Chapter 464

As a premier Core Formation major sect in the Yuding Domain, the third-tier spiritual vein possessed by the Qingdan Valley is naturally of a high grade.

Overall, it is a large, high-grade third-tier spiritual vein.

With the five peaks as the main body, it covers the Inner Dan Valley and then gradually spreads to dozens of large and small mountain peaks outside the valley.

Such geographical conditions truly make many small sects envious.

But the Qingdan Valley itself is also bitter!

There are too many cultivators, and even if Foundation Establishment cultivators occasionally suffer casualties, their number has always been maintained at around a thousand.

If it were just this, it would be fine.

But the number of Core Formation True Persons in the Qingdan Valley is also large!

Previously, they could only divide five large, high-grade third-tier cave dwellings and ten low-grade third-tier cave dwellings.

With Danyangzi and Tao Wan successively forming their Cores, the number of cave dwellings became even more insufficient.

Often, they would send several Core Formation cultivators to cultivate in the man-made third-tier cave dwellings of those large immortal cities.

This is also the reason why the Qingdan Valley is doing well but still wants to participate in the opening war.

They also want to seize a third-tier spiritual vein in the new domain, regardless of size, at least as a branch of the sect.

However!

Even in this situation, the Qingdan Valley arranged a complete low-grade third-tier cave dwelling for Luo Chen's arrival.

Even third-tier elixirs were provided in several bottles to ensure his cultivation before refining the Nascent Soul Pill.

From this, one can see Qing Danzi's determination to refine the Nascent Soul Pill.

In the clean and brand-new third-tier cave dwelling.

Luo Chen sat cross-legged, his hands forming a strange magic seal, with different gestures on both sides.

As he cultivated, spiritual energy surged in the cave dwelling, vaguely dominated by cyan-green spiritual energy and fire-red spiritual energy.

"Burning Wood True Technique," a third-tier cultivation technique for both wood and fire.

At this moment, under Luo Chen's operation, it unscrupulously devoured the spiritual energy from the outside world.

Not only that, his spiritual sense, which is one level higher than spiritual sense, was also constantly stirring the surroundings, absorbing wood-fire dual-attribute spiritual energy more suitable for himself from the chaotic and mixed heaven and earth spiritual energy.

This cultivation session lasted for a full hour in the blink of an eye.

Suddenly.

Luo Chen opened his eyes, opened his mouth, and spat out a wisp of cyan smoke.

"After forming the Core, cultivation is indeed more cumbersome. Not only do I have to capture the free spiritual energy from the outside world, but I also have to purify it while letting my soul be stained with spiritual power to form magic power."

"But there are also benefits, that is, the efficiency of spiritual sense in transporting heaven and earth spiritual energy has increased by nearly ten times!"

Although he said so, there was no joyful expression on Luo Chen's face.

With a thought.

A transparent light screen that only he could see fell slowly like a waterfall and unfolded before him.

【Lifespan: 110/400】

【Spirit Root: Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth】

【Realm: Core Formation First Level 2/100, Ancient Third-tier 20/100】

【Technique: Burning Wood True Technique Proficient 201/300, Ten Thousand Paths Merging Perfect 428/500, Ten Thousand Beast Scripture 15/100】

【Spells: Third-tier: Locking Bead Curtain Great Perfection, Settling Wind and Waves Great Perfection, Innate One Qi Great Handprint Perfect 357/500, Mirror Flower Water Moon Proficient 291/300, Dust Element Technique Skilled 179/200, Severing Life Finger Introduction 15/100

Second-tier: Flower Fairy Perfect 413/500, Bewitching God Technique Grandmaster 627/1000, Grass-Cutting Geng Metal Sword Technique Perfect 360/500, Five Elements Returning to Organs Technique Great Perfection】

First-tier: Awe-Inspiring God Technique Great Perfection, Bone-Restoring Technique Great Perfection, Limb-Continuing Technique Introduction 15/100

Great Perfection Spells (Click to query details)】

【Alchemy: Scale-Turning Hand Perfect 400/500. Great Perfection Alchemy (Click to query details)】

【Martial Arts: Cloud-Exploring God Claw Grandmaster 590/1000, Blazing Fire Miasma Grandmaster 521/1000】

【Profession: Third-tier Alchemy Master, Second-tier Physician, First-tier Formation Master

Third-tier Elixir: Mingyuan Pill Introduction 6/100

Second-tier Elixir: Emperor Flowing Pulp Introduction 12/100

Great Perfection Elixir (Click to query details)】

【Achievement Points: 66】

This is the first time he has fully expanded his attribute panel after forming his Core.

