Nine Lives: Unbeatable Dragon Blood

Chapter 35 Eavesdropping

After replenishing three months' cultivation supplies, Lu Ping heard from Shi Lingling that there would be an auction for the disciples at the Blood Refining stage half a year later in the market of Dikun Island. He decided to go there to attend it and exchange the things he didn't use for something useful.

Recently, he was busy with cultivating. It was time to take a look at what he got from Lin Sheng.

About thirty miles to the southwest of Huangyu Island, on the sea covered with reefs, a wagon-carriage-like magic weapon suddenly flew from the distance. After the wagon stopped, four cultivators wearing the uniforms of disciples of the Xuan Spirit Sect jumped out from it.

One of them, who was about 25 or 26 years old and looked like the leader of them, said, "We can't go further north, otherwise, we will reach the territory of the True Spirit Sect."

A 16 or 17-year-old boy who was the youngest of the four people asked, "Senior Qiao, is the True Spirit Sect crazy? They just occupied our Xuanqi Island. Recently, they became more insatiable. Their cultivators at the Blood Dissolving stage keep showing up in our seas. Do they want to invade our other islands?"

A female cultivator next to Senior Qiao giggled and said, "Junior Zhou, the True Spirit Sect could occupy Xuanqi Island only because they were lucky to be in the right. Our Xuan Spirit Sect is the most powerful in the northern sea area. With our strength, will we be afraid of the True Spirit Sect? Besides, our Xuan Spirit Sect has thousands of islands. It didn't matter that one of them was taken away by the True Spirit Sect. Just take it as a reward for them."

Senior Qiao glanced at the female cultivator beside him and said, "We can't be careless. This time we were sent to patrol the sea area. Although we haven't figured out why the True Spirit Sect took those actions recently, we unexpectedly found three cultivators of the True Spirit Sect who wandered in the nearby sea area. They were like looking for something."

After Senior Qiao just finished speaking, a fleet light came from the direction of Huangli Island. A short cultivator landed beside the four people. Seeing the short cultivator who was back, Senior Qiao asked in a hurry, "Junior Yin, have you found out the purpose of those three people?"

Junior Yin nodded and said, "They probably have found a cultivator's abode. They stopped on a reef 15 miles south of Huangli Island. At present, they have not found the exact location of the abode. However, they probably have run out of their supplies. So, they need to return to the True Spirit Sect to replenish their supplies. They've agreed to go there again in three days."

Senior Qiao continued, "What are their cultivations?"

Junior Yin said, "Two of them are at the ninth level of Blood Refining and another one is at the eighth level. All of them have magic weapons."

"Let's kill them!" The only cultivator who had been silent behind Senior Qiao said ruthlessly.

Senior Qiao thought for a moment and agreed, "Four of the five of us have reached the ninth level of Blood Refining, and we all have magic weapons. I think we can kill them."

The cultivator behind Senior Qiao continued, "We could be the final beneficiary. After they find the abode for us, we'll do that!"

The female cultivator also added, "We should ambush on the reef island the day after tomorrow."

Senior Qiao concluded, "By then, we should end our fight quickly. That place is not far from Huangli Island. We'll be in trouble if our fight brings the cultivators stationed on the island."

After they agreed on the plan, they returned to the magic weapon of a wagon and flew in the direction of the Xuan Spirit Sect.

Shortly after the five people left, a splash of water suddenly appeared under a reef on the sea. Lu Ping flew up from it. Originally, he came here to take the storage bag containing Lin Sheng's things. Unexpectedly, he met the disciples of the Xuan Spirit Sect who were planning to kill the disciples of the True Spirit Sect.

To his surprise, there was such a treasure near the sea area under his jurisdiction. He would take a share of it no matter what. Lu Ping looked at the Invisibility Magic Figure and Spirit-Sealing Magic Figure he had used in order to make himself invisible, gritted his teeth with distress, and then flew to Huangli Island to count his booty.

After Lu Ping flew away, a huge snake head suddenly rose on the calm sea. The snake looked in the direction that Lu Ping was taking, and its tongue flicked out in his mouth like a sword, as if it was discerning the smell of the disciples of the Xuan Spirit Sect and Lu Ping left here.

