Dabao could use the Earth Escape Technique, but it would be difficult for him to use the Stone Escape Technique. Fortunately, Dabao was at the Eighth Layer of the Blood Condensation Realm and was about to advance to the peak of the Blood Condensation Realm. Even though he was lazy, he still managed to help Lu Ping survive this ordeal.
The Yuan Burst Pill was the scarlet pill that Lu Ping consumed after he was injured by Enlightened Master Xuan Shu. It was a pill that could stimulate a cultivator's potential. It could quickly restore the cultivator's True Yuan. However, the price was that the poison contained in the pill would spread throughout the cultivator's body, causing the cultivator's body to be completely isolated from the outside world's Spiritual Qi for a year.
This also meant that for the next year, the cultivator could only cultivate by consuming pills. As for Spiritual Qi, spirit veins, spirit stones, and other things related to cultivation, they could not be used. After a year, even if the pill lost its effect of sealing off the Spiritual Qi, the remaining poison would still affect the cultivator's cultivation. The cultivator would only be able to cultivate normally after three to five years, when the poison in the body was completely eliminated.
This was, in fact, a poison pellet that Lu Ping had concocted using the Dark Prison Poison Fire in case of emergency!
Fortunately, the first type of protective energy that Lu Ping had refined was the Myriad Poison Meteorite Shield, which was also known as the mother of all poisons. This type of protective energy was extremely effective against any kind of poison. Lu Ping was confident that he could break through the sealing effect of this pill within half a year and fully recover within a year.
However, this was only under ideal circumstances. In reality, Lu Ping was already severely injured before he consumed the Yuan Burst Pill. After that, he fought a series of battles and flew continuously for a long distance, which further worsened his injuries. In the end, he was trapped by Dabao's half-baked escape technique and had to conceal his aura to avoid being discovered by the Liao Family. In the end, Lu Ping could no longer suppress the injuries in his body.
"I'm afraid I won't be able to recover for at least two to three years!"
Lu Ping threw Dabao into the House of Gold. Then, he found a healing pill that was refined using the Spirit Water Pill Refining Technique from his storage ring. He threw it into his mouth and refined it, temporarily suppressing the injuries in his body.
Although the effects of the healing medicinal pellets concocted using the [Spirit Water Alchemy Technique] were much better than ordinary healing medicinal pellets, in addition to the extremely high difficulty of concocting them, the [Spirit Water Alchemy Technique] could only concoct one medicinal pellet at a time. In other words, even if one could successfully concoct a cauldron of spirit herbs using the [Spirit Water Alchemy Technique], there would only be one medicinal pellet. Therefore, even someone as wealthy as Lu Ping had only concocted six or seven of these medicinal pellets to protect himself. He didn't expect that after a series of battles, other than the ones he used and the ones used by Ji Xuanxuan and Yin Xuanchu, Lu Ping would only have one left.
After cautiously exiting the water cave, Lu Ping's Divine Sense had been vigilantly paying attention to the movements in the surroundings. He was afraid that the Liao Clan would set up an ambush nearby. With Lu Ping's current state, he no longer had the ability to kill cultivators of the same level as him like weeds. Even Lu Ping himself could become a fish on the chopping block at any time.
However, what made Lu Ping rejoice was that his cautiousness was ultimately useless. The cultivators of the Liao Clan seemed to really care about the cultivator from the Eastern Sea called Peng Shiyuan and didn't leave an ambush nearby.
Lu Ping's heart stirred. He remembered that when Yin Xuanchu took the lead to attack the cultivator from the Crystal Palace who came through the teleportation array, that person said his name was Peng Shiyuan. He also thought that Lu Ping and the others were from the Liao Clan. In other words, the thing that the Liao Clan wanted was now in Lu Ping's possession?
Lu Ping placed the Waterproof Moon Pearl on top of his head and dived into the sea, heading in the direction of Earth Island. There was something strange about this matter. Lu Ping needed to return to Zhenling as soon as possible. Although many of his companions, including himself, would be severely punished by the sect because of Yin Xuanchu's matter, Lu Ping didn't care.
