Chapter 250: Hardship and Hatred for the Frosty Temples, Ambition Never Ceases to Form the Golden Core

From the beginning of the main text of "Longevity Starts with a Grandmaster of Alchemy," Chapter 255: Hardship and Hatred for the Frosty Temples, Ambition Never Ceases to Form the Golden Core. Ancient legends say this world is named Shanhai.

Mountains are continuous, rivers and seas are boundless, and countless monster beasts and spirits live among them.

The strong can fly to the sky and escape the earth, move mountains and fill seas.

The weak play in the mountains and forests, very carefree.

Although there are human cultivators, they are only a few, barely surviving.

However, since the ancient times.

The human race has flourished, Golden Core and Nascent Soul people have emerged one after another, and there are even Soul Transformation cultivators who have crossed the tribulation and ascended.

Under this trend, the territory of the human race has continuously expanded.

After thousands of years, they finally established the human race's great cause in the Central Region of the Shanhai World!

With the Central Region as the center, it is divided into four major regions: East, South, West, and North.

East Wasteland, South Frontier, West Desert, North Sea.

After the five regions were determined, the great powers of the human race in the Shanhai World changed the era and set the title, naming it Shanhai, and determining the first year of the Shanhai Calendar.

Since the first year.

Time passes, years fly by.

Three thousand years passed in a flash.

In these three thousand years, the human cultivators of the Shanhai World, upholding the concepts of the great powers, continuously launched opening wars to expand the territory of the human race.

As a result, there were thirty-five regions in the East Wasteland, one hundred and eighty-seven ridges in the South Frontier, and the boundless North Sea, reaching the North Pole Night Demon Heaven.

Four hundred years ago.

In the Hehuan Region of the East Wasteland, a Golden Core major sect was born with a Nascent Soul True Person, who felt that it could not grow in the Hehuan Region, so it applied to hold an opening war.

This sect is named Yuding Sword Sect.

Under the auspices of the East Wasteland Holy Land and with the support of the Hehuan Sect, the Yuding Sword Sect quickly obtained the joint support of Nascent Soul major sects such as the Medicine King Sect, God Talisman Sect, Five Elements God Sect, and Tianfan City.

In this way, there were six major Nascent Soul sects.

Not only that, Golden Core sects within the major sects' regions also wanted to seek other developments and joined the Yuding Sword Sect's opening war one after another.

Luoyun Sect, Haoran Sect, Minghuang Sword Sect, Ice Fortress, Qingdan Valley... a total of ten Golden Core sects.

Added to the six major sects, the mighty opening war four hundred years ago unfolded.

The target, Lianxia Mountain Range!

This war is also known as the Sixteen Sects Together Attacking Lianxia.

The final result, naturally, was success.

The human territory changed from thirty-five regions in the East Wasteland to thirty-six regions.

The Yuding Region, along with the other five regions, is known as the Six Regions of the Far East.

However, success also has a price.

Among the ten Golden Core sects that came out of each major region, four sects were almost completely wiped out.

Ghost God Valley is one of them.

If you really want to talk about it, Ghost God Valley was among the top among the ten Golden Core sects.

The Supreme Elder was a powerful existence at the ninth level of the Golden Core, only one step away from condensing the Nascent Soul.

The entire Ghost God Valley was famous for its array formations and had several famous sect-protecting magic treasures.

Lock Demon Tower, Lanke Chess, Wushuang Sword...

And among these magic treasures, there was also a magic treasure that was not very famous, but was envied by major Golden Core sects.

Ghost God Asking Heart Mirror.

This treasure is not of high grade, only low-grade.

It has no defensive ability, no offensive power, and even the array path that Ghost God Valley is best at has no slight blessing or enhancement effect.

But it has a miraculous effect on cultivators condensing the Golden Core.

As for where the effect comes from, outsiders don't know.

Because with the destruction of Ghost God Valley, the remaining people changed to immortal cultivation families and attached themselves to the Yuding Sword Sect, and this treasure seemed to disappear.

That sentence "Everyone misses the brilliant Golden Core, don't ask the common people but ask the ghosts and gods" has since become a swan song.

But today.

Someone who tried to pick up leaks, relying on the opportunity in the dark, entered the Ghost God Asking Heart Mirror.

