Chapter 251: Long Sleep

From the beginning of the main text of "Longevity Starts with a Grandmaster of Alchemy," Chapter 256: Long Sleep. Six days later!

In Tianlan Immortal City.

Tens of thousands of cultivators poured into the fully opened Binglan Palace!

The Binglan Palace, which only opened a corner in the past, was not crowded at all with these ten thousand cultivators under full opening.

The law enforcement team composed of Ice Fortress cultivators patrolled outside the Binglan Palace day and night to prevent small people from destroying order.

Everyone honestly verified their assets, obtained qualifications, submitted tickets, and stepped into the Binglan Palace step by step.

In the sky, from time to time, the escape light of Golden Core cultivators would fly into it.

However, in a corner.

There was a group of people gathered together, and a restless atmosphere continued to spread.

"Is your President still in seclusion?"

Kang Xianqiong was full of anxiety, and her eyes kept scanning in all directions, hoping to see that figure in the crowd.

However, she was disappointed.

Sima Huiniang said calmly: "Senior Kang, don't worry, our Luotian Association's Hall Master Duan has already gone to invite the President personally, it won't be delayed."

"How can it not be delayed!"

Seeing Kang Xianqiong so anxious, Sima Huiniang frowned.

The other party is a Foundation Establishment True Cultivator after all, this cultivation of qi is too poor.

She said patiently: "As far as I know, the auction lasts for three days. Every day, except for the finale treasures, they basically correspond to the resources of the Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, and Golden Core realms respectively."

"The Ziyang Liquid you need is a third-tier spirit medicine, it should be auctioned on the third day."

"There is no need to be so anxious!"

Kang Xianqiong sighed and suppressed the worry in her heart.

She was not the only one who was so anxious.

There was also Min Longyu in the crowd!

It's just that he was humble and had no power, so he could only endure it at this moment.

Suddenly.

A Liuyun beast cart stopped in front of the Binglan Palace.

Duan Feng walked out of it in a hurry, his face was heavy, and his footsteps were a bit heavy while walking.

Sima Huiniang, who had long been immersed in the instinct of observing words and colors, saw this and secretly thought it was bad.

She stepped forward quickly.

"Hall Master Duan, the President, on his side..."

Duan Feng said coldly: "The President has spoken, for the first two days of the auction, you, President Sima, will be the main one. For those involving Foundation Establishment spiritual objects and Foundation Establishment resources, after you think carefully, I will conduct the auction."

He is also a Foundation Establishment True Cultivator now.

Speaking at the auction, he naturally has more weight than a group of ninth-level Qi Refining cultivators of the Luotian Association.

While speaking, he quietly handed a storage bag to Sima Huiniang.

There was even spiritual sense sound transmission in her ears.

"Here are one hundred thousand, enough to purchase the things needed by my Luotian Association."

Sima Huiniang's eyelids jumped, "Did the President give it? What happened to him now?"

Duan Feng glanced at the Luotian Association crowd waiting in front, and secretly transmitted: "The President is fine, just a little trouble in cultivation, need to recuperate. I have already notified Elder Wang Yuan with a sound-transmitting paper crane, and he will go there personally."

However, hearing this, Sima Huiniang was not relieved at all.

Her heart was even heavier.

Before, he said he was fine, but later he reached the point of needing to invite Wang Yuan.

It seems that something big happened to the President!

Taking a deep breath, she forced a smile and turned around.

"Everyone, let's enter the venue!"

Some people were curious about Luo Chen's situation, but under Duan Feng's cold gaze, they suppressed the curiosity in their hearts.

When entering the venue, Duan Feng stopped, and patted Min Longyu on the shoulder.

"Don't worry, the quota for the Foundation Establishment Pill has already been taken by the President in advance."

Min Longyu, who was previously ashen-faced, couldn't help but show hopeful light in his eyes.

It's just that there was still some anxiety in his heart.

In the case that Luo Chen didn't take action, could Sima Huiniang auction the precious Foundation Establishment Pill?

Time goes back five days ago.

After getting the copper mirror, one day and one night passed in a flash.

