Immortality begin with Alchemy Grandmaster Chapter 2640 - 974

Time slipped away quietly.

Perched upon Soulbreak Cliff, a desolate expanse devoid of life and lacking any trace of Spirit Qi, Luo Chen kept a tally of the days.

He successfully separated his Seventh Soul in the fifth year.

By the sixth year, after centuries of grueling cultivation, he finally achieved the Completion Stage of the Soul Cleaving Technique. Curiously, he sensed an underlying imperfection in the perfected technique. Although the exact cause eluded him, he suspected a connection to the fragmented memories belonging to Han Zhan.

Luo Chen decided not to dwell on it.

He understood clearly that the system had flagged this technique as incomplete the moment he acquired it.

Owing to its advanced nature, mere proficiency gains were insufficient to bring it to fruition.

Completing it would require either a massive expenditure of Achievement Points or the discovery of specialized, auxiliary treasures that even Han Zhan had never encountered.

"My objective remains the Nine Great Divided Souls, crucial for shattering the limitations of the Divine Soul at the Nascent Soul Realm. For the time being, the Soul Cleaving Technique serves its purpose!"

As the seventh year dawned, Luo Chen immediately set his sights on splitting the Eighth Soul.

The essence of the Refining God method within the Soul Cleaving Technique relied on a transformation where quantity begets quality. Once the Main Soul could no longer be fortified, he had to rely on the collective strength of his numerous divided souls to bolster his overall progress.

Consequently, having more divided souls was clearly advantageous.

Han Zhan’s early achievement of the Nine Great Divided Souls served as proof of this theory.

Had Luo Chen not been preoccupied with earthly matters during his younger years, he likely would have reached that milestone long ago.

Regardless, it was not too late to catch up!

With a plentiful supply of soul stones at his disposal, he found the process even more efficient than he had anticipated.

If Han Zhan were alive to witness this relentless cultivation of the Soul Cleaving Technique, he would surely be consumed by envy.

That night.

The Main Soul had reached a state of perfect, rounded fullness, and the existing divided souls radiated vitality. Even the Seventh Soul, birthed only a year prior, had reached the Middle Stage Nascent Soul level thanks to the consistent nourishment of the soul stones.

It was time for the Eighth Soul.

Luo Chen focused his intent, summoning the Divine Sense Blade to initiate the severance of his Main Soul.

However, the routine procedure felt uncharacteristically labored that night.

An agonizing, oppressive sensation persisted for an eternity before finally receding.

Three days blurred by in a state of delirium.

Gaunt and mentally drained, Luo Chen gazed at the newly manifested Eighth Divided Soul within his Sea of Consciousness.

"How can this be?"

"The difficulty increases as I progress; this contradicts what the technique records."

"Is it possible that one must follow Han Zhan's path and divide all Nine Souls as early as possible?"

Luo Chen was baffled.

He hadn’t expected such a significant discrepancy, especially given that he had already brought the Soul Cleaving Technique to the Great Perfection Level, which should have simplified the process.

A bottleneck shouldn’t have manifested during the creation of the Eighth or Ninth Soul.

The mystery remained unsolved.

For now, Luo Chen could do nothing but inhale wisps of green smoke to recuperate from his profound exhaustion.

Suddenly!

Thud...

A muffled boom reverberated, escalating into a continuous tremor.

Although the sound was distant, it resonated deeply within his soul, compelling Luo Chen to abandon the Cave Mansion.

Looking out, he saw an expanse of sky where clouds boiled and roiled.

The Netherworld Sea surged outward with overwhelming momentum.

As the vista unfolded, an intuition struck Luo Chen.

"It is on the move again!"

The Netherworld Sea had remained uncharacteristically dormant for years.

Luo Chen had speculated that it was lurking near the Southern Border, hidden somewhere in the South Ocean.

This sudden upheaval mirrored the chaos he had experienced during his first encounter with the Netherworld Sea.

"Where is it drifting to now?"

Luo Chen murmured to himself.

His voice grew heavy as doubt clouded his thoughts.

Already pale from the spiritual exertion of splitting his Eighth Soul, his expression shifted to one of profound suspicion.

His gaze swept from the Soulbreak Cliff beneath his feet to the black-stoned beach, which appeared frozen in time, before looking out across the vast Netherworld Sea toward the horizon, his lips set in a firm, thin line.

"Could it be..."

A startling hypothesis ignited in his mind!

If Soulbreak Cliff and the vast Netherworld Sea were creations of a peak-tier Savage Beast, where did the endless supply of soul stones originate?

He once believed they were simply deposited by the tide, but later realized they came directly from the cliff itself.

Yet, despite the countless soul stones he had consumed over seven years, the cliff showed no erosion and the beach remained unyielding.

"Spontaneous existence? Impossible!"

"There must be an external mechanism for this supply."

Luo Chen synthesized the details of the Soulbreak Cliff Forbidden Area and reached a shocking conclusion.

If this entity were indeed a Savage Beast, its primary sustenance would be the souls of living beings!

It wasn't merely targeting individuals; it required the pervasive essence of life souls scattered across the world.

It drifted toward locations teeming with life, lingering to slowly harvest those souls and absorb them into the architecture of Soulbreak Cliff.

Within the Five Continents of the Mountain Sea World, the Beihai Territory was the largest, and with the Endless Demon Sea engulfed in constant warfare, the cliff had long remained hidden in the depths of the Demon Sea.

Following the collapse of the Yuan Mo Sect, the power struggles between the three Beihai overlords, and the later Human-Demon War—combined with the Daoist Sect’s incursion—the influx of dead souls had compelled Soulbreak Cliff to drift from the dark depths of the Demon Sea toward the territories of the Human Clan.

That was how their paths had originally crossed.

As for the presence of the cliff near the South Ocean, it was undoubtedly drawn by the cataclysmic conflict at the Gate of Life and Death.

When the Youli Divine Monarch ascended and quelled a million cultivators with a single stroke, the Southern Border was suffused with an unimaginable density of fresh souls that failed to dissipate.

Thus, Soulbreak Cliff had arrived.