Lu Ping took a big detour and sprinted towards the southeast direction. The cut on his arm had already stopped bleeding. Lu Ping changed out of his torn clothes. Otherwise, when he reached the southeast direction and was seen by other cultivators, it would be hard to avoid suspicion.
Lu Ping swallowed a Spirit Recovery Pill and held two mid-grade spirit stones in his hands. He quickly recovered the little transcendence energy left in his body. He didn't expect the cultivator leading the charge from the Overturned Oceans Sect to be so difficult to deal with.
Just as Lu Ping used the Green Serpent Ocean Disturbance Sword Technique and attacked the leading cultivator with all his might, he saw the leading cultivator wrap his protective mystic instrument behind his back and smash the water net into pieces. At the same time, the cultivator muttered an incantation and all the transcendence energy in his body surged into his tightly clenched right hand. He ignored the water serpent that was rushing towards him.
Lu Ping's heart trembled and he was secretly on guard to prevent any accidents from happening.
Just as the water serpent destroyed the cultivator's protective Qi of Vigor, a ray of light suddenly exploded from the cultivator's hand. The cultivator opened his hand and an inch-sized red bead suddenly flew towards Lu Ping. It smashed the water serpent into a pool of stagnant water and sent the Qinghan Sword flying.
Before Lu Ping could react, the red bead had already arrived above Lu Ping. Countless red threads extended from the red bead and wrapped around Lu Ping.
Lu Ping barely managed to raise the Qinghan Sword and slashed at the red threads. However, he discovered that these red threads were wisps of light and had no substance.
The threads tightly wrapped around Lu Ping and he was unable to move. Lu Ping said bitterly, "It's actually a transcendent artifact?"
The leading cultivator's face was pale and covered in cold sweat. However, he laughed proudly and said, "I didn't think the Scarlet Afterglow Bead I took from another cultivator would have such power. Hmph, if I knew you were so difficult to deal with, I would have used the Scarlet Afterglow Bead right from the start. My two junior brothers wouldn't have died. However, as long as I can capture you, everything will be worth it."
The cultivator paused and took a deep breath before saying, "Right now, I am the knife and you are the meat on the chopping block. If you tell us who killed Yuan Shikong, we can spare your life after crippling your cultivation. If you don't tell us, we might have to let you have a taste of our sect's high-grade cultivator's soul searching technique."
Seeing the complacent expression on the cultivator's face, Lu Ping's eyes gradually turned cold. He said, "Do you think you can defeat me just like that?"
The cultivator was stunned. "What?"
A huge pestle suddenly appeared in the air and smashed towards the Scarlet Afterglow Bead above Lu Ping's head. The Scarlet Afterglow Bead wailed and quickly retracted the threads it spat out. The threads wrapped around the Scarlet Afterglow Bead and slowly fell to the ground like a ball of yarn.
Just as the medicinal pestle struck down the Scarlet Afterglow Bead, there was a "Pu" sound. The cultivator's ears, eyes, nostrils, and mouth all began to bleed. This was a sign that his divine sense and magic power had simultaneously suffered heavy damage.
The leading cultivator pointed a trembling finger at Lu Ping. His face was full of disbelief. "You actually have an arcane artifact? You can actually wield a transcendent artifact? How is this possible?"
The Qinghan Sword flashed past, and the cultivator's head flew into the air. Lu Ping's face was deathly pale from using a transcendent artifact. He mumbled, "Who said a Seventh Layer Blood Condensation cultivator can't wield a transcendent artifact?!"
Lu Ping collected the three cultivators' storage pouches, then picked up the Scarlet Afterglow Bead on the ground and put it into his storage ring. Ignoring the weakness in his body caused by the excessive arcane energy consumption, he quickly left the area.
Lu Ping found a secluded spot and released all his spiritual pets to stand guard. He quickly sat down and meditated to recover 20% of his spiritual energy. Then, he gulped down two mouthfuls of the Thousand Spirit Wine that he had been saving for a long time before heading southeast.
By the time he reached the southeast side, he had already recovered 40% of his arcane energy. The Alioth Hall had already been opened, and the cultivators on the battlefield had just experienced a chaotic battle. Lu Ping scanned the area with his divine sense, but he didn't find Ji Zixuan and Yin Zichu. The two of them were either protecting Lu Ping from being chased, or they had snatched the treasures spat out by the Alioth Hall and were hiding from the pursuers.
