In the blink of an eye, a year had passed. Lu Ping woke up from his closed-door cultivation. He smiled after scanning the stone room with his divine sense and opened the restriction on the stone room.
Lu Taohua hopped in from outside the stone room. When she saw Lu Ping, she giggled and said, "Brother, shouldn't that jade bowl be given to Peach Blossom?"
There was a jade bowl in front of Lu Ping. It was found by Dabao in the well in the fenced courtyard of the Fist Valley. Back then, there was a bowl full of clean water in the well. This bowl of clean water was a kind of Heaven and Earth Oddity. It was a kind of strange water that could be used to improve the Tri-Pure True Pupils.
This kind of strange water was extremely rare. It was the water in the well that was nourished by the spiritual vein all year round. After that, it gradually condensed into a water essence. This water essence was different from the essence of Kui Water. It didn't have much effect when used to condense a protective aura. Instead, it was quite miraculous when used to cultivate other special techniques and abilities.
This kind of water essence would normally evaporate after being formed in the well water. It was extremely difficult to collect. However, this jade bowl was a strange treasure. Although it was only condensed with a treasure restriction, it was quite effective in collecting some spiritual liquid and maintaining its special effect. Moreover, there must be a special formation left by the Ying Tian Sect in the well to help this jade bowl condense the water essence.
The scale of Lu Ping's spiritual herb garden in the House of Gold grew bigger and bigger. There were more and more types of spiritual herbs. Previously, Luan Yu took care of it, so Lu Ping basically didn't have to worry about it. After Luan Yu left with Laozu Wujiu, Lu Ping could only put part of his energy into the management of the spiritual herb garden.
However, this situation allowed Lu Ping to regain his freedom after Lu Taohua transformed. Lu Taohua was the transformation of the Spirit Demon Peach Tree. Although she received the inheritance of the Longhuai Ancestor, she had a quiet and elegant temperament. She naturally liked spiritual plants and flowers. Moreover, her talent was very beneficial to the growth of these plants. Therefore, Lu Ping gave her the task of managing the entire spiritual herb garden in the House of Gold. Lu Taohua obviously enjoyed it.
After that, Lu Ping gave Lu Taohua all the books related to the cultivation of spirit herbs, flowers, and trees. He also taught her the concoction methods of the Hundred Flower Dew, Thousand Fragrance Dew, and a few other spirit liquids. All these years, Lu Taohua had been keeping Lu Ping's spirit herb garden in good order. Some of the 500-year-old spirit herbs had already begun to mature.
A year ago, when Lu Ping was preparing to go into seclusion to absorb the water essence to improve his Tri-Pure True Pupils, this little girl saw this jade bowl and clamored to take it away.
Even though this jade bowl was rather miraculous, it was only an ordinary magic treasure that had been condensed with a single restriction in the end. Thus, he promised to give this jade bowl to her after he came out of his closed door cultivation.
Lu Ping knew that Lu Taohua wanted to use this jade bowl to collect the morning dew from the spiritual herb garden. The morning dew contained spiritual energy and the essence of plants. It was essential for cultivating all kinds of spiritual liquids.
Lu Ping smiled as he watched Lu Taohua happily leave with the jade bowl. His eyes glowed brightly. Now that his [Three Pure True Pupils] had condensed six types of mystical water, the effects of the [Three Pure True Pupils] were even more prominent.
Lu Ping took out a jade bottle and poured out eight Spirit-Forging Pills.
After his trip to the Fist Valley, Lu Ping had collected a few more cauldrons of spirit herbs for the Spirit-Forging Pellets. However, he didn't want to reveal the fact that he had the Myriad Wonder Dew on him. Although he had refined two cauldrons of Spirit Forging Pellets and stabilized the success rate at 40%, Lu Ping didn't plan to hand over the eight Spirit-Forging Pellets to the sect.
Including the eight Spirit-Forging Pills that Lu Ping had secretly left behind, he actually had 14 Spirit-Forging Pills.
