As soon as Lu Ping returned to Huang Li Island, he was pestered by the Spirit-seeking Mouse, Dabao. Ever since Dabao ate half a pill that Lu Ping mistakenly gave him and was lucky enough to advance to the First Level and become a Second Level Blood Refining Realm beast, he became even more affectionate towards Lu Ping.
Looking at Dabao's excited expression, Lu Ping asked curiously, "Dabao, don't tell me you found another energy-gathering land? Are there really so many spiritual lands on our Huang Li Island?"
Dabao nodded, then shook his head. He only pulled Lu Ping's trousers and walked out.
Lu Ping had no choice but to follow Dabao outside.
This time, Dabao found two places. After Lu Ping went there, he finally understood that these were not energy-gathering lands, but areas with latent spirits. In other words, they were unqualified spiritual fields.
If he wanted to develop these places into spiritual fields, he would first have to use spirit stones to perform the Art of Sacrificial Soul, slowly stimulating and replenishing the land with latent spirits so that it could reach the standard of a spiritual field.
Lu Ping pondered for a while. These two areas with latent spirits could be developed into spiritual fields by using the Art of Sacrificial Soul. Each use of the Art of Sacrificial Soul would cost forty spirit stones to maintain for a year, so he would still be able to make a profit.
Moreover, he had learned a secret technique to accelerate the growth of spiritual grasses and grains from the 《Sheng Tao's Observation Log》.
This secret technique also consumed spirit stones. A normal spiritual urging technique could save about a quarter of the planting time of the spiritual grains, but this secret technique called the "Spiritual Usurpation Technique" could save half of the growing time of the spiritual grains and herbs.
The spiritual herb garden on the island was the result of the Spiritual Usurpation Technique performed by Alchemist Sheng Tao using a miniature spiritual vein as a medium and using a large formation.
Otherwise, the spiritual herb garden had only been developed for about two hundred years. How could it have matured five-hundred-year-old spiritual herbs?
In this way, the spiritual fields on Huang Li Island could be harvested six times a year instead of four times a year.
The Spiritual Usurpation Technique required eighty spirit stones per mu, and it would last for a year.
In this way, he could earn about 1,200 Spirit Stones in a year from the seven acres of Spirit Fields.
Although these 1200 spirit stones were only enough for Lu Ping's consumption for three months, it was already a great improvement.
Lu Ping returned to his idyllic life.
Because he had obtained three bottles of Blood Vigor Pills from the Immortal's Cave, the Side Courtyard's Pill Sales Pavilion, and the Earth and Earth Pill Sales Pavilion, Lu Ping could enjoy the luxury of cultivating with Blood Vigor Pills for the next three months.
The effects of this cultivation method were astonishing. Just as the three months were about to end, Lu Ping miraculously broke through the barrier and stepped into the late stage of the ninth level. He was only one step away from the peak of the ninth level.
It took less than a year for Lu Ping to reach the late stage of the Ninth Layer Blood Refining Realm.
In these three months, Lu Ping became obsessed with alchemy. He repeatedly read the Pill Refinement Scripture and Observation Records left behind by Alchemist Sheng Tao. He also tried to combine the low-grade spiritual herbs he harvested from the spiritual herb garden with the most basic Blood Refinement Pill.
This was a pill for cultivators who had just entered the Blood Refining Realm. Even mortals with strong bodies could withstand the medicinal effects and benefit from it.
To concoct such a pill, there was no need to use a high-grade Mystic-grade spirit fire like the Azure Spirit Fire. Otherwise, spiritual herbs that were slightly stronger than ordinary herbs would be reduced to ashes in an instant.
Lu Ping used the True Fire condensed from his arcane energy and a mid-grade magic cauldron. It was like using a sledgehammer to kill a chicken.
However, reality was cruel. Recently, a series of good luck seemed to have exhausted Lu Ping's luck.
In these three months, the center of Huang Li Island would often hear the sound of explosions. Sometimes at night, there would be flames that soared to the sky. This made the simple islanders very worried. They felt that this easy-going immortal was not arrogant and often helped everyone. He had even saved the lives of many people on the island. They hoped that he would not be chased away like the previous immortal.
Lu Ping, whose clothes were burned to pieces, coughed continuously because of the pungent smell. He had no idea that his actions had brought panic to the islanders.
After experiencing a few failures, Lu Ping finally calmed down and began to seriously study Pill Master Sheng Tao's Pill Scripture. He compared it with his own process of concocting pills. He carefully recalled the changes in fire control during the concoction, the timing and speed of the hand seals, and so on. At the same time, he studied the medicinal properties of various spiritual herbs recorded in the Record of Knowledge. At the same time, he had a deep understanding of the principles of the various spiritual herbs in the formula. Gradually, he gained a lot of insights.
On this day, at the source of the two rivers on Huang Li Island, not far from Lu Ping's cultivation room, as Lu Ping formed the last set of hand seals, the cauldron shook. The True Fire under the cauldron gradually weakened and a faint fragrance overflowed from the cauldron. A smile finally appeared on Lu Ping's face.
The True Fire finally extinguished and the cauldron gradually calmed down.
Lu Ping opened the lid of the cauldron. After a burst of steam, two bright red Blood Refinement Pills were lying at the bottom of the cauldron. The rest were eight charred black balls.
The lowest grade pill had a 20% success rate. This should have been a depressing result. Unfortunately, Lu Ping was not dejected at all. He happily threw the Blood Refinement Pills to Dabao to eat.
Dabao gave face to its master. The little mouse ate the Blood Refinement Pills ravenously.
Lu Ping dissolved the remaining Blood Refinement Pill in water. He gave the water to the weak islanders to drink. Unexpectedly, their bodies became better.
The islanders who had witnessed this miracle worshiped Lu Ping even more. This caused the panic caused by Lu Ping's concoction to disappear.
Lu Ping continued to work hard. He decided to use up all the low-grade spiritual herbs he had brought back from the spiritual herb garden.
Although the results of his concoction varied, Lu Ping no longer produced an entire cauldron of useless pills. Sometimes it was one, sometimes it was two. Eventually, the number of pills increased to three or four pills.
After refining hundreds of low-grade spiritual herbs for twenty to thirty cauldrons, Huang Xiaolong obtained more than thirty pills of the lowest grade. The three months were almost over.
The auction was coming soon. Lu Ping had about seven thousand spirit stones on hand. He had accumulated them through various methods during this period of time. Among the Blood Refining Realm cultivators, he could definitely be considered a wealthy man.
However, Lu Ping knew that he was still far from enough. He had heard rumors that a Blood Condensing Pill would appear in the auction.
Lu Ping, who was learning alchemy, knew that the cost of a Blood Condensing Pill was around six to seven hundred spirit stones. However, in reality, it was usually priced at one thousand to six hundred spirit stones. In an auction, it was common for the price to go up to two thousand spirit stones.
He also needed to buy a mid-grade flying artifact. Due to the recent conflict between Zhenling and Xuan Ling Sect, Lu Ping decided to put this eye-catching flying car artifact up for auction. Xuan Ling Sect wouldn't fall out with Zhenling and the Multi-Treasure Pavilion for a mere artifact anyway.
Medicinal pills, especially the Blood Vigor Pill, had to be purchased. After tasting the benefits of using the Blood Vigor Pill, Lu Ping couldn't help but feel a sense of accomplishment.
The problem was, did Lu Ping have enough spirit stones?
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