"Boy, you asked Xuan Dian to call the Old Man here just to tell the Old Man that you killed the people from the Crystal Palace?"
Fornax Laozu looked at the Crystal Palace's high-grade alchemy furnace in Lu Ping's hand. His eyes couldn't help but emit a cold light, but Lu Ping could still clearly feel that Fornax Laozu didn't blame him much. On the contrary, he was more surprised by the high-grade alchemy furnace in Lu Ping's hand.
Lu Ping smiled and said, "Of course not, Martial Uncle, do you think the Sect would dare to use this alchemy furnace? If not, this disciple will keep it for himself. "
Lu Ping pretended to take back the alchemy furnace in his hand. Fornax Laozu sighed and said, "Boy, speak, what do you want?"
Lu Ping immediately asked in a serious tone, "Martial Uncle, how is Martial Uncle Xuan Jing now?"
Fornax Laozu glanced at him and said, "He is currently in seclusion. The Sect has given him a task to refine 120 Blood Condensation pills and 600 Blood Refining pills. Although he has advanced to the late Core Forging stage, the Sect Laozu still doesn't allow him to participate in the Sect's decision-making."
Lu Ping couldn't help but shiver. More than 700 furnaces of pills, even if they were only low-grade ones, Daoist Master Xuan Jing would need five days to refine a furnace of pills. It would still take him ten years to refine.
Fortunately, Lu Ping's alchemy skills were now second only to Fornax Laozu in Zhenling. Even if he wanted to refine these low-grade pills, the Sect wouldn't let him waste his time on it. However, during the years of suppressing the earth fire, the Sect wouldn't let him stay idle. Almost every half a month, the Sect would assign a mid-stage or late-stage Core Forging pill refining task to him. This made Lu Ping a little confused as to why the Zhenling Sect had become so abundant.
Of course, Lu Ping naturally wouldn't forget to take advantage of these tasks. For example, when refining mid-stage Core Forging pills, Lu Ping's success rate could reach 70% to 80%. Lu Ping would often deduct one pill from the batch. If he was lucky and refined nine pills at once, Lu Ping wouldn't be polite and directly deduct two pills. Of course, the Sect generally turned a blind eye to these things.
Don't underestimate one or two pills. With Lu Ping's current status as an Alchemy Master, the pills he refined for cultivation had begun to become intermittent, let alone ordinary cultivators.
Lu Ping initially thought the sect had discovered some ancient ruins in the past few years. But when he heard that Enlightened Master Xuan Jing, who was in closed-door meditation, was assigned such a low-grade alchemy mission, Lu Ping's intuition told him that things weren't as simple as they seemed.
It sounded like they were preparing for something.
Although Lu Ping had the qualifications to participate in the decision-making level of the Sect, those who could really speak had to at least reach the height of Daoist Master Xuan Shu and Daoist Master Xuan Chang. Like Lu Ping, to put it bluntly, he was just an observer. He only had the right to know, but he had no right to make suggestions or choose.
What's more, in the past few years, Lu Ping was punished to comb the fire vein at the Earth Fire Vent. During this period, only Yao Yong occasionally came to see him. Hu Lili often came, but her status in the Sect was far less than Yao Yong's. Daoist Master Xuan Chen was also not as good as Daoist Master Qu Xuancheng. They didn't know much about the Sect's secrets, so Lu Ping couldn't get much information from them.
As for his other companions, they were dignified Core Forging cultivators, elites among the third generation disciples. Now, they were hiding among the low-level cultivators. Some chopped firewood, some dug mines, and some swept courtyards. No one knew them, and no one was willing to pay attention to them, so how much could they know?
On the other hand, there was no news of this group of genius cultivators from Zhenling in the North Sea for several years. On the North Sea Rookie List, Lu Ping's deed of killing Daoist Master Lu Hai with one sword strike was still standing high and no one dared to challenge him. The rankings of others like Ji Xuanxuan, Du Feng, and the others had all dropped below the top fifty.
On the other hand, after Yao Yong recovered from his injuries, he killed a middle stage Core Forging demon cultivator during an underwater volcano eruption and obtained a low-grade earth-step Heaven Spirit Fire. After refining it, he advanced to the middle stage Core Forging in one fell swoop. He was extremely arrogant, and now he had rushed into the top twenty-five on the Rookie List.
Countless thoughts flashed through Lu Ping's mind in an instant. Seeing that Fornax Laozu was still looking at him, he smiled and said, "Martial Uncle, I wonder if I can learn the Soul Stealing Secret Technique created by Martial Uncle Xuan Jing?"
Fornax Laozu looked at Lu Ping with a strange expression. Lu Ping, on the other hand, was embarrassed and giggled foolishly.
Fornax Laozu directly threw him a jade slip, picked up the high-grade pill furnace on the ground and walked away. At the same time, he examined the pill furnace and said, "Yes, but the quality of the pill furnace in the Crystal Palace is indeed high. In the future, it is possible to upgrade it to a top-grade pill furnace. But for now, I still need to find Tianjiang to picture this pill furnace."
When Lu Ping saw that Fornax Laozu was afraid that he would regret it, he almost snatched the pill furnace away. Lu Ping hurriedly shouted behind him, "Martial Uncle, this pill furnace can be counted as a meritorious deed for the sect, right? Can you reduce the remaining year of sorting out the vein of earth fire?"
Fornax Laozu said without turning his head, "This is not up to me. Your teacher personally said that if you don't stay here for five years, don't even think about coming out."
Lu Ping was dumbfounded. After a long time, he said unconvinced, "Isn't this punishment set by Martial Uncle Tian Kang? How can it be Teacher personally said so?"
