Longevity begins with alchemy master

【Shouyuan: 540/2500】

[Spiritual roots: gold, wood, water, fire, earth]

[Physique: Fire Spirit Body (Concealed Five Elemental Dao Body)]

[Realm: Early Nascent Soul Stage 1/100, Ancient Desolation Stage 4 99/100]

【法则：木之枯荣35/100，火之本源1/100，水之本源1/100，土之本源1/100】

[Cultivation Techniques: Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Scripture Grandmaster 501/1000, Thousand Heavens Myriad Transformations Sword Scripture Great Perfection, Soul Splitting Technique Great Perfection, Hundred Poisons Body Refining Technique Great Perfection, Myriad Beasts Scripture Great Perfection, Myriad Paths Convergence Great Perfection]

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In the quiet cave, the attribute panel cascaded down like a waterfall, displaying itself before Luo Chen.

The sheer number of entries is bewildering.

Each entry represents the mental and physical effort Luo Chen has devoted to a particular skill or technique over the past five hundred years.

If it were in the past, Luo Chen would definitely have felt a pang of emotion.

But when he opened the attribute panel again after many years, he remained very calm.

They simply regard it as a mirror that can directly reflect their own actual situation.

Yes, it's just a mirror. I'm no longer the naive person I was when I was young, excited and motivated to work harder just to see the progress bar of a certain skill improve.

He had become numb to that kind of strong positive feedback.

It's not that they're useless, but rather that Luo Chen has already ingrained qualities like perseverance and hard work into his very being during his five hundred years of cultivation.

Therefore, even without this mirror, he would still do the same thing.

His gaze swept around, ignoring most of the entries, leaving only the most crucial ones in his mind.

First and foremost is lifespan, which is what all those who pursue immortality care about most.

At a glance, Luo Chen felt a little gratified.

"After advancing to the Nascent Soul stage, my lifespan limit has indeed increased, almost doubling."

The lifespan limit of 2,500 years has far exceeded that of a normal Nascent Soul cultivator, by at least 500 years.

The extra five hundred years were only because he also cultivated his physical body.

If Luo Chen had suffered fewer injuries and hadn't overexerted his physical strength in battles over the years, his lifespan might have been extended by several hundred years.

Putting aside everything else, Liancheng's Earth-Shattering Divine Palm alone required Luo Chen to recuperate for a full thirty years. The damage to Luo Chen's physical foundation indirectly affected his lifespan by far more than thirty years.

"Five hundred and forty years old, even if you deduct the fifty years in the Mirage Dragon Cave, it's still close to five hundred years. How many of those people who were my age and traveled with me back then are still alive?"

Luo Chen sighed and his gaze fell on the spiritual root physique.

The essence of the five spiritual roots has not been concealed.

The Fire Spirit Body still shines brightly!

However, the hidden Five Elements Dao Body entry can no longer be ignored. It flickers with a faint light, as if it could be activated at any moment.

And this change stems from his own understanding of the essence of earth!
Luo Chen's lips curled up slightly.

Indeed, my choice was right.

The Five Elements Dao Body is the ultimate evolution of the Five Elements Roots, and is by no means inferior to those famous and sacred Dao Bodies in history.

In the future, as long as he can comprehend the true meaning of the final metal-elemental law, he will be able to fully activate the Five Elements Dao Body. In this way, not only will his cultivation speed reach an unimaginable height, but it will also greatly enhance his combat abilities.

Most importantly, after integrating the five elements, he will not be restrained by most attributes, but will instead be able to restrain the existence of other attributes.

This greatly benefits Luo Chen, who had previously relied solely on fire-based methods to fight enemies.

However, this matter is not as simple as it seems.

Even though he had mastered the refining of the Evolution Pill, the corresponding raw materials were extremely rare in the world. It was only thanks to the raw materials left behind by the Demon Lord of Refining Heaven in the Pill Realm that he was able to refine one pill by chance.

Moreover, there is a very real problem that is laid bare before Luo Chen!

That is, the laws are difficult to comprehend, and even more difficult to cultivate!