With a roar from the depths of his consciousness, Luo Chen woke up leisurely from that long journey of more than two hundred years.

"Master, are you okay?"

Bai Meiling looked at Luo Chen with great concern.

It's just that when Luo Chen's eyes, which seemed to have experienced vicissitudes of life, fell on her, she couldn't help but shudder.

"I'm fine."

"In the coming days, guard the cave dwelling well and decline all outside guests. If Huiniang or Duan Feng come to look for me, give this storage bag and sound-transmitting talisman to her."

After speaking.

Luo Chen put down a storage bag full of spirit stones and walked staggeringly into the bedroom.

Since moving into this second-tier low-grade cave dwelling.

Luo Chen's figure only appeared in the quiet room for cultivation, the alchemy room for alchemy, as well as the study and the living room for meeting guests.

The bedroom left for people to rest, he rarely stepped into.

Now stepping into the bedroom again, he plunged onto the soft bed. 【251-

"Ghost-God Heart-Questioning Realm... what a journey of questioning the heart!"

Amidst his murmurs, Luo Chen fell into a deep sleep.

Regardless of the turmoil in the outside world, he slept soundly, oblivious to the passage of time.

This was a long sleep.

Since Luo Chen had transmigrated and embarked on the path of cultivation, he had never slept so recklessly.

During this sleep, he did not dream, and he rested exceptionally well.

It was not until several days later that he slowly woke up.

Lying on the soft bed, covered by a light and supple silk quilt, Luo Chen opened his mouth and finally let out a soft sigh.

"Since I transmigrated, I don't think I've ever had such a good and long rest!"

If one does not count the ten years of cultivation of his predecessor, the time he spent from Qi Refining to Foundation Establishment was only eleven or twelve years.

This speed of cultivation was almost comparable to the legendary geniuses with Heavenly Spirit Roots in the cultivation world!

Although no one said it, Luo Chen could often see envy in the eyes of his friends and subordinates.

Envy?

It was nothing more than trading his life for it!

Refining elixirs day and night to earn spirit stones, and cultivating without ever stopping.

Relying on vast resources and ten years of persistence as if it were one day.

Only then did he barely achieve this level of cultivation!

The reason he worked so hard was not only because of the constantly changing external factors around him, but also because of his internal feeling that his aptitude was poor and his lifespan was insufficient.

Even after Foundation Establishment, he was still trapped by this.

Therefore, he had never stopped his pace.

But after experiencing that dreamlike experience a few days ago, he realized that he had perhaps gone too far.

"Luo Chen, aren't you tired?"

"Hehe..."

"How could I not be tired!"

He chuckled.

Luo Chen's eyes were wide open, his thoughts seemingly returning to the long years in the Ghost-God Heart-Questioning Mirror.

After waking up, he learned much information about the bronze mirror; it was left behind by a Jin Dan True Person using their spiritual sense.

This magic treasure originated from the Ghost-God Valley, a powerful sect of formation Dao from hundreds of years ago.

Its wonderful use was that it could allow a cultivator to undergo one, and only one, unique "heart-questioning" journey.

Or rather, it was not just "heart-questioning"; its main purpose was actually "simulation."

Using the cultivator's experience, knowledge, and foundation, and with the help of this unique magic treasure, one could directionally simulate an event.

In the Ghost-God Valley.

This treasure was held year-round by the Dharma-transmitting Elder Jin Wu.

It was mainly used on Ghost-God Valley disciples who had cultivated to the Great Perfection of Foundation Establishment.

To help them simulate the process of Jin Dan condensation!

Even if it was only once, it was an invaluable experience.

Back then, with this object, even without superior secret techniques for Core Formation, the number of Jin Dan cultivators in the sect had always shown a steady upward trend.

Later, the sect's strength became increasingly powerful, far exceeding other Jin Dan sects of the same level, and it could be called incomparably prosperous.

But as it happened, the Ghost-God Valley had no Nascent Soul cultivators to preside over it!

In order to avoid being feared by the Nascent Soul sects within the region, the Supreme Elder of the Ghost-God Valley decided to move away from the original region and join the expansion war of the Yuding Sword Sect, seeking a new place of survival for the Ghost-God Valley.

