Nine Lives: Unbeatable Dragon Blood

Chapter 40 New Discovery

After Lu Ping sacrificially refined the alchemy furnace in a simple way, he immediately put it in his newly obtained storage bag.

He walked around the alchemy room several times as if looking for something. Finally, he found a stone different from the surrounding ground in front of a futon next to the alchemy furnace.

Lu Ping stretched out his hand and pressed it. The stone slab on the central ground retracted on all sides and revealed a magic tray. In the center of the magic tray, there was an egg-sized blue fireball.

Lu Ping was delighted. This was the fire of the blue spiritual fire of Xuan Rank. This fire was the most precious collection of cultivator Sheng Tao. Naturally, it was also Lu Ping's greatest harvest of this trip.

This kind of spiritual fire naturally formed between heaven and earth. It could be divided into three ranks, Heaven Rank, Earth Rank, and Xuan Rank according to the amount of energy it contained and the range of its functions. But the amount of it was not directly proportional to that. Maybe there were more spiritual fires of Earth Rank than spiritual fires of Xuan Rank in the cultivation world.

However, no matter which rank of spiritual fire it was, it was extremely rare and could only be found by accident. In fact, cultivator Sheng Tao was known as a famous alchemist partly because of this spiritual fire of Xuan Rank.

This kind of spiritual fire formed between heaven and earth could be used for alchemy and refining weapons. However, due to the scarcity of spiritual fire, most alchemists and weapon refiners used real fire condensed by their own magic power to refine elixirs and weapons. Although the efficacy of these elixirs and weapons was not much different from that of the elixirs and weapons refined by spiritual fire, it wasted a lot of cultivation time, which was a contradiction faced by all alchemists and weapon refiners.

The magic tray under the blue spiritual fire was called Spirit-Burning Circle. After cultivators embedded spiritual stones into it, they could activate the blue spiritual fire to refine. At this time, after a hundred years, the spiritual stones on it had exhausted their spiritual strength and turned into powder.

Lu Ping sealed the spiritual fire and put it into the jade bottle, and then put it into his storage bag with the magic tray.

At this time, Lu Ping had been "struck" to be numb by the successive harvests, and he no longer had the ecstasy he had when he collected harvests each time before.

Lu Ping returned to the entrance of the abode where he had just entered. He put several spiritual stones in several inconspicuous potholes on the stone wall in front of the abode and then performed a set of magic spells. Suddenly, the spiritual stones on the stone wall flickered, and Lu Ping disappeared.

There was a small Transferring Circle embedded in the stone wall at the entrance of the abode.

In a large closed cave, a ray of light suddenly flashed, and Lu Ping appeared here.

As soon as he appeared in the cave, he felt a faint spiritual Qi surrounding him. Lu Ping was overjoyed. It seemed that Senior Sheng Tao was right.

Alchemist Sheng Tao accidentally found a miniature spiritual vein here back then. In great joy, he decided to use it as his cultivation base. He completely closed the cave, sealed the spiritual Qi produced by the spiritual vein in the cave with a Spirit-Sealing Circle, and then built an abode on it, leaving a secret Transferring Circle connected to the abode. After that, Sheng Tao opened up fifty square meters of the spiritual herb garden in the cave for his alchemy and cultivation.

Sheng Tao had been dead for more than a hundred years. Lu Ping didn't know how the spiritual herbs he planted had grown.

The cave's stone walls were inlaid with glittering stones for illumination, and water oozing from the walls dripped onto the ground.

Lu Ping took a few steps forward, and a lush spiritual herb garden appeared in front of him.

The spiritual herb garden was divided into three parts. The most peripheral part was cultivated with the spiritual herbs for refining elixirs at the Blood Refining stage. Most of them were already ripe. Because there was no one to take care of them, and the spiritual Qi in the spiritual vein could only for the growth of the spiritual herbs after being sealed, the seeds fell on the ground and continued to grow. Therefore, the spiritual herbs here were already very dense.

The middle part was cultivated with all kinds of spiritual herbs for refining elixirs at the Blood Dissolving stage. Usually, 500-year-old spiritual herbs were needed to refine elixirs at the Blood Dissolving stage. Because Sheng Tao found this place more than 100 years ago before he died, and he had accelerated the ripening of these spiritual herbs with his special Spirit-urging Skill, most of the spiritual herbs in the middle part were also ripe.

