Just as Lu Ping was about to enter the alchemy room, he suddenly paused, turned his head to look in the direction of the guard, and then entered the alchemy room.
Sure enough, it was him!
Lu Ping slowly withdrew his spiritual sense, the person who was talking to the guard at the entrance was Tao Zifang, whom Lu Ping had met at the entrance of the Alchemy Pavilion.
Lu Ping had already seen some clues from the alchemy boy, when the Pill Testing Daoist saw the boy bring out the two cylindrical artefacts, the Pill Testing Daoist glanced at the boy, causing the boy to be covered in sweat, so Lu Ping took note of it.
Sure enough, after that, he had to refine two kinds of high difficulty pills, and the guard gave him all kinds of difficulties, until the person behind the scenes, Tao Zifang, appeared.
Lu Ping was slightly surprised, looking at the narrow alchemy room in front of him, the floor was engraved with Array Formations, connected to the Fire Gathering Plate in the middle, this should be the Fire Gathering Array to absorb the Earth Fire. Above the Fire Gathering Plate was a low grade alchemy furnace, the carvings on the furnace were mostly worn, obviously due to frequent use.
Lu Ping sat cross-legged in front of the alchemy furnace, recovering his mind, this was the first time Lu Ping used a low grade alchemy furnace and an ordinary Earth Fire to refine pills, although Lu Ping did not have anyone to guide him in alchemy, his starting point was high, using a middle grade alchemy furnace and a Heaven and Earth Spiritual Fire, this time was also a challenge for him.
After Lu Ping adjusted his state of mind, he took a deep breath and surged his arcane energy. His hands formed nine seals in a row and the Flame-Gathering Plate in front of him suddenly spewed out a pale blue flame, raising the temperature in the alchemy room.
Lu Ping used his spiritual sense to feel the characteristics of the Earth Fire, not only was the temperature difference too big, the flame also lacked an indescribable sense of spirituality, Lu Ping had to spend a lot of energy to control this Earth Fire for alchemy, this was the difference between an ordinary flame and a Heaven and Earth Spiritual Fire.
The preheating of the alchemy furnace, the melting of the spiritual herbs, refining, fusing, and finally the pill formation, the time spent far exceeded the time Lu Ping normally needed, correspondingly, Lu Ping's consumption of spiritual sense and magic power was also greatly increased.
After a whole two days, Lu Ping finally formed eighteen seals, the low grade alchemy furnace rumbled, suddenly a medicinal fragrance filled the room, Lu Ping waved his hand, opened the alchemy furnace, and took out six Thousand Chance Dan from the furnace.
Lu Ping sighed helplessly. It was only a 60% success rate. If he had a mid-grade cauldron and the Azure Spirit Fire, he was confident he could raise the success rate to 80% or 90%.
Lu Ping shook his head, throwing away these distracting thoughts, and started to prepare to concoct the Scarlet Blood Dan.
Normally, when Lu Ping concocted Late Blood Condensation pills, his success rate was only around sixty to seventy percent. Although Lu Ping felt that his pill concoction skills had improved greatly after successfully concocting the Face Halting Pill, the earth fire and the low grade alchemy furnace negated this advantage, and Lu Ping only had a fifty percent chance of passing the test.
Through the previous cauldron of Thousand Revolution Pellets, Lu Ping had become more familiar with the Earth Fire and the low-grade cauldron. This increased his chances of winning. However, at the last moment, Lu Ping's divine sense was depleted, and the conflict between the fire-elemental medicinal pellets and the water-elemental medicinal pellets caused him to make a mistake. Hence, he only managed to obtain four Scarlet Blood Pellets after opening the cauldron.
On the contrary, Lu Ping heaved a sigh of relief. Although he had concocted many Blood Spirit Pills, this was his first time concocting a fire attribute Blood Spirit Pill.
As expected, after resting, Lu Ping easily reached a fifty percent success rate when concocting the second batch of Scarlet Blood Dan. Lu Ping originally planned to concoct the rest of the Thousand Chance Dan's spiritual herbs, but on second thought, these pills would be returned to the sect for free, and he wouldn't get anything out of it, so he gave up on this idea.
In the back hall of the Alchemy Pavilion, the Pill Testing Enlightened Master looked at the six Thousand Chance Dan, nine Scarlet Blood Dan, and one set of spiritual herbs that Lu Ping brought over. He nodded and praised, "As expected of a pill master who can concoct quasi-master grade pills. Even with external interference, you can still be so relaxed."
Finished speaking, the Pill Testing Enlightened Master smiled meaningfully at Lu Ping, took Lu Ping's identity token, placed a restriction on it, and returned it to Lu Ping, saying, "With this restriction, you have the qualifications to be a pill master of our sect. Every year, you can purchase a certain amount of spiritual herbs, and the price is only eighty percent of the market price. However, if there is an urgent pill concoction mission, you will have to respond to the sect's call."
Lu Ping nodded, saying, "It's my duty to work for the sect, but I still need to buy this year's spiritual herbs first!"
Back at Huang Li Island, Lu Ping and Yao Yong and the others were in a lively atmosphere. When everyone heard that Lu Ping had become Liu Xuanling's direct disciple, they were all very envious and surprised. Zhong Jian said with a sour face, "In our group, other than Senior Brother Yao Yong and Junior Sister Shi Lingling, you were the only one who became a direct disciple the moment you became a disciple. Even Junior Sister Shi Lingling only became a direct disciple after three years. The rest of us are still disciples in name!"
