Mortal Alchemy

In the sky above.

Streaks of light flashed by incessantly, accompanied by numerous flying magical artifacts.

Most of them were people dressed in the standardized 'Mu' family attire.

There were also some from the surrounding families nearby.

Mu Lu妃 piloted the white jade flying boat to land, then disembarked with Chen Ping. The white jade flying boat shrunk, transforming into a jade hairpin, flying back to her head and inserting itself into her dark hair.

Mu Lu妃 walked ahead of Chen Ping, who deliberately lagged behind her by a step, arriving at the door of the Fang family.

At the entrance, Fang Xing and his bride were standing side by side, greeting guests.

Chen Ping smiled, handing over ten spirit stones: "Junior Brother Fang, congratulations, congratulations."

Fang Xing's face was filled with a bright smile of suppressed joy:

"Senior Brother Chen, please come inside and take a seat."

Mu Lu妃 then took out ten spirit stones and gave them to the bride, with a gentle smile on her face:

"Cousin, congratulations on your marriage."

"Lu妃 is here, please come inside quickly." The bride greeted with a smile.

Chen Ping and Mu Lu妃 stepped into the Fang family residence, inside which was a large palace, already filled with guests.

Chen Ping and Mu Lu妃 were arranged to sit at a table near the front.

At that table, Luo Chongzhi, Lin Feixian, and Han Tongbao were already seated, but Li Erniu was nowhere to be seen.

It had been almost two years since they had last seen each other, and they had changed a lot. The most obvious thing was that the sharpness they once had was almost gone.

Each of them had varying degrees of fatigue and exhaustion on their faces.

But upon seeing old friends, they still revealed sincere smiles: "Senior Sister Mu, Senior Brother Chen!"

It was nice that the people from the Jiazi Courtyard were all arranged to sit at the same table.

In the past two years, Luo Chongzhi, Lin Feixian, and Han Tongbao had actually all reached the eighth level of Qi Refining.

The latecomers had surpassed him and had already caught up with Chen Ping.

Luo Chongzhi once again had a confident smile on his face, looked at Chen Ping, cupped his hands and smiled:

"Senior Brother Chen, when will you break through to the ninth level of Qi Refining? If you don't work hard and hurry up, be careful I surpass you."

Chen Ping laughed and said calmly: "Junior Brother Luo, wait until you break through to the ninth level of Qi Refining before me."

Chen Ping knew very well how many resources it took to go from the eighth level of Qi Refining to the ninth level of Qi Refining.

This hurdle was not so easy to overcome, otherwise Chen Ping would not have been so far ahead of them back then.

This made people understand even more how big the gap in resources between him and Mu Lu妃 was.

Family background was too important, he was just a country bumpkin, with no one to rely on, and nothing to compete for.

However, it was also because Chen Ping had stayed at the eighth level of Qi Refining for too long.

At this time, Mu Lu妃 said with a faint smile:

"Junior Brother Luo, Junior Brother Lin, Junior Brother Han, borrowing from the market is good, but it is also a more serious bottomless pit than the Mu family."

"It's best to be careful."

Chen Ping was shocked: "Borrowing from the market?"

Mu Lu妃 knew that Chen Ping refined pills all day long and didn't know much about the world of cultivation, so she explained:

"That's right, borrowing from the market. The three of them come from cultivation families and have a certain degree of credibility, so they can borrow spirit stones from the market to obtain a lot of cultivation resources."

"The purpose is to break through to the tenth level of Qi Refining, so as to take on tasks from the Deacon Hall under the pretext of breaking through to Foundation Establishment, and earn more spirit stones. In this way, with a skill in immortal arts in hand, coupled with tasks from the Deacon Hall, the income will indeed be higher."

"But it also cuts off the path of marrying and having children, leaving resources for the family, and fully supplies oneself to break through, looking for opportunities for Foundation Establishment."