This was because Spiritual Master Liu Xuanyuan had received a hint from Spiritual Master Guo Xuanshan, who had informed the sect in advance, and Spiritual Master Xuanshu had intentionally or unintentionally held back. Lu Ping knew that no matter what the sect's considerations were, they were not willing to put Yin Xuanchu to death. Thus, those who participated in the escort of Yin Xuanchu this time were all personal disciples of the third generation disciples with the support of their teachers. In addition, the law did not punish too many people. Lu Ping believed that the sect's punishment would be nothing more than a light punishment. At the very least, they would make everyone suffer a great loss in name.
Lu Ping still felt a little regretful in his heart. This was because after Lu Ping had searched the soul of the middle stage Core Forging Realm cultivator from the Overflowing Seas Sect, he had discovered a few secret treasure vaults of the Overflowing Seas Sect in the Northern Sea. These vaults contained some of the cultivation resources that the Overflowing Seas Sect had obtained in the Northern Sea for several hundred years. Originally, Lu Ping wanted to take advantage of the situation and make a profit. However, it was a pity that the injuries on Lu Ping's body had relapsed. Dabao, who had always been the vanguard of Lu Ping's robbing and searching for other people's treasures, had been severely injured due to the exhaustion of his Stone Escape Technique. Helpless, Lu Ping could only return to Earth Island first.
Fortunately, there were no more twists and turns along the way. However, when Lu Ping returned to Earth Island's Snowmist Palace, what he saw was not the scene of Tian Xue Laozu pointing at his nose and scolding him as he imagined. Instead, there was an old man sitting at the head of the palace. However, the aura he emitted was extremely vigorous and heavy.
Lu Ping was stunned for a moment. He saw the expressionless Daoist Xuan Shu, the gloomy Yuan Zhan, the bitter smile on Daoist Liu Xuanyuan's face, and Chen Lian, Zhong Jian, Ma Yu and the others, who had their heads lowered and did not dare to speak. Even the heavily injured Ji Xuanxuan was barely able to stand. He appeared to be swaying, as if he could collapse at any time.
Seeing that Lu Ping walked into Snowmist Palace unscathed, a strange look appeared in Daoist Xuan Shu's eyes. Yuan Zhan's expression changed, but he immediately calmed down. On the other side, Ji Xuanxuan and the others all revealed looks of joy. The previously tense atmosphere immediately relaxed. Even Daoist Liu Xuanyuan, who appeared to be unfazed, heaved a sigh of relief.
However, Lu Ping's mind was racing. Lu Ping had never seen the old man sitting at the head of the palace before. Judging from the situation where Daoist Xuan Shu could only stand in front of him, this old man was obviously a Dharma adept of his sect, Laozu. Up until now, the only Dharma adept that Lu Ping had not seen before was Tiankang Laozu, who had always been recuperating and only revealed his mid Dharma adept cultivation at the last moment, causing Xuan Ling Sect to return in defeat.
At this thought, Lu Ping hurriedly bowed and said, "Disciple Lu Xuanping pays his respects to Uncle-Master Tiankang!"
The old man was Zhenling's fourth mid Dharma adept, Tiankang Laozu. Laozu looked at Lu Ping and said, "You've sent him away?"
Lu Ping was stunned, but he kept his mouth shut and did not answer. He did not want to deny it, but he did not want to lie in front of the elders of the sect either, so he could only wait in silence.
Luckily, Patriarch Heavenly Peace didn't linger on this matter and just said directly, "You guys sure have guts to publicly defy the sect's orders and even fight with the sect's law enforcement cultivators. You guys are truly lawless, do you still have any respect for the sect?"
Lu Ping and the others stood in silence. Lu Ping carefully glanced at Tiankang Laozu, but he could not see Tiankang Laozu's expression clearly. He could only vaguely feel that Tiankang Laozu was staring at him.
