Mortal Alchemy

A day later.

Chen Ping received a more complete account and situation from the three women.

"This ancient sect's ruins are called the 'Celestial Venerable Teaching'. Tens of thousands of years ago, they had an ancestor who ascended to the Immortal Realm."

"Later, something unknown occurred, and the entire sect, from top to bottom, no longer had a single living person."

"More information can only be obtained by comprehending more of the inheritance and becoming a disciple of the Celestial Venerable Teaching."

"This Celestial Venerable Teaching only recruits second-order cultivators under the age of sixty."

Seeing this, Chen Ping's expression became somewhat strange:

"Could it be that He Chengzhu, who is still alive, was not recognized by the Celestial Venerable Teaching because of his age, and thus could not obtain the inner inheritance?"

Second-order cultivators under the age of sixty include Foundation Establishment cultivators and second-order body refiners.

You need to be young to pass through that stone chamber and be teleported to the inheritance hall for assessment.

"The four great Foundation Establishment families have been cultivating here for hundreds of years, yet they haven't discovered this?"

Chen Ping found it both funny and ironic, feeling that this was the truth of the four great Foundation Establishment families.

It could only be said that the four great Foundation Establishment families had shallow foundations, unable to develop even when guarding a gold mine, instead benefiting Chen Ping and others.

He continued reading:

"It is suspected that there is a sect artifact spirit within the Celestial Venerable Teaching's sect ruins."

Chen Ping's eyelids twitched violently: "Artifact spirit?"

If he remembered correctly, an artifact spirit would only be born from a fourth-order magic treasure or higher.

If this sect had an artifact spirit, it would explain why they were teleported to different places.

Mu Luofei was teleported to the artifact crafting inheritance.

Zhou Ying was teleported to the talisman crafting inheritance.

Meng Huang'er was teleported to the body refining inheritance.

Then what kind of inheritance were Chen Ping and Mu Xingling teleported to the underground labyrinth for?

Chen Ping looked at the towering cyan ancient tree in front of him, lost in thought:

"Could this place be an inheritance related to attack and defense?"

Chen Ping still did not act rashly, but instead asked the Treasure Seeking Ferret for help:

"Ferret brother, can you find the whereabouts of that He Chengzhu?"

The Treasure Seeking Ferret shook its head: "Ying."

Chen Ping was puzzled: "Why?"

The Treasure Seeking Ferret waved its little paws.

Chen Ping frowned and asked in confusion: "Ferret brother, are you saying that He Chengzhu has already escaped from this place and is no longer in Dongyue Mountain and Fuguangfang City?"

If that was the case, then it would be troublesome.

The Treasure Seeking Ferret continued to shake its head, then ran a few steps towards the towering cyan ancient tree and pointed in a direction.

Chen Ping followed the Treasure Seeking Ferret's line of sight and his pupils suddenly contracted.

He saw He Chengzhu standing on the pool not far from the ancient tree, motionless, as if he were dead.

The tree was located in the center, surrounded by a pool of water. To approach the tree, the normal way was to walk up these steps.

But this He Chengzhu took an unconventional path. Was this suffering the backlash or punishment from the sect's ruins?

Chen Ping's divine sense probed out, and the towering cyan ancient tree gently swayed, and a huge backlash force immediately surged towards Chen Ping.

"Humph!" Chen Ping's face turned pale, and he let out a muffled groan, immediately being shocked to the point of bleeding from all seven orifices.

His face was extremely unsightly:

"What a terrifying backlash force..."

This power was too strong and terrifying.

Chen Ping was still afraid, and he urged his essence blood to heal his injuries.

"It seems that He Chengzhu should be dead..."

This saved Chen Ping a lot of trouble and worry.

Five days later, Chen Ping's condition recovered somewhat.

Without other dangers, Chen Ping could try the inheritance of this towering ancient tree.

He moved forward, slowly taking a step, preparing to step onto the stone steps.

Then a gentle and huge force prevented Chen Ping from stepping onto the stone steps.