However, Lu Ping didn't plan to concoct more. Aside from the fact that he couldn't use them for the time being, his alchemy skills were still improving. Although he already had a 40% success rate, Spirit Forging Pellets were far more valuable than Avatar Realm medicinal pellets. Therefore, concocting a large number of Spirit Forging Pellets was still not worth it.
After making so many, Lu Ping also realized that the Spirit-Forging Pill was not as powerful as he had imagined it to be. There was a limit for cultivators to condense Spirit Objects. They could only increase the number of Spirit Objects they needed by two grades each time. These two grades limited the number of Spirit Objects a cultivator could smelt. Even the Spirit-Forging Pill could not do anything about this.
The so-called Spirit-Forging Pill could increase the grade of the Spirit Objects that a cultivator smelted. It referred to a cultivator who, due to various reasons, could not reach the requirement of reaching two grades of Spirit Objects. For example, if a cultivator smelted a low-grade Earth Spirit Object for the first time, then the second time he smelted a high-grade Earth Spirit Object. This limit meant that no matter how many Spirit-Forging Pills a cultivator took, he would not be able to break through. Moreover, each cultivator could only take three Spirit-Forging Pills.
However, because of various accidents, this cultivator's strength was only enough to refine a mid-grade earth-step spirit object. Thus, the significance of the Spirit Forging Pill was revealed. It could help a cultivator reach the highest grade of spirit objects that could be refined.
When Jiang Tianlin Laozu advanced to the late stage of Core Forging, he smelted two high-grade Earth Spirit Objects. When he smelted a Spirit Object for the third time, with his strength at that time, he could only smelt one mid-grade Heaven Spirit Object. However, because of the two Spirit-Forging Pills, Jiang Tianlin Laozu managed to smelt two mid-grade Heaven Spirit Objects in one go and formed a high-grade Golden Core among the eighth-grade Spirit Objects.
The same was true for Liu Tianling Laozu. Originally, Liu Tianling Laozu could only smelt two low-grade Heaven Spirit Objects like Xuan Ling Sect's Feng Xutao, and Feng Xutao's strength was even higher than Liu Tianling Laozu's. However, after taking the two Spirit-Forging Pills, Liu Tianling Laozu managed to smelt three low-grade Heaven Spirit Objects in one go and barely formed a eighth-grade Golden Core. After advancing to the Transcendence Stage, Liu Tianling was able to suppress Feng Xutao.
The second function of the Spirit-Forging Pill was to shorten a cultivator's cultivation time. Qu Xuancheng, Liang Xuanfeng, Guo Xuanshan, and the fallen Spiritual Master Li Xuanyin originally needed to accumulate a large amount of time to smelt low-grade Heaven Spirit Objects. However, after taking the Spirit-Forging Pill, they all formed a seventh-grade Golden Core ahead of time and advanced to the Transcendence Stage.
Even so, the effect of the Spirit-Forging Pill was enough to make the entire cultivation world go crazy. It was no wonder that Fei Ling Sect's destruction was attributed to the Spirit-Forging Pill.
However, when he thought of the Spirit-Forging Pill, Lu Ping had a new idea. The North Sea was barren. Even if Fei Ling Sect had the method to refine the Spirit-Forging Pill, there were two constraints.
The first was naturally the dozens of extremely rare three-thousand-year-old spirit herbs that were used to refine the Spirit-Forging Pill. These spirit herbs were almost extinct in the cultivation world, but Ying Tian Sect's Fist Valley had planted a large amount of these spirit herbs. Ying Tian Sect was Fei Ling Sect's ally in the Middle Earth back then. Could it be that the two sects had a secret agreement about the Spirit-Forging Pill?
Thinking of this, Lu Ping unconsciously thought of the Wonder Dew of Ten Thousand. In fact, the real key to refining the Spirit-Forging Pill was the Wonder Dew of Ten Thousand, the rare and almost extinct spirit herbs. The real factor was still the Wonder Dew of Ten Thousand!
