Immortality begins with Becoming an Alchemy Grandmaster

Chapter 1119: Chapter 440: Fierce Fire Miasma Completion Stage, Let’s Go! (Request for Monthly Votes!)_2

The pharmacology is compatible, the temperament inherited in the same vein.

The other auxiliary materials were also chosen to be as fitting as possible.

Constant attempts and continuous improvements were made. During the numerous rounds of alchemy, time slowly elapsed.

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A year later.

Gu Caiyi returned from Thousand Leaves Immortal City, bringing back somewhat disappointing news.

The batch of Sunk River Ghost Evil Qi had been purchased by a Golden Core Elder from Luo Yun Sect.

With no other choice, Gu Caiyi had to acquire a large amount of Third Order Earth Fire Evil Qi for Luo Chen, spending over a hundred thousand Spirit Stones.

If the quality wasn’t sufficient, then the quantity would have to compensate.

It was still evil qi, after all!

Even though it wasn’t a significant threat to Golden Core Cultivators, within the Foundation Establishment Stage, it was still considered an absolutely lethal technique.

However, Luo Chen did not instruct the Luo Tian Creed to halt the collection of high-grade fire evil qi.

Whenever something potent like Sunk River Ghost Evil Qi or Yan Yang True Evil Qi appeared, as long as the price was within his means, he would try to acquire it.

While the news from Gu Caiyi’s side was bad, good news came from Ice Castle that Luo Chen had been hoping for.

Tianshan Yang-Replenishing Water!

As long as Luo Chen could produce three hundred thousand Spirit Stones, Ice Castle was willing to sell him two portions of Tianshan Yang-Replenishing Water.

Two portions were enough!

According to the Nether Origin Pill Recipe, one complete portion of Tianshan Yang-Replenishing Water could be used to craft the elixir ten times.

The extra portion could be reserved for use as a supplementary Spirit Liquid during Core Formation.

And the price of three hundred thousand, though a significant markup from the market value, did not cause any dissatisfaction in Luo Chen.

This sort of Spirit Liquid, which could assist in Core Formation, was an existence beyond valuation.

Many who possessed Spirit Stones still couldn’t buy it.

Luo Chen surmised that the Tianshan Yang-Replenishing Water from Ice Castle, besides being used internally, was mostly traded with Medicine King Sect in exchange for scarce elixirs supplies.

Being able to spare two portions for him was truly an honor.

If they showed him favor, then Luo Chen naturally had to respond with generosity.

Next.

Luo Chen went full force!

He spent a year preparing all the Ascendant Grade Jade Dew Pills that Ice Castle would need for the next ten years.

He even added seven or eight bottles of Top Grade Jade Dew Pills!

This was his sincerity.

In the past, he would never reveal that he could craft top-grade elixirs.

Even if he occasionally crafted some Top Grade Jade Dew Pills, he only gave them privately to Hui Niang and Caiyi.

One could say that Cang Long was always obliging to Luo Chen, so he certainly wouldn’t act ungratefully.

Perhaps some might wonder why, in the past, individuals like Mi Shuhua, Miao Wen, and Jueqing Fairy were also quite obliging to Luo Chen, yet he always reserved his capabilities.

But with Cang Long, he was willing to fully display his skills.

Is it a double standard?

No, there is an essential difference between the two.

For the former, there were always strong demands or conditional restraints towards Luo Chen.

For the latter, there were actually no specific requests made to Luo Chen, rather, it was he who often asked for assistance.

You could say that Ascendant Master Cang Long had shrewd tactics.

But you could also say that Luo Chen was someone who responded better to gentleness than to force.

The degree of sincerity others showed Luo Chen determined the degree of sincerity he showed them.

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After crafting the needed Jade Dew Pills,

Luo Chen then focused his energies on crafting the Second Order Tongyou Pills.

This was crucial to Chu Kui’s cultivation of the secret technique ”Bead Curtain Lock.”

As the best subject for observing this technique, logistical support could absolutely not fall behind.

Another year passed, and Luo Chen prepared all the Second Order Tongyou Pills he and Chu Kui would need in the future.

Meanwhile, he also found time to teach Qu Lingjun how to craft First Order Tongyou Pills.

After such operations, three years flashed by in an instant.

Six years remained until departure.

”Six years...”

In the Immortal Mansion, Luo Chen estimated the remaining six years.

”Value quality over quantity, the Primordial Qi Great Handprint is just beginning, and I fear it cannot be cultivated to the Grandmaster Level in time.”

This powerful Third Order Technique was unsuitable for battlefield use unless by someone at the Grandmaster level.

Thus, Luo Chen wisely chose to temporarily abandon it.

Similarly, the Third Order Technique, Mirror Flower, Water Moon, being a combination technique, was also progressing slowly.

”The Fierce Fire Miasma can be a focus for cultivation; this technique, once cast, would sweep away all obstructers within the Foundation Establishment Stage.”

”Additionally, Divine Intimidation Technique and Divine Bewilderment Technique need to be further developed. Since Rogue Cultivator Xiao is proficient in Divine Soul attacks and now deeper in realm, apart from the defense offered by Lan Ke Black and White Chess, I must have adequate countermeasures.”

”Even if my Divine Soul endowment is no less than his, mere backlash won’t take his life.”

After analyzing, Luo Chen established the key focuses for the next six years of cultivation.

Fierce Fire Miasma to refine Third Order Earth Fire Evil Qi.

Perfect Divine Intimidation Technique, and push Divine Bewilderment Technique as close to the Grandmaster level as possible.

Beyond that, see if he could develop an alternative Pill Formula for the Nether Origin Pill.

However, the work on deriving the Nether Origin Pill progressed extremely slowly, costing Luo Chen many Spirit Stones, and so far, only a few substitute medicinal ingredients had been experimented with.

”Take it slowly!”

”I am the least in a hurry here.”

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As the bustling yet tranquil preparations in the Yu Ding Realm approached fifty years, six years quickly passed by.

That day,

Amidst the heavy snow, two graceful figures arrived together.

The atmosphere between the two was not exactly harmonious, but once inside Yi Seventeenth Cave Mansion, they maintained relative restraint.

One could be angry at any time, but never just before one’s man was about to embark on a journey.

Within the mansion, Sima Huiniang and Gu Caiyi sat facing each other.