Nine Lives: Unbeatable Dragon Blood

Chapter 39 The Abode

Lu Ping, who saved himself from death, began to sort out what he got. He first collected the storage bags of the five people of the Xuan Spirit Sect and got six magic weapons, including two medium-grade magic weapons and four low-grade ones.

Lu Ping looked at Senior Qiao's two medium-grade magic weapons with a regretful look. They were obviously two medium-grade magic weapons of high quality. Unfortunately, Senior Qiao overused them to activate the Magic Treasure, so they were destroyed by the sea snake in the end.

There were more than 1300 spiritual stones, including more than 600 spiritual stones from Senior Qiao. Moreover, Senior Qiao had that Magic Treasure. Lu Ping could basically be sure that Senior Qiao's background was stronger than that of Lin Sheng.

Sure enough, when Lu Ping counted elixirs, he found that the others had only six bottles of fine blood elixirs, while Senior Qiao had two bottles of thick blood elixirs and two bottles of fine blood elixirs.

To Lu Ping's surprise, he found two five-hundred-year-old spiritual herbs used for refining blood dissolving elixirs on Junior Yin of the Xuan Spirit Sect. Lu Ping finally got the eight five-hundred-year-old spiritual herbs, and he could exchange them for blood dissolving elixirs. Therefore, he had a greater chance to enter the Blood Dissolving stage.

Lu Ping got so many things from these five people, which made him forget his injury and fatigue. Then he looked at the huge body of the sea snake.

Lu Ping had learned that the sea snake's skin was strong and pliable. It probably could be used to refine medium-grade magic weapons. Although one of the two snake tooth daggers had been destroyed, the remaining one was a necessary magic weapon for sneak attack and assassination. Although the snake tongue sword was the natal magic weapon of the sea snake, the sea snake was dead, and it could only be used as an ordinary medium-grade magic weapon.

Lu Ping cut open the huge sea snake with his flying sword and dug a huge snake gall out of it. This was one of the most precious things of the sea snake and was an essential thing for refining several kinds of elixirs at the Blood Dissolving stage, so it was of great value.

Lu Ping found the intact heart of the sea snake in its vital part. This was his biggest gain from the sea snake! Lu Ping carefully cut open the huge heart with his Flying Swallow Sword and four blood beads that were as crystal-clear as pearls rolled out. Lu Ping quickly caught them with the jade bottle he prepared. After sealing the jade bottle, he still had some misgivings, so he put the jade bottle in a jade bottle magic weapon that could keep spiritual strength from running off.

After collecting the blood beads, Lu Ping breathed a long sigh. He suddenly had lingering fear for what happened earlier. The sea snake had four blood dissolving beads, and it was probably a supernatural beast at the fourth level of Blood Dissolving. If it hadn't been hit hard by the Magic Treasure, Lu Ping might have become a snack of the sea snake.

Right, the Magic Treasure was still there! Lu Ping quickly rummaged through the sea snake's corpse.

Obviously, it was the first time Senior Qiao used this Golden Spear Magic Figure. After finding it, Lu Ping looked at it that was shining gold, felt its power, and knew that he could still use it twice more. He was full of joy. This was a trump card that he could use against the experts at the Blood Dissolving stage.

Magic Treasures needed to be sacrificially refined before being used. This was also the reason why the sea snake didn't use that Magic Treasure when it fought with Lu Ping. If the sea snake succeeded in sacrificially refining it... Lu Ping shuddered at the result!

Lu Ping thought for a moment and put the snake meat into a storage bag, and then went to the abode of alchemist Sheng Tao, the ultimate goal of the battle.

Alchemist Sheng Tao was just an individual cultivator at the Blood Dissolving stage. He was good at alchemy and somewhat famous more than a hundred years ago. Hu Lili found this information from a pile of old paper, sorted it out, and finally found his abode.

Inside the abode, it was very simple but very spacious. Earlier, when they fought, they intentionally or unintentionally avoided the abode, so it was not damaged inside.

In the cultivation room, Lu Ping found the sitting corpse of cultivator Sheng Tao. On a small stone stable in front of the corpse, there were two jade slips and a palm-sized exquisite storage bag.

