Longevity begins with alchemy master

The Black King has some talents.

At the very beginning, when Luo Chen used a large amount of top-grade Emperor Liquid to cultivate it, it catalyzed a devouring magic that could devour all kinds of flesh, blood, and bones and extract energy that was beneficial to itself.

Later, after being promoted to a wild beast, he gradually obtained the two wild beast talents of immortal body and the ability to lead souls into the earth.

The former is manifested in battle. Even if one's limbs are broken and part of the body is destroyed, as long as it is not instantly wiped out, it can slowly recover. In the battle with Qingshuang, the Black King was beaten extremely badly, but now he is still alive and kicking.

Luo Chen had always believed that the latter could only be used to cultivate spiritual land and improve the quality of spiritual veins.

But now it seems that he has somewhat neglected his talent of leading spirits into the earth.

Whether it was searching for spiritual wine in the Dieyun Sect or finding a large number of martial arts manuals in the Five Elements Divine Sect, the Black King showed his extreme sensitivity to places with rich spiritual energy.

Now, I have found another good thing for him!

"Perhaps I can pay attention to relevant resources in the future and explore the Black King's talents in this area."

As a person, it is always better to have many skills!

The same goes for the Black King. He doesn't have to fight every day, so how can he just eat and sleep, and then sleep and eat?

With multiple skills, it is worthy of being Luo Chen’s number one spiritual pet.

Luo Chen muttered to himself and began to study the "good stuff".

Shining God Gu!
The secret of the Shadow-Looking Teaching.

And it is obvious that the Shenshen Gu that the Black King found is of a fairly high quality.

Looking at the dormant poisonous insect that looked like a caterpillar, Luo Chen used his limited knowledge of poison to carefully identify it.

Those black circles are not patterns, but wrinkles.

The more, the longer the age.

"Even if it's not the mother Gu, it's at least in its adult stage, enough for a Yuanying realm warrior to use."

"But I still need to study how to use it specifically."

Luo Chen pursed his lips and began to flip through the other books in the storage bag.

Faced with those densely packed classics, Luo Chen couldn't help but look at the Black King with admiration again.

This guy knew that he liked to read a lot of books, so when collecting resources, he would always do a thorough search.

She has a very clever mind!

Smiling, Luo Chen immersed his mind in it.

……

A flying boat sailed from east to south.

The master of Minglei Cave was located on the bow deck, standing facing the wind with a complicated expression.

At this moment, he was controlling the flying boat with his magic power and spiritual consciousness.

A powerful Yuanying stage master has fallen to the point of driving a boat for others. Who wouldn't feel complicated?

But that was the tyrant cultivator Qi Tian!

Not to mention the powerful strength displayed by the other party, just for saving his life before, he also had to express his gratitude.

A few words of thanks cannot show sincerity.

The other party doesn't care about all kinds of resources.

The only way to show it is through actions.

However, when he thought of the terrifying strength displayed by the opponent in the two battles, the Lord of Minglei Cave felt a little worried.

"Is body training that powerful?"

In the world of cultivating immortals, body cultivation, or body refiners, is a school that has long since declined.

Even though Southern Xinjiang has preserved its body-refining methods relatively intact compared to the other four continents, not many people take it seriously.

At most, it can be used as an auxiliary means to strengthen the physical body before the Nascent Soul stage.

After all, when forming an infant, the three treasures of essence, energy and spirit need to be balanced. If the physical body is too weak, it will not be able to withstand the process of breaking the pill and forming an infant.

But the strength that Luo Chen had demonstrated time and again had completely exceeded the imagination of Minglei Cave Master.

In fact, this is just a blind spot.

Luo Chen’s strength is not just in the realm of body refining.

His red and golden eyes allow him to ignore the techniques of illusion and invisibility, and look for flaws in the enemy's fight.

The Soul Prison Technique gave him a powerful soul defense ability, and he was not afraid of the soul attack methods that body cultivators feared the most.

With these two points, plus his terrifying physique, Luo Chen is an indestructible offensive weapon.

What's more, when it comes to rich combat experience, how many Nascent Soul True Men in the world can compare to Luo Chen?

Not to mention the active thoughts on body refining in Minglei Cave Lord's mind, Luo Chen has gradually gained some clues in his research on Zhaoshen Gu.

Inside the cabin.

Luo Chen held a book and read it carefully.

After a while, he put down the book titled "A Hundred Solutions to Gu Insects" thoughtfully.

"To put it simply, the function of this Zhaoshen Gu is clearly a monitoring device!"

