Twenty-five years have passed like a flick of the finger.

Above Pill Furnace Peak, the long-lost Core Formation phenomenon appeared once more.

Fire attribute spiritual energy gathered like a tide, forming a crimson cloud in the sky.

On the observation platform of Piaomiao Peak, Hua Taixuan, Wu Guang, Li Yang, and other Masters Fake Pill were already gathered, their eyes fixed intently on the direction of Pill Furnace Peak, faces full of anticipation.

The news of Chen Sheng entering seclusion to attempt forming a Fake Pill had long spread throughout the sect. Everyone knew that the head of the Pill Hall was nearing the end of his lifespan, and this seclusion was his last chance.

Within the center of the cloud, a golden Pill Domain was slowly forming, emitting an awe-inspiring pressure.

Wu Guang immediately revealed a look of delight:

"Father, it's about to succeed!"

Having experienced Core Formation himself, he knew that the most dangerous step is at this point; once the Pill Domain takes shape, the rest is smooth sailing.

Hua Taixuan stroked his beard, excitement flickering in his eyes:

"Judging by this convergence of spiritual energy, it seems Fellow Daoist Chen is truly about to succeed this time!"

Li Yang was similarly overjoyed, his face beaming with happiness.

Chen Xin and the others also displayed expressions of delight.

The refinement of a Demon Pill with a Lower Grade Spiritual Root had just a one or two percent chance, even less reliable than Chen Sheng's previous attempt to reach the Body Refining Seventh Layer, yet looking at this, it seemed he was about to succeed?

Before long, the Pill Domain fully formed, its five-colored radiance softly spreading.

The grand array of Pill Furnace Peak gently opened, and a majestic rainbow light shot up into the sky, only to reveal a simple white Daoist robe upon reaching the observation platform.

It was Wu Lingshuang!

Wu Guang was full of surprise, he hurriedly stepped forward:

"Mother, why is it you?"

"Where is Father?"

"Wasn't Father in seclusion?"

Hua Taixuan and the other cultivators also gathered around, peppering her with questions:

"Fellow Daoist Wu, where is Fellow Daoist Chen?"

Wu Lingshuang bowed gently to the crowd, her voice calm yet tinged with melancholy:

"Greetings, fellow Daoists, my Dao partner knew his path to the Dao was hopeless. Many years ago, he set off for the Myriad Beasts Mountain Range, aiming to traverse it and pursue the Dao."

"What?"

Hua Taixuan was shocked, the Heaven-Shining Seal almost slipping from his hand:

"Fellow Daoist Wu, do not jest!"

"Fellow Daoist Chen is a Tier Three Middle Grade Alchemist, skilled in alchemy, not magical combat. How could he manage in the perilous Myriad Beasts Mountain Range..."

Wu Lingshuang shook her head, looking in the direction of the Myriad Beasts Mountain Range:

"No matter how dangerous, there is a glimmer of life."

"It is better than sitting in the sect, facing dissolution due to the limitations of lifespan."

She turned to Hua Taixuan, shaking her head helplessly:

"He waited nearly thirty years for the Sect Leader but never received the materials for the Cyan Simurgh Longevity Pill. He had no other choice but this path."

Upon hearing this, Hua Taixuan sighed deeply; they indeed failed to gather the materials needed to refine the Longevity Pill.

He suddenly recalled Chen Sheng visiting him before entering seclusion, saying that this time, he would either succeed in breaking through or die within the cave dwelling.

Thus, in the years before seclusion, Chen Sheng almost tirelessly refined Tier Three Elixirs, leaving nearly a hundred bottles of life-saving pills for the Qinghua Sect, expending his last bit of effort for the sect.

"Very well, let us hope Fellow Daoist Chen can turn calamity into fortune, and that the Immortal Dao remains evergreen."

Hua Taixuan cupped his hands towards the direction of the Myriad Beasts Mountain Range, his tone filled with complexity.

...

Meanwhile.

In a mundane mountain forest, Chen Sheng stood before a small peak, holding a palm-sized array disc in his hand.

