An Alchemist's Path to Eternity

Chapter 953: Everyone Has to Take a Risk at Least Once In Life (Teaser)

"No one knows who the ancient cultivator was, but one thing's for sure: He died around a thousand years ago."

Luo Chen frowned slightly. "Why that specific time?"

Ding Yi glanced at him. "Don't tell me you've never heard the tale about the Sunken Sea being reborn a thousand years ago?"

Seeing that Luo Chen did not react, he continued, "The Sunken Sea was dangerous even in the past, but back then, it was only dangerous because of the sea itself, nothing like the terrifying place it had become now. Today, they call it a place where all things sink, and even demons fear to enter. We think the changes started because of what that ancient cultivator left behind. Whatever it is, it completely transformed the Sunken Sea. The pocket world doesn't open on a fixed schedule, but after years of observation, the devil sect figured out some patterns. Before it opens, strange celestial phenomena appear over the sea and only vanish once the pocket world closes completely. Sometimes it lasts a year or two. Other times… forty or fifty years."

"According to the intelligence we have, the pocket world was a portable estate of that cultivator. Inside it, there must be some enormous spirit-gathering formation. Whenever it activates, the disturbance in spirit energy causes those celestial signs. As for what kind of formation could create something on that scale? Haha… even I can't say for sure. But a lot of people suspect the owner of that world was a formation grandmaster. One reason they think so is that after Ascendant Li returned from that place, he advanced to the Divine Transformation Realm by comprehending the Laws of Formations.

"By their estimates, the next...