Chapter 425

Chi!

A soft sound, a wisp of cyan flame.

Luo Chen stared blankly at the wisp of deep cyan flame on his finger.

It took three years, with the help of the extremely cold Ice Prison, for him to finally refine the Wither-Bloom Fire he had risked swallowing into his body.

From now on, he is also one of the few existences who, like Danyangzi, has mastered origin true fire at the Foundation Establishment stage.

However, the price paid was so heavy it was unbearable.

The cyan flame dissipated.

Luo Chen's hand stroked the long hair draped behind him.

The color was withered, and the strands were gray and white.

If it weren't for his skin still being smooth and rosy, from a distance, he would look just like an old man on the verge of death.

This situation is very rare for a Foundation Establishment True Cultivator.

It only appears in those whose lifespan is nearing its end, where their vital energy has decayed to the point where they cannot even control their spiritual power.

Moreover!

Luo Chen himself still possesses an ancient third-tier physique.

Even if he cannot yet achieve rebirth from a drop of blood, he can still be described as having skin like an infant and hair like cyan silk.

But his hair has presented this unsightly gray-white color.

And the reason for all this...

"In the end, I can only blame myself!"

Luo Chen muttered to himself in a hoarse voice.

"Sometimes, if the progress of cultivation is too fast, it is also a bad thing."

Counting the time he seriously began to cultivate with all his might.

At the beginning of his transmigration, he was twenty-six.

It took one year to max out the proficiency of Grain Grain Bigu powder.

After turning twenty-seven, he began to enter the path of Myriad Wonders Pills.

Relying on the huge profits from this elixir and the resulting spirit stone income, he began to enjoy high-speed cultivation supported by elixirs.

Since then, after barely thirty years, at his current age of fifty-seven, he has reached the seventh level of Foundation Establishment and is infinitely close to the eighth level!

Such fast cultivation progress.

Even if placed in a Nascent Soul sect, he would be a top-tier prodigy.

The legendary Heaven Spirit Root cultivators only take ten years to reach Foundation Establishment and a hundred years to form a core.

Luo Chen's cultivation speed is truly too fast.

In this process, it is not that there were no difficulties.

Inferior five-element spiritual root aptitude, elixir tolerance, residual elixir toxins from breaking through realms, etc.

These difficulties were all solved by him one by one.

Logically speaking, there shouldn't be any major problems.

Even if he relied on elixirs to accelerate his cultivation, under his seemingly inferior but actually broad five-element spiritual root aptitude, he was still in control of the situation.

Especially since he had also complemented his shortcomings in physique and spiritual sense.

With these three working together, it was enough to support high-speed cultivation.

But!

Even with such fast cultivation speed, Luo Chen was still greedy and took another shortcut.

"Weak third-tier spiritual land!"

"I finally understand why major sects can clearly set up weak third-tier spiritual lands to provide for the cultivation of a large number of disciples, yet they hoard them and only provide them for the cultivation of their Daoist sons."

"The so-called limitation of the physique and meridians' capacity is not the biggest problem at all."

"The biggest problem is that this kind of spiritual land is beyond one's realm!"

"It can be used for a Foundation Establishment cultivator's momentary sprint, but it cannot be used for the work of accumulation."

Only ninth-level Foundation Establishment cultivators are most suitable for using this spiritual land for cultivation.

Not only can they sprint toward the Great Perfection realm, but they can also adapt in advance to the authentic third-tier spiritual land environment needed when breaking through to the Core Formation stage.

And like him, Luo Chen, using a weak third-tier spiritual land at the fifth and seventh levels of Foundation Establishment.

Lacking the long-term, steady effort, even if his physique could endure the scouring of spiritual energy, and even if his spiritual sense foundation did not show fatigue.

But the cultivation progress being too fast would bring about impatience in his temperament.

Temperament has nothing to do with the foundation of spiritual sense or the strength of will; it only looks at how you view common things.

Yet, Luo Chen's cultivation time was too short.

And along this path, he considered his journey difficult, yet it was also smooth sailing.

Although there were many strong enemies, they were just souls under his sword.

No matter how difficult the adversity, holding onto an unyielding heart, he could always overcome it.

Only, being too smooth makes people get carried away.

His realm kept soaring, strong enemies in his hands fell one after another, even Di Wanyun died at his hands, and Qin Tairan could do nothing to him outside of Danxia.

With many things accumulated, unknowingly, Luo Chen's temperament "floated."

Therefore.

When the Yan Alliance was slaughtered and suddenly fell into decline, he realized it was a rare opportunity, and then he wanted to seize this opportunity with all his might.

Even if there were people around to advise him, even if there were many obstacles ahead.

But under the blessing of the third-tier cave dwelling of Haoranzi on Mount Tianlan, Luo Chen, whose realm was soaring, still ignored everything.

He felt that he could do it!

He could achieve it!

In the end, he did indeed achieve it.

But thinking back on those things in the process, he couldn't help but break into a cold sweat.

With the strength of one person, wandering around and stirring the heartstrings of major sects, it can be called reckless.

