Chapter 250: Hardship and Bitterness, Frosty Temples, Unyielding Ambition to Form a Golden Core

The main text of "Starting as an Alchemy Grandmaster," Chapter 255: Hardship and Bitterness, Frosty Temples, Unyielding Ambition to Form a Golden Core. Ancient legends say that this world is named Shanhai.

Mountains stretch endlessly, rivers and seas are boundless, and countless spirit beasts and monsters live among them.

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

The weak play in the mountains and forests, carefree.

Although there are human cultivators, they are few and far between, barely surviving.

However, since ancient times.

The human race has flourished, Core Formation and Nascent Soul existences 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 settled in the Central Plains of the Shanhai World, laying the foundation for the great cause of the human race!

With the Central Plains 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 settled, the great powers of the human race in the Shanhai World changed the era and set the title, naming it the Shanhai World, and determining the first year of the Shanhai Calendar.

Since the first year.

Time passed, years flowed like a shuttle.

Three thousand years passed in a flash.

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

Thus, 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 Northern Extreme Night Demon Heaven.

Four hundred years ago.

Within the Hehuan Region of the East Wasteland, a Core Formation 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-up 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, the Shenfu Sect, the Five Elements God Sect, and Tianlan City.

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

Not only that, but Core Formation sects within the regions of the major superior sects also wanted to seek other developments and joined the opening-up war of the Yuding Sword Sect one after another.

Luoyun Sect, Haoran Sect, Minghuang Sword Sect, Ice Fortress, Green Alchemy Valley... a total of ten Core Formation sects.

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

The target, Lianxia Mountain Range!

This war is also known as the Sixteen Sects' Joint Attack on Lianxia.

The final result was naturally successful.

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 called the Far East Six Regions.

However, success also has a price.

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

Ghost God Valley is one of them.

If we really talk about it, Ghost God Valley was also among the top among the ten Core Formation sects.

The Supreme Elder was a powerful existence at Core Formation Level 9, just one step away from condensing a Nascent Soul.

The entire Ghost God Valley was famous for its array formations and had several heritage magic treasures with great prestige.

Locking Demon Tower, Lanke Chess, Unparalleled Sword...

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

Ghost God Asking Heart Mirror.

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

It has no defensive ability, nor does it have offensive power, and even the array path that Ghost God Valley is best at has no slight addition or enhancement effect.

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

As for how the effect came about, outsiders don't know.

Because with the destruction of Ghost God Valley, the remnants changed to become immortal cultivation families and relied on the Yuding Sword Sect, this treasure seemed to have disappeared.

That sentence "The brilliant Golden Core is missed by everyone, not asking the common people but asking 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 pieces!

Just like that, it drifted away.

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

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

Although he usually refines elixirs for half a year, it is enough for the Luo Tian Society to sell for a year, and the spirit stones earned are enough.

But spirit stones, who would dislike having more?

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

Six days later.

Luo Chen took a break from his busy alchemy work to attend the auction held in Tianlan Xiancheng.

This auction is extraordinary!

It was jointly held by the Green Alchemy Valley and the Ice Fortress, and the host was a Core Formation superior from the Ice Fortress!

Luo Chen's move was extraordinary!

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

He even helped Kang Xianqiong auction the third-grade healing spirit medicine she needed, thereby confirming the Gold Quality Jade Liquid agency business between the Kang family and the Luo Tian Society.

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 Luo Tian Society will have another Foundation Establishment True Person, and a Foundation Establishment True Person proficient in array formations!"

However, the result disappointed him greatly.

Min Longyu actually failed and lay paralyzed 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 Xiuxiu failed, Duan Rui failed to take the Foundation Establishment Pill twice in a row, and even Wang Yuan succeeded only on the second time.

Even he himself experienced several failures before barely succeeding.

Min Longyu had dragged it out for too long after all!

After sighing, he didn't become depressed.

Just kidding, it wasn't his own failure, and his relationship with Min Longyu wasn't that close, so why would he be depressed!

Instead, because he still had a Foundation Establishment Pill from Wang Haichao, two years later, he bestowed it upon Sima Hui Niang.

The other party succeeded in one go!

From then on, the Luo Tian Society had a Foundation Establishment President!

Under Sima Hui Niang's diligent governance, the Luo Tian Society developed better and better.

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

Jade Marrow Pills, Jade Dew 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, who were also lucky enough to establish their foundations.

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

It was Qin Liangchen who, after failing to sprint for Foundation Establishment twice, and with his blood energy becoming more and more deficient, took the initiative to choose to give up.

It's hard to say whether he would succeed if he continued to sprint, but he would lose his life.

The situation in the Yuding Region changed, treacherous and unpredictable, different every day.

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

Even though the Luo Tian Society had accumulated for decades, the number of Foundation Establishment True Persons, both openly and secretly, 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.

Afterward, it was a war that lasted for decades.

In this process, the Luo Tian Society lost many cultivators.