Open your eyes.

Luo Chen regretfully put down the copper mirror in his hand.

"Lost, this time I lost miserably!"

After his experiment, this incomplete copper mirror magic treasure had no other use except for some slight psychedelic functions.

And that psychedelic function, now its power can only target low-level Qi Refining cultivators.

Thirty thousand!

It just went down the drain.

Luo Chen was heartbroken and decided not to pick up leaks anymore.

"Take advantage of some time, refine a few more furnaces of elixirs, and earn more spirit stones!"

Although he usually refines elixirs for half a year, which is enough for the Luotian Association to sell for a year, and the spirit stones earned are enough.

But spirit stones, who would complain about having more?

Luo Chen immediately threw himself into the great cause of alchemy.

Six days later.

Luo Chen broke free from the busy alchemy work and participated in the auction conference held by Tianlan Immortal City.

This auction is extraordinary!

It was jointly held by Qingdan Valley and Ice Fortress, and the host was a Golden Core superior from the Ice Fortress!

Luo Chen's shot was extraordinary!

He successively auctioned Foundation Establishment Pills, medium-grade Heqi Pills, and Jingling Pills.

He even helped Kang Xianqiong auction the third-tier healing spirit medicine she needed, thereby determining the gold-quality jade liquid agency business between the Kang family and the Luotian Association.

After the auction ended.

Luo Chen personally supervised Min Longyu's Foundation Establishment!

Outside the cave dwelling.

Luo Chen was full of expectations.

"If Min Longyu can succeed, then my Luotian Association will have another Foundation Establishment True Cultivator, and a Foundation Establishment True Cultivator proficient in array paths!"

However, the result disappointed him greatly.

Min Longyu actually failed and collapsed in the cave dwelling with serious injuries.

Regarding the reason for the failure, Min Longyu had a bitter face.

"I hesitated."

Luo Chen opened his mouth, but could only sigh.

Foundation Establishment has never been a sure thing.

Fu Xiuxu failed, Duan Rui failed to take the Foundation Establishment Pill twice in a row, and even Wang Yuan succeeded only the second time.

Even he himself experienced several failures before barely succeeding.

Min Longyu finally dragged it too long!

After sighing, he didn't sink.

Just kidding, it's not his own failure, and his relationship with Min Longyu is not very close, so why should he sink!

Instead, because he still had Wang Haichao's Foundation Establishment Pill in his hand, two years later, he bestowed it upon Sima Huiniang.

The other party succeeded in one go!

From then on, the Luotian Association had a Foundation Establishment President!

Under Sima Huiniang's diligent governance, the Luotian Association developed better and better.

The elixirs refined by Luo Chen day and night were sold far and wide to all directions of Tianlan Immortal City.

Yuxui Pills, Yulu Pills, and even Tongyou Pills he began to take out for sale.

Because of the profits from these elixirs, the spirit stones he seized accumulated to an unimaginable quantity.

He is not a stingy person.

While relying on huge wealth to refine his own cultivation, he also supported his old friends.

Such as Gu Caiyi and Murong Qinglian were also lucky enough to establish their foundations.

Even Zhou Yuanli, whose aptitude was not very good, Luo Chen, seeing that he had followed him for many years, bought him three Foundation Establishment Pills one after another, making him luckily establish his foundation and successfully prolong his life.

It was Qin Liangchen, who failed to sprint for Foundation Establishment twice, and after his blood and energy became increasingly deficient, he chose to give up voluntarily.

If he continued to sprint, it was hard to say whether he would succeed or not, but he would be gone.

The situation in the Yuding Region was changing, treacherous, and different every day.

The battle between the two major Nascent Soul sects finally broke out comprehensively.

Even though the Luotian Association had accumulated for decades, the number of Foundation Establishment True Cultivators in the open and in the dark exceeded the number of two hands.

But in such a trend, they were unable to dominate their own destiny and were eventually swept into it.

After that, it was a war that lasted for decades.

In this process, the Luotian Association lost many cultivators.

Even Luo Chen's closest Wang Yuan, because he was too ruthless, offended a Golden Core superior and was chased and killed for thousands of miles and unfortunately fell.

Not to mention other friends.

Luo Chen was born cautious and quick-witted.

He wandered on the edge of life and death many times, but he survived.