Therefore, he looked at it extra carefully.

First is the lifespan aspect.

A hundred years to form the Core, ten years of retreat to stabilize the realm, now it is exactly one hundred and ten years old.

The achievements made at this age are considered outstanding in the entire cultivation world.

Perhaps only those so-called heavenly spirit root cultivators who reach Foundation Establishment in ten years, Core Formation in a hundred years, and Nascent Soul in two hundred years can compare.

And the lifespan limit has reached four hundred years.

One hundred years less than a regular Core Formation cultivator.

However, Luo Chen is not panicked. Since experiencing the lifespan changes during the Foundation Establishment period, he has known his situation.

Subsequent small realm improvements should also increase the lifespan limit.

It's just that he doesn't know if the increase is the same as during the Foundation Establishment period.

If it is the same, when he reaches the perfection of the Core Formation stage, it will be about five hundred years, the same as a normal Core Formation cultivator.

If more?

That would be an unexpected joy.

Compared to the lifespan aspect, Luo Chen is actually more concerned about the realm and technique.

Thanks to the previous perfection of the "Yimu Medicine King Scripture," when he switched to the wood-fire dual-cultivation "Burning Wood True Technique," it was also helpful.

Therefore, when he switched, he had fifty more proficiency points.

Ten years of retreat, continuous operation, made the "Burning Wood True Technique" reach a proficient level of proficiency.

This is a good thing!

The only flaw is the cultivation speed brought by this technique.

Since stepping into the first level of Core Formation, three months have passed.

A full three months, with the cooperation of third-tier spiritual land and a small amount of third-tier cultivation elixirs, he barely increased one progress point.

【Core Formation First Level 2/100】

"Dual-system cultivation, incomplete technique, five-spirit-root aptitude, it ultimately has a great impact on my cultivation speed!"

"If I want to cultivate to the second level of Core Formation, it will take about thirty years."

"Although I don't know the difference in spiritual power between each level of the Core Formation stage, based on my past experience and exchanges with Qu Xibai, the fifth Qi, and others, if I want to cultivate to the perfection of the Core Formation stage, under the current conditions, it will take about... two thousand years!"

Thirty years for a small realm, two thousand years for nine major realms.

It looks very outrageous.

But cultivation is like this, the later it gets, the harder it is, especially when breaking through major realms.

Luo Chen knows his own situation. He was able to cultivate so fast during the Foundation Establishment period because he improved his resource environment time and time again.

Even so, he finally stepped into the Core Formation stage by luck with full preparation.

By comparison, Luo Chen actually cares more about the familiar number of two thousand years.

He judged the time needed for Core Formation when he first entered the Foundation Establishment period.

This time, it's about the same.

The amount is also huge!

But Luo Chen is no longer as lost and hesitant as he was back then.

He knows that there are many ways to improve his cultivation speed. As long as there is a direction and enough action, nothing is difficult in the world!

In fact, Luo Chen is quite happy.

Because comparing with the cultivation speed of heavenly spirit root cultivators, his five-spirit-root aptitude is twenty times slower!

Then the time needed for Nascent Soul formation should be at least four thousand years, but this time he shortened it by half for no reason.

As for the reason...

"I think it has to do with the solid foundation I laid during the Foundation Establishment period."

"Third-tier physique, all meridians connected, all acupuncture points opened, forming the Core with the supreme method... all kinds of things, which shortened the fundamental gap between me and the heaven's favorites."

"If I continue to consolidate my foundation during the Core Formation stage, maybe after achieving the Nascent Soul stage in the future, compared to that heavenly spirit root... haha, I'm thinking too much."

Luo Chen suddenly thought of a rumor in the cultivation world.

That heavenly spirit root cultivators have no advantage after reaching the Nascent Soul stage.

The time needed to achieve Soul Transformation doesn't have much of a gap with cultivators of other aptitudes.

That is to say, if he relies on five-spirit-root aptitude to form the Nascent Soul, after reaching the Nascent Soul stage, there will be no gap in aptitude.

From this guess.

Perhaps the real starting point of five-spirit-root aptitude is the Nascent Soul stage?

The abrupt guess interrupted Luo Chen's thoughts.

After a while, he shook his head.

"Thinking too far."

"Not to mention the Nascent Soul stage, I haven't even met the so-called current conditions."

The condition for forming the Nascent Soul in two thousand years is to have at least a low-grade third-tier spiritual land and a stable supply of low-grade third-tier elixirs.

This is the most basic condition.

But Luo Chen hasn't done these two points yet.

