Starting From A Fisherman To Cultivate Immortality And Live Forever

Chapter 4: One Thousandth!

Su Ping has broken through to the fourth level of Qi Refining.

He didn't do anything, just took a nap.

When he woke up, he had already reached the fourth level of Qi Refining, officially entering the mid-stage of Qi Refining!

Su Ping was not surprised by this. He had been accumulating strength and was only one step away from the fourth level.

With the help of purifying spirit medicine to cleanse the poison and repair hidden ailments in his body, his promotion was a natural progression.

After sitting in the morning sun for a while, familiarizing himself with the fourth level of Qi Refining that he had been seeking for twenty years, Su Ping took out his personal storage bag.

This storage bag, the size of an ordinary person's fist, was made from the fur of the Empty Rat, a demonic beast. Despite its small size, the bag had a capacity of one cubic meter and could store thousands of kilograms of weight without causing any discomfort to the carrier.

It was a must-have item for many cultivators who couldn't afford real spatial storage.

Thanks to an elder from the Red Kite Immortal Sect who solved the problem of mass breeding of Empty Rats five hundred years ago, the value of the storage bag plummeted.

This allowed outer disciples like Su Ping to afford one through frugal living.

Su Ping took out a map from the bag.

He quickly found the most suitable immortal market near Golden Sparrow City - Jiuye Market!

Jiuye Market was located three hundred kilometers away from Golden Sparrow City on Jiuye Mountain. It was a semi-official market.

The manager of the market came from the Jiuye Yun family, a family attached to the immortal sect's Foundation Building clan.

This Yun family had once produced an elder of the immortal sect.

Now, several members of the family were inner disciples or attendants of the immortal sect.

In addition, Jiuye Market had a lower level, mainly catering to cultivators like Su Ping who actively descended to the mortal realm, as well as wandering cultivators who obtained inheritances for various reasons but couldn't enter the immortal sect.

These wandering cultivators mostly had pseudo spirit roots that were not even low-grade, and only a few lucky ones missed the ascension ceremony but improved their spiritual roots through opportunities.

Poverty and destitution were their biggest characteristics.

Therefore, they did not pose a significant conflict of interest to the official market.

The Red Kite Immortal Sect, as a behemoth in this land, had tacitly accepted this.

A hundred kilometers was not far for someone at the fourth level of Qi Refining like Su Ping.

After eating the carefully prepared millet porridge by the maidservant, Su Ping set off. Before noon, he saw Jiuye Mountain shrouded in mist.

Looking at the mist in front of him, the advantage of being a member of the immortal sect became apparent.

Even if he was just an insignificant outer disciple, Su Ping raised his identity token after entering the mist.

The mist immediately dispersed, revealing a path leading to Jiuye Mountain.

Following the path, when he was about to reach the mountaintop, Su Ping entered the range of the market and felt the spiritual energy that made him feel physically and mentally pleasant.

Soon after, the mist around him completely dissipated.

Jiuye Market, surrounded by dozens of acres of spiritual fields, came into view for Su Ping.

This Jiuye Mountain had a first-grade lower-level spiritual vein, and the market, spiritual fields, and the mist formation around it were all built on this foundation.

After briefly reporting his background at the entrance, Su Ping was allowed to enter Jiuye Market.

Then, Su Ping discovered that as a fourth-level Qi Refining cultivator, he had become a top expert in the market!

Looking around, most of the pedestrians and vendors were dressed as swordsmen or scholars.

Each of them had extraordinary appearances, at least possessing one-fifth of Su Ping's charm.

However, upon closer inspection, most of them were scattered cultivators at the first level of Qi Refining with weak foundations.

Occasionally, there were one or two at the second level of Qi Refining, which were rare existences.

There was no way around it. Even if pseudo spirit roots managed to step into Qi Refining through hard work, they were limited to the first and second levels.

Without some opportunities, it was almost impossible to reach the mid-stage of Qi Refining.

Su Ping looked at the stalls and found that most of them were selling ordinary mortal items.