After a while, the huge snakehead slowly sank to the bottom of the sea and disappeared.

It seemed that the True Spirit Sect and the Lin family not only alerted the Xuan Spirit Sect, but also the demon race in the sea area for the sake of Lin Sheng. Lu Ping, the initiator of all this, didn't know that he had also become others' prey. At this time, he couldn't wait to count what he got from Lin Sheng.

Lu Ping's excitement didn't wane after two months since he got these things back. Looking at a pile of items in his cultivation room, Lu Ping was in a good mood.

The two middle-grade magic weapons that Lin Sheng used to fight with Lu Ping, a flying sword and a handkerchief, were naturally pocketed by Lu Ping. There was also a medium-grade flying sword specially used for flying. It was a fleeing magic weapon and had no attack power.

In addition, there were two low-grade magic weapons. One of them was an attacking magic weapon and the other was a defensive magic weapon. They were probably Lin Sheng's spare magic weapons. Lu Ping naturally didn't need them.

The six bottles of thick blood elixirs used by Lin Sheng for cultivation greatly surprised Lu Ping and made him have a pang of envy at Lin Sheng. Lin Sheng was indeed a man of the aristocratic family. Moreover, Lin Sheng was a genius of the Lin family. The elixirs he used for cultivation were not only sufficient but also of high quality.

Lu Ping had been worried because he had to use fine blood elixirs to substitute for thick blood elixirs for a month in every three months. After getting these elixirs, he could totally use thick blood elixirs and muddy blood elixirs to cultivate in the half-year.

There were some other elixirs for restoring magic power and treating various injuries. They were also of high quality. Obviously, the Lin family had invested a lot in Lin Sheng.

The output of the spiritual mine in a month was 1300 or 1400 spiritual stones. Lin Sheng took 500 spiritual stones with him, so these spiritual stones could cover Lu Ping's cultivation expenses for two months.

Although the harvest was huge, there were no blood dissolving elixirs and spiritual herbs needed for refining blood dissolving elixirs that Lu Ping hoped to get.

Lu Ping also knew that there wasn't much hope of getting them, but he was still expecting to get them.

Although Lin Sheng won the reward of blood dissolving elixirs in the Grand Competition, this reward was generally kept by leading Immortal Seniors. It would be given out only when the disciples were ready to break through, so as to prevent others from coveting it. As far as Lu Ping knew, Yao Yong and Du Feng, who obtained the blood dissolving elixirs, both asked Immortal Senior Liu to keep the blood dissolving elixirs for them.

Lu Ping didn't pay much attention to the other sundries. Only two jade slips aroused his interest. One was called "The Preliminary Explanation of Alchemy", which was about the introductory knowledge of alchemy. Since Lu Ping was stuck in refining elixirs, he had the idea of learning to refine elixirs by himself more than once. If he could do that, he wouldn't be restrained by others in cultivation.

However, the requirements of the True Spirit Sect for alchemists were strict, and the alchemist industry paid great attention to its confidentiality. Alchemy was a huge and rigorous system. In addition, alchemists needed to waste a lot of cultivation resources to improve their skills of refining elixirs in the early stage, which was an intolerable pressure for Lu Ping.

"The Preliminary Explanation of Alchemy" introduced the basic knowledge of alchemy in detail and came with recipes of several elixirs for cultivators at the Blood Refining stage, but they were all ordinary elixirs. Lu Ping no longer used these elixirs for cultivation, but learning to make them was a necessary practice process for learning alchemy.

The second jade slip recorded a mysterious skill, "Blood Sacrifice Skill". This mysterious skill needed cultivators to refine a magic weapon with their own blood and detonate it when they fought with their enemies. It was powerful and could be regarded as the best blow from experts at the Blood Dissolving stage even when it was only a low-grade magic weapon.

However, the use of this secret skill not only consumed the blood containing magic power in cultivators' bodies but also damaged magic weapons. In fact, it would cause a lose-lose situation.