Immortality begins with Becoming an Alchemy Grandmaster

"kill!"

In the vast snow-capped mountains, the shouts and cries of killing were deafening.

Countless figures were guarding the white ice castles, constantly attacking and killing the monsters that rushed out of the snow-capped mountains.

However, this time the beast tide was unexpectedly ferocious.

Under the repeated attacks of several demon kings, the black ice castles that were equipped with a large number of defensive formations collapsed one after another.

boom!

Relying on a group of cultivators in the Foundation Establishment and Qi Refining stages, they were able to resist this tide of beasts entirely because of the powerful formation.

But once there is a problem somewhere in the formation, the backlash will be even greater.

Gu Xiaorou and a group of fellow apprentice sisters were forced to retreat. Looking at the huge frost wolf king that broke through the ice castle, despair appeared in their eyes.

A junior sister beside him asked in confusion: "Where are the senior uncles and aunts? Why haven't they made a move yet?"

In this regard, Gu Xiaorou gritted her teeth and blurted out, "They were seriously injured in the expedition to the Lingkong Secret Realm organized by the Yuding Sword Sect. Now they have no time to spare. We can only rely on ourselves!"

As she spoke, she attached a talisman to her body, and then instead of retreating, she advanced straight towards the Frost Wolf King amid the exclamations of her fellow sisters.

A large amount of spiritual energy from heaven and earth was attracted by the mysterious ice talisman and gathered towards her, causing her aura to continue to surge.

This scene is somewhat like a Nascent Soul cultivator controlling the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

However, the Frost Wolf King just looked at her with contempt.

A slap!

Bang!

Gu Xiaorou left as quickly as she came back.

It turned into a rolling gourd, tumbling continuously on the freezing cold ground.

When she finally stopped, she couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of blood.

puff!

At this moment, the girl couldn't help but reveal despair in her eyes.

The gap is simply too big. Unless you are a Jindan cultivator, you cannot resist a third-order demon king.

Moreover, this is just a Frost Wolf King.

On the nearby battlefield, there is also a seven-ringed snow python and a barred snowy owl.

Those two were also third-level demon kings comparable to the Jindan stage. Without the help of the formation, they, a group of low-level female cultivators from the Ice Castle, were no match at all.

"Is this all we can do?"

For some reason, the most reliable figure emerged in Gu Xiaorou's mind.

"Senior sister, where are you?"

Right at this moment!

There is sword energy rising into the sky from Tianshan Mountain.

An extremely bright sword light crossed a thousand miles in an instant and pierced the Frost Wolf King through his heart in fear.

Gu Xiaorou was stunned.

Then she saw a familiar figure gradually appearing in front of her.

"Senior Sister Canglong?"

The woman did not look back, but just looked into the distance.

Beside him, the huge corpse of the Frost Wolf King collapsed with a loud bang. In the distance, a seven-ringed snow python came over with wind and snow. In the sky, a barred snowy owl spread its wings and stabbed at him like a sharp sword.

Her expression was calm, and she raised her flying sword again and stabbed at the Snowy Owl King.

However, it seemed to ignore the seven-ring snow python that was charging forward.

Gu Xiaorou struggled to get up and exclaimed, "Senior Sister, be careful!"

The next moment, Canglong shook his hand, and something like a castle or a pagoda appeared on it.

I saw him throw it with great force!

The castle continued to expand, eventually becoming nine stories high and suddenly pressing down.

boom!

The terrifying seven-ring snow python was suppressed to death by the nine-layer ice castle in just a moment.

The Snowy Owl King in the sky let out a scream, then flapped its wings and fled in a hurry.

In an instant, one of the three Great Snow Mountain Demon Kings who led the beast tide died, one was injured, and one escaped.

The crisis was easily resolved.

Without their leader, a large number of low-level monsters fled in panic with their tails between their legs.

It was not until this moment that Canglong turned around and looked at the girl with a smile.

"Junior Sister Xiaorou, why are you so embarrassed?"

Gu Xiaorou opened her mouth in surprise and asked in disbelief, "Senior Sister, have you broken through the Golden Core Stage?"

Canglong smiled slightly and waved his hand to recall the blood-stained flying sword. With just a touch, the original precious light was revealed.

"If you can't reach the Golden Core stage, how can you kill the demon king?"

Gu Xiaorou swallowed her saliva, thinking that her senior sister’s Jindan stage might not be that simple.

He had such terrifying combat power after just breaking through, and he could even control two magic weapons at the same time without any effort. His spiritual foundation was so strong that even the uncles and aunts he had seen in the past did not have such performance.

Moreover, if she was not mistaken, that nine-layer ice castle should be the sect’s treasure - the Moonlight Ice Castle!

When did the master give this item to the senior sister?

Canglong didn't chat with her. He told her to recuperate and then walked on the battlefield, clearing out the battles that had not yet ended.

Gu Xiaorou struggled to find a wall to lean against and checked her injuries.

A gentle and charming voice sounded beside me.

"Friend Gu, I saw you rushing towards the Frost Wolf King just now. Your demeanor was truly impressive!"

Gu Xiaorou raised her head and saw an extremely handsome face appear in front of her.