In this lifetime, as an Alchemy Grandmaster, Chen Sheng had refined pills for the sect, collecting a vast amount of resources.

After leaving the sect a few years ago, he traveled widely, establishing more than a dozen secret mansions among the mundane lands of the Three Sects.

No matter where he awakens in the next life, he can quickly locate a secret mansion and complete the initial accumulation.

This was the last secret mansion he arranged for himself, and also his final cultivation site in this life.

"The final step now."

Chen Sheng nodded lightly, drawing thirty-six array banners from the storage pouch with his divine sense.

These array banners were Tier Two High Grade spiritual artifacts, their surfaces depicting patterns of the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams, with fine Spirit Crystals embedded along the edges.

With a flick of his fingers, the thirty-six banners spun in the air, transforming into thirty-six streams of light that precisely entered the Nine Palaces positions around the small peak.

"Rise!"

He softly commanded, as the array disc in his hand glowed with a faint spirit light.

With the turning of the array disc, a grayish veil suddenly rose around the small peak, the veil rippling like water and enveloping the entire peak.

From a distance, the original small peak vanished, leaving only a dense forest, merging with the surrounding environment.

——The Nine Palace Spirit Concealment Gathering Spirit Array, a Tier Two Top Grade Array, could both conceal presence and gather spirit energy.

Chen Sheng entered the cave dwelling at the array's center, placing a pile of Middle Grade Spirit Stones at the array hub.

Upon contact with the array disc, the Spirit Stones released a thick spiritual aura that, guided by the array, slowly flowed into the cave dwelling.

He sat cross-legged in the depths of the cave, feeling the density of the surrounding spiritual energy, nodding lightly:

"Barely at the standard of a Tier Two High Grade Spirit Vein Dojo."

If he had enough High Grade Spirit Stones, this array's spirit gathering effect could approach quasi-Tier Three levels.

But Chen Sheng didn't have many High Grade Spirit Stones, so he could only use Middle Grade Spirit Stones to barely maintain it.

"This should suffice."

Chen Sheng closed his eyes, and within his sea of consciousness, clusters of golden light flickered — these were the restrictions he had set upon his sea of consciousness, sealing all the secrets concerning the Hundred Generations Book.

In the next moment, an abstruse incantation surfaced in his mind.

"Beginning of Yin and Yang, Refining Evil into Core, Nurturing Core into Pill..."

It is precisely the chant of the "Profound Yin Condensing Pill Technique."

As the chant surfaced, Chen Sheng's mana within him began to circulate, and the aura around him gradually changed.

The originally crimson spiritual power started to turn icy cold, with wisps of black evil qi seeping from his pores, forming a thin layer of black mist on the surface of his body.

Within the dantian, the original red mana receded like a tide, and a surge of profound yin evil qi slowly grew, bringing a bone-chilling cold.

"Whew..."

Chen Sheng exhaled a breath of misty turbid air, feeling the increasingly dense evil qi in his dantian, a trace of satisfaction flashed in his eyes.

The process of transforming mana was painful and slow, with every thread of mana's transformation feeling like being cut by a knife, yet he was indifferent to it.

...

Time passed in monotonous cultivation, and ten years flew by in the blink of an eye.

The profound yin evil qi inside the cave dwelling had become so dense it was hard to disperse, with a thick layer of white frost condensed on the walls.

Chen Sheng sat cross-legged, surrounded by a grayish-blue evil qi, looking like a withered corpse, with only the faint rise and fall of his chest proving he was still alive.

He slowly opened his eyes and shook his head gently.

After ten years of bitter cultivation, the mana in his dantian had been completely transformed into profound yin evil qi, yet this evil qi remained dispersed and flowing, unable to condense into an evil core.

"Still a bit short."

"It's hard to condense the evil core!"

This was a difficult hurdle he had realized early on.

However, Chen Sheng was well-prepared, taking out a fist-sized demon pill from his storage pouch, which was a Tier Three earth attribute Demon King's Inner Core.

This inner core was something he later exchanged for by expanding the Li Xiao Sect market.

He did not intend to refine the demon pill to attack the Fake Pill.

