Nine Lives: Unbeatable Dragon Blood

Chapter 67 Make Preparations for War (4)

After leaving Chen's Weapon-Refining Shop, Lu Ping directly returned to Xuanqi Island through the Transferring Circle and then flew back to Huangli Island from Xuanqi Island.

Along the way, Lu Ping was flying at lightning speed. He completely released the speed of the low-grade flying boat magic weapon under his feet, which made him feel like a master at the Blood Dissolving stage.

Sitting in the cultivation room, Lu Ping had made some plans for his cultivation at the Blood Dissolving stage after he made those inquires. Moreover, he had to prepare for the severe situation between the two sects at present though he had been preparing it all the time.

The first thing he needed to do was to build his abode. Lu Ping wanted to rake the cave of the Blue Sea Spiritual Snake first because he had almost squandered the wealth that he had saved at the Blood Refining stage and was extremely short of spiritual stones. However, considering the current situation and that the cave was in the sea area of the Xuan Spirit Sect, he decided to go there at night, in case he would attract the attention of observant and conscientious people.

Lu Ping wanted to build his abode underground, mainly because Sheng Tao's cave was underground and Immortal Senior Liu suggested he do that. Lu Ping came to the hillside of Huangli Island. The two freshwater rivers on the island originated from the hillside, one in the northeast and the other in the southeast. At the back of the hillside between the two rivers, there was a steep cliff of more than 40 meters. Lu Ping decided to build his abode here.

Lu Ping actually wanted to see if the two rivers on the island had the same source. After all, he cultivated the Cultivation Method of Water System. It would be more comfortable to cultivate next to the water.

Lu Ping released Bao. In recent months, Bao was kept in the spiritual beast bag by Lu Ping and rarely came out. Lu Ping fed Bao all the low-grade elixirs at the Blood Refining stage he had previously refined. Bao came out of the spiritual beast bag and ran around Lu Ping excitedly, and it looked like a big meatball that was rolling. Bao was fatter, and even its legs couldn't be seen, but its cultivation had entered another stage, reaching the third level of Blood Refining. So, it was considered an expert among Spirit-Seeking Mice.

After activating the flying sword, Flying Swallow Sword skillfully turned a few somersaults and immediately performed a set of sword skills in the air. This was a set of sword skills of the eight magic methods that came with the "Hearing Waves Near Seas Skill" which was known as "Eight Wonders of Hearing Waves". This set of sword skills was called "Stone Penetrating Sword Skill".

It was the first time Lu Ping had practiced this swordsmanship. Previously, he only studied it and was familiar with it, but he had already comprehended Shi Realm of Cultivation Methods of Water System. Therefore, he mastered the essence of this swordsmanship in a while. Flying Swallow Sword instantly turned into a white wave reflecting the sunlight and rushed toward the cliff, as if the stormy waves were hitting the shore and trying to make a large hole in the cliff on the shore.

After a while, Lu Ping opened a large hole on the steep cliff that was only wide enough for one person to enter and exit, and the hole went obliquely downwards for more than 10 meters. At this time, Bao behind Lu Ping suddenly ran forward and squeaked. Lu Ping looked happy. It seemed that there was really a place where spiritual Qi gathered.

In general, the birthplace of rivers was mostly a place endowed with the fine spirits of the universe. It was loved by heaven and earth and often gathered spiritual Qi. Spiritual veins would even form in such a place. Therefore, it was said that the major sects in the cultivation world on land often built their sects in the birthplaces of huge rivers.

Flying Swallow Sword went obliquely downwards for about 30 meters and then touched nothing. The mountainside was hollow. It had a radius of 100 meters and was about 12 to 15 meters high. On the ground, a clear spring gushed out from the spaces between stones and flowed to both sides. This was probably the source of the two rivers on the island. However, the water volume was so small. When the spring flowed through the spaces between stones on both sides to the outside, there might be other tributaries to supplement it.

Inside the mountainside, there were stone walls all around. Although there was a stream of water on the ground, it did not appear damp and stuffy. It was an ideal living environment.

The place where the clear spring gushed out of the ground was the place where spiritual Qi gathered. Bao had drunk a lot of water there. It lay prone on the stone platform on the side and was too lazy to move.

Lu Ping was very satisfied with this place, but it could only be used as a cultivation room. He returned to the channel he dug and opened a hall on both sides with Flying Swallow Sword as the reception rooms of the abode. Then he returned to the mountainside, opened up an alchemy room and study room on the stone walls on both sides, and opened up a spiritual beast room for Bao. Then he opened up a 0.2-acre-sized spiritual herb garden on both sides of the two branches of the clear spring. He planned to move the spiritual vein in Sheng Tao's spiritual herb garden here and transplant the spiritual herbs here.

After building the abode, Lu Ping began to set "Ice River Killing Magic Circle" around the abode. After placing the magic tray in the mountainside, he put eight medium-grade spiritual stones in the empty central position of the magic tray. And then, he placed several spiritual materials of ice attribute and water attribute in specific locations around the cave. After returning to the mountainside, he started the magic circle. Then, icy wind blew across the area within a radius of three hundred meters around the abode. If a cultivator at the Blood Dissolving stage broke into the abode at this time, he would be greeted by ice spikes and heavy hail. Lu Ping went in and felt them. After only holding on for two hours, he felt that his magic power was exhausted. No wonder Manager Jia of Treasure Attic said with certainty that even cultivators at the later stage of Blood Dissolving would be trapped in it.

The layout of the magic circle was based on the orientation of the magic tray. Lu Ping decided those by himself. Even if the magic circle maker who made the magic tray wanted to c***k the magic circle, he had to find out the position of the magic tray and the way that it was placed. Otherwise, he also had to c***k it from the beginning. In this way, cultivators could buy magic trays without concerns and set them by themselves.

There was a small psychedelic circle outside the magic circle, which could prevent ordinary people from entering it by mistake, but it couldn't stop cultivators.

Lu Ping set the magic tray to trigger mode so that the magic tray could be hidden at ordinary times. After enemies entered the magic circle, it would suddenly work and caught them off guard.

Lu Ping looked at the eight medium-grade spiritual stones on the magic tray, and then looked at the 36 kinds of spiritual materials that were buried around for setting the magic circle. He laughed at his own poverty. He was probably the cultivator at the Blood Dissolving stage who had the fewest spiritual stones at the time, and there were only 29 low-grade spiritual stones in his storage bag.

There were three models to activate this magic tray. The first model was to use 60 low-grade spiritual stones to activate it, but the power of the magic circle couldn't be brought out totally, and it lasted the shortest time. The second model was to use 4 medium-grade spiritual stones and 32 low-grade spiritual stones to activate it, which could give play to the power of the eight layers of the magic circle, and the power would last a little longer. The third model was to directly place 8 medium-grade spiritual stones on the magic tray, and the power of the magic circle could be brought into full play.

If Lu Ping was short of supplies, he would make do with what he had, but if he was not, he would give himself the best things. Since he had enough spiritual stones, why would he conserve them? Moreover, he had a lot of good things that could turn into spiritual stones at any time.