The concoction of the Bell Cauldron Pill required five types of 3,000-year-old spiritual herbs. However, these spiritual herbs were the most common among the 3,000-year-old spiritual herbs. Their medicinal effects were not that valuable. On the other hand, the Forging Heart Pill required three types of 3,000-year-old spiritual herbs: Nine Fold Grass, Seven Battle Flowers, and Yin Yang Branches. Each of them was extremely valuable among the 3,000-year-old spiritual herbs.
Hence, the difficulty of concocting the Forging Heart Pill was even higher than the Bell Cauldron Pill.
Fortunately, Lu Ping had already found the Nine Fold Grass and Seven Battle Flowers from Enlightened Master Liao Ding's magic treasures. He also found the rarest Yin Yang Branches in the Golden House that he obtained from Zhong Xuan's cave abode. Thus, he barely managed to gather enough spiritual herbs to concoct the Forging Heart Pill.
Unfortunately, concocting the Forging Heart Pill required a lot of time, and the alchemist had to do a lot of preparation work. After consuming the Forging Heart Pill, Lu Ping had to spend a long time in seclusion to refine the medicinal energy and consolidate his cultivation. Hence, Lu Ping had no choice but to postpone his plan to concoct the Forging Heart Pill until the Wang Family's matter was settled.
Seven to eight days passed. On this day, as Lu Ping was meditating in his cultivation room, an angry howl suddenly came from the outskirts of Cang Ling Island. The howl covered a distance of a few li in an instant. The howl seemed even more agitated because of the increased speed of the howl. The overflowing divine sense pressure borrowed the howl's momentum to crush the Blood Condensation Realm cultivators on Cang Ling Island.
Lu Ping frowned. The incomer's cultivation was definitely above the Core Forging Realm. However, the howl was directed at the Blood Condensation Realm cultivators on Cang Ling Island. This kind of divine sense attack could cause significant damage to Early and Mid Blood Condensation Realm cultivators. It was obvious that the incomer was trying to intimidate the Blood Condensation Realm cultivators on Cang Ling Island. This was against the unwritten rules of the cultivation world.
Lu Ping slammed his hand on the ground. With a loud bang, the island's protective array was activated. The entire Cang Ling Island was covered in a sea blue shield. The howl was immediately weakened.
Lu Ping took the lead and walked out of the grotto-mansion, followed by Chi Lianying and the other two. Luan Yu, however, did not come out. Luan Yu was a yao after all, and a member of the Wood Luan Clan at that. Once a cultivator like Lu Ping who cultivated a vision ability saw through them, Lu Ping and the others would be charged with the crime of colluding with yao cultivators. If they were to provoke Fa Xiang Laozu to kill Luan Yu and take her Gold Core, Lu Ping and the others would not be able to live.
The four of them walked out of the island's protective array formation. The two middle-aged cultivators hovered in the air with their hands clasped behind their backs. One of them looked at the ocean-blue protective array formation on Cang Ling Island. It was clearly stronger than the Wang Clan's protective array formation on Cang Ling Island. The other middle-aged cultivator in green robes looked at Lu Ping and the others with interest.
When Chi Lianying and the others saw the two mid Core Forging cultivators, their expressions changed. Could it be that the Wang Clan's only two mid Core Forging cultivators had arrived? Was the Wang Clan going to stake everything on this one attack?
Everyone looked at Lu Ping in front of them, only to see that he was calm and unperturbed by the appearance of the two Mid Core Forging Realm cultivators in front of him.
"Were you the ones who killed my Third Brother and stole the Wang Clan's property?"
The middle-aged cultivator looked at Lu Ping and the others and asked in a cold voice. His eyes were filled with killing intent.
"Your Excellency is so majestic and fierce. It seems that one day we should go to the Wang Clan's manor on the Three Clans Island and roar. Let the Wang Clan's low level cultivators come and admire us."
How could Lu Ping respond to his words? Instead, he retaliated with a barrage of insults, insinuating that the middle-aged cultivator had broken the rules of the cultivation world by attacking low level cultivators.
