Chapter 44 Pastoral Life
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Lu Ping, who had just returned to Huangli Island, was pestered by the Spirit-Seeking Mouse, Bao. After Bao ate half the elixir given by Lu Ping by mistake and luckily entered the next stage and became a supernatural beast at the second level of Blood Refining, it became even more affectionate to Lu Ping.
Looking at Bao's excited look, Lu Ping asked suspiciously, "Bao, did you find the lands where spiritual Qi gathers again? Are there so many such lands on Huangli Island?"
Bao nodded and then shook its head, just pulling Lu Ping's trouser leg and walking outside.
Lu Ping had no choice but to follow Bao outside.
This time Bao found two places. After Lu Ping got there, he finally understood that they were not lands where spiritual Qi gathered, but lands with latent spiritual Qi. To put it plainly, they were unqualified spiritual fields.
If he wanted to develop these lands into spiritual fields, he had to first perform Spirit-Sacrificing Skill with spiritual stones, and slowly stimulate and supplement the spiritual Qi in them to make them reach the standard of spiritual fields.
Lu Ping thought for a while. These two lands with latent spiritual Qi could be opened up into a 0.2-acre spiritual field with Spirit-Sacrificing Skill. To perform Spirit-Sacrificing Skill, it cost him 40 spiritual stones, and the effect could last for a year, so he could make a profit.
Moreover, he learned another mysterious skill of expediting the growth of spiritual herbs and spiritual grains in Travels of Sheng Tao.
To perform this mysterious skill, it also needed to consume spiritual stones. Ordinary Spirit-Urging Skill could save about a quarter of the planting time of spiritual grains. However, this mysterious skill called "Spirit-Sending Skill" could save half of the growth time of spiritual grains and spiritual herbs.
The spiritual herb garden on the reef island was the result of alchemist Sheng Tao using the miniature spirit vein as the medium and using the large magic circle to perform Spirit-Sending Skill.
Otherwise, how could there be the spiritual herbs of 500 years! The spiritual herb garden had only existed for more than 200 years.
In this way, the spiritual fields on Huangli Island that produced four crops a year could produce six crops a year.
To perform Spirit-Sending Skill, it cost Lu Ping 80 spiritual stones, and the effect could last for a year.
In this way, Lu Ping could earn about 1,200 spiritual stones from the one-acre spiritual fields a year.
Although the 1,200 spiritual stones were only enough for Lu Ping's consumption for three months, this was already great progress.
Lu Ping resumed his pastoral life.
Since he got three bottles of muddy blood elixirs each in the abode, the Elixirs Selling Pavilion of their academy, and the Elixirs Selling Pavilion on Dikun Island, Lu Ping could cultivate extravagantly with all these muddy blood elixirs for three months.
The effect of cultivating in this way was amazing. When it was almost the end of the three months, Lu Ping magically broke through the barrier and stepped into the later stage of the ninth level. Then, he was only one step away from the peak of the ninth level.
It took Lu Ping less than a year from reaching the barrier of the ninth level of Blood Refining to initially stepping into the later stage of the ninth level.
In these three months, Lu Ping also got hooked on alchemy. He repeatedly read Elixirs Manuscript of Sheng Tao and Travels of Sheng Tao left by cultivator Sheng Tao and tried to refine the most basic blood refining elixirs with the low-grade spiritual herbs he collected from the Spiritual Herb Garden.
Blood refining elixirs were for cultivators who had just entered the Blood Refining stage. Even strong ordinary people could bear their efficacy and strengthen bodies with them.
To refine such elixirs, it was not necessary to use the high-grade spiritual fire at Xuan Rank such as Blue Spiritual Fire. Otherwise, the spiritual herbs that were a little more effective than medicinal herbs would turn into ashes at once.
Lu Ping condensed Real Fire with his own magic power and used the medium-grade alchemy furnace, but he was still like using a sledgehammer to c***k a nut.
However, the reality was cruel. Lu Ping seemed to have run out of his recent good luck.
In the past three months, explosions often came from the center of Huangli Island. Sometimes at night, there were sky-rocketing fires, which made the simple islanders worry a lot. This Sir was good-natured and often helped them, and he had even saved many people on the island. They didn't want him to be driven away like the former Immortal Senior.
Lu Ping, whose clothes were burned to pieces, kept coughing in the pungent smell. He didn't know that what he did had brought panic to the people on the island.
After several failures, Lu Ping finally buckled down and began to seriously ponder on Elixirs Manuscript of Sheng Tao. He compared it with his own alchemy process, carefully recalled the change of heat during the period of refining elixirs, the timing and speed of performing spells, and so on. At the same time, he also studied the pharmacological properties of various spiritual herbs recorded in Travels of Sheng Tao while developing a deep understanding of the principle of proportioning various spiritual herbs in elixir recipes. Gradually, he gained a lot.
On this day, in the birthplace of the two rivers on Huangli Island, not far from Lu Ping's cultivation room, after Lu Ping performed the last group of spells, there was a vibration in the alchemy furnace. The Real Fire under the alchemy furnace slowly weakened, and a faint aroma came out of the alchemy furnace. A smile finally lifted the corner of Lu Ping's mouth.
The Real Fire finally went out, and the alchemy furnace gradually quieted down.
Lu Ping removed the lid of the alchemy furnace. After a burst of mist, he saw two bright red blood refining elixirs lying at the bottom of the furnace, and the rest were eight charred black balls.
The chance of successfully making the lowest grade elixirs was 20%, which should be a frustrating thing for him. However, Lu Ping wasn't frustrated at all. He happily threw one of the elixirs to Bao.
Bao was nice enough and gobbled the elixir quickly like a starving wolf.
Lu Ping soaked the remaining one in water, dissolved it, and then gave the water to the weak and sickly islanders, which actually improved their health.
The islanders who witnessed the miracle worshiped Lu Ping more and the panic caused by Lu Ping to the islanders when he refined elixirs was also inadvertently eliminated.
Lu Ping made persistent efforts and decided to use up the low-grade spiritual herbs brought back from the Spiritual Herb Garden.
Although the quantity of the elixirs successfully made by Lu Ping changed every time, he didn't make a whole furnace of useless elixirs again. He managed to make either one or two elixirs. In the end, he gradually could refine three or four of them.
After Lu Ping refined 20 or 30 furnaces of spiritual herbs and obtained more than 30 lowest-grade elixirs, the three months were finally about to be over.
The auction was coming. Lu Ping had about 7,000 spiritual stones at the time, which were saved by him in various ways during this period. He could certainly be regarded as a rich man among the cultivators at the Blood Refining stage.
Lu Ping knew it was nowhere near enough because it was said that blood dissolving elixirs might be sold at the auction.
Lu Ping, who was studying alchemy, knew that the cost price of a blood dissolving elixir was about 600 or 700 spiritual stones. However, it was often priced at 1,500 or 1,600 spiritual stones in markets. Its price usually went up to 2,000 spiritual stones in an auction.
Moreover, Lu Ping wanted to sell the medium-grade fleeing magic weapon. Because there was another dispute between the True Spirit Sect and the Xuan Spirit Sect recently, Lu Ping decided to sell this eye-catching flying cart magic weapon at the auction. Anyway, the Xuan Spirit Sect would not turn against the True Spirit Sect and Treasure Attic for such a magic weapon.
He also needed to buy elixirs, especially muddy blood elixirs. Since Lu Ping had witnessed his improvement in cultivation by only using muddy blood elixirs, he was obsessed with the feeling of improving his cultivation at a high speed.
The problem was, did Lu Ping have enough spiritual stones at the time?
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