After coming out of the Alchemy Pavilion, Lu Ping did not return to Huang Li Island. Instead, he turned around and went to the cave residence of the Second Senior Sister. He had a lot of questions in his heart, many of which were related to his master, but it was not convenient to ask. He had to find the eldest disciple of Chong Hua Sect to answer his questions. Unexpectedly, the door of the farmhouse-like courtyard was locked.
She was not at home. Lu Ping thought for a while and took out two Sound Transmitting Talismans. He sent them to the Third Senior Sister Zhao Xuanji and the Fourth Senior Sister Wang Xuanjing. Sure enough, after a while, the two talismans did not fly back. Obviously, the two Senior Sisters were not in their respective cave residences.
In desperation, Lu Ping had to return to Huang Li Island.
Nowadays, Huang Li Island had become more and more prosperous. It gradually became a base for North Sea cultivators to explore the sea and hunt monsters to obtain cultivation resources.
Lu Ping greeted Hu Lili and Chen Lian, then called Fang Tao over and asked him about the treasures collected in the market of Huang Li Island over the years.
Lu Ping looked at the storage bags that Fang Tao handed to him and said in surprise, "There are so many?"
Fang Tao smiled and said, "Originally, there were only half of them, but since the Dong Family repelled the attack of the Monster Clan with his mid Core Forging cultivation and killed several people, the high-level Monster Clan cultivators outside Huang Li Island began to be suppressed by the cultivators of our sect. Cultivators who go out to hunt monsters are safer, so the harvest is naturally much larger. Naturally, it attracted a large number of cultivators. Especially a year ago, when Jiang Tianlin Laozu was in charge of Huang Li Island, it caused the North Sea cultivators to crazily rush into Huang Li Island. In just a little more than a year, the harvest of treasures was more than half of the previous three years. If our Huang Li Island was not just a small island, I am afraid that there would be more cultivators rushing in, and the harvest of the market would be greater."
Lu Ping sighed in his heart. He desperately repelled the monsters and besieged Huang Li Island, but he was not as good as the Grand Master who was at the Dharma Manifestation Stage. This was the gap in strength.
Since he was back, Lu Ping naturally had to calculate his wealth, so he asked, "How are the spirit gathering places on the island? How are they being developed?"
Fang Tao reported with a happy face, "Now the number of spirit gathering places on the island has reached 34, and a total of nearly 40 acres of spirit gardens have been developed. Among them, there are 20 acres of spirit fields, 10 acres of spirit grass garden, and 10 acres of spirit materials planted. They are managed by the trial disciples of the Blood refining stage."
Although Lu Ping was happy, he also knew that the spirit gathering land on the island was almost full. If there wasn't a new spirit vein or if Huang Li Island continued to expand, it would be hard to find another spirit gathering land in the future.
Fang Tao looked at Lu Ping, as if he had something to say. Lu Ping smiled and said, "Old Fang, if you have something to say, just say it."
Fang Tao asked curiously, "Some of the spirit gathering places on the island are still managed by two Blood Condensation stage disciples. These two disciples have been managing the spirit fields ever since Huang Li Island was established. I once asked Spiritual Master Hu if he wanted to replace them with the disciples of the Blood Condensation stage, but Spiritual Master Hu said that as long as they don't leave on their own, they can continue managing the spirit fields."
"Oh?" Lu Ping was a little surprised. "There are still two people who haven't left?"
Fang Tao saw Lu Ping's expression and knew that Lu Ping might know about these two, but he just didn't seem to understand them. He introduced them, "One of them is called Wang Qi. After the battle last year, he used three Blood Condensation Pills to break through to the Blood Condensation stage. Now, he manages four acres of spirit fields. Other than cultivating with his sword, he also follows my son and daughter out to sea to hunt demonic beasts. Although his cultivation is low, he's not weak. Second Layer demonic beasts rarely escape from his flying sword, and he can even defeat Third Layer demonic beasts. He's only been in the Blood Condensation stage for a little over a year, and he's already at the peak of the First Layer. I heard from my son that he'll be breaking through soon."
Hearing this, Lu Ping's interest was piqued. He asked, "What kind of foundation bloodline does this person have, and what kind of technique does he practice? Do you know?"