Not to mention the earth element he had just comprehended, even the water and fire elements he had previously comprehended on his own were still at the beginner level after so many years.

This may be related to the fact that he was previously at the Nascent Soul stage, and also to the fact that he focused on cultivating the "Thousand Heavens and Myriad Transformations Sword Scripture".

However, the progress remained unchanged, which shows that daily cultivation is of no help in comprehending the true meaning of the laws.

However, the true meaning of life and death has unknowingly increased to [35/100].

This is somewhat unexpected!
Looking at these data, Luo Chen fell into deep thought.

Why are the situations so drastically different?
Even though he was a fire spirit and did not specialize in wood-attribute techniques, nor did he deliberately try to comprehend the true meaning of decay and prosperity, his progress was indeed improving without him even realizing it.

Could it be that there are differences between different true meanings of laws?

Or perhaps it is the pure power of origin, which has a different cultivation method than the relatively high-level true meaning?
Luo Chen had some vague ideas in his mind, but he wasn't sure.

These ideas need to be discussed and verified with like-minded people.

He deliberately shifted his attention, focusing on the realm and the cultivation technique.

He reached the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm, as expected.

The cultivation after reaching the Nascent Soul stage is no longer as meticulous as before.

Because reaching this level, and even the levels that follow, is not easy to quantify.

The extent of each person's magical power and the strength of their grasp of the true meaning of the laws depend entirely on themselves.

Therefore, predecessors only divided the progress into three stages after junior high school.

However, the progress in body tempering is somewhat gratifying.

[Ancient Tier 4 99/100]

He's just one step away from breaking through to the fifth rank!
This was a pleasant surprise, both reasonable and unexpected.

The reason this is considered reasonable is that Luo Chen broke through to the fourth stage of Body Refinement first, while his Qi Refinement was a step behind, still in the Golden Core stage. Now that his Qi Refinement has reached the Nascent Soul stage, it makes perfect sense that he gradually worked his way up to the peak of the fourth stage of Body Refinement.

The unexpected factor stemmed from the "Hundred Poisons Body Refining Technique".

I have had this technique for two hundred years, and I have already begun practicing it after refining the Hundred Poison King Gu.

However, for the past two hundred years, Luo Chen has focused on the path of Qi cultivation and has not spent much time cultivating the "Hundred Poisons Body Refining Technique".

Yet, without realizing it, it reached the Great Perfection level and pushed its body refinement progress to the peak of the fourth tier.

The secret lies in the Hundred Poison King Gu!
This Gu poison consumes highly toxic substances in the world and then feeds back to its host, strengthening its physique.

The more toxic the food consumed, the better the feedback effect.

For two hundred years, Luo Chen occasionally drank diluted poisoned spirit millet wine, and now all his stock has been used up.

Thanks to the vast quantity of Poisonous Spirit Millet, the Hundred Poison King Gu, through its constant nourishment, gradually pushed Luo Chen's incredibly slow progress in body refining to the fourth-tier limit.

"This technique is difficult to learn, has demanding cultivation conditions, and requires immense perseverance to endure pain, but its effects are truly miraculous!"

"As long as I can endure it, and as long as the conditions allow, I can remain still while the King Gu works automatically."

"I really made a killing on that deal with the Celestial Master of Southern Xinjiang!"

Luo Chen smiled slightly, quite pleased with this unexpected surprise.

His mind stirred, and his internal organs trembled violently.

The next moment, a colorful Gu worm landed in the palm of his hand.

It was the King of Poisons Gu.

After it appeared, the Gu worm's mouthparts opened and closed repeatedly, as if it were extremely hungry.

As Luo Chen gazed at the Gu, his smile gradually faded, replaced by regret.

The peak of the fourth stage of body refinement is already the limit.

This is not only Luo Chen's limit, but also the limit of this King Gu.

Luo Chen had no other poisonous substance that could surpass the Zhenling Su, and the Hundred Poison King Gu was only at the fourth level, unable to help Luo Chen break through to the fifth level of the Ancient Realm.

With a sigh, Luo Chen used a rudimentary technique to put the Hundred Poison King Gu into a dormant state.