Chen Ping frowned.

Then a vast and gentle consciousness seemed to sweep over him.

Chen Ping's expression was strange: "...It's rejecting me, saying I'm not yet a disciple of the Celestial Venerable Teaching?"

After thinking about it, Chen Ping suddenly understood.

"It wants me to first become a disciple of the Celestial Venerable Teaching and comprehend other inheritances before I can come to this towering ancient tree and accept the core inheritance of the Celestial Venerable Teaching?"

He quickly understood this point because Mu Luofei and others were all accepting other inheritances.

Chen Ping smiled wryly:

"The inheritance of this Celestial Venerable Teaching is really strict."

"...Then let's go accept the other inheritance assessments of the Celestial Venerable Teaching first."

He looked at the Treasure Seeking Ferret:

"Ferret brother, please help me find the place where the alchemy inheritance is located here, and then take me there..."

There was a stone chamber teleportation array here, but Chen Ping had already experienced it once, inexplicably teleporting him to this underground labyrinth to find this towering ancient tree.

If he went to that stone chamber again, he would probably be teleported to the underground labyrinth again.

So, he directly went to the alchemy inheritance hall.

"Ying Ying."

The Treasure Seeking Ferret responded and left.

It came back half a day later.

It led Chen Ping away from this place, and then arrived in front of an ancient alchemy furnace hall.

Chen Ping took a step forward and successfully entered the alchemy furnace hall. When he turned around to look, the formation here was activated and he could not go out.

This was the same situation as Mu Luofei and others.

On the stone wall in front of him, the assessment inheritance was described in detail.

He had to pass the first-order assessment to leave this place.

Chen Ping was too familiar with the first-order alchemist inheritance.

In a way, Chen Ping was cheating.

He was already an alchemist himself.

"Refining three different first-order elixirs can be regarded as passing the first-order inheritance assessment and issuing the identity of a disciple of the Celestial Venerable Teaching."

After carefully reading the contents on the stone wall, Chen Ping bypassed the stone wall.

He came to the hall.

There were many medicine racks and alchemy furnaces placed here.

"Public alchemy room?"

Chen Ping came to some medicine racks and his face darkened:

"These medicinal materials have long been weathered..."

On these dense medicine racks, there were only some slag ashes that had been weathered for an unknown amount of time.

Chen Ping tested the alchemy furnace and spirit fire, and they could still be used.

Somewhat strange, he couldn't help but guess: "Could it be that the artifact spirit of this sect's ruins regularly maintains these facilities?"

The sect's ruins from tens of thousands of years ago were spotless inside and out.

Inanimate objects can be maintained, but spirit herbs need to be picked regularly.

But this was something the artifact spirit could not do.

Chen Ping's heart was fiery:

"...Could it be that this Celestial Venerable Teaching still has a medicine garden?"

Chen Ping was somewhat expectant, but he did not see the sign of the medicine garden map on the map, it may have been hidden.

Fortunately, Chen Ping had a lot of medicinal materials on him.

He immediately used the alchemy furnace and spirit fire in the hall to start refining elixirs.

He chose the three simplest elixirs.

Essence Qi Pill, Qi Recovery Pill, and Grain Avoidance Pill.

It took less than two hours to successfully refine the three furnaces of elixirs.

Immediately afterwards, the voice of an artifact spirit sounded:

"Assessment successful! Issuing disciple token!"

Chen Ping's eyelids twitched, there really was an artifact spirit here, which confirmed the guesses of Mu Luofei and others.

However, Mu Luofei, Zhou Ying and others had not been immersed in the myriad arts of immortality for a long time, so they had not yet passed the assessment.

"Clatter--"

A token fell from a black stone platform in the center of the hall.

There were no words engraved on the token.

The moment Chen Ping picked up the token, his divine soul was drawn by the token, and then a few words appeared on the token.

Alchemist Department · Chen Ping!

Chen Ping's eyelids twitched: "Divine Soul Secret Technique..."