The Path to Immortality

Seeing Fang Ping's expression, Shi Yuan thought for a while and said: "If you want to refine the Golden Pill, in addition to a few main ingredients, some important auxiliary materials are also indispensable. In comparison, these auxiliary materials still have Not a small chance to come across it at auction.”

"As far as I know, the [Jubaofang] in Xianzhoufang City will hold an auction before the end of the year."

"There are rumors that the scale of this auction is the largest in Xianzhoufang City in recent years. There may be something that Taoist friends want. You must have an invitation letter to be eligible to enter. If Taoist friends are interested, I will Gong can try to help fellow Taoist get one."

"The treasure gathering place? The treasure gathering place with several golden elixir ancestors sitting behind it?" Fang Ping suddenly felt moved.

Shi Yuan confirmed his guess: "Exactly."

Fang Ping nodded: "That's interesting. I wonder what rare treasures there are in this auction?"

Shi Yuan pondered for a while and said: "My knowledge is limited, but judging from the rumors that have been released so far, there will be a complete second-level weapon refining inheritance. It is said that there is also a incomplete Nascent Soul Cultivation Technique that can extend life. Twenty years of treasures."

"A treasure of heaven and earth that can extend life for twenty years?"

Fang Ping was slightly shocked.

He could already imagine how fierce the fight would be around this thing.

Shi Yuan obviously had the same idea, and said with a smile: "I heard that there are many Jindan ancestors in Xianzhoufang City who are eyeing this life-extending spiritual object. This auction must be very lively."

"In this case, Liu will definitely join in the fun. By then, the invitation letter to enter the venue will be a problem for the princess."

Fang Ping made a decision immediately.

………

Shi Yuan seemed a little impatient to cooperate with Fang Ping.

On the second day of the meeting, the princess sent someone to deliver the refining materials for the Five Furnaces of Foundation Building Pills and the Five Furnaces of True Yuan Pills.

With Yuanding in hand, it only took a few days for all these elixirs to be refined into corresponding elixirs by Fang Ping.

As a result, including the previous commission issued by fellow Taoist Jin, Fang Ping had at least three furnaces and more than a dozen extremely high-quality Foundation Establishment Pills on his hands.

Moreover, in the next twenty years, there will be a new batch of inputs every year!

"With so many foundation-building pills, it would be too wasteful to leave them unused or simply sell them for spiritual stones."

Looking at the blue elixirs that were banned and sealed, Fang Ping began to think.

The easiest way to think of using these foundation-building pills is to use these foundation-building pills to form a force or sect to serve yourself.

However, establishing a sect is not something that can be easily accomplished with resources.

Apart from anything else, at the very least, they must occupy a spiritual mountain or blessed land with spiritual veins as the foundation of their power.

For another example, even if the creation is successful, there are many details on how to recruit and select available disciples, how to manage it, and how to maintain the operation of the sect.

Otherwise, if something goes wrong, the established force will require Fang Ping to continuously scatter spirit stones to maintain it, and it will even frequently hinder Fang Ping.

In this way, it is tantamount to putting the cart before the horse.

Moreover, with Fang Ping's current strength, it is difficult to imagine that the Qi-training monks who came for the Foundation Establishment Pill could be of any help to him. By the time patience cultivated them, the daylilies were cold.

"At least before I achieve the Golden Pill, I am still a casual cultivator and a member of the Pill Alliance. I will not leave Xianzhoufang City easily, and there is no need to create any force on impulse."

If this road is removed, there will be only one option left in front of Fang Plan.

That is: use the Foundation Establishment Pill as bait to let those forces who are interested in the Foundation Establishment Pill run errands for you.

Of course, how to do it requires careful planning.

As for what to do with these foundation-building pills...

The top priority is undoubtedly the last clue to the main material of the Golden Pill.

"Since we already have the direction of Tiancan Island, let's start here first."

Fang Ping's eyes flashed and he had a preliminary plan in mind.

………

One day later.

After spending a sum of spirit stones, Fang Ping bought the information he wanted from two information shops in the city.

There is almost no information directly related to Tiancan Island.

Whether it really doesn't exist, or whether it is affected by external forces and makes it inconvenient to sell, is unknown.

However, when Fang Ping retreated to the next best thing and instead wanted to purchase information about the Huangquan Sect from thousands of years ago, as well as the Nascent Soul forces that participated in the battle to annihilate the Huangquan Sect, he did get some useful information.

"Sure enough, the two Nascent Soul sects of the Great Li Dynasty, [Xuanyin Sect] and [Haotian Mansion], had participated in the encirclement and suppression of the Huangquan Sect."

In this case, the entry point for your investigation can be from the vassal forces and families related to these two Nascent Soul Sects.

As long as they are willing to give enough chips, there is a high possibility that these vassal forces and families will be able to learn about the situation in Tiancan Island from the Shangzong, and even obtain the talisman edict!

And the Foundation Establishment Pill that he picked up almost "for free" is Fang Ping's biggest bargaining chip.

Even though those vassal forces did not care about ordinary cultivation resources and spiritual stones, Fang Ping did not believe that they could resist the temptation of the Foundation Establishment Pill.

The next step is to select the forces that are most promising to achieve the plan and try to contact them.

Tens of days later.

After this period of investigation and the intelligence collected through Wuchen Dan Pavilion, Fang Ping set his sights on the two forces of [Zhaoyang Mountain] and [Jiuli Sect].

Zhaoyang Mountain is a vassal sect of the Xuanyin Sect.

About a thousand years ago, two Jindan cultivators were born in succession, which was a glorious time.

But in the past few hundred years, a late-stage foundation-building disciple and a cultivator with a natural spiritual root who was trained by Zhaoyang Mountain "accidentally" disappeared when he went out. Since then, no new Jindan cultivators have been born.

Today, the gradually declining Zhaoyang Mountain is just a foundation-building force with a little foundation. Even the former second-level spiritual vein was forced to cede to another force that was also a vassal of Xuanyin Sect.

Later, in order to revive its momentum and expand the sect's financial path as much as possible, Zhaoyang Mountain made adjustments. Some people were separated to run several shops in the Xianzhou Market, mainly doing business in spiritual materials and refining.

It was precisely because the people of Zhaoyang Mountain were in the Xianzhou Market and could be contacted directly nearby that Fang Ping put them as the first target of contact.

………

At noon.

In the [Zhaoyang Mountain Magical Instrument Shop] on the Shenhuo Boat.

With the help of the Illusion Body Technique, Fang Ping transformed into a plain-looking foundation-building cultivator, and then swaggered into the three-story street-side shop.

He looked at the various magic tools on sale with a look of disdain, and then went up to the second floor under the guidance of the clerk.

There were already some spiritual tools for sale on the second floor.

However, after looking around, Fang Ping still looked a little dissatisfied and said, "Are these the only goods? Forget it, let your shopkeeper come!"

The manager was a little surprised and doubtful, and suspected that Fang Ping was deliberately making trouble.