"Is it big?"
Lu Ping raised an eyebrow and glanced at Lin Jingtang from the corner of his eyes. "I have never forced you to do anything. If you think it's inappropriate, you can always look for other alchemists!"
"You!"
Lin Jingtang pointed at Lu Ping. His anger had just risen, but he had to extinguish it. He said coldly, "You are making things difficult for me. In four days, the overseas cultivators' reinforcements will arrive. Where do you expect me to find alchemists now? Besides, if I could find other alchemists, I wouldn't have spent so much time looking for Lu Daoyou!"
Lu Ping smiled faintly and said, "Rather than being held hostage by others and having all your possessions become spoils of war for your enemies, why don't you let me take advantage of you now? That way, those people who want to make things difficult for you will be happy for nothing. Don't you agree, Senior?"
Lin Jingtang sneered. "You sure have your wishful thinking. How can you be so sure that I won't be able to escape? After I give them to you, if I manage to escape, wouldn't this little bit of wealth go to you for nothing?"
"Oh, since you are so confident, Senior, then there is no need for me to refine this pill. Senior, do as you please!"
Lin Jingtang was exasperated!
Lu Ping said seriously, "What do you think are the chances of you escaping? Even if you manage to escape, what are the chances of the Northern Alliance surviving this disaster?"
Lin Jingtang was silent.
Half an hour later, Lin Jingtang left the teahouse as if nothing had happened.
In the VIP room, a storage bag was placed on the tea table in front of Lu Ping. Lu Ping weighed the bag in his hand and said, "Three hundred Supreme Spiritual Stones is a little too little. Lin Jingtang must have hidden quite a lot. With the Northern Alliance's reputation, they should be in the top five of the nine sects. They should have at least a thousand Spiritual Stones!"
There was a knock on the door and the teahouse's manager walked in with a smile. "Junior Brother Lu, you seem to have gained a lot!"
Lu Ping waved the storage bag in his hand and said, "Not bad, but it's less than I expected!"
The shopkeeper let out an 'oh' and said, "Junior Brother has been persuaded by that Lin Jingtang? Speaking of which, this is quite risky. If the Nine Great Sects who are plotting against the Northern Alliance find out about this, it will be very disadvantageous to our sect! "
Lu Ping said confidently, "He won't tell!"
Lu Ping stood up and walked out of the teahouse. At the same time, he seemed to think of something and asked, "What's the background of the waiter in your shop?"
The shopkeeper's expression tensed up as he said, "He's a servant I adopted in the Phantom City. Since he's quite intelligent, I taught him the cultivation method. Now, he's already at the Late Blood Refining Realm. Initially, I planned to take him in as my disciple if I could make some progress in the future. Is there something wrong with this child?"
Lu Ping shook his head and said, "That's not it. There's a problem with this child's bloodline. I'm afraid even he doesn't know that he's a mixed-blood!"
"Ah?"
The shopkeeper gasped and said, "How can that be? Then we can't take this child anymore. Junior Brother Xuanchu is a good example!"
"Why not?!"
The shopkeeper was stunned. He saw that Lu Ping's expression was erratic and unpredictable. He said, "Times have changed. Now, everyone in Zhenling recognizes Junior Brother Xuanchu as our disciple. If that child can improve, what's wrong with taking him in?"
"But the other sects …"
"The other sects?"
Before the shopkeeper could finish, he was interrupted by Lu Ping, who said, "Which sect in the North Sea dares to speak ill of our sect? Because of what happened to Junior Brother Xuanchu, our sect was still in decline. Under the pressure of the various sects in the North Sea, we had no choice but to expel him. It was a great regret. Now, if anyone in the North Sea dares to use this as an excuse, they'll have to ask the sword in my hand if it agrees! "
Lu Ping released his aura and immediately retracted it. However, the shopkeeper beside him had already broken out in a cold sweat. The peak of the early Dharma stage, he's actually at the peak of the early Dharma stage. How is this possible, how is this possible!
"Of course." Lu Ping calmed his emotions and said calmly, "Although our sect does not discriminate based on one's background, if this child doesn't improve, then no one can help him. But from what Senior Brother Zhou said, this child seems to have some ambition?"
Shopkeeper Zhou nodded and said, "That's right. But since this child is of mixed human and demon blood, if he continues to work as a waiter in this small shop, he will inevitably be discovered by others. When that time comes, it will be troublesome."
Lu Ping waved his hand and said, "It's fine. He should be of mixed human and demon blood. His father or mother should be the first generation of mixed human and demon blood. But the demon blood in this child's body is very special. It's actually the blood of the Wood Phoenix. If I hadn't been fortunate enough to meet the people of the Wood Phoenix clan, I'm afraid I would have also misjudged him!"
Shopkeeper Zhou was a little confused. "The Wood Phoenix clan? Didn't they go extinct a long time ago? "
Lu Ping looked at Shopkeeper Zhou and said, "The special talent of the Wood Phoenix clan is the main reason why they are on the verge of extinction, but at the same time, it is also the main reason why they will not go extinct!"
