Immortality begins with Becoming an Alchemy Grandmaster

In hand, Luo Chen raised an eyebrow.

Heavy!

An extreme sense of weight caused the wrist to bend, and the painted halberd plummeted straight to the ground.

But who was Luo Chen? Even without using Origin Force, he possessed unparalleled divine power.

He held the shaft of the halberd with one hand, gripped the handle with the other, and with muscles bulging, slowly raised it in front of him.

”So heavy, it must be wielding the power of ten thousand catties.”

”A cultivator’s Divine Consciousness might barely control it, but it would be too strenuous; this doesn’t seem like a Magic Item refined for Immortal Cultivators.”

”Could it be that it was specifically refined for Body Refiners?”

Luo Chen’s mind was stirred, a crimson power flowed from his arm, covering the painted halberd.

He did not have the Gang Qi of a Body Refiner, but he did have Origin Force.

He wondered if it could work...

The next moment, as Origin Force covered it, the halberd suddenly became nimble in his hands; though still heavy as a mountain, it could at least be swung freely.

Luo Chen paused momentarily, then naturally broke into a smile.

Previously, he had thought about refining a weapon that could withstand and amplify Origin Force after forming his Nascent Soul.

Unexpectedly, he found the pillow right when he needed it.

The order might be a bit low, but just the weight of ten thousand catties is enough for ordinary cultivators to dare not try a confrontation.

”I wonder what material this Magic Item is refined from.”

Luo Chen became interested, letting his Divine Consciousness fall onto the dark shaft of the painted halberd and the crescent blade and spear tip that shimmered with a faint, ethereal glow.

Relying on his own knowledge, he recognized some materials.

Geng Gold, Thunder Sand, and a large amount of Trace Mud, but the main material was unrecognizable.

Hiss!

A wisp of Green Flame appeared, and Prosperity and Decline True Fire covered the halberd shaft.

As the terrifying high temperature of the Prosperity and Decline True Fire burned it, gradually, a special breath emerged.

It was a sense of earth-like solidity!

”Heavenly Weighted Mountain Meteorite!”

Luo Chen was stunned; he never expected that the main material of this halberd was the Heavenly Weighted Mountain Meteorite, a meteorite recorded in ancient books!

In ancient times, such a meteorite descended from the heavens.

It wasn’t large, but when it landed on the ground, it was unshakable and unremovable.

Thus, people took the meaning of one weight unit and heavenly mountain, giving it such a vivid name.

The main material of this painted halberd was actually the Heavenly Weighted Mountain Meteorite, and due to the special material, Feiyun Zi could not engrave enough arrays on it, affecting its order.

”Wait, stop!”

Luo Chen waved a hand, quickly retracting the Prosperity and Decline True Fire.

The Fire Spirit was having so much fun just now, it almost melted the halberd.

”I know you’re powerful, alright?”

Luo Chen glared at the Prosperity and Decline True Fire and put it away.

The Prosperity and Decline True Fire had been very lively ever since gaining Spirit Communication. Previously, Luo Chen suppressed its spirituality, but after forming his Nascent Soul, he felt he could let it grow and didn’t suppress it as much.

Now, it was getting even more audacious.

Ignoring the aggrieved Fire Spirit, Luo Chen happily thrust the halberd into the ground.

Next, he needed to find some time to refine this halberd and strengthen his methods.

Finally, Luo Chen counted the Spirit Stones left by Feiyun Zi.

Whoa!

It was quite a sum!

Various orders of Spirit Stones combined added up to as much as five billion Lower Grade Spirit Stones.

If added to the thirty thousand Ascendant Grade Spirit Stones Luo Chen acquired earlier, his total net worth reached eight billion!

This didn’t even account for the ten Top Grade Spirit Stones from Han Zhan.

Those are strategic resources and can’t be measured as regular Immortal Cultivation World currency.

”Tsk tsk, indeed, a horse doesn’t get fat without night grass, and a person doesn’t get rich without windfall. After working so hard for so many years, Spirit Stones constantly came and went, and consumption was continuous; even after two hundred years, I might not have such assets. But just a few battles made me fabulously wealthy, never having to toil for Spirit Stones again.”

Luo Chen felt immense emotion.

But if really given the choice, he would never choose to amass wealth this way.

Too dangerous!

Imprinted Feiyun Zi’s cloud pattern belt with his own mark, changed it to red, happily cinched it around his waist, and Luo Chen continued his cultivation.

...

Time flowed slowly.

The Spirit Qi on Longyuan Island, after Returning Light and Reflecting, finally began to gradually decline.

Countless Spirit Qi dissipated into the heavens and sea ceaselessly, day and night.

Even with arrays blocking, but the arrays relied on the Earth Vein to exist, fundamentally unable to stop the trend of Spirit Qi dispersal.

This is exactly the rise and decline at their peak!

Luo Chen’s cultivation also began gradually drawing to a close.

In the third year after stabilizing his realm, he optimized Qingyang’s Great Handprint and also unlocked Han Zhan’s Storage Bag.

In the fifth year, he unlocked Feiyun Zi’s storage belt, harvested abundantly.

In the seventh year, he completely refined the Soul Summoning Banner of True Instrument Level.

In the eighth year, after several failed attempts to refine the Penglai Octagon Pavilion, Luo Chen took another approach, adopting Han Zhan’s early doctrine to refine the Octagon Pavilion and gained some permissions.

The reason this True Instrument was so hard to refine was related to its inherited nature.

The Penglai Immortal Sect didn’t completely give control to any person but left extremely complex prohibitions on it.

Given Luo Chen’s current achievements, totally refining it would take at least several decades.

However, just these partial permissions are enough, sufficient to support Luo Chen’s daily needs.

When the ninth year arrived, Luo Chen’s master cultivation technique achieved Finalization.

”Phoenix Nirvana Sutra” achieved Finalization!

On that day, Luo Chen saw on the attribute panel, the progress bar reached [Grandmaster 100/100], words flickering, transforming into [Perfection].

Didn’t feel any change?

In his hesitation, Luo Chen, in a situation of not-so-abundant Spirit Qi, once again operated his Natal Qi Technique.