Nine Lives: Unbeatable Dragon Blood

Chapter 57 Preparation

Lu Ping already had two blood dissolving elixirs and wanted to get the third blood dissolving elixir. However, he triggered public outrage at the auction last time and failed to buy it. Unexpectedly, he got the third one from Qiao Xipeng. Therefore, he had a greater chance to enter the Blood Dissolving stage.

Lu Ping, who was in a good mood, poured all the other sundries in Qiao Xipeng's storage bag into his storage bag. In the following months, with sufficient elixirs, Lu Ping's cultivation improved at an amazing speed, and he finally reached the peak of the ninth level of Blood Refining when he was 18 years old. Lu Ping, who had spent three months consolidating his foundation, finally decided to try to enter the Blood Dissolving stage.

Moreover, there was a more important harvest than the blood dissolving elixir, that was, Qiao Xipeng's Magic Treasure. It was a jade magic figure made by a Zhenren at the third level of the Alchemy stage. This silver jade magic figure was bright and transparent, and the three white spiritual halos inside were rotating like three naughty little fish.

This jade magic figure could only be used twice after being used once by Qiao Xipeng. Lu Ping had the Magic Treasure at the first level of the Alchemy stage that he got from Qiao Xipeng's brother Qiao Xiying. It could only be used once a time now. However, he got this silver jade magic figure after using this Magic Treasure last time. Anyway, he made a profit.

On this day, Lu Ping came to Xuanqi Island to meet Immortal Senior Liu.

After Immortal Senior Liu saw Lu Ping, his eyes lit up immediately. He quickly praised Lu Ping with an overjoyed look, "Good, good. You are already at the peak of the ninth level and have a solid foundation. You can try to enter the Blood Dissolving stage."

Lu Ping said respectfully, "Immortal Senior, I came here to officially ask for leave. I want to return to True Spirit Island to start my confinement in cultivation for entering the Blood Dissolving stage. I hope you can give me your permission."

Immortal Senior Liu said with a smile, "It's indeed a big thing. The Blood Refining stage is just a preparation period for cultivators. Only when you break through the Blood Refining stage can you officially become a cultivator and a disciple of our True Spirit Sect."

Immortal senior Liu paused and then said, "Have you prepared everything for entering the Blood Dissolving stage? Have you got enough blood dissolving elixirs? Although people with considerable talent can successfully enter the Blood Dissolving stage even without blood dissolving elixirs, with the catalysis of blood dissolving elixirs, not only your success rate of entering the Blood Dissolving stage can be greatly increased, but also your foundation can be consolidated. It's beneficial."

Lu Ping replied, "Before, I gathered eight five-hundred-year-old spiritual herbs for refining blood dissolving elixirs and exchanged them for one blood dissolving elixir from our sect." Lu Ping naturally wouldn't tell Immortal Senior Liu about how many blood dissolving elixirs he truly had.

Immortal Senior Liu waved his hands, and four wooden boxes appeared on the ground. He said, "You've been cultivating hard and have a deep foundation. I'm afraid a blood dissolving elixir can't completely stimulate your spiritual blood to dissolve in your body. You have made great contributions to the attack and garrison of Xuanqi Island with me recently. Our sect knows you deserve some credit, so they give the four five-hundred-year spiritual herbs for refining blood dissolving elixirs to you as a reward. You need to find a way to get the rest. If you gather eight of them, you can get another blood dissolving elixir. Then you'll have a greater chance to enter the Blood Dissolving stage."

Lu Ping looked at the four wooden boxes on the ground and was overjoyed. He quickly thanked Immortal Senior Liu and said, "I happen to have a few spiritual herbs for refining blood dissolving elixirs. I was worried that I couldn't get the rest. Now, I finally scraped eight of them together."

Immortal Senior Liu looked at Lu Ping who had a surprised look and said with a smile, "I know you are quite rich but remember not to show your wealth to others."

Lu Ping was reminded and said, "I'll keep that in my mind."

Immortal senior Liu continued, "I'm afraid there will be waves in this sea area recently. The eldest son of the Qiao family of the Xuan Spirit Sect has been making waves for a period of time. They think our True Spirit Sect doesn't know what they are up to?"

Lu Ping naturally wouldn't tell Immortal Senior Liu that Qiao Xipeng had been killed by him. However, Immortal Senior Liu seemed to imply that Qiao Xipeng hunted down that spiritual snake for another purpose. So, he asked, "Wasn't Qiao Xipeng just trying to avenge his brother?"