Shopkeeper Zhou didn't quite understand, but Lu Ping had already continued, "For human cultivators with the wood attribute Wood Phoenix bloodline, at the very least, they will have the talent to become a ling plant farmer and take care of the spiritual herbs and materials in the sect's treasures. This child originally has the pure blood of the demon race's Wood Phoenix bloodline. When he enters the Blood Condensation realm, among the seven human bloodlines in his body, whether or not he has the wood attribute Wood Phoenix bloodline, his bloodline will undoubtedly be the Wood Phoenix bloodline. If he has both, then his talent will be extraordinary. In the future, if he is properly nurtured, not only will his cultivation of wood attribute spells be twice the result with half the effort, he will even have the ambition to become an alchemist!"
Shopkeeper Zhou was shocked by Lu Ping's words. He didn't hear the rest of what Lu Ping said, but one thing he understood was that he had picked up a treasure when he took in this servant out of kindness. In the future, if he took this servant in and nurtured him well, he might even have to rely on his student's achievements as a teacher.
Although Shopkeeper Zhou was a third generation disciple of the Zhenling clan like Lu Ping and was also Lu Ping's senior brother, the difference in status between them was like heaven and earth. Shopkeeper Zhou didn't have the slightest disgust towards Lu Ping's orders. Instead, he repeatedly nodded in agreement. In the end, he stared blankly at the two storage pouches in his hands, but Lu Ping had already disappeared without a trace.
Suddenly, Shopkeeper Zhou came to a realization. Of the two storage pouches Lu Ping left behind, one was for him, and the other was for the waiter. However, it was stated that the waiter could only be given to him after he advanced into the Blood Condensation Realm.
Shopkeeper Zhou didn't dare to open the storage pouch that Lu Ping left for the waiter, so he only opened the one that was left for him. Inside, there were neatly stacked high-grade spirit stones, more than ten bottles of various kinds of spiritual pills, and two spirit-connected artifacts, one for offense and one for defense. Shopkeeper Zhou's hands trembled. A mid-stage Core Forging Realm cultivator almost lost his grip on the storage pouch.
After calming himself down, Shopkeeper Zhou finally recovered. He put away the two storage pouches and looked around. Suddenly, he was furious and shouted, "Luan Xiaobei, Luan Xiaobei, where the hell have you been? You only know how to be absent-minded every day. Have you finished your homework for today? What? Do it again tonight? Go back to the backyard right now! If you don't finish your homework today, don't even think about eating the leftovers of my Five Grain Nourishing Soup today! "
The waiter, Zou Xiaobei, didn't know what was wrong with the shopkeeper today. He was more than happy to be able to focus on his cultivation without having to run around. Why did the shopkeeper have to make such a scene?
Zou Xiaobei carefully held a small cup of unbrewed scented tea left behind by the senior in the VIP room. Then, he ran to the backyard happily.
From the books in the shopkeeper's collection, Zou Xiaobei found out that this tea was most likely a top-grade spiritual tea. Just from the fact that the arcane energy in his body could circulate faster after he took a few sniffs of it, this bit of spiritual tea might be enough to help him break through to the Ninth Layer of the Blood Condensation Realm!
However, the spiritual spring water was still a problem. It would be a great waste if he didn't soak such a good spiritual tea in the spring water. It seemed like he still had to get some ideas from the shopkeeper.
Seven days passed in the blink of an eye. Most of the cultivators of the human and demon races gathered in Phantom City, ready to join forces with the cultivators from the various overseas sects in this final battle.
Under Lu Ping's repeated persuasion, Tiankang Laozu finally agreed not to participate in this battle, and Lu Ping also promised that he would join forces with the Green Sea Snakes this time and not act alone.
Although the Green Sea Snakes had lost three Dharma adepts in the battle, and the rest were injured, after seven days of recuperation, those who were not seriously injured had recovered their combat power. This time, Chu Tianyu and Laozu would also participate in the battle, so the number of Grand Adepts in the Green Sea Snakes had reached three. If Lu Ping moved together with them, he should be able to ensure his own safety.
Above the Phantom City, hundreds of Dharma adepts stood in the air above the city walls. Below them, there was a dense crowd of Core Forging adepts. In the middle of these hundreds of Dharma adepts, there was an old man in his sixties who was surrounded by more than ten Grand Adepts.
Lu Ping recognized this man as the Pure Yang Laozu who had forced the Heavenly Demons to retreat at the critical moment. Chu Haitian had already introduced him to this Pure Yang adept as the Crystal Palace's Yuan Yan Laozu, who had been guarding the Phantom Palace's protective matrix. Other than the humans' Crystal Palace, the Nine Great Sects, and the three major demon tribes, no other forces, big or small, knew of his existence.
It was precisely because of this Pure Yang Laozu that the protective matrix of the Phantom Five Islands could remain unbroken under the bombardment of Mara's army. Even when there was a crisis on Chengling Island, he could single-handedly control the matrix to resist the corrosion of the entire Poisonous Asura tribe on the island's protective matrix, preventing the gap from expanding.
Lu Ping's eyes flashed with green light, and his vision broke through the light fog outside the city to look at the sea a few miles away. He asked Chu Haitian in a low voice, "Brother Chu, how do you think the overseas practitioners' reinforcements will attack Mara's army outside the island?"
Chu Haitian laughed softly and said, "They will use the thing that your sect desires the most as a means of attack!"
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