Chapter 122

By the time Lu Ping stabilized his Fourth Level Blood Condensation Realm cultivation, it had been two years since he left Huang Li Island.

After exiting seclusion, Lu Ping planned to return to Huang Li Island immediately to investigate the mastermind who leaked his whereabouts. In fact, Lu Ping already had his suspicions about the mastermind. However, the mastermind was from a cultivator family and had a complicated background. If Lu Ping didn't have any concrete evidence, he wouldn't be able to move these people. Instead, it would arouse their suspicions and cause them to attack him again.

Anyway, with Lu Ping's demonic beast identity as a cover and the Early Blood Condensation Realm demonic beasts gathering in this area, there wouldn't be any factors that could threaten Lu Ping's safety. Therefore, Lu Ping was able to practice his alchemy skills here without any qualms.

After all, Lu Ping's alchemy skills took another leap forward after he reached the Mid Blood Condensation Realm. Now, Lu Ping's success rate in refining late Blood Refining Realm pills had reached 50% to 60%. In other words, Lu Ping had basically met the requirements to concoct Blood Condensation Realm pills.

Lu Ping originally planned to concoct Blood Condensation Realm pills after he reached 70% success rate in refining late Blood Refining Realm pills. This was because, according to Lu Ping's past experience, when he tried to concoct a new type of pill, the failure rate was extremely high. Unfortunately, Lu Ping had already used up all the Blood Refining Realm spiritual herbs he had on him.

In the alchemy profession, all cultivators who practiced alchemy were divided into five classes. Starting from the apprentice alchemist, the apprentice alchemist, the apprentice alchemist, the apprentice alchemist, and the apprentice alchemist who succeeded in concocting Blood Refining Realm pills under the guidance of their master would be called an apprentice alchemist.

Eighty percent of cultivators who wanted to become alchemists were stuck at the apprentice alchemist level. Even if they succeeded in concocting Blood Condensation Realm pills, they wouldn't be called alchemist. Only apprentices who successfully concocted Blood Condensation Pills would be considered alchemist masters. The difficulty of concocting Blood Condensation Pills was not any lower than concocting late Blood Condensation Realm pills.

When an alchemist could successfully concoct pills for Core Forging Realm cultivators, he would be called an alchemist master. According to the legends, those who could concoct the pills Laozu needed were called alchemist grandmasters. Even Dharma Laozu would treat such cultivators with great respect. Their status in the cultivation world was no lower than Laozu's. They were highly sought after by the sects.

Lu Ping had quite a number of herbs on him that could be used to concoct Blood Condensation Realm pills. Most of them were harvested from Fei Ling Island. Now, they could finally be put to good use.

In the past two years, Lu Ping finally managed to maintain a 30% success rate in concocting early Blood Condensation Realm pills. The price he paid was that half of Lu Ping's 4,000 500-year-old herbs were wasted by Lu Ping. If an alchemist were to find out about this, they would probably kill him.

This was the disadvantage of not having a master to guide him. Even though Lu Ping had received the alchemist's inheritance and obtained quite a number of pill recipes, he still needed to ponder and discover everything by himself. It was inevitable that he would pay a higher tuition fee than other apprentices.

The only one who benefited from this was Lu Dagui.

As Lu Ping's cultivation had reached the Mid Blood Condensation Realm, the effects of early Blood Condensation Realm pills were too weak for Lu Ping, who had abundant arcane energy. In addition, Lu Ping still had some Mid Blood Condensation Realm pills on him. Therefore, he gave these Early Blood Condensation Realm pills to the loyal Lu Dagui. Lu Dagui, who had an ordinary aptitude, successfully stabilized his cultivation in the Second Level of the Blood Condensation Realm in two years.

The cultivation of the other spiritual pets also improved. Dabao finally broke through to the Late Blood Refining Realm and reached the Eighth Level. The three spiritual snakes' improvement made Lu Ping exclaim in admiration. As expected of the Green Sea Snake, it successfully broke through to the Late Blood Refining Realm and reached the Seventh Level in just two short years.

Initially, Dabao and Samling were the most active. At first, Dabao could use his cultivation to gain the upper hand when playing with Samling. But now, Dabao was no longer a match for any of the spiritual snakes. Even though his cultivation was one level higher than Samling, Dabao's forte was obviously not fighting. Instead, he was good at escaping. Even when Samling and Samling teamed up to surround him, he still managed to slip away.

Lu Ping didn't care much about his spirit pets other than their cultivation bases. They were all monster beasts, so they were born with a wild nature. If he tried too hard, it would affect their growth.

Finally, Lu Ping tried to concoct the Blood Condensing Pill.

Lu Ping embedded four mid-grade spirit stones into the spirit-gathering plate that contained the Blue Spiritual Fire. At the same time, he formed a set of fire-controlling hand seals. This was a fire-controlling technique recorded in the "Flourishing Wave Pill Scripture". It could make it easier for a cultivator to control the intensity of the flame and the temperature of the flame.

Above the flame was a mid-grade cauldron. It was already preheated. Lu Ping followed the sequence recorded in the pill recipe and placed the twenty-four five-hundred-year-old spiritual herbs into the cauldron. At the same time, he changed the hand seal and injected a stream of pure arcane energy into the spirit-gathering plate. With the help of his divine sense, the flame of the Blue Spiritual Fire suddenly swelled up. Waves of heat spread out in all directions and the blue flame licked the bottom of the cauldron.

