There was still no news from Golden Jiao Island. However, Fang Tao heard that the various sects had sent cultivators to hunt demonic beasts in the demon territory.
Lu Ping carefully analyzed the news and found that there was a lot of news about Zhenling. However, there was no news about Liu Ziyuan, Qi Zicai, Ai Botao, Miao Weidong, or the "Eighteen Generals of the North Sea". Clearly, the previous news was a smokescreen used by the sects to confuse the demon race.
Lu Ping focused all his energy on cultivation and pill concoction, especially pill concoction. Because Lu Ping had successfully modified a "Purification Technique" for smithing and applied it to pill concoction, it greatly improved Lu Ping's pill concoction skills.
Lu Ping was currently debating whether he should concoct the Heart Dissolving Pill.
The Heart Dissolving Pill was even more difficult to concoct than the Golden Grade Pill. It was almost the same as a Core Forging Realm pill, but the Heart Dissolving Pill was far more valuable.
The Heart Dissolving Pill could ignore bottlenecks and allow a Blood Condensation Realm cultivator's cultivation to increase by one level after three days of seclusion. The 24 thousand-year-old spiritual herbs used to concoct the Heart Dissolving Pill were all extremely rare and precious. Each of them was a main ingredient in any Core Forging Realm pill.
If Lu Ping failed to concoct the pill, he would lose more than 150,000 spiritual stones.
In the end, Lu Ping decided to concoct the Heart Dissolving Pill. After Lu Ping returned from the demon territory, especially after discovering that the Golden Scale Residence was recruiting demon soldiers, Lu Ping felt that a war was about to break out between the human and demon races. Perhaps the North Sea Sects' scheme against the Golden Jiao Island Lord was the fuse.
Therefore, Lu Ping urgently needed to increase his strength. Moreover, Lu Ping was already in the late Blood Condensation Realm. If a war broke out, Lu Ping might not have the time to concoct the Heart Dissolving Pill.
The process of concocting the Heart Dissolving Pellets was a painful one. The first cauldron of medicinal pellets turned into ashes with a loud bang during the concoction process. Just like that, 150,000 spirit stones were wasted. Lu Ping also had to add in a high-grade spirit stone to ensure that the cauldron had sufficient spiritual energy.
After concocting the Heart Dissolving Pellet for the first time, Lu Ping rested for two whole days before he started concocting the Heart Dissolving Pellet for the second time. Lu Ping now knew that the biggest obstacle for him in concocting pellets close to the Core Forging Realm was his divine sense.
Divine sense was more detailed and precise than divine sense. At the same time, it was also stronger than divine sense. Even though Lu Ping's divine sense was far stronger than a peak Blood Condensation cultivator's, he still exhausted his divine sense at the last moment of pill condensation. It was easy to imagine what would happen if a normal Blood Condensation Realm pill refiner tried.
Now that he was prepared, Lu Ping didn't make any mistakes during the second cauldron of Heart Dissolving Pellets. After the cauldron was opened, a bright red pellet jumped out from the cauldron. Lu Ping ignored the exhaustion of his divine sense and reached out to grab the only Heart Dissolving Pellet in his hand.
The bright red Heart Dissolving Pill seemed to be beating like a heart. Lu Ping knew that this was because the Heart Dissolving Pill was extremely close to the Core Forging Realm. It had already surpassed the "half-step spirit transformation" level of other half-step Core Forging Realm pills. It was close to the "spiritualization" level of a Core Forging Realm pill.
Even though Lu Ping summarized his previous two attempts, he still only succeeded in refining one Heart Dissolving Pill.
It seemed like this was the extent of his pill refinement skills. Lu Ping sighed inwardly.
Shocking news finally came from the demon territory. Among the North Sea's demon race, the peak Core Forging Realm Lord of Golden Jiao Island, who was known as the "number one person under Fa Xiang Laozu", had been attacked by the North Sea cultivators on the day of his 600th birthday. The various demon cultivators who had come to celebrate his birthday suffered heavy losses.
