Naturally, Lu Ping didn't know that he had been dragged into the conflict between the three clans. At this moment, he was concentrating on figuring out the pill recipe he got from the Li Clan that could increase the success rate of pill condensation.
The recipe for the 'Seven Step Marked Pill' was even more complicated than the 'Heart Dissolving Pill' that Lu Ping had concocted. The Heart Dissolving Pill required a total of 49 types of spiritual herbs. Among them, there were 24 types of 1,000-year spiritual herbs. It was only three types of spiritual herbs away from the minimum requirement of 27 types of 1,000-year spiritual herbs for Core Forging Realm pills.
However, the Seven Step Marked Pellet required 26 types of thousand-year-old spirit herbs, which was almost the same as a Core Forging Realm medicinal pellet. This was undoubtedly a severe challenge for Lu Ping's alchemy skills.
The reason why Lu Ping agreed to concoct the 'Seven Step Marked Pill' was not only because of the Li Clan's Patriarch's request, but also because Lu Ping was interested in this pill that could increase the success rate of pill condensation. Now that he was at the Eighth Layer of the Blood Condensation Realm, the Core Forging Realm wasn't too far away for him. He needed to accumulate enough to break through to the Core Forging Realm in the future.
Moreover, as an alchemist, he was naturally interested in collecting all kinds of pill recipes. This was also the professional conduct of a qualified alchemist. Of course, the most important thing was that Lu Ping had a trump card up his sleeve.
The Mysterious Leaf Grass.
This was a 1,000-year spiritual herb that Lu Ping had exchanged from Li Erqiang for a Blood Dissolving Pill.
In order to strengthen his divine sense, Lu Ping had chosen three methods. The first was the Soul Nurturing Technique, which Lu Ping had been practicing all this time. The third was the Soul Splitting Technique. After Lu Ping had exchanged the Earth Core Flame for the Soul Nurturing Wood, he had been using the Soul Nurturing Wood and enduring the pain of his divine sense splitting.
However, Lu Ping had to give up on the second method. It wasn't because the second method was difficult to practice, nor was it because the Soul Expanding Pill was difficult to concoct. It was because the main ingredient of the Soul Expanding Pill was the Mysterious Leaf Grass. This 1,000-year spiritual herb was extremely rare, comparable to some 3,000-year spiritual herbs.
Ever since Lu Ping became an alchemist, he had been searching for this spiritual herb. He had even asked his master, Liu Xuanling, and his second senior apprentice sister, Li Xuan Ru. However, he had no results. He had originally given up, but unexpectedly, he had the fortune to find this spiritual herb in the three clans.
With the Mystic Leaf Cloak Grass, Lu Ping would be able to concoct the Spirit Expansion Pellet. It was also a Half-Step Core Forging Realm medicinal pellet, but it only required 15 thousand-year-old spirit herbs. It was slightly more difficult to concoct than the Golden Resilience Pellet, but far from being comparable to the Heart Dissolving Pellet.
As for the other herbs, Lu Ping had already collected them. It was only because of the Mysterious Leaf Grass that he had delayed until now.
The concoction of the Spirit Expansion Pellets went smoothly. When Lu Ping was concocting the Golden Invincible Pellets, due to his improved purification technique, the success rate of concocting Golden Invincible Pellets had increased to four per cauldron. Although concocting the Spirit Expansion Pellets was harder than concocting the Golden Invincible Pellets, Lu Ping's cultivation base was now at the Eighth Layer Blood Condensation Realm.
With this increase and decrease, the success rate of concocting the Spirit Expanding Pill remained at four pills. Three stalks of Mysterious Leaf Grass produced a total of 12 Spirit Expanding Pills. However, the number of 1,000-year spiritual herbs that Lu Ping had collected was decreasing.
The Spirit Expanding Pill was as black as ink. It looked as if it wanted to swallow the surrounding light. Lu Ping wrapped a Spirit Expanding Pill with his divine sense. The Spirit Expanding Pill was like a magnet, crazily swallowing the surrounding divine sense into the pill.
