Mortal Alchemy

"Thirty-nine spirit stones!"

"Forty-one spirit stones!"

The price gradually increased, breaking through the forty spirit stone mark, but fewer people were bidding.

Chen Ping's heart began to race: "Is this what it feels like to make money at an auction?"

"Forty-three spirit stones!"

"Forty-three spirit stones, first time, second..."

"Forty-four spirit stones!"

"Forty-four spirit stones, first time, second time, third time! Congratulations to the Taoist friend in box sixty-seven for winning the Body Tempering Pill!"

"This auction has come to a successful conclusion." On the auction stage, Zhou Ying's excited face was flushed, and her delicate body was extremely excited.

"Next, please go to the backstage to hand over the auctioned items and spirit stones."

Zhou Ying walked off the auction stage, and the people in the boxes left one after another.

Chen Ping was also very excited. A bottle of Body Tempering Pills for forty-four spirit stones. After deducting the cost, he made a net profit of forty spirit stones per bottle!

炼丹真是太暴利了！

Chen Ping hadn't left the box yet when a Guo family maid came up with a piece of paper on a tray.

Chen Ping opened the paper, which had only one sentence: "Second-order spiritual fire, Icy Nether Flame, suspected to be on Cloud Ice Mountain, five thousand miles away."

Chen Ping's mouth curled up slightly:

"The Guo family waited until the auction was over to tell me the whereabouts of the second-order spiritual fire."

Burning the paper to ashes, Chen Ping went to the backstage.

Zhou Ying personally received Chen Ping: "Taoist friend Chen, this is the Radiance Prism you auctioned for."

Chen Ping counted out five hundred and fifty spirit stones, gave them to Zhou Ying, and then obtained the Radiance Prism and the corresponding refining formula.

"This auction of five bottles of Body Tempering Pills totaled two hundred and twenty spirit stones. After deducting the auction house's 10% profit, Taoist friend Chen, here are your two hundred spirit stones."

Chen Ping accepted the two hundred spirit stones, his expression calm, but his heart was extremely active.

Zhou Ying welcomed Chen Ping to an elegant room: "Taoist friend Chen, after today's auction, the Body Tempering Pill will become famous."

"Taoist friend need not worry about selling future Body Tempering Pills. My Guo family wants to reach a long-term cooperation with Taoist friend on the Body Tempering Pill matter."

Chen Ping's expression changed slightly: "What kind of long-term cooperation?"

Zhou Ying said with a smile:

"The Guo family will purchase Body Tempering Pills from Taoist friend at a price of forty-four spirit stones and sell them at a price of forty-six spirit stones."

"In the future, Taoist friend will not be charged for using the Guo family's channels to inquire about news."

"In addition, the Guo family will make a demonic oath to keep Taoist friend's identity a secret and will never reveal Taoist friend's existence."

Chen Ping fell into silent thought.

Zhou Ying was a little nervous and uneasy.

After a long time, Chen Ping opened his mouth and said: "The Guo family's sincerity is sufficient, I agree."

"Body Tempering Pills will be delivered once every six months."

He was going out to collect Foundation Establishment spiritual objects next, so it was impossible to deliver goods every month, and he couldn't even be sure about delivering goods once a quarter.

So once every six months was a better time choice.

"Okay." Zhou Ying nodded in agreement.

With Chen Ping's Body Tempering Pills, she would be able to sit firmly behind the counter of the Myriad Treasures Pavilion with the Body Tempering Pills.

"Taoist friend Chen can rest in the Guo family for two days before returning to White Sand Square City."

"That's exactly what I wanted." Chen Ping didn't plan to leave the Guo family immediately. He would leave after he had mastered the Radiance Prism.

Then a maid came to lead Chen Ping away.

Afterwards, a tall, hot-bodied, cold and noble middle-aged beautiful woman walked out.

Seeing this cold and noble beautiful woman, Zhou Ying quickly got up and called out: "Mother."

