Compared to when Lu Ping was in Ziyue Cave Heaven, Lu Ping's pill furnace had changed from a high-grade to a top-grade Na Chuan Cauldron. His fire seed had changed from a top-grade Level 3 Bright Yellow Fire Seed to a top-grade Profound Level Blue Spiritual Fire. His cultivation had also advanced from the peak of the Blood Condensation Realm to the peak of the first stage of the Core Forging Realm. He even had the "Spirit Explosion Technique", a secret alchemy technique. It could be said that Lu Ping had made great progress in all aspects.
The only difference was that the Gold Essence Pill, which was the easiest to refine, had been changed to the relatively more difficult Gold Essence Pill.
In fact, Lu Ping wanted to first concoct a few cauldrons of medicinal pellets similar to the Golden Essence Pellets to familiarize himself with the difficulty of concocting Core Forging Realm medicinal pellets. Then, he would slowly advance and start concocting the Golden Marrow Pellets. Unfortunately, after concocting the only cauldron of Golden Essence Pellets, Lu Ping ran out of 1,000-year spirit herbs.
Lu Ping originally thought that after he advanced to the Core Forging Realm and became an alchemy master, it would be much easier for him to obtain thousand-year-old spirit herbs. However, he neglected the fact that after he advanced to the Core Forging Realm, his demand for thousand-year-old spirit herbs had increased. Although it had become extremely easy to obtain thousand-year-old spirit herbs after he became an alchemy master, the demand for them had increased.
Lu Ping finally realized the fact that a Core Forging Realm Enlightened Master was far inferior to a Blood Condensation Realm cultivator when it came to refining pills. The most obvious example was the pill shops in Qianyuan City. Cultivators might have the opportunity to buy some Blood Condensation Realm pills, but Core Forging Realm pills were out of the question. Generally, these pills would only appear in auctions for Core Forging Realm Enlightened Masters, or they would be used to barter between Core Forging Realm Enlightened Masters.
Now, Lu Ping's Spiritual Sense had experienced a sharp increase after advancing to the Core Forging Stage. After his cultivation finally stabilized at the peak of the 1st Layer of the Core Forging Stage, his Spiritual Sense once again slowly increased. Now, it could almost cover a radius of five miles.
Although the Na Chuan Cauldron was still a bit strenuous for Lu Ping to control, its ability to extract, refine, and condense the spiritual power of spirit grasses was undoubtedly far superior to that of a high-grade cauldron. Coupled with the use of the Purple Crystal Royal Jelly, at the last moment of condensing the pills, Lu Ping crushed four mid-grade spirit stones and used the Spirit Explosion Art to save the two pills that were about to explode. After opening the cauldron, five Golden Marrow Pills danced in the air. Lu Ping was overjoyed.
In his excitement, Lu Ping also took out the three Golden Marrow Grasses that he had obtained from Fei Ling Island. Together with the remaining two Golden Marrow Grasses, he refined another five batches of Golden Marrow Pills. In total, he obtained a total of thirty pills. The price was that Lu Ping had completely used up all the thousand-year-old spirit grasses in his possession. Only the last third of the Purple Crystal Royal Jelly was left.
Fortunately, these thirty Golden Marrow Pills, together with the four Golden Essence Pills from before, were enough for Lu Ping to use for a period of time. One had to know that a Core Forging Realm Enlightened Master could only rely on spirit stones and spirit veins to cultivate. For Enlightened Masters, pills were like meat to mortals. Usually, they would eat them as fresh meat to satisfy their cravings. They would only save up until the new year.
It was the same for a Core Forging Realm Enlightened Master. Generally, they would save up pills, and when they encountered a bottleneck in their cultivation, they would break through in one go.
After his cultivation, strength, and alchemy skills had continuously surprised Lu Ping, Lu Ping, who was about to come out of his closed-door cultivation, remembered that he still had four purple jade slips that sealed his divine sense. Until now, Lu Ping still didn't know the contents of the jade slips. Now that Lu Ping's cultivation had reached the Core Forging Realm, his divine sense had merged with the True Essence in his body. These jade slips could no longer block Lu Ping's probing.
