Lu Ping returned from the Spirit Warehouse with more than ten spirit stones and eight Blood Purification Pills. Spirit stones could be used as a form of currency, while Blood Purification Pills were used to purify the blood of the True Spirit and improve one's cultivation.
As a disciple of the Zhen Ling Side Hall, Lu Ping was in between Zhenling's outer disciples and inner disciples. Zhenling raised them from a young age for free, unlike the outer disciples who had to earn their own living. This was to nurture Zhenling's reserve power. If they couldn't reach the Ninth Layer of the Blood Condensation Realm within fifteen years, they would be demoted to an outer disciple. Apart from earning their own living, they would also have to serve the sect.
The Zhen Ling Side Hall had a batch of Grade 3 disciples every five years. Lu Ping had been in the side hall for almost ten years, so he was a Grade 2 disciple. The lowest requirement for a Grade 2 disciple was to reach the Fourth Layer. If he couldn't reach the Sixth Layer by the tenth year, he would lose his qualification as a Grade 3 disciple and be demoted to an outer disciple.
When a Grade 2 disciple reached the Fourth Layer, they would receive two spirit stones per month. Fifth Layer would receive one Blood Purification Pill, Sixth Layer would receive two more spirit stones, and Seventh Layer would be a major turning point in the Blood Refining Realm. It was extremely difficult to break through, but once one broke through, they would enter the late Blood Refining Realm. Their cultivation would improve tremendously, and their monthly allowance would increase to six spirit stones and three Blood Purification Pills, which was double of the Sixth Layer.
The sect would also reward disciples who broke through to the late Blood Refining Realm with ten spirit stones and double the reward for those who reached the late Blood Refining Realm before the age of eighteen. It was said that disciples who reached the late Blood Refining Realm before the age of eighteen had a higher chance of breaking through during the Blood Condensation Realm.
Lu Ping didn't know if the rumor was true, but he knew that only one out of a hundred disciples could reach the Blood Condensation Realm from the Blood Refining Realm. It was like a dragon's gate. If one managed to jump through it, he would become an official inner disciple of Zhenling, learn Zhenling's official cultivation technique, and become an existence that the outer disciples could only look up to.
There were thousands of disciples in the Zhen Ling Side Hall, but only about a hundred of them reached the Ninth Layer every year. Only a few of them managed to reach the Foundation Establishment Realm. Every successful Foundation Establishment Realm disciple would become a major event in the Zhen Ling Side Hall.
Lu Ping exchanged the ten Spirit Stones for five Blood Purification Pills. Lu Ping now had sixteen Spirit Stones and eight Blood Purification Pills. In the past, Lu Ping had always used up all of the benefits he received during his cultivation. This time, apart from the basic cultivation for this month, there was still some left.
'I should make some preparations for the second-class competition,' Lu Ping thought.
Every competition was a process of fighting for cultivation resources. Not only was it a competition for individual rewards, but it was also a competition for the distribution of resources for the teams. If the teams performed well, they would receive more resources. Half of these resources would go to the leading immortal elder, and the rest would go to the disciples of the teams.
This was also the reason why Master Immortal Liu was so happy to see Lu Ping break through to Stage Seven. The competition only allowed the top ten disciples from each team to participate. This was only the basic requirement. Disciples who had reached the seventh level could participate regardless of their ranking.
The more powerful teams had more than ten people who had reached the late-stage Qi Refining realm!
Lu Ping returned to the small house in the side courtyard. As usual, he swallowed a Blood Purification Pill, held a spirit stone in his hand, and started cultivating. After a period of time, the spirit stone turned into dust, and the Blood Purification Pill's medicinal energy had been refined.
Lu Ping was not in a hurry to increase his cultivation. Instead, he started from the first layer of the Blood Refining Realm all the way to the seventh layer, strengthening his foundation. Every time Lu Ping made a breakthrough, he would do this. Naturally, his foundation would be very solid.
