Longevity begins with alchemy master

The three great spiritual treasures of the Daoist sect are: the Star Gate, the Burial Umbrella, and the Rotten Chessboard!
The Star Gate connects heaven and earth, linking the mystical realm; it is a rare spatial treasure.

The Rotten Chessboard is even more wondrous, possessing the ability to gather spiritual energy and suppress the fortune of continents. In fact, after absorbing the memories of his clone Zhou Fuyou, Luo Chen was even more amazed by the treasure's effects. He clearly remembered that when he went to the Mirage Dragon Cave Heaven, the spiritual veins were scattered and not very suitable for cultivation. However, the disciples of Zhou Fuyou's generation, who participated in the Jiazi Grand Competition, possessed many excellent third-tier and fourth-tier spiritual veins, and even a fifth-tier spiritual vein that helped Ke Lianshan break through to the Nascent Soul stage!
Such a dramatic change is simply because the Rotten Chessboard has been nurtured within it for thousands of years.

Therefore, in Luo Chen's view, the Rotten Chessboard also has the magical function of activating spiritual acupoints and accumulating qi to form veins.

In fact, this effect should have been discovered long ago.

Zhongzhou, a single province, possesses the Heaven and Earth Island, the Rotten Axe Mountain Range, the two Great Dao Palaces of Tiannan and Libei, and the sunken Western Continent, totaling five fifth-order spiritual veins!

Overwhelm the other four continents with absolute superiority!
This was by no means a natural formation; one can imagine the role the Rotten Chessboard played in it.

It remains to be seen whether this magical artifact survived the explosion at the Mingshui Spring.
As for the burial umbrella?
Luo Chen stared at the slightly illusory bone umbrella beneath the raging flames, a hint of uncertainty in his eyes.

As if to verify something, he reached out and gestured.

He held an ancient, large sword in his hand.

It is the Yuan Tu Sword!
Now, after Luo Chen released the restrictions and nurtured it with the power of his Nascent Soul form for a hundred years, the Yuan Tu Sword has finally taken the final step and achieved the level of a spiritual treasure.

This is also a key factor in why the final move was able to decisively defeat Liancheng.

The combined power of the most powerful and sharpest flying sword in the world, the Thousand Sky Flow, is far more than just one plus one equals two. Liancheng's defeat by that move was not unjust.

At this moment, the sword and umbrella reflected each other, and Luo Chen's eyes lit up.

"really!"

"The refining styles of the two are almost identical."

"Could this umbrella be the work of the Demon Lord of Refining Heaven?"

Luo Chen had some knowledge of weapon crafting.

While he may not be considered a grandmaster, he is at least at the level of a weapon-refining master, and many magical treasures and artifacts have been created in his hands.

Therefore, they have their own ability to distinguish the different styles of weapon crafting.

At this moment, in his view, both the Yuan Tu Blood Sword and the Burial Bone Umbrella had extremely distinct forging styles.

One is ruthless and invincible!

Firstly, it emphasizes defense, making it impervious to water and fire, and unaffected by weapons!
This extreme refining style is quite rare in today's cultivation world.

The magical artifacts crafted by people often pursue diversity and comprehensiveness, intending to deal with all kinds of unexpected situations with a small number of artifacts.

For example, Luo Chen's natal magic weapon, the Hunyuan Cauldron, combines various effects such as suppression, confinement, nurturing and refining, as well as offense and defense.

For example, Zhou Fuyou's Sea-Stabilizing Pearl is primarily defensive, but it also has the effects of suppression and restraint.

Luo Chen had only ever seen a single crafting style, like the Yuan Tu Sword and the Burial Bone Umbrella, which pursued only a single power, in the hands of one craftsman.

Refining Heaven Demon Lord!

"According to the spirit of the Refining Heaven Cauldron back then, the Refining Heaven Demon Lord refined a total of thirteen spiritual treasures in his lifetime. One was given to the Yaochi Merchant Girl, one fell into the hands of the Heavenly Origin Grand Venerable, and one remained in his own clan. Of the remaining ten, five were destroyed by the Qixia Yuanjun, leaving only five in the Mingzhao Heaven."

"The Heavenly Origin Grand Venerable is an ancestral figure of the Heavenly Origin Dao Sect. Could this Burial Umbrella be a spiritual treasure obtained from the Refining Heaven Demon Lord?"

“He bestowed it upon us and brought it to the realm of mountains and seas.”

The more Luo Chen thought about it, the more it seemed to fit his guess.

Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain why the style of the Burial Umbrella is so different from the other two treasures of the Daoist sects.

Looking back on his battle with Liancheng, Luo Chen felt a sense of relief.

Using the Yuan Tu Sword to unleash the Thousand Sky Flow, which is arguably Luo Chen's strongest killing move at present, it was still blocked for a moment when facing Lian Cheng, who was fully wielding the Burial Bone Umbrella.

The defensive capabilities of this magical artifact are truly beyond imagination.

However, unexpectedly, the burial umbrella itself has a defect!
That unparalleled defensive capability had a tiny, insignificant crack, as if it had been forcibly torn open before.

Following that crack, Luo Chen was able to kill Lian Cheng in one fell swoop.

"I wonder what kind of astonishing method it was that could tear through such a defensive magical treasure and even create a sliver of an opportunity for me?"

As he murmured to himself, Luo Chen's gaze fell once again on the bone umbrella.

He coveted this magical treasure and once wanted to acquire it.

However, the reason why a spiritual treasure is a spiritual treasure is that it has a spirit within it.

If the spirit of the artifact is unwilling, let alone Luo Chen, even a true Nascent Soul cultivator would find it difficult to subdue it by force.

Having possessed this item for over twenty years, the spirit within it has remained hidden, refusing to meet Luo Chen, clearly unwilling to acknowledge him as its master.

This greatly angered Luo Chen.

Because he needed to recover from his injuries, he didn't want to use any gentle methods, so he simply chose the most extreme approach, burning him day and night with the earth's fiery energy.

Even so, the spirit of the Burial Umbrella still resisted stubbornly, seemingly preferring to perish rather than remain intact.

Now, Luo Chen has a vague idea of ​​how to subdue the spirit of the Burial Umbrella.

"Little Tu, come out!"

With a thought, the Yuan Tu Sword flashed with a blood-red halo, and the phantom of a ferocious and hideous little beast appeared.

Although it was fierce and ferocious, it became friendly and obedient when it saw Luo Chen.

It is the spirit of the Yuan Tu Sword!
After the sword was fully nurtured to the level of a spiritual treasure, its spirit emerged from ignorance and gained sentience.

Luo Chen also learned some of the beast's memories from its previous life.

Its origin is quite special; it is a magical beast called "Tusu" from the demon realm.

This beast rarely appears. When it is born, it often devours the mother's strength to grow stronger. It is rumored to have a notorious reputation as a ferocious beast in the demon realm.

But Xiao Tu's life was somewhat tragic.

When it was born, it had eight other brothers, which made its power too dispersed.

Nine young Tu Su killed each other, and in the end only the little Tu survived, but it was also on the verge of death.

The Demon Lord of Refining Heaven encountered it by chance and fused it into a carefully crafted true weapon sword, seemingly intending to make use of waste, and also seemingly wanting to experiment with artificial weapon spirits.

Later, this sword changed hands and ended up in Luo Chen's hands. It drank countless mouthfuls of blood and underwent tempering by sword energy, finally reaching the level of a spiritual treasure.

At this moment, the Yuan Tu Sword had already killed three powerful figures, and its ferocity had been fully unleashed.

Sensing Luo Chen's thoughts, it glared fiercely at the bone umbrella engulfed in the raging flames.

With a low growl, it charged straight in.

Luo Chen's method was very simple.

Since the umbrella spirit doesn't want to communicate with it, let the sword spirit, which is also a magical artifact spirit, communicate with it.

Both are artifact spirits, and both originated from the hands of the Heavenly Demon Lord, which means they have a unique connection.

This is much better than forcibly subduing the treasure myself.

Watching the sword spirit Xiao Tu go inside, Luo Chen waited with a smile on his face.

However, that smile disappeared from Luo Chen's face after the bone umbrella slowly opened.

He didn't know what was happening inside.

All that is known is that within the tightly closed bone umbrella, a dormant aura awakens, exerting immense pressure on the sword spirit.

Although the Blade Spirit was at a disadvantage, its ferocity could not be suppressed.

The repeated collisions between the two caused the surrounding flames to flicker incessantly.

Upon seeing this, Luo Chen's expression betrayed his worry.

"Or, should we just forget about it?"

"The sword spirit has only been formed recently. If it is destroyed inside, it would be a great loss."

Just as Luo Chen was about to give up, the floating, tightly closed bone umbrella suddenly opened.

call out!
A streak of blood-red light shot out.

The phantom of a small beast materialized and was wagging its tail in front of Luo Chen, looking quite pleased with itself.

