Mortal Alchemy

Chen Ping arrived at another blood-stained room, where a half-step Tier 2 spider demon was entrenched.

A massive spider web had been spun within the room.

Chen Ping, wielding the Azure Bamboo Jade Sword, stepped forward and slashed out.

“Boom!!!”

With a tremendous force of five thousand pounds, this single strike, without even utilizing sword Qi, directly cleaved the half-step Tier 2 spider demon, killing it instantly and cutting it in two.

Chen Ping used a Fireball spell to burn away the spider web.

Chen Ping released the Gold-Furred Treasure Seeking Sable and said to it, "Sable brother, you can now eat the flesh and blood of this demon beast."

The Treasure Seeking Sable's eyes lit up, and it immediately pounced on the spider demon's corpse.

Chen Ping then sat down cross-legged and began to consume pills to cultivate:

"Hmm… After entering Tier 2 body refinement, my control over spiritual power is even more refined, and the volume of spiritual power has doubled again!"

"And my cultivation speed has also doubled. Of course, this should only be limited to the fifteenth level of Qi Refining."

When breaking through to Tier 2 body refinement, it was only the feeling of marrow washing and bone remodeling, not true marrow washing and bone remodeling, and it did not change Chen Ping's cultivation aptitude.

The fifteenth level of Qi Refining is essentially a reconstruction of spiritual power and physical body, which is why Chen Ping's cultivation speed has doubled.

"That is to say, I only need six months to reach the peak of the fifteenth level of Qi Refining."

This made Chen Ping's heart skip a beat. In half a year, at most, he would be thirty-one years old.

"Now, all that's missing is the east wind…"

He only lacked a Tier 2 demon core to refine the Foundation Establishment Pill, and Chen Ping would be able to attempt Foundation Establishment in half a year!

In the following time, Chen Ping planned to stay in this room for the remaining two months, and once the Golden Core Cave's restrictions opened again, he would leave this place.

The gray-white bead on his neck remained slightly hot, making Chen Ping not want to touch the Golden Core inheritance at all.

Chen Ping cultivated while taking out the Azure Phoenix Furnace to refine pills, feeling the changes.

After breaking through to Tier 2 body refinement, there was a noticeable change in the speed at which he refined Body Tempering Pills.

Previously, he could refine eight furnaces a month, but now Chen Ping could refine sixteen furnaces of Body Tempering Pills a month.

The accumulated quantity finally led to a qualitative change. After careful perception, Chen Ping realized that his spiritual sense was extremely vast, and his control over spiritual power was even more refined.

He could more easily detect the changes in the medicinal properties of various herbs, thereby changing his control over the heat.

"Logically speaking, with my current cultivation level, spiritual power, and spiritual sense, I shouldn't fail to refine Tier 1 pills like Body Tempering Pills, but there is still a probability of failure…"

"Is it because the choice of demon bone blood as a material is not good enough?"

Many spirit beasts and demon creatures possess demon bone blood, which makes the Body Tempering Pill more effective, but the demon bone blood from the Bloodhorn Red Bull is obviously insufficient in medicinal power.

This is the reason why Chen Ping often fails to refine Body Tempering Pills.

"Perhaps if I change to a different demon bone blood, I won't fail to refine Body Tempering Pills."

This made Chen Ping somewhat expectant. If he didn't fail to refine Body Tempering Pills, then Chen Ping would be wealthy just from refining Body Tempering Pills.

He could even obtain expensive Tier 2 sword weapons at a high price!

There was no need to change the Immortal Dao cultivation technique; he would just use the technique left by his ancestors.

However, he had to change to a better body refinement technique, and the resources consumed later would also be greater.

Just when Chen Ping thought he could safely spend two months.

Six days before the three-month countdown, the room Chen Ping was in suddenly flashed with white light.

It was a deeper level of restriction formation.

Chen Ping's expression changed drastically, and he immediately wanted to rush out of the room, but he only managed to make half a move before the white light enveloped him.