"Yes." This Madam Guo had been hiding behind the scenes, controlling the overall situation without showing herself.

One was the measure and pattern of being the head of the family, and the other was that there were too many men who had designs on her as a widow.

Madam Guo's voice was cold: "Did that Chen Ping agree?"

"Using both soft and hard tactics, Taoist friend Chen agreed." Zhou Ying was a little scared: "Mother, why use this method to get Taoist friend Chen to agree to cooperate with the family?"

"The Radiance Prism could have been sold to him for a cost price of three hundred spirit stones, which would have allowed Taoist friend Chen to have more goodwill towards our Guo family."

Madam Guo smiled lightly and said:

"Ying'er, mother knows that you are very optimistic about that Chen Ping, but the only thing that can protect our Guo family right now is a Foundation Establishment cultivator."

"There is a natural chasm between Foundation Establishment and Qi Refining. It is not worthwhile to invest too much in a Qi Refining cultivator."

"You also know how difficult it is to earn a profit of two hundred and fifty spirit stones."

Zhou Ying nodded bitterly.

Madam Guo said:

"Now our orphaned mother and daughter can be considered to have gained a firm foothold. As for that Chen Ping, if he can establish a foundation, your mother will set up a banquet to apologize."

……

Three days later.

In an elegant and quiet courtyard, Chen Ping finally mastered the Radiance Prism.

Chanting the formula, spiritual power was poured into the magic weapon, and a solid mask instantly enveloped Chen Ping.

This brought Chen Ping a great sense of security.

"It's worth the money... but it costs ten spirit stones to activate it once..."

Chen Ping felt a little heartache. He didn't know that this first-grade high-grade magic weapon was so expensive.

But being able to save a life at a critical moment, ten spirit stones is not too expensive.

Putting the Radiance Prism into the storage bag, Chen Ping found Zhou Ying to say goodbye.

At this moment, Chen Ping saw the cold and noble Madam Guo.

"This widow... is really beautiful... is she really Zhou Ying's mother?"

Chen Ping could resist Zhou Ying and Mu Xingling's charm, but when facing Madam Guo, such a top-quality beauty like a honeydew peach, his eyes subconsciously became a little hot.

The two women stood together, not like mother and daughter, but more like sisters.

Madam Guo secretly thought, and her impression of Chen Ping was not good:

"This Chen Ping has no reaction to Ying'er, but looks at me with such eyes. Does he like my type?"

Zhou Ying said: "Taoist friend Chen, today my mother and I will make a demonic oath in front of you."

"Okay." Chen Ping reacted and hurriedly retracted his gaze.

Immediately, Zhou Ying and Madam Guo made the demonic oath that had been agreed upon in advance.

Chen Ping left satisfied.

Chen Ping summoned the White Jade Flying Boat and quickly disappeared into the sky.

"The White Jade Flying Boat worth three thousand spirit stones, Taoist friend Chen's family is really rich." Zhou Ying was a little surprised.

Madam Guo snorted softly: "I don't know which family's direct young master, Ying'er, in the future, besides the pills, you should have less contact with this person."

……

After Chen Ping obtained this White Jade Flying Boat, it was only the second time he used it.

He was not afraid of being exposed in front of Zhou Ying, they had made a demonic oath and would not expose Chen Ping's existence.

After learning the whereabouts of the second-order spiritual fire, Chen Ping did not go to Cloud Ice Mountain, five thousand miles away, immediately. He had to break through to the thirteenth level of Qi Refining at least, and rebuild his spiritual power before he was confident of subduing the second-order spiritual fire.

In the days that followed, he would be much easier. In the future, he would only need to refine Body Tempering Pills, so he could free up more time for cultivation.

Flying for a few hours, leaving five hundred miles.

Suddenly, a spell came from below, hitting Chen Ping, and the White Jade Flying Boat shook violently.

Two robbers controlled the flying magic weapon and flew quickly towards Chen Ping.