"A war is about to break out between the two sects. The disciples stationed on the island are to return to Xuan Qi Island as soon as possible to await further orders."
Lu Ping looked at the sound transmitting sword in his hand and thought to himself. It seems like a war is about to break out. Xuan Ling Sect is most likely coming this time. Otherwise, Master Immortal Liu wouldn't have issued such an order.
It seems like my sect is very well-informed in Xuan Ling Sect!
After restoring the sound transmitting sword, Lu Ping returned to the cultivation room. Looking at the two storage pouches he looted from the Xuan Ling Blood Refining Realm disciples, Lu Ping couldn't help but smile bitterly. Not all Blood Refining Realm disciples had thousands of spirit stones like him.
Lu Ping placed five hundred spirit stones into his own storage pouch. Then, he took out some hundred-year-old spiritual herbs, a mid-grade mystic artifact, and three low-grade mystic artifacts. The rest were some low-grade spiritual materials and a few bottles of Blood Essence Pills.
To be fair, the wealth of these two Xuan Ling Late Blood Refining Realm disciples was slightly better than that of Zhenling's disciples. After all, Xuan Ling Sect was the number one sect in the North Sea Alliance with two to three thousand years of history. The wealth they accumulated was not something that Zhenling could compare to.
Two days later, Lu Ping received another sound transmitting sword from Master Immortal Liu. This time, it was directed to Lu Ping alone. "A few days ago, Xuan Ling Sect's patrolling disciples were killed near Huang Li Island's waters. We need to prevent Xuan Ling Sect from retaliating."
Naturally, Lu Ping was touched. Master Immortal Liu was a man with a cold face but a warm heart. This time, he treated Lu Ping as his disciple. However, the murderer of the Xuan Ling Sect disciple was Lu Ping himself. Lu Ping was surprised by how fast his sect's information spread. It seemed like his sect had many spies in Xuan Ling Sect!
In the following period of time, the North Sea calmed down once more. It was as if both sides had suddenly stopped fighting. However, the cultivators near Xuan Qi Island could still feel an atmosphere of impending war lurking in this strange calm.
During this period of peace, Lu Ping made use of the time to cultivate while trying to craft Blood Condensation Realm talismans.
After entering the Blood Condensation Realm, due to the emergence of the divine sense, the talisman crafting Lu Ping's talisman crafting skills were no longer useful. Fortunately, these little tricks had laid a good foundation for Lu Ping.
To make a Blood Condensation Realm talisman, the first requirement was the skin of a demonic beast in the Late Blood Refining Realm or a talisman paper made from similar spiritual materials. The second requirement was the spirit ink. The blood of a Blood Condensation Realm demonic beast or spirit liquid of the same grade as the spirit ink. Lastly, the talisman brush had to be at the Blood Condensation Realm.
Fortunately, Lu Ping was prepared. Not only did he have the skin of a Late Blood Refining Realm demonic beast, but he also had the skin of a Green Sea Snake in the Blood Condensation Realm. Both could be used to make talisman papers. The spirit ink could be made from the blood of the first Green Sea Snake he killed. At that time, the amount of spirit blood Lu Ping had collected was enough to fill his jade bottle by one-tenth. It weighed about 15 jin. Also, Lu Ping had bought a talisman brush made from the fur of a Third Level Blood Condensation Realm Silver Moon Rabbit from the previous auction.
After finishing his preparations, Lu Ping took out the ten talisman papers made from the Strange Fish. The first thing he needed to make was the Invisibility Talisman. Today at the entrance of the spirit snake's nest, Lu Ping had actually been exposed by a Blood Refining Realm demonic beast. This was too embarrassing for him. Therefore, he used the first Blood Condensation Talisman he made into an Invisibility Talisman.
The process of making a Blood Condensation Talisman was much more complicated than a Blood Refining Talisman. Even though Lu Ping's divine sense was strong, almost on par with a Second Level Blood Condensation Realm cultivator, he still broke four talisman papers in a row.
When he was making the sixth talisman, Lu Ping kept summarizing his failures and finally made an Invisibility Talisman. However, the faint glow on the talisman made Lu Ping doubt whether this talisman could last for more than half an incense stick's time.