Even so, Lu Ping didn't dare to have any other ideas. He honestly prepared to stay in the mouth of the earth fire for five years.
Lu Ping held a black jade slip in his hand. After carefully examining the contents, Lu Ping revealed a strange expression.
After pondering for a moment, Lu Ping took out a jade bottle and poured out an ordinary medicinal pellet. Then, he pointed at the mid-grade cauldron in front of him that he hadn't used for a long time. The cauldron was hovering above the earth fire vent, constantly spinning in the air. As Lu Ping pointed at it, a puff of white mist suddenly burst out from the cauldron. Then, ten white, jade-like medicinal pellets flew out from the mist.
Lu Ping casually put away the mid-grade cauldron and stored the medicinal pellets in a jade bottle, leaving only one in his hand. Then, he cast a few hand seals and struck the ordinary medicinal pellet he took out earlier. After that, a greyish gaseous substance floated up from the medicinal pellet.
Lu Ping quickly made a few more hand signs. At the same time, he used his Divine Sense and True Yuan to restrain the greyish gas. But as soon as the gas floated out of the pill, a lot of it disappeared. Although Lu Ping was fast enough, he still only pulled half of the gas.
Then, Lu Ping carefully wrapped the remaining half of the gas around the white jade pill that he had just refined in his hand.
Lu Ping was overjoyed. He cast a few more hand seals and this time, they were aimed at the white jade pills.
However, a small whirlpool suddenly appeared in the middle of the gray fog. All the gray fog continued to shrink and then gathered in the middle of the whirlpool. When the gray fog completely disappeared, the white jade pill that was previously wrapped in the gray fog was revealed. But this time, the white jade pill had turned into a gray pill. It was very similar to the pill that was poured out of the white jade bottle, but the color was a lot darker.
What Lu Ping used was the Soul Stealing Secret Technique created by Daoist Master Xuan Jing.
Speaking of which, Daoist Master Xuan Jing was also a famous alchemy genius in Zhenling. Otherwise, he would not have become one of the few alchemy masters in Zhenling. However, Daoist Master Xuan Jing's alchemy was a bit special. The height of his alchemy was greatly affected by his own cultivation. In other words, when Daoist Master Xuan Jing's cultivation reached the middle stage of the Core Forging Realm, his alchemy could at most refine pills in the middle stage of the Core Forging Realm. This was very similar to Yue Jiangrui, the alchemy master that Lu Ping captured in the East China Sea.
Because his cultivation could not be improved, Daoist Master Xuan Jing's alchemy was also lingering at the level of refining pills in the middle stage of the Core Forging Realm. In the end, he had no choice but to turn his attention to the only remaining Spirit-Forging Pill that Liu Tianling Laozu gave to the Pill Pavilion for research. This allowed him to create a secret technique that extracted part of the essence of the Spirit-Forging Pill without anyone noticing and helped him advance to the late stage of the Core Forging Realm. If it wasn't for the incident with Daoist Master Liang Xuanfeng, which was too coincidental, Daoist Master Xuan Jing would have been able to avoid this matter.
However, there was a flaw in this Soul Stealing Secret Technique. It was unable to completely draw out the essence from the pill and pour it back into the Spirit Acceptance Pill that was specially refined for this secret technique. There was always a part of the essence in the pill that would evaporate and disappear during the drawing process.
Lu Ping used ordinary pills to perform the Soul Stealing Secret Technique several times in a row. With Lu Ping's spiritual sense that was far superior to others, he only managed to reduce the loss of using the secret technique to about 30%.
Just as Lu Ping was preparing to stay in this Earth Fire Vent for another year, a ripple suddenly formed in the void in front of Lu Ping.
Lu Ping raised his eyebrows and looked at the ripple quietly without saying anything.
At this moment, the ripple suddenly split open into a pitch-black hole, and a jade slip appeared without warning at the crack.
Lu Ping reached out and calmly took the jade slip in his hand. Then the black hole closed again and turned into a ripple. The ripple gradually stretched and the void returned to its original state.
Lu Ping scanned the jade slip with his spiritual sense, and his face suddenly lit up. He got up and walked out of the Earth Fire Vent.
When Lu Ping got up, the Earth Fire that had been suppressed by him for four years suddenly lost its restriction. A pillar of fire as thick as a bucket suddenly poured into the Fire-splitting Plate and surged toward each alchemy room. As soon as Lu Ping came out of the Earth Fire Vent, he heard a burst of crackling sounds in the 36 alchemy rooms. At least 13 alchemy rooms had exploded.
Lu Ping smirked and said, "This method of controlling fire is still too weak. It doesn't even have this kind of emergency measure!"
A series of curses and roars came out, followed by someone pushing the door of the alchemy room aggressively. It seemed that he wanted to find the culprit who made the Earth Fire suddenly go berserk.
For four years, since that person suppressed the Earth Fire, the output of the Earth Fire in the Pill Pavilion had been stable for four years. Why did the Earth Fire suddenly go berserk today?
However, when the few Zhen Ling Sect Alchemists walked out of the alchemy room while cursing and swearing, they immediately shut their mouths in embarrassment when they saw the man who was stretching his back in front of the Earth Fire. They stood there, not knowing whether to advance or retreat.
"Who, who is it, bastard, how can the Earth Fire go berserk. My Spirit Cleansing Pill, I spent four years to collect all the Spirit Grass, and now it's wasted again!"
Just as everyone looked at each other, the stone door of a second-level alchemy room suddenly opened and a cultivator roared and rushed in. The other Alchemists quickly dodged.
Lu Ping looked at the cultivator rushing over and was furious at first, but then he saw Lu Ping's face was full of excitement. He smiled and said, "Xuan Yan Martial Uncle, I haven't seen you for four years, how are you?"
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