Fang Tao thought for a moment and said, "He's good friends with my son and daughter, and I heard that he has a metal-element tiger bloodline. The technique he chooses to practice is also very strange. He didn't choose the techniques that many of our sect's predecessors have practiced, but he chose a 'Heavenly Kill' technique that I don't know where he got it from. I heard that it's perfected to the early Dharma stage, but no one has practiced it before. I think it's a new technique from the sect."
Fang Tao shook his head as if he felt that it was a pity. However, even though Lu Ping's interest in the technique did not diminish, he did not ask any further. Instead, he asked about another disciple who had been managing the spirit garden.
"This disciple," Fang Tao shook his head even more vigorously, "is called Tian Yue. This child joined the sect a year after Wang Qi, and he has just reached the Blood Condensation Realm. However, he's very timid, and he spends most of his time managing his six acres of spirit garden. Oh, originally, Spiritual Master Hu only prepared two to three acres of spirit garden for each disciple. However, after these two disciples reached the Blood Condensation Realm, they continued to manage the spirit garden, so Spiritual Master Hu gave them an extra acre of spirit garden. However, this Tian Yue took the initiative to ask Spiritual Master Hu for an extra two acres of spirit garden. Unlike Wang Qi, this child doesn't go out to sea to hunt beasts with the other Blood Condensation disciples. Instead, he hides in the spirit garden to practice his swordsmanship and take care of the plants."
Another strange disciple. Lu Ping's interest in this Tian Yue was piqued, and he asked, "Is there anything special about this child?"
"Is there anything special about him?"
Hu Lili was in charge of all the matters on Huang Li Island. As for the cashier of the market and the spiritual farm, he was in charge of Fang Tao. Therefore, Fang Tao was quite familiar with the disciples who managed the spiritual farm. Moreover, they were two disciples who had been training on Huang Li Island for almost five years.
Fang Tao thought for a moment, then said, "This disciple called Tian Yue manages the spiritual farm the best. Whether it's the spiritual grains, spiritual herbs, or spiritual materials, his output and quality are the highest among all the disciples. But it's no wonder, no disciple is like him, who stays in the spiritual farm all day long. Also, although this child practices the sword all day, he never hunts demonic beasts, nor does he compete with other cultivators. After he reached the Blood Condensation Realm, Wang Qi once dragged him out to sea. Along the way, everyone hunted demonic beasts, but he was the only one hiding at the back, looking flustered and afraid to draw his sword. He didn't even dare to refute when others ridiculed him. In the end, everyone pushed him in front of a peak Blood Condensation Realm demonic beast, and this child was forced to draw his sword. However, he only used defensive moves, dodging and dodging, protecting himself from any attacks. Not even a drop of seawater splashed on him, and the demonic beast was so exhausted that it wanted to escape. The other cultivators couldn't bear to watch it anymore, so they killed the demonic beast. But from then on, Tian Yue never went out to sea with the others."
After sending Fang Tao off, Lu Ping smiled and muttered to himself, "These two are interesting."
Then, he turned his attention to the storage bag in his hand. In the years after Huang Li Island was reclaimed, even though Lu Ping rarely concocted pills because he was in closed-door cultivation, he still gave a portion of the spiritual herbs harvested on Huang Li Island to Luan Yu, who lived in the House of Gold. Luan Yu was also a talented pill concoction master, so Lu Ping naturally wouldn't let go of this free labor. Luan Yu also needed spiritual herbs to hone her pill concoction skills.
But even so, Huang Li Island had accumulated nearly a thousand thousand-year-old spiritual herbs, and even seventy to eighty three-thousand-year-old spiritual herbs, not to mention five-hundred-year-old spiritual herbs. Chen Lian even knew that Lu Ping needed a Heaven and Earth Oddity, so he sent a kind of agarwood. It was said that it was formed after being submerged at the bottom of the sea for many years. Lu Ping definitely wasn't as knowledgeable as Chen Lian, so he just used the Seven Thunder Treasures Calabash to absorb it.