As for the remaining four talismans, Lu Ping made an Invisibility Talisman. The glow on the talisman was slightly thicker, and Lu Ping estimated that it could last for the time it takes for an incense stick to burn.
The skin of the Green Sea Snake was made into forty talisman papers. After all, it was a Blood Condensation Realm demonic beast and had a huge body. The quality of the talisman papers it made was far better than the fish skin.
Originally, Lu Ping didn't plan on using these high quality talisman papers. Instead, he wanted to learn from those rogue cultivators who hunted Blood Refining Realm demonic beasts in the demon territory and use their skin to make talisman papers. This way, he could raise his Blood Condensation Talisman production level. However, the current situation had clearly forced Lu Ping to give up on this idea.
Perhaps it was due to the quality of the talisman papers, three out of ten Invisibility Talismans made from the snake skin were successful. Furthermore, the duration of each talisman was longer than the previous two.
Naturally, the remaining talisman papers couldn't all be made into Invisibility Talismans. Lu Ping used one of them to make a Water Escape Talisman. This was a method for escaping. Out of the twenty talisman papers, he made four. The remaining twenty were made into Water Shield Talismans. After Lu Ping cultivated the Raging Waves Technique, his arcane energy had turned into pure water elemental arcane energy. This way, the defensive Dharma Artifact he usually used, the stone tower, couldn't be fully utilized because it was of the earth element. Although its power was still several times stronger than when he was in the Blood Refining Realm, the enemies he faced had also changed from the Blood Refining Realm to the Blood Condensation Realm.
In the end, he made five Water Shield Talismans. By now, ten days had passed. The difficulty of making talismans in the Blood Condensation Realm was much higher. Lu Ping already spent a lot of time and arcane energy to make five talismans a day. Naturally, he wasn't willing to make more because he still needed to spend a lot of time on pill refinement.
The reason why Lu Ping persisted in learning pill refinement with his water elemental arcane energy wasn't because of his need for pills. It was because of a method that Pill Master Sheng Tao mentioned in the "Sheng Tao's Pill Scripture".
In the Pill Scripture, Sheng Tao believed that not only cultivators who cultivated both wood and fire could become top-tier pill refiners. The reason for this was the divine sense. Normally, when pill refiners concocted pills, their divine sense was mainly used to monitor the refining process in the furnace. They used fire elemental arcane energy to control the temperature and wood elemental arcane energy to monitor the changes in the medicinal properties of the spirit herbs. However, Sheng Tao believed that if a cultivator's divine sense was strong enough, they could use it to partially replace these functions. For example, they could use their divine sense to control the temperature of the flame and the changes in the medicinal properties of the spirit herbs.
This idea wasn't unique to Pill Master Sheng Tao. In the cultivation world, pill refiners admitted that a strong divine sense was helpful to pill refinement. There were also pill refiners who didn't have wood or fire elemental arcane energy. However, these pill refiners usually had the lowest level of pill refinement.
The pill refiner's rank was generally divided into five stages: pill refiner apprentice, pill refiner apprentice, pill refiner, high-grade pill refiner, and grandmaster. Most of the outstanding pill refiners were cultivators with wood or fire elemental arcane energy. As for pill refiners who didn't have wood or fire elemental arcane energy, even if their divine sense was stronger than ordinary people, they could only be ordinary pill refiners.
The crux of the problem was that Lu Ping's divine sense wasn't strong because of his innate talent. In fact, it was ridiculously strong. Without cultivating any techniques to strengthen the divine sense, his divine sense was twice as strong as an ordinary person's!
This was the reason why Lu Ping wanted to become a pill refiner. In fact, he wanted to become a pill refiner that was even better than ordinary pill refiners!
This fact seemed to have been verified when Lu Ping concocted his first batch of Blood Condensation Realm pills. When Lu Ping was still in the Blood Refining Realm, he had already tried to concoct Mid Blood Refining Realm pills. With a large amount of spirit herbs, his success rate stabilized at around twenty to thirty percent. However, with the help of Lu Ping's divine sense, his first batch of Blood Purification Pills for Mid Blood Refining Realm pills reached a success rate of forty percent. This made Lu Ping extremely happy!
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