.

  Fireball, his best spell.

 At the fifth level of Qi refining, he can release nearly a hundred fireballs.

 It sounds like a lot, but if each one must ensure maximum power and contain the most spiritual power, then there will only be about twenty.

 This is also the reason why his usual number of flying fireflies has always been around ten.

 After breaking through to the sixth level of Qi Refining, he can release about thirty pills with all his strength, which is already ten more than the fifth level of Qi Refining.

 And it is foreseeable that as he continues to practice, this number will continue to increase.

If you wait until you reach Qu Hancheng's current cultivation progress, you can release about forty of them with all your strength.

Doesn’t that mean that my spiritual power is more than double that of monks of the same level, or more?

Luo Chen was shocked when he got this answer.

 “When did this change happen?”

 Suddenly, Luo Chen thought of the Grandmaster Changchun Gong.

“You can’t be wrong, the Grandmaster Changchun Gong has opened all my meridians, thus doubling the maximum amount of spiritual power I can store.”

“It is precisely because of this that I need to accumulate more spiritual power than monks of the same level in each realm before I can break through.”

 After thinking about this, Luo Chen's brows relaxed a lot.

 This is definitely a good thing.

 In terms of combat and foundation, both are strengthened.

  But for Luo Chen, who did not live long, it was a big bad thing.

  means that he has to spend more time and resources to break through the realm like monks of the same level.

 “Perhaps, the situation is even worse?”

 Luo Chen thought of a piece of common sense!

As the monks continue to transfer spiritual power, their Dantian will expand and their meridians will become wider. All this is done in order to break through the foundation and accumulate enough spiritual power.

Then if I have twice as much foundation as the same level now, doesn’t it mean that in the future, his Dantian will be wider than ordinary people’s cultivation.

 It requires more spiritual power?

 Double? double! three times!

 Luo Chen’s head is so big!

“Master, is there anything else?”

The old man's voice came from beside him. Luo Chen shook his head and motioned for the other person to go back first.

 After he left, Luo Chen let out a long breath.

“Sure enough, everything has two sides.”

“Grandmaster-level Changchun has brought me many benefits, including the upper limit on the number of refining elixirs, automatic recovery of energy, accelerated practice, etc.”

“Now it seems that the meridians are all connected and the foundation is increased, which are also the benefits that have always been hidden.”

“But this benefit hinders me from quickly breaking through.”

 After thinking for a long time, Luo Chen suddenly smiled.

“You just need more resources for practice.”

"What am I worried about? There are alchemy methods, spiritual stones and so on. Isn't that just how much I need?"

After thinking about this, Luo Chen returned to Xieyue Valley leisurely.

“I would like to inform you that we will no longer practice Zhongmiao Pills in the afternoon, we will all use it to refine Chalcedony Pills!”

 …

 …

 In the afternoon of the same day, Dantang went all out to refine the Chalcedony Pill.

 The results are gratifying!

 All failed!

Luo Chen was happy to bring dozens of waste elixir beads.

On the way home, he angrily knocked out the stone beads one by one, using the technique of the goddess scattering flowers with Hunyuan beads.

 Wherever it passes, flowers, plants, insects, and moths all suffer disaster.

Seeing him like this, Gu Caiyi and the two bodyguards did not dare to touch his brow.

 After returning home, Luo Chen brewed the Peiyuan Spiritual Liquid as he did yesterday. The materials purchased for three hundred spiritual stones were enough for him to brew thirty doses of the Spiritual Liquid.

While sitting in the Ziyun Copper Stove, Luo Chen thought of a question for no reason.

"The monks who take this pill furnace to make extraordinary pills in the future may be contaminated by my aura."

“So when they did that, did I feel part of it?”

 “Bah, bah, bah!”

Distractions will disappear as the Changchun Gong circulates.

 This situation will actually never happen at all.

 After taking a medicinal bath every day, he would clean the alchemy furnace diligently.

Moreover, when refining elixirs, what breath cannot be burned away by such high temperatures?

With the help of Anshenxiang, the Changchun Kung is running over and over again, and the nearby spiritual energy is also absorbed, and then slowly transformed into Luo Chen's own spiritual power.

The huge flesh and blood essence of Peiyuan Spiritual Liquid, after the medicinal materials were fused, also penetrated into Luo Chen's body and transformed into streams of qi and blood.

　　Time flows by slowly like this.

 Early the next morning.

  The rooster sings and the world is white!

 “Huh? Where did the **** crow come from?”

