Mortal Alchemy

Under the moonlight.

A white jade flying boat sped through the air.

Mu Luofei's gaze towards Chen Ping had subtly changed.

Mu Luofei said with lingering fear, "Junior Brother Chen, if it weren't for your help this time, the consequences would have been dire."

Chen Ping laughed heartily, "Senior Sister Luofei, you flatter me. I didn't expect them to be so weak yet dare to rob us."

"Senior Sister Luofei, it's time to divide the spoils of war."

Chen Ping took out two storage bags.

He poured out everything inside, causing Mu Luofei's delicate body to tremble slightly, and a blush crept onto her pretty face.

Hundreds of pieces of women's underwear of different styles and colors spilled out, mixed among spirit stones, pills, and books.

Chen Ping's expression also turned awkward, "I'm sorry, Senior Sister Luofei, I'll clean these up right away."

Mu Luofei's slender eyelashes fluttered, her earlobes turned red, and she gently bit her red lip, softly saying:

"No need, just leave them like that, Junior Brother Chen."

Then, Mu Luofei seriously began sorting the spoils, disdainfully discarding the women's underwear.

After busying herself for half an hour, she finally finished organizing them.

There were a total of five hundred spirit stones, dozens of bottles of pills, and several nameless cultivation methods.

Mu Luofei said, "Junior Brother Chen, you were the one who killed all the enemies this time, so you should take eighty percent of the spoils, and I'll only take the remaining twenty percent."

Chen Ping picked up the nameless cultivation methods, and the very first one made his pupils shrink:

"This cultivation method is called 'Turtle Breathing Technique'? It can conceal one's true cultivation level…"

"What a treasure!"

Chen Ping cultivated a fifteenth-layer cultivation method passed down from his ancestors, but most people in the Mu family cultivated a twelfth-layer cultivation method. After he cultivated to the twelfth layer, he needed this cultivation method to conceal his true cultivation level.

"Before, in the gathering place, these people must have used this cultivation method, and I couldn't see their true cultivation level even with the Qi Observation Technique."

Chen Ping made up his mind and said, "Senior Sister Luofei, I want this cultivation method."

"Mm."

Mu Luofei nodded slightly, not bothering to ask what the cultivation method was.

Chen Ping picked up the second cultivation method: "'True Yang Vajra Art', a body refinement cultivation method, which I can also use, I'll take it."

The third cultivation method was the "Wonderful Desire Joyful Union Method", a dual cultivation technique that could extract yang to replenish yin or extract yin to replenish yang.

Chen Ping's face turned red, and he couldn't help but cough a few times, "There's actually such a cultivation method?"

Mu Luofei's pretty face also flushed red, and she endured her shyness to explain, "This is a cultivation method from the Wonderful Desire Pavilion. This person's ancestor should have been a Foundation Establishment disciple of the Wonderful Desire Pavilion."

"Junior Brother Chen, it's best if you don't take this cultivation method."

"Yes, yes, I'll listen to Senior Sister."

Mu Luofei summoned a small fireball from her palm and burned the cultivation method to ashes.

Chen Ping then took three hundred spirit stones, "Senior Sister Luofei, the rest are yours."

Mu Luofei looked at the remaining two hundred spirit stones and dozens of bottles of pills, wanting to decline.

Chen Ping smiled and said, "The extra is just to cover the cost of the white jade flying boat. Senior Sister Luofei, please don't refuse."

Mu Luofei's eyes shimmered, and she smiled faintly:

"Alright, then I'll accept it without any politeness."

With the spoils divided, it was time for them to part ways.

Chen Ping said, "Senior Sister Luofei, I'll be going to the Donghuang Market, which may take a few months, so the transaction of the Spirit Sense Pills will have to be temporarily suspended."

"Okay."

Mu Luofei said, "Junior Brother Chen, be careful on the road, and return as soon as possible."

Chen Ping summoned his flying gourd, "Senior Sister Luofei, see you back at the Mu family."

He controlled the flying gourd and flew towards the Donghuang Market.

Mu Luofei watched Chen Ping's figure disappear into the distance and then fully piloted the white jade flying boat back to the Mu family.

