Immortality begins with Becoming an Alchemy Grandmaster

Annihilation Nine Rings.

Everything is chaotic.

Time and space seem to have lost their concepts here.

Only a gigantic blood cocoon stands quietly in the void, exuding a mystical yet divine aura.

The surrounding chaotic energy surges, but when it nears the blood cocoon, it parts like water meeting rocks on both sides.

Days and years pass.

The blood cocoon remains unmoved, and no one enters the Fourth Ring to disturb it.

Instead, Mu Yun, Martial Arts Grandmaster who has replaced Zhuo Shi Martial Sect after its fall, came specially to observe for a long time.

He was the first to challenge Luo Chen upon entering the Fourth Ring, was defeated, and even kicked down to the Fifth Ring.

In those years in the Fifth Ring, he felt nothing but humiliation and was constantly thinking of revenge against Luo Chen.

But at the moment he truly saw the blood cocoon, all his humiliation and resentment vanished like smoke.

”All are Dao Seekers, why must we cause harm to one another?”

Mu Yun Martial Sect murmured and voluntarily retreated.

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Luo Chen is completely unaware of the situation in the Outer World.

The emergence of the blood cocoon was not unexpected.

Since this was the passive defensive mechanism he established when creating his cultivation technique.

In case of a sudden situation, at the moment of losing consciousness, his Blood Refining Divine Gang would erupt outward, forming a defense much like Blood Cloth Clothes.

The only difference is that Blood Cloth Clothes only consist of one layer without affecting Luo Chen’s normal actions, while the blood cocoon, resembling Demon Race’s oviparity, is composed of countless layers of Blood Cloth Clothes.

Its defensive power would require even the most top-notch Martial Arts Grandmaster to attack numerous times with full force to barely break it.

Under such conditions, it would be enough time for Luo Chen to regain consciousness.

Of course!

Luo Chen set up such a protection mechanism not to confront enemies; subconsciously he used this method to resist All Things Return to Ruins.

At this moment, Luo Chen is unaware of the passage of time; all his focus is concentrated on the transformation of his Gang Qi.

A consciousness slowly yet tenaciously birthed from the Gang Qi.

This consciousness is full of spirituality, like a newborn baby, curious about everything in the world.

Except, it has a barrier towards Luo Chen.

As if not in sync!

How could his Martial Arts Divine Intent not be in sync with a Martial Artist’s consciousness?

The answer is not complicated; because Luo Chen has not yet comprehended its essence, there exists a membrane between them.

Luo Chen is not in a hurry; the split soul hiding in the acupoints awakens from its dormant state, wholeheartedly feeling that Martial Arts Divine Intent.

Gradually, a sense similar yet different arises.

Under the endless cloud cover, like falling into a mist.

By the abyss’s edge, stopping before entering.

In the ancient glacier, a radiant ice crystal blooms, insight from the Ice Emperor.

A fiery sun suspended at its zenith, pouring out heat angrily onto the earth, the embryonic form of Extreme Yang Martial Sect’s Divine Intent.

A sharp sword cuts through darkness; a fierce wolf proudly howls through ages.

The terrifying giant bear smashes everything, intent on shattering all obstacles.

Soft power splits a thousand measures, like bowstrings, like springs.

Kind after kind of Martial Arts Divine Intent is all encompassed within the consciousness born from that Gang Qi.

Each kind seems real.

But each kind is not fitting.

And as Luo Chen’s thoughts proliferate, he sees even more.

Immortals and deities exalted above the Nine Heavens, demons and ghosts squatting in the Nine You, True Spirit Wilderness gallops across the earth, and even primal giants akin to human ancestors run barefoot on the Ancient Continent.

Too many intents cause Luo Chen confusion.

As though he could become any of them if he wished.

Wanting to become a god, then Ascension.

Desiring to fall into demonhood, then sinking.

Yet!

”God and Demon have no form; if I obsess over a single form, then is it truly me or someone else?”

At this thought, Luo Chen seems to return to the time he created the ”God Demon Formless” cultivation technique, with its simplest initial intent.

He wants to create the technique most suitable for himself, not seeking shortcuts, unwilling to be a fish in the pond of Great Power.

If so, then any one of the True Meaning of Martial Arts seen now is merely gleanings left by others.

Hence, Luo Chen’s Martial Arts Divine Intent doesn’t exist in a single fixed form but can change into any false semblance at any time.

His Martial Arts Divine Intent fluctuates, without a fixed existence mode or shape.

Namely — No Self Concept!

In contemplation, three indistinct shadows rise and fall in his consciousness.

Like deities, akin to demons, also the great Buddha with Three Heads and Six Arms seated in meditation.

No Self Concept then is Only Self Concept!

No matter how the world changes, only I remain unchanged.

If I wish, then I can alter all things in the world.

When this thought arises, the originally rising and falling, swaying three vague consciousness shadows finally merge into one.

And at this moment!

The once-existing membrane instantly dissolves, aligning Luo Chen’s consciousness with the Blood Refining Divine Gang’s consciousness.

An exclusive Martial Arts Divine Intent belonging to Luo Chen begins to spread outward from his physical body as the center.

Within a moment, the other eight Martial Arts Grandmasters in the Fourth Ring all sense something, looking towards Luo Chen.

Not only the Fourth Ring.

Luo Chen’s unique Martial Arts Divine Intent that embodies No Self, seemingly all-pervasive, leaks downward along the central platform descending through chaotic energy.

Fifth Ring, he sees Xiao Lin studying martial arts.

Sixth Ring, he sees Purple Mist City Lord who has replaced into position.

Then the Seventh Ring, Eighth Ring, and even the Ninth Ring.

When consciousness reaches this point, going further out becomes extremely difficult, as if another barrier blocks the spread of his Martial Arts Divine Intent.