Nine Lives: Unbeatable Dragon Blood

Chapter 70 Make Preparations for War (7)

"There will be a war between our sect and the Xuan Spirit Sect soon. Disciples who are stationed on the islands and can't handle the things that come up should quickly return to Xuanqi Island for standby."

Lu Ping looked at the Sound Transmission Magic Sword in his hand and thought to himself. It seemed that the war between the two sects was imminent, and the Xuan Spirit Sect was probably very menacing this time. Otherwise, Immortal Senior Liu would never issue such an order.

It seemed that their sect had well-informed sources in the Xuan Spirit Sect!

After Lu Ping replied to the magic sword, he returned to his cultivation room and looked at the two storage bags he got from the disciples at the Blood Refining stage of the Xuan Spirit Sect. Lu Ping couldn't help giving a wry smile. Not all disciples at the Blood Refining stage could own thousands of spiritual stones as he did.

Lu Ping put the 500 spiritual stones into his storage bag and then sorted out some 100-year-old spiritual herbs. He put one medium-grade magic weapon and three low-grade magic weapons aside. The rests were some low-grade spiritual materials and several bottles of fine blood elixirs.

In fact, these two ordinary disciples at the late stage of Blood Refining of the Xuan Spirit Sect were richer than the ordinary disciples of the True Spirit Sect at the same stage. After all, the Xuan Spirit Sect, as the largest sect in the Northern Sea Alliance, had existed for nearly two to three thousand years, and the wealth it accumulated was certainly larger than that of the True Spirit Sect.

Two days later, Lu Ping received the Sound Transmission Magic Sword from Immortal Senior Liu again. This message was for Lu Ping alone, "The day before yesterday, the Xuan Spirit Sect's sea patrol disciples were killed near Huangli Island. Be careful of the Xuan Spirit Sect. They might make reprisals discriminately."

Lu Ping was naturally moved. Immortal Senior Liu looked stern but he was actually a warm-hearted person. He sincerely treated Lu Ping as his disciple. However, the murderer who killed the disciples of the Xuan Spirit Sect was Lu Ping. Lu Ping was surprised that their sect delivered news quickly. It seemed that there were also many spies of their sect in the Xuan Spirit Sect!

In the following period of time, the northern sea area was peaceful again, and both sides seemed to have suddenly ceased all activities. However, the cultivators in the sea area near Xuanqi Island could still feel that an atmosphere of imminent war was lurking in the weird peace.

Taking advantage of this period of peace, Lu Ping seized the time to cultivate and began to try to make Magic Figures at the Blood Dissolving stage.

After Lu Ping entered the Blood Dissolving stage, his small tricks in making Magic Figures at the Blood Refining stage had no use at all because he had gained Divine Mentality Coercion. Fortunately, these small tricks had laid a good foundation for him.

To make Magic Figures at the Blood Dissolving stage, the yellow spell paper should be at least the skin of supernatural beasts at the late stage of Blood Refining, or it should be made of similar spiritual materials. Secondly, the spiritual ink needed to be the blood of supernatural beasts at the Blood Dissolving stage or the spiritual liquid at the same stage. Then, the magic figure writing brush should also be at the Blood Dissolving stage.

Fortunately, Lu Ping had already prepared these things. He had a whole peculiar fish skin at the late stage of Blood Refining and a Blue Sea Spiritual Snake skin at the Blood Dissolving stage. They could be used to make yellow spell paper. The blood of the first Blue Sea Spiritual Snake he killed could be used as the spiritual ink. Back then, the spiritual blood collected by Lu Ping filled one-tenth of his jade bottle magic weapon, which weighed 15 kilograms. In addition, Lu Ping bought the magic figure writing brush made of the hair of the Silver Moon Rabbit at the third level of Blood Dissolving at the previous auction.

After getting these things ready, Lu Ping took out ten pieces of yellow spell paper made of the skin of the peculiar fish. He wanted to make Invisibility Magic Figures first. On this day, at the entrance of the spiritual snake's cave, he was actually found by a supernatural beast at the Blood Refining stage, which made Lu Ping feel so ashamed. Therefore, he wanted to make his first Magic Figure at the Blood Dissolving stage into an Invisibility Magic Figure.

The making procedure of Magic Figures at the Blood Dissolving stage was much more complicated than that of Magic Figures at the Blood Refining stage. Although Lu Ping's Divine Mentality Coercion was strong and almost as powerful as that of cultivators at the second level of Blood Dissolving, he ruined four pieces of yellow spell paper in a row.

Lu Ping constantly summarized the experience from each failure. When he made the sixth Magic Figure, he finally succeeded in making an Invisibility Magic Figure. However, the faint spiritual light shining on it made him doubt whether this Magic Figure could work more than 15 minutes after he activated it.