Then he took out a jade box and sealed it inside.

This item is useless to him now, but it is still a King Gu, and it comes with a matching cultivation technique.

If Luo Chen were to incorporate the "Convergence of Ten Thousand Paths" into it as well, it could become a future sect-protecting and inherited cultivation technique for the Luo Tian Sect.

Those with great perseverance and fortuitous opportunities might also be able to cultivate a physical body no less powerful than Luo Chen's through this method. After completing all this, Luo Chen glanced at his attribute panel again.

The "Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Scripture" is somewhat lacking, only reaching the Grandmaster level, which is related to the fact that this cultivation method is of a very high grade.

All other techniques have been perfected, including the Soul Splitting Technique!
As for magic, there is nothing to say.

However, Luo Chen is somewhat lacking in supernatural abilities.

The number of supernatural powers he possesses is too small.

Only the cycle of rise and fall is indicated.

While both Three Heads and Six Arms and Thousand Clouds Flowing Together possess supernatural power, one is based on physical strength, while the other relies on external objects, namely the Nine Heavens Qi.

However, Luo Chen was not in a hurry.

He is still young and has plenty of time to create his own supernatural abilities.

Putting everything else aside, after fusing with the Ninth Soul, the "Floating Heaven of Qi Sea" technique stored within it is also a spell with the potential to grow, with its upper limit reaching the level of supernatural powers.

Luo Chen fiddled with the attribute panel, reading ten lines at a glance.

After he successfully refined the fifth-order Soul-Cleansing Pill, his alchemy skills were completely stabilized at the fifth-order alchemist level. Perhaps he could now be called a "Saint of Alchemy".

Aside from alchemy, Luo Chen is also quite accomplished in the other three of the four most popular skills in the cultivation world: alchemy, array formation, artifact crafting, and talisman making, having reached the fourth-tier grandmaster level in each.

Luo Chen also dabbled in other medical skills, puppetry, and even beast taming and exorcism.

Five hundred years have passed, and even setting aside cultivation, Luo Chen's achievements in various skills are dazzling enough.

The light on the attribute panel gradually faded, and Luo Chen sat cross-legged in his cave, beginning to plan his next move.

He has already broken through to the Nascent Soul stage.

The matter of ascension to immortality was now before them.

Luo Chen's plan is to do it as soon as possible!

However, considering the lifespan of a Nascent Soul cultivator, this concept of "as early as possible" certainly does not refer to the present moment.

At the very least, he still needs to return to the Luo Tian Sect; there are still some mundane matters to attend to.

Moreover, the progress of body refinement is stuck at ninety-nine, which is a bit of a thorn in my side.

To take this step, relying solely on internal cultivation would require countless years of painstaking effort, so Luo Chen planned to use external force.

With a flick of his wrist, a beam of light shot out.

Eight flying horns, like swallows spreading their wings as if about to take flight.

It is the Octagonal Pavilion of Penglai.

Luo Chen's divine sense entered the tree and he saw the Demon Heart Tree, which he had acquired three hundred years ago but had been nurtured for countless years.

Tai Sui once said that the fruit of the Demon-Demon Union Tree has a great tonic effect on body cultivators.

But the fruit on it never ripened and fell from the tree.

Luo Chen studied this for a long time but couldn't find a solution, so he eventually handed it over to Sang Jinghe.

Before the other party failed to break through to the Nascent Soul stage and perished, he left him a jade slip containing the relevant research results.

Before Luo Chen went into seclusion, he had read a little bit of it.

As the information flowed through his mind, Luo Chen revealed a thoughtful expression.

"To catalyze this fruit, one can either follow the original cultivation concept of the Heavenly Demon Lord, using the hearts of great demons and monsters to nourish it together, absorbing the power of their blood and essence to condense the Heart-to-Heart Fruit. Alternatively, one can adopt Sang Jinghe's experimental and speculative method, using pure wild beast hearts supplemented with the essence and blood of the person consuming it to cultivate it, which may also condense a different kind of Heart-to-Heart Fruit."