The news had just reached Huang Li Island, so the exact situation was unknown. Fang Tao hurriedly reported to Lu Ping. Lu Ping had already expected this, so he wasn't surprised. He only told Fang Tao to continue gathering information from the cultivators who had returned from the sea.
The North Sea's various sects had come prepared, so it wasn't surprising that they won. Lu Ping was concerned about the number of casualties on both sides, as well as the degree of participation of high level cultivators. This was the essence of this conflict. Apart from that, he also wanted to know about Hu Lili and his group of friends. He hoped that they would be able to protect themselves in this large-scale conflict.
For some reason, Lu Ping felt a sense of urgency. What he needed to do now was to increase his own strength and prepare for the possibility that the conflict might escalate further.
In a cultivation room in the belly of the mountain, Lu Ping held a bright-red pill in his hand. It was one of the two Heart Dissolving Pills Lu Ping had obtained by sacrificing four to five hundred thousand spirit stones worth of spirit herbs.
The effects of the Heart Dissolving Pill would only appear once for each cultivator. Cultivators couldn't use the Heart Dissolving Pill to increase their cultivation continuously. Therefore, the best time to consume the Heart Dissolving Pill was at the Eighth Layer of the Blood Condensation Realm. That way, they would be able to reach the peak of the Blood Condensation Realm in one fell swoop and start preparing for the Core Forging Realm.
The Heart Dissolving Pill was said to be able to increase a cultivator's cultivation without damaging their foundation. However, as a precaution, Lu Ping still prepared some of the best pills he could currently use in case of emergencies. At the same time, he held two precious high-grade spirit stones in his hand to aid his cultivation.
After the Heart Dissolving Pill entered his stomach, the first layer of the pill dissolved rapidly, turning into a stream of medicinal energy that flowed into Lu Ping's blood vessels, widening them. An intense pain swept through Lu Ping's entire body. Immediately after, the second layer of medicinal energy spread throughout his body, repairing and nourishing his blood vessels. The third layer of medicinal energy turned into a huge wave of spiritual energy that rampaged through his blood vessels.
Lu Ping tried his best to circulate the North Sea Wave Listening Technique. With the help of his powerful divine sense, Lu Ping's abundant arcane energy finally began to guide this external spiritual energy. At the same time, it gradually refined this spiritual energy into his own arcane energy. Lu Ping's arcane energy quickly rose to the peak of the Seventh Layer of the Blood Condensation Realm.
As Lu Ping's arcane energy became more abundant, the dormant foundation bloodline in his body finally became active again. The feeling of hunger came again. This time, the Flood Dragon Bloodline sharpened its blade and targeted the Earth Ape Bloodline.
However, just as Lu Ping's foundation bloodline subdued the Ape Bloodline's resistance, the enormous spiritual energy contained in the Heart Dissolving Pill suddenly began to run out.
Lu Ping sighed inwardly. He knew that this would happen. The cultivation of the North Sea Wave Listening Technique naturally increased the density of arcane energy. It also lowered the bottlenecks of cultivation. However, this dense arcane energy caused Lu Ping to spend a lot of time accumulating and polishing the arcane energy in his body every time he advanced.
Although the Heart Dissolving Pill could increase a cultivator's cultivation by one layer, it was still insufficient against Lu Ping's unique cultivation technique. Right now, Lu Ping's cultivation was only a step away from the Eighth Layer of the Blood Condensation Realm.
Without hesitation, Lu Ping swallowed two Late Blood Condensation Blood Spirit Pellets and a surge of spiritual energy flowed into his veins. Although the medicinal efficacy was incomparable to the Heart Dissolving Pellet, this was the last straw he needed.
The two high-grade spirit stones in his hands came in handy. Along with the spiritual energy emitted by the six miniature spirit veins, the spiritual energy continuously flowed into Lu Ping's body.
With the help of this spiritual energy, the Flood Dragon Bloodline finally devoured all the spiritual energy in the Ape Bloodline. In his heart core, the eighth Condensed Blood Bead gradually formed. Lu Ping had finally stepped into the Eighth Layer of the Blood Condensation Realm.