With a Foundation Establishment realm, personally going to the immortal city under the Yan Alliance, it was simply walking into the tiger's den.

In the battle of Burning Incense Valley, crossing a major realm to shake Qin Tairan head-on was even more reckless.

All these things, which one was not a child holding a big sword, seeking his own death?

This style of conduct, although it had some of Luo Chen's past general style.

It truly exceeded it by too much!

Luo Chen's style of conduct was cautious with a touch of boldness, steady yet not lacking in decisiveness.

How could it be like this, where there was only a touch of caution in the boldness, and no steady style in the decisiveness.

Only, rushing forward headlong!

If it succeeded, it was fine; if it didn't, he would just say, "At worst, I'll just scatter."

But!

How could others easily let you scatter!

Looking back at this operation, Luo Chen felt his mouth go dry.

A flash of realization appeared in his heart.

"It must have been a demonic obstacle!"

In cultivation, there is a kind of tribulation called "inner demons."

This tribulation is traceless, formless, and qualityless, but for thousands of years, countless cultivators have died under it.

No one can clearly say what an inner demon is.

But over such a long time, some scale has been summarized.

Obsession, demonic obstacles, getting lost, confusion, distress...

Many negative emotions linger on a Dao heart, and unknowingly, it will make people produce an "inner demon tribulation."

This time, Luo Chen fell into a demonic obstacle.

Because of the too-fast cultivation speed, because of the smooth sailing along the way, but the frustration and hatred of being blocked at his door by Qin Tairan, he unknowingly became obsessed.

Especially the second time he cultivated in the weak third-tier spiritual land.

Watching his realm constantly improve, the heart of revenge became stronger and stronger.

Finally, it prompted him to take that step.

Fortunately, it was successful, and there were no mistakes along the way.

Otherwise, even if he had ten thousand lives, he would have died in Burning Incense Valley.

That Qin Tairan was not so easy to provoke.

At that time, the opponent was one against two and did not fall behind.

In order to kill himself, he forcibly took two moves from a cultivator of the same rank and was seriously injured.

Later, he suffered a strike from the Lightning Immortal Bead and was nearly killed.

Even in this situation, Luo Chen almost didn't take down the opponent.

The danger in this, thinking back now, is another heart-pounding moment.

"And, this time, did I only take these risks?"

Luo Chen stroked his gray-white hair, showing a bitter look.

Tian Xingzi brought a lot of information back then! A lot!

Small to the number of Yan Alliance cultivators, large to the general situation of the formation and earth veins, etc.

Relying on this information, he could safely and boldly attack the sect gate.

And among this information, there was one that was very special!

It came from the Falling Cloud Sect Supreme Elder—True Person Han Zhan!

The other party seemed to have determined that it was he who saved his grandson, Han Zheng.

Therefore, the information given specially was not for exchanging the hundred-year Lightning Essence, but to repay his life-saving grace for Han Zheng.

And that information was exactly related to the Wither-Bloom strange fire that the Yan Alliance had inherited for three hundred years.

True Person Han Zhan stated directly that the Wither-Bloom strange fire had reached the third-tier level after three hundred years of cultivation by the Yan Alliance.

Only those whose physique also reached the third tier could forcibly absorb it.

Luo Chen just happened to meet this condition.

Plus, he was an alchemist, so he naturally wanted to possess his own origin true fire, a proper "true fire"!

It must be said that True Person Han Zhan's gift scratched Luo Chen's itch.

Therefore, he began to arrange to plot for this fire at that time.

Min Longyu, who was not in the plan to attack the Yan Alliance, was specially transferred over by him.

Just to let the other party sneak into Burning Incense Valley during the chaos and use his formation ability to find the Wither-Bloom Fire.

According to the information guidance, Min Longyu did indeed find it and set up the corresponding formation in advance.

That is why Luo Chen borrowed the momentum to go to the cave during the battle.

How to absorb fire into the body was not a difficult task for Luo Chen.

Because many years ago.

In order to refine elixirs, he had specifically studied the techniques and secret arts in this area.

It was nothing more than the four stages of fire control, fire fusion, fire absorption, and fire transformation.

He used the Flame Manipulation Technique to perfect the fire control stage.

Then, with the Duan family's fire fusion secret technique and a method of one-breath fire communication, he mastered the fire fusion stage and gradually perfected it through years of alchemy.

He had also dabbled in things related to fire absorption.

Whether it was the "Flame Sun True Scripture" in Huo Hu's legacy or the second-tier fire-type cultivation technique "Cyan Sun Technique" he obtained.

Both had corresponding secret arts to contain source-less fire in the body and achieve origin true fire.

However, although source-less fire is not rare, it is not something that ordinary Foundation Establishment True Cultivators can touch at will.

Yan Alliance disciples also mostly only contained a small amount of Wither-Bloom Fire in their bodies and then used their life-bound spiritual power to nourish it separately.

And not many people did this.

It really affected the progress of cultivation.

And for the Yan Alliance Jin Dan cultivators, compared to the combat power improvement brought by swallowing Wither-Bloom Fire, it was far less fast than using this fire to mass-produce magic tools to collect wealth and resources.