When the war ended with the Yuding Sword Sect's Nascent Soul True Person killing into the Luoyun Sect's mountain gate and dying together with the Luoyun Sect's Nascent Soul, it was declared over.

The war ended.

The struggling Luotian Association returned to Tianlan Immortal City.

A long period of recuperation began again.

Luo Chen's realm finally successfully entered the eighth level of Foundation Establishment at the age of one hundred and seventy.

At this moment, in Tianlan Immortal City, he could be considered a big figure.

Even if the rotating sect was changed to the Yan Alliance, which was close to the Yuding Sword Sect, he also reached a vassal relationship with the other party through the elixir business.

It's just that the cultivation of the eighth level of Foundation Establishment made Luo Chen feel almost desperate.

Even though he had accumulated wealth for over a hundred years and could obtain countless resources.

But because of the limitation of his aptitude, he had resources but couldn't quickly improve his strength.

And this was only the eighth level of Foundation Establishment!

There was still the more difficult ninth level of Foundation Establishment, and even the most dangerous Golden Core barrier.

It could be said that his hope for the Great Dao was almost non-existent.

Luo Chen was not reconciled!

He frequently participated in auctions, even went in and out of other immortal cities in the Yuding Region, and even joined a Golden Core major sect as an external guest to obtain higher-level and more efficient cultivation resources.

However, his realm upgrade was still slow.

At the age of two hundred.

He sat alone at the peak of Danxia Peak, looking at the spectacular sea of clouds, but his heart was full of confusion.

Behind him, footsteps sounded slowly.

It was Gu Caiyi.

She, who was lucky enough to establish her foundation and survived the war of the major sects, had still maintained her youthful appearance after two hundred years.

Even because of the changes of time, she had a few more plump charms.

"Luo Chen, do you want to rest?"

"The Great Dao is ahead, how can I rest!" Luo Chen didn't look back, his tone was decisive.

It's just that, in that decisiveness, there was a bit of despair.

Gu Caiyi walked to his side and looked at him with pity.

"Since you were at the fourth level of Qi Refining, I have known you."

"For nearly two hundred years, you have either been refining elixirs or practicing."

"Even if you are not practicing, you are mostly spinning among many major forces, opening up living space for the Luotian Association."

"For two hundred years, you have never stopped."

"Are you not tired?"

With that sentence "Are you not tired" uttered, Luo Chen, sitting on the mountain peak, only felt a dizziness in his brain.

An extreme fatigue surged from the depths of his soul.

Initially like the water of a spring, then trickling into a stream, and finally roaring, as if a great river was surging and rushing.

He was really tired.

Two hundred years of time, not close to women, not greedy for power, cultivation never stopped!

In the world, there has never been anyone as hardworking as him.

Relying on the master-level alchemy, the speed of seizing wealth far exceeded those of the same rank.

Even Golden Core cultivators were not half as wealthy as him.

But even so, the Golden Core realm was still far away.

The despair under the decisiveness spread boundlessly...

A gentle mountain breeze blew, but his figure swayed.

The plump waist approached him, supporting his face with graying temples.

Gu Caiyi stroked his graying hair with pity and muttered: "Let's not fight anymore, okay?"

Not fighting anymore?

Three days later.

Danxia Peak, a grand wedding was held!

Late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator, second-tier alchemy grandmaster Luo Chen, formed a Dao companion with Luotian Association Elder Gu Caiyi.

At the wedding, there were many congratulatory guests.

There were no Qi Refining people coming and going, and Foundation Establishments were talking and laughing.

Even three Golden Core cultivators appeared, specifically to congratulate Luo Chen.

This wedding came in a hurry, but had a far-reaching influence.

Even after twenty years, it was still widely circulated in the Yuding Region.

It is said that that day, even the Yuding Sword Sect sent someone to send a congratulatory gift to Luo Chen.

The God Talisman Sect, thousands of miles away, sent Foundation Establishment disciples to congratulate him, and it is said that the visitors were named Fu Xiuxu and Chen Shuyi.

Twenty years later.

Still at the top of Danxia Peak.

Luo Chen watched the yellowish sunset gradually disappear under the boundless sea of clouds, and in his arms was Gu Caiyi, who was silent and had no life.

Lifespan exhausted.