According to the introduction in "A Hundred Solutions to Gu Insects" collected by the Zhaoying Sect, the Zhaoshen Gu is different from general Gu insects that assist in cultivation and enhance magic power and soul. It does not play a role in directly improving the strength of cultivators.

But it does help to fill in the gaps in spiritual practice.

By refining it inside the body, Zhaoshen Gu can clearly sense the changes in the body.

And this refining is not like the refining of ordinary magic weapons and elixirs with magic power, but is simply refined with the soul.

In this way, the memory perception of the Zhaoshen Gu can also be perceived by the host afterwards because of the connection between the soul and the spirit.

Cultivation can be said to be a laborious and meticulous job.

The world is in chaos, and as long as the realm can be improved, the practice will always be pretty much the same.

But if you want to make steady progress in every realm and lay a perfect foundation, you need to pay extreme attention to details.

Zhaoshen Gu is specifically used to make up for the details.

After each practice, the host would observe the changes in his body through the Zhaoshen Gu, so that he could know the results and the reasons behind them, instead of just passing them by without thinking.

"interesting……"

Luo Chen muttered to himself.

Then, he made up his mind.

He wants to refine this Zhaoshen Gu!
All along, Luo Chen has laid a solid foundation in all realms.

But in fact, most of the time, he himself did not understand some of the strange changes in the practice process, and he just followed the path of his predecessors.

If he had the help of this poisonous insect, he would be able to understand the essence of cultivation. In the future, he could adjust the details of cultivation from time to time and also clarify the direction of future cultivation.

The only thing to worry about is probably how to refine it.

Because he did not have the specific method of Zhaoying Teaching to refine the Zhaoshen Gu.

But Luo Chen has his own solution to this problem!
He glanced outside and estimated the time in his mind.

It’s a long journey to Mount Mijie.

Originally, he and Minglei Cave Master had planned to fly at full speed and get there quickly.

Because he wanted to study the poisonous insects, he decided to take a flying boat.

In this way, the speed will naturally drop.

But time has also become much more abundant.

"It should be enough for me to refine this Shining God Gu before I reach Mijie Mountain."

After some calculations, Luo Chen calmed down, squeezed out a drop of blood from his fingertips, and dripped it on the caterpillar-like flesh worm.

As the blood entered the body, the dormant Zhaoshen Gu suddenly woke up.

Circles of black ring wrinkles began to wriggle, and eyes like insect compound eyes opened confusedly, looking at Luo Chen at the first glance.

"come in!"

Luo Chen opened his mouth and sucked, and the poisonous insect was swallowed in one gulp.

The poisonous insect entered the body and went straight to the purple palace.

During this process, the Zhaoshen Gu also began to become active, frequently emitting consciousness to sweep across Luo Chen's body.

However, once it entered the Purple Palace, it froze.

A small bluish-white tree stretched out its branches, emitting slow flames.

Not only that, there was also a bird that looked like a phoenix flying towards it out of curiosity.

It looked like it was going to eat it.

Zhaoshen Gu was shocked and quickly crawled inside.

Suddenly, I saw a small gray tripod standing there quietly and motionlessly, as if it could suppress everything in the world.

This would be a good shelter.

Zhaoshen Gu subconsciously crawled into the gray small tripod.

However, before it climbed onto the tripod's legs, it was struck by lightning and retreated in panic.

There is something terrifying in the small tripod!

In fact, the natural rank suppression of the same kind was far more frightening than the Fire Tree and Fire Bird. For a moment, the God-Shine Gu was at a loss in fear.

In such a huge Purple Palace, there is no place for it to stand?

Right now!

A chubby big hand dropped from the sky, grabbed it, and instantly absorbed it into the body.

Yuanying is the fusion product of essence, energy and spirit. It is the second residence of the soul besides the physical body.

Luo Chen's main soul is now inside it. After grabbing the trembling Zhaoshen Gu, he uses the most basic method to refine the Zhaoshen Gu's consciousness bit by bit with his soul.

This process cannot be slow.

It’s too slow, Zhaoshen Gu will react and resist him.

But at the same time, it can't be fast.

It’s too fast. Luo Chen’s powerful soul will instantly destroy this fragile insect.

If that happens, all the previous efforts will be wasted.

Time slowly passed during the process of refining the poisonous insect.

……

half year later.

The wind was howling outside the boat.

The boat was extremely quiet.

Gudong.

After taking a sip of wine, the two people in the boat started talking immediately.

"Strictly speaking, the evil heart poison disaster broke out five hundred years ago."

