Mortal Alchemy

"Among them, Chen Ping, a direct disciple of the Eastern Xuan Sect, performed the best and was specially awarded a bottle of Sword Dao Secret Medicine."

Chen Ping's eyes lit up, and he cupped his hands and said, "Thank you, True Person!"

This Sword Dao Secret Medicine was a good thing.

The rewarding of merits was also relatively simple, giving tangible benefits, and then True Person Changkong diligently said a few words.

Finally, True Person Changkong said, "We have lost quite a few people this time. Originally, we could add manpower ourselves to replenish the team."

"However, the demon spawn are hiding around us, so it is not advisable to act."

"In the future, if you want to kill demons, you will probably have to face the demon spawn. Go down and improve your combat power, and wait for the next mission."

After speaking, he took out a dozen storage bags, which contained twenty second-order demon beasts.

This made everyone happy. It wasn't just the blood essence of second-order demon beasts, but complete demon beast corpses. True Person Changkong was really generous.

Everyone thanked him, and then retreated and left.

In the empty dojo of the Workshop Master, True Person Changkong said, "Among the thirteen people just now, there must be one who is a demonic spy. Gao Yang, who do you think it could be?"

Gao Yang weakly said, "This disciple cannot tell..."

"We have to think of a way to find the demonic spy."

...

Chen Ping and the others returned to the dojo. Chen Ping earned sixty merit points this time.

Suddenly, Chen Ping's contribution points reached ninety-six!

Meng Huang'er and Mu Xingling gave their contribution points to Chen Ping.

Mu Luofei smiled lightly: "Junior Brother is accumulating contribution points really fast. He is only twenty-four points away from the sect's Three Lights Divine Water."

This demon tide war will last for about sixteen more years.

Chen Ping's speed of accumulating contributions is quite fast.

Chen Ping took the demon beast blood essence and exchanged it for contribution points again. As for the demon beast corpses and inner cores, Chen Ping left them to Meng Huang'er and Mu Xingling. This was a considerable fortune.

Chen Ping said with a smile: "Senior Sister Luofei, it is because the Demon Subduing Sect is rich and generous that we have such good luck."

"If we can have a few more missions like this, we will really make a fortune."

With more than twenty contribution points left, Chen Ping was confident that he could gather them within the next two years, and then line up to exchange for the Three Lights Divine Water.

In the remaining ten years, he should be able to barely gather the three third-order spiritual medicines he needed.

After a burst of joy, the few people dispersed and went back to meditate and cultivate.

Chen Ping then called Meng Huang'er over: "Senior Sister, we have accumulated dozens of demon beast corpses now. I plan to use them to concoct body tempering soup, so that we can advance our body cultivation to the late second-order stage faster. What do you think?"

Meng Huang'er did not hesitate: "I will listen to Junior Brother."

"Okay." Chen Ping nodded, and then asked her to help deal with the demon beast corpses and prepare the medicinal soup.

...

In a flash, half a year passed.

During these six months, everything was calm, and Chen Ping and others did not receive any demon slaying missions.

This seemed a bit too strangely calm.

Several years passed, and Chen Ping did not receive any news or supplies sent from the Floating Light Workshop.

Chen Ping missed the taste of the Enlightenment Pill.

However, the Sword Dao Secret Medicine bestowed by True Person Changkong allowed Chen Ping to comprehend a second move.

This second move surprised Chen Ping and solved a major problem.

"Storing sword energy in the body, combined with the power of body cultivation, can solve my problem of excessive spiritual power consumption."

The Myriad Manifestations Rushing Current Sword was extremely powerful, but his spiritual power was already not much. One move would drain more than half of the spiritual power in his body, which was equivalent to draining an ordinary mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator.

How could one move continuously achieve success?

This second move was to simplify and refine the first move, allowing the sword energy to be stored in the body, slowing down the consumption of spiritual power, mainly focusing on close combat.

This move requires the cultivator's physical strength, otherwise the body will be too weak to withstand its own sword energy, killing eight hundred enemies and losing a thousand of your own.

It just so happened that Chen Ping was a mid-stage second-order body cultivator, which immediately solved his urgent need.

Ever since Chen Ping gave the Sky Patrol Armor to Mu Luofei in the Celestial Venerable Sect, he had not taken it back, allowing Mu Luofei to wear it.

He did not intend to ask Mu Luofei to return it. A second-order high-quality defensive magic weapon could save lives at a critical moment.

It just so happened that there were no missions, so Chen Ping completely comprehended this move and tested its effect.

"Sword Energy Stored in the Body!"

Chen Ping cast this move, as if he had merged with the Aurora Sword in his hand.

The cyan-purple sword energy slightly emerged, like a layer of crystal clear glaze added to the sword body.

And a slight cyan-purple light also emerged from Chen Ping's body, exuding a sharp and keen sword energy.

The power was the same as the first move, but one was a long-range attack and the other was a close-range attack.

Then Chen Ping felt that the loss of spiritual power was very slow, which made him very happy.

"If I were to attack and kill demon beasts, using this close combat, I would be invincible!"

This layer of crystal clear glaze was like armor.

If the sword energy was not extinguished, the glaze would not dissipate, which meant that Chen Ping could not be harmed.

From this move onwards, there was a bit of the feeling described in the Sword Dao inheritance of Palace Master Gongyue.

But immediately, Chen Ping felt that his body was heavy, as if he was carrying a thousand pounds, and the speed of wielding the sword was slower, and the body was also slower to move.

The stone slab on the ground was also corroded by the sword energy and turned into powder.

But his second-order body cultivation power could not stop him.

Urging his blood and bones, his speed suddenly increased, like a whirlwind rolling, with a mighty momentum!

Chen Ping laughed loudly, with joy in his eyes:

"In this way, my combat power has reached a new level."

After swallowing a bottle of Sword Dao Secret Medicine, Chen Ping's sword body Dharma Idol became more condensed, as if it was about to condense into substance.

A black and white phantom sword, with a green lotus seat below.

This was the situation of the Dharma Idol after the fusion of the two cultivation methods, but mainly based on the Myriad Manifestations Rushing Current Sword, supplemented by the Green Lotus Sword Technique.

The stronger the Dharma Idol, the more it proves that Chen Ping's Dharma Body is about to reach minor success.

Once the Dharma Body reaches minor success, Chen Ping's combat power can be completely finalized with a lower limit.

His mana had already begun to be affected, turning into sword techniques and sword crystals.

And it contained a touch of cyan-purple color.

This was a sign of transformation.

And his body cultivation power was also about to break through to the late stage of second-order body cultivation.

The soup made from the blood essence and bones of second-order demon beasts was too effective.

Meng Huang'er easily broke through to the mid-stage of second-order body cultivation, and her speed of improvement in body cultivation was even faster than his.

Perhaps Meng Huang'er was a body cultivation genius, which may be related to her spiritual body.

In the past six months, the two often tempered their bodies and chatted from time to time.

Chen Ping also asked her about the news of the spiritual body, but Meng Huang'er always blushed, feeling a little shy, and was unwilling to tell him.

Chen Ping no longer asked.

During this period, a major event also occurred in the outside world. Led by the Demon Subduing Sect, the four sects jointly investigated demonic cultivators. Once implicated, people would die and their families would be destroyed.

For a time, there was a great panic.

After resting for half a year, on this day, True Person Changkong's Sword Dao Dharma Idol appeared again.

Everyone knew that a mission was about to begin.