This secret technique didn't have any concealment function, but it could conceal Lu Ping's true cultivation level, causing other cultivators to misjudge Lu Ping's cultivation level through their divine sense. This was a special secret technique used to disguise oneself as a pig to eat a tiger.
The cultivation of this secret technique was very demanding. First, it required a strong divine sense as the foundation. The stronger the divine sense, the tighter the concealment of one's cultivation level. Second, it required the cultivator to cultivate a pure elemental cultivation technique, and the purer the spiritual energy, the better the effect of the secret technique.
Lu Ping's divine sense was as strong as a Ninth Layer Blood Condensation Realm cultivator. In fact, it was even stronger than an ordinary Ninth Layer Blood Condensation Realm cultivator. After all, the divine sense had many uses, and many cultivators cultivated secret techniques to strengthen their divine sense.
According to the secret technique, Lu Ping could conceal his cultivation level at least at the early Blood Condensation Realm without being detected by late Blood Condensation Realm cultivators. This made Lu Ping very satisfied. After all, he also cultivated the Soul Splitting Technique. If he succeeded, even a Core Forging Enlightened Master wouldn't be able to see through his "Spirit Concealment Technique"!
After leaving the Blood Condensation Realm, Lu Ping went to Chong Hua Manor to visit Enlightened Master Liu. When Enlightened Master Liu saw Lu Ping's improvement, he gave him a few words of encouragement. When he heard that Lu Ping was going to participate in the sect's hunting mission, he gave him a jade talisman. Lu Ping took it and saw that it was a talisman treasure!
Enlightened Master Liu said, "This is a talisman treasure I casually made a hundred years ago. I'll give it to you to protect yourself."
Lu Ping thanked him. When he saw that there were seven white clouds surging inside the jade talisman, Lu Ping suppressed the joy in his heart and asked Enlightened Master Liu some questions. At this moment, Enlightened Master Liu's expression suddenly changed, and he turned his head to look at the peak of Tian Ling Mountain.
Lu Ping saw the change in Enlightened Master Liu's expression. For a moment, it was incomparably complicated. He didn't know what was going on. He followed Enlightened Master Liu's gaze and looked towards the peak, only to discover that the Tianling Mountain peak, which was usually shrouded in clouds and mist, had suddenly formed a huge vortex. The vortex formed a huge funnel, and there was a faint rumbling sound coming from the center of the vortex.
Lu Ping's divine sense was sharp. He could faintly sense that the surrounding spiritual energy was becoming thinner, and the direction of the spiritual energy flow was towards the peak of Tianling Mountain.
The huge change in the sky immediately alarmed the cultivators on Heaven Spirit Mountain. Many cultivators came out of their cave mansions and stared at the huge spiritual energy whirlpool at the peak of Heaven Spirit Mountain, trying to guess what was going on.
Could it be that someone had made a breakthrough, and it happened at the peak of Tian Ling Mountain?!
Just when the Chong Hua Mansion was in a state of silence, the void beside Enlightened Master Liu trembled, and a sound-transmitting magic sword suddenly appeared in front of him.
Enlightened Master Liu ignored the dumbfounded Lu Ping. He took the magic sword and bowed slightly. After examining it, he said a few words and sent the magic sword into the rippling void beside him. After that, the space calmed down.
Enlightened Master Liu Xuanling looked at the bewildered Lu Ping and said calmly, "It's our sect's Laozu practicing a new divine power at the peak of Tianling Mountain, and he accidentally caused a huge commotion."
Lu Ping let out an "Oh" and said enviously, "Fa Xiang Laozu! Divine power is indeed earth-shattering! "
Enlightened Master Liu didn't comment. Although Lu Ping couldn't see anything, he felt that the sky at the peak of Tian Ling Mountain was definitely related to his master. However, since his master didn't say anything, as his disciple, he couldn't ask.