Chen Ping's eyes were surprised, there was such a thing in the world of cultivation? No wonder these people's resources had suddenly caught up and their cultivation had soared.

He came from a rural background and didn't know about this kind of thing, let alone borrowing channels, no one was willing to lend to him.

Luo Chongzhi, Lin Feixian, and Han Tongbao smiled awkwardly.

Lin Feixian said with a wry smile:

"Senior Sister Mu, we have no other way to choose."

Luo Chongzhi said: "We must rush to the tenth level of Qi Refining first, there is still hope for Foundation Establishment in this life."

Han Tongbao looked at Chen Ping: "Senior Brother Chen has been at the eighth level of Qi Refining for two years, he should not have borrowed, Junior Brother admires Senior Brother's state of mind."

Chen Ping felt bitter in his heart, he clearly didn't know about this, but on the surface he laughed and perfunctorily brushed it off.

But even if he knew, he would not touch the matter of borrowing, as Mu Lu妃 said, this was a bottomless pit.

He was already facing the exploitation of the Mu family, and he still had to borrow, it was unknown how difficult life would be.

Mainly because the Pill Hall had not had anyone break through to the Foundation Establishment stage for almost two hundred years, this matter had not spread in the Pill Hall.

At this time, two people walked into the hall.

A man and a woman.

The man was about sixty or seventy years old, wearing a gray robe, with a fierce aura.

With one hand, he held a mature and hot嬌躯 in his arms, the woman was in her twenties or thirties, with a charming and seductive temperament, her face flushed, and she snuggled in the old man's arms.

Madam Huadie, it was her!

Chen Ping was taken aback.

It was actually Madam Huadie, this was Chen Ping's dream lover when he was young.

Madam Huadie had hinted at seducing Chen Ping, and the young and pure Chen Ping had seen him several times in his dreams.

What was the relationship between this Madam Huadie and this old man? Seeing Madam Huadie's flushed expression and charming and coquettish posture, what was the relationship, it was definitely not a legal wife or a Taoist partner, nor was it a maid.

After all, she was a female heir of the Mu family.

Unexpectedly, Madam Huadie, who was infinitely charming and mysterious in Chen Ping's eyes, would be like this to an old man.

This had to make Chen Ping sigh.

Madam Huadie's eyes met Chen Ping's, and the flush on her face faded away, her face turned pale.

Then she continued to smile and snuggled in the old man's arms, and sat down at the row of tables at the very front.

Luo Chongzhi was surprised: "What a tempting young woman, wearing Mu family clothes, who are they?"

Lin Feixian lowered his voice and said: "That is the newly arrived guest elder of our Formation Department."

"Oh, so it's a Foundation Establishment elder, no wonder he acts so ostentatiously."

"That young woman is Mu Huadie, a widow, who took the initiative to become the concubine of the guest elder."

Hugging a female heir of the Mu family and playing some lewd things in broad daylight, but no one dared to say anything.

Mu Lu妃 said lightly:

"You can borrow, she can also cling to Foundation Establishment elders, all for the sake of cultivation resources, this kind of thing is very common in the Mu family's collateral line."

"Ordinary-looking Mu family female heirs don't even have this opportunity."

It was all for resources, for Foundation Establishment and longevity, moral integrity and widowhood? Not worth mentioning!

……

Foundation Establishment cultivator?

Chen Ping clenched his fists, and the fire of unwillingness in his heart burned.

He didn't want to stop at the eighth level of Qi Refining and cut off the path to Foundation Establishment!

Even if there was still a glimmer of opportunity for Foundation Establishment, Chen Ping didn't want to give up!

Chen Ping could also understand why Luo Chongzhi and others wanted to seize the opportunity for Foundation Establishment even if they had to borrow and step into the dark bottomless pit.

The places they usually stayed in and the things they saw were broader than Chen Ping, so they definitely couldn't suppress that heart.

Foundation Establishment! Foundation Establishment!

Chen Ping thought, was there any other way he could go.