Lu Ping had only seen this kind of storage bag on Immortal Senior Liu. The space in it was several times that of all Lu Ping's storage bags, which was the size of a room.

In the storage bag, there were dozens of jade boxes. Lu Ping opened them one by one and found that there were all kinds of spiritual herbs in them. Each jade box stored one kind of spiritual herb, and the amount of it ranged from one to several. There were almost more than 200 spiritual herbs in total.

Lu Ping knew about half of them. Most of them were spiritual herbs for refining elixirs at the Blood Refining stage. Among them, there were three kinds of spiritual herbs for refining blood dissolving elixirs, and there were five of them. Lu Ping knew another dozen spiritual herbs for refining elixirs at the Blood Dissolving stage.

In addition, there were 50 medium-grade spiritual stones and more than 100 low-grade spiritual stones in the storage bag. Lu Ping, who had long been mentally prepared, still couldn't help being excited. They were equal to more than 5,000 low-grade spiritual stones! As for the rest, several medium-grade and low-grade magic weapons all-inclusive were not what Lu Ping needed.

The two jade slips, one of which was called "Elixirs Manuscript of Sheng Tao". It was a summary of alchemist Sheng Tao's life-long experience in alchemy. In the last pages of the manuscript, there were more than a dozen recipes of elixirs at the Blood Refining stage and five recipes of elixirs at the Blood Dissolving stage, and even a recipe of a kind of elixir used by cultivators at the Alchemy stage, which was called golden marrow elixirs. It was something that Sheng Tao got by chance, but he hadn't been able to refine it.

The other jade slip was called "Travels of Sheng Tao", which recorded what cultivator Sheng Tao had seen and met all his life. In particular, it recorded the growth environment, cultivation methods, medicinal properties, scientific studies, collection methods, and so on of many spiritual herbs, which was all-inclusive and widened Lu Ping's view.

Through this jade slip, Lu Ping identified more than a dozen kinds of spiritual herbs for refining blood dissolving elixirs in the jade boxes in the storage bag.

Lu Ping bowed to the corpse of cultivator Sheng Tao and said, "Senior, I'm lucky to get your inheritance today. I will do my best to pass it on. Even if I'm too dim-witted to do that, I would give it to another talent to make sure that your inheritance won't disappear from the world."

After that, he burned cultivator Sheng Tao's corpse into ashes, put it in the jade bottle, and was going to scatter it into the sea. Longevity and inheritance were the two most important things for cultivators. Lu Ping received a favor. He should naturally express his gratitude, otherwise, he would inevitably feel uneasy.

Lu Ping went to the alchemy room next door. Around the alchemy room, there were wooden cabinets for placing elixirs. The jade bottles containing elixirs in them had already been covered with dust.

Lu Ping counted them and found that there were 40 or 50 jade bottles of different sizes that contained more than a dozen kinds of elixirs. Most of them were elixirs at the Blood Refining stage. After a hundred years, most of the elixirs in the jade bottles no longer had any effect.

Lu Ping sorted them out and found that there were only seven jade bottles pasted with Spirit-Sealing Magic Figures at the Blood Dissolving stage. Therefore, these elixirs still had an effect. Three bottles of them contained muddy blood elixirs that Lu Ping urgently needed, and the other four bottles contained elixirs at the Blood Dissolving stage. Unfortunately, there were no blood dissolving elixirs that Lu Ping was hoping to get.

In the center of the room, there was an alchemy furnace nearly one person high. This was a medium-grade magic weapon, but if he took this magic weapon out and got it valued, it could be exchanged for two or three high-grade magic weapons.

Refining an alchemy furnace was hundreds of times more difficult than refining other magic weapons. It required the full cooperation of weapon refiners and alchemists, and there were strict requirements on the refining materials, which made every alchemy furnace precious. Therefore, a low-grade alchemy furnace was as precious as a high-grade magic weapon.

It was said that the best alchemy furnace in the True Spirit Sect was a highest-grade magic weapon. The leaders of the sect tried hard to upgrade it to a magic artifact, but they never succeeded. Even so, Grandmasters' permission was needed before the alchemy furnace was used every time.