At the same time, Lu Ping divided his attention and sent a part of his divine sense into the cauldron. He carefully sensed the changes in the properties of the twenty-four spiritual herbs.

Just like that, three days passed. Although Lu Ping could stop to rest or cultivate when the medicinal properties of the medicinal pellets were stable to recover his tired mind, this cauldron of medicinal pellets was of great significance. It was related to whether Lu Ping could become an alchemist or not. Hence, Lu Ping couldn't find the time to rest.

The afternoon of the third day was the last moment of the core-forming process.

Lu Ping was already sitting in front of the cauldron. He spread out his divine sense and observed the condition of the cauldron.

Suddenly, Lu Ping's expression turned serious. The medicinal properties of the twenty-four spiritual herbs had all been stimulated. They turned into liquid and slowly fused together. A strange fragrance filled the cauldron. The Samling, Spirit Seeking Mouse, and Sea Turtle who had been waiting outside the cauldron for a long time were already salivating and restless.

Under the influence of the Spirit Splitting Art, Lu Ping's divine sense slowly increased to about 90 zhang. This was no longer weaker than the divine sense of a Late Blood Condensation cultivator.

Lu Ping split his divine sense into three parts. One part would continue to work with the fire control technique to slowly reduce the intensity of the Azure Spirit Fire's fire. Another part would go deep into the cauldron to carefully examine the medicinal properties in the fused liquid. At the same time, the third part would be on standby. Once the medicinal properties in the liquid were completely fused, the third part would work with Lu Ping's [Core Condensing Spell] to condense the liquid into a pellet.

This step was the last hurdle. If it was not successful, the condensed spiritual liquid would evaporate the moment the cauldron was opened and lose its effect. Only by condensing it into a pill could the loss of medicinal properties be minimized or even non-existent.

At this moment, Lu Ping's expression changed again. It was time to condense the pill. He quickly formed hand seals with the Core Condensation Art and shot them towards the cauldron. At the same time, his divine sense cooperated with the hand seals to gather the spiritual liquid and condense it into a pill.

Sweat gradually appeared on Lu Ping's face. It wasn't because his magic power was insufficient, but because he had overused his divine sense after splitting it into three parts. It was too much for Lu Ping to bear.

Lu Ping clenched his teeth and cast out the last hand seal. The cauldron suddenly shook, and a stronger fragrance than before accompanied by a burning smell wafted out of it.

Lu Ping was overjoyed. With a wave of his hand, the cauldron opened and two purple longan-sized medicinal pellets flew out. They were the Blood Condensing Pellets that Lu Ping couldn't be more familiar with. At the same time, eight black medicinal pellets flew out and emitted a charred smell. They were all wasted pellets.

It was his first time refining a new pill and he had a 20% success rate. How could something like this appear in Lu Ping's hands?

Lu Ping's ecstasy was mixed with a trace of disbelief. It has to be said that ever since Lu Ping began refining pills, every time he tried to refine a new pill, his first attempt would always be a complete failure. When he opened the cauldron, he would produce ten black charcoal. Sometimes, before he even opened the cauldron, he would have already wasted a cauldron of slag.

When Lu Ping accepted this situation as inevitable, he suddenly had Lu Ping refine a new pill. Moreover, it was the Blood Condensation Pill, the symbol of an alchemist. Furthermore, he had produced two pills on his first try. How could Lu Ping not be in disbelief?

Lu Ping spent an entire day to recover from his excitement. After calming down, Lu Ping refined four more cauldrons of Blood Condensation Pills. He had used up all the spirit herbs he had. Other than the third cauldron where he only managed to produce one Blood Condensation Pill due to carelessness, he managed to produce three Blood Condensation Pills on his fourth and fifth cauldrons.

Looking at the eleven Blood Condensation Beads in his hand, Lu Ping fell into a daze again. He had finally become a noble alchemist! This meant that Lu Ping would no longer have to struggle to make ends meet on the path of alchemy.

Lu Ping himself didn't know why his alchemy skills improved so much. Perhaps it was due to luck. However, when Lu Ping refined Mid Blood Condensation Realm pills, Lu Ping managed to maintain a success rate of around 40%. Clearly, it wasn't due to luck.

Perhaps it was because of Lu Ping's long hours of practice. Or perhaps it was because of Lu Ping's powerful divine sense. In the end, Lu Ping attributed all these reasons to his hard work, investment, and persistence. In the end, it was because the Heavens rewarded the diligent!

Since he had enough Mid Blood Condensation Realm pills to replenish his energy, Lu Ping, who had just stabilized his Fourth Level Blood Condensation Realm cultivation, could use these pills to improve his cultivation by leaps and bounds. Hence, Lu Ping decided to stay here and cultivate for a period of time. He couldn't miss this opportunity.

At the same time, Lu Ping also learned about the situation in the demon territory through Lu Dagui's simple descriptions. He had the most detailed understanding of the area around Lu Dagui's territory. Unfortunately, when Lu Ping was being pursued, he was ambushed by the Overflowing Sea Gang. After breaking out of the encirclement, Lu Ping panicked and lost his way. Until now, he still didn't know where he was in the demon territory.