At this moment, five rays of light flew in from outside the Chong Hua Mansion. After landing, it turned out to be Li Xuanru, Zhao Xuanji, and Wang Xuanjing, the three Core Forging Stage senior sisters, and two in-name disciples. After the three landed, it was obvious that they had something to say, but they saw Lu Ping.
Without waiting for the three to speak, Enlightened Master Liu said first, "Inform the disciples that it was our sect's Laozu practicing his divine power at the peak of Tian Ling Mountain. All disciples should practice diligently, there's no need to panic."
The five nodded and sent out sound-transmitting talismans to inform the disciples. The five senior brothers and sisters already had the qualifications to open a mansion and accept disciples.
Lu Ping took the opportunity to give three bottles of face retaining pills to the three senior sisters and said, "These are the face retaining pills I refined in the past year. I was planning to send them to the three senior sisters today. Now, it'll save me the trouble of traveling."
The three senior sisters happily accepted the face retaining pills and thanked Lu Ping. Lu Ping knew that the senior sisters still had something to discuss with his master, so he took his leave.
When Lu Ping left the Chong Hua Mansion, the commotion caused by the sky at the peak of Tian Ling Mountain had already calmed down. Obviously, everyone had received the notice from the sect's higher-ups about 'Laozu practicing his divine power'.
Lu Ping looked at the remaining fourteen face retaining pills in his storage ring and sighed inwardly. Sure enough, pill refiners were the wealthiest among the cultivators. Normally, when a cultivator asked a pill refiner for a bottle of Blood Condensation Realm pills, they would need to prepare two sets of spirit herbs for a bottle. If it was a Late Blood Condensation Realm pill, it was normal for some pill refiners to ask for three sets of spirit herbs. After the pill refinement was completed, the pill refiner would gladly accept the excess.
In order to refine a bottle of Core Forging Realm pills, cultivators would usually need to prepare three to four sets of spirit herbs for the pill refiner. For Avatar Realm pills, it was no longer a matter of how many sets of spirit herbs there were. Due to the scarcity of spirit herbs, Laozu would usually gather enough spirit herbs and ask the pill refiner to refine it. Even if only one pill was refined, Laozu would have to thank the pill refiner and prepare enough gifts.
The status of pill refiners among the cultivators was obvious!
After the apprenticeship ceremony, some well-informed cultivators came to Lu Ping and asked him to refine pills for them. However, Lu Ping didn't want to delay his cultivation because of pill refinement. Moreover, Lu Ping's cultivation was advancing by leaps and bounds at that time, so he used seclusion as an excuse to reject all requests for pill refinement. He would only help his good friends like Chen Lian and Yao Yong, or his three senior sisters from the same sect.
Lu Ping's three senior sisters knew that Lu Ping hadn't reached the level of a master, so they each prepared four sets of spirit herbs for Lu Ping to use to hone his pill refinement skills. Four sets of spirit herbs had a success rate of 30%, and the remaining eight sets had a stable success rate of 40%.
Apart from the three bottles of 30 pills he gave to his three senior sisters, he still had 14 pills left. Including the pills he refined for his teacher, Lu Ping still had 18 pills on him.
Lu Ping didn't use the pills himself. After all, after reaching the late stage of Blood Condensation, his lifespan was close to 300 years. This way, he could maintain his 20 year old appearance until he was 60 years old. It would be a waste to use the pills now.
After returning to Huang Li Island, Lu Ping immediately went to Chen Lian's smithing shop. He wanted to upgrade his "Landslide" to a top-grade magic tool in three days. This way, his strength would increase by another level.
"Landslide" already had a total of nine seals. This was the limit of a high-grade magic tool. If he wanted to upgrade it to a top-grade magic tool, he would need to fuse all nine seals together. This would require the magic tool to be of an extremely high quality.
Chen Lian ordered Lu Ping to purify the melted rank 2 mutated spirit material, Deep Sea Silver Iron, using his arcane energy. This way, after being contaminated with Lu Ping's arcane energy, Lu Ping would be able to use it smoothly. This would lay a solid foundation for upgrading "Landslide" to a magic tool in the future.