The third-tier cave dwelling under his butt is temporarily provided to him by the Qingdan Valley.

Third-tier elixirs, he is currently using the congratulatory gifts from the guests during the Core Formation Ceremony, as well as the Dragon-Transforming Pills recently provided by the Qingdan Valley.

So, the road is long and the journey is far!

He sighed.

Luo Chen continued to browse the attribute panel.

Thanks to the revision of "Ten Thousand Paths Merging," he can use the Withered Glory Fire to refine his body, and the ancient third-tier physique that has been shackled for many years has finally begun to slowly improve its progress.

Currently, it has reached 【Ancient Third-tier 20/100】, only improving by five progress points.

The speed is very slow, but this is all he can do for now.

It is really painful to use the Withered Glory Fire to refine the body.

Being burned and refined by the fourth-tier strange fire all the time, that kind of pain is not something an ordinary person can bear.

If it weren't for Luo Chen's willpower being incomparably powerful after being hammered time and time again, he wouldn't be able to bear that kind of pain himself.

Even so, he made many mistakes because he was not skilled enough, causing his body to be frequently injured.

If he hadn't cultivated several medical techniques, his body would have been covered in scars and crumbling long ago.

Thanks to constantly performing medical techniques to treat himself, over those ten years, he successively cultivated the Five Elements Returning to Organs Technique and the Bone-Restoring Technique to Great Perfection.

This can be considered finding joy in hardship!

"According to the realm of the ancient body-refining method I set, as long as I complete nine blood changes and reshape my muscles and bones, I can step into the fourth tier."

"The second blood change is coming soon!"

Luo Chen can feel the powerful power contained in his blood, like mercury, surging like a great river.

This is just the realm of one blood change.

After browsing the realm and technique, Luo Chen had an accurate concept of his current situation.

As for the spells, they are nothing to talk about.

Most of the decades of retreat were spent cultivating and creating techniques, and he didn't cultivate spells much.

Only the Innate One Qi Great Handprint technique, he dabbled in it from time to time.

Therefore, he brushed its proficiency to the perfect level.

Relying on this attainment, he lightly defeated Hong Ling during the Core Formation Ceremony, drawing the admiration of Jin Buque of the Five Elements God Sect.

In addition, thanks to the success of one Core Formation, he raised "Locking Bead Curtain" and "Settling Wind and Waves" to the Great Perfection level.

As for the "Dust Element Technique" he created, after the success of Core Formation, the proficiency was directly introduced.

Subsequent ten years of retreat, when operating the natal technique, this Core Formation secret technique was also operating at the same time, so the proficiency was passively improved.

Perhaps in the future, when it reaches Great Perfection, Luo Chen will have a new understanding of this Core Formation secret technique he created?

Luo Chen imagined it for a while, smiled lightly, and his gaze slid down.

Finally, he paused slightly in the profession column.

In addition to the third-tier alchemy master and second-tier physician, a new profession appeared—formation master.

Although it is first-tier, it shows that he has truly entered the path of formations.

"This should be related to my study of restrictions and laying an incomparably solid foundation in the path of formations."

"With my current foundation in the path of formations, as long as I have the corresponding low-level formations and materials, I can set them up."

"The missing part might be proficiency and some details in controlling the operation of the formation."

Regarding these shortcomings, Luo Chen didn't intend to improve them for the time being.

First of all, there is no time, and secondly, there might not be that talent.

Finally!

The current help of formations to him is only in the refining of natal magic treasures.

The demand in this area is really not great.

"Sixty-six achievement points, another new high!"

Luo Chen muttered, putting away the attribute panel.

This inventory of the attribute panel, generally speaking, is mixed with joy and worry!

There are gains, but the exposed shortcomings are obviously more.

Regarding the current situation, he has a deeper understanding, and at the same time, he has a clear understanding of what to do in the future.

Third-tier spiritual vein, third-tier cultivation elixir, natal magic treasure.

Just these three things!

Nothing else!

However, those are things to do in the future.

For now, he still has to fulfill his promise and refine the Nascent Soul Pill for the Qingdan Valley.

Just yesterday, he had already chatted with Qing Danzi.

Regarding the Nascent Soul Pill formula, the other party is willing to give it to him, but not now.

Only after he reaches the late stage of Core Formation will Qing Danzi give him a rubbed version.

In Qing Danzi's words: "An innocent man is guilty of his own treasure; giving it to you now is a disaster, not a blessing!"

Regarding this, Luo Chen could not refute.

After all, the warning from the Qingdan Valley is right beside him.

The Yuding Sword Sect came to the door just based on some hearsay.