Among the four jade scrolls, two of them were obtained by Lu Ping after he helped Chi Lianying kill Hong Shikui. Lu Ping probed one of the jade scrolls with his divine sense and found that it was a medicinal pellet recipe for a Core Forging Realm medicinal pellet called the "Crystal Mystic Core Pellet". At first glance, this medicinal pellet was obviously a Core Forging Realm medicinal pellet recipe from the Crystal Palace. Fortunately, this medicinal pellet was suitable for Lu Ping's Early Core Forging Realm cultivation base.
Not only did Lu Ping lack thousand-year-old spirit herbs, but he also lacked a pill recipe for the Core Forging Realm. As an alchemy grandmaster, Lu Ping only had the Golden Essence Pill, the Golden Marrow Pill, and a pill recipe for the Thousand Seeker Pill that he obtained from the Fei Ling Sect. In total, he only had these three pill recipes for the Core Forging Realm. Now that he had the "Crystal Profound Pill", Lu Ping had another option to refine pills for the Core Forging Realm.
After opening the second jade slip, Lu Ping was overjoyed.
After killing Hong Shikui, what Lu Ping valued the most was the pair of Ice and Fire Bracelets. Moreover, Hong Shikui had condensed more than half of the Treasure Restriction in it. Unfortunately, the Ice and Fire Bracelets had not been completed yet, and Hong Shikui had died in the hands of Lu Ping. When condensing the Treasure Restriction in this pair of magic treasures, it would often be two Treasure Restrictions that could be fused with each other. When fighting against the enemy, its power was no less than a magic treasure that had condensed three Treasure Restrictions.
It was the most strange and unpredictable. Unfortunately, Lu Ping did not have the method to use this pair of Ice and Fire Bracelets. The two incomplete Treasure Restrictions were also not available. Lu Ping once wanted to use high-grade spiritual fire and ice to forcibly drive the Ice and Fire Bracelets. This was also the reason why Lu Ping was so happy when he found the Black Prison Poison Fire Seed in the broken Ziyue Cave Heaven. The Black Prison Poison Fire could only be used to refine poisonous pills. In addition, it was also a great weapon to fight against the enemy.
What Lu Ping didn't expect was that the jade slip recorded the Ice and Fire Bracelets' two contrasting enchantments, one ice and one fire. What was even more delightful was that the jade slip also contained the secret art to control the set of enchantments.
Unfortunately, in the end, Lu Ping's cultivation method was still unable to fully unleash the power of the Ice and Fire Bracelets. However, with the Treasure Restriction Method, Lu Ping realized that his previous idea of using high-grade fire seeds and ice-attribute spiritual materials to replace the ice and fire attributes that Quintessential Essence could not achieve was completely feasible. With the Treasure Restriction Method, Lu Ping could unleash the power of the Ice and Fire Bracelets on his own.
The third jade slip that Lu Ping obtained was in the Golden Valley of the Seven Star Sky. Lu Ping found the remains of the North Sea's Liao Family's Alchemy Master, Reverend Liao Ding. From the storage bracelet of the remains, the most valuable thing that Lu Ping obtained was not the magic treasure Medicine Pounding Pestle, but the pill formula for the Heart Dissolving Pill.
And this jade slip was placed together with the pill formula for the Heart Dissolving Pill. How could Lu Ping not let his imagination run wild?
A tyrannical Divine Sense wrapped in Lu Ping's robust Quintessential Essence instantly tore the seal on the surface of the jade slip. Lu Ping's Divine Sense probed inside and immediately revealed a shocked expression. As Lu Ping probed for a long time, Lu Ping's brows furrowed even more tightly.
After a long time, Lu Ping slowly opened his eyes and murmured, "The cultivation world really does have a Heart Forging Pill …"
The Heart Forging Pill was similar to the Heart Dissolving Pill, which could raise a Blood Condensation Realm cultivator's cultivation level by one level without harming their foundation. The Heart Forging Pill could also raise a Core Forging Realm Enlightened Master's cultivation level by one level without harming their foundation. However, this kind of heaven-defying pill had a limit. It was only effective for early Core Forging Realm cultivators. Once a cultivator reached the mid Core Forging Realm, they would inevitably fuse with the Spirit Objects of Heaven and Earth, causing the spirituality of their bloodline to recover. At the same time, the forging of Divine Sense and Golden Core would reach a new level.
Even so, if this kind of pill appeared in the cultivation world, it would inevitably cause an uproar in the cultivation world. It would set off a reign of terror. This kind of pill was not only useful for early Core Forging Realm cultivators, but also for a sect. It could collectively raise a group of early Core Forging Realm Enlightened Masters to the mid Core Forging Realm. This was the equivalent of shortening the cultivation time of early Core Forging Realm cultivators by 30 years. For cultivators who had always been in a race against their lifespan, the importance of this pill was self-evident.