Even so, Lu Ping could still feel that his cultivation had increased significantly. Lu Ping exhaled a mouthful of turbid air. This was normal for a cultivator who had just broken through. As he progressed, it would only get harder and harder. Every layer in the late-stage Blood Refining Realm was a bottleneck, and it was normal for one to be stuck for three to five years.
Lu Ping opened the wooden box on the table and took out a piece of charm paper. He unfolded it and placed it on the table. Then, he took out a piece of graphite and some strange wooden tools. He started drawing on the charm paper according to the [Elementary Appendix: Mastery], using the graphite, he lightly drew on the charm paper.
Talismans were difficult to draw, and it was even more difficult for Blood Refining Realm cultivators to do so. The strokes of the talisman paper were complicated, and there could not be any mistakes. Otherwise, even if the talisman was successfully drawn, its power would be greatly reduced. Lu Ping used these tools to solve this problem.
Hehe, this is one of the advantages of transmigrating, Lu Ping thought with a smile.
Lu Ping knew these were just petty tricks. After reaching the Blood Condensation Realm, a cultivator would be able to extend their divine sense and these tools would become useless. Cultivators with divine sense would be able to draw charms with more precision than using these tools.
Lu Ping took out a brush that was used to draw talismans. It was made from the tail hair of a top-tier Class 1 demonic beast. There was a simple Spirit Gathering Formation on the shaft of the brush, which could better transfer spiritual energy to the brush.
Lu Ping dipped the brush in spiritual ink mixed with spiritual spring water, cinnabar, and the blood of a Class 1 demonic beast, Earth Spirit Turtle. He slowly infused spiritual energy from his bloodline into the brush and started drawing the talisman according to the markings on the talisman.
When the last stroke was completed, Lu Ping let out a long sigh of relief. It was a success on his first try! It seemed that the increase in his cultivation would affect the success rate of his talisman crafting.
Lu Ping felt the spiritual energy contained in the talisman and the power it emitted. He was both surprised and delighted. It was actually a top-tier talisman. This was the limit of a Blood Refining Realm cultivator.
Lu Ping thought for a moment. He pricked his finger and dripped a drop of blood essence onto the talisman. The dark-red talisman shone brightly and turned bright red, as if it was about to burst out of the talisman.
This was a method Lu Ping learned from the Scripture Pavilion in the side courtyard. It could increase the power of a talisman by two levels, but the loss of blood essence came at the cost of cultivation. Fortunately, Blood Refining Realm cultivators had their bloodline as their foundation. Their cultivation was contained in their bloodline, so they naturally had more blood essence than other cultivators. If it wasn't for the fact that Lu Ping had made a top-tier talisman, he wouldn't have wasted a drop of blood essence.
Lu Ping meditated to recover the blood essence he had lost. He continued to make nine more talismans. Unfortunately, there weren't any more top-tier talismans. There were only two high-grade Blood Refining Talismans, two mid-grade, and three low-grade talismans. The other two talismans were scrapped due to a mistake during the crafting process.
If other Blood Refining Realm cultivators were to learn of this success rate, they would probably cry out in shock. This kind of success rate was already enough to make people gasp in admiration.
Lu Ping thought for a moment. He also dripped his blood essence onto two high-grade talismans, turning them into blood talismans. He then placed the three blood talismans into another box. This box also had several blood talismans inside, and they were all high-grade Blood Refining Talismans.
As for the remaining mid-grade and low-grade talismans, Lu Ping placed them into a bag. Inside were dozens of mid-grade and low-grade talismans. This bag was the result of Lu Ping's one month of hard work.
Although the monastery's cultivators could enjoy the benefits of the sect for free, it was still far from enough for cultivation. As a result, the monastery's cultivators all had their own methods to earn spirit stones. Talismans were one of Lu Ping's methods.
Lu Ping had started crafting talismans every three days from the fourth layer of Blood Refining Realm. He hadn't stopped for several years. Relying on his constant practice and some small techniques, he had passed the initial stage of losing spirit stones. He had gradually turned his losses into profits, allowing him to accumulate cultivation resources. Otherwise, with Lu Ping's mediocre cultivation talent, how could he have joined the ranks of the monastery's high-grade cultivators?
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