He didn't plan to waste time and went straight to the most prominent Yunbao Tower owned by the Yun family in the market.

When Su Ping arrived here, he finally saw a cultivator at the same level as himself, an old man with white hair and a feeble appearance who was guarding this place.

With just one glance, Su Ping could determine that the mindset of this old cultivator was not much different from his own a month ago.

The only difference was that Su Ping chose to become a supervisor in a mortal city.

On the other hand, this person might be a cultivator from a family who chose to come here to serve their family and make use of their remaining energy.

When the old cultivator saw Su Ping, he was momentarily stunned and mistook Su Ping for a disciple who had come down the mountain for training.

There was no way around it. Although Su Ping looked a bit older, after purifying the spirit medicine, he now gave off a gentle and pure feeling. Coupled with his age, he seemed to belong to the stage where he could still fight.

It was hard for people to believe that he was a mortal supervisor who had given up his future.

Therefore, the old cultivator was quite enthusiastic towards Su Ping. Not only did he personally welcome him, but he also shouted to his attendants:

"We have an honored guest!"

"Why don't you serve some tea, the best tea!"

After resting for a while, the old cultivator introduced Su Ping to the treasures of the Yunbao Tower.

He called them treasures, but they were mostly a few Qi Refining stage artifacts or talismans that could be used.

The Peiyuan Pill that Su Ping had taken was also considered a treasure in the Yunbao Tower.

"Shopkeeper, I wonder how much you sell your discarded pills for?"

Su Ping scanned these treasures that were priced twenty percent higher than the normal market and asked.

"Discarded pills?"

The old cultivator glanced at Su Ping and felt somewhat disappointed, but he still maintained his enthusiasm on his face.

"Friend, how many discarded pills do you want?"

"We mainly have two types of discarded pills here, the Peiyuan Pill and the Qi and Blood Pill."

"The Qi and Blood Pill can quickly enhance a warrior's cultivation to the Grandmaster realm."

"Although the effect of the Peiyuan Pill on warriors is not as good, it is mild in nature. Besides increasing a warrior's cultivation, it can also be used to strengthen the bodies of mortals... of course, they shouldn't be consumed excessively!"

"The pill poison only hinders the cultivation and breakthrough of us cultivators, but it can take the lives of those mortals."

"Furthermore..."

Perhaps realizing that Su Ping was a newcomer who hadn't had much contact with the mortal world, and also in order to sell more spirit stones, the old cultivator continued to remind him:

"The Peiyuan Pill can also be used to feed those highly spiritual mortal beasts."

"In our Yun family, the spirited horses we have were obtained by feeding them discarded pills."

"Once they become spiritual beasts, not to mention spirited horses, even a spiritual fish can be sold for several spirit stones!"

Su Ping's heart moved when he heard this. Naturally, he wouldn't believe these sales pitches, but he realized the key point.

On the surface, Su Ping shook his head.

"It sounds great, but what is the success rate?"

"And even if I find highly spiritual mortal beasts, there is still a high probability that feeding them discarded pills won't turn them into spiritual beasts, right?"

"And just like mortals, these mortal beasts also accumulate pill poison. They shouldn't consume discarded pills excessively, right?"

The old cultivator didn't refute Su Ping's words and nodded.

"Indeed, as you said, it's just that discarded pills have gained another use."

"If you really have highly spiritual mortal beasts, you can give it a try. Even if it fails, these mortal beasts that have consumed discarded pills won't be worse than ordinary warriors. They will be even more loyal when used to guard the families in the mortal world."

Su Ping pretended to be persuaded and nodded slightly.

In his heart, he thought of the purification spirit medicine from the Fishing Shop.

With this unorthodox and unscientific purification spirit medicine, coupled with life spirit medicine that had a similar effect, he could forcefully extend his life.

As long as the mortal beasts didn't die, they could eat to their heart's content.

The success rate of cultivating mortal beasts into spiritual beasts...

Could only be!

One thousand percent!

(End of this chapter)