"But the Demon Heart Gu actually appeared even earlier. Rumor has it that it was the product of a powerful Gu refiner's research on the fifth-level divine Gu, the Co-Life and Co-Death Gu, based on ancient books."

"At that time, people discovered that this Gu was extremely perfect. Once refined, it could greatly improve the efficiency of refining essence into qi."

"Brother Qi should understand that there are only two ways for us to practice. Absorbing spiritual energy from the outside world and refining it, or converting magic power from the blood and qi of the flesh."

"The former is very complicated. It requires a spiritual land of the corresponding grade, a strong soul, and a good technique. There are too many restrictions."

"But refining essence into qi is relatively simple. Whether it's physical training, or food or medicine, it can have an immediate effect."

"Plus, the way of body refining has always been popular in Southern Xinjiang. Therefore, after the appearance of the Devil Heart Gu, it immediately became the fastest way to improve the realm of immortality!"

After more than half a year of refining the poisonous insects, Luo Chen finally has some free time.

He brought up the topic of conversation that had been interrupted earlier again.

The Lord of Minglei Cave had already been prepared for this matter, so he told the story in great detail with almost no interruptions.

It was also through his narration that Luo Chen learned how lively the southern border was after the appearance of the Demon Heart Gu.

Just like the appearance of some top-grade elixir, the emergence of the Demon Heart Gu also caused a sensation.

In fact, because there are no restrictions on the conditions, the impact it brings is even crazier than the restrictions on the quality level of the elixir!

Perhaps, the only thing that limits the Demon Heart Gu from being spread to every cultivator is its high price!
"I was still very young at the time, and as a casual cultivator, I didn't have any extra assets, so I naturally couldn't afford to buy the spirit stones for the Devil Heart Gu."

"But it also happened that I was saved from a catastrophe!"

At this point, the face of Minglei Cave Master was filled with regret and fear.

Luo Chen was curious: "What catastrophe?"

The Thunder Cave Master asked back: "Brother Qi, do you know about rank suppression?"

Luo Chen nodded, "Of course I know this common sense. High-level monsters will suppress low-level monsters. Even if a powerful cultivator does not take action, it will naturally terrify the weak. Is it the same for poisonous insects?"

"The Gu worm is naturally like this, but the suppression of the Demon Heart Gu is even more powerful!"

The Lord of Minglei Cave said this, and then changed the subject.

"Let's not talk about the issue of rank suppression for now, let's just talk about the attributes of the mana! Although the mana refined by the Devil Heart Gu will have different attributes due to the spiritual roots and physique of the cultivators, people later discovered that there are still commonalities among these differences!"

"Commonality?" Luo Chen seemed to have thought of something.

The Lord of Minglei Cave nodded, "Yes, someone discovered that the magic power of two different cultivators who have refined the Magic Heart Gu can actually be absorbed and transformed through each other's Magic Heart Gu. If the realms are similar, then it can be absorbed almost without loss! The catastrophe also started from this!"

Luo Chen thought of himself.

Although he had never refined the Demon Heart Gu, he relied on his powerful physical body and blood to cultivate a low-level Lingxi Gu to the level of a third-level Demon Heart Gu.

Later, when the physical body was reborn, the evil heart Gu died along with it.

But half of the magic power was strangely transferred to Hui Niang, who was billions of miles away.

Luo Chen didn't know what the secret of the transmission was, he just regarded it as the law of heaven and earth.

But the fact that Sima Huiniang was able to inherit his magical power was a clue.

The only flaw was probably that Hui Niang herself was not physically strong enough, so she did not cultivate the Lingxi Gu in her body to the level of a third-order magic heart Gu, which resulted in her being unable to completely transform the domineering fire attribute magic power she passed on.

It was also during the subsequent slow evolution that the Lingxi Gu was promoted to the third level and became deeply bound to Hui Niang.

Next to him, the voice of the Lord of Minglei Cave was still slowly coming.

"Ever since someone discovered this, endless bloodbath has erupted in the Southern Border Immortal Cultivation World."

"In order to improve their cultivation quickly, many people choose to take a risky path that is faster than the shortcut. They hunt down cultivators who have also refined the Devil Heart Gu and convert their magic power into their own. Later on, they even kill them without any discrimination."

"At that time, I was still in the Qi Refining Stage, and I lived in fear all day long. I wanted to carve the words 'I have not refined the Devil Heart Gu' on my forehead, for fear that someone would attack me."

Luo Chen couldn't help but ask, "With such chaos, the Holy Land won't do anything about it?"

The master of Minglei Cave nodded, then shook his head quickly.

