Mortal Alchemy

With the help of the Treasure Hunting Marten and Zhang Dingfeng's memories,

Chen Ping only spent half a month finding an island.

The island was barren, with hardly any plants and no sign of life.

Chen Ping tore open a second-order Earth Evasion Talisman and disappeared into the island.

He went deep underground.

A hundred zhang, three hundred zhang, six hundred zhang, a thousand zhang, two thousand zhang, three thousand zhang!

Chen Ping descended to three thousand zhang and finally discovered the island's unformed and growing second-order spiritual vein!

"Rumble..."

Like a tide, or fine sand.

The huge second-order spiritual vein was piled up like a tide of fine sand, with extremely rich spiritual energy inside, looking like soil!

Even Chen Ping, who didn't like great joy or sorrow, couldn't help but smile when he saw the unformed second-order spiritual vein:

"...The power of nature is truly amazing."

At a distance of three thousand zhang, even the divine sense of a Golden Core cultivator couldn't reach it.

Probably only a Nascent Soul cultivator could detect it.

But Nascent Soul cultivators would never come to such an unknown small place to search for first-order or second-order spiritual herbs.

The divine sense of Nascent Soul cultivators could reach thousands of zhang, but they were too lazy to search here.

"The four major sects of the Eastern Region cultivation world will probably only explore and develop the Radiant Jade Sea after conquering the Eastern Barrens..."

But the four major sects have been gnawing at just the Eastern Barrens for thousands of years, and who knows how long it will take to solve it.

Maybe another ten or twenty thousand years?

Developing the Radiant Jade Sea is a distant prospect...

Chen Ping took out a second-order formation and set it up, hiding the spiritual vein's spiritual energy and turning the island into a dead island, so that it wouldn't be targeted.

The Radiant Jade Sea is too vast, and new islands are born every year. Who would come here to carefully explore a dead island without spiritual energy or life?

Once the spiritual vein takes shape, the entire island will come to life.

Chen Ping smiled and spent three days setting up the formation.

Then, he painstakingly planted eighteen second-order spiritual plants into the spiritual vein.

"Rumble!!!"

The eighteen second-order spiritual plants began to shake, and a surprising scene appeared to Chen Ping.

The spiritual herbs on the spiritual plants, which were three hundred years old, actually began to regress in age and transform.

But at the same time, the spiritual plants and spiritual herbs were both transforming, adapting to the spiritual vein's soil.

Chen Ping's eyes shook: "Causing the age rings to regress... isn't this related to the Great Dao?"

The secret of this spiritual tide storm is truly terrifying, definitely not as simple as it looks on the surface.

The eighteen second-order spiritual plants were all transforming and mutating, with ten times more medicinal power than before!

With things going so smoothly, Chen Ping's heart relaxed.

"At this rate, they will be completely transformed in ten years, and I can use them to refine pills."

Ten years isn't too long.

"And the medicinal herbs on Zhang Dingfeng's island have been used up by me. It will take at least twenty years for a new batch to grow enough for me to refine pills..."

Calculating the time, the demonic tide war in Eastern Barrens Immortal City should be over in twenty years.

By then, Chen Ping will be able to raise his cultivation to the peak of Foundation Establishment and plan for the Golden Core.

Thinking like this makes people look forward to it and feel excited.

"It's just a pity that I don't have more second-order spiritual plants on hand for the time being..."

Ordinary families with second-order spiritual plants treat them as heirlooms and won't sell them.

Chen Ping had the Guo family and Mu Luofei collect them for many years, but they didn't collect a single one.

Only second-order and third-order spiritual veins that have existed for a long time will give birth to second-order spiritual plants.

"Before leaving the Radiant Jade Sea, I have to let the second-order Sea Golden Eagle come here to recognize the place and patrol regularly."

"And let Nan Yun feed it regularly."

A Golden Core opportunity plus the exposure of combat power this time is enough to make Nan Yun wholeheartedly work for him.

"I also have to collect some Purple Qi Essence to refine Enlightenment Pills, which will be used to comprehend cultivation techniques and sword intent."

