The Path to Immortality

Seeing what Fang Ping said, Liu Tongqiu had a look of embarrassment on his face and said: "It's business, it's just a matter of bargaining... If fellow Taoist feels it's inappropriate, I can add another amount of spiritual stones, how about that?"

Fang Ping said noncommittally: "Ignoring the matter of spiritual stones in advance, have you, the Fu Sect, ever heard of Tiancan Island?"

Tiancan Island?

Liu Tongqiu recalled for a moment and said uncertainly: "Could it be that the Tiancan Island that fellow Taoist mentioned was the one occupied by the Huangquan Sect on Tianshui Lake thousands of years ago?"

Fang Ping nodded, confirming what he said.

Liu Tongqiu asked doubtfully: "Didn't this island disappear long ago with the destruction of Huangquan Sect? Could it be that it has reappeared recently? Or has something changed happened?"

Seeing that his expression didn't look like he was being fake, Fang Ping knew that this person probably really didn't know.

So he made an indifferent look: "I was looking through the classics before and saw it accidentally. I was just a little curious. Since Liu Daoyou doesn't know, then forget it."

Liu Tongqiu didn't think much about it and discussed with Fang Ping how much the difference in spirit stone price should be paid for.

………

After the deal with Elder Fu Zong was over.

Fang Ping changed his identity again and returned to the Treasure Judgment Auction to receive the spiritual stones obtained from the entrusted auction of the foundation-building pill.

There were gains from selling the second-level array and a furnace of foundation-building pills. The huge amount of spiritual stones spent on auctioning many items in the previous two days had just been spent, and most of them went back to his pocket.

"This is the benefit of having enough foundation and accumulation!"

After sighing, he opened the bag and re-examined the items from the previous auction.

The first is the Yang Yan Spiritual Fire spell and the matching Yan Yang Fire Jade; the second is the Seven Luo Blood Ginseng Grass that can speed up the practice of body training; the follow-up is the two first-order late stage puppet machine beasts, and the second-order alchemist. Ge Dongsheng’s Alchemy Notes; and finally, the top-quality spiritual weapons Hanzhu Tianyi and Tianmo Liyundan.

Even the cheapest spiritual fire spells and Yanyang Fire Jade are worth more than 10,000 low-grade spiritual stones together.

If all the treasures were included, it would be equivalent to a hill made of spiritual stones!

"The Yang Yan Spirit Fire Spell still has certain requirements for the monk's understanding. There is no need to rush to practice this technique. It will not be too late to practice it after the second-level Bodhi Fruit matures in a few years and the understanding is improved. Anyway, as long as you can do it in time Just practice it after nine years before the seal of Tiancan Island is loosened again."

"The best spiritual weapon, the Han Spider Heavenly Clothes, can be refined later."

"As for the Seven-Language Blood Ginseng Grass..."

Fang Ping took out the elixir, examined it in front of his eyes for a moment, then stuffed it into his mouth and swallowed it.

Along with the slightly bitter taste, a surge of medicinal power surges out of the Qiluo Blood Ginseng Grass and is quickly absorbed by the body.

Under the stimulation of the essence of the medicinal power, Fang Ping's Five Elements Exercise Method almost spontaneously started to operate, and began to continuously absorb and refine the medicinal power.

As the body-training technique was running at full speed, the five elements of spiritual light appeared in turn on the surface of Fang Ping's body, illuminating the quiet room, and finally merged into one.

Fang Ping's body, energy and blood also continued to grow, slowly approaching the fifth level of the Five Elements Body Training Technique.

Since the fifth level of the Five Elements Body Training Method corresponds to the Golden Core Realm, there is an extremely huge span from the fourth level to the fifth level.

Fang Ping had already completed the fourth level of the Five Elements Body Training Technique before coming to the Western Wilderness.

Over the years, he has never stopped exercising, and the elixir he invests in this every year is equivalent to tens of thousands of low-grade spiritual stones.

Even so, there is still a long way to go before the fifth level.

However, after receiving the help of the Seven Blood Ginseng Grass, Fang Ping could clearly feel that the progress of the Five Elements Strengthening Method had been greatly improved.

"Five years? At most six years, you will be able to truly reach the fifth level!"

Feeling the progress of the body-building technique, Fang Ping closed his eyes again and continued to absorb the remaining medicinal power in his body.

………

Time is like running water.

Five years passed in a flash after Fang Ping obtained the talisman to enter Tiancan Island from the elder of Zhaoyang Mountain and returned to the state of concentrating on cultivation.

This day at noon.

"Revision test of the Nourishing Pulse Pill Recipe, No. 154."

After writing down the latest version of the formula and deduction experience on the notes in front of him, Fang Ping took out several erroneous materials that had been traced back and verified, and then put in the modified corresponding spiritual herbs.

With everything ready, he activated the Lieyang True Fire again and started his sixth attempt today.

Under the burning of the golden real fire, the spiritual grass in the cauldron quickly merged into one, moving towards the final stage of condensation.

In the first half hour, the progress was very smooth.

But just when it was about to enter the most critical point, the medicinal properties of several spiritual herbs that Fang Ping put in to replace the original marrow-washing grass once again had a slight conflict.

Although this conflict did not immediately cancel the refining of the Nourishing Pulse Pill, it only delayed the process for more than ten breaths.

"Isn't it true that it still doesn't work?"

Fang Ping sighed, picked up the notes in front of him, and added the results of the experiment to it.

"The idea of ​​using Golden Blood Flower, Dragon Bone Vine, and Green Mulberry Roots proved to be ineffective. But compared to the previous attempts, the conflict this time was significantly smaller. It proves that the combination of Golden Blood Flower and Dragon Bone Vine is feasible, but Finally, there is still a problem in choosing the green mulberry rhizome that balances the medicinal properties..."

It seems that it is necessary to readjust the thinking.

Recalling the several deduction directions left by alchemist Ge Dongsheng in his notes, and combining his own experiences during this period, Fang Ping quickly had a new inspiration.

However, the time spent on modifying the recipe of Yangmai Pill today was enough, and he did not expect to get results in a short time. So he wrote down his ideas for the time being and prepared to try again tomorrow.

Putting away the Yuan Ding, Fang Ping shook his head with deep emotion when looking at the thick improvement plan recorded in the notebook in front of him.

In the short attempt in Yunzhou, he had tried it briefly and experienced the difficulty of modifying the ancient pill recipe.

But this time, after he really put in the effort, he had a more personal experience - it was not only difficult, but it was simply not a field that ordinary people could get involved in!

During this period of time, he had refined more than a hundred furnaces just to verify the modification ideas.

Every failure meant wasting a Xuanyuan fruit.

This important auxiliary material for the foundation-building pill is relatively common in Xihuangzhou, but one piece costs at least two thousand spirit stones.

Even if other spiritual herbs are not counted at all, and only the price of Xuanyuan fruit is counted, the cost is as high as 200,000 to 300,000 spirit stones!

Although other alchemists would not be as bold as he was when trying something, and would not try it immediately as long as he had an idea, but would try it again and again after repeated consideration, even if their cost was only a fraction of Fang Ping's, it would still be a waste of 100,000 spirit stones.

Even ordinary second-level alchemists would have to live frugally for a period of time to be able to afford such an investment!

What's more terrifying is that even if so much has been invested, it is still unknown when the results will be harvested.

It is even possible that he will persist until the end, but there will still be no results, and all the investment will be wasted!

This huge investment and the final uncertainty are enough to drive any determined alchemist crazy.

This inevitably made Fang Ping sigh again, fortunately he had a treasure like Yuan Ding.