Mortal Alchemy

The return journey took five days.

Chen Ping, Mu Luofei, and Meng Huang'er took turns piloting the White Jade Flying Boat.

Chen Ping didn't refine pills in front of the two women, spending more time chatting.

Mu Luofei, relying on the first-order Beauty Preservation Pill, had completely established herself in the Eastern Xuan Sect and Eastern Wilderness Immortal City.

Her master was a Golden Core Realm cultivator specializing in refining artifacts.

Their master-disciple relationship was relatively distant.

After all, there were too many disciples in the Eastern Xuan Sect.

After returning to the Floating Light Market, they dispersed.

Chen Ping then began refining the second-order Barrier Breaking Pill.

This was Chen Ping's first time refining the Barrier Breaking Pill.

But with the secret techniques left by his ancestor, Chen Ping wasn't afraid to refine it.

The cost of this batch of Barrier Breaking Pills was as high as 20,000 spiritual stones, with a total of thirty-two ingredients.

Fortunately, Chen Ping was already an experienced alchemist.

Just processing these thirty-two ingredients took four days.

Seven days later, the first batch of Barrier Breaking Pills was successfully refined.

Inside the Eastern Moon Mountain dojo, Chen Ping held a five-colored pill in his hand, its medicinal power extremely rich, far exceeding the three-hundred-year-old Qi Cultivation Pill.

It was also the second most complex pill Chen Ping had ever refined.

"I'll keep four pills from this batch first."

Chen Ping summoned Mu Luofei: "Senior Sister Luofei, I've already refined the first batch of Barrier Breaking Pills."

"How should the second batch of medicinal materials be handled?"

Mu Luofei was a little surprised: "Junior Brother, you succeeded on your first try?"

Chen Ping's expression was calm, and he said with a smile:

"The Barrier Breaking Pill isn't that difficult."

Mu Luofei was very shocked, her beautiful eyes flashing with charming light:

"…Junior Brother, you're getting more and more amazing."

"From this batch of pills, Junior Brother, you take four, I'll take one of the remaining six, and the people who provided the medicinal materials will each take one."

"Even so, it's still us taking advantage of Junior Brother."

"Junior Brother can keep the second batch of medicinal materials for yourself. I'll tell them that two portions of medicinal materials were used to refine one batch of pills."

Chen Ping raised his head and looked at Mu Luofei, hesitating slightly: "…Isn't that bad?"

Was he just going to swallow the spiritual herbs worth 20,000 spiritual stones like that?

Strictly speaking, Chen Ping refining the Barrier Breaking Pill meant he made a pure profit of 100,000 spiritual stones!

Mu Luofei smiled gently: "They won't have any complaints."

"Two portions of materials, worth 40,000 spiritual stones, would cost us six people just over 6,000 spiritual stones if we split it evenly, which is already a 40% discount on the Barrier Breaking Pill."

Chen Ping thought for a while: "Okay, then after I refine this batch of pills, I'll give Senior Sister five more Barrier Breaking Pills. Senior Sister can sell these five Barrier Breaking Pills."

Mu Luofei nodded slightly:

"Okay."

She took away six Barrier Breaking Pills and returned to her dojo to cultivate in seclusion.

Her cultivation speed was truly not slow.

Chen Ping spent another seven days refining the second batch of Barrier Breaking Pills.

Then, he picked out the Barrier Breaking Pill with the strongest medicinal power, swallowed it, and began to refine it.

"Rumble!!!"

The majestic medicinal power immediately spread out, enhancing his divine soul and spiritual consciousness, strengthening his physical body, and of course, even more so, providing majestic spiritual power!

With all three working together, Chen Ping's early Foundation Establishment bottleneck was being rapidly washed away!

At the first moment Chen Ping circulated his cultivation technique, he carefully sensed the medicinal power of the Barrier Breaking Pill:

"This medicinal power is very strong. If it were an ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivator, one Barrier Breaking Pill would be enough to break through the bottleneck."

However, for Chen Ping, one Barrier Breaking Pill was not enough.

He immediately swallowed another Barrier Breaking Pill.

"Rumble rumble!!!"

The massive medicinal power swept over him, causing Chen Ping's physical body to tremble slightly, washing over the bottleneck.

"Still not enough," Chen Ping frowned.

The medicinal power of one Barrier Breaking Pill was equivalent to his peak breakthrough during his usual cultivation, equal to one plus one.

