Mortal Alchemy

A Comprehension Pill went down the hatch.

That feeling of spiritual enlightenment immediately surged forth.

Chen Ping sat down cross-legged.

He didn't immediately sort out his understanding of the Sword Dao.

Instead, he studied the "Great Violet Immortal Pill Classic" to sort out his own mana.

Now that his Dharma Body Sword Aspect had achieved minor success, relying on that Sword Crystal, he needed to sort out whether there were any omissions, weaknesses, or instabilities.

Next was the body cultivation technique.

Finally, the Sword Dao realm.

With the Dharma Body Sword Aspect suspended above his head, Chen Ping discovered the problem.

Currently, there were three types of mana in his body.

First, the purple mana of the Great Violet Immortal Pill Classic.

Second, the mana of the Myriad Forms Chasing Flowing Sword.

Third, the mana of the Sword Crystal he had swallowed.

If he continued to cultivate like this, when Chen Ping broke through to the late stage of Foundation Establishment, the three disparate types of mana would clash and explode, causing Chen Ping to become possessed.

Chen Ping immediately broke out in a cold sweat: "Almost caused a big problem..."

The mana must be unified and refined.

Swallowing Sword Dao secret medicine would only allow him to comprehend Sword Dao-related matters.

The Comprehension Pill was better, more comprehensive.

When the effects of a Comprehension Pill ended, Chen Ping was soaked in cold sweat.

He felt lingering fear.

"Although the combat power is strong, there are many hidden dangers..."

These were all Chen Ping's secrets and couldn't be told to outsiders.

He had been in the Foundation Establishment stage for twenty years, and had never taken a Spirit Purification Pill.

Chen Ping came forward, using the appearance of the rogue cultivator 'Rong Hai' to purchase some materials for the Spirit Purification Pill in the market, so he wouldn't cause any trouble.

He refined a batch of Tier 2 Spirit Purification Pills.

Chen Ping began to refine his spiritual power.

The three different types of semi-crystallized spiritual power in his body began to harmonize and even out.

The originally colorless semi-crystallized spiritual power began to uniformly turn into black, white, cyan, and purple, and finally settled into a purple-red color.

The entire process took half a year.

Now, Chen Ping felt much more comfortable.

Previously, Chen Ping had been unable to detect the hidden dangers in his body, and had only thought that his previous injuries had not yet healed.

"I feel somewhat mentally fatigued," Chen Ping revealed a solemn expression:

"It seems that I still need to take a Comprehension Pill regularly to sort myself out, so that there won't be any major problems."

Chen Ping didn't immediately continue taking Comprehension Pills, but instead took a Core Nourishing Pill to see if there were any hidden problems with increasing his cultivation.

Only after seven days did Chen Ping completely relax: "Using the Core Nourishing Pill to increase cultivation has no hidden dangers, and the mana has truly been unified."

"Fortunately, I'm only in the middle stage of Foundation Establishment, if it were the late stage of Foundation Establishment, it would take even longer..."

"If I waited until the Golden Core stage, the mana would be completely crystallized and solidified, and it would be irreversible."

Thinking of this, Chen Ping couldn't help but feel lingering fear.

From this, he understood a principle: why the Geng Spirit Dharma Body Art only changes from Dharma Body to Spirit Body at the Golden Core stage.

Because entering the Golden Core stage is a permanent confirmation, irreversible.

After calming down, Chen Ping continued to take Comprehension Pills to deduce the Sword Dao artistic concept.

"...This Sword Steel Condensing Fiend requires the sword energy to maintain two extreme states, constantly generating and never dying, in order to condense the Sword Fiend state."

"Firstly, the grade of the Sword Dao technique must be high enough, at least with mutually generating characteristics."

"Secondly, the divine sense needs to be divided into two, simultaneously splitting into two sword energies, using the two sword energies to condense a wisp of Sword Fiend."

"If it were a Golden Core True Person, it wouldn't be so troublesome, the crystalline mana, with a little operation, can be transformed into two states."