If she remembered correctly, this person should be a monk from a vassal Ice Castle family, and his surname was Shang?

He was invited to help resist the beast tide this time and seemed to be unharmed.

Gu Xiaorou shook her head and said dejectedly: "It's just that I overestimated my own abilities."

The monk surnamed Shang smiled and said, "You dare to draw your sword against the third-level demon king at the middle stage of foundation building. This courage alone is enough to be praised."

Gu Xiaorou felt warm in her heart when she heard this.

In fact, she didn't think so much at the time. She just subconsciously felt that she couldn't let the other sisters face the demon king, so she rushed out.

She struggled to stand up: "My name is Gu Xiaorou, may I know your name?"

Unexpectedly, the man pressed down on his shoulders.

While Gu Xiaorou was confused and embarrassed, the man smiled and said, "Don't move. I am an alchemist and I also know a little bit about medicine. I'm afraid you have broken some bones and tendons. If you accidentally damage your Qi Sea, that would be bad."

"Wait for me to give you a simple treatment!"

Gu Xiaorou opened her mouth and her face turned red, but in the end she did not refuse this kindness.

The handsome man acted quickly, restored his bones and moved his veins, and cast a spell to remove the bruises on his body.

At the same time, he also talked about his family's origins.

"My name is Shang Hu, you can just call me Xiao Shang. My age...should be about the same as yours."

"Um."

Just as the two were chatting, a cry of surprise suddenly came from the distance.

A blizzard is sweeping in from the snowy mountains again!

One of the red lights was looming, emitting a powerful aura that made people dare not look directly at it.

Could it be that another demon king has arrived?

Canglong stood in front of everyone again with a sword in his hand, his face full of shock and doubt.

A fellow apprentice sister behind her was about to attack and use a magic weapon, but she stopped her.

"Senior sister?" The junior sister was puzzled.

Canglong shook his head and took a step forward amid everyone's concern.

"Is that you?"

In the snow and wind, a huge red dog walked out.

When he saw the person coming, Canglong couldn't help but smile as if they were meeting each other after a long time.

"Big Dog, you're finally back!"

…

On the Tianshan Mountain, Akainu squatted on the ground and looked at the countless people below the mountain.

Behind him, in a cave, Canglong was sitting by the bed, respectfully chatting with a beautiful and sick woman.

"Master, thanks to the help of the sect-protecting magic weapon you gave me, I have already solved the problem of the beast tide."

The woman looked at Canglong with pity and said softly, "Even without the Moonlight Ice Castle, with your strength, it won't be difficult to kill the three demon kings."

"Master thinks highly of me."

The woman said with emotion, "I'm not overestimating you. Your spiritual foundation is so strong that it's rare in the world. Even Han Zhan, the peerless genius that appears once every hundred years in Luoyun Sect, is inferior to you. In the battle of Jindan, we look at the magic power first and the spiritual consciousness second. You have already mastered the Ten Directions Frozen Extreme Dao. Your magic power is strong enough to surpass those of the same level. You also have this huge spiritual consciousness that I don't know how you cultivated. My Ice Castle finally has hope of succession."

Canglong was originally feeling somewhat pleased with himself, but after hearing these words, he became somewhat flustered.

"Master, you and the other uncles are still alive, why are you talking about the afterlife?"

The woman held the girl's slender and soft hand, coughed and said, "The Yuding Sword Sect has bad intentions. They used the exploration of the Lingkong Secret Realm as bait, causing heavy losses to the six sects. Even your uncle Wen was killed in it. In the next hundred years, I'm afraid that the Sword Sect will make some more moves."

Canglong was a little surprised. "They are the high and mighty Yuanying Sect. How could they act so despicable?"

The woman smiled and said, "There are also differences among Yuanying upper sects. Although the Yuding Sword Sect is arrogant and powerful in the Yuding Region, it is said to be unparalleled in combat power. But compared with other upper sects with deep foundations, it is really vulnerable. Even to seek the interests of this region, it can't send enough people. It can only think of some tricks that are not worthy of being shown on the stage to weaken the strength of our Jindan sect."

Canglong opened her mouth and took in this information which seemed strange to her, yet familiar.

Those tricks, whether provoking or suppressing, are just waiting for them to become chaotic. Then the Yuding Sword Sect will be able to gradually control the Yuding Region without any effort.

"Master, what should we do then?" she asked worriedly.

The woman sighed. "What else can we do? We can only unite internally and seek allies externally."

Then, she analyzed the potential allies to Canglong one by one.

"Especially the Luoyun Sect!"

"During this exploration of the Lingkong Secret Realm, they relied on the advantages of puppets, suffered the least losses, and preserved the most strength. Among the younger generations, there are also talented people like Han Zhan and Linghu Jie. It can be said that the rise of Luoyun Sect in the future is inevitable."

"If we can form an alliance with them, our Ice Castle will not be isolated and helpless."

"It just so happens that I heard not long ago that Han Zhan has successfully formed a pill and is planning to travel around the various regions of the Eastern Wilderness. You can travel with him and improve your relationship."

Canglong was stunned. She had seen Han Zhan before.

He looks honest, but has a deep mind.