The beauty passed away.

Luo Chen sat withered for a long time.

Until ten days later, the purple energy came from the east, and a scorching sun jumped out of the sea of clouds.

Under the irradiation of the rising sun, the aged Luo Chen's silent heart beat again.

"I have rested enough."

Burying Gu Caiyi, Luo Chen stepped on the path of cultivation again.

This time, he no longer sought stability, but became unprecedentedly crazy.

In the case of slow realm upgrades, he craved more efficient cultivation resources.

But the major sects would not give them to him.

Even if he became a nominal guest in their sect, it wouldn't work.

"If you don't give it to me, then I'll take it myself!"

Luo Chen began to frantically refine his Emperor's Flowing Pulp, sparing no effort to improve the strength of the Luotian Association.

The number of Foundation Establishment True Cultivators increased from the number of two hands.

Later, many loose cultivators who had no hope for Foundation Establishment heard the news and joined in.

Ten, twenty, thirty, fifty...

In this process, he even threw out a large amount of resources to recruit several Golden Core cultivators!

These Golden Core cultivators were not unknown people.

Most of them were strong people after their sects were destroyed in the Nascent Soul war.

Because the sect was destroyed, even if they survived luckily, they were just struggling to survive, alone.

"Join the Luotian Sect!"

"Attack the Yuding Sword Sect, there must be an opportunity to condense the Nascent Soul inside!"

"Don't worry about the Yuding Sword Sect's foundation, in that war a hundred years ago, their losses were not small."

"This battle, I have planned for a long time, besides the Luotian Sect, there are also the Yan Alliance, Qingdan Valley, and Hundred Flower Palace acting together!"

No one knows how much effort Luo Chen spent to form an army of four sects.

He was for Golden Core!

Others were for revenge!

Golden Core cultivators were for condensing the Nascent Soul!

A great battle broke out after the Yuding Region had no leader and recuperated for a hundred years!

This war came fiercely.

But it ended in a hurry.

Because, there was an intervention by an extraterritorial Nascent Soul True Person.

In a large region, a Golden Core major sect was born with a Nascent Soul True Person, who came to the Yuding Region to seek development.

The war of the five Golden Core sects was too ridiculous in front of the Nascent Soul True Person.

Just by turning his hand, he easily suppressed it.

After the war ended, the aftermath was still spreading.

As the mastermind behind the war, Luo Chen was listed on the must-kill list.

The Luotian Sect that went to build the sect suffered a devastating blow almost immediately.

Those friends who were close to Luo Chen, his disciples, his descendants, his friends' descendants, none of them escaped, and all were wiped out!

Only Luo Chen survived.

He wandered in the immortal cultivation world like a stray dog.

At this time, he was already aged.

His lifespan exceeded the Foundation Establishment limit and reached two hundred and eighty years.

It was Wang Yuan's legacy that achieved him.

In the war between the Sword Sect and the Luoyun Sect, Wang Yuan perfected the cultivation technique from the second stage of body refining to the third stage.

It contained the Immortal Dao and Force Dao as one, and was mainly based on the Blood Dao.

Luo Chen, relying on his own talent and understanding, integrated the Soul Dao on the basis of this path.

Afterwards, relying on devouring the essence and blood and soul of cultivators, he continuously struggled to survive.

Occasionally, the elders of the cultivators he killed would take action, but they were also fiercely defeated by him.

Even Golden Core superiors mostly returned without success.

The name of the Blood Demon gradually spread in the Six Regions of the Far East.

At the age of three hundred and thirty.

Luo Chen returned to Tianlan Immortal City.

Relying on the perfected and improved breath-holding spiritual technique, plus a huge amount of resources, he temporarily exchanged for a third-tier low-grade cave dwelling on Tianlan Peak.

At this time, he was already at the Great Perfection of Foundation Establishment!

Not only that, he also held several Golden Core secret techniques.

Sprinting for the Golden Core stage, it was today!

A huge vortex spun crazily in his qi sea.

The vast heaven and earth spiritual energy surged towards him.

His snow-white long hair flew behind him without wind.

Under his vicissitudes of eyes was an unshakeable determination.

"Hardship and hatred for the frosty temples, ambition never ceases to form the Golden Core."

"In this life, how can I stop here!"

Boom!