Mortal Alchemy

Large patches of white smoke rose from the pool.

A handsome and upright young man sat in the middle.

His skin was fiery red and scalding hot, like a cooked shrimp.

The medicinal power of the pool was being absorbed by him.

Chen Ping frowned, and beads of sweat the size of beans flowed from his forehead, his expression somewhat pained.

The white smoke emanated from his flesh.

As if reaching a critical moment, Chen Ping's body trembled slightly, unable to suppress it.

He had been cultivating for half a year, and his body cultivation was finally nearing the late stage of the first level. He was currently冲刷肉身瓶颈 (冲刷肉身瓶颈).

Chen Ping did not expect that his aptitude would be so poor. Despite having Body Tempering Pills, Spirit Enlightenment Pills, and the peak cultivation of the twelfth level of Qi Refining, he encountered a bottleneck when冲击体修一阶后期 (冲击体修一阶后期).

If he were to establish his foundation now, he would fail one hundred percent.

As the pool gradually boiled, with a loud 'bang,' all the medicinal liquid in the pool exploded.

Chen Ping's flesh pores gradually began to ooze blood.

However, the blood was very dark in color and emitted a strong stench, obviously old blood and stale blood.

After the flesh pores oozed blood, Chen Ping's expression gradually calmed down, and his body no longer trembled.

"Phew~" Chen Ping opened his eyes with lingering fear: "Body cultivation, late stage of the first level, finally broken through."

The flesh oozing blood was a blood exchange to improve Chen Ping's strength.

"No wonder the direct descendants of immortal cultivation families have to soak in medicinal baths from a young age. Hiss, I suffered a great loss in this level."

He was already twenty-five years old, and his aptitude had long been fixed. If he wanted to change his aptitude and improve his strength, how could he not pay a great price?

His flesh oozing blood was not changing his aptitude, but merely exchanging blood.

To achieve 洗髓伐骨 (洗髓伐骨), that would be called changing his aptitude, but Chen Ping was far from being able to do that.

Feeling that his flesh was stronger and more solid, Chen Ping did not immediately rashly continue to冲击炼气十三层 (冲击炼气十三层).

"First, I'll test the strength of the late stage of the first level of body cultivation."

Chen Ping immediately got up,摆起了几个架势动作 (摆起了几个架势动作), closed his eyes, and felt the feedback of strength, meridians, and Qi and blood.

Strands of white smoke steamed from his body, evaporating the blood on the surface of his skin.

"If only I had Golden Marrow Pills, to change my aptitude and improve my spiritual roots, why would I suffer this kind of pain..."

The strength of the late stage of the first level of body cultivation pleased Chen Ping. After eliminating some old blood and stale blood, his meridians and flesh were more solid, and the amount of spiritual energy he could bear had increased by a notch.

And the bottleneck of the thirteenth level of Qi Refining seemed to have disappeared a little.

"Auxiliary body training is indeed the right choice. Body cultivation and immortal dao complement each other in the later stages, helping each other. Although it doesn't directly increase the success rate of foundation establishment, it also gives me more potential."

After feeling it, Chen Ping opened his eyes, and a faint look of joy appeared in his eyes.

He took out a few Body Tempering Pills, swallowed them to restore his body's condition, then changed his clothes, sat down on the futon, and took out Yuan Qi Pills and swallowed them.

Refining the majestic spiritual energy, Chen Ping tried to compress the Qi vortex again to refine his spiritual power.

This time, it wasn't like last time, where he felt that his meridians were about to shatter, forcing him to injure himself and vomit blood.

The spiritual power in the Qi vortex began to flow rapidly through the meridians, but there was no riot, leakage, or damage to the meridians.

And the Qi vortex had a subtle shrinking, not to mention further refining, but also made Chen Ping more comfortable.

Chen Ping raised his eyebrows: "There's hope!"

Stepping into the thirteenth level of Qi Refining, he could finally see hope.

When the Qi vortex is compressed to the extreme and the spiritual power is refined to the extreme, he will naturally and successfully step into the thirteenth level of Qi Refining.

"Hahaha." Chen Ping laughed. It was too difficult.