It took Lu Ping five days to consolidate his cultivation base in the Eighth Layer. He looked at the two high-grade spirit stones that had been crushed into powder in his hand and the thin spiritual energy in the mountain belly. He smiled and thought to himself that he was lucky this time.
Lu Ping knew that he had only broken through to the Late Stage Blood Condensation Realm less than three months ago. If others knew that he had broken through to the Eighth Layer now, it would inevitably arouse suspicion. Thus, he used the Spirit Concealment Technique to conceal his cultivation to the Seventh Layer. This way, even Core Forging Enlightened Masters wouldn't be able to discover Lu Ping's true cultivation unless they deliberately probed him.
When Lu Ping came out of seclusion, he saw a voice transmission talisman floating outside the Ice River Killing Formation. Lu Ping called it over and saw that it was Fang Tao reporting the latest situation in the demon territory. Because Lu Ping was focused on his seclusion, he had no choice but to use a voice transmission talisman to leave a message.
The most shocking part of the surprise attack on Golden Jiao Island was when the sects of the North Sea launched their attack.
That day, when the cultivators lying in ambush around Golden Flood Dragon Island launched an attack and killed their way to Golden Flood Dragon Island, they were temporarily blocked by Golden Flood Dragon Island's Grand Array.
Just as the formation grandmasters of various sects began to break the island-guarding formation of the Golden Flood Dragon Island, an earth-shattering laughter suddenly came from the Golden Flood Dragon Island. "This old man is celebrating my six hundredth birthday. I wanted to invite my fellow Daoists of the Demon Race to join in the festivities. I didn't expect that my fellow Daoists of the Human Race would also come uninvited.
Just as the Golden Jiao Island Lord finished speaking, a shocking aura soared into the sky. The clouds in the sky suddenly changed color. At this moment, the Golden Jiao Island Lord seemed to have become the ruler of the sky.
"Oh no, the wind is dancing and the clouds are changing. This is the sign of the Dharma Phase Laozu. This old demon has already achieved Dharma Phase and advanced into the Dharma Phase!"
"This old demon is probably not having a birthday banquet, but a Dharma Phase Assembly!"
"I'm afraid so. I also suspected that even if the Golden Jiao Island Lord was invincible in the Core Forging stage, it would be impossible for him to invite 108 Core Forging stage demons from 72 prefectures for a birthday banquet. If it's a Dharma Phase Assembly, then it makes sense."
"Since this old demon has achieved Dharma Phase, we are definitely not his match. I'm afraid we'll have to return in defeat."
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Just as the North Sea cultivators' morale was falling due to the Golden Jiao Island Lord's soaring aura, a gentle voice came from afar. "I wanted to leave after watching the show, but I didn't expect my old friend to have achieved Dharma Phase. Xuanlin is very comforted. Perhaps I'll have to ask for a cup of wine."
As this gentle voice came, the sky that was originally dark and bright suddenly cleared up. The Golden Jiao Island Lord's aura was forcibly pushed back. But Golden Jiao Island.
"Jiang Xuanlin, it's you? I didn't expect you to have also achieved Dharma Phase. Then I should call you Jiang Tianlin! This is what you're relying on to besiege my Golden Jiao Island! "
The Golden Jiao Island Lord was obviously shocked!
Perfected Jiang Xuanlin's arrival caused the North Sea cultivators' morale to soar. The shadow of the Golden Jiao Island Lord's advancement to the Dharma Phase was swept away.
The Perfected Masters and disciples of the various sects looked at the Zhenling disciples beside them with envy. The Zhenling Perfected Masters and disciples were stunned at first, then they were overjoyed and proud. They didn't expect that their sect's Perfected Master Jiang Xuanlin had already achieved Dharma Phase.
Becoming a Dharma Phase Laozu meant that he would be the guardian of the sect!
Zhenling's strength would greatly increase because of this. Presumably, Xuan Ling Sect would have to think twice before claiming to be the number one sect in the North Sea.
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