If it weren't for the fact that the Sword Sect's goal was only to destroy the pattern of the five peaks covering the valley, that battle would have been a river of blood, just like the Yan Alliance.

The Qingdan Valley almost couldn't keep the formula, and he, Luo Chen, is now only in the early stage of Core Formation. If a little bit of news leaks out, he will bring about a fatal disaster.

Therefore, Luo Chen also agreed to this condition.

"However, although I can't get the Nascent Soul Pill formula, I can complete another thing on this trip."

Luo Chen's eyes flashed, and he had a plan in his heart.

After dawn.

Luo Chen, who had finished one cultivation session of "Burning Wood True Technique" and "Ten Thousand Paths Merging," left the cave dwelling.

Driving the light, he came to the Taidan Academy of Danyang Peak.

As soon as he landed, a Foundation Establishment alchemy master greeted him.

"Senior Dan Chenzi, please this way!"

"Hmm, you lead the way!"

Luo Chen nodded. He knew that his arrival could not be hidden from the local host.

Moving forward, Luo Chen's gaze also cast from time to time on the busy cultivators in the Taidan Academy.

Almost all those who can enter the Taidan Academy are alchemy masters who have achieved Foundation Establishment!

And most of them are older.

For the profession of alchemist, old age is not a disadvantage, but an advantage, which means that their involvement in the Dao of alchemy has reached a very high attainment.

As he observed, the number of people in the Taidan Academy was at least fifty!

This means that the Qingdan Valley possesses at least fifty experienced second-tier alchemy masters!

This doesn't even count the ordinary alchemy masters scattered inside and outside the sect.

"Just one Qingdan Valley has so many alchemy masters, I don't know what kind of rich talent foundation the Medicine King Sect, which dominates a domain, will have?"

"By comparison, my Luo Tian Sect, including me, only has three second-tier alchemy masters."

"This gap can no longer be made up by resources; it requires at least a thousand years of inheritance to make up."

Luo Chen sighed secretly in his heart.

The more second-tier alchemy masters, the more elixirs produced, and naturally the more spirit stones earned.

The Qingdan Valley also relies on this resource to cultivate nearly a thousand Foundation Establishment True Persons.

If it were placed in the present.

This batch of experienced second-tier alchemy masters can assist Qing Danzi and the other six in processing a large batch of low-level materials needed for the Nascent Soul Pill.

"They have been planning for a long time, and now I have come."

"I think the refining of the Nascent Soul Pill will be in the near future!"

Luo Chen thought to himself.

Suddenly, he felt something and noticed a gaze watching him.

His gaze shifted, and he saw a pair of eyes with complex meanings.

The person noticed Luo Chen's attention and immediately lowered his head.

"Is it him?"

Luo Chen frowned.

The one who secretly looked at him just now was none other than Xuan Yunzi He Yun, with whom he had some dealings.

During the Foundation Establishment period, Luo Chen noticed that something was wrong with Xuan Yunzi.

The spiritual sense aura on the other party was unstable, and there was a faint situation of vitality and death qi flowing.

Now that he is in the Core Formation stage, Luo Chen scanned with his spiritual sense and was even more certain of his guess back then.

Xuan Yunzi is a person who has been possessed!

And it is very likely that he is the old outer sect cultivator of the Medicine King Sect who died in the Yuanzhao Kingdom back then, and also the source of Luo Chen's predecessor's opportunity to embark on the immortal path.

"Even I could notice it with my insight, there is no reason why so many Core Formation cultivators in the Qingdan Valley couldn't see it!"

"But they ignored it and recruited him into the Taidan Academy. Why is that?"

Doubt arose spontaneously.

Luo Chen took a deep look at Xuan Yunzi, who was busy with his head down, and did not pursue it too much.

He is under someone else's roof, and it has nothing to do with him.

Soon, Luo Chen entered the depths of the Taidan Academy.

In the hall.

As far as the eye could see, five light cyan Liuli Cauldrons were placed there.

Four of them already had owners.

The extra one was prepared for Luo Chen.

"Fellow Daoist is here!"

Qing Danzi walked out of the hall with his hands behind his back.

Clearly a young body, but with an old and frail temperament.

Combined with the other party's five hundred years of cultivation age, it is natural to have this temperament.

Luo Chen nodded, his gaze falling on that Liuli Cauldron.

"Start now?"

Qing Danzi gave a hum and said with some expectation: "Qingtian Liuli Cauldron, one divided into thirty-six. When refining the Nascent Soul Pill, I will control the main cauldron, and you will control the five major sub-cauldrons. There are also thirty second-tier alchemy masters with superb alchemy skills who will each control a small cauldron. By building the fourth-tier Qingdan Formation, we can refine the fourth-tier Nascent Soul Pill across levels."

