Immortality begins with Becoming an Alchemy Grandmaster

Chapter 977: Chapter 395: Lei Xian Bead

Surrounded by towering walls, three figures were positioned in the high skies to the left and right, encircling an old man and a woman.

Deep beneath the ground was another person, manipulating an Array Disk and remaining hidden, wholeheartedly maintaining this Second Order Grand Array designed specifically to trap enemies.

”You were once a fair lady, how did you come to thievery?”

The light laughter carried a hint of mockery and disdain.

Ling Yuzhi, with disheveled hair and blood streaking from the corner of her mouth, was in a sorry state.

Upon seeing Luo Chen, her pupils violently contracted.

”You’re not dead!”

Luo Chen smiled faintly, ”Disappointing you, I have deep fortune and am not that easily vanquished.”

Upon hearing the words ”Luo someone,”

the old man’s expression drastically changed!

Without any hesitation, he took out a black pearl in his hand.

”Dan Chenzi, spare me!”

Seeing the black pearl emanating a rich aura of danger, Luo Chen’s pupils contracted slightly, and he instinctively took a step back.

Next to the old man, Ling Yuzhi screamed, ”Feng Laogui, have you gone mad! That’s the Lei Xian Bead, if you detonate it, none of us will survive!”

Feng Laogui remained unmoved, his sharp black eyes fixated on Luo Chen.

”Dan Chenzi, I know you’ve fought a Golden Core Ascendant Master, and your strength is extraordinary.”

”I thought it was an exaggeration, but your strike just now instantly killing Master Ling proved the rumors are true.”

”But this Lei Xian Bead I have comes from the Divine Transformation Relics in Accumulation Thunder Mountain and also possesses the power to fight a Golden Core Ascendant Master. If you don’t let me go, then we can all die together!”

Luo Chen looked uncertain.

For a moment, he was indeed intimidated.

He looked towards Wang Yuan and Chu Kui.

Wang Yuan nodded slightly, agreeing with the statement.

Chu Kui also spoke up, ”Feng Laogui isn’t lying. There really were quite a few Lei Xian Beads in the Divine Transformation Relics. One of them was detonated by a rogue cultivator at the Eighth-Level Foundation Establishment, severely wounding a Golden Core Cultivator of the Flame Alliance.”

Hearing this, Luo Chen felt a trace of regret.

He had acted swiftly just now, instantly killing the strongest among the three, a Great Cultivator at the eighth level of Foundation Establishment.

He had not expected that the relatively weaker old man would have a real weapon of mass destruction in his possession.

Divine Transformation Relics, truly a place of fate and fortune!

He moistened his dry lips, ”Such a one-off killer weapon, you surely can’t refine and control it, old man!”

Feng Laogui didn’t bother to hide it, ”Indeed, as Master Ling said, once activated, nothing would survive within ten miles, not even animals or plants, and we would all die together.”

”So, Dan Chenzi, you had better think thrice before acting.”

Luo Chen glanced at Wang Yuan, and ultimately his gaze settled on Ling Yuzhi.

”The plan to pursue Chu Kui, who conceived it?”

”It was Lo...”

Ling Yuzhi was about to speak when Feng Laogui promptly interrupted her.

”It was Ling Yuzhi’s idea! Master Ling and I are not cultivators from Tian Lan Immortal City, we hardly know Chu Kui. It was her! She not only knows Chu Kui but also knew that he had joined the Luo Tian Creed. That’s why, after he exchanged for the Great Technique of Pill Formation Secret Art, she informed the two of us to join forces and ambush Chu Kui.”

”Feng Bupin you son of a bitch!” Ling Yuzhi lashed out in fury, cursing loudly, ”When you slept with me, you spoke of standing together through thick and thin!”

”Heh, a carnal pleasure is not a vow to The Great Dao Path, only a fool of a woman like you would take it seriously. Besides, I did help you advance to the Late Stage of Foundation Establishment, I owe you nothing.”

