Longevity begins with alchemy master

The north wind howled, and the snow was thick.

A figure stood on the edge of the thick, swamp-like blood lake, silently watching the enormous blood cocoon in the center of the lake.

The Three Wanderers were once the most outstanding rogue cultivators in the North Sea, standing out among their peers.

But with the disappearance of Blood Wanderer and the enslavement of Moon Wanderer, the glory of the three great wanderers has long since vanished.

As someone who was once on par with them as a "wild wanderer," Luo Chen never expected to encounter the last mad wanderer under these circumstances.

But the two never even had the most basic verbal communication; all they did was exchange a simple glance, and everything was understood without a word.

Looking at the thick blood-covered callus, Luo Chen knew that the Madman had reached a critical juncture. If he could overcome this hurdle, he would surely usher in a new opportunity. If he failed, there would only be one fate awaiting the Madman: death.

"May you have good luck, fellow Daoist!"

After staring for a long time, Luo Chen uttered these words and then turned and left.

After he left, Blood Lake became unusually restless.

Large amounts of blood and black mist surged toward the blood cocoon, and a vigorous heartbeat resounded, as if heralding the birth of a new life.

……

Inside the Buddhist hall in Taohai City.

Kong Chan sat cross-legged on the futon, chanting Buddhist scriptures. The atmosphere around him was peaceful and serene, without any trace of foul or demonic odor.

Suddenly!
Kong Chan's prayer beads suddenly stopped. He subconsciously opened his eyes and saw a black figure standing quietly in front of the statue of the Vidyaraja Buddha.

For some reason, Kong Chan felt that the black-robed Taoist at this moment resembled the statue of the Bright King Buddha, even though the other party was clearly not a member of the Buddhist sect.

"Master, you've emerged from seclusion?"

Kong Chan wanted to stand up, but the man waved his hand, indicating that he should stop.

Then they heard the other person's leisurely voice.

"I am about to leave. Do you want to come with me or stay in Beihai?"

leave?

Kong Chan's heart stirred, and he immediately understood that the other party's departure was not just leaving the Arctic Yama Heaven, but leaving the North Sea.

He hesitated for a moment.

Luo Chen didn't give him long to consider before presenting a condition.

"Actually, where you are is not important. What is important is that you will need to help me once soon. Just once. If you succeed, I will remove the restriction on your soul, and you will be free. The outside world will never know that you once submitted to a human cultivator."

Kong Chan's eyes lit up immediately, and he asked directly, "Whom does Master intend to deal with?"

"Tianyuan Dao Sect!"

The four seemingly light words weighed heavily on Kong Chan's heart like a mountain, almost suffocating him.

"This……"

"Think it over carefully. I hope to see you on the battlefield when the time comes."

Luo Chen chuckled lightly, then turned and walked outside.

He did not force the other party.

Unlike Black King Xiaobai, the demonic monk Kongchan did not have a deep relationship with his "master and servant." Even if he forcibly ordered the other party to take action, there was a high probability that he would not put in any real effort.

However, if the other party does it voluntarily, they will definitely do their best!
He believed that Kong Chan would make the right choice, after all, if he failed, the backlash Kong Chan would suffer would not be any better.

A conflicted voice came from behind.

"When? Where?"

"Ten years later, the ancestral home of the Dao Sect on the Eastern Yuan Continent!"

After he finished speaking, Luo Chen was no longer in the Buddhist hall. Kong Chan sat on the futon with an uncertain expression.

After a long while, the sound of chanting and praising Buddha's name rose again in the Buddhist hall.

However, compared to before, the chanting sounded rather heavy.

……

"Master, how do we get back? Do we go back the way we came?"

After leaving the ruined city of Taohai, Xiaobai asked this question with concern.

Black King also appeared, saying in a simple voice, "That's too slow, and we also have to avoid the eyes and ears of the Tianyuan Dao Sect."

Xiao Bai snorted, "Do you have a better way?"

Black King paused for a moment.

Unexpectedly, Luo Chen said, "There is indeed a faster way to get back."

After saying that, Luo Chen released the Frost Eagle Shuttle and stepped onto it.

The shuttle turned and headed east.

This looks like they're going to cross the Beihai Sea!
That journey was no faster than returning the way we came, since the Arctic Night Sky was located in the far north of the North Sea.

Upon seeing this, the Black King seemed to have thought of something.

"Master, do you intend to..."

"Ah."

Luo Chen nodded slightly, acknowledging the other party's idea.

If we follow that route, we can save at least half the time.

Only Xiaobai was confused.

Black King chuckled, offering no explanation, and instead emerged to say to Luo Chen, "Master, while you were in seclusion, we thoroughly searched the Yuanmo Sect ruins and found quite a few good things."