"This world has great demons, but no great evils. I wonder if the pure blood of a great demon can condense into a Heart-to-Heart Fruit?"

"However, the heart of a wild beast can only be used as a nourishing material if it is a wild beast of at least the fifth level."

"Where should I look for this fifth-tier wild beast?"

"Wilderness?"

As his thoughts raced, Luo Chen's expression suddenly shifted slightly.

He waved his hand and put away the Penglai Octagonal Pavilion, and a sound transmission jade pendant flew out of his storage ring.

[Master, I have discovered traces of the Dark Demon!]

Luo Chen raised an eyebrow.

Black Demon—Gu Shaoshang!

Like him and Yue Sanren, he was one of those who obtained the inheritance of the Refining Heaven Demon Lord.

Most importantly, he had a blood feud with the other party for killing his father!
"Fine, let's go!"

Luo Chen muttered to himself as he left the cave and stepped onto the teleportation array heading to the North Sea once more in the twilight.

The teleportation takes only a moment.

When I opened my eyes, I had already traveled from the verdant and towering Cangwu Mountain to the vast and boundless North Sea.

It does indeed possess a certain air of immortals roaming the heavens and earth, living a carefree life like the Northern Sea in the morning and the Cangwu Mountains in the evening.

Luo Chen looked at the familiar scenery before him, glanced towards the Flying Swallow Islands, and then flew towards the far north without hesitation.

With a single step, he was enveloped by the surrounding天地元气 (heaven and earth energy), as if he had merged into the void.

There was no flickering firelight, only ripples rising and falling.

When they reappeared, they were already thousands of miles away.

Such speed is truly astonishing!

And this seems to be more than just Luo Chen's full strength.

The Exploding Fire Release technique, infused with Qing Shuang's spatial talent, now merges with heaven and earth, carrying vital energy and displaying a unique style.

If he wants to, and if his body can handle it, traveling ten thousand miles in one step is just a moment.

Luo Chen showed a satisfied expression. This escape technique, even without considering how it would affect others, was already more effective on himself than Lian Cheng's "Close at Hand, Far Away" technique.

You have to understand, that's a supernatural power!

"It seems that my foundation has been fully unleashed after advancing to the Nascent Soul stage. Even with just ordinary escape techniques, I have already approached the supernatural abilities of someone like Liancheng who is only at the Nascent Soul stage."

After a sigh, Luo Chen took another step.

As the primordial energy in the void stirred slightly, a figure appeared and disappeared like a shooting star, traversing the vast North Sea.

Unknown to the world, a powerful being in the realm of gods was moving swiftly above their heads.

However, Luo Chen would occasionally scan the North Sea with his divine sense, taking in most of the scenery.

The scene I saw was the same as the information I had previously obtained.

Today, Beihai is a sea of ​​chaos.

Humans and demons mingled, and evil spirits emerged in great numbers, far exceeding the situation of internal strife among the major human factions in the past.

It seems that Li Canghai, the only human powerhouse in the North Sea, really doesn't care about anything!
……

As dawn broke, the first rays of sunlight began to appear.

In a pitch-black sea, a figure suddenly appeared, standing silently in mid-air.

Soon after, an elderly man dressed in monk's robes rushed over, his face filled with disbelief.

It had only been half a day since he sent the telepathic message.

And the master has arrived?
Could it be that the owner was originally located near the North Sea, or...?

Kong Chan swallowed hard and asked cautiously, "Master, have you already...?"

Luo Chen nodded slightly, "Yes, I have already reached the Nascent Soul stage."

Kong Chan was deeply shocked, his heart was filled with turmoil, and his mouth was even a little tied in knots, "Congratulations to Master on your successful transformation into a god, may you live as long as the heavens."

"No need for further flattery," Luo Chen waved his hand and asked, "Where are those two?"

Kong Chan subconsciously looked towards the sea ahead.

Luo Chen looked in the same direction, and under the night sky, this sea area still felt somewhat familiar to him.

Memories that had been hidden for many years suddenly flooded back to me.

"The Sea of ​​Despair?" (End of Chapter)