After all, this source-less fire belonged to the Yan Alliance, not to any single individual.

Therefore, this strange fire was preserved.

In the end, it was cheap for Luo Chen.

"How is it cheap!"

Luo Chen sighed long.

He never expected that after this fire was contained in the body, it was not at the third-tier level at all!

But rather at the beginning of the fourth tier.

And it was clearly in that strange stage of just entering the fourth tier, not yet stable, and not even having had time to give birth to spiritual intelligence.

Thinking about it now.

Fei Ming's breaking of the Fire Burning Great Formation was so easy.

It should be related to the transformation of this inherited strange fire.

At that time, someone should have been using the Fire Burning Great Formation to take the opportunity to promote the Wither-Bloom Fire to a higher grade.

Just like when Min Longyu used the Nine-Turn Flame Dragon Great Formation to help Luo Chen refine the Profound Fire Sword.

The fourth-tier Wither-Bloom Fire, although it had not yet given birth to spiritual intelligence, had strict conditions for recognizing a master.

First, it was the strong body initially proposed by Han Zhan.

Only a sufficiently strong body could contain the source-less fire and turn it into origin true fire.

Second!

It was the characteristic that came with the Wither-Bloom Fire, one wither and one bloom.

To use this fire to achieve prosperity, one must supply corresponding vitality.

And those whose vitality was extracted would naturally fall into the "wither" side.

This was still the condition after advancement.

If it hadn't advanced, it would be completely uncontrollable and would only extract more.

In these three years of refining, Luo Chen increasingly understood the characteristics of this fire and gradually knew why no one among the Yan Alliance Jin Dan had ever tried to refine this fire, and no one outside coveted it.

Refining it would cause vitality to be swallowed and lifespan to be reduced.

And not refining it, but using the Burning Incense Spirit-Seizing Great Formation, could plunder the vitality of other creatures and integrate it into this fire. Not only could it improve the grade and quality, but it could also use a part of the vitality converted from it to supply some Jin Dan cultivators with insufficient lifespan, allowing them to linger on.

And this was the reason why the Yan Alliance could suddenly erupt with the foundation of more than a dozen Jin Dan cultivators.

Of course!

This method also had huge drawbacks.

That is, cultivators who rely on this fire to extend their lives cannot walk around at will, and once they die, they will contribute their essence to the Wither-Bloom Fire.

Now.

Luo Chen, relying on his strong body and the extreme environment of the external Ice Prison, spent three years forcibly refining the Wither-Bloom Fire.

Thereby possessing an origin true fire that belonged solely to him.

The price was that he had half of his vitality swallowed by this fire!

In the system, in the lifespan column, it should have been 【57/260】, but now it has become 【57/160】.

In other words, the two hundred years of lifespan he originally had left.

Was forcibly swallowed by half.

One hundred years!

"I really don't know if the gift Han Zhan gave me was a big gift or a poison."

"But unfortunately, at that time, I was in a demonic obstacle, thinking everything was under control, and forcibly swallowed this poison."

A very complex expression hung on Luo Chen's face.

Like crying and laughing, bitter yet sweet, gratified yet with a touch of melancholy.

Even the old-school actors and film emperors he had seen in his previous life would probably not be able to interpret such an expression.

The lifespan he had worked so hard to improve after many years of bitter cultivation!

Now that most of it is lost in one day, who wouldn't feel heartache?

If it were an ordinary cultivator, they would probably have a broken Dao heart by now and find it difficult to accept this reality.

Only Luo Chen!

With a firm will and having just broken through the demonic obstacle, his temperament was clear, and he did not indulge too much in pain.

He calculated very clearly that with his current cultivation speed, even without the assistance of a third-tier spiritual land, he could complete the cultivation progress of the Foundation Establishment stage within a hundred years.

Once the core is formed and the realm breaks through, the lifespan will also soar again!

Besides!

In the Foundation Establishment realm, he is a bit different from others.

The upper limit of lifespan is not a fixed range for the race.

But will increase slightly as his small realm advances.

It seems like there is only a hundred years of lifespan, but there are still two small realms of the eighth and ninth levels, which can provide him with ten or twenty years of lifespan.

"If there are no accidents, time is actually quite abundant."

Luo Chen got up, washed his body, and changed into clean and refreshing clothes.

Then he gathered his gray-white long hair behind him and fixed it with a Dao hairpin.

After some tidying up, the handsome and elegant Luo Chen returned again.

Under his extraordinary demeanor, compared to the past, there was a bit more calmness and steadiness.

That gray-white long hair gave his young face a touch of vicissitudes.

Combined with his deep black eyes, anyone who saw him would call him good-looking.

Luo Chen tidied himself up like this, naturally not for the sake of looking good.

But because he knew that a guest would visit soon.

Doing this was just out of respect for others.

After tidying up his demeanor, an object appeared in Luo Chen's hand.

That was a jade thumb ring.

It looked like a thumb ring, but it was actually a storage magic treasure.

And this was also the second harvest he got in the battle to destroy the Yan Alliance, besides the Wither-Bloom Fire.

Qin Tairan's legacy.

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