As he spoke, he spat out a pile of miscellaneous things from his mouth as if presenting a treasure.

Luo Chen wasn't particularly interested; with his current strength and realm, ordinary treasures were nothing to him.

Moreover, when the demon race was trapped in the Night Sky for two hundred years, even if the Yuan Demon Sect had any rare treasures left behind, they were probably looted by the demon race's powerful members long ago.

Therefore, the "good stuff" that Black King mentioned must just be ordinary stuff.

However, after Luo Chen's gaze swept over the pile of clutter, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he reached out and beckoned a statue.

"what!"

The Black King said smugly, "Those junior demons did search very thoroughly, but there are always places they missed. This statue is one I dug out from deep underground. Little White and I studied it, and it's possible that a body-refining technique is recorded on it. I know that you, Master, love collecting all kinds of body-refining techniques, so I specially kept it."

"You did a good job."

Luo Chen hummed in agreement and began to gently stroke the statue in his hand.

This sculpted creature is quite bizarre. It is clearly human, yet it has two horns on its head. Moreover, its pitch-black body is covered with countless veins, and a layer of blood-red aura covers it.

It does not conform to any of the demon races recorded in the Refining Heaven Demon Lord's records, but it is definitely not a human demon race either.

"What on earth is this sculpture?"

At first glance, this statue gives one the feeling of inexhaustible vitality and a powerful physical body!
There's a reason why the Black King said there's a set of body-refining techniques recorded on it.

However, this body-refining technique did not actually manifest itself; it seemed to require some kind of secret.

Luo Chen calmed down and began to study it carefully.

……

half year later.

On the Frost Eagle Shuttle, Luo Chen held the "Demon Statue" in his hands, his gaze focused.

The magic was infused into it, and the statue remained motionless.

Luo Chen applied his source power, and the crimson aura suddenly began to flow, coursing along those blood vessels.

But at the crucial moment, the crimson aura suddenly stopped.

Clearly, magical power cannot activate this statue. Even the source power condensed from blood and qi can only slightly activate it and cannot manifest the true technique.

Luo Chen had roughly guessed how to activate this thing.

Only pure demonic energy can activate this demonic statue and manifest the complete cultivation technique. Otherwise, even with the source energy of wild beasts, one can only barely complete a small portion of the cultivation path.

But in this world, who possesses such pure demonic energy?
In an instant, two figures flashed through Luo Chen's mind. One was the Madman who had been lying in the Night Demon Heaven Blood Lake not long ago. If he had successfully transformed into a demonic physique, it would have been natural for him to generate demonic energy.

The other one is Ning Yuzhuo, whom I met in the Southern Frontier back then. That guy should be a true disciple of the Yuanmo lineage.

"When you have time later, try to find the two of them!"

Luo Chen put away the golem, and then the Black King's voice came from outside.

"Master, we have arrived at the Flying Swallow Islands."

Luo Chen slowly stepped out and stood on the flying shuttle that floated in the sky, gazing into the distance below.

In his divine sense, he saw a woman in a blue dress quietly and peacefully tending to herbs in a medicinal garden, while a large number of spirit fish swam around in a small lake nearby, looking quite carefree.

"Mid-stage Golden Core cultivator! Hai Xin has not slacked off in his cultivation over the past hundred years!"

Black King tentatively asked, "Master, shall we go and see that mistress?"

Luo Chen pondered for a moment, then shook his head.

"That's it!"

"My future is still uncertain, why should I involve her? Besides, with Haixin's current strength, she won't be of any help to me."

"Let her live here quietly!"

After saying that, Luo Chen turned the shuttle around and headed east.

Xiao Bai finally realized something. She looked towards the archipelago that resembled a swallow spreading its wings, and vaguely perceived with her divine sense the figure of a woman with a beautiful face and a curvaceous figure.

That must be the Daoist partner that the Black King mentioned earlier, the master's partner in the North Sea.

Is her name Cheng Haixin?

While Xiaobai was pondering this, the Frost Eagle Shuttle was moving at an extremely fast speed. It had already left the Flying Swallow Islands and landed on an unnamed island with abundant water vapor where seabirds circled.

Xiao Bai was puzzled. Why stop here?
"Master, aren't we supposed to be going back to the Eastern Wilderness?"

Luo Chen put away the Frost Eagle Shuttle, smiled slightly, and walked into the small hill in the center of the island.

"The way home is right there!"

Pushing aside the vines, we entered the cave, where an ancient yet magnificent teleportation array sat quietly.

Luo Chen bent down and examined it carefully, then stood up with satisfaction.

"Just as I expected, when Qixia Yuanjun returned to the Eastern Wilderness from the North Sea, she had already repaired this teleportation array."

Luo Chen turned around and looked at the man and the ghost.

