Mortal Alchemy

"Clang! Clang!"

On an unnamed island, countless people were shackled with bracelets and anklets, and their necks were fitted with strange collars.

"Snap—"

A Qi Refining cultivator from the Sea God Sect, wielding a leather whip, lashed out fiercely at a slave in front of him:

"Why are you dawdling? Mine faster!"

Chen Ping's back was torn open, the pain causing him to frown, his eyes cold and indifferent as he walked into the foul-smelling, dark mine with his tools.

A tiger fallen in the plains is bullied by dogs!

On this island alone, there were thousands of slaves and laborers captured by the Sea God Sect to dig mines.

This Sea God Sect is truly the number one malignant tumor of the Hao Jade Sea.

The Qi Refining cultivator said:

"Our Sea God Sect is not a demon. As long as you make significant contributions or mine stones worth two hundred spirit stones, you can shed your slave status, join the Sea God Sect, and even have the opportunity to become immortal cultivators like me!"

Mine stones worth two hundred spirit stones?

Chen Ping frowned, his brow furrowed into a '川' character. He looked at the mine:

"Yunying Stone only sells for four or five spirit sands per pound in White Sand Square City."

For a person to safely mine hundreds of thousands of pounds of ore, it would take at least several decades, and if their body gave out in the middle, they would become useless and await death.

How insidious is the Sea God Sect's scheme, capturing people and giving everyone a glimmer of hope for escape.

But, how many can actually do it?

"The Tao family painstakingly accumulated resources for many years, only to have them all fall into the hands of the Sea God Sect. Moreover, the Tao family has been trading for many years, and the Sea God Sect accurately located the Tao family's ship on the vast sea... there's a mole."

The Tao family of Azure Sea Island must have suffered heavy losses this time.

Chen Ping worked hard mining for a day, ate two cold, hard black cornbread buns, and like the others, found a place to lie down and rest in the mine.

"There's no way to go to Shattered Star Square City via the Tao family's merchant ship..."

"Then I can only find a way to go to Shattered Star Square City through the Sea God Sect."

Although his two-year plan was interrupted by the Sea God Sect, filling him with murderous intent, the priority was not to fight with himself, but to find a way to gain a foothold here.

Join the Sea God Sect, and then look for opportunities to go to Shattered Star Square City.

The small gray-white bead on his neck had been faintly heating up, resisting the Sea God Sect's strange collar.

Time was not on Chen Ping's side, making him feel pressured.

Chen Ping's mind raced: "How can I quickly gain a foothold in the Sea God Sect and shed my slave status?"

After pondering for a long time, he suddenly discovered a good thing.

"Zhang Dingfeng's skills in various arts are actually coming in handy!"

Zhang Dingfeng's skills were those of a geomancer, precisely the means to explore spiritual veins and mineral veins.

In the Eastern Region's cultivation world, there is almost no geomancy inheritance, otherwise the Hao Jade Sea would have been discovered by the Eastern Region's cultivation world long ago.

How could a few Golden Core forces be allowed to reign supreme in the Hao Jade Sea?

Geomancers are a unique inheritance of various arts in the Southern Region's cultivation world.

Chen Ping's thoughts suddenly became active, and he immediately stopped lying down and began searching the mine using the skills of a geomancer while everyone was sleeping.

These simple geomancy skills do not require any spiritual power, but are used to identify mineral veins with the naked eye.

And so, Chen Ping began to quietly search through the various mines.

Three days later.

Chen Ping finally gained something in a mine: "This is... Ice Nether Stone!"

"The temperature here is quite strange, there should be a second-order Coral Yang Stone associated with Ice Nether Stone inside!"

Chen Ping had drilled into dozens of mines in these three days and finally gained something.

But he did not act immediately. Instead, he waited until night, after everyone had fallen asleep, he picked up his tools and began mining alone!

"Bang, bang, bang—"

Chen Ping's physical cultivation power cannot be used at the moment, making it extremely difficult to mine this extremely hard ore.

During the day, he still had to mine as usual, so as not to let others see any clues.

This was an extreme torment to Chen Ping's body.

This made Chen Ping feel as tormented and painful as when he was a medicine-testing boy in the Mu family decades ago.

He had endured such extreme medicine testing, suffering from the backlash of Dan poison every day.

Now he can endure such pain even more.

The only benefit of being in this Sea God Sect is that he can avoid the search of the Golden Core cultivator of the Immortal Merchant Alliance.

Others on this island lived a precarious life, never seeing the light of day, and living in despair.

Chen Ping was extremely motivated.

Half a month later.

In the dark mine, a faint coral light flickered.

Chen Ping's eyes revealed joy: "It really is Coral Yang Stone!"

This kind of second-order Coral Yang Stone is worth dozens of spirit stones per pound.

Chen Ping immediately felt an urge to cry:

"Not easy."

"Fortunately, I diverted the others in advance, otherwise this Coral Yang Stone would have been in danger of being discovered by others."

He suppressed all emotions and thoughts, knocked off a piece of Coral Yang Stone, and then hid it in his dirty arms.

He filled the gap where the Coral Yang Stone appeared with other gravel.

At night, Chen Ping walked out of the mine with heavy and difficult steps.

His gaze swept across the palace in the distance.

The Sea God Sect cultivators who controlled this island were three Qi Refining Deacons, Chen Ping had inquired about all this information.

There was also infighting within the Sea God Sect cultivators, it was possible that Chen Ping would be strangled to death if he handed over this Coral Yang Stone.

Finding which deacon to offer this Coral Yang Stone to was full of danger, and at the same time, it was also an opportunity for Chen Ping to solve his current predicament.

The Great Deacon, Huo Hua, this person usually does not fight or compete, and never shows himself in front of people, supervising everyone's mining.

This person is more dangerous.

As the saying goes, being greedy for money and lust is not terrible, the most terrible thing is the kind of person who has no desires, because this kind of person does not look at the things in front of them, their plans are very big, and their minds are deep.

The Second Deacon, Zhao Hu, this person is greedy for money and lust, harsh on the mine, scolding and beating at light, often humiliating and killing miners in front of thousands of people, and Chen Ping has been on the island for twenty days, this person sings and dances every night, and must be accompanied by beautiful maids when he travels, he likes vanity and power.

This person is not bad, a person who is greedy for money and lust, and sings and dances every night, has never been liked, and these people are mostly high-handed and low-handed, in fact, they are a waste, have no great ambitions, and only care about immediate interests.

The Third Deacon, Hu Qi, this person is better not to mention...

Looking around, Chen Ping's best choice is to find this Zhao Hu.

Chen Ping, wearing bracelets and anklets, walked with difficulty towards the palace where Zhao Hu was.

Although it was midnight, Zhao Hu sang and danced every night. Approaching the palace, he could hear the lewd sounds coming from inside.

Chen Ping came outside the palace, cupped his hands and said, "Deacon Zhao, miner Chen Ping, has a treasure to offer!

I beg to see Master Zhao, so that I can offer the treasure!"

The lewd sounds in the palace stopped abruptly, followed by rustling and displeased scolding.

It seemed to be the sound of maids putting on clothes.

Then Zhao Hu's displeased voice sounded: "Beauty, don't go, continue to serve me."

"That miner dares to disturb my good deeds, I'm too lazy to see him, just kill him later."

Chen Ping's face immediately sank when he heard this.