Immortality begin with Alchemy Grandmaster Chapter 2511 - 923: Primordial Energy Ocean, Tribulation Gu Reappears

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Ghost cultivators flocked to the newly emerged Yanfu Mountain, drawn by rumors of the Ming Shui Spring Eye within the Netherworld Abyss, a treasure that could grant mastery over the perilous realm and supplant the Mingyuan Sect. Many ventured inside but failed to return, fueling whispers among the spectral hordes. In the Heavenly Dan Sanctuary, Luo Chen delegated the handling of Bai Meiling and captured offenders to Li Yingzhang, while outlining plans to explore the Mingyuan ruins for resources, establish a second sect base, and let ghost cultivators probe Yanfu Mountain as vanguards. Resuming his cultivation routine, Luo Chen refined organs with elixirs, enhanced his Red Eyes Golden Pupils, and mass-produced Fourth-Order Talismans, propelling his Fire Phoenix Scorches the Plain technique to Great Perfection after three years. During the infusion of external Spiritual Qi into a talisman, he discerned elusive Spirit Essence with his enhanced vision and began absorbing it into his Sea of Consciousness.

The cosmic spirit mechanism runs deep, turbulent, and enigmatic.

Thus, chasing the Great Dao proves arduous, plunging all living beings into turmoil.

Heaven must grant the unobstructed spirit mechanism, slicing through clouds and parting mists, before anyone can seize the profound essence!

The "spirit mechanism," present in every corner, proves incredibly tough to detect.

Even with Luo Chen's dual practice in magic and body, his forged red eyes and golden pupils that peek at spirit mechanism flows, plus the pill art "Refining Heaven Machine" from the Alchemy Saint, he still hasn't uncovered a method to draw the spirit mechanism inside for his cultivation.

All he grasps is that sudden enlightenment for a cultivator draws the spirit mechanism toward them, allowing breakthroughs past certain hurdles.

He's felt plenty of those enlightenment flashes himself, yet he often grasps the surface events without digging into the core causes, and fails to see why, in that mindset, every puzzle or snag unravels with ease.

Now, though, with the principles unlocked, even outside enlightenment, he snags faint clues.

The innate qi art "Tianhuang Nirvana Sutra" hums softly.

The Nascent Soul cracks open its eyes and jaws, hungrily gulping the spirit qi wafting across heaven and earth.

That odd red eyes and golden pupils trait shows up on the Nascent Soul too.

A pair of sharp eyes lock onto the boundless, roiling heaven and earth qi in the emptiness, where thin threads of spirit mechanism flicker just out of clear sight.

Not a huge quantity, nowhere near what the Alchemy Saint pulled in during his ascension.

But it's plenty sufficient!

The Alchemy Saint drew vast spirit mechanism amid heavenly radiance for his rise.

Luo Chen just aims to tap it for insights into the law's core!

Surprisingly, these spirit mechanisms linger just beyond, refusing to blend into Luo Chen's form.

The tiny Nascent Soul winks, then forms a daoist seal in a burst of insight.

The "Refining Heaven Machine" pill technique surges back to life.

Right then, Luo Chen views his own Nascent Soul like a pill, striving to forge the spirit mechanism right into himself!

In this mix of active pull and reluctant yield, the lingering spirit mechanism at last rides the swirling air currents, flowing into Luo Chen's body and getting wolfed down by the Nascent Soul in huge swallows.

Under these conditions, Luo Chen's thoughts grow ever clearer and sharper, piercing deeper than before.

His whole divine sense surges outward without restraint, bursting from his frame, slicing past the cave dwelling, stretching far into the void, probing the origins of heaven and earth qi.

The law's true intent boils down to nature's pure core.

The Hundred Arts of Immortal Cultivation carry Great Dao hints too, but stay limited in scope, yielding few derived law's true intents.

Still, the basics building this realm—birth and death, Yin and Yang, Five Elements, wind, and thunder—form a far vaster web.

Luckily, Luo Chen skips the deepest law's true intents this round; he targets just the most basic in the fire element law true intent—the Fire Origin!

And during this, if he dives back into the primal energy sea within the void, victory comes naturally.

Fu Qinglan grasped the Origin of Wood just like that once.

Luo Chen used the Prosperity and Decline True Fire to unlock the True Intent of Withering and Flourishing, and he'll do the same here.

The expansive divine sense pushes boldly into the void, steered by the spirit mechanism, climbing upstream, hunting sources and origins.

Every spot it sweeps—be it Elixir Mountain, Piaomiao Peak, War God Peak, or anywhere in Luo Tian Sect—mirrors fully in Luo Chen's divine sense.

He rushes past them, barely noting details.

Only dimly does he sense a cozy, vast sea nearby, warm as a mother's hold.

Right then, Luo Chen twists back in confusion, peering downward.

That twist scatters the spirit mechanism in a flash.

The primal energy sea, tantalizingly near, slams its gateway shut against him with a booming crash.

The huge divine sense snaps back, the Nascent Soul slips inside, and Luo Chen's eyes fly wide.

"Failed!"

Shock and fury twist across his features.

Not from the botched dive into the primal energy sea or the Fire Origin grasp.

He's no Deng Taiyue; one flop doesn't end his shots.

For a Luo Chen who's nailed the approach, another go, two, three—success waits at the end.

What sparks his shock and fury stems from something else!

Ignoring the Fourth-Order Talisman drifting softly down, Luo Chen leaps up, morphing into a scarlet streak of rainbow, streaking away.

In just a handful of breaths, Luo Chen reaches a scenic peak.

His dramatic exit alerted the mountain's folk, who now swarm out to greet him.

"Husband, what brings you here?"

Luo Chen spares no look for the flustered Sima Huiniang; a sweep of his broad sleeves bursts open a cave door.

He strides in, eyes snapping to the youth radiating thick spirit qi.

"Luo Lingxi!"

The youth, legs crossed in meditation, jolts his eyes open in alarm, paling at his first sight of Luo Chen.

"Father."

Luo Chen stays silent, just boring into the wisps of spirit qi cloaking the boy, and his Fourth Level Qi Refinement Stage realm!

Four years back, Luo Lingxi stood as a mere mortal, utterly uncultivated.

But in that short four-year stretch, he not only entered cultivation but vaulted to mid Qi Refinement.

Luo Chen wouldn't have spotted this shift without his divine sense, boosted by spirit mechanism, blanketing all of Luo Tian Sect.

Luo Lingxi's lips quiver, then he bows his head under Luo Chen's all-seeing stare.

"I was wrong, Father—punish me, please!"

Just then, Sima Huiniang rushes up, shielding Luo Lingxi behind her.

"It's not Luo Lingxi's fault—it's mine!"

"I chose to plant the Demonic Mind Gu on him and the sect's lower disciples."

"Husband, blame me if you must, punish me alone!"