"They are in charge, but only in name. After purging the Demon Heart monks within their own ranks, they simply issued an order to the outside world, ordering that the Demon Heart Gu should no longer be spread in southern Xinjiang."

"What really calmed this catastrophe was the appearance of an old Yuanying monster."

"Wherever he passed, any cultivator who had refined the Devil Heart Gu, no matter what realm they were in, had no ability to resist, and all their magic power was harvested by him."

"It was not until this time that people realized that in addition to being able to transform mana of different attributes, the Demon Heart Gu also has a natural suppression of Gu of the same level. In front of the fourth-level Demon Heart Gu, no matter what realm you have cultivated to, even if you are also in the Nascent Soul stage, as long as your own Demon Heart Gu is not of a high enough level, you can only become a fish on the chopping board and be slaughtered at will."

"And that old monster is also known as the Demon Heart Gu Emperor!"

Luo Chen's expression changed slightly.

The name Demon Heart Gu Emperor finally appeared!

But he was not in a hurry, because this was most likely not the one he was looking for.

as predicted.

Following the arrival of the Lord of Minglei Cave, Luo Chen finally got the information he wanted.

"Such a terrifying existence naturally angered many Yuanying masters in Southern Xinjiang. After all, anyone who could achieve the Yuanying stage would not be alone at that time."

"They also have disciples and descendants. Among these young people, there are always some who want to refine the Devil Heart Gu quickly and conveniently to speed up their cultivation."

"Hunting each other is still a competition for resources. But the appearance of the Demon Heart Gu Emperor is like a harvest. No one can sit idly by and watch their offspring become nutrients for others to advance."

"A war to encircle and kill the Demon Heart Gu Emperor has begun!"

Having said that, the Lord of Minglei Cave visibly breathed a sigh of relief.

He smiled and said, "Under such a level of pursuit, the Demon Heart Gu Emperor no longer dared to act arrogantly and could only act in secret. One day, a piece of news came out from nowhere that the Demon Heart Gu Emperor was dead."

"Dead?" Luo Chen raised his eyebrows.

The Thunder Cave Master nodded slightly, "Yes, he died. And he died in the most unexpected circumstances. He was attacked by a low-level cultivator who also refined the Devil Heart Gu. He was attacked by the lower-level cultivator who was stronger than him."

"Who is that person and where is he?"

The Thunder Cave Master spread his hands and said, "I don't know. No one knows. That person is very mysterious, and his style of doing things is different from that of the old Gu Emperor. He has never started to harvest other people and has quietly disappeared in the Southern Border Cultivation World."

Luo Chen opened his mouth, and finally said slowly: "He is a cautious person."

The Thunder Cave Master smiled and said, "Maybe it's not because of caution, but because of fear. After all, the hunt for the Demon Heart Gu Emperor was so huge, with dozens of top forces dispatched together. I'm afraid even the Holy Land can't bear such anger."

Luo Chen also laughed. He was laughing at the fact that the Lord of Minglei Cave was too complacent and that the foundation of the holy land was enough to dominate an entire continent.

Without the intervention of external forces, even if all the strong men in southern Xinjiang gathered together, they would not be enough to kill the ancestor of the Holy Land's Gate of Life and Death alone.

He was just curious, where did the new Demon Heart Gu King go?
"Later, with the disappearance of the Demon Heart Gu Emperor, the forces in Southern Xinjiang turned their attention to the remaining Demon Heart Gu cultivators. Some hunted them, some imprisoned them, and some used various secret methods to try to eliminate and suppress them."

"Anyway, under the call and order of various families, the Demon Heart Gu, a powerful tool for cultivation that could be considered cheating, gradually disappeared in the history of Southern Xinjiang."

A catastrophe, a piece of history, told from the perspective of an observer.

It was also the first time that Luo Chen learned about this history in its entirety.

There wasn't much information that was useful to him, but he did manage to capture some.

For example, the habits and effects of the Demon Heart Gu, and... the personality of the new Gu King!

"Where will he hide?"

"He can't be dead of old age, right?"

Amidst such speculation, Luo Chen's heart suddenly moved.

"Brother Minglei, I'll take my leave first. I have some cultivation matters to deal with here."

"Go on your own!"

The Lord of Minglei Cave said this and watched Luo Chen enter the cabin again.

There was a hint of envy in his eyes. The other party was obviously so strong, yet he was still constantly improving himself, and he never relaxed even when he was on the road.

In contrast, after I achieved the Nascent Soul stage, I became a little lazy. (End of this chapter)