Lu Ping smiled bitterly, saying, "Speaking of becoming a disciple, I heard from Master Xuanling that I was recommended by his master, and his master is my master's Dao companion. However, I still don't know who this master is, I only know that his surname is Jiang!"
"Stupid!" Shi Lingling interrupted, "Of course it's Master Jiang Xuanling. Among the seven masters of our sect's' Three Truths and Four Spirits', the only one who can become Dao companions with Master Liu Xuanling is Master Jiang Xuanling!"
Lu Ping smiled, "Indeed, I guessed it was him, but that day I saw that master didn't seem to like to talk about Master Jiang, so I didn't dare to ask."
When Yao Yong heard Shi Lingling's words, he was also curious and asked, "I've heard Senior Brother mention the 'Three Truths and Four Spirits' before. It seems that my master, Master Qu Xuancheng, is the 'Fire Spirit' of the 'Four Spirits', but I don't know the rest. Junior Sister Shi, do you know who these seven masters are?"
Shi Lingling shook her head, saying, "The 'Three Truths and Four Spirits' is the name of the seven masters of our sect over a hundred years ago. Now they are all in the late Core Forging stage, and most of the time they are in closed-door training or traveling, preparing to break through to the Dharma stage, so there are very few people who have seen them. I've only occasionally heard my father mention that Master Jiang is the head of the 'Three Truths', and Master Liu is the head of the 'Four Spirits', but I don't know the rest!"
After the crowd dispersed, Lu Ping immersed himself in his cultivation. After listening to Enlightened Master Liu's lecture, Lu Ping had gained a lot from it. Lu Ping urgently needed to convert these gains into a breakthrough in his cultivation base. Therefore, other than the five-day patrol on the ocean every month, Lu Ping spent most of his time in closed-door cultivation, cultivating and concocting medicinal pellets. Occasionally, he would come out of closed-door cultivation to ask Master Immortal Liu about some cultivation problems, or place some medicinal pellets he concocted in the Charms Pellet Pavilion. Then, he would ask Hu Lili and Fang Tao to purchase spirit herbs for him.
This kind of enriching training continued for more than a year, and Lu Ping finally experienced the feeling of his cultivation advancing by leaps and bounds. Vigorous mana flowed throughout his body along with his bloodline, and Lu Ping felt that his bloodline was like a surging river, gathering all the mana in his body to his heart, where it condensed into strands of essence that seeped into the space in his heart, strengthening the Condensed Blood Beads.
Finally, the five Condensed Blood Beads that were far larger than ordinary people's were filled to the limit. The flood dragon bloodline that occupied the absolute position once again developed its strength to the peak, and it began to sharpen its knives against the other bloodlines.
This time, it devoured the fire-attribute cicada bloodline. When Lu Ping spat out the discarded cicada bloodline, the sixth Condensed Blood Bead in the space in his heart had already expanded from nothing to one-third the size of the original five Condensed Blood Beads.
He had finally reached the sixth layer of the Hemolysis Realm. Lu Ping could not hide the joy in his heart!
On this day, as soon as Lu Ping finished his training, Chen Lian came to find him.
Chen Lian greedily breathed in the spiritual energy within Lu Ping's grotto-mansion and praised, "Every time I come here, it is a form of enjoyment! Why do I feel that the density of spiritual energy here has increased again? "
Lu Ping smiled. "You are quite sensitive. My master gave me a Spirit Gathering Pearl."
"Spirit Gathering Pearl! No wonder! " Chen Lian was a little surprised, but then he smiled and said, "My teacher's gift isn't bad either. It's a complete set of Fire Controlling Art. It's very useful for forging weapons. It's much stronger than the set of Fire Controlling Art that my teacher passed down to me."
Only then did Lu Ping notice that Chen Lian had broken through to the seventh layer of the Hemolysis Realm. He happily said, "So, Senior Brother has reached the late stage of the Hemolysis Realm. Did Sage Enigma Flame accept you as his personal disciple? No wonder he gave you a fire-control technique as a greeting gift. "
Chen Lian proudly nodded his head. "Hehe, Junior Brother, you are not bad yourself. Sixth layer. You are about to face the late stage."
Lu Ping sighed. "How can I compare to you guys? We have been staying in the Yao Sea for five years. Everyone's cultivation has increased. Senior Brother Yao Yong was the first to break through to the late stage, followed by Senior Sister Shi Lingling and Senior Sister Leng Qian. I heard that Senior Brother Du Feng, Zhong Jian, and Ma Yu are in seclusion to break through to the late stage. Now that you have broken through, we are holding you back."
Chen Lian laughed and scolded, "Come on, who dares to say that you are a burden? Among us, even Yao Yong, who has the highest cultivation, admitted that he is no match for you, let alone the others."
Lu Ping chuckled and did not reply.
"Right, do you have any more Spirit Stained Soil?" Chen Lian finally told him the reason for his visit.
"I do. Why? Are there a lot of people forging defensive artifacts recently? " Lu Ping remembered that he had dug out a few thousand jin of Spirit Stained Soil from the secret ore vein not long ago. After refining it, it was enough for him to forge a few high-grade defensive artifacts.
"That's right!" Chen Lian's face turned grim as he continued, "In the past year, the situation in the demon territory has become even more tense. A large number of Blood Condensation Realm demon beasts have begun to organize an organized counterattack against the cultivators that entered the demon territory. In the past, the human cultivators had the upper hand, but now, they are evenly matched. Although many cultivators have fallen, the survivors have reaped greater rewards. As the saying goes, fortune comes from danger. Hence, the number of cultivators entering the demon territory to hunt demon beasts has increased, and the demand for defensive artifacts has also increased."
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