Nuwa, the goddess of immortality, said that cultivating immortality does not require spiritual energ

The second semester of my junior year passed quietly in the midst of peaceful daily life.

Half a month of holiday has passed, and the pace of life has slowed down to the point of making people a little lazy.

That morning, Qin Le had just finished breakfast and picked up his phone to ask in the group chat if anyone was free to go out for a stroll. Before he even started typing, Chen Yun's message popped up first.

Chen Yun: Qin Le, are you free? Come to my house, I need your help with something.

Qin Le: Okay, I'll be right there.

Qin Le smiled, replied, then put away her phone and went out.

Upon arriving at Chen Yun's door, before Qin Le could even ring the doorbell, Chen Yun had already opened the door, seemingly having been waiting all along.

"So eager?" Qin Le asked with a smile, seeing his expression.

Chen Yun gave a mysterious smile: "It's a bit urgent, I've just come up with something new and I need your help testing it."

As he spoke, he pulled Qin Le and headed straight for his weapon-refining workshop.

The workshop was, as always, piled high with various parts, materials and semi-finished products.

Chen Yun walked to the worktable and carefully took out an object—a sphere the size of a human head, with a fine, bright silver appearance.

Unlike the previous Ghost Craft Sphere used to seal the Seed of Law, the patterns engraved on the surface of this new sphere are more complex and dense. It not only contains the spirit patterns that Qin Le is familiar with, but also many new law pattern structures that he has never seen before and that shimmer with a faint light.

"You upgraded it again?" Qin Le asked, somewhat surprised.

This thing looks more than an order of magnitude more complex than the previous version.

"Yes." Chen Yun nodded, his eyes gleaming with excitement. "Come on, let's see if we can store the 'Immortal Power' inside?"

"No wonder you were in such a hurry to find me." Qin Le nodded knowingly, and at the same time understood the bottleneck Chen Yun was facing.

Chen Yun gave a helpless, bitter smile: "There's nothing I can do. I feel like I've basically 'mastered' the power of laws. The power ceiling of 'Truth,' which I use as fuel, is stuck at the early Golden Immortal stage, and I can't break through it no matter what I do. I can only try to see if I can use a higher level of 'Immortal Dao Power' as 'fuel.'"

This is the real reason he sought out Qin Le.

With his own understanding of the laws of creation, coupled with his long-term study of the seed of laws given to him by Qin Le, Chen Yun's understanding and application of the power of laws has reached a considerably high level.

But precisely because of this, he clearly realized that the power of the truth weapon fueled by laws has an upper limit.

To achieve a breakthrough, one must either use more precious and powerful materials to forcibly increase the explosive power—but this would lead to soaring costs and lose the core advantage of the truth weapon: low cost and mass production capability.

Alternatively, a more advanced fuel core, namely Immortal Power, would be required.

The latter is undoubtedly a more cost-effective and promising direction.

"Okay, I'll give it a try."

Qin Le stepped forward, extended his finger, and carefully channeled a wisp of extremely subtle, yet profound, Daoist power into the silver, ghostly orb.

As soon as the power of immortality entered the sphere, the incredibly complex law patterns and spirit patterns on its surface were instantly activated, flowing and lighting up at an astonishing speed. The entire sphere emitted a deep hum and trembled slightly, as if a precision instrument had been injected with an overload of energy.

"Hey, Lao Chen." Qin Le stared at the seemingly overburdened toy ball and cautiously asked, "This new toy of yours... won't explode, will it?"

He hoped Chen Yun could give him a definite answer.

However, Chen Yun's answer left him speechless: "I don't know either... It's theoretically possible. After all, this is the first test subject, and I don't have you 'checking' it for me, so anything could happen."

Qin Le: "..."

He silently erected a strong spacetime barrier around the two of them.

It's always good to be safe, just in case.

After a few tense minutes of waiting, the vibration and buzzing of the Ghost Sphere gradually subsided, and the light flowing on its surface stabilized, returning to its original bright silver color.