Lu Ping took this opportunity to continue to recover his arcane energy. At the same time, his divine sense scanned the storage ring and checked his harvest.
Although he had missed the opening of the Alioth Hall, he had obtained a magic treasure, the Scarlet Afterglow Bead, from the hands of the Overflowing Seas Gang. This might be more precious than the treasures in the Alioth Hall.
Lu Ping's divine sense probed into the Scarlet Afterglow Bead. There was only one mysterious and complicated restriction, which meant that the Scarlet Afterglow Bead had only been refined with one treasure restriction. It was no wonder that it had been knocked to the ground by a single strike from the medicinal pestle. There were two treasured restrictions within the medicinal pestle, even though both treasured restrictions were the same.
The jade box in the Megrez Hall, Lu Ping had already checked it on the way here. The things inside made Lu Ping speechless. A total of 36 Golden Nuts! Lu Ping had just obtained a Golden Nut Fruit Tree, and there were still 20 ripe fruits on it.
Luckily, although the effect of the Golden Nuts to strengthen the body was the best at the beginning, the effect became less obvious as time went by, but there was still some effect. At least with these 36 fruits, Lu Ping would not have to wait another 100 years.
It was just that Lu Ping did not know that if there was a Dharma Laozu present, and he heard Lu Ping's thoughts, he would definitely stretch out two fingers and strangle him to death. So many Laozu scoured the world in search of elixirs to strengthen the body, but Lu Ping actually thought that there were too many of them.
However, the jade box was a good treasure. The Golden Nuts had been in the jade box for at least tens of thousands of years, but the Golden Nuts were still perfectly preserved. The medicinal power and moisture inside did not decrease in the slightest. Even the Jade Essence Bottle that was used to store Dharma elixirs did not have this kind of effect after being sealed with a spirit-sealing talisman.
As the cultivators waited expectantly, another part of the void array around the Seven Stars Hall was destroyed, and a rumbling sound was heard. This time, it was the Divine Pivot Hall that opened. However, of the seven treasures that were spat out, none of them were heading towards Lu Ping. The one closest to Lu Ping was several tens of feet away. By the time Lu Ping arrived, many of the cultivators who were fighting had already fled to the periphery. From time to time, there would be cultivators dying, and the treasure would also change hands a few times. In the end, no one knew where it ended up.
Lu Ping was alone, and the Dharmic powers in his body had not recovered, so he did not dare to participate in such a chaotic battle, and could only give up.
The fourth opening was the Divine Pivot Hall. Lu Ping, who had recovered 70% of his Dharmic powers, decided to participate and fish in troubled waters.
It was a pill furnace that was heading towards the area where Lu Ping was!
Lu Ping's eyes lit up, and he secretly praised his good luck. However, as soon as the pill furnace appeared, Lu Ping was not the only one who went crazy.
Since the opening of the Seven Stars Hall, all the magic tools that appeared were high-grade and below. Even if they were high-grade magic tools, most of them had special functions. Otherwise, even if the seven Laozu reluctantly accepted it, which disciple would be shameless enough to give it to them?
Therefore, the grade of this pill furnace was at least high-grade, and even if it was a high-grade pill furnace, its value was equivalent to a magic treasure.
Lu Ping decided to take the cauldron by force. As his alchemy skills improved day by day, the Agerasia Halting Pellet, Golden Resilience Pellet, and other medicinal pellets that were almost equivalent to Half-Step Core Forging Realm medicinal pellets, his original mid-grade cauldron was no longer enough.
Lu Ping swung his Qinghan Sword, and eighty-one sword rays shot out, indiscriminately slashing at the crowd of cultivators who were fighting for the pill furnace. Lu Ping changed several sword techniques in a row, and he even used the "Blood Condensation Spirit Dissolving Fist Sword" that he had practiced during the Blood Refining Realm.
It was a sword technique that was at the level of sword intent. Lu Ping swung his sword nine times in a row, and when the ninth sword thrust out, the sword rays in the sky changed. The eighty-one sword rays instantly split into 162 sword rays.
Lu Ping's swordsmanship had improved again!
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