When the middle-aged cultivator heard this, his expression suddenly became sluggish and his aura weakened. When he had rushed over, he had only wanted to intimidate Lu Ping and the others. However, he had forgotten that the low level cultivators on the island could not withstand the spiritual sense attack of a Core Forging cultivator. If the other party went crazy and attacked the Wang Clan's low level cultivators, both sides would suffer. This was not something the Wang Clan wanted to see. After all, the Wang Clan was not made up of a few Core Forging cultivators.
"Hehe." At this moment, the green-robed middle-aged cultivator laughed and said, "This must be Master Lu Jiu. No matter what, you killed Enlightened Master Wang Hua and slaughtered dozens of Wang Clan cultivators on the Cang Ling Island. Enlightened Master Wang Zhou lost control of his emotions in a fit of rage. On the other hand, Master Lu and the others killed people and seized the island. Their actions were despicable. Enlightened Master Wang Zhou came to take revenge. Is that wrong? Even if I see injustice, I will still step on it! "
Lu Ping carefully looked at the green-robed cultivator and casually glanced around. Suddenly, he laughed and asked in a clear voice, "Who are you? Why are you interfering in the battle of the Northern Alliance?"
Seeing Lu Ping laugh, the green-robed cultivator's heart tightened. Hearing this, he replied, "I am Enlightened Master Wang Zhou's best friend. There is no need to tell me my name."
"Hehe, although Fellow Daoist Qiu Yongzhen lives next to our Three Family Alliance in the Fallen Mystery Land, we rarely interact. I don't know when you became Wang Zhou's best friend. I am very curious. Could it be that the Qiu Clan, one of the 36 families under the Crystal Palace, and the Wang Clan, one of the medium-sized forces of the Northern Alliance, are secretly in cahoots?"
A few miles away from the two sides, a voice slowly floated over. Two figures appeared and flew toward the Cang Ling Island. They were Zhang Feng and Li Maolin.
Anyone with a discerning eye would know the relationship between the Wang Clan and the Crystal Palace. However, knowing was one thing, admitting it was another. As long as the Wang Clan did not betray the Northern Alliance, the Northern Alliance could not do anything to the Wang Clan.
Zhang Feng's question made Wang Zhou and Qiu Yongzhen panic. If this answer was not good, it would prove that the Wang Clan was in cahoots with the Crystal Palace. The Northern Alliance could easily destroy the Wang Clan.
In the end, it was Wang Zhou who spoke, "I am familiar with Fellow Daoist Qiu, so I invited him to help. This has nothing to do with the Wang Clan and the Qiu Clan, let alone the Northern Alliance and the Crystal Palace. However, Brother Zhang and Brother Li were hiding and watching. Are you trying to make things difficult for me? Or could it be that my Third Brother was ambushed and killed? Apart from these few small cultivators, were there other people like the two of you who were also hiding in the shadows? "
This Reverend Wang Zhou was not someone who was easy to deal with. With just a few words, he retorted sarcastically. Not only did he draw a line between the Wang Clan and the cultivators of Water Crystal Palace, he even made a false accusation, implying that the two of them were not open and aboveboard.
Li Maolin laughed and said, "Brother Wang, you must be joking. Brother Zhang and I came here to tell Brother Wang that the Sound Wave Manor is a force under the Northern Alliance after all. The grudge with the Wang Clan is just an internal conflict of the Northern Alliance. If Brother Wang uses external forces to resolve the grudge, we might have to step in to suppress it."
Wang Zhenren Wang Zhou's expression changed this time. He said, "Sound Wave Manor? When was this force established? When did the Northern Alliance recognize such a force? Why didn't the Wang Clan know about it? "
Qiu Yongzhen's expression also changed as she looked at Li Maolin.
At this time, another voice said, "The Sound Wave Manor was actually established half a year ago. The Dark Mountain Gang is the guarantor. Do you believe Fellow Daoist Wang?" When everyone looked over, they saw a cultivator in his fifties flying over slowly from afar. Wang Zhou, Zhang Feng, and the others looked back at Qiao Weiying who was standing behind Lu Ping. Qiao Weiying looked very similar to the person who had just arrived.