……

Two days later, Chen Ping flew eight hundred miles and stopped in a deserted and safe place.

"Finally, I can refine pills."

Mu Xingling's task wasn't urgent. Chen Ping wanted to focus on refining pills to improve his cultivation.

Now that he had separated from Mu Luofei, he could take out the Azure Phoenix Cauldron.

"First, refine some Spirit Sense Pills."

Xu Fengshan said before that refining Spirit Sense Pills required at least the late stage of Qi Refining.

Now that Chen Ping had broken through to the tenth level of Qi Refining, he wanted to give it a try.

Chen Ping excitedly began refining Spirit Sense Pills, "Mm, after my spirit sense becomes stronger, my control over the cauldron and medicinal materials is more precise."

An hour later, Chen Ping's face fell, "That's not right, why did I still fail?"

"My spirit sense is still not strong enough."

Chen Ping was immediately doused with cold water.

Half a month later.

Chen Ping's expression was somewhat complicated, "Half a month, I've refined three furnaces of Spirit Sense Pills, which means I can refine six furnaces of Spirit Sense Pills a month."

"It's stronger than before, but not by much."

After his spirit sense became stronger, the speed of refining Spirit Sense Pills increased a lot, but it was only faster. He now mainly relied on the medicinal guides collected by the Azure Phoenix Cauldron to refine Spirit Sense Pills.

"It's good that it's stronger than before. I can earn thirty-six more spirit stones each month."

"Next, I'll refine Body Tempering Pills. After so much hardship, I finally collected the materials for Body Tempering Pills. Let's test the effects."

Chen Ping's consciousness entered the Inheritance Hall, placed the materials for the Body Tempering Pills into the pattern, and a few short sentences appeared:

[The medicinal materials are potent and contain many toxins. You need to use a strong fire to refine the demon bone blood for half an hour first, and then add the remaining medicinal materials.]

[If the refining fails, the waste can be used as Body Tempering Powder for external application and medicinal baths.]

Chen Ping's eyes lit up, "This way, I won't waste the medicinal materials!"

After refining pills for many years, he had wasted many medicinal materials due to failed refining.

Moreover, these Body Tempering Pills weren't refined by adding all the medicinal materials at once.

Chen Ping began refining Body Tempering Pills with great interest, placing a blood horn of a demon bone into the cauldron and maximizing the Azure Lotus Rootless Fire for refining.

After half an hour, he added the other medicinal materials.

Another half an hour later, Chen Ping's expression changed slightly. He smelled an extremely pungent odor, opened the cauldron, and found that the materials inside had already turned into charcoal slag.

He didn't waste it and immediately took out the charcoal slag, soaked it in spiritual water, and Chen Ping took off his clothes and soaked in it to feel the effect.

"Hiss!!!"

A burst of stinging pain immediately surged into his body, and then his body felt warm. He used his spiritual sense to examine himself and found that his body was being tempered, becoming stronger, and the meridians in his body were also changing.

Chen Ping's Qi vortex became imperceptibly larger, and his circulation of spiritual power was also more natural and smooth.

Chen Ping's face showed joy:

"Good stuff!"

The biggest change was that the bottleneck of his physical body was worn away a little.

He didn't want to repeat the same mistakes and face the same danger as when he broke through to the tenth level of Qi Refining.

Chen Ping refined Body Tempering Pills while heading to the Donghuang Market.

After tossing and turning for half a month, he finally successfully refined a furnace of Body Tempering Pills.

He swallowed one to test the effect: "Ugh… the effect is thirty percent stronger than the medicinal bath! Pain! It hurts so much!"

Chen Ping's expression changed drastically. His physical body was too weak and fragile, and his body couldn't help but tremble, covered in cold sweat.

He endured the pain, not wanting to waste the medicinal power, and refined this Body Tempering Pill.

In this wilderness, he couldn't find anyone to consult, so he didn't dare to take Body Tempering Pills casually. He picked up the "True Yang Vajra Art" and began to cultivate, planning to strengthen his body before swallowing Body Tempering Pills to test the effect.

Traveling and stopping like this, dragging his feet, a month later, he arrived at the Donghuang Market, twelve hundred miles away.