Immortality Begins as an Alchemy Master 87

Chapter 87: The Death of a Foundation Establishment Cultivator

“What? You’re saying a Foundation Establishment Late Period grand cultivator died in our Great River City?”

Early in the morning, Luo Chen, just having stepped out, was startled by the discussion in the courtyard.

Qin Liangchen and his wife, Gu Caiyi, even Bai Meiling, and Feng Xia were all gathered together.

The topic of their heated discussion was, astonishingly, the death of a Foundation Establishment Late Period cultivator.

Bai Meiling chattered, “The body was discovered the day before yesterday. A Golden Elixir cultivator from the Ai Lao Mountain, using a soul tablet and a tracking artifact, retrieved it from the bottom of the Lancang River near Great River City.”

“It wasn’t suicide, it was murder!”

Obviously, which cultivator would be so disheartened as to commit suicide!

Luo Chen couldn’t help but ask, “Since it was murder, why didn’t the killer dispose of the body? Drowning the body is too crude a method. They could have used high-level True Fire to incinerate the corpse and eliminate any trace.”

“I guess the killer wanted to, but couldn’t!”

Bai Meiling tilted her head slightly and said.

“They killed the person, but couldn’t destroy the body?”

“That Foundation Establishment cultivator had a defensive artifact, supposedly obtained by his wife from a Golden Elixir elder.”

A defensive artifact!

Luo Chen’s eyelids twitched.

Then, he realized the atmosphere was somewhat off.

Why were Bai Meiling and Qin Liangchen doing all the talking, while Gu Caiyi wasn’t participating in the discussion?

Seeing Luo Chen looking over, Gu Caiyi’s expression was somewhat complex.

“Fei Baiwen did indeed have a peculiar defensive artifact, with a particularly strange function. It’s called the ‘Prison Cage’. Legend has it that when deployed, it transforms into a small immortal house, isolating all spiritual energy inside and out. Unless you have a Golden Elixir Late Period attack, the Prison Cage is unbreakable.”

“Of course, once the Prison Cage is deployed, the person inside can’t get out, and can only wait for rescue.”

Truly a peculiar artifact.

It defends against enemies, and also locks the user inside.

Murong Qinglian was very surprised, “Caiyi, you knew that Foundation Establishment Late Period cultivator?”

Gu Caiyi nodded lightly and pointed to a piece of gauze clothing on her body.

“This was a top-grade defensive artifact he gave me when he first arrived in Great River City and stayed at the Tianxiang Tower.”

A top-grade defensive artifact, casually given away?

That deceased Foundation Establishment Late Period cultivator was so generous!

For a moment, Murong Qinglian, Bai Meiling, and the others looked at Gu Caiyi with strange expressions.

Gu Caiyi didn’t explain. She wanted to return the artifact, but he refused to accept it.

He said that he didn’t have a habit of taking back things he’d given away; it was an insult to him!

“Fei Baiwen?”

Luo Chen repeated the name, subconsciously saying, “Isn’t that the foreman from Ai Lao Mountain?”

Foreman?

Gu Caiyi had long known the meaning of this term.

She rolled her eyes at Luo Chen and sighed, “It was indeed him, otherwise the Golden Elixir expert from Ai Lao Mountain wouldn’t have come looking for him personally. Because of this, the Ai Lao Mountain shop, Xian Zhu Ju, in Great River City has been closed for the past two days.”

Xian Zhu Ju closed?

Luo Chen suddenly understood. That’s why the Ai Lao Mountain cultivator who helped him build the alchemy chamber the day before yesterday didn’t even ask for the balance of his payment and left in such a hurry.

So something big happened to his family!

“He came to Great River City to repair his spiritual residence and help build a debate platform. Who would kill him? Who could kill him?” Luo Chen was incredibly curious and started to ponder the man’s background, “Regardless of his Foundation Establishment Late Period cultivation, just being the son-in-law of a Golden Elixir cultivator’s daughter should make him untouchable!”

Everyone was baffled. After chatting for a while, they dispersed.

After all, everyone still had work to do.

Before leaving, however, Murong Qinglian urged everyone to be careful when going out.

The murderer of Fei Baiwen might be an outsider cultivator, most likely still lurking in Great River City.

Everyone agreed, but didn’t take it too seriously.

Those people were dealing with big business, killing Foundation Establishment Late Period cultivators; they wouldn’t have time to target them, these small fries.

In Luo Chen’s words, it was like, “As long as I’m a piece of shit, no one will dare to step on me.”

This statement earned him a scolding from several female neighbors.

The alchemy chamber was nearing completion, and the number of helpers coming and going hadn’t decreased, but rather increased.

Luo Chen was no longer as leisurely as before and became busy.

“Luo Erduo, nephew of Luo Wu Di, Qi Refining Fourth Layer.”

“Yang Qi, son of Long Pan Hu Yang Wei, Qi Refining First Layer, only nine years old! Why is he sent to the alchemy hall?”