Twenty-four kinds of spiritual herbs were needed to refine blood dissolving elixirs, and eighteen kinds of them were planted here. However, the spiritual herbs for refining blood dissolving elixirs were obviously much more difficult to grow than other kinds of spiritual herbs at the Blood Dissolving stage. Only five of the nearly 50 spiritual herbs had reached 500 years, and the others were not yet ripe.

The further inside part was cultivated with three Golden Marrow Grasses, which were painstakingly cultivated by alchemist Sheng Tao. According to what Sheng Tao recorded, they were the main herbs for refining golden marrow elixirs at the Alchemy stage.

To refine elixirs at the Alchemy stage, it often required spiritual herbs that were more than a thousand years old. These three spiritual herbs were only nearly 500 years, which was far from meeting the requirements.

Under the spiritual herb garden, there was the miniature spiritual vein. Spiritual veins were even rarer than spiritual mines. Although they couldn't provide spiritual stones like spiritual mines, they could provide a constant supply of spiritual Qi for cultivators to cultivate, and there was no need to worry about the depletion of spiritual veins unless they were maliciously destroyed.

Moreover, spiritual veins could be cultivated to expand. For example, the spiritual vein on True Spirit Island was only a medium-sized spiritual vein before. After being carefully cultivated by the True Spirit Sect for tens of thousands of years, it was already a large spiritual vein.

In order to prevent the spiritual herb garden from being discovered, Lu Ping gathered all the ripe spiritual herbs in the garden. After two hours, the Transferring Circle on the stone wall flickered, and Lu Ping appeared at the door of the abode again.

Lu Ping put his hand on his chin and rubbed it. After thinking for a while, he began to bombard the reef island with magic methods. The ravaged reef island was in a mess again. Then Lu Ping leveled the whole abode and eliminated all his traces. He calculated the time. If Hu Lili and her companions reported what happened on the reef island to their leaders, the cultivators on Xuanqi Island were probably on their way here to check it.

Lu Ping released his flying boat and flew towards Huangli Island in the north.

Not long after Lu Ping returned to Huangli Island, several lights in the sky cut through the air and landed on the reef island. Among them, there were Hu Lili and her two companions. The other three men were Immortal Seniors at the Blood Dissolving stage of Xuanqi Island. If Lu Ping was here, he would find that two of the Immortal Seniors were Immortal Senior Liu and Immortal Senior Shang, who made things difficult for him before.

Although Hu Lili and her companions no longer expected that the reef island would be intact, they were still shocked when they saw that the island was in a mess. The three Immortal Seniors looked grave, carefully looked around the reef island, and searched the nearby sea area with Divine Mentality Coercion. In the end, they found nothing.

Among the three Immortal Seniors, Immortal Senior Liu had reached the seventh level of Blood Dissolving and his cultivation was the highest, so he was the leader. Immortal Senior Shang looked at them and first asked, "What do you think, Senior Liu?"

Immortal Senior Liu pondered for a while and said, "The sea snake probably cultivated Cultivation Methods of Water System and refined Spiritual Dragon Bloodline. It was at the middle stage of Blood Dissolving."

Another Immortal Senior added, "Yes, but according to our disciple Hu Lili, in the end, the disciple of the Xuan Spirit Sect used a Magic Treasure. It's strange that even the worst Magic Treasure refined by Zhenrens at the Alchemy stage would give a heavy blow to the sea snake."

Immortal Senior Shang said with a smile, "That's right. I think it was because the sea snake was badly hurt that it went crazy and destroyed the reef island. So, we didn't find any clues."

Immortal Senior Liu said with a serious look, "You're right. After all, five disciples of the Xuan Spirit Sect died here. We need to report this to Zhenren Qu for early preparation in case the Xuan Spirit Sect picks on our sect with this. What's more, the demon race was involved in this. There's no telling whether the demon race in the northern sea did this on purpose or not."

The other two Immortal Seniors agreed with Immortal Senior Liu, then they got up and flew back to Xuanqi Island. Hu Lili and her companions didn't say a word from beginning to end. Seeing that the three Immortal Seniors left, they could only keep up with them reluctantly.