”Old scoundrel...”

Chu Kui, holding a long staff, stood high at the exit of the Array.

Watching the two bicker, a fierce expression appeared on his face.

He had thought he’d been very careful disguising himself when exchanging resources.

He had acted swiftly throughout the whole process.

Even if some resources took time to arrive, he had chosen to forgo them.

No one would have expected to be targeted after all.

Now it seemed it was indeed Ling Yuzhi, his old neighbor from years past, who recognized him.

That’s right!

She had dealings with the Master of Food Fragrance, a Golden Core Ascendant Master skilled in identifying people by scent.

In front of her, simple disguises and concealing one’s aura were useless.

Ling Yuzhi had also mastered this art over the years and indeed could mark him secretly, without his knowledge.

Suddenly!

”Feng Laogui, you may go, but Ling Yuzhi must stay with us!”

Luo Chen spoke up.

Following his words, the giant wall opposite slowly opened a large hole.

Feng Laogui couldn’t help but heave a sigh of relief, gave Luo Chen and the others a deep look, and prepared to leave.

However, he had only taken a few steps before stopping again.

Luo Chen frowned slightly, ”Anything else to advise?”

”No advice to offer, but I heard Master Chu has exchanged for three Core Formation Secret Arts at once; I wonder if you could spare me one.”

As he spoke, Feng Laogui slightly raised the black pearl in his hand.

Luo Chen said with a feigned smile, ”Aren’t you being a bit too greedy?”

”I wouldn’t dare to be greedy, but I am old, and it’s about time to take a chance on forming my Core.” Feng Laogui, with the Lei Xian Bead in hand, spoke with full confidence.

He had seen clearly!

The members of the Luo Tian Creed were very concerned with their own lives!

Luo Chen looked visibly upset, his head lowered as if he was calculating something.

Feng Laogui did not rush him, knowing all too well the difficulty of surrendering a Core Formation Secret Art that was hard-earned.

But he believed the other party would definitely agree.

After a while!

Luo Chen slowly raised his head, his eyes as dark and cold as a deep pool directly meeting Feng Laogui’s gaze.

”So be it!”

Hearing these words, Feng Laogui’s heart leapt with joy.

Victory?

He felt as if he could already see himself grasping the Great Technique of Pill Formation, hiddenly cultivating for fifty years upon returning, and ultimately succeeding in core formation just as his life was reaching its limit.

By then, he would be one of the scarce Golden Core Ascendants in the Yu Ding Realm!

Seizing a Spirit Land, creating a Sect, he could wield power and blessings, and even the Nascent Soul Path was not an impossible dream...

No, wrong!

Feng Laogui suddenly snapped awake.

”Little thief, you’re using tricks!”

He instinctively wanted to trigger the Lei Xian Bead and perish together with everyone else.

However, the horrifying event that happened next left him utterly aghast.

His wrist, as if cut through tofu, was severed cleanly at the wrist, with only the stark white bones looking ferocious.

Inside his body, his meridians were in such turmoil of blood and Qi that he couldn’t mobilize his Spirit Qi.

At that moment, Wang Yuan suddenly clasped his hands together and slammed them down ferociously.

”Explode!”

In the next instant, Feng Laogui’s entire body swelled up like a water-filled balloon about to burst.

He tried to forcibly control it, but his mind froze again, missing the critical moment.

”Luo Chen, even as a ghost, I won’t let you off!!!”

Boom!

A thunderous noise erupted.

In the midst of blood raining from the sky, Ling Yuzhi looked on bewildered at this scene.

On her exquisitely seductive face, droplets of blood had strikingly splattered.

When she looked up in confusion, she saw Luo Chen holding that Lei Xian Bead and inspecting it with evident interest.

”Kill her!”

It seemed like he was just casually making a trite comment.

But in her ears, it sounded like the string of death being plucked.

She subconsciously wanted to trigger her magic tool, yet two shadows, one from above and one from the left, each launched an attack.