Is he trying to take credit?
"Is it done?"

Luo Chen looked expectantly at the bone umbrella that resembled a flower unfolding.

A white, illusory figure gradually solidified into form.

She was a young girl, as beautiful as a flower, yet as sinister as a bone, with a sorrowful expression on her face.

Upon seeing Luo Chen, she gave him a graceful bow.

"Little Bone greets Master."

Is this it?

Luo Chen was taken aback and subconsciously looked at the sword spirit.

Little Tu was rolling around on the Yuan Tu Sword, feeling quite comfortable.

It's truly a case of painstaking scheming that proves useless, yet obtaining it requires absolutely no effort!

Luo Chen breathed a sigh of relief, then released a wisp of his divine sense. The spirit of the Burial Umbrella did not refuse and released its own restrictions. As soon as the two made contact, some vague fragments of memories surfaced in Luo Chen's mind.

Most recently, a long river of sword energy, like a meteor shower, swept in.

The most delightful moment was when the girl smiled sweetly as the bone umbrella opened.

And the most painful...

On the isolated island, amidst the perilous cliffs and the trembling of the heavens and earth, a fiery phoenix tore apart the sturdy canopy!
boom!
Luo Chen was jolted awake as if struck by a heavy blow, his eyes filled with shock.

"Qixia Yuanjun!"

Looking again at the desolate and sorrowful girl, Luo Chen understood what had happened to her.

In the battle at Broken Soul Cliff, the Five Elders of Tianyuan used this magical treasure as the basis to construct an unparalleled array in an attempt to trap and kill Qixia Yuanjun.

However, in the end, it all failed!

Qixia Yuanjun forcibly broke the formation, killing four Nascent Soul level experts, and escaped from Broken Soul Cliff under the attack of the Refining Void Great Wilderness's Soul-Wandering Wilderness.

Liancheng miraculously survived and returned to the Tianyuan Dao Sect with the Burial Umbrella.

However, the severe damage inflicted by Qixia Yuanjun on the Burial Umbrella could not be healed in a short time, which created an opportunity for Luo Chen's earth-shattering sword strike to break through.

"I'm sorry to trouble you."

After the initial shock, Luo Chen's expression became complicated as he reached out and beckoned the Burial Umbrella.

Almost!
It was just a hair's breadth away from becoming the sixth demon lord's treasure destroyed by Qixia Yuanjun.

Fortunately, the battle at Broken Soul Cliff took place within the Mountain and Sea Realm, which restrained the power of Qixia Yuanjun, thus protecting the Burial Umbrella.

If this were the Xuan Realm where Qixia Yuanjun and Liantian Mojun fought back then, the unrestricted power of a peak Refinement Void stage cultivator would be enough to destroy the Burial Bone Umbrella itself.

"From now on, you'll stay with me. I'll find a way to fix you."

Stroking the barely visible yet startling crack on the umbrella's surface, one could almost feel a faint trace of scorching heat.

It was not the earth fire from the Danchen Palace, but a familiar flame.

Nirvana Flame!

If the injury was caused by this fire, he might be able to repair it little by little.

The girl in white nodded gently and then slipped into the bone umbrella.

With a thought, Luo Chen sent two streams of light into his body.

Within the Purple Palace.

The nascent soul figure sat cross-legged in the center, clad in black armor, holding a blood-red sword. A bone umbrella slowly opened above its head, and wisps of magical power emanated from the nascent soul figure, continuously being absorbed by the bone umbrella.

In the distance, firebirds soared and circled, while fiery trees withered and drooped.

……

A day in the mountains means a thousand years in the world.

Even without a special difference in the flow of time, high-level cultivators who are cultivating in seclusion here still cannot feel the passage of time.

In a daze, ten years have passed since Luo Chen's return.

Over the course of ten years, Luo Chen recuperated from his injuries while simultaneously nurturing the Burial Bone Umbrella with his own magical power, deepening the close connection between the two.

The refined Ambrosia Pills were gradually prepared and ready for use. Cultivators from the Luo Tian Sect came to collect them and then delivered them to the various sects in the Eastern Wilderness that Luo Chen had previously promised.

This day!
Luo Chen was looking through a roll of blueprints in a pavilion on a beautiful mountain.

The scene depicted above looks quite familiar.

This is the complete view of Mount Yanfu!

This is a panoramic map of Yama that Xiaobai painstakingly drew over decades, bypassing numerous arrays and restrictions, and using countless little devils.

The text clearly indicates the location of each cave dwelling and also marks the approximate power of each formation.

