The Path to Immortality

The other party silently calculated and said: "If you only repair it, you will need one hundred and twenty spirit stones. If you want to transform it, including the fire copper crystal material itself, you will need to pay a total of three hundred and fifty spirit stones. As for the effect..."

He thought for a while and made an analogy: "It can increase the power of the mysterious fire shield by half a level, reaching a level close to that of a high-grade magic weapon."

Three hundred and fifty spiritual stones, this price is definitely worth it in exchange for a near-high-grade protective magical weapon.

Fang Ping said without hesitation: "Then I'll trouble you."

"very good."

The master of the Weapon Refining Pavilion was simply very satisfied with Fang Ping and said, "You can come and pick it up after seven days. I promise I won't let you down."

Immediately, he waved his hand, indicating that Fang Ping could leave on his own. He focused on exploring the magic weapon in front of him and began to think about how to upgrade it.

After coming out of the Artifact Refining Pavilion, Fang Ping went straight to the Five Elements Studio, took out the badly damaged Bone Illusion Array, and expressed his intention of coming.

The shop owner was obviously impressed by this formation that was sold not long ago.

After a brief inspection, he couldn't help but said with half surprise and half complaint: "My formation flag is made of the best materials. With this level of damage, I wouldn't really use it to deal with a late-stage Qi training monk. Right? Even though it’s a free repair, you’re really rude!”

Fang Ping shrugged helplessly.

There is no way, luck is so good, just find a cave to practice, you can meet a calamity cultivator whose strength is close to the seventh level of Qi training.

The shop owner didn't bother to listen to his explanation, and sighed: "That's all, it's just a free repair opportunity. After that, it has nothing to do with whoever you want to use it against... You can pick it up in five days at the earliest!"

………

A few days later than the disciples who were exploring Xiaofeng Canyon, the team that went to Tianling Mountain to explore the spirit stone veins also returned to the outer gate.

The empty outer gate courtyard has regained its former popularity.

After communicating with several familiar disciples, Fang Ping learned that these outer disciples who went to Tianling Mountain also lost a lot of manpower during the trip.

Just among the disciples ranked in the outer sect's big competition list and deputy list, no less than ten people stayed in Tianling Mountain forever.

As for the inner disciples who went to Jueyun Valley and Ghost Face Cliff in the southern mountains, many of them still stay there to help guard the mines and eliminate nearby monsters.

Although the specific situation is not known yet, based on the sporadic information coming from the inner gate, I am afraid it will not be much better than Fang Ping and the others.

Although the inner disciples are powerful, the monsters they encounter are also stronger!

After summarizing the losses of the inner and outer sects, the bloody data made Fang Ping feel sad.

He had heard a saying before that every piece of the spiritual stones that sect disciples received every year was stained with the blood of fellow monks!

At first, Fang Ping was a little hard to understand.

But after this investigation, he finally realized the truth of this statement.

Fortunately, after the crisis of the depletion of the spirit stone veins is temporarily over, the sect will probably not go to war over this for at least thirty years.

Next, he should be able to practice steadily for a period of time, enough for him to advance to the fifth level of Qi training before the ten-year entry deadline.

At that time, you can be directly promoted to an inner disciple. Not only will your salary be greatly improved, but you will also have more time for practice and independence!

After practicing with peace of mind for a week and initially comprehending the [Condensing Yuan Technique], Fang Ping arrived at Luoyunfang on time and visited the Weapon Refining Pavilion.

"The transformation is very smooth, fellow Taoists can check it by themselves."

Handing the brand-new Xuanhuo cover to Fang Ping, the owner of the Weapon Refining Pavilion said a little proudly.

Seeing this, Fang Ping was not polite. He picked up the dark red spherical magic weapon and injected it with magic power.

Huh~

Amidst the subtle surging sound of flames, a blazing flame shield was generated out of thin air, covering Fang Ping.

He activated his magic power and condensed a blaze of true fire, which struck the protection of the mysterious fire shield.

What surprised Fang Ping was that the true flame fire that he activated with all his strength only caused the mysterious fire shield to shake slightly, and then returned to its original state.

——The protective effect of this magical weapon alone is enough to withstand his full attack!

"It's probably impossible for an ordinary mid-grade magic weapon to break through the protection of the mysterious fire shield."

After personally verifying it, Fang Ping was extremely satisfied with the repaired magic weapon and decisively replenished the spiritual stone.

Afterwards, he went to Five Elements Zhai and retrieved the withered bone phantom array that had been restored to a new look. Then he left Fangshi and returned to Tiandu Peak.

At this point, he already has three middle-grade magic weapons, the Nine-turn Golden Ring, the Seven Birds Fire Fan, and the Mysterious Fire Shield, plus the middle-grade flying magic weapon Chasing the Wind Boat for long-distance travel.

For a monk who has only reached the fourth level of Qi training, this configuration is already too luxurious, and there is simply not enough mana to support so many magic weapons.

"It seems that it is imperative to rush towards the fifth level of Qi training."

Returning to his small courtyard, Fang Ping once again swallowed a Peiyuan Pill obtained from the black-faced Taoist's relics. With the help of this spiritual pill, which is very precious to the fourth-level Qi training monks, he began to practice quickly.

The rich and pure medicinal power melted in the body, continuously accelerating the operation of his skills.

………

Winter passes and spring comes.

In the blink of an eye, another year has passed.

The impact of the Lingshi vein exploration has long since disappeared over time. Except for the addition of some more handymen who went to Guimian Cliff Mine and Jueyun Valley Mine in the subsequent handyman tasks, there seemed to be no other changes.

The trading meeting held every three months also proceeds smoothly under the auspices of Gongsun Qing and Dong Xiangtian.

It was also in the last meeting that the two almost simultaneously announced that they had reached the limit of the sixth level of Qi training. As long as they break through the small bottleneck from the middle to the late stage of Qi training, they can become a cultivator in the late stage of Qi training.

At that time, not only can they become new outstanding outer disciples, but they can also inherit Liu Wuchen's arrangement and officially become the new initiator of the trading meeting.

For this reason, Gongsun Qing and Dong Xiangtian, who have always had a good relationship, began to compete secretly, and both wanted to take this step before the other.

Who of the two can break through the realm first has also become the focus of attention of the members of the trading meeting.

Under such circumstances, Fang Ping's strength has gradually approached the fifth level of Qi training.

On this day, it happened that Elder Wu of the outer sect was giving a lecture again. Fang Ping and Zhou Yang, who had recently broken through to the middle stage of Qi training with difficulty, rushed to the preaching platform at the top of Tiandu Peak.

As in the past, Elder Wu still divided the lecture into three sessions according to the realm of the disciples.

In the lectures in the first few years of entering the door, Fang Ping could basically only understand the first lecture of this elder.

But today, as his realm and cultivation level continue to improve, the first lecture is a little superficial to him.

However, the lecture of the foundation-building cultivator is after all high-level, and even if you have heard the content in the past, you can still gain something from revisiting it again.

And the second lecture for the middle stage of Qi training, Fang Ping also began to gradually understand most of it, and quite understand the subtleties.

This made Zhou Yang on the side both envious and sad.

I don’t know when this disciple who joined the mountain gate with me began to improve his strength. When Zhou Yang realized it, the other party had left him far behind.

“Could it be that I really don’t have the talent?”

Zhou Yang couldn’t help but doubt himself for a while.