Luo Chen's eyes moved and soon fell on the east wing.

Gu Caiyi also got up and looked over curiously.

 The door is open.

 A man with sharp eyebrows and starry eyes, dressed in white, walked out with a frosty look on his face.

He glanced at Luo Chen and Gu Caiyi, turned around and walked out of the courtyard without saying a word.

Luo Chen opened his mouth wide and pointed at his back.

 “How rude!”

“Are you the new neighbor?” Gu Caiyi frowned.

Yesterday, the two of them talked about how the east wing was empty after Fu Xiuxiu left.

 Unknowingly, a new person moved in today.

 And that guy is hard to get along with at first glance.

There is no courtesy even to exchange names or say hello.

“He is the tenant brought here by Senior Sun. It is said that he comes from the Duan family, a nearby cultivating family, and his name is Duan Feng.”

The person who spoke was Qin Liangchen who had just left the house.

 He stretched himself, looking tired.

 Among the people in the courtyard, he is the most laid-back.

With the title of elder, you don’t have to worry about anything, and you get a white salary every month.

 Naturally, I know these trivial matters better than anyone else.

 The Duan family?

Luo Chen asked curiously: "Don't the Duan family have a spring of ice and fire? Although it is not as big as the spiritual vein, it is comparable to the first-order spiritual vein in a small area. Why did their family members come to live in the inner city?"

“The Xiuxian family is not in harmony either. Duan Feng had a falling out with the patriarch’s son, and he was the only one left in his lineage.”

"So he moved to the inner city?" Luo Chen shook his head, "This is unreasonable!"

Qin Liangchen shrugged, "What's the point? He came here for the Taoist Forum. His name is still on the Dahefang Prodigy List, ranked 19th."

 When Luo Chen said this, he understood instantly.

 There is indeed such a group of monks in Dahefang today.

They don’t have any special skills, and unlike the Poshan Clan and the Dajiang Clan, they rely on big rivers to practice.

 Their way of practice is to participate in competitions on the Taoist platform and win rewards.

 If you rank at the end of the month, you can stabilize the top three and get huge rewards.

Duan Feng, the abandoned son of the Duan family, obviously took this path.

 “So, he is very good at fighting?”

Qin Liangchen thought for a moment and said, "I think he can fight. It's worse than when I was in my heyday, but better than I am now."

After such a long time, Qin Liangchen gradually got used to the newly attached arm.

 His combat effectiveness has gradually returned to the level of the ninth level of Qi Refining.

Luo Chen curled his lips and said, "What's the use of being able to fight? When you come out to hang out, you have to talk about power and background. Yep, he's just a rude little brat!"

 After saying that, he greeted Gu Caiyi and went out.

But when going out, the direction was toward the Jade Cauldron Sword Pavilion.

Perhaps I went out too early. There were not many people around Jiange or in the White Stone Square opposite.

 Hey, Xiaoyue came out to set up a stall so early!

Just as Luo Chen was about to say hello, he saw his new neighbor Duan Feng walking up to the stall.

 Bought a bottle of ten-year-old pineapple wine.

Luo Chen's eyes lit up, this was definitely not some scumbag, this was his most beloved client!

“Fellow Taoist, let me get to know you. I am your neighbor Luo Chen. This beauty is Gu Caiyi, the principal of the house.”

The young man in white said two words coldly.

 “Duan Feng.”

 “What a good name! The sharp edge of the sword is sharpened, and my Taoist spirit is at its peak. Today I will defeat the enemy.”

Duan Feng glanced at Luo Chen and shook his head slowly.

“Nangong Qin is not a weakling.”

Luo Chen’s forehead veins jumped.

 Hello, what’s your look like?

  Meaning, I am weak!

 Hmph, if it weren’t for the fact that you are my client, I would kill you with ten or eight fireballs.

I thought so in my heart, but still had a flower-like smile on my face.

“It doesn’t matter, if you drink our wine, your fighting power will definitely increase.”

 After speaking, he called out to the well-behaved Yuan Xiaoyue next to him.

"Xiaoyue, this is my neighbor. I will give him a discount when he buys things from now on. Buy ten bottles of pineapple wine and get a fairy bean for free!"

"Yes, I understand, Brother Luo." Yuan Xiaoyue was obedient and took note of Duan Feng's appearance.

 Duan Feng then realized that this food stall was Luo Chen’s property.

 He nodded to Luo Chen, "Thank you very much!"