“Mi Li, granddaughter of Old Man Mi Shuhua? Qi Refining Fourth Layer, twenty-one years old. It seems her aptitude isn’t very good; otherwise, she would have been sent to a major sect long ago.”

One by one, faces – some childish, some hopeful, some doubtful, some arrogant – flashed through Luo Chen’s mind.

These were the people that the various hall masters had sent to his alchemy hall.

Luo Chen couldn’t refuse because this was the condition he had agreed to at the Hao Yue Hall meeting.

He would do his best to train their descendants in alchemy.

Of course, he would teach.

But whether he put his heart into it or not, was entirely up to him.

As for how many of these people would succeed? What kind of joke is this Cultivation World? He, Luo Chen, was still solidifying his alchemy foundation!

Holding the Hundred Herbs Compendium, Luo Chen glanced at the young people in the valley and couldn’t help but scoff.

These people were unreliable; he needed to cultivate a separate batch of “tools.”

In Slanted Moon Valley, a group of young people gathered together, bored, casually chatting.

Their words revealed their curiosity about Luo Chen, the master of the alchemy hall.

“He’s younger than me, yet he’s already become a hall master?”

The speaker was Luo Erduo, Luo Wu Di’s nephew.

His fierce aura showed that he had been through the mountains and seen demonic beast blood.

However, this experience meant little to the others.

Whose elders didn’t emerge from a bloody mountain life?

Tang Quan sneered, “Yes, you’re older than him. But your cultivation level isn’t as high as his. Besides fighting, what else do you have that can compare to him? In this world, you need skills!”

Tang Quan was a promising candidate recommended by Zeng Wen.

He had no familial relationship with Zeng Wen, purely the descendant of a deceased brother of Zeng Wen’s.

Knowing Zeng Wen and Luo Chen had a good relationship, he unconsciously leaned toward Luo Chen’s side.

Luo Erduo blushed, “Yes, you’re skilled. You probably learned a lot of… techniques from your sickly uncle!”

Tang Quan abruptly stood up!

“Little punk, say that again?”

“I’m not afraid of you!”

Seeing the two about to fight, the others were helpless.

Tang Quan wasn’t actually afraid of Luo Erduo. His father had died early, and his uncle, Zeng Wen, hadn’t looked after him much, so he often went into the mountains with the warriors of the War Hall to hunt demonic beasts.

In terms of cultivation level, the two were evenly matched.

“Everyone, stop it, please?”

Hearing these gentle words, Tang Quan and Luo Erduo could only exchange a few harsh words before stopping.

It was because the speaker was the granddaughter of the sect leader, Mi Shuhua, and her mother, Mi Junping, was also the hall master of the Merit Hall.

Mi Li, three spirit roots aptitude, Qi Refining Fourth Layer.

Her beautiful face was always pale and sickly.

She forced a smile, “Everyone who comes to the alchemy hall wants to learn alchemy from the hall master, so why make things so awkward?”

Some echoed her, some remained silent.

They also knew something about the alchemy hall from their elders.

Some valued it, some disdained it.

Therefore, the young people who came to the alchemy hall were of different backgrounds.

Some were genuinely sent to learn alchemy, while others were simply sent away to get them out of the way.

Mi Li sighed, feeling apprehensive.

In the Mi family, she wasn’t very important.

Her weak constitution had wasted many of her parents’ resources from birth, without any gain.

Now that the Mi family was prospering under Mi Shuhua’s leadership, with numerous talented individuals emerging, even one of her peers had a chance to join a sect.

Her status had plummeted.

Now her mother insisted on sending her to the alchemy hall, she didn’t know what her intentions were.

Was it to get rid of her, or did she hope she could actually learn something?

Just as she was feeling apprehensive, a companion beside her let out a cry.

She looked up and saw a yellowish-brown遁光 (遁光: escaping light, refers to a cultivator’s ability to fly using their spiritual energy) streak across the sky and quietly enter the depths of Slanted Moon Valley.

“It’s Grandpa!” Mi Li thought.

“Xiao Luo, how is that Jade Marrow Pill coming along?”

As soon as he landed, Mi Shuhua went straight to the point.

Luo Chen rolled his eyes, “You really believe me, Old Man? I only got it a few days ago! If it were that easy to refine, your Mi family would have been selling it long ago!”

Mi Shuhua chuckled awkwardly. He knew he was being too impatient.

But after a conversation with Wang Haichao last night, besides telling Gao Tingyuan not to bother Luo Chen again.

Another matter made him anxious.

That is, if the Broken Mountain Sect alchemy hall could really produce good elixirs, the Great River Gang would also get involved.

Then, using the Great River Gang’s channels, their elixirs could be sold to other city markets.

Sighing, Mi Shuhua suppressed his impatience.

“The opening ceremony will be in three days. We will invite some of our internal cultivators to the ceremony.”

“I’m planning a ceremony for you, do you have any ideas?”

Luo Chen blinked, a ceremony? A grand event?

Of course, the bigger, the better!

“Okay, let’s have the opening ceremony and the opening of the furnace together. I’ll show you all what a master alchemist is!”

(End of Chapter)

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