Immortality begin with Alchemy Grandmaster Chapter 2538 - 932: Parting in Life and Death, Clouds Scatter as Rain Falls (2)

The empty void quivered, while the enormous primordial spirit formed by True Master Shenyuan lingered silently inside, seemingly channeling every ounce of its power to pull in Luo Chen’s divine soul.

However, the absorption didn't go off without a hitch.

Thanks to the shielding from the Prison Soul Suppression Technique, Luo Chen gained plenty of moments to respond.

On the flip side, a sudden rush of heaven and earth energy flooded in from all directions.

True Master Shenyuan's persistent obsession abruptly detected something wrong.

Controlling the heaven and earth energy across a ten-thousand-mile span had already pushed him to his breaking point; pushing beyond that could make him explode on the spot!

He tried to halt the process.

But regardless of his efforts to withdraw his divine perception, it refused to obey.

"Why is this occurring?"

"I've planned this phase over and over, anchoring with my primordial spirit and binding the divine souls of numerous cultivators like threads, ensuring I wouldn't wander astray during the fusion with heaven and earth, slowly merging all to forge a genuine primordial spirit and advance to the Divinity Transformation Realm."

"Yet why, right at this instant, can't I bring it to a stop?"

In a flash, his mind turned to Luo Chen, who had only just been engulfed!

"Get out of my body!"

With a furious bellow, waves of divine consciousness surged toward that misty white-robed silhouette.

Still, Luo Chen remained steadfast, like an unyielding stone against pounding waves, completely unshaken.

He gripped the seal gesture with unyielding force!

True Master Shenyuan abruptly recognized the seal as strangely familiar.

"It's that divine power!"

"In the clash within the Taihu Domain, he unleashed this very divine power!"

"No, wait, is it really?"

"Yes, it definitely is!"

His jumbled thoughts and mounting anxiety left True Master Shenyuan feeling increasingly frustrated, as a growing threat loomed deep in his divine soul.

He had no clue about the technique Luo Chen was employing now.

Nor could he discover any means to halt his foe.

Moments slipped by, and the unrest in the heaven and earth energy slowly extended across the whole Five Elements Realm.

A tremendous wave of heaven and earth Spirit Qi rushed inward, causing True Master Shenyuan’s primordial spirit to swell even more, resembling a colossal being that bridged the entire world.

That hollow primordial spirit, though, bloated up like a balloon stuffed with water, and just one notion revealed the dire result if it hit its breaking limit.

True Master Shenyuan now panicked wildly, pleading desperately for mercy.

"Luo Chen, please, just stop this!"

"Halt it now, I beg you!"

Inside the primordial spirit, Luo Chen at last lifted his gaze.

He brushed aside the enemy's desperate cries, concentrating entirely on his Withering Finger Technique!

That's right, it remained his own invented divine power!

That said, this version of the Withering Finger Technique differed from the standard one—he had flipped it around!

The typical Withering Finger Technique relies on Luo Chen’s magic power to channel the abundant vitality from the natural world, converting it into a withering death intent via the core essence of decay, targeted at enemies to shatter their magic items, rot their qi-blood, and even obliterate their divine souls. Cultivators bearing concealed injuries would struggle most against its effects.

But True Master Shenyuan in his present form lacked any physical body, and even his nascent soul had evolved into a primordial spirit tied to an entire realm, rendering it impossible for Luo Chen to trigger decay in that vast domain.

Therefore, he inverted the Withering Finger Technique!

It no longer aimed to spawn a death intent or force the foe's primordial spirit to diminish.

Quite the opposite—it fueled nonstop growth, aiding the intake of even greater amounts of heaven and earth energy.

Luo Chen perceived plainly that Shenyuan's condition right now strayed far from the proper state for a cultivator attempting divine transformation.

He barely managed to steady his thoughts; just fending off the intrusive remnants inside the primordial spirit drained nearly all his focus.

How could he spare any effort to fend off the merging with heaven and earth?

As expected!

When the heaven and earth energy surpassed Shenyuan’s ability to manage, the ever-ballooning primordial spirit slipped entirely from his grasp.

Amid this chaos, Luo Chen’s crimson eyes with golden irises had already foreseen the inevitable end.

His mouth parted faintly, murmuring in a gentle tone:

"Daoist Shenyuan, safe travels on your path!"

The instant after!

Boom!

Resembling a thunderclap's eruption, the gigantic primordial spirit, anchored to the heavens, abruptly crumbled.

Vast currents of yuan qi burst forth like untamed stallions breaking loose, flooding every corner of the Five Elements Realm.

A deluge of Spirit Qi rain cascaded from above!

The central figure, Shenyuan, had vanished completely long ago, without even a wisp of soul left behind.

The divine souls of those lesser cultivators also dissolved away in a blink.

In contrast, fragments from seven Nascent Soul True Masters hung on in the emptiness.

Qi Emei, Yao Hong, along with some unknown fellow male cultivators, still looked terrified and confused as they watched their souls melt into the downpour.

Old Ghost Mo Tian shot Luo Chen a glance full of mixed feelings, then gradually dissolved alongside the rain.

An elder Luo Chen vaguely recognized showed an expression of ease, turned to Luo Chen, and offered a slight bow.

"I’m Lin Mu, greetings, friend."

Luo Chen finally grasped the source of that familiarity—this was truly True Master Lin Mu, one of the five peak leaders from the Five Elements Divine Sect back in the day.

As the proverb says, no one strikes at a known ally, so Luo Chen reciprocated the gesture.

"I am Luo Chen, greetings, friend."

True Master Lin Mu grinned, "I know who you are; I've heard of you for ages. I never approved of my senior brother going after you, so when he gathered cultivators from Luo Tian Sect, I deliberately protected a few of your sect's disciples. Sadly, events reached this unavoidable end."

Was he angling for recognition?

Did he hope Luo Chen would help collect the lingering soul pieces due to his earlier favors toward Luo Tian Sect?

Luo Chen's brow furrowed, but he quickly saw it wasn't so.

True Master Lin Mu, filled with emotion, stared at the Five Elements Divine Sect's mountain gate amid the ceaseless rain, and even beyond to the wider Five Elements Realm.

Nearby, a female cultivator's fading soul spoke with Shenhuo, who lay collapsed on the ground.

"Qingchi Junior Sister, it's all destroyed, everything's lost!"

"Senior Brother, you gave it your all; we all witnessed it."