As Lu Ping's divine sense continued to enter the pill, the Spirit Expanding Pill gradually shrunk as if it had melted. However, through his divine sense, Lu Ping knew that the Spirit Expanding Pill hadn't melted. Instead, as Lu Ping's divine sense entered the pill, it gradually transformed into a transparent ball of divine sense.
When the Spirit Expansion Pellet turned transparent due to the influx of divine sense, or rather, an invisible divine sense ball, the pellet suddenly exploded and completely fused with Lu Ping's divine sense. Lu Ping immediately felt his divine sense's strength increase by a hundred feet. His divine sense was now stronger than before, and his divine sense could reach up to ten feet.
Lu Ping carefully felt the newly increased divine sense. The entire process took about four hours, and the results were not bad. However, Lu Ping knew that this was because of the initial effects of the Spirit Expanding Pill. By the second pill, it was already good enough for his divine sense to increase by 70 to 80 meters. As the Spirit Expanding Pill continued to be consumed, the effect would become weaker and weaker until it was negligible.
Half a month later, when Lu Ping received an invitation from the Li Clan to participate in the underground auction in the Three Family Cities, Lu Ping had already consumed all 12 Spirit Expanding Pills. The strength of his divine sense had expanded by 30 meters, allowing Lu Ping to have a complete understanding of the area around him that was more than 200 meters around him.
On this day, Lu Ping called Xiao Sima over. While listening to him talk about the interesting things that had happened in the Three Family Cities, he continued the process of sweeping up the spiritual grasses in the Three Family Cities. Recently, the most powerful Zhang Clan still hadn't changed much. On the other hand, the Li Clan's activities had decreased recently. Even if there were cultivators that went out, they would be very careful with their words and actions, as if they were afraid of causing trouble. The Wang Clan was the most active during this period of time. They often held large banquets and invited some of the famous rogue cultivators and small gangs in the Three Family Cities. It was said that the Wang Clan's Patriarch had visited the Li Clan a few times.
Along the way, Lu Ping listened to Xiao Sima talk about the various things that had happened in the Three Family Cities recently. Not long after, the two of them arrived at the Mortal Market. However, they found that the market was very noisy.
Lu Ping raised his head and looked at the market. He saw a cultivator wearing a silver robe, accompanied by a young man and a middle-aged man. They were arguing with a rogue cultivator who had set up a stall in the market.
When Lu Ping saw the silver robe, he wanted to avoid it. However, there were already many cultivators in the market who saw Lu Ping's figure. They all shouted, "Senior Lu is here, Senior Lu is here!"
Everyone looked at Lu Ping. The three people led by the silver robe also stopped arguing and looked in Lu Ping's direction. Seeing that he couldn't avoid them, Lu Ping brought Xiao Sima into the market.
As soon as Lu Ping entered the market, Li Erqiang, who had already reached the Blood Condensation Realm, appeared out of nowhere. He handed two jade boxes to Lu Ping and said, "Immortal Master Lu, do you think these two spirit herbs can be used?"
Lu Ping opened the boxes and heard Xiao Sima muttering behind him, "Seven stalks of 500-year-old Jade Containing Grass and five stalks of Blood Night Grass."
Lu Ping turned to look at Xiao Sima. "You recognize these two spirit herbs?"
Xiao Sima blushed. "I've been following Immortal Master for a while now. I've seen many spirit herbs, so I recognize them."
Xiao Sima's eyes were filled with apprehension. Lu Ping didn't deny it. He turned to Li Erqiang and said, "You've just reached the Blood Condensation Realm. This is the time to consolidate your cultivation and advance by leaps and bounds. Why aren't you cultivating in seclusion? Why are you adventuring in the Endless Sea Realm?"