Now, with the second Barrier Breaking Pill swallowed and refined, the bottleneck that bound Chen Ping suddenly began to shake.

He immediately swallowed the third Barrier Breaking Pill!

This time, the bottleneck was like a river embankment in front of the sea.

The moment the medicinal power of the three Barrier Breaking Pills erupted, it broke a hole in the bottleneck!

Chen Ping's thirty-six semi-crystallized spiritual power began to be further purified, evolving towards crystalline spiritual power!

As the bottleneck was broken, the original invisible barrier disappeared, and Chen Ping felt that he could condense the thirty-seventh semi-crystallized spiritual power.

"Hoo~" Chen Ping's heart relaxed slightly.

The aura of the mid-Foundation Establishment stage immediately spread out like a tide, but the aura was not stable.

He still needed to wear away the remaining bottlenecks in order to stabilize the mid-Foundation Establishment stage!

He calculated the time, it had been almost ten years since he entered the Foundation Establishment stage, and his realm had finally taken a small step forward.

And in the process, he had consumed spiritual stone resources exceeding one million spiritual stones!

The path of cultivation is about wealth, companionship, methods, and land, with wealth being the most important.

Half a month later.

The aura on Chen Ping's body gradually stabilized.

Thus, his physical body, spiritual consciousness, and realm had all reached the mid-stage, and his combat power had further skyrocketed!

He felt that, with his current strength, he was enough to deal with the second-tier peak Black Snake and the Loose Cultivator Sea Worm at the same time.

He could kill them in less than a hundred sword strikes!

"Finally, I've reached the mid-Foundation Establishment stage, it wasn't easy…" Chen Ping sighed.

He once again rejoiced that the decision he had made was correct, being exiled to a foreign land and gathering resources himself.

Otherwise, if he had stayed in the Eastern Xuan Sect, he would still be suffering.

Chen Ping walked out of the quiet room, and the Treasure Seeking Mink had been waiting for him for a long time.

"Squeak squeak squeak!!!" The Treasure Seeking Mink excitedly cried out to him, its little finger pointing towards Eastern Moon Mountain.

Chen Ping frowned, not quite sure:

"Mink brother, are you saying that the two enemies who escaped a few years ago are in Eastern Moon Mountain, and you smelled their aura?"

"Squeak!" The Treasure Seeking Mink nodded.

Chen Ping raised an eyebrow: "After so many years, He Chengzhu and Zhang Daosheng haven't left this place, but instead returned to Floating Light Market and sneaked into Eastern Moon Mountain?"

"What are they doing this for?"

Aren't these two afraid of being exposed and killed by him?

"There's probably a secret…"

Chen Ping's heart skipped a beat, thinking of Han Yu's last words before he died. He had a big secret he wanted to reveal, but he triggered the Heart Demon Oath and his head exploded!

Chen Ping thought for a while, and didn't immediately enter Eastern Moon Mountain, but left his dojo and came to Floating Light Market.

Coincidentally, Meng Huang'er was chatting with Mo Douguang.

"Nephew Mo, why are you here?" Chen Ping asked in confusion.

Mo Douguang cupped his hands and said: "Greetings, Uncle Chen. Uncle Bai asked me to deliver the second-tier Teleportation Talisman to Uncle Chen."

"Oh, oh." Chen Ping then remembered that he needed the second-tier Teleportation Talisman to teleport eighteen second-tier spiritual plants to the Vast Jade Sea.

Mo Douguang handed thirty second-tier Teleportation Talismans to Chen Ping, exaggeratingly saying: "Uncle Chen is indeed amazing, even a maidservant is a second-tier body cultivator."

Meng Huang'er's pretty face flushed slightly.

Chen Ping said with a smile: "Nephew Mo is too kind."

"Senior Sister Meng, lend me some spiritual stones, I'm temporarily out of money."

These thirty second-tier Teleportation Talismans cost money.

One talisman costs five hundred spiritual stones, so thirty talismans cost fifteen thousand spiritual stones.

"Okay." Meng Huang'er's spatial ring flashed, and she took out fifteen thousand spiritual stones.

This made Mo Douguang even more shocked.

Uncle Chen's maidservant could casually take out fifteen thousand spiritual stones, leaving him a little disoriented in the wind.

After exchanging a few more pleasantries, he then bid farewell and left, taking the opportunity to collect this year's Floating Light Market tax.