Every refining of the Spirit-Forging Pill required a drop of the Wonder Dew of Ten Thousand. Although there were a total of 36 drops of the Wonder Dew of Ten Thousand, the rarity of the Wonder Dew of Ten Thousand was even higher than some high-grade heaven-rank spirit items. Then, where did the Wonder Dew of Ten Thousand that Fei Ling Sect needed to refine the Spirit-Forging Pill come from?
The Wonder Dew of Ten Thousand was not like those spirit herbs that could be obtained through meticulous cultivation. It was a spirit item of heaven and earth that was nurtured by the heavens and earth. Obtaining it depended entirely on luck. Who knew where such a rare treasure could be found?
However, Lu Ping immediately thought of the East Sea's Perished Secret Grounds, the Seven Stars Grotto-Heaven's Golden Canyon, and the pool of Ten Thousand Poison Liquid in his House of Gold. Lu Ping's heart was in turmoil. Could it be that the birth of spirit items of heaven and earth could really be controlled through some kind of method?
Lu Ping pinched his fingers and counted the time. It was time for Perfected Liu Xuanyuan to return to the North Sea.
Lu Ping rummaged through his interspatial mystic instrument and found a bunch of things. These were the things he wanted to get rid of Enlightened Master Liu Xuanyuan and bring to Hu Lili and his friends.
Although Zhenling had secretly mastered the ultra-long-distance teleportation array, and after Perfected Xuanchen's modification, it could now teleport five people at once. However, each teleportation required two top-grade spirit stones. This was still a huge expense for Zhenling, who was now much richer. In addition, the other end of the teleportation array was located in the territory of the Demon Race. Therefore, every time Zhenling used the teleportation array, they were extremely cautious.
Although Lu Ping now had five or six top-grade spirit stones in his hands, he was reluctant to spend them on the teleportation array.
This time, in addition to Perfected Liu Xuanyuan, there were two other Core Forging Stage cultivators who came with Perfected Liu Xuanyuan. The other person was actually Perfected Li Nan.
After many years of testing, Perfected Li Nan was finally accepted as a registered disciple by Guo Tianshan Laozu. Guo Tianshan allowed him to return to the North Sea to practice a more complete cultivation method. This was an opportunity for him. Perfected Li Nan was able to rely on an incomplete and not very good cultivation method to cultivate all the way to the Sixth Layer of Core Forging. It could be seen that his aptitude, perception, and perseverance were all good. The only thing he lacked was an opportunity.
This time, Laozu accepted him as a registered disciple was an opportunity for him to go further. Now that Zhenling's foundation was far from what it used to be, it was not too difficult to find a suitable cultivation method for him.
Of course, for people like Perfected Li Nan, even if they became Zhenling's official disciple, they would not have the opportunity to practice a true cultivation method. However, Perfected Li Nan did not have such extravagant hopes. He was already very satisfied to be able to advance to the Late Core Forging Stage.
However, after Perfected Li Nan went to the North Sea this time, he would no longer have the opportunity to return to the Central Plains. This was a rule that Zhenling had set when Ying Shan Immortal Academy was first established. Ying Shan Immortal Academy could only be an extension of Zhenling's influence. All the outstanding disciples it nurtured had to be sent to the North Sea, and Ying Shan Immortal Academy could never be controlled by a Central Plains disciple.
Perfected Li Nan did not care about this. All he wanted was to improve his cultivation. It did not matter where he went. At this time, he was still immersed in the excitement and shock of becoming a disciple of Tianshan Laozu and finding out about Zhenling.
The last place was given to a disciple who had just advanced to the Fourth Layer of the Blood Condensation Realm. Lu Ping raised his eyebrows. He knew this disciple. He was one of the Third Layer Blood Condensation Realm disciples who had entered the Fist Valley. Now that he had advanced to the Fourth Layer of the Blood Condensation Realm, he had the qualifications to become Zhenling's disciple. Hence, he was sent back to the North Sea.
Lu Ping was a little surprised. Although the Immortal Academy would not let the local disciples take charge, there was no need to send them to the North Sea so quickly. Moreover, the original plan was to send the local disciples to the North Sea once they advanced to the Core Forging Stage. Why was it so urgent now?
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