The reason why Lu Ping accepted this mission was not only because he was curious about the buffer zone and the demon territory's waters, but also because Lu Ping's arcane energy had been tempered by more than half in the past eight months since he returned from Fei Ling Island. Two of the three Condensed Blood Pearls in his heart core had been refined by Lu Ping using the 'North Sea Wave Listening Technique'. The last one was about to be completed. Now, the arcane energy in Lu Ping's body was more than twice as pure and thick as before!
His blood flowed through his veins under the powerful beating of his heart, ready to burst out at any moment and destroy all obstacles in his way.
Lu Ping was very satisfied with his current state. He had spent several months to replace the arcane energy in his body, causing his cultivation to stagnate. But now, he felt that the time spent was worth it!
It had been two days since Lu Ping entered the buffer zone. The vast sea didn't seem to be bustling with activity because of the large number of cultivators. Lu Ping entered the buffer zone alone as a rogue cultivator. Among the cultivators who entered the buffer zone, there were only a few strong cultivators. Even rogue cultivators had their own teams. In this dangerous place, the cultivators were more cautious than before. They wouldn't carelessly recruit unfamiliar cultivators into their teams.
Although Lu Ping met three or four groups of cultivators in the past two days, they all ignored Lu Ping's request to form a team. Some even mocked Lu Ping for his low cultivation, saying that he was a burden to the team and was not qualified to be part of a team. So, Lu Ping was still alone.
Only then did Lu Ping remember that after the sea restriction was lifted, cultivators who entered the buffer zone were mostly in the Mid and Late Blood Condensation Realm. Early and Blood Refining Realm cultivators could only hunt demonic beasts near the buffer zone. Li Ziming strongly recommended Lu Ping to investigate the bandits in the buffer zone. Lu Ping and Hu Lili did not think of this before.
Lu Ping wasn't in a hurry anyway. Although he would run into a few groups of cultivators in the buffer zone every day, he couldn't track the bandits' movements in such a short time. It wasn't easy for him to come out, and there was no one from the sect to supervise him. Naturally, Lu Ping was happy to be at ease.
Lu Ping sat cross-legged on Lu Dagui's back, allowing Lu Dagui to float on the surface of the sea.
Lu Dagui was the giant sea turtle that Lu Ping found on Fei Ling Island. At that time, this sea turtle was already at the peak of the Blood Refining Realm. Other than a Blood Condensing Pill, Lu Ping also obtained an entire bottle of Blood Condensing Pills from the battle for the cave abode. When Wei Zi-Heng and the others split the loot, Lu Ping purposely took three of them.
After returning to Huang Li Island, Lu Ping instructed Lu Dagui to prepare for the Blood Condensation Realm. With the support of sufficient pills and the spirit vein in Huang Li Island's cave abode, Lu Dagui successfully advanced to the Blood Condensation Realm with two Blood Condensing Pills, becoming Lu Ping's strongest subordinate.
Strictly speaking, Lu Dagui was just an ordinary sea turtle. Its bloodline was not noble among the demonic beasts. It was not a good choice for a cultivator's spirit beast. However, Lu Ping did not care about this. At the very least, he could use Lu Dagui to roam the sea.
Lu Dagui's huge body moved forward steadily on the surface of the sea. The aura of a Blood Condensation demonic beast spread out in all directions, and all the Blood Refining demonic beasts in the buffer zone disappeared without a trace. Lu Ping sat on Lu Dagui's back, holding a wine gourd in his hand and taking sips from it from time to time. He looked at the scenery of the sea with a carefree attitude.
The spirit wine in the gourd was the Hundred Spirits Wine that Lu Ping brewed using 108 stalks of 500-year-old spirit herbs, spirit fruits, and spirit grains over half a year. Other than being able to drink to their heart's content, this kind of wine was also beneficial to cultivators' cultivation and the recovery of their spiritual energy.
The aroma of the wine permeated the air. Lu Dabao, who was lying peacefully on Lu Ping's back, finally managed to overcome some of his fear of the sea. Little by little, it inched closer to Lu Ping and stared at the gourd in Lu Ping's hand, drooling.
Lu Dabao was already a Sixth Layer Blood Refining Realm cultivator. As the spirit pet that had followed Lu Ping for the longest time and had the deepest bond with Lu Ping, Lu Dabao naturally received a lot of care from Lu Ping. Whatever spirit pills Lu Ping used to practice, Lu Dabao would eat as much as he wanted. That was why Lu Ping's cultivation had advanced by two layers in less than a year, and the late-stage Blood Refining Realm was just around the corner.
Looking at Dabao's naivety, Lu Ping laughed and scolded, "You greedy rat!" However, he still pointed at the gourd, and a ball of wine floated out from the gourd. It changed its shape in the air, but it did not scatter. Instead, it slowly floated in front of Dabao.
Dabao squeaked at Lu Ping to express its gratitude. Then, it lowered its head and licked the Hundred Spirits Wine that floated in front of its mouth.
Right at this moment, three water balls smashed toward Dabao from three different directions, and all of them aimed at the Hundred Spirits Wine Ball in front of Dabao's mouth.
