Immortality begin with Alchemy Grandmaster Chapter 2606 - 960: Youli Divine Monarch, Why Not Show Yourself?

It was difficult to discern whether the astonishing sight lay beyond the portal or was part of the Death Gate itself.

In the midst of this startling vision, Luo Chen slowly shut his eyes.

"This Death Gate isn't straightforward!"

That much was clear; a portal capable of evolving into a Spiritual Treasure was bound to be intricate.

Yet Luo Chen intended to attempt it!

Not merely to settle the debt for the "Hundred Poison Body Refining Technique," but also to test his current Body Refinement Stage.

Still, there was no need to hurry right now!

Luo Chen shut his eyes and started regulating his bodily state.

The initial step involved directing the Hundred Poison King Gu to retract the poisons dispersed through his frame, preventing the constant agony from hindering his strike.

Following that, Origin Force flowed across his entire body, steadily raising his condition to its maximum.

Moments slipped away gradually.

One day, two days...

After three full days elapsed, as impatience began to stir among the group, the formation hiding Luo Chen's figure abruptly vanished.

Master Li Tian's gaze sharpened with excitement, and he quickly soared closer.

"Are you prepared?"

Luo Chen positioned himself before the bronze portal and gave a subtle nod.

Then, before the assembled onlookers, he breathed out deeply and extended his palm with deliberate slowness.

He had unlocked the replica Gate of Life and Death in precisely this fashion before.

The spectators brimmed with eager anticipation!

But upon contact with his skin, the bronze gate stayed utterly still.

"Is Qitian insufficient?" Master Li Tian creased his brow.

Luo Chen showed no astonishment at this. Without hesitation, he reached out with his other hand.

As both palms pressed forward, the door started to quiver faintly.

Right then, the lifeless skull carvings, which had shrugged off the party's assaults, sprang to life, biting ferociously at Luo Chen's limbs.

Luo Chen's eyes narrowed sharply, yet he held his ground, letting the skulls drain a substantial portion of his vitality.

This outcome aligned with his prior assessments.

Absent the vitality supplied by the Life Gate, this Death Gate would siphon the essence from anyone attempting to pry it apart, replenishing its own reserves.

A typical Immortal Cultivator's frame lacked such abundant life force?

A single drain would likely reduce them to bones!

This explained the abundance of skull sculptures adorning the Death Gate; each represented an overconfident intruder who failed and ended up as an offering.

Merely the mightiest Body Refiners could endure the immense vitality drain required to force the portal ajar.

In truth, this served as the primary rationale for why only Body Refiners could rely on raw strength to shove this gate open.

"Not sufficient!"

"Nowhere near enough!"

Luo Chen's mind raced, and he bellowed, "All of you, fall back!"

Though confused, the group obeyed promptly.

In the instant that followed, a fearsome spectacle erupted.

Luo Chen's robes fluttered wildly, while his sinews swelled dramatically.

His form ballooned swiftly, resembling something pumped full of wind.

Ten feet, twenty...

Only when a colossal titan, towering to the heavens and beyond reach, materialized did the observers grasp the transformation.

"A Class Demon Change?"

"Perhaps the Buddhist Vajra Wrath Form, or the Taoist Giant Spirit Transformation?"

In a haze, an enormous silhouette nearing a thousand feet in height dominated the landscape.

Its legs anchored profoundly into the Earth Vein, mist swirled around its torso, and a savage Yaksha visage bellowed at the firmament.

Horizontal thrusts from its mighty hands, parting gales and vapors, pressed against the bronze gate.

"Open for me!"

With that thunderous cry, overwhelming raw power exploded forth.

Though the skull sculptures on the Death Gate voraciously drew vitality from the behemoth, it remained utterly unaffected.

Beneath this sheer physical might, the bronze gate unleashed a dreadful howl.

The sound pierced the ears excruciatingly, stirring revulsion that set teeth on edge.

Yet Master Li Tian and his companions erupted in ecstatic delight, for the Death Gate was inching open!

From the far side of the Death Gate, successive bellows rang out in rapid succession.

Nevertheless, they were drowned out completely by the giant's booming thunder.

At the same instant!

Atop a peak shaped like a Unicorn, a pair of silhouettes observed the remote heavens with unrestrained joy.

Mists seethed, gales raged, the void quaked.

Peculiar undulations radiated outward like surging tides in every direction.

Zhan Bingtao expressed profound astonishment, "Have you actually forced open the Gate of Life and Death?"

The Songyang Alliance Leader felt a touch of surprise too; he had acted with haste, claiming the Golden Lion Empire and Unicorn Mountain in short order, but hadn't anticipated Master Li Tian's even swifter progress.

Still, with a partner present, he masked his deeper sentiments.

As though he had anticipated it all, the Songyang Alliance Leader declared, "We've fulfilled our duty; now it's your sect's turn."

Zhan Bingtao chuckled boisterously, "With a breach in the Gate of Life and Death, the remainder will be straightforward. This Southern Border Sacred Land holds a Spiritual Treasure yet squanders it on guarding the entrance rather than anchoring a region's Spirit Mechanism. Since the Spiritual Treasure is compromised, our only task is to apply a bit more pressure."

While saying this, he produced a Jade Jue, adopting a faintly deferential expression, "Disciple Zhan Bingtao humbly requests Liancheng Ancestor to act!"

Moments later, a soft voice emanated from the Jade Jue.

"Very well!"

The tone sounded remarkably youthful.

But following that lone "Very well," silence reigned once more.

The Songyang Alliance Leader felt baffled; was that all?

Nonetheless, an unsettling chill instinctively gripped his Divine Soul.

He jerked his head skyward.

High above, a swirling maelstrom formed.

The maelstrom whirled with ferocity, amassing vast streams of atmosphere, before gradually unfurling a massive palm.

The palm appeared strikingly lifelike, pale and crystalline as if belonging to a woman.

In that instant, however, it wielded a might capable of shattering the cosmos.

The energies of heaven and earth responded in unison.

Abruptly!

The enormous palm quivered, descending upon the Gate of Life and Death from afar across thousands of miles.

Boom!

The emptiness shuddered, compelling a spectral gateway to manifest.

Boundless vitality surged, yet at the pivotal moment, equilibrium shattered, as though a vital connection had snapped.

The youthful voice from the Jade Jue echoed again.

"Youli Divine Monarch, why hide yourself?"