This is Qing Danzi's plan!

It is not a fantasy.

In the history of the Qingdan Valley, there have indeed been experiences of successfully refining fourth-tier elixirs of this kind.

The details are numerous and are definitely not something one person can complete.

And in the control of the main cauldron and the five sub-cauldrons, the requirements are extremely high.

One must be a third-tier alchemy master and also master a source true fire!

Luo Chen just happens to meet this condition.

"I have already released the restriction on the sub-cauldron. Dan Chenzi, you can refine the sub-cauldron first and establish a connection with it."

"Afterwards, I will give you the medicine materials you are responsible for, and practice processing them a few times first, just in case."

Luo Chen gave a hum.

He immediately sat down in front of the sub-cauldron that belonged to him.

Spiritual sense radiated, following the formation on it, constantly staining it.

Magic power surged, completely wrapping this sub-cauldron that reached the level of a low-grade magic treasure.

This is the conventional method for refining magic treasures.

It's just that because the main cauldron is with Qing Danzi, it cannot be put into the sea of qi for refining and can only be refined slowly outside.

Qing Danzi observed from the side, his brows gradually wrinkling.

Suddenly.

He spoke to interrupt Luo Chen's refining.

"What's wrong?" Luo Chen stopped his movements and looked at him puzzled.

Qing Danzi shook his head, "Too slow, your refining method is too slow."

Luo Chen was stunned.

Isn't the conventional refining of magic treasures like this?

Qing Danzi smacked his lips, his lips moved, and golden words of wisdom were transmitted into Luo Chen's mind.

Luo Chen raised his brows.

There is such a secret technique?

What Qing Danzi just transmitted to him was a secret technique for using source true fire to accelerate the refining of magic treasures!

With this technique, the speed at which a cultivator refines a magic treasure is enough to double!

"Try it!" Qing Danzi said.

Luo Chen took a deep breath, and a vigorous cyan flame spat out from his mouth, slowly wrapping the sub-cauldron.

Gradually, this sub-cauldron established a faint connection with him, and it became deeper and deeper.

"Eh!"

"Qing Danzi didn't lie to me, it really is twice the result with half the effort!"

"If I have a natal magic treasure in the future, can I also rely on this technique to use natal true fire to nurture the natal magic treasure?"

"If it really works, I don't know how much cultivation time it will save!"

Seeing Luo Chen's thoughtful look, Qing Danzi shook his head and didn't say anything.

If you don't give up the child, you can't catch the wolf.

The deadline is approaching, and he can't wait any longer.

Taking advantage of the opening war, when everyone's attention is not on the Qingdan Valley, refine the Nascent Soul Pill.

By then, he will hold the Nascent Soul Pill and seek a fourth-tier spiritual land to form the Nascent Soul.

As long as he achieves the Nascent Soul, his current lifespan trouble and the Qingdan Valley's predicament can be solved!

Even, he can expand the opening war and take advantage of the situation to fight for a domain for the Qingdan Valley.

Success or failure depends on this one move.

It's just a magic treasure refining technique, it doesn't matter if it benefits Luo Chen.

After several days of refining, Luo Chen stopped his movements with a tired expression.

It had reached one or two percent of the refining degree, and it would be about the same after ten more times.

Like him, there was also Qingyunzi, who was at the third level of Core Formation.

The two looked at each other, and a look of surprise appeared on Qingyunzi's face.

Although he only had the third level of Core Formation, he had cultivated a superficial soul technique, and now his soul foundation was at least at the mid-stage of Core Formation.

Luo Chen actually persisted for the same amount of time as him.

Doesn't this mean that Luo Chen's soul foundation is not weaker than his?

You know, Luo Chen himself is only at the first level of Core Formation.

He was surprised, but he didn't know that Danyangzi, who had already finished his work opposite, was even more shocked.

Counting it up, Danyangzi had formed his Core decades earlier than Luo Chen, but he didn't persist as long as Luo Chen.

This means that whether it is soul foundation or magic power strength, he is not as good as this contemporary.

The Supreme Elder Qing Danzi, who had been watching the situation in the hall, didn't care much about this.

The stronger Luo Chen is, the greater the help to his refining of the Nascent Soul Pill.

"Go back and rest for a few days first!"

"Continue later."

Luo Chen nodded, stood up, but did not leave directly.

Instead, he called out to Danyangzi.

"Fellow Daoist, shall we chat?"

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