Two places in particular were described in special detail.

First is Tianyuan Palace, and second is Tianze Palace!

This was the site of the Daoist temples of two of the three great ancestors of the Mingyuan Sect, Tianyuan Ancestor and Heize Ancestor, and its status was no less than that of the Tianming Palace where the sect leader resided.

The Heavenly Nether Palace was opened due to the great battle of that year, the subsequent attack by hordes of ghosts, and the appearance of the Netherworld Spring. However, the Heavenly Abyss Palace and the Heavenly Ze Palace are still protected by formations, and many people are eager to know what treasures they still hold.

Unfortunately, since Min Longyu's death, Luo Chen has been the most skilled person in formations in the Luo Tian Sect.

Luo Chen needed to recuperate from his injuries and refine his magical artifacts, so he naturally couldn't find the time to break through those formations.

If we hire experts in formations from outside, such as Tian Duzi, we might have a chance to break through them one by one, but in that case, some of the contents inside would inevitably be lost.

"These formations are quite interesting. Perhaps I can try to break them after I reach the Nascent Soul stage."

It's not just maybe, it's a certainty!
Yanfu Mountain is the true location of Luo Tian Sect, which is Luo Chen's preferred location.

He could not allow Yanfu Mountain to remain buried in the abyss of darkness forever.

To restart Mount Yanfu, it is necessary to break some of the large formations within it.

Just as Luo Chen was pondering, his expression suddenly changed, and he looked at a certain place with a look of joy.

A mysterious and profound aura emanated from a mountain peak.

Heaven and earth seemed to interact, as if responding.

Dark clouds surged across the sky, gradually creating an atmosphere of impending storm.

This is a sign of the formation of an infant!

Logically speaking, one should not be able to undergo tribulation in a blessed land.

Like Canglong back then, Luo Chen specifically took him to the outside world to undergo the Nascent Soul Heavenly Tribulation.

But now the Luo Tian Sect no longer needs to hide its true nature; the gates to the blessed land have been opened and remain open year-round.

Moreover, because of Luo Chen's enlightenment of the origin of water, which caused the world to tremble and connect with the outside world, the current Dan Sheng Blessed Land and the outside world are no longer indistinguishable.

The celestial signs appearing at this moment must mean that someone is about to take that final step.

As lightning flashed, figures flew out from all parts of the blessed land, gazing at that place.

call out!call out!
Two streaks of light landed in front of Luo Chen.

"Husband!"

"Brother!"

Looking at Gu Caiyi and Canglong, Luo Chen smiled and nodded, then strolled out of the pavilion.

"It's Yingzhang!"

Gu Caiyi's face lit up with joy, "Senior Brother Li has finally made it this far!"

Canglong's voice held a hint of worry, as if she were recalling the perilous situation she faced when she formed her nascent soul. If it weren't for Luo Chen's help, she feared she would have been unable to survive the tribulation.

"Can Sect Leader Li succeed?"

Luo Chen smiled, looking completely at ease.

"Don't worry, Yingzhang has an extremely solid foundation, and few people of the same level can surpass him. With all the preparations he has made over the years, it would be strange if he didn't succeed."

Li Yingzhang is a true example of someone who has accumulated knowledge and experience before unleashing it.

Whether it was the Qi Refining stage or the Foundation Establishment stage, his cultivation speed was not fast, but every step he took was extremely solid.

After reaching the Golden Core stage, the speed of cultivation was greatly slowed down due to sect affairs.

However, there are also advantages, namely, through daily practice, one becomes almost without any weaknesses.

Whether in terms of magical power or spiritual power, he can be said to be among the best Golden Core cultivators in the Luo Tian Sect today.

This can be seen from the fact that he dared to be the first to announce that he would go into seclusion.

Soon after that energy appeared, the formation of the Heavenly Tribulation was instantaneous.

Subsequent developments did not exceed Luo Chen's expectations.

Facing the might of Heaven and enduring the tribulation of lightning, golden lotuses sprang from the earth to form the nascent soul.

Amidst the anticipation of countless people, a long roar, like that of a dragon, resounded throughout the blessed land.

As the dragon's roar faded away.

Everyone flew towards Qinhua Mountain together.

A spiritual atmosphere pervades the air, shrouded in mist and clouds.

A refined middle-aged man stepped out, his face now less composed than before, but more spirited.

"When the heavens break through, the spirit shines forth; from the depths of the nine heavens, a jade tablet hangs suspended!"

"Gentlemen, I have not disappointed you!" (End of Chapter)