After using the remaining four pieces of yellow spell paper, Lu Ping made another Invisibility Magic Figure with a slightly stronger spiritual light. Lu Ping estimated that it could work for 30 minutes.

The skin of the Blue Sea Spiritual Snake was made into fifty pieces of yellow spell paper. After all, the Blue Sea Spiritual Snake was a supernatural beast at the Blood Dissolving stage, and it was huge. The quality of the yellow spell paper made of its skin was far higher than that of the yellow spell paper made of the peculiar fish skin.

Originally, Lu Ping didn't intend to use the high-quality yellow spell paper. He wanted to hunt and kill supernatural beasts at the Blood Refining stage near the sea area of the demon race like those individual cultivators did. He wanted to make their skins into yellow spell paper, and improve his skill of making Magic Figures at the Blood Dissolving stage. However, the current situation obviously had stopped Lu Ping from carrying out this plan.

Maybe it was because of the quality of the yellow spell paper. After using ten pieces of yellow spell paper made of the snakeskin, Lu Ping succeeded in making three Invisibility Magic Figures, and these Magic Figures could work longer than the previous ones.

Naturally, Lu Ping wouldn't make all the rest of the yellow spell paper into Invisibility Magic Figures. He decided to make Water Fleeing Magic Figures which were for escaping. Then he made four such Magic Figures out of twenty pieces of yellow spell paper. The remaining twenty pieces of yellow spell paper were used to make Water Shield Magic Figures. After Lu Ping cultivated the "Hearing Waves Near Seas Skill", his magic power became the magic power of the pure water system. Therefore, his defensive magic weapon stone pagoda could not fully play its role because it was of earth attribute. Although its power was still several times stronger than that at the Blood Refining stage, the enemy he faced also had entered the Blood Dissolving stage from the Blood Refining stage.

In the end, Lu Ping made five Water Shield Magic Figures out of the remaining twenty pieces of yellow spell paper. Ten days had passed by this time. It was much more difficult to make Magic Figures at the Blood Dissolving stage. Lu Ping spent a lot of time and magic power making five Magic Figures a day. Naturally, he refused to make more, because he had to spend a lot of time studying alchemy every day.

The main reason why Lu Ping insisted on learning alchemy with the magic power of water attribute was not that he needed elixirs but that he found an idea put forward by alchemist Sheng Tao in Elixirs Manuscript of Sheng Tao.

In the Elixirs Manuscript of Sheng Tao, Sheng Tao believed that it was not only the cultivators who were of wood and fire attribute could become first-rate alchemists. The reason was cultivators' Divine Mentality Coercion. When an ordinary alchemist refined elixirs, he mainly monitored the refining situation of the elixirs in the alchemy furnace with his Divine Mentality Coercion, controlled the fire with his fire attribute, and monitored the change of medicine properties of spiritual herbs with his wood attribute. However, Sheng Tao believed that if a cultivator's Divine Mentality Coercion was strong enough, he could use his Divine Mentality Coercion to do all those things. For example, he could use Divine Mentality Coercion to control the heat of the fire and the change of the medicine properties of the spiritual herbs, and so on.

Alchemist Sheng Tao was not the first one who put forward this idea. All alchemists in the cultivation world admitted that a strong Divine Mentality Coercion was helpful for alchemy. Some alchemists who were not of wood and fire attribute were the least professional.

The alchemist stage was generally divided into five stages, fresh alchemist, apprentice alchemist, alchemist, senior alchemist, and master alchemist. Most of the excellent alchemists were of wood and fire attribute. Even if the Divine Mentality Coercion of alchemists who were not of wood and fire attribute were stronger than that of ordinary cultivators, such alchemists could only develop into ordinary alchemists.

The point was that Lu Ping's Divine Mentality Coercion was inherently and stunningly powerful. Without cultivating any Cultivation Method to develop his Divine Mentality Coercion, his Divine Mentality Coercion was twice as strong as that of ordinary cultivators!

This was the reason why Lu Ping wanted to be an alchemist or even wanted to be an alchemist who was more outstanding than ordinary alchemists!

The fact seemed to have proved that when Lu Ping refined the first furnace of elixirs at the Blood Dissolving stage. He was already trying to refine the elixirs at the middle stage of Blood Refining when he was at the Blood Refining stage. With the accumulation of a large number of spiritual herbs, the elixirs output rate was stabilized at about 20% to 30%. However, with the help of his Divine Mentality Coercion, the elixirs output rate of the first furnace of blood purifying elixirs at the middle stage of Blood Refining reached 40%, which made Lu Ping very happy!