When he opened his eyes again, he was already in a huge library. Looking up, there were vast and endless books, ancient and fragrant, with no end in sight.

Moreover, there were constantly white lights appearing around him, and after the white lights dissipated, there were cultivators.

Chen Ping's expression changed slightly: "What's going on? Did they teleport all the living cultivators to the library?"

Chen Ping held a Tier 2 talisman in one hand and the Azure Bamboo Jade Sword in the other, quietly retreating to a remote corner and observing.

Chen Ping had a bad feeling, no other reason than the gray-white bead on his neck being even hotter.

This was very unsettling.

After no more white lights appeared, there were only fifty people left on the scene.

The cultivators from the Mu, Qiu, and Zhao families combined only had fifty people left.

Among them, four Foundation Establishment cultivators were unharmed.

Chen Ping scanned the scene, his pupils slightly shaking: "Why is there only Luo Chongzhi?"

"Where are Junior Brother Fang and the other two?"

Chen Ping only saw Luo Chongzhi on the scene.

Mu Hailong's side only had seven people left, including two Foundation Establishment cultivators and five cannon fodder.

The Qiu and Zhao families had more than forty people left.

More than two months ago, nearly a thousand cultivators entered this Golden Core Cave.

Now, there were only fifty people left.

Did everyone else die?

This place was too strange…

The three forces each occupied a position, looking at the library, their eyes revealing greed, while also being wary of the other two families' cultivators.

Mu Hailong frowned, his expression indifferent as he looked behind him: "Did our Mu family's people trigger the teleportation?"

The people behind him shook their heads like rattles. Although they teleported the other two families in, they ultimately triggered the library's mechanism. If they had triggered it, they would have obtained a Foundation Establishment Pill!

Who would be willing to give up a Foundation Establishment Pill?

Mu Hailong: "That's fine…"

At this moment, the voice of an artifact spirit sounded:

"I am the artifact spirit of this place. If you want to inherit the legacy of my master, you must pass the trials in order."

"Artifact spirit?" Mu Hailong's expression was startled, and then he reacted.

The Foundation Establishment cultivator from the Qiu family looked at Mu Hailong: "Brother Hailong, it seems that you and I don't need to fight. Whoever can obtain this Golden Core inheritance will depend on their own abilities."

"Hmph!" Mu Hailong snorted coldly: "If I kill you, this Golden Core inheritance will be exclusively enjoyed by my Mu family!"

The expressions of the Qiu and Zhao families' cultivators changed drastically.

The artifact spirit's voice sounded: "The master's inheritance land does not allow fighting. Violators will be immediately obliterated!"

The Qiu family's Foundation Establishment cultivator smiled faintly, with a hint of sarcasm towards Mu Hailong.

Chen Ping frowned tightly: "If I were expelled from this place, I could directly take action and be teleported out, but once I take action, I will be obliterated…"

"This thing is very strange."

A Qi Refining cultivator bit the bullet and said: "Senior, we don't want to compete for the Golden Core inheritance. Can you let us leave?"

Artifact Spirit: "Once someone inherits the master's legacy, you will be teleported out."

This made Chen Ping and the others breathe a sigh of relief.

The Zhao family's Foundation Establishment cultivator said: "Then please begin the inheritance selection, Senior!"

Artifact Spirit: "My master's name is Yufeng Zhenren, and he mastered a Tier 3 array inheritance…"

This immediately made everyone's eyes light up.

Immediately afterward, the artifact spirit's words made everyone's expression change drastically:

"The first trial is to make leather from corpses…"

Array inheritance, how could it involve making leather from corpses?

The artifact spirit's voice became flustered:

"Not good, the inheritance has been contaminated by the Demonic Dao…"

"Hehehehe, Yufeng old man, I finally succeeded…"

Everyone's expression changed drastically. Could this inheritance be taken over and modified by someone else?