It was a pity that the Ghost-God Valley, which served as the vanguard in the expansion war, was wiped out by a fourth-tier Demon Emperor.

From then on, a generation of great formation sects gradually headed toward decline.

The reason for the decline was not just that the sect's elite were lost in one day.

It was also because, along with the disappearance of the Ghost-God Valley's Supreme Elder, a defensive magic treasure also vanished without a trace.

The Rotten-Cleft Chess!

This set of magic treasures was of mid-grade rank and consisted of two chess pieces, black and white.

Logically speaking, it should not have enjoyed the same fame in the cultivation world as high-grade magic treasures like the Demon-Locking Tower.

But in reality, within the Ghost-God Valley, the importance of the Rotten-Cleft Chess was no less than that of the Demon-Locking Tower.

The reason was that this treasure could be used in conjunction with the Ghost-God Heart-Questioning Mirror.

Although both had defensive effects, they had different focuses.

The white piece protected the body, and the black piece protected the soul.

The fact that Luo Tianhong was able to transform into a ghost general for the first time after falling was due to the contribution of the black piece.

Even when Luo Chen once blasted it into slag, he could still use the black piece and the ghost domain to quickly repair himself.

From this, one could see how outstanding the defensive effect of the black piece was in protecting the soul.

It was precisely by using the soul-protecting effect of the Rotten-Cleft black piece that the Ghost-God Valley could calmly allow Foundation Establishment disciples to use the Heart-Questioning Mirror!

But as it happened, this treasure was lost in the Guyuan Mountains.

Since then, the Ghost-God Valley had gradually become powerless in terms of Jin Dan cultivators.

After the Dharma-transmitting Elder Jin Wu gathered the remaining disciples, he supported them for a long time.

But as he passed away, the Ghost-God Valley did not give birth to any new Jin Dan cultivators and could only attach itself to the Yuding Sword Sect.

Among the younger generation of disciples, it was not that they hadn't tried to simulate Core Formation with the help of the Ghost-God Heart-Questioning Mirror.

But without the Rotten-Cleft black piece to protect the soul, even if they successfully simulated it, they would often get lost within it.

After many attempts.

This magic treasure also gradually became unable to bear the burden.

Finally, a corner crumbled, and it became incomplete.

After several twists and turns, it fell into Luo Chen's hands.

I've digressed.

This information was merely what Luo Chen had inferred himself from the few words left behind by that Jin Dan True Person on the Ghost-God Heart-Questioning Mirror.

However, combined with later history, he felt that his inference was likely correct in its general direction.

"By chance, I happened to have the Rotten-Cleft black piece in my hand, which allowed me to protect my soul during that long simulation process and simulate all the way to the end."

Amidst his sighs.

Luo Chen's thoughts spread uncontrollably once again.

The three-hundred-year experience in the mirror was a process that could be called incredibly tortuous.

The earlier the stage, the clearer the simulated events were.

By the middle and late stages, he could only rely on his experience and knowledge to derive them directionally.

Such as the war between the two great Nascent Soul sects, where the Luo Tian Association would be dragged in.

Wang Yuan killing wantonly for the sake of cultivation, offending a Jin Dan True Person.

And even later, when he took risks and, through alliances, besieged the Yuding Sword Sect, which had no Nascent Soul cultivators to preside over it.

These were all things that he, or those around him, could do.

As for the end, where the Luo Tian Association was destroyed and he was driven to a dead end, falling into the demonic path of rogue cultivators, it also seemed highly possible.

Because from the very beginning, he, Luo Chen, was just an obscure rogue cultivator in Dahe Workshop.

He hadn't not done things like killing people and seizing treasures.

Although he was forced to.

As for the final attempt to reach the Jin Dan stage, the result was naturally a failure.

With his current experience, knowledge, and even accumulation, it was simply impossible to simulate success.

Moreover, this Ghost-God Heart-Questioning Mirror did not take the proficiency system into account.

"In the simulation, for the sake of cultivation, I fell into the demonic path and ended up in a state that was neither human nor ghost, only then barely reaching the Great Perfection of Foundation Establishment."