Immortal Senior Liu smiled contemptuously and said, "It's just a cover. Without the permission of the Xuan Spirit Sect, the Qiao family wouldn't dare to let their direct heir hunt down the supernatural beast at the junction of our two sects alone. They think our True Spirit Sect can't see through their trick? The Xuan Spirit Sect finally abandoned its dashing spirit and became chicken. They've lost their imposing bearing."

Hearing Immortal Senior Liu out, Lu Ping did not dare to ask what the Xuan Spirit Sect was up to, but only asked, "Since the situation is tense, will my departure affect the situation?"

Immortal senior Liu said casually, "No, just go and deal with your own thing. The Xuan Spirit Sect hasn't descended to calculate disciples like you. Hee-hee, it's strange. Qiao Xipeng has been chasing the sea snake for months, but there's no news from him. I haven't seen any reaction from the Qiao family. Maybe he has been killed by that supernatural beast!"

Lu Ping knew that his cultivation was low and that he could not step in the struggle between the two sects, but he was startled when Immortal Senior Liu guessed that Qiao Xipeng had been killed.

Then, after Immortal Senior Liu gave Lu Ping an account of some considerations for entering the Blood Dissolving stage and cultivating, Lu Ping left.

When the disciples of the seventh team heard that Lu Ping was going to start his confinement in cultivation for entering the Blood Dissolving stage, they were surprised at Lu Ping's cultivation speed. At the same time, they sent congratulatory gifts to Lu Ping one after another. Lu Ping received a bunch of spiritual stones, elixirs, spiritual materials, and some of them were from cultivators of other teams who were familiar with Lu Ping.

Among the gifts, the more valuable ones were two spiritual herbs for refining blood dissolving elixirs from Yao Yong and Du Feng respectively. Du Feng had also successfully entered the Blood Dissolving stage in recent months. Shi Lingling's gift to Lu Ping was the same as her gift to Yao Yong. They were both thick blood elixirs,

With the four spiritual herbs rewarded by Immortal Senior Liu, Lu Ping had six spiritual herbs for refining blood dissolving elixirs. Moreover, he had obtained three spiritual herbs from Qiao Xipeng, so he had gathered enough spiritual herbs for trading the fourth blood dissolving elixir.

Lu Ping originally planned to scrape together enough spiritual herbs with the five ripe spiritual herbs in Sheng Tao's spiritual herb garden for another blood dissolving elixir. Unexpectedly, he was rewarded by their sect. This saved him the five spiritual herbs in the spiritual herb garden.

After Lu Ping gave over charge of his office to a cultivator of the eleventh team who replaced him to station Huangli Island, he returned to the market of True Spirit Academy through the Transferring Circle and exchanged his spiritual herbs for a blood dissolving elixir in the Elixirs Selling Pavilion that was owned by the True Spirit Sect. Therefore, he had four blood dissolving elixirs.

True Spirit Academy was located at the foot of Sky Spirit Mountain on True Spirit Island. The whole Sky Spirit Mountain was the base camp of the True Spirit Sect. It was wrapped by the Sect-Guarding Circle and the whole mountain was shrouded in a layer of clouds all year round like a fairyland.

Sky Spirit Mountain was a large-scale spiritual vein, which had been cultivated by the True Spirit Sect for tens of thousands of years. At the foot of Sky Spirit Mountain, a small-scale branch of this spiritual vein was extended. The True Spirit Sect built True Spirit Academy on this small-scale spiritual vein and especially opened 24 cultivation rooms on the main vein of this small-scale spiritual vein for disciples of the academy who were going to enter the Blood Dissolving stage.

Lu Ping had good luck. When he came here, he happened to encounter a cultivator who failed to enter the Blood Dissolving stage and vacated the cultivation room. The 24 cultivation rooms were usually in demand and rarely available.

Lu Ping paid the rent for the longest lease term to the Immortal Senior who guarded the cultivation rooms, 500 spiritual stones for half a year. Then he settled down.

The cultivation room was 45 square meters in area. The indoor furnishings were simple. There was only a futon, a small bed, a bamboo chair, and a small bookshelf. The ground of the cultivation room was a Spirit Gathering Circle, which continuously gathered the spiritual Qi of the spiritual vein in the room. Lu Ping put the Spirit-Gathering Futon in the center of the Spirit Gathering Circle so that the spiritual Qi in the room could be gathered again.

Sitting on the Spirit-Gathering Futon, Lu Ping quietly felt that the rich spiritual Qi gathered around him. He held a muddy blood elixir in his mouth, and slowly ran "Blood Dissolving and Spirit Transformation Skill". He adjusted his state to the best and began to make the final preparations for entering the Blood Dissolving stage.