He had tried, but that path was not feasible.

He attempted to refine the fire attribute inner core bestowed by the sect, but quickly failed; the success rate was too low!

Now, he intended to use the power of this demon pill to assist himself in condensing the evil core.

"Gathering Pearl Secret Skill, turn!"

Chen Sheng formed seals with his hands and chanted.

As the spell circulated, he opened his mouth and swallowed the demon pill, allowing it to sink into his dantian.

The moment the demon pill touched the profound yin evil qi, it exploded with thick pill qi, yet was tightly enveloped by the evil qi, unable to spread.

"Use the pill as a guide, take the evil as the body, condense!"

He chanted the spell in his heart, and the profound yin evil qi in his dantian surged towards the demon pill like a tide, seeping and merging little by little.

The pill qi of the demon pill was continuously devoured by the evil qi, diminishing in size, while the evil qi became increasingly condensed, gradually forming a walnut-sized black sphere.

This was the secret technique he created by combining the Gathering Pearl Secret Skill—using the Tier Three demon pill as nourishment, forcibly condensing the evil core.

The power of the Tier Three inner core was far beyond this; this step of nurturing the core and transforming the pill in the next life would also save him a lot of time.

...

Another twelve years passed.

Chen Sheng was now two hundred and two years old, with white hair and beard, and his face was full of wrinkles.

In his dantian, the original Tier Three demon pill had long disappeared, replaced by a yellow-white interlaced evil core.

The white part was the profound yin evil qi, and the yellow part was the lingering spiritual power of the demon pill, intertwining and emitting a profound aura.

"Finally completed."

He exhaled a breath of turbid air, his voice as hoarse as sandpaper scraping.

At this moment, he appeared skeletal, his form grayish-blue, truly resembling a profound yin zombie.

He raised his hand to wave the array banners, turning off the spirit gathering effect of the Nine Palace Spirit Concealment Array and fully activating the concealment function instead.

After completing all this, he took out a Cold Jade Coffin from his storage pouch.

The coffin was carved from a whole block of cold jade, exuding a bone-chilling cold, which could delay the decay of corpses.

Chen Sheng lay in the coffin, watching the lid slowly close. As the last ray of light vanished, his consciousness gradually descended into darkness.

At the moment he completely lost consciousness, a book flashing with golden light silently appeared in the coffin, the pages turning by themselves, finally stopping on the "Third Life" page:

[Hundred Generations Book: Third Life]

[Host: Chen Sheng]

[Lifespan End: 202 years]

[Spiritual Root: Lower Grade Fire Spirit Root]

[Talent: Lower Grade Spiritual Root, Dragon Spirit and Tiger Fierce, Talented in Alchemy]

[Cultivation: Foundation Establishment Perfection, Body Refining Sixth Layer Perfection]

[Identity: Master of the Pill Hall of Qinghua Sect]

[Cultivation Technique: Profound Yin Condensing Pill Technique]

[Skills: Tier Three Middle Grade Alchemy Skill, Tier Two Lower Grade Array...]

[Daoist Technique: Seven Transformations of the Flood Dragon (Refined Skill), Hidden Flood Dragon Escape (Refined Skill)...]

[Achievement: Tier Three Deputy, Tier Two Deputy, Tier Two Cultivator, Tier One Cultivator, Tier One Deputy, Hundred Sons and Thousand Grandsons]

On the pages, images flashed by:

The young boy cultivating in the mundane world, the alchemist refining pills in Fenghua Immortal City, the chief instructor from the Alchemy Alliance, the master of the Pill Hall of Qinghua Sect... Finally, the scene paused on the Cold Jade Coffin.

Subsequently, the page turned, a brand new blank page appeared, and several lines of golden text gradually lit up.

[End of the Third Life]

[This life has three new achievements, gaining three talents!]

The text transformed into countless streams of light, swirling and dancing on the pages, ultimately condensing into three colored lights of five colors, merging into the blank page.

[Talent Acquired—Talented in Artifact Dao]

[Talent Acquired—Talented in Array Dao]

[Talent Acquired—Talented in Sword Dao]

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