Mortal Alchemy

Chen Ping's magic was pure, and his understanding of cultivation methods had advanced further.

After reaching the twelfth level of Qi Refining, it not only increased the success rate of Foundation Establishment but also enhanced Chen Ping's combat power, bringing it infinitely closer to the Foundation Establishment stage.

In this way, when Chen Ping traveled outside, his chances of survival against enemies of the same Qi Refining stage would be higher.

He took Yuan Qi Pills, Spiritual Sense Pills, and Body Tempering Pills together, feeling himself gradually growing stronger.

Chen Ping's mindset gradually shifted from cautious and despairing to...

"I have four thousand spiritual stones, a Four Seasons Swordplay technique for offense, and a White Jade Flying Boat for travel..."

Chen Ping counted his assets.

"If I want to successfully bring my physical body to the second tier, I must start cultivating the 'True Yang Vajra Art,' a body refinement technique."

Chen Ping knew that his aptitude was poor. Even with the cultivation methods provided by his ancestors, the probability of reaching the fifteenth level of Qi Refining, let alone Foundation Establishment, was not high.

Now that he had plenty of spiritual stones, he could cultivate body refinement techniques to strengthen his physical body and enhance his Foundation Establishment potential.

Applying Body Tempering Powder externally and taking Body Tempering Pills internally, Chen Ping's cultivation of the 'True Yang Vajra Art' went smoothly.

"It's just that the consumption of spirit beast meat and spirit rice is relatively large..."

The Fasting Pill had little effect for body cultivators.

Chen Ping smiled, "Fortunately, I can eat spirit beast meat and spirit rice in the Pill Hall without spending money."

Afterward, Chen Ping was surprised to find that the progress of this body refinement technique was very fast as long as there were enough resources.

"Is this because of the foundation I laid by taking so many Body Tempering Pills before?"

In a month, he reached the mid-stage of first-tier body tempering, consuming countless spirit beast meat and spirit rice. The Pill Hall only treated him as another big eater and didn't alarm anyone.

...

Outside the Deacon Hall.

Mu Xingling summoned a White Jade Flying Boat, causing many people to exclaim.

Such a flying artifact was worth two thousand spiritual stones, an amount many disciples couldn't earn even after a lifetime of servitude in the Mu family.

Countless people looked at the White Jade Flying Boat, their eyes filled with awe, longing, and envy.

Chen Ping arrived on time, boarded the White Jade Flying Boat, and left the Mu family.

Chen Ping didn't see Mu Xingling. Instead, a ghost servant girl with fluttering skirts, floating in the air without touching the ground, and with a cold temperament greeted Chen Ping:

"My name is Yuehua. My master has ordered that Young Master Chen can choose a room to stay in."

This was the foundation of the Mu family's direct line, actually having young and beautiful ghost cultivators to serve.

"Yes, thank you, Miss Yuehua."

Yuehua smiled eerily, and her figure disappeared into the hull of the boat.

This White Jade Flying Boat was the same model as Chen Ping's, with three floors and a dozen rooms.

Chen Ping chose a room to stay in. Under Mu Xingling's watchful eyes, Chen Ping didn't even dare to take out Yuan Qi Pills to cultivate. Instead, he took out Essence Qi Pills to refine and disguise himself.

"Oh, such rich spiritual energy. Could it be that she has inscribed a second-order Qi Gathering Array on this flying boat?"

However, Chen Ping's Five Elements mixed spiritual roots were too poor. Now that he was at the twelfth level of Qi Refining, using Essence Qi Pills for cultivation had almost no effect.

Having been accustomed to the majestic spiritual energy of Yuan Qi Pills, he was now somewhat unaccustomed to refining the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into his body bit by bit.

As Chen Ping expected, Mu Xingling's ghost servant girl was secretly monitoring him. Yuehua came to the main room to see Mu Xingling:

"Master, the essence qi of your concubine's body is very strong. It seems that he has cultivated body refinement techniques."

Mu Xingling sat cross-legged, breathing in spiritual energy, refining her spiritual power, and removing pill toxins, but she didn't respond to her.

After flying for about three days.

Yuehua notified Chen Ping to go to the deck.

In front of a huge ore mountain range, dozens of White Jade Flying Boats floated.

Chen Ping walked from the room to the deck and saw Mu Xingling's alluring back. At this moment, she was talking with the direct disciples of other families.

Then dozens of White Jade Flying Boats landed one after another.

An extremely vulgar, middle-aged man with a flattering face received Mu Xingling and others:

"Welcome, Immortals, to the Dafeng Ore Mountain Range."

After some greetings, everyone entered a luxurious inn.

Chen Ping also roughly understood where this was. Near the Eastern Wasteland Market, this Dafeng Ore Mountain Range was famous for producing various essence stones.

But he didn't quite understand how the Purple Monkey Flower was related to ore?

In the evening, Mu Xingling found Chen Ping and said, "Starting tomorrow, you will enter the ore mountain range for a month."

"You need to find this kind of ore."

On her jade finger was a small piece of charming purple-red ore: "This is the Essence Yang Purple Stone, which is the symbiotic ore of the Purple Monkey Flower."

"If you find this kind of ore, continue digging down, and you will have a chance to find the Purple Monkey Flower."

"This is not under the rule of the Eastern Xuan Sect, and killing is not prohibited inside. You understand the importance of the Purple Monkey Flower without me telling you."

Chen Ping pretended to be infatuated and fanatical: "I will definitely find this thing for the Palace Master!"

"Okay." Mu Xingling couldn't stand Chen Ping's servile attitude. A slight blush appeared on her pretty face, and she said in a strong tone:

"If you find the Purple Monkey Flower, I will reward you with a night of serving me with pleasure."

Chen Ping was stunned. Was he really being treated as a concubine, and serving her with pleasure for a night was a reward?

But he could only act excited and fanatical:

"Yes, Palace Master, I will go through fire and water to retrieve this thing for the Palace Master."

Mu Xingling then reminded him:

"There are many ore caves in the Dafeng Mountain Range. How much ore you can dig is your reward."

"If you encounter a monster you can't deal with, retreat and prioritize your life."

"Yes, Palace Master!" Chen Ping looked even more excited.

He couldn't help but wonder, was she concerned about him? No, she just didn't want to lose the opportunity to enter the Eastern Xuan Sect.

"There are more than a dozen families involved in this operation. You must avoid them in the mountain range. We direct descendants of these families will not personally take action and have brought our respective family servants."

"They will do anything to get ahead, so be careful."

"That's it, step back."

Mu Xingling waved her hand and continued to sit cross-legged to cultivate.

...

Early the next morning.

Chen Ping and seventeen others came to the outside of the mountain range. The flattering and vulgar man from yesterday now had an arrogant face and indifferent eyes, smiling insincerely:

"Fellow Daoists, you will enter the mine for a month. These are the mining equipment. If you dig up good ore, you can come to me for recycling. The price will satisfy you."

He distributed maps and mining equipment and sent everyone into the mountain range.

Then Chen Ping and the others exchanged glances and dispersed, heading towards different directions of the mine.

"Hehe..." The man's eyes revealed a mocking and indifferent look: "A group of poor unlucky bastards."

But the man was at the bottom of the cultivation world and didn't even know that the Purple Monkey Flower was born in this mountain range.

For three consecutive days, Chen Ping visited dozens of mines, all of which were exhausted.

Along the way, he encountered many weak first-order monsters.

"If this continues, it will be impossible to find the Purple Monkey Flower within a month..."