Mortal Alchemy

"Chirp!!!" The second-tier demonic bird let out an angry roar, its wings instantly releasing golden light, shooting towards Mu Hailong.

"Beast!!!" Mu Hailong glared furiously.

Due to the close distance, Mu Hailong, caught off guard, was struck by the second-tier demonic bird's attack, his shoulder pierced through, blood flowing out.

Mu Hailong now understood Chen Ping's intention, and he roared in anger:

"Once I kill this beast, I'll find you and flay you alive!"

Chen Ping hid underground, fully utilizing his Turtle Breath Technique, sneering inwardly, "You better stay alive first."

If his combat strength wasn't truly inferior to Mu Hailong's, he would have killed Mu Hailong head-on.

However, besides diverting disaster, Chen Ping had another purpose.

That was to see Mu Hailong and this second-tier demonic bird suffer heavy losses, and then he would swoop in to reap the benefits.

Chen Ping watched with cold eyes, quietly observing their fight.

The spiritual energy in the medicine garden became chaotic, the man and the demon fighting fiercely!

After exchanging hundreds of blows, the battle was at a stalemate, neither side gaining an advantage, but both were already heavily injured.

Many of the second-tier demonic bird's feathers were burned off, its body covered in blood, while Mu Hailong had gained six or seven new wounds, looking extremely disheveled.

But Mu Hailong no longer intended to continue fighting, he gritted his teeth and said: "Bastard, I'll let you off this time!"

"But at the exit of the restriction, I will definitely be guarding you!"

He also understood Chen Ping's intention, to watch them both suffer heavy losses, and then this second-tier body cultivator would come out to pick up the scraps.

"...As expected, none of those who can establish a foundation at a young age are fools," Chen Ping sighed inwardly, feeling a bit regretful.

Mu Hailong finally unleashed a move, hitting the second-tier demonic bird, severely injuring it.

"Chirp!!!" The second-tier demonic bird let out a mournful cry and fell to the ground.

A flash of greed flashed in Mu Hailong's eyes, then he suppressed it, tore open an Earth Movement Talisman, and遁 into the ground, leaving this place.

If he was greedy and wanted to kill this second-tier demonic bird, he might fall into Chen Ping's trap.

Feeling Mu Hailong's departure, Chen Ping breathed a sigh of relief, temporarily safe.

But to prevent Mu Hailong from returning, Chen Ping set up several second-tier talismans in the underground area where he could move, so that if Mu Hailong returned, he would trigger the talismans, blasting him into serious injury.

Even so, Chen Ping did not rashly show himself, but waited quietly underground.

On the ground, the second-tier demonic bird suffered a fatal injury; if it were a cultivator, they might have died on the spot.

But as expected of a demon beast, its vitality was tenacious and powerful, and it did not die immediately.

Chen Ping had Ji Changsheng's memories, knowing that this second-tier demonic bird probably still had a final attack.

He waited quietly, time passing bit by bit, half a day later.

The aura and breathing of the second-tier demonic bird on the ground grew weaker and weaker.

A cold light flashed in Chen Ping's eyes: "It's time to act!"

The reason this second-tier demonic bird was still alive was because it had a demon core in its body. If it forcibly used the power of the demon core to save its life, then this demon core would not be valuable and could not become a material for the Foundation Establishment Pill.

Therefore, Chen Ping had to take a gamble.

He quietly appeared on the ground, holding the last second-tier talisman in his hand, and then instantly activated it, attacking the second-tier demonic bird.

"Chirp!!!" The second-tier demonic bird sensed the fluctuation of spiritual energy, struggled, let out an angry roar, and unleashed its final attack.

"Whoosh—"

A golden light shot towards Chen Ping.

"Bang—"

Spiritual energy exploded, Chen Ping's palm was pierced by a feather, and blood flowed out.

Chen Ping's back was soaked with cold sweat, and he was filled with lingering fear: "This beast..."