Lu Ping had a hard time calming his excited mood. After advancing to the Core Forging Realm, Lu Ping thought that his state of mind would no longer be affected by external factors. He didn't expect that the Heart Forging Pill would cause him to panic.
After calming down, Lu Ping realized that it was extremely difficult to refine this Heart Forging Pill. This was because this pill was not for the Core Forging Realm. The first three spirit herbs in the pill recipe were three thousand years old: Nine Fold Grass, Seven Battle Flower, and Yin-Yang Branch.
This meant that this pill, which was suitable for early Core Forging Realm cultivators, was actually a half-step Transcendence Realm pill that was in between the Core Forging Realm and the Transcendence Realm pill.
There were thirty-six types of thousand-year-old spirit herbs and thirty types of 500-year-old spirit herbs. For Lu Ping's current alchemy skills, this was a level that he didn't dare to attempt.
Of course, Lu Ping would never give up on the Heart Forging Pill. This was a great temptation for any cultivator. Even if Lu Ping's alchemy skills did not meet the requirements, after Lu Ping's cultivation reached the second stage of the Core Forging Realm, he would still take the risk. Even if he destroyed all the spirit herbs that he had painstakingly collected, he would not hesitate.
What's more, Lu Ping rummaged through the storage ring and found a Jade Essence Box. After opening it, there were nine well-preserved three-thousand-year-old spirit herbs. These were the nine three-thousand-year-old spirit herbs that Enlightened Master Liao Ding had prepared to collect before he died in the Golden Valley. The Nine Fold Grass and Seven Battle Flower were impressively among them. There were three Nine Fold Grass and two Seven Battle Flowers.
Obviously, Enlightened Master Liao Ding sealed his cultivation and risked his life to enter the core area of the Golden Valley to collect these two spirit herbs. Unfortunately, a dignified Enlightened Master died at the hands of the Blood-melting Mosquitoes.
In other words, of the three most important spirit herbs for refining the Heart Forging Pill, Lu Ping now had two of them in his hands.
Lu Ping took out a big wooden table. On the table, images of various spirit herbs, including their names, growth habits, medicinal values, and so on appeared. Lu Ping found the image of the Yin Yang Branch and firmly remembered it in his mind. Then, Lu Ping also found the other thirty-six kinds of thousand-year-old spirit herbs that Lu Ping had never seen before on the big wooden table. This was to prevent Lu Ping from missing them the next time he encountered them.
The last jade scroll was obtained by Lu Ping in the mysterious cave of a Enlightened Master on Fei Ling Island. One of the two jade scrolls recorded the other part of the North Sea Wave Listening Technique that Lu Ping was currently practicing: the Flying Spirit Sea Wave Treading Technique. The other jade scroll recorded the Natal Genchen Formation that Lu Ping was currently practicing.
Therefore, Lu Ping had the highest expectations for this jade scroll. At the same time, Lu Ping also hoped that this jade scroll contained all the records of the "Lin Hai Wave Listening Technique". This was because the "Lin Hai Wave Listening Technique" that Lu Ping had initially practiced was an inheritance that Zhenling had received from the Fei Ling Sect. Moreover, this technique had started to become incomplete after reaching the Dharma stage. Later, although it had been supplemented and improved by generations of Zhenling practitioners, and was enough for a practitioner to practice until the mid Dharma stage, how could Lu Ping be satisfied with the mid Dharma stage?
Now that Lu Ping had merged the Lin Hai Wave Listening Technique and the Flying Spirit Sea Wave Treading Technique, the training method after the mid Dharma stage had become clearer. However, Lu Ping was more concerned about what kind of level he would reach when the two complete techniques were completely merged.
However, judging from the disappointed expression on Lu Ping's face after he had used his divine will to explore the jade scroll, Lu Ping's hopes had obviously been dashed. Come to think of it, if the Flying Spirit Sea Wave Treading Technique had not been sealed by his divine will, then how could the Lin Hai Wave Listening Technique have been sealed?
However, Lu Ping's expression immediately became one of shock. The shock on his face became more and more intense, even more so than Lu Ping's expression when he had seen the Heart Forging Elixir formula!
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