The Path to Immortality

For Fang Ping, he can make money by practicing alchemy, and he has no shortage of spiritual stones. What he is seeking is to build a foundation and live forever.

In this case, he must have a long-term vision and plant more spiritual medicines that are hundreds of years old.

But in the eyes of outsiders, he is only a cultivator with four spiritual roots after all.

It is a bit strange that he does not consider the current cultivation expenses at all and only thinks about things after building a foundation.

Moreover, a hundred years is too long, and no one knows whether there will be any changes in the middle. Sometimes, a long-term plan may be in vain because of a trivial accident.

In the end, Fang Ping arranged for Cheng Guan that the first of the two spiritual fields would be divided into two parts, one for planting five-year-old and the other for planting twenty-year-old spiritual medicines.

The second spiritual field would be used to plant spiritual medicines that are hundreds of years old.

It is a relatively moderate plan, and no one can find fault with it.

He did not make clear requirements for the specific types, and he would definitely give priority to those with higher returns and relatively easy planting.

"Please rest assured, brother. I promise to help you manage the spiritual field in an orderly manner."

After learning Fang Ping's intention, Cheng Guan immediately made a promise.

Afterwards, he tried to make two requests.

One is that he needs to build a wooden house nearby for his daily rest and shelter, and the other is that he needs to withdraw some spiritual stones to buy spiritual plant seeds and necessary tools.

Fang Ping naturally met all of these reasonable requests.

At the same time, in order to stimulate the initiative of this spiritual plant husband, Fang Ping also promised that half of the income from the spiritual field would be given to him in the future!

Hundred-year-old spiritual medicine is too far away and can be seen but not touched.

But there is still a certain chance to earn money from five-year-old or even twenty-year-old spiritual medicine.

This incentive made Cheng Guan's eyes light up, and he almost immediately boosted his enthusiasm.

"Okay, you go and prepare for the spiritual field. Remember, if there is no important matter, don't disturb my practice at will, and don't leak what you see and hear here to others."

After giving such instructions, Fang Ping returned to the cave.

Opening up the spiritual field is just a small matter for him. At this moment, Fang Ping's mind was more focused on the factional disputes and the matter of becoming a disciple that Jiang Yucheng had told him about earlier.

After a moment of weighing, he gradually had a tendency in his heart.

That is, not becoming a disciple for the time being!

The current situation of Luoyang Sect is relatively stable. As long as the three Jindan ancestors of the other courtyard faction and the master-disciple faction are still there, the cultivators of the family faction will not mess around.

In this case, whether there is a master to help and support is not a big impact.

If something big really happens, Fang Ping doesn't think that the other party will work hard to help him based on the ordinary master-disciple friendship.

If you can meet a master who is particularly protective of his shortcomings and you are willing to make great efforts to maintain the relationship, that would be another matter.

But this probability is a bit too low no matter how you think about it.

Besides, Fang Ping still has some secrets.

If he is often active under the nose of a foundation-building cultivator, it would be bad if he is discovered or has some suspicion.

As for the difficulties in cultivation, at most he can go to the lecture hall a few more times, and there will always be a way to solve them.

After making up his mind, Fang Ping stopped being distracted and continued to practice the Purple Yang Sutra.

………

Half a month later.

A disciple from the Zhengyang Palace came to ask Fang Ping about becoming a disciple.

After learning that Fang Ping decided not to become a disciple, the disciple did not ask much, but only confirmed Fang Ping's choice and turned away.

Although similar choices are not common in the sect, there are still some disciples who make them, so it is not a rare thing.

It was also during this period that Cheng Guan used the spirit stones given by Fang Ping to buy spirit plant seeds and tools, and diligently opened up two large spiritual fields in the place with rich spiritual energy outside the cave.

There are several fast-growing five-year-old spiritual medicines that have taken root and sprouted under the abundant spiritual environment of Yunyang Peak and the nourishment of Cheng Guan's small cloud rain technique, and a little green has emerged.

The appearance of these spiritual medicines and plants has brought a little more vitality to the originally desolate cave.

As for Fang Ping himself, in addition to continuing to consolidate the method of refining the top-grade basic elixir [Blood Coagulation Pill], his main energy was spent on practicing the Purple Yang Sutra.

Thanks to his efforts, the mana lost after changing the practice method is recovering at an accelerated rate.

The realm that once fell back from the fifth level of Qi training has also stabilized again.

"The matter of changing the practice method is on the right track. I just need to practice step by step in the future."

"Now, it's time to think about that matter."

After finishing the practice that day, Fang Ping took out the silver foil page he got from the owner of the Canglan River Water Mansion a few years ago from his storage bag.

As early as when he was in the outer sect, Fang Ping was curious about the content recorded on the silver foil page.

Unfortunately, there was no record of ancient Taoist texts in the outer sect's Sutra Pavilion, so this matter was forced to be delayed.

After that, he was promoted to the fifth level of Qi training and finally joined the inner sect, and was busy with the matter of changing the practice method.

Until today, he was free.

He got up and left the cave, looked at Cheng Guan who was taking care of the spiritual field in front of the wooden house, encouraged him a few times, then took out his flying sword and rushed to the Sutra Library again.

In addition to the relevant books of ancient Taoism, he also wanted to take a look at the first two floors of the inner door Sutra Library this time to see if there were other practical pill recipes.

"Ancient Taoism is too obscure, and cultivators below the Golden Core rarely come into contact with it. It may not be easy to find it for a while, so let's look at the pill recipe first."

After entering the Sutra Library, Fang Ping went straight to the bookshelf related to the Taoism.

As an immortal sect with a heritage of more than two thousand years, the Luoyang Sect's inner sect has collected quite a lot of pill recipes.

Fang Ping searched for a while and found nearly a hundred basic pill recipes.

Unfortunately, most of them were low-grade and medium-grade basic pill recipes, and they were either what he already knew, or some pills with duplicate effects or very irregular uses, which were of limited help to him.

Among the high-grade basic pill recipes, there were even fewer that were truly valuable, and unfortunately, they included the Peiyuan Pill and Coagulation Pill included in the [Jiang's Alchemy Secret Record] that Fang Ping bought.

Before coming up, Fang Ping had confirmed with the deacon in charge of exchange in the Sutra Pavilion that the exchange price of high-grade basic pill recipes was generally one or two hundred sect contributions.

This price was not low.

But compared to the conditions offered by the alchemy shops and families in the market, it was not too harsh to get it by just spending some sect contributions.

"Disciples of large sects do have a lot of conveniences!"

Fang Ping couldn't help but sigh.

Although he was a little envious of the remaining recipes, he looked at his limited contribution to the sect and finally chose to exchange only one [Qingxin Pill], and leave the rest for later.

This kind of top-grade pill can cure hundreds of common poisons and has a certain effect on some rare poisons. It is much stronger than the lower-grade detoxification pill.

Then, Fang Ping tried to find a first-level pill recipe.

Compared with the basic pill recipe, the number of first-level pill recipes is even smaller.

Adding them all together, there are only four or five.

As for whether there are more first-level pill recipes above the second floor of the Sutra Pavilion, he can't go up and has no way of knowing for the time being.

But from what he has seen so far, perhaps as the rumor in the sect, the good pill recipes are monopolized by the elders of the Alchemy Hall.

The only thing that surprised Fang Ping was that he actually saw the recipe of the Foundation Establishment Pill among these limited four or five first-level pill recipes!