Currently, Chen Ping's pills for enhancing his divine soul and body tempering are gone, leaving only a few dozen three-hundred-year-old Qi Cultivation Pills.

After guarding for a while, a month passed, and Chen Ping left the island, flew into the sky, and met up with Nan Yun.

Chen Ping asked:

"Fellow Daoist Nan Yun, how are your gains?"

Nan Yun's face wasn't very good: "Fellow Daoist Chen, it seems we've made a wasted trip. This concubine hasn't found any decent spiritual herbs or treasures this month. It seems that the island groups in this area have been searched by others."

Chen Ping's heart stirred. Could it be that the spiritual herbs and treasures on these islands are all in those five spatial rings?

Chen Ping hadn't had time to open these spatial rings yet.

His expression changed, and he said, "Search for another month. If there are no gains, we will leave here."

"I haven't found anything good either."

Nan Yun nodded.

After a few words of conversation, the two dispersed again.

Then, Chen Ping summoned the White Jade Flying Boat and headed towards Zhang Dingfeng's island to find the second-order Sea Golden Eagle.

Nan Yun, who was resting on the island, suddenly raised her beautiful eyes: "Fellow Daoist Chen has left. Where is he going?"

She didn't follow, but continued to change islands to search for spiritual herbs and treasures.

On the White Jade Flying Boat.

Chen Ping opened Mo Xing's spatial ring and the spatial rings of the four Foundation Establishment cultivators.

It made him smile: "As expected of the son of a Golden Core True Person, his wealth is abundant..."

There were 30,000 spirit stones in Mo Xing's spatial ring, and hundreds of bottles of various pills, totaling another 20,000 spirit stones.

Including the Seven-Colored Bone Flute, Chen Ping earned at least 80,000 spirit stones just by killing Mo Xing.

The spatial rings of the latter four Foundation Establishment guards were full of various first-order and second-order spiritual herbs and ores.

Chen Ping initially estimated that these four Foundation Establishment guards brought him more than 60,000 spirit stones in revenue.

What made him most happy was that there were actually two bottles of Purple Qi Essence inside.

He could refine two more furnaces of Enlightenment Pills, which could be said to have solved Chen Ping's urgent needs.

That is to say, Chen Ping's income this time was at least more than 140,000 spirit stones.

Killing people and setting fires is a golden belt, it's so cool.

In this way, Chen Ping can restore the resources for enhancing his divine soul and body tempering.

Immortal Dao cultivation will have to wait until the spiritual herbs on these two islands mature before he can pick them and refine pills to quickly improve his cultivation.

"Then let's improve the divine soul and body tempering first."

The best way is to first take the body cultivation to the third order, which can at least bring him a 10% chance of success in forming the Golden Core.

The path of body cultivation only begins to become extraordinary and holy when it enters the third order.

Chen Ping took out the remaining few Enlightenment Pills and swallowed them without wasting time, comprehending the Geng Spirit Body Art.

When he opened his eyes again, he had already arrived in front of Zhang Dingfeng's island. The second-order Sea Golden Eagle was circling in the sky, and then saw Chen Ping and the Treasure Hunting Marten. Only then did it circle down and land on the White Jade Flying Boat, interacting intimately with Chen Ping and the Treasure Hunting Marten.

He didn't stay, turned around and took the Sea Golden Eagle away.

The round trip took eighteen days.

Chen Ping consumed two Enlightenment Pills, so he had two Enlightenment Pills left in his hand.

He took out a large amount of spirit beast meat to reward the Sea Golden Eagle and told it to guard the two places back and forth in the future. If it encounters any cultivators coveting this place, kill them. If it encounters a strong enemy, escape far away.

After dealing with the matters here, Chen Ping found Nan Yun, left the place, and asked her to find a Flying Treasure Ship to exchange spirit stone resources for Purple Qi Essence.

After spending 30,000 spirit stones and exchanging for five more bottles of Purple Qi Essence, Chen Ping left and returned to Floating Light Workshop.

His trip was to go to the Eastern Xuan Sect to get the fourth-order sword inheritance from his master, Palace Moon Immortal!