Dabao was naturally furious. While squeaking angrily, its slender tail swept a water ball in the air, and its body shook. A cloud of dust flew up and turned into a thin yellow pancake-like cake on the other side of Dabao. The second water ball smashed into it, and water splashed everywhere. When the third water ball was about to smash into the wine that Lu Ping had wrapped with his mana, Dabao's fat body suddenly became extremely nimble. Somehow, it moved its body to protect the wine ball in front of its mouth, and its fat butt directly smashed the water ball. Dabao turned a blind eye to it, and just shook its butt to shake off the seawater on it. Then, it continued to eat its wine. It didn't care about the previous sneak attack, as if the wine ball in front of it was more important than the sneak attack.
On the surface of the sea not far away, three white water lines darted toward the sea turtle at high speed. As the water splashed, three green, blue, and white sea snakes, which were a few feet long, leaped up from the surface of the sea and landed on the back of Lu Dagui's turtle.
These three sea snakes were none other than the Green Sea Snakes that Lu Ping hatched half a year ago — Lu Bi, Lu Hai, and Lu Ling. These three Spirit Snakes were indeed monsters with noble bloodlines. In just half a year, under Lu Ping's meticulous nurturing, their cultivation base had actually reached the Third Layer of Blood Refining Realm. Lu Ping couldn't help but marvel at the excellent aptitudes of these three pets.
Among Lu Ping's five spirit beasts, Dagui had the highest cultivation base and the calmest temperament. Normally, it wouldn't play with Dabao and the Green Sea Snakes. Normally, it would just lie down and watch them quietly. Dabao was the most active. Usually, it would jump up and down in the cave and interact with the three Green Sea Snakes. However, Lu Ping could tell that Dabao was still very wary of them, or rather, it was very afraid of the bloodline pressure of the three Spirit Snakes. Therefore, it had never provoked the three Spirit Snakes too much. The three Spirit Snakes were hatched by Lu Ping and had been influenced by Lu Ping's aura for a long time. They had long regarded Lu Ping as their parents. Usually, they were also lively and active, and they found fun in pranking Dabao.
With a smile, Lu Ping threw the three medicinal pills into their mouths and let them play in the sea around Lu Ping.
There was not a trace of wind on the calm sea. Lu Ping was originally watching the three Green Sea Snakes playing on the surface of the sea with a smile. Suddenly, the three Spirit Snakes disappeared from the surface of the sea at the same time, as if they were hiding from something.
Lu Ping's expression changed. He spread out his divine sense, which was more than six hundred feet wide. He only sensed that the three Spirit Snakes were swimming quickly in his direction at the bottom of the sea, but he didn't find anything else.
Lu Ping's expression turned solemn. Demonic beasts had a natural intuition for danger. The Samling must have discovered the danger. Otherwise, it would not have suddenly returned in his direction. As their master, Lu Ping could faintly feel that kind of anxiety.
It seemed that the enemy that had not been discovered was proficient in the art of concealment, but it was not known whether it was a human cultivator or a demonic beast.
Lu Ping pretended that nothing had happened and continued to urge Dagui to swim forward. Now that Lu Ping had probably fallen into the opponent's ambush, it was probably too late to escape. It was better to beat them at their own game. Fortunately, the other party should not know that they had been discovered by Lu Ping, even if Lu Ping did not know where they were.
Lu Ping's heart moved. He remembered that among the "North Sea Wave Listening Secrets", there was a "Art of Sea Deception" in the "North Sea Wave Listening Secrets". This secret technique talked about the cultivator's concealment and hiding in various environments. At the same time, it also had a strong anti-detection ability for various concealment techniques such as invisibility techniques.
As Lu Ping drank, he maintained a calm expression. At the same time, he secretly cast the "Art of Sea Deception", using his Divine Sense to carefully observe the surrounding sea and sky. It could be said that the surrounding area of more than 60 feet was completely visible.
Just as Lu Dagui moved forward for more than 10 feet, Lu Ping's Divine Sense finally detected a subtle fluctuation somewhere in the sea.
"What a brilliant concealment technique. It can hide itself in the sea and become a part of the water, so that the cultivator's Divine Sense cannot detect it. Fortunately, my Divine Sense is tyrannical, and the" Art of Sea Deception "is not the slightest bit under the opponent's concealment technique, so I found some clues."
Lu Ping secretly raised his guard. At this time, he detected another slight fluctuation in two other directions. There were actually three people. Lu Ping was shocked. The three people had surrounded Lu Ping in the middle. The reason why Lu Ping could detect them was probably because they were about to make a move and gave themselves away in the water.
As the water splashed, three dark blue silhouettes left faint shadows on the surface of the sea like ghosts. Three mid-grade magic tools were positioned in three different directions, completely sealing off Lu Ping's escape route. The three of them formed a formation that was commonly used in battles in the cultivation world, the "Triple Kill", trapping Lu Ping and the five demons firmly on the surface of the sea.
Flawless concealment, precise and skillful cooperation, and a thunderous sneak attack. Three Mid Blood Condensation cultivators. Not to mention a Third Layer Blood Condensation cultivator, even a Late Blood Condensation cultivator would be injured if he was caught off guard.
It was a pity that they met Lu Ping!
The moment Lu Ping discovered the three of them, he knew that they had set up a Triple Kill Formation. After all, this formation was the most common one in the cultivation world. It was also the easiest to set up, and its power was also acceptable. At the same time, he also thought of a way to deal with it.
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