"Shi Lingling, Zhong Jian, Ma Yu, the three of you will make a trip to Frost Island. Ask the Mystic Flame to seal your cultivation. I'll give you five years. You have to obediently go to the mines and dig for spirit stones like normal Blood Condensation and Blood Refining disciples."
This meant that the sect's punishment was coming. Shi Lingling and Ma Yu's expressions turned bitter when they heard this, but Zhong Jian's expression was even more bitter. The two female practitioners' expressions were bitter because digging for spirit stones was already an extremely difficult task for them since their inner Yuan had been sealed. Moreover, Frost Island was extremely cold. Without inner Yuan to ward off the cold, how could the two delicate girls endure it?
As for Zhong Jian, he was the only male cultivator among the three. With these two girls around, he definitely wouldn't just be doing his part of the hard work.
"Chen Lian, Du Feng, Xuan Tao, the three of you were previously punished by Martial Nephew Xuanshu to be woodcutters at Heaven Spirit Mountain. Three years is too short, so it'll be changed to five years. Every day, three loads of firewood will be changed to five loads. Seal your inner Yuan and reflect on your actions."
After Tiankang Laozu finished talking about the six of them, he turned to look at Ji Xuanxuan who was on the verge of collapsing and said, "There's also Zhang Xuancheng. He actually removed the Heaven Spirit Mountain's teleportation formation's positioning compass. How thoughtful of him. Since he's working at True Spirit Side Courtyard, let him be a sweeping servant in the side courtyard. Five years later, if the side courtyard is cleaned up by him, then he'll go and be the Immortal Elder of the side courtyard. If he can't clean it up, then we'll talk about it when it's time to clean it up."
Although these people's punishments weren't light, they weren't too heavy either. It was just that the seven of them had their cultivation sealed, so it would be much more difficult for them to do things. Furthermore, these five years would more or less affect their cultivation.
At this moment, everyone in the palace turned their gazes towards Ji Xuanxuan, Lu Ping, and Liu Xuanyuan. Although Enlightened Master Liu Xuanyuan was suspected of leaking information, he didn't participate in escorting Yin Xuanchu. Originally, he was supposed to go to Huan Yu Island to receive the others, but he ended up fighting with Ouyang Weijian on the sea outside the island.
Tiankang Laozu pondered for a moment and said, "Liu Xuanyuan and Ji Xuanxuan, the two of you have caused too much of a commotion this time. Go and find Martial Nephew Cao."
As soon as Tiankang Laozu finished speaking, not only Lu Ping, but even Perfected Master Xuanshu was in disbelief. This punishment wasn't too light, but it was unexpectedly severe. There was only one Perfected Master Cao in Zhenling, and Lu Ping knew him back then. He was the Martial Uncle Cao that he met in the Seven Star Grotto-Heaven back then. Later on, he even taught Lu Ping the Soul Searching Technique.
After that, Lu Ping was specially allowed by the sect to participate in some of the matters of the sect's upper echelons by Laozu. Only then did he have some understanding of this Martial Uncle Cao. To put it bluntly, this Martial Uncle Cao was a knife that Zhenling hid in the dark. He controlled a hidden force in Zhenling and helped Zhenling deal with some things that couldn't be seen in the light. And this hidden force that he controlled had a name that Lu Ping was extremely familiar with. It was the Condemned Cultivator!
Ji Xuanxuan was still a little confused, but Perfected Master Liu Xuanyuan seemed to have some understanding of Perfected Master Cao. He was stunned for a moment before he respectfully responded.
"As for you!"
Lu Ping couldn't help but raise his head again. Everyone's gazes were on him. Lu Ping could even distinguish a trace of schadenfreude from among them. It belonged to the serious-looking Yuan Zhan.
"Make a trip to the Pill Pavilion. The Earth Fire there has been very unstable recently. Go to the Earth Fire's mouth to suppress it for five years to prevent the Earth Fire from wreaking havoc and affecting the sect's supply of pills."
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