 After saying that, he walked straight into the passage to the Luofeng Mountain Discussion Platform.

The monk selling tickets yawned and didn't ask any questions.

 It seems that he is very familiar with this person, and he knows that the other person is not an audience, but a contestant.

Gu Caiyi stood beside him with a smile, "You have always been stingy, why are you so generous today?"

 “Haha, I have always been generous to my neighbors!”

Luo Chen replied.

 He doesn’t talk about cultivating user habits.

When that kid gets used to drinking fairy beans, he will naturally get extra spiritual stones and buy fairy beans.

 Earning spiritual stones also requires skills!

He didn't even bother to talk about these things.

 “Let’s go to Xianyue Valley, there is no way we will fail today!”

 With a wave of his sleeves, Luo Chen left in high spirits.

 …

 Having the last three failures yesterday, I am very lucky today.

 In the afternoon, Luo Chen succeeded once.

He succeeded on his familiar Ziyun copper furnace.

Maybe it was because he was familiar with this alchemy furnace. Anyway, Luo Chen breathed a sigh of relief when he saw twenty chalcedony pills being put into the alchemy room.

 The proficiency rate at the entry level is really too high.

 It takes ten times to succeed once.

 The loss of raw materials is really too great.

But as long as your proficiency improves, everything will be easy to handle.

Although Zhongmiaowan has high profits, the market is too small and will certainly not be able to support his future practice.

Chalcedony Pill does have market potential!

“I don’t know how the channel talks are going with that old man Mi Shuhua?”

While thinking this way, Luo Chen's eyes suddenly hurt.

 A trace of blood flowed strangely along both sides of the eye sockets.

“Luo Chen, what’s wrong with you?”

With his eyes closed, Gu Caiyi's worried voice came to his ears.

 He raised his hand and waved.

“It’s okay, you guys are busy first, I’ll go in and take a rest. Maybe it’s because I’ve been refining too much elixir recently, and I’ve been using the Spiritual Eye Technique all the time, and my eyes can’t stand it.”

Gu Caiyi watched him stumble into the house worriedly.

 Soon, a blue light curtain rose.

That was Luo Chen who activated the first-order formation in the stone house.

 In the room, Luo Chen had already opened his eyes.

 After wiping away the blood stain, it seemed to be the same as before.

 But the whole world has become different!

 In his eyes, the world suddenly became vivid.

 The house exudes a faint spiritual energy, which comes from deep underground.

Xieyue Valley is the mine where Yuding Jiange mined star silver ore. There is indeed a branch of the first-order spiritual vein of Luofeng Mountain below.

It is precisely for this reason that Mi Shuhua specifically rented the right to use this place to process the collected medicinal herbs.

In addition, Luo Chen also saw a lot of things.

 The blue light curtain comes from several formation flags, and the energy source of the formation flags is several low-grade spiritual stones.

Outside the light curtain are the monks gathered in the Alchemy Hall.

Those people also exude light groups in various colors, corresponding to the five elements of spiritual power.

Looking at this new world, Luo Chen was in a trance.

 Spiritual vision has been upgraded to the master level!

 This spell he acquired later was used very frequently due to his frequent elixir refining.

Now it’s finally upgraded.

 The performance of the upgrade is completely different from other fireball techniques, Xiaoyaoyou, and Wind Control Technique.

 Grandmaster Fireball can now release ten fireballs at the same time.

 Wind Control Technique is about reducing spiritual power consumption.

 There is no bonus in Xiaoyaoyou, it is just more proficiency.

 Perhaps this is also related to the fact that Xiaoyaoyou itself is not a magic spell, but just a secular light skill.

 Spiritual eye surgery seemed to have performed an operation on his eyes.

 After the operation, Luo Chen realized that he no longer had to take the initiative to perform suctions every time to attract spiritual energy into his eyes.

Now this magic has been ingrained in his eyes.

 As long as he wants to, he can activate the spiritual vision technique without others noticing.

Even if he has maintained his spiritual vision technique, monks of the same level cannot detect it, and perhaps even higher-level monks in the foundation-building stage can find it difficult to detect.

Not only that, he is also more than ten times more sensitive to the fluctuations of spiritual energy.

Your eyes wander, up and down, left and right, far and near.

 Suddenly, Luo Chen's eyes stopped on the ground.

 He seemed to have seen through countless thick rock layers and reached the depths of the earth's veins.

 “Such a strong accumulation of spiritual energy?”

 (End of this chapter)