When he was at the foundation-building stage, he once wanted to borrow her ice prison in the ice castle to practice the secret art of the soul, but she refused because she also wanted to use the ice prison to practice the "Soul-Splitting Art" at that time.

"Traveling with this person?"

The woman smiled and said, "You should go out for a walk. Even if you have extraordinary abilities, if you don't have enough wisdom and experience, you can easily fall into the gutter. When you have grown up in all aspects, I can safely hand over this Ice Castle to you."

Hearing the tone of her master entrusting her with her last wishes, the woman felt a pang of sadness in her heart.

"Ran Ran understands."

"Ran Ran?"

The woman was startled, "Do you remember the past?"

Canglong nodded, "I remembered everything when I broke through the Jindan stage. My last name is Xie Ran, and I am from Guangling County. I embarked on the journey of seeking immortality in order to seek medicine for my mother."

After hearing this, the woman's expression became complicated.

He reached out and stroked the young woman's cheek.

"Good boy!"

"In that case, you should also go back to your hometown to have a look during your trip!"

Canglong nodded, chatted for a while, and then decided not to disturb his master's rest and respectfully left.

After leaving the cave, the woman felt heavy in her heart.

Only when I saw the big red dog squatting there did I feel a little relieved.

"Big Dog, now that you're back this time, you won't leave again, right?"

Akainu did not answer, but just stared at Canglong and then went down Tianshan.

"I remembered what happened yesterday, but I still haven't realized what I was dreaming about."

…

"It's not the right time yet!"

In the cold and quiet new cave, Luo Chen slowly opened his eyes.

Fairy Jueqing asked nervously, "Can't my senior sister wake up yet?"

Luo Chen cast a few spells at the ice coffin and the Chenyuan Immortal Mirror hanging above it, then stood up calmly.

"The fire is not yet ripe, and waking it up now will do more harm than good."

"We have to wait a little longer!"

Fairy Jueqing was disappointed, but thinking that she had survived all these years, it wouldn't hurt to wait a few more days.

As long as there is still hope for senior sister!

Luo Chen looked at the cold-hearted woman who was worried about gains and losses, and remembered the joke that a cultivator named Fei from Ailao Mountain had once said unintentionally, as well as what he had just seen in the dream created by Canglang, and he couldn't help but chuckle.

Fairy Jueqing was puzzled, "What's wrong?"

"Nothing, I just didn't expect you to be so brave before!"

"Ah!?" Fairy Jueqing was confused.

"Gu Xiaorou, at the middle stage of foundation building, is challenging the third-order demon king. She is truly as good as any man!"

Chatting and laughing, Luo Chen left the cave casually.

Only the cold face of the Jueqing Fairy was left, which turned red and became incredibly beautiful.

…

Danshan!

This is the place where Luo Chen practices now.

He gave the name himself, which not only means to commemorate the Alchemy Saint, but also because the mountain was burned by the holy fire of Nirvana, and the scene is all red.

The spiritual vein contained in the mountain was not destroyed by the Nirvana Holy Fire. Instead, it attracted a large amount of fire-attributed spiritual energy, which was very suitable for the practice of Luo Chen, who had a fire spirit body.

However, other monks are not suitable to practice here.

After all, it's too hot up there.

After returning to Danshan Cave Mansion, Luo Chen breathed a sigh of relief.

Now the Luotian Sect has been settled. Although the time has not come yet for my old friend Canglong, he will eventually wake up step by step.

Then he can free up his hands and concentrate on his own practice.

But if you follow the normal practice process, at most you can only increase your magic power and improve your realm slightly.

It will not bring about an absolute qualitative change in the current strength.

This is not what Luo Chen is pursuing.

"Han Zhan once said that with my talent for magic, I will most likely be able to comprehend the true meaning of the corresponding laws in advance after I advance to the Nascent Soul stage."

"However, due to the misleading of the Withered and Flourishing True Fire, I took a shortcut and ended up going in the opposite direction."

"If there hadn't been any misleading from the withered and flourishing true fire..."

"Qixia Yuanjun also said that with my fire spirit body after Nirvana, I can naturally comprehend the true meaning of fire, and there won't be much obstacle to my promotion to the God Transformation stage."

"Now I have changed to the right path, but how can I understand the true meaning of fire?"

For a moment, Luo Chen, who was at a loss, fell into distress.

Meditation?

The effect is too slow.

Enlightenment?

It can be encountered by chance but not sought after.

Use the majestic and upright holy fire of Nirvana to glimpse the mystery?

Isn't this just following the old path of prosperity and decline?

Luo Chen, who didn't know where to start, became the most distressed person among the 500 disciples of Luo Tian Sect.

Suddenly!

As he pondered over it, he recalled the scene in his dream where he had just seen the heartless fairy Gu Xiaorou using the ice talisman.

"The so-called true meaning of the law is nothing more than the essence of nature, which is manifested externally as the control of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and even the power of the origin of the world."

"Talisman, that's exactly it!"

"Can I use the talisman to enter the Dao and comprehend the true meaning of the law that belongs to me alone?"

Thinking of this, Luo Chen's heart began to beat violently. (End of this chapter)