Mortal Alchemy

Chen Ping's gaze was firm and unwavering.

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After finishing his meal, Chen Ping returned to his alchemy room.

"Today, I should research the Spiritual Sense Pill."

He still had thirty sets of Spiritual Sense Pill materials on hand.

As long as he could successfully refine one batch, he could make a fortune, giving him immense wealth!

But there were also hidden, enormous dangers within.

Chen Ping took the materials and entered the space within the small bead, embedding the Spiritual Sense Pill materials into the stone wall.

Then, the pattern of the Spiritual Sense Pill emitted a faint light, and several lines of text appeared:

【This pill is unordered; the order of the medicinal ingredients for each batch of pills should be based on the age of the ingredients, from oldest to youngest.】

【Soak the medicinal ingredients separately in spiritual water. The depth of the spiritual water's color can be used to accurately determine the age.】

In the following days, Chen Ping devoted himself to carefully studying the Spiritual Sense Pill in the alchemy room.

Even with the inheritance, Chen Ping still needed to research and grasp the heat and time required to refine this pill himself.

While other disciples of the Pill Hall were still working hard, painstakingly refining Qi Condensation Pills, Chen Ping effortlessly completed a month's worth of tasks in five days.

More than twenty days later, it was time to submit the tasks.

Chen Ping walked out of the alchemy room with a tired expression and a pale face: "Thirty sets of materials, and still no success…"

"But I'm close. With a few more sets of materials, I should be able to succeed."

In front of the Left Hall Master's dojo, dozens of alchemy disciples stood densely packed, all with pale faces, numb expressions, and dull eyes.

After submitting the tasks, Chen Ping received two spirit stones as his monthly stipend.

This made Chen Ping extremely happy: "Finally, I have spirit stones again!"

Six years into cultivation, it was the first time he had received a salary. Although two spirit stones weren't much, the reward he earned through his own hard work made him feel very comfortable.

When he was a child at home, he worked hard herding cattle, but his second aunt still deducted from his food, giving him only one steamed bun a day.

Although the Mu family was dark and ruthless, they wouldn't deduct your monthly stipend if you diligently completed your tasks.

After receiving the two spirit stones, Chen Ping first went to Madam Butterfly to collect thirty sets of medicinal materials for next month's task.

Only then did he return to the dojo courtyard, take a good bath, and rest before striding out of the Mu family and walking to the market town two hundred miles away.

Ordinary alchemy disciples would use this month-end break to rest and recuperate in the dojo or use artifacts to go home and enjoy family time.

Someone like Chen Ping, who walked on foot, couldn't handle it at all.

Because Chen Ping's alchemy was very easy, he took a shortcut, so after eating a spirit-replenishing pill, he walked for a day and a night to reach White Sand Market Town, two hundred miles away.

Good heavens, Chen Ping was exhausted: "Fortunately, it's all flat ground, without having to climb mountains…"

"I have to buy a flying artifact to save time."

Otherwise, he couldn't stand coming to White Sand Market Town on foot every time.

In his storage bag, there were still two hundred Qi Condensation Pills.

He couldn't use them all up himself, so he definitely had to bring them to the market town to sell and exchange for spirit stones.

Second, he needed to find materials for the Golden Marrow Pill and the Vitality Pill.

Even with the assistance of Qi Condensation Pills, his five-element mixed spiritual root made cultivation too slow.

Looking from afar, White Sand Market Town was extremely lively, with various flying artifacts coming and going in an endless stream, with flowing lights constantly appearing, like rainbows emerging and meteors collectively falling.

Chen Ping entered the market town and didn't immediately set up a stall to sell pills. Instead, he used his only two spirit stones to buy several sets of clothes and spent fifty spirit sand to buy a first-order Thousand Faces Talisman.