Even Wang Yuan, who was closest to Luo Chen, was unfortunately killed because he was too ruthless and offended a Core Formation superior, being chased and killed for thousands of miles.

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 after all.

When the war was declared over after the Nascent Soul True Person of the Yuding Sword Sect killed his way into the Luoyun Sect's mountain gate and died together with the Luoyun Sect's Nascent Soul.

The war ended.

The surviving Luo Tian Society returned to Tianlan Xiancheng.

A long period of recuperation began again.

Luo Chen's realm finally successfully entered Foundation Establishment Level 8 at the age of one hundred and seventy.

At this moment, in Tianlan Xiancheng, he could also be considered a big figure.

Even if the rotating sect was changed to the Flame 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 Foundation Establishment Level 8 made Luo Chen almost desperate.

Even though he had accumulated hundreds of years of wealth and could obtain countless resources.

But because of the limitation of aptitude, he had resources but could not quickly improve his strength.

And this was only Foundation Establishment Level 8!

Afterward, there was the even more difficult Foundation Establishment Level 9, and even the most dangerous Core Formation hurdle.

It can 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 Core Formation 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 superior sect war, still had techniques to maintain her appearance after two hundred years.

Even because of the change of years, 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 Qi Refining Level 4, I have known you."

"After nearly two hundred years, you are either refining elixirs or cultivating."

"Even if you are not cultivating, you are mostly circling among many major forces, opening up living space for the Luo Tian Society."

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

"Are you not tired?"

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

An extreme fatigue surged out from the depths of his soul.

Initially like the water of a spring, then it became a stream, and finally it roared, as if a great river was surging and rushing.

He was really tired.

Two hundred years of time, no women, no greed for power, cultivation never stopped!

In the world, there has never been such a hardworking person as him.

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

Even Core Formation cultivators didn't have half his wealth.

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 and was about to fall.

The plump waist approached him and supported his face with frosty temples.

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

Not fighting anymore?

Three days later.

Danxia Peak, a grand wedding was held!

Foundation Establishment late-stage great cultivator, second-grade alchemy grandmaster Luo Chen, and Luo Tian Society elder Gu Caiyi became Dao companions.

At the wedding, there were many congratulatory guests.

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

Even Core Formation cultivators appeared, three of them, specifically to congratulate Luo Chen.

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

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

Twenty years later.

It was still at the top of Danxia Peak.

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

Lifespan exhausted.

The beauty had passed away.

Luo Chen sat alone for a long time.

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

Under the illumination of the rising sun, the aging Luo Chen's silent heart beat again.

"I've rested enough."

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

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

In the situation where realm upgrade was slow, he thirsted for 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 trump card Di Di Liu Jiang, sparing no effort to improve the strength of the Luo Tian Society.

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

After hearing the news, many loose cultivators who had no hope of Foundation Establishment also joined.

Ten, twenty, thirty, fifty...

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

These Core Formation 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 by luck, they were just barely surviving, alone.

"Join the Luo Tian Sect!"

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

"Don't worry about the foundation of the Yuding Sword Sect, the war a hundred years ago caused them no small loss."

"This battle, I have been planning for a long time, besides the Luo Tian Sect, there are also the Flame Alliance, Green Alchemy Valley, and Hundred Flowers Palace acting together!"

No one knew how much effort Luo Chen spent to form a four-sect army.

He did it for the Golden Core!

Others did it for revenge!

Core Formation cultivators did it to condense a Nascent Soul!

A great war broke out in the Yuding Region after a hundred years of recuperation without a leader!

This war came fiercely.

But it ended in a hurry.

Because, Nascent Soul True Persons from outside the region intervened.

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

The war of the five major Core Formation sects was too ridiculous in front of a 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 Luo Tian Sect, which had just been established, suffered a devastating blow almost immediately.

Those friends who were on good terms with Luo Chen, his disciples, his descendants, his friends' descendants, none of them escaped, all perished!

Only Luo Chen survived.

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

At this time, he was already old.

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 realm of body refining to the third realm.

It contained immortal path and power path as one, and was mainly based on the blood path.

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

Afterward, relying on devouring the essence blood and soul of cultivators, he continuously survived.

Occasionally, the elders of the cultivators he killed took action, but they were also easily defeated by him.

Even Core Formation superiors mostly returned without success.

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

At the age of three hundred and thirty.

Luo Chen returned to Tianlan Xiancheng.

Relying on the perfected and improved restraining aura technique, plus a huge sum of resources, he temporarily exchanged for a third-grade low-grade cave dwelling on Tianlan Peak.

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

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

Sprinting for the Golden Core, it's today!

A huge vortex, from his Qi Sea, spun frantically.

The vast heaven and earth spiritual energy surged toward him.

His snow-white long hair moved without wind, fluttering behind him.

Under the vicissitudes of his eyes, there was an unshakeable determination.

"Hardship and bitterness, frosty temples, unyielding ambition to form a Golden Core."

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

Boom! ===== CHAPTER 251 =====