Qin Le could clearly feel that the wisp of immortal power he had transferred in had been perfectly sealed in an extremely complex core structure inside the sphere.

"It's a success!"

Chen Yun clenched his fist, an barely suppressed smile of excitement spreading across his face. New possibilities were opening up before him.

"Then you can take your time to study it. I won't bother you anymore." Seeing this, Qin Le smiled and removed the spacetime barrier.

"Hurry up and get out of here!"

Chen Yun waved his hand without looking up. At this moment, all his attention was completely drawn to the Ghostly Craft Sphere containing the power of immortality. His eyes were shining, and his mind was obviously already conceiving countless new experimental plans.

Qin Le chuckled, turned and left Chen Yun's house, returning to her own.

Sitting on the living room sofa, he thought for a moment and took out a piece of divine jade from his storage ring—this was the jade he had taken from Qingyu when he went to the Heavenly Realm last time to make contact, and his mother hadn't asked for it back.

Qin Le channeled a wisp of divine consciousness into the jade and said, "Senior Qingyu, are you there? Could you please ask Laozi if he has any alchemy furnaces of better quality?"

This alchemy furnace was naturally prepared for his father, Qin Shoudao.

Every time Qin Shoudao returned home and saw his wife Lin Wanrou using the alchemy furnace left behind by Shennong, which contained the essence of the Great Dao, to refine pills with the firewood and seed fire that Qin Le had brought back, his eyes were filled with envy.

Especially when he looked at Qin Le, his deep gaze practically screamed "unfilial son" and "favoritism" on his face.

But Qin Le was also helpless.

The alchemy furnace of Shennong's level is unique in the Three Realms. Where else could he find one of the same level?

Although the firewood and the inner fire were gentle, ordinary alchemy furnaces simply couldn't withstand them and would melt them directly.

So the matter dragged on and Qin Le couldn't do anything about it.

But his father's birthday was just a few days away, and Qin Le didn't want to face that resentful look again.

After much thought, I had no choice but to swallow my pride and try to get a better alchemy furnace from Laozi.

He didn't aspire to be comparable to Shennong; he just wanted something good enough to withstand the flames and fire.

Qingyu's voice soon came from the Tongshen Jade, with a smile: "Okay, wait, I'll go ask the Ancestral Master."

Communication was temporarily interrupted. Qin Le waited patiently.

A few minutes later, the space around him rippled slightly, and a palm-sized portal quietly opened.

A small, purplish-gold alchemy furnace, with an antique design, warm color, and a faint medicinal fragrance and mysterious Taoist charm, slowly flew out from inside the door and landed on the tea table in front of Qin Le.

Qin Le could sense that the Daoist essence contained in this alchemy furnace was at an extremely high level, reaching the level of the Great Dao as well. However, compared to the unfathomable alchemy furnace of Shennong, it seemed to be clearer—at least Qin Le could completely see through its internal structure and the Daoist essence flowing through it.

This is very likely one of the alchemy furnaces that Laozi used in his early days or on a daily basis, and it is definitely a top-level treasure.

Immediately afterwards, Lao Tzu's peaceful and smiling voice came from inside the spatial gate: "This furnace was used by this old Daoist in his early years. It is still quite handy and should be able to meet your requirements. Take it and use it."

Qin Le quickly and carefully put away the alchemy furnace, then bowed towards the direction of the spatial gate: "Thank you for your generous gift, Lord Lao! Is there anything I can do for you, Lord Lao?"

"Don't worry about it." Laozi's voice carried the gentle kindness of an elder: "What you have done for the Heavenly Realm is far more valuable than a single alchemy furnace. If you have any needs in the future, just ask."

"Then this junior will be unworthy of your thanks, thank you, Laozi!" Qin Le no longer hesitated and decided to remember this favor.

The portal closed silently.

Qin Le took out another piece of firewood, separated a wisp of embers from his body, and sealed it inside.

Alright, Dad's birthday present for this year is finally settled.

Hopefully, this time, I can satisfy the old alchemist in my family and stop him from looking at me with resentment.