Lu Ping remembered that he learned the "Spirit Fire Smelting Purification Technique" in the smithing hall of Fei Ling Island. Since he didn't know any purification techniques, he could only use the dumbest method of purifying his arcane energy. He wouldn't lose anything if he used what he learned now.
To ensure the quality of the purification, Lu Ping did it alone. Naturally, Lu Ping didn't want the earth fire that Chen Lian used to purify his spirit material. He took out the Blue Spirit Fire and followed the requirements of the "Spirit Fire Smelting Purification Technique" to purify the Deep Sea Silver Iron bit by bit until he was familiar with it. Then, he used his arcane energy and started to purify the mutated Deep Sea Silver Iron.
In the end, the large piece of Deep Sea Silver Iron shrunk by three quarters. The liquid was pure silver without any impurities.
When Lu Ping called Chen Lian in, Chen Lian looked at the exhausted Lu Ping and the puddle of pure Deep Sea Silver Iron and cursed, "Pervert!"
Lu Ping urgently recovered his arcane energy and then helped Chen Lian to fuse "Landslide" with the Deep Sea Silver Iron. At the same time, he connected the nine arcane energy restrictions to form a cycle and become a whole. Under the activation of Lu Ping's arcane energy, the original grayish black iron seal turned into a warm silver jade color. The domineering and solemn appearance also became reserved. Lu Ping held the three-inch cube in his hand and played with it. He loved it so much that he couldn't put it down.
After successfully upgrading "Landslide", Lu Ping hurried to Elder Chen's crafting shop on Di Kun Island and took a simple and unadorned jade pendant from Elder Chen.
This jade pendant was made by Lu Ping using the top-grade spirit material Millennium Cold Jade given to him by his second senior apprentice-sister Li Xuan Ru as the main body. He also combined the high-grade and top-grade water attribute spirit materials he had collected over the years and asked Elder Chen to refine it into a top-grade auxiliary arcane artifact.
This arcane artifact didn't have any offensive or defensive functions. It only had the effect of calming one's mind, gathering spiritual energy, and preventing qi deviation. Lu Ping hung this jade pendant on his waist and immediately felt his whole body become spirited. When he operated his arcane technique, the absorption and recovery of spiritual energy became a little faster. His whole body seemed to have an extra layer of ethereal aura.
In the end, Elder Chen's crafting skills were still more experienced. Although Chen Lian had fused the strong points of two schools and had greater potential, compared to Elder Chen, he was still too inexperienced.
Seven days later, Lu Ping and the rest gathered in Huang Li Island's meeting hall. At the same time, the other five patrol teams were also present. Everyone was in high spirits and was ready to set off.
At this time, Liu Ziyuan and a dozen Late Blood Condensation cultivators escorted a man in his thirties into the meeting hall. Everyone looked at this man, but they couldn't find any trace of a cultivator on him!
The man walked to the center of the meeting hall and looked at the cultivators around him. He smiled and said, "My name is Yang Xuanmu. For this hunting mission, I will be the backup for Huang Li Island. Everyone can fight the demonic beasts without worry. You don't have to worry about the monster Enlightened Masters' revenge."
When everyone heard that there was a Enlightened Master as backup, their faces lit up with joy.
Enlightened Master Yang Xuanmu continued, "Recently, a group of demonic beasts has been wantonly killing human cultivators in the demon territory to collect blood and flesh. Their methods are extremely cruel. If you encounter them, you must capture and kill them. If you don't have enough strength, report to me immediately. I will dispatch the nearby cultivators to reinforce you. Do not let them escape."
Even though Enlightened Master Yang's voice was low, it was filled with killing intent. His voice rang in everyone's ears as if it had some kind of magical power. Lu Ping and the rest engraved it in their hearts, and their fighting spirit soared.
Lu Ping had a premonition that they were going to set off a bloody storm in the demon territory.
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