Thinking of this, in the Comprehension Pill state, Chen Ping took out the Aurora Sword with his right hand, placed the two fingers of his left hand on the sword body, divided his divine sense into two, condensed a wisp of sword energy in different states, and carefully manipulated it to fuse.

"Hiss~"

A harsh sword energy sound rang out, the two different strands of sword energy fused together, actually possessing a bit of Sword Fiend characteristic, the contained violent power made Chen Ping's heart palpitate.

Ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators simply couldn't resist such Sword Fiend power.

But even so, it couldn't represent Chen Ping's entry into the Sword Steel Condensing Fiend artistic concept.

It could only be said that he had stepped half a foot into Sword Steel Condensing Fiend.

It was quite difficult to condense this fiendish energy.

Let alone unleashing Sword Steel Condensing Fiend with a single sword strike?

But even so, Chen Ping was very excited: "There really is a chance to comprehend Sword Steel Condensing Fiend in the Foundation Establishment stage."

"I need more resources to refine Comprehension Pills."

He suddenly had an idea, if one sword doesn't work, then try holding two swords.

Choose the most ordinary magic sword to display the most ordinary sword energy, use the characteristics of the Myriad Forms Chasing Flowing Sword, and then fuse the sword energy into steel, so, can he condense a wisp of Sword Fiend energy?

"This can be considered a trick."

Chen Ping slowly shook his head.

After using up three bottles of Comprehension Pills, Chen Ping found Nan Yun: "Can you acquire Purple Qi Essence?"

Nan Yun rolled her eyes at Chen Ping, and said unhappily: "Fellow Daoist Chen, do you think Purple Qi Essence is cabbage?"

"This Purple Qi Essence is really not easy to acquire, other than Purple Qi Essence, the other materials you need have been fully acquired."

"It cost a total of 150,000 spirit stones."

Chen Ping might have misunderstood Nan Yun, the production of this Purple Qi Essence is too scarce.

Nan Yun handed a spatial ring to Chen Ping.

Chen Ping scanned it with his divine sense and nodded in satisfaction.

Nan Yun's work was indeed good.

"The materials for the Prolonging Dao Pill have been collected, after returning to Floating Light Market, I will refine a furnace and let Senior Sister Meng try the effect."

If it's feasible, then Meng Huang'er's Foundation Establishment path will have some clues.

Nan Yun said with a smile:

"If Fellow Daoist Chen really needs Purple Qi Essence, you might as well come forward to help people refine pills, only accepting Purple Qi Essence as remuneration, so you should be able to receive a lot of Purple Qi Essence."

Chen Ping pinched his chin and pondered: "This move, seems really feasible..."

In the entire Shattered Star Market, even the huge Loose Cultivator Alliance only has three Tier 2 alchemists, one of whom is the alliance leader, who is a Tier 3 alchemist.

So many loose cultivators have a great demand for pills.

Chen Ping glanced at Nan Yun: "Then let go and do it, leave this matter to you, Fellow Daoist."

This can also help Nan Yun expand her network and let her collect benefits.

This matter is also relatively simple, if someone comes to Chen Ping to refine a certain pill, Chen Ping quotes the material cost, and the other party brings spirit stones and Purple Qi Essence.

As soon as Nan Yun released the news, the threshold of the Sea Medicine Hall was almost broken.

In just three days, the pills Chen Ping was going to refine were scheduled for a year and a half.

A full hundred orders were received.

But even so, Chen Ping also collected ten bottles of Purple Qi Essence.

Chen Ping looked at the densely packed pill request forms, sighed, and said to Nan Yun:

"Go collect these medicinal materials."

To prevent the pill formulas from leaking, Chen Ping still divided the collection of medicinal materials into three batches.

In a short time, Chen Ping was not short of Comprehension Pills.

"It's best if these ten bottles of Comprehension Pills allow me to completely step into the realm of Sword Steel Condensing Fiend."

After refining this batch of pills, Chen Ping will also go to the small island to see how his medicine garden is doing.