Li Erqiang smiled but didn't answer. Lu Ping knew that Li Erqiang was taking care of Li Daqiang's two children. It was said that these two children were quite talented in cultivation. Lu Ping guessed that Li Erqiang was in desperate need of cultivation resources, so he said, "These seven stalks of Jade Containing Grass are the main ingredients for the late Blood Condensation Realm Jade Containing Pill. It's what I need right now. These five stalks of Blood Night Grass aren't the main ingredients, but they're indispensable to many Blood Condensation Realm pills. They're worth quite a bit. Take them first and consolidate your cultivation. With your Blood Condensation Realm cultivation, you should have no problem providing for your two children's cultivation."
Li Erqiang clenched the things that Lu Ping handed to him tightly. Although he was extremely excited, he didn't show it on his face. He only bowed to Lu Ping and hurried back to his courtyard. When he was sure that no one was around, he opened his tightly clenched hands and revealed a small storage pouch. Li Erqiang sent his divine sense into the pouch and found a bottle of China Root Pills and two mid-grade spirit stones inside.
Wang Yishan was furious. It wasn't easy for him to invite a distinguished guest of his family to visit the three families' cities. He even invited his family's alchemist to accompany him. This distinguished guest was also an alchemist and could even refine half-step Core Forging Realm pills. If he could win the favor of this half-step Grandmaster and refine a few pills that could help him break through to the Core Forging Realm, he would become the fourth Core Forging Realm cultivator in his family. He would become the Wang Clan's first successor and the number one expert of the younger generation in the three families' cities. This would be the first time he would be able to trample on the arrogant Li Xiuzhu. Even the Zhang siblings, Zhang Shengqian and Zhang Shengkun, would have to look down on him.
Wang Yishan was originally secretly applauding his plan, but the distinguished guest suddenly became interested in the mortal market of the three families' cities. Wang Yishan didn't understand why an esteemed alchemist would want to go to a place where rogue cultivators gathered. Although the three families' cities weren't as prosperous as the markets on the large islands, the city's facilities were quite complete. Wang Yishan couldn't figure it out. Seeing that his alchemist didn't object, he could only attribute it to the eccentricity of alchemists.
Then, when he arrived at the mortal market, Wang Yishan really realized how hateful these rogue cultivators were. Each of them pretended to be knowledgeable, commenting on the spirit herbs in their hands, as if they were sitting on the ground and raising the price. Could it be that they were more knowledgeable than the two alchemists beside him?
Seeing the two alchemists' repeated attempts to purchase the spirit herbs from these rogue cultivators to no avail, Wang Yishan felt that his family's distinguished guest was giving him too much face. Although the distinguished guest looked unhappy, he was still patiently bargaining with these "unruly people", obviously showing respect for his identity.
Wang Yishan thought that his opportunity had come. Why should he be polite to these rogue cultivators? As long as he reprimanded these rogue cultivators with his identity as the Wang Family's Eldest Young Master, letting these unruly people know who was the master of the three families' cities, would they not obediently sell their spirit herbs to his family's distinguished guest?
In this way, not only would he show his dignity and the status of his family, he would also be able to leave a good impression on the distinguished guest in front of him. Thinking of this, Wang Yishan suddenly felt that he was wise and powerful.
Things were often unexpected. Just as Wang Yishan put on the dignity of the master of the three families' cities, the Wang Family's Eldest Young Master, and loudly reprimanded an old mortal who was unwilling to sell his spirit herbs, the rogue cultivators who had set up stalls in the mortal market actually accused the Wang Family of taking advantage of their power to bully others, and that the price of the spirit herbs was far lower than the actual value of the spirit herbs.
The Wang Family's Eldest Young Master's attempt to show his image as the master of the three families' cities had failed, and instead he was accused by a group of "unruly people", causing him to fly into a rage out of humiliation. Since when did rogue cultivators have such great courage? Since when did rogue cultivators have such a deep understanding of spirit herbs?
The Wang Family's Eldest Young Master immediately argued with the rogue cultivators in the market. The Wang Family's alchemists who had come together with him wanted to stop them, but it was already too late. The Wang Family's Eldest Young Master, whose face was flushed with anger, was determined to restore his image in front of everyone, but he did not know that his image was getting worse and worse.
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