"The time consumed even exceeded the lifespan limit of a three-hundred-year-old Foundation Establishment cultivator."

Three hundred and thirty years was the end point of the simulated lifespan.

Generally speaking, the lifespan limit of a Foundation Establishment cultivator is two hundred and fifty years.

With the help of unique techniques, one can extend their life by ten or twenty years.

If there are life-extending elixirs, the limit is three hundred years.

The reason he was able to live to three hundred and thirty years was due to the blood-path body-refining technique that Wang Yuan finally researched.

Only by engaging in wanton killing and harvesting was he able to endure for so long.

But in the end, he was wanted by the entire Yuding region.

He himself was neither human nor ghost.

At the very moment of attempting to reach Jin Dan, he directly suffered qi deviation and declared failure.

Failure is not terrible!

Even the geniuses of the Ghost-God Valley back then would fail.

For him, the most dangerous part was actually at the eighth level of Foundation Establishment, the stage where he was desperate about cultivation.

At that stage, his fighting spirit was worn away, and he even formed a Dao companion relationship with Gu...

Heart-questioning!

That was a checkpoint to test his heart of the Great Dao.

If it weren't for his unyielding ambition later on, and the desire to contend for the Great Dao again, even with the help of the Rotten-Cleft black piece, his soul would have been damaged, and his Dao heart would have suffered a great blow.

After waking up, he would likely be muddled and unable to control himself.

"No wonder this object was always only given to disciples at the Great Perfection of Foundation Establishment in the Ghost-God Valley!"

"People of this generation have already discarded all distracting thoughts, and only the matter of Core Formation remains in their hearts, so naturally they won't think about too many miscellaneous things."

Amidst his sighs, Luo Chen noticed something wrong.

He found that his thoughts seemed to spread and expand very easily.

"Is this a sequela left behind after the simulation of the Ghost-God Heart-Questioning Mirror?"

Luo Chen frowned.

Suddenly, an extreme sense of hunger came from his stomach and sea of consciousness again.

His expression changed slightly, and he sat up.

"Xiao Ling, prepare ten days' worth of spirit meals for me!"

Bai Meiling, who was lying outside studying the Soul-Gathering Banner, responded sweetly.

Luo Chen felt the state of his body, and as soon as he released his spiritual sense, he felt a wave of dizziness.

"Not only the body, but even the soul seems to have been overused!"

"That's right, a Foundation Establishment Great Perfection cultivator in the Ghost-God Valley only needs to pour all their energy into simulating Core Formation."

"But I am only at the third level of Foundation Establishment, yet I have to simulate step by step. This process was entirely completed by relying on my own foundation."

"If it weren't for my soul foundation being infinitely close to the late stage of Foundation Establishment, I probably wouldn't have even lasted until the step of simulating Core Formation."

In the simulation.

His failure to form a Core was not just due to a lack of experience and knowledge.

It was also due to the fundamental reason that his soul could not support it!

Feeling this, Luo Chen only felt waves of dizziness in his brain.

"Fortunately, I still have spare Tongyou Elixirs; even if they can't increase it, they should be able to replenish it a little."

Without hesitation, Luo Chen took out a Tongyou Elixir and swallowed it.

And outside, a grand feast of spirit food filled with rich spiritual energy was also served on the stone table under Bai Meiling's care.

Half an hour later.

Luo Chen, whose spirit had slightly improved, walked out of the bedroom.

Coming to the stone table, he couldn't wait to enjoy the spirit food feast that ordinary cultivators couldn't afford.

While eating, Luo Chen asked:

"How many days have I slept?"

Bai Meiling lay on the table, supporting her small face with both hands.

She counted on her fingers and said, "After you came back, you stayed in front of the mirror for a day and a night. Then, you slept for seven days. Someone came to look for you in the middle, it was Duan Feng. Oh, Wang Yuan also came by yesterday, and seeing you were sleeping, he went back."

Listening to this rambling, Luo Chen's eating slowed down.

"Is there only one day left for the auction?"

"Fortunately, everything is still in time!"