At the same time, he secretly rejoiced that fortunately, his current body was that of a second-tier body cultivator.

Although the path of body cultivation could not fly and its combat strength was inferior to immortal cultivators, the advantage of body cultivation was obvious: extremely high defense.

If this attack had hit Mu Hailong, Mu Hailong would have been seriously injured on the spot.

But Chen Ping only suffered a minor injury from having his palm pierced, which would heal in ten days to half a month.

"Boom!!!"

At the same time, the second-tier sword light talisman that Chen Ping activated hit the second-tier demonic bird.

Hundreds upon thousands of dense sword wounds appeared on the surface of the second-tier demonic bird's body, and it was dead beyond dead.

"Phew~" Chen Ping breathed a sigh of relief.

He began to clean up his spoils of war. The entire body of this second-tier demonic bird was a treasure, but of course, the most important thing was this second-tier demon core.

Chen Ping dug out the demon core, put it in a jade box, and didn't rush to use it.

Then, he put the corpse of this second-tier demonic bird into his storage bag.

Then, Chen Ping's gaze swept across the entire medicine garden: "Should I be rich?"

Chen Ping immediately swept across the entire medicine garden, but was then somewhat disappointed. Besides the Heavenly Spirit Fruit, there were no other second-tier spiritual objects in this medicine garden, let alone third-tier spiritual objects.

Basically, they were all first-tier spiritual herbs.

But among them, Chen Ping discovered several main ingredients for the Everlasting Beauty Pill. Coupled with the one main ingredient for the Everlasting Beauty Pill that he had in his hand, he had collected seven ingredients in total. He was only missing one ingredient to refine the Everlasting Beauty Pill!

Moreover, there were quite a few of the six ingredients for the Everlasting Beauty Pill in this medicine garden, with hundreds of each type!

The rest were some common medicinal herbs.

Finally, Chen Ping came to the Heavenly Spirit Fruit tree. After careful investigation, he did not find any other mature Heavenly Spirit Fruits.

There were only some branches and flowers preparing to bear fruit, but the Heavenly Spirit Fruit tree itself was the greatest treasure, capable of continuously bearing Heavenly Spirit Fruits, enough for a family to pass on for generations.

But unfortunately, Chen Ping had no way to take this Heavenly Spirit Fruit tree away.

For no other reason than that the environment in which this Heavenly Spirit Fruit tree survived was quite harsh. Chen Ping did not have a second-tier spiritual vein in a metal ore vein to plant it.

Moreover, he did not have the formation to cultivate this spiritual plant. The reason this Heavenly Spirit Fruit tree could continue to survive was because there was a formation beneath the pool that could continuously condense Golden Spirit Liquid.

There was no way, so the Heavenly Spirit Fruit tree was left here. He would have a chance to come back and take it away in the future.

After Chen Ping collected a large amount of Golden Spirit Liquid, he took back the several second-tier talismans, left the medicine garden, and once again changed his appearance and aura, quietly returning near the forest.

Because there were only four days left until the time to open the formation exit.

He had to seize this opportunity to leave this place, because this Golden Core Cave Mansion was too strange, and there was still a demon inside.

If he continued to stay here, he would be killed by that demon sooner or later.

But for Chen Ping, the harvest this time was already rich enough.

Time passed bit by bit, and Chen Ping quietly observed the movement in the direction of the exit.

Some twenty or thirty people who had survived had already gathered at the exit.

Among them were Mu Hailong and another Foundation Establishment cultivator from the Mu family.

As well as the Foundation Establishment cultivator from the Qiu family...

When they came in, there were a thousand people, and when they left, there were only twenty or thirty people left.

When the four days were up, the formation entrance opened, and everyone left this place with a sigh of relief, without being hindered in any way.

But Chen Ping's expression was not good, because Mu Hailong was standing guard at the entrance.

Needless to say, Mu Hailong was蹲 him.

This made Chen Ping feel murderous intent towards Mu Hailong for the first time!