Chen Ping came to the courtyard, and a greeting card was stuffed into the door outside the禁制 (禁制).

Chen Ping turned off the禁制 (禁制), picked up the greeting card, and with a steady gaze, opened the door and came to the neighboring courtyard.

He cupped his hands and smiled: "Fellow Daoist Zhao, Fellow Daoist Hong, I have kept you waiting for this retreat."

The two people were Chen Ping's neighbors, Zhao Han and Hong An.

Zhao Han was a talisman maker, and Hong An was a refiner.

In the past six months, Chen Ping had not been reclusive. After his daily cultivation, he would go out to inquire about the whereabouts of Jade Marrow Mushrooms. He occasionally met these two people and often went out with them.

Hong An was a thirty-year-old middle-aged man with the tenth level of Qi Refining. He said with a smile:

"Fellow Daoist Tang, if you had come out of seclusion a few hours later, Fellow Daoist Hong and I would have set off first."

Zhao Han was twenty-seven or eight years old, with sunken eyes and a thin figure, looking like a肾虚 (肾虚) from excessive indulgence. He opened his mouth and said:

"Since both fellow Daoists have arrived, then we should also set off."

The three of them summoned their respective flying artifacts, left the坊市 (坊市) alley area, and headed towards the deserted lake island area.

Hong An stroked his beard, his face full of anticipation: "I wonder how many good things we can catch this time."

This Ten Thousand Lake Island is huge, and there are many spiritual objects and monsters inside.

They all live at the bottom of the immortal cultivation world. Although they have a technique of immortal dao百艺 (仙道百艺) in their hands, they are careful and save as much as they can.

For example, this Hong An is a refiner. When he wants to refine weapons, he doesn't go to the坊市 (坊市) shop to buy ore, but uses the bones of some spirit shells, spirit shrimp, and spirit fish as materials.

And Zhao Han, as a talisman maker, the blood of spirit fish can be used as ink, and fish skin can be used as符纸 (符纸).

Chen Ping is disguised as a down-and-out alchemist. To refine pills, he has to find and pick spiritual herbs himself.

Poverty brought them together to go out, and they could barely take care of each other.

Moreover, these two people have been here for more than ten years and are much more familiar with this place than Chen Ping.

The description of the Jade Marrow Mushroom is that it grows in places with a very strong wood and fire spiritual energy environment.

Most of this island is forest, and as far as the eye can see, it is all lake water. Where does the extremely fiery environment come from?

Chen Ping guessed that there should be an undiscovered earth vein spiritual fire in this Ten Thousand Lake Island.

And coincidentally, Chen Ping had seen Zhao Han catch a Flame Blade Spirit Fish.

This kind of spirit fish only lives in extremely hot waters.

The blood of this kind of spirit fish is like magma, and the scales are as sharp as knives. The whole body is a treasure.

Chen Ping touched his nose and smiled bitterly:

"The two fellow Daoists will definitely have a lot of gains. I don't know if the spiritual herbs I'm looking for will be eaten by a thief."

Some spiritual plants are surrounded by monsters. Chen Ping has to use talismans and formations to eliminate the surrounding hidden dangers before he can safely pick herbs.

But in the past two months, the spiritual herbs he found have always been stolen by some kind of creature.

Hong An patted Chen Ping on the shoulder and said solemnly:

"Fellow Daoist Tang, today we must help you catch that thief!"

Zhao Han nodded, covered his mouth and coughed a few times, his voice low:

"That's right, it's already difficult for us底层修士 (底层修士) to survive, and now there are thieves stealing spiritual herbs. Are they still giving us a way to live?"

Chen Ping usually pretends to refine Essence Qi Pills,辟谷丹 (辟谷丹), and Qi Recovery Pills, and sends them some every now and then. These are not very expensive things, worth dozens of spirit sand, but it is enough to buy people's hearts.

Let them explore Ten Thousand Lake Island with Chen Ping, and Chen Ping spends a little money to do great things.

Arriving at a small island with dense forests, Zhao Han and Hong An set up equipment and bait.

Then they followed Chen Ping to the place where he had last set up talismans and formations.