Setting Out for the Profound Rock Sea Area!

On Moon Invitation Island.

A young man in a moon-white Daoist robe worked his hand seals as swiftly as darting swallows, while Mana surged through him like a tide.

Under his full concentration, medicinal ingredients poured into the giant cauldron, countless as stars and blossoms.

The sheer scale of the task was daunting. With no one to assist him, he controlled it all alone.

Rumor had it that the great Alchemy Dao sects spent ages preparing for refinements on this scale.

When refinement began, they relied on arrays, numerous lower-ranked Pill Refiners, and experts in other specialized arts.

When Azure Pill Valley refined the Nascent Soul Pill, for instance, it assembled five Tier 3 Alchemists and thirty experienced Second-Order Alchemists, along with an Azure Pill Combined Refinement Array. Only then did refinement begin under the direction of Qing Danzi, a Fourth Order Alchemist.

For Luo Chen to attempt such a feat alone would have struck the world as sheer fantasy.

Only Luo Chen himself knew he had the foundations for it.

His basic pill arts across every branch had reached Great Perfection, as had his True Flame Pill refinement technique. Both were enough to support him this far.

More importantly, the Primal Chaos Cauldron, a treasure of the Alchemy Dao, was his Natal Magic Treasure. After years of painstaking nurturing, he could control it as easily as his own limbs.

He could detect any change inside it the instant it occurred.

All this gave him the confidence to take the step.

He had no choice but to enlarge the Pill Cauldron.

No cauldron merely one or two zhang wide could handle refinement on this scale.

The trouble was that, once enlarged, it left many things hard to conceal.

Of course!

He had no need to conceal them!

Here, he was