The person who had just arrived was the leader of the Dark Mountain Gang, Qiao Zhengyan. Li Maolin and the others naturally recognized him. The Dark Mountain Gang was a medium-sized force in the Northern Alliance. On the surface, it was not as powerful as any of the three islands. However, the base of the Dark Mountain Gang was in Qian Yuan City. No one present believed that an ordinary medium-sized force in the Northern Alliance could stand firm in Qian Yuan City.
In fact, when Lu Ping first arrived at Qian Yuan City, he had already noticed that an ordinary force with only three Core Forging experts could make so many large elixir stores in Qian Yuan City give them face and sell their thousand year spirit herbs to Lu Ping. Their face was too big!
Which of those large spirit herb stores didn't have a Core Forging expert behind them?
When Lu Ping returned from Silver Sword Island, he had been waiting for Luan Yu to advance to the Core Forging stage in Qian Yuan City. During this time, he began to make arrangements. He asked the Dark Mountain Gang to be his guarantor and applied to the Northern Alliance to establish his own force, the Sound Wave Manor. This way, the battle between the Sound Wave Manor and the Wang family would be included in the rules of the Northern Alliance. This way, they could avoid direct conflict with the Crystal Palace as much as possible.
As expected, the Crystal Palace sent Qiu Yongzhen.
This time, he had indeed come under the orders of the Crystal Palace to help. Naturally, the Crystal Palace would not personally help the Wang family. That would cause a violent backlash from the Northern Alliance. However, if the Crystal Palace were to help the Wang family, they would be able to completely disassociate themselves from the matter.
However, Qiu Yongzhen never expected that the Sound Wave Manor had already established its own force in advance and had already obtained the approval of the Northern Alliance. However, the Northern Alliance had kept this matter a secret.
The Wang family had been schemed against. Qiu Yongzhen felt that she had walked to the edge of a trap. If she didn't clear her name, these three Core Forging experts who had just appeared might not be there for nothing. They might even want her to intervene and then take her life together to claim credit from the Northern Alliance.
Wang Zhou naturally saw that this was the Northern Alliance using Lu Ping to punish the Wang family. Seeing that Qiu Yongzhen sighed and didn't say anything, he knew that the Wang family had already lost their outside help. The Wang family could only silently swallow this bitter fruit.
He couldn't accept this!
A wave of hostility rose from the bottom of his heart. Wang Zhou suddenly raised his head, his eyes filled with murderous intent. He stared at Lu Ping and said fiercely, "What a good internal power competition from the Northern Alliance. What a good scheme. However, the Wang family will not allow you to bully us like this. Today, you and I will fight. If I can't do anything to you, the Wang family will not cause trouble for the Sound Wave Manor in the future. The Wang family will give you the property on Cang Ling Island as a gift. If you die in my hands, then you deserve it. The Northern Alliance can't blame the Wang family.
Kid, do you dare to accept the challenge? "Reverend Qiu Yongzhen opened her mouth but didn't stop him. She didn't believe that Wang Zhou would lose. After all, the Wang family had sided with the Crystal Palace. However, in Qiu Yongzhen's eyes, Lu Ping definitely wouldn't accept the challenge. What a joke. Wang Zhou had been in the mid Core Forging Realm for decades and had long reached the peak of the fourth layer. He was only one step away from the fifth layer. How could Wang Hua, who had just entered the mid Core Forging Realm, compare to him?
Hong Ying and Qiao Weiying both tried to persuade Lu Ping not to accept the challenge. Chi Lianying mocked Wang Zhou. A mid Core Forging Realm cultivator challenging a second layer Core Forging Realm cultivator, wasn't he afraid of becoming a joke?
However, Wang Zhou turned a deaf ear to them. He only looked at Lu Ping and sneered.
Zhang Feng, Li Maolin, and Qiao Zhengyan also signaled Lu Ping not to accept the challenge.
Lu Ping pondered for a while. Looking at Wang Zhou's mocking expression, he suddenly smiled and said, "If you want to fight, then let's fight. What can you do to me?"
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