Speaking of which, Chen Lian had also obtained a lot of good things on Huang Li Island. The sea was boundless, like a never-ending treasure house. No one knew how many Heaven and Earth treasures were hidden inside. When he purchased spiritual materials on Huang Li Island, he obtained some top-grade, second-grade, and even third-grade mutated spiritual materials. As for other spiritual materials, there were countless of them. Other than the agarwood, he also obtained two kinds of Heaven and Earth Oddities, which he used to condense a Minor Divine Ability.
Hu Lili's cultivation had also stopped at the first level of the Core Forging Realm for a long time. With the experience from the previous battle on Huang Li Island, she had already advanced to the second level of the Core Forging Realm before going to Tian Ling Mountain to release the bees. Hu Lili, who had just condensed a Minor Divine Ability, opened up a layer of protective Vigor Qi around her body. The protective Vigor Qi around Hu Lili, who had just condensed a Minor Divine Ability, looked pink. This was due to the fusion of the wood attribute Hundred Flowers Annihilation that Lu Ping had brought back from the East Sea.
However, after Hu Lili broke through to the second level of the Core Forging Realm, Lu Ping gave her an elixir and instructed her to consolidate her cultivation for a year before going into seclusion to refine it. This was the Heart Dissolving Elixir that Lu Ping had used a large amount of rare and precious spiritual herbs to concoct. Back then, he had successfully concocted two elixirs in the East Sea. He had consumed one and left the other one for Hu Lili.
When Lu Ping returned to the cave dwelling, he discovered that there was someone in seclusion in a secret room. After asking Hu Lili, he found out that it was Zheng Jie who had just broken through to the Core Forging Realm before he returned to Huang Li Island. Now, she was in seclusion to consolidate her cultivation.
Lu Ping smiled. This girl had finally advanced to the Core Forging Realm. Although Zheng Jie was usually carefree and didn't care about anything, her friends had advanced to the Core Forging Realm one after another, leaving her at the bottom. It would be a lie to say that she wasn't anxious. This could be considered as fulfilling her wish. Of course, this was also because of the Seven Step Marked Elixir that Lu Ping had left for her.
Lu Ping also learned from Chen Lian that Yao Yong, Ji Zixuan, and Yin Zichu had also reached the third level of the Core Forging Realm. Du Feng and Shi Lingling, like Chen Lian, had also reached the peak of the second level of the Core Forging Realm. However, there was still a gap between them and the other three. Ma Yu and Zhong Jian were a step behind Hu Lili. They had already broken through to the second level of the Core Forging Realm. On the other hand, it was Zhang Zicheng who was more like a teacher. In the True Spirit Monastery, he had thoroughly enjoyed being an Immortal.
However, Lu Ping had more or less figured out Zhang Zicheng's thoughts. Zhang Zicheng's talent was only average. Perhaps even he himself didn't have much confidence in his own cultivation future. However, he was a kind person, and in truth, he was also a scheming person. He was on good terms with Lu Ping and the other outstanding talents of the Zhenling Monastery's younger generation. In addition, he was a benevolent and charitable person, earning the respect of the monastery's disciples. If he continued like this, then if he had the opportunity to reach the late Core Forging realm, it wouldn't be impossible for him to become a deacon of the Zhenling Monastery. Even if he couldn't reach that position, he could go out and manage his family. Relying on the connections he had established within the sect, he would receive the care of everyone. That way, he would at least be able to ensure the Zhang family's steady growth for hundreds or even thousands of years.
Lu Ping returned to his own cultivation room and buried the two miniature Spirit Gathering Pearls he had obtained on Frost Island into the island's spirit vein. Only then did he discover that there were now two miniature spirit veins among the three small spirit veins. After asking Hu Lili, he learned that these were spirit veins discovered by cultivators who were exploring the sea. Because the person who discovered them was a wandering cultivator, he had informed the Zhenling cultivators of the Huang Li Island about the location of the spirit vein. In exchange, he had obtained a large amount of cultivation resources from Hu Lili.
Lu Ping was overjoyed. With the addition of the two mini Spirit Gathering Pearls, the spirit veins on Huang Li Island now had three small spirit veins and four mini spirit veins. It seemed like Huang Li Island was indeed a little small now.
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