In but a moment, the once-famous socialite beauty of Tian Lan Immortal City perished in this secluded forest.

Chu Kui stepped into the Array, shaking his head and frowning at the scene.

”You guys are too cruel with your methods, digging out hearts, blowing bodies into pieces, I’ll have nightmares when I go back to sleep.”

Luo Chen laughed.

Speaking of cruelty, Min Longyu in the depths of the earth was the cruelest.

Back in his Qi Refinement days, he skinned Han Dang, the Heart Eating Tiger of the Broken Mountain Gang, alive with an Array in front of a large crowd.

In comparison to him, Wang Yuan and himself were merciful in providing a quick death, not nearly as brutal.

Chu Kui came closer to Luo Chen and eyed the black bead in his hand.

”I must say, you’ve got guts! Weren’t you afraid he would detonate it instantly?”

Luo Chen shook his head, ”I didn’t plan to act so quickly. Brother Wang’s technique needed some time to take effect, and I indeed planned to slowly wear him down after he left.”

Wang Yuan nodded in agreement.

At the start of the battle, Chu Kui sealed the retreat of three adversaries with a mighty blow, Luo Chen instantly killed one, and Wang Yuan used the Blood God Tribulation Pointer to drive his Qi Strength into Feng Laogui’s body.

But the Qi Strength he injected wasn’t much and couldn’t rapidly accelerate the transformation of blood energy.

If it weren’t for the enemy’s greed and Luo Chen’s powerful Divine Soul casting the Divine Bewilderment Technique, Wang Yuan wouldn’t have been forced to quickly initiate the Blood Transforming Demon Finger.

Even so, they nearly failed.

Thankfully, Luo Chen followed up with another Divine Soultaking Technique.

Otherwise, they really would have let the enemy catch their breath.

”With such a killer weapon at hand, even against a Golden Core Ascendant Master, we also have some confidence,” said Chu Kui excitedly as he looked at the Lei Xian Bead.

Luo Chen couldn’t help but nod in agreement.

Having lost the Profound Ice Talisman and now gained the Lei Xian Bead.

This could be considered an ill turn for the better!

”Clean up the battlefield quickly and let’s leave!”

Luo Chen surveyed the surroundings, feeling somewhat heavy-hearted.

The road back to Tianlan wouldn’t likely be smooth.

Chu Kui and Wang Yuan began to collect the spoils of war.

Min Longyu emerged from the ground and used an Array to dissipate the Spirit Qi fluctuations in the area.

Finally, Luo Chen waved his large sleeves several times, casting the Cleaning Technique to remove any traces of their presence.

Not only that, but he especially focused on cleaning Chu Kui’s body.

Ling Yuzhi had spared some techniques, but it wasn’t sure that others wouldn’t.

These Rogue Cultivators who had been mingling in the Immortal Cultivation World for many years, each one of them was not easy to deal with, having one or another trick up their sleeve.

Better to err on the side of caution.

After taking care of these matters, the four of them didn’t linger, summoning the Ascendant Grade Flying Boat and immediately departing.

Much later,

Several figures arrived above the forest.

They each looked around suspiciously for a while, eventually stopping at the site of the battle.

”Is it here?”

”It should be this place. Though no trace has been left behind, the soil here is quite compact, clearly compressed by immense Spirit Pressure.”

”Do we know the outcome of the battle?”

”Can we track their direction?”

”We can’t! There’s a great cultivator among them, who has eradicated all traces; even my Spirit Beast can’t sense Tian Kuizi’s breath.”

”This is troublesome indeed!”

”Actually, it’s not that complicated. No matter which way they went, their final destination is Danxia Peak of Tian Lan Immortal City. If we head directly there, we’re bound to find them.”

”But now, that area is under the control of Ice Castle, with Ascendant Master Jueqing’s protection. Will we have a chance once we get there?”

”Let’s get there first and see!”

After a brief exchange, the people immediately rode their magic tools and flew away.

Destination, straight for Danxia!