While this transcontinental, ultra-long-distance teleportation array is convenient, it also places high demands on the "passengers."

Back then, he and Han Zhan only managed to teleport over by a narrow margin thanks to the Azure Phoenix Feather.

Now that he has to lead the two of them, without the help of the Azure Phoenix Feather, he can only rely on his own strength.

Seeing Luo Chen's thoughtful gaze, the Black King reacted immediately, circling around Luo Chen's arm and looking up.

“Master, you don’t need to worry. I will not let the tragedy of being teleported to Zhongzhou happen again.”

Luo Chen was speechless.

There has actually been one instance where a transmission accident occurred.

That time, without informing Fu Chaosheng and the others, he secretly teleported the Black King from Beihai to Zhongzhou, which led to a tragedy.

The massive number of dragon earthworms carried by the Black King were squeezed to their very core by the pressure of the teleportation array, and upon arrival, the enormous amount of dragon earthworm blood directly contaminated a teleportation array in the Central Plains.

The wealthy family paid a considerable price as compensation for this.

That bloody tragedy that stained the Central Plains was seen as quite ominous by some, as if it were a calamity of bloodshed.

Now it seems that the tragedy had foreshadowed the future. This time, I'm going back to target Zhongzhou and bring bloodshed to Tianyuan Dao Sect.

Luo Chen exhaled a breath of stale air and made a move towards Xiaobai.

"Let's go!"

He shuddered, and a surge of immense magical power erupted, completely enveloping Little White. A trace of magical power also attached to the Black King.

He casually tossed out a few top-grade spirit stones, which landed on the grooves of the array.

With a thought, the formation rumbled and activated.

boom!
A massive pillar of light shot into the sky, tearing through the void, and then vanished in an instant.

Hundreds of miles away from this nameless, deserted island, on Yaoyue Island in the Ten-Mile Calm Lake, a woman in blue is diligently cultivating medicinal herbs in her garden.

She wasn't good at alchemy, and growing these medicinal herbs was just a way for her to pass the time.

If possible, when you see Luo Chen again, you can give him a little surprise, after all, he is an alchemist.

Some of the medicinal herbs in this courtyard are even lost to time; she painstakingly cultivated them.

But when they could meet again was something Cheng Haixin couldn't know.

suddenly!

She subconsciously looked up and gazed into the distance.

A beam of light shot into the sky, tearing through the void and heading east. Although it disappeared in an instant, she still managed to catch a glimpse of it.

For some reason, the woman's heart clenched for a moment when she saw the pillar of light.

"strangeness."

Cheng Haixin muttered something to himself, stopped what he was doing, and rode his escape light towards the place where the pillar of light had appeared.

Soon after, she landed on an unnamed deserted island and nervously entered the cave.

A familiar scent wafted towards me.

The woman immediately pursed her lips.

……

Teleportation arrays can be seen as an upgraded version of the Great Teleportation Array.

It doesn't just randomly drop people from one end to the other; it teleports them through the void.

However, due to the immense spatial pressure, many people were unable to remain conscious during the teleportation process, which is why they experienced the illusion of instantaneous teleportation.

Luo Chen had already gotten used to that feeling, and thought that when he woke up, he would arrive at Cangwu Mountain.

But this time, it was exceptionally different.

He remained conscious!
He could clearly see how he was traversing through the void, with one spatial node after another appearing before his eyes, and layer upon layer of spatial fluctuations spreading out like ripples.

This wondrous experience was not only due to his keen observation skills achieved by concentrating his primordial spirit before teleporting, but also to a unique talent.

"Is it the spatial talent I obtained from Qing Shuang?"

"It wasn't this obvious before!"

As his thoughts raced, Luo Chen's gaze became deep and unfathomable, as if he could pierce through the void.

Little White beside him had already fainted. Black King was in slightly better condition, but his body had begun to tremble. Luo Chen specially replenished some of his magic power.

From within the sleeve, the Soul Refining Banner emitted a slight cracking sound, which vanished in an instant.

With the power of a fifth-order Kui Niu demon god, it is enough to withstand this kind of ultra-long-distance teleportation.

"It went fairly smoothly!"

In the midst of the upheaval, Luo Chen, holding Little White and Black King in both hands, appeared on the underground teleportation platform.

Luo Chen looked around and breathed a slight sigh of relief.

We've arrived at Cangwu Mountain!
A crisp footstep sounded, and Luo Chen scanned it with his divine sense, already knowing who it was.

Youquan, the deputy head of the Duzhen Hall.

At this point, Luo Chen should withdraw his divine sense.

But he inexplicably stopped what he was doing and subconsciously looked up.

A cold yet familiar divine thought happened to meet him.

Luo Chen's lips parted slightly in surprise, "You've reached the Nascent Soul stage?" (End of Chapter)