Nine Lives: Unbeatable Dragon Blood

Chapter 41 Accumulation

Lu Ping, who returned with a full load, was still immersed in great joy. He was overwhelmed by joy. For such a long time, he tried to keep a tranquil and calm Tao Mind, but this time, he couldn't do that again.

Lu Ping sat in his cultivation room for a whole day, but he failed to calm his restless mood. He remembered the days when he economized on spiritual stones and could no longer pull himself together but fell into the memory of the past.

As time went by, Lu Ping finally remembered that Immortal Senior Liu asked him why he cultivated when he reached the eighth level of Blood Refining that day. Lu Ping answered loudly and firmly, "To be immortal".

"All of them were feasible, but in the end, I found that only this reason was the most practical and eternal. Other reasons will disappear with time, but this one will exist forever."

Back then, Immortal Senior Liu listened to Lu Ping's answer, laughed, and was greatly relieved.

The puzzle in Lu Ping's eyes was finally cleared. I cultivate to be immortal. Although this is the first time I have such a large wealth, it is only an illusion on my way to be immortal. Sheng Tao, the Immortal Senior who had died was once the owner of this wealth, wasn't he?

I just need to convert this wealth into resources in my cultivation and constantly store them into my cultivation. One day, my cultivation will develop abruptly based on its accumulated strength and reach a new level.

After figuring out the priorities, Lu Ping became calm and threw himself back into his tense and organized cultivation.

After this life-and-death battle, Lu Ping's willpower and physical potential were both heightened significantly. With sufficient thick blood elixirs and muddy blood elixirs, his cultivation quickly reached the middle stage of the ninth level and was rapidly approaching the peak of the ninth level, while his magic power also kept increasing. After the battle with the sea snake, Lu Ping tasted the benefit of having strong magic power, so he kept strengthening his foundation with sufficient elixirs.

Lu Ping was cultivated in an extravagant way. When he cultivated every day, he held four spiritual stones in his hand and sat on the Spirit-Gathering Futon obtained from Lin Sheng. Because he got three bottles of muddy blood elixirs on the reef island, his cultivation improved rapidly like a soaring rocket with those elixirs in these three months. No wonder his cultivation could develop at such a high speed.

Three months later, Lu Ping came to Xuanqi Island and learned that the first senior disciple Yao Yong, was ready to enter the Blood Dissolving stage. People in the cultivation world did not value the celebration after the cultivation breakthrough, but attached importance to the accumulation before the breakthrough. Therefore, every cultivator would receive gifts from friends and relatives before the cultivation breakthrough.

Yao Yong had enough accumulation and decided to make the breakthrough on Xuanqi Island. There were many Immortal Seniors on the island, so it was safe. All the people of the seventh team went to see him and brought him their congratulatory gifts.

Du Feng's gift was five muddy blood elixirs. Lu Ping didn't know where he got them.

Shi Lingling simply took out a bottle of thick blood elixirs she used in cultivation, and other senior disciples also sent elixirs, spiritual stones, magic weapons, Magic Figures, and other things to Yao Yong.

Lu Ping remembered what happened when he reached the eighth level of Blood Refining in the Grand Competition and he was reminded by Yao Yong and the other two senior disciples when Lin Sheng set him up, so he gave Yao Yong a red envelope contained a medium-grade spiritual stone on the surface, but secretly took Yao Yong to one side and quietly gave him the Spirit-Gathering Futon.

Yao Yong was greatly grateful to see such a valuable gift. He said to Lu Ping, "Originally, I've prepared two blood dissolving elixirs, and my family prepared a batch of elixirs for me. With my own accumulation and Immortal Senior Liu's protection, I already have a 70% chance to enter the Blood Dissolving stage. Your futon increases my chance by 5%."

Lu Ping said in surprise, "With your accumulation, you only have a 70% chance to enter the Blood Dissolving stage? Why do you need two blood dissolving elixirs? We just need one of them to reach the Blood Dissolving stage, don't we?"

Yao Yong looked at Lu Ping in surprise and said with a smile, "You cultivate hard all year round and don't have much contact with other people, and you're not from a cultivators' family. It's normal that you would have these doubts. When cultivators are ready to enter the Blood Dissolving stage, blood dissolving elixirs are not even necessary. Some talented cultivators can even directly enter the Blood Dissolving stage. However, fewer than one-tenth of cultivators could enter it only with the help of blood dissolving elixirs, so cultivators who could directly enter the Blood Dissolving stage are even rarer."

Blood dissolving elixirs only increased the probability of entering the Blood Dissolving stage. Because some cultivators accumulated too much, the competition among their seven bloodlines would become more intense when they were trying to enter the Blood Dissolving stage. Then, it would take them more time to make the breakthrough, and they were more likely to fail. By then, one blood dissolving elixir often couldn't meet cultivators' needs, so more elixirs were needed.

Above all, although blood dissolving elixirs were elixirs at the Blood Dissolving stage, twenty-four kinds of five-hundred-year-old spiritual herbs were needed to refine them. However, those spiritual herbs grew in appalling conditions and were almost as rare as millennial spiritual herbs. So, blood dissolving elixirs were extremely precious. Although each of them was only priced at two thousand spiritual stones in markets, they were actually unavailable.

After listening to Yao Yong's explanation, Lu Ping knew that his previous idea was too simple. He thought that his magic power was no weaker than that of Yao Yong and even far stronger than his magic power. In his eyes, Yao Yong had got infallible preparation and could certainly enter the Blood Dissolving stage, but Yao Yong only thought he had a 70% chance to do that. Did that mean Lu Ping wouldn't even have a 50% chance to enter the Blood Dissolving stage?

Lu Ping didn't know how he came out of Yao Yong's cultivation room. He overestimated himself. He thought that he had sufficient elixirs, spiritual stones, and spiritual herbs that could be exchanged for blood dissolving elixirs, and alchemist Sheng Tao's inheritance, so he was very likely to enter the Blood Dissolving stage. At this time, Lu Ping knew that he was wrong, totally wrong.

The gap between him and Yao Yong was not the cultivation resources, but the foundation, the cultivation summary of the wisdom and experience of cultivators over thousands of years. Yao Yong's family would unreservedly give him a clear account of the various considerations for entering the Blood Dissolving stage, while Lu Ping could only depend on himself.

In the face of recent successive gains, Lu Ping underestimated the difficulty of entering the Blood Dissolving stage though he repeatedly told himself to be down-to-earth. The emotion of being overly ambitious had actually arisen in the so-called "being down-to-earth".

Lu Ping finally figured out the gap between him and Yao Yong. Although he was about to reach the peak of the ninth level of Blood Refining, he still had a long way to go! Lu Ping finally understood why there were tens of thousands of outer disciples of the True Spirit Sect who had reached the ninth level of Blood Refining, but only a few dozen of them could enter the Blood Dissolving stage every year.

Lu Ping, who came to all of these realizations, pulled himself together and went to the market of their academy through the Transferring Circle to buy elixirs and other cultivation supplies. He sold four low-grade magic weapons he didn't need to Treasure Attic and blood-sacrificed the other three low-grade ones.

Plus the sundries he got from the disciples of the Xuan Spirit Sect, he got 400 spiritual stones.

Lu Ping hadn't dealt with Lin Sheng's things so far. He didn't know how powerful Lin Sheng's family was. It would be bad if they found him through Lin Sheng's magic weapons after he sold them.

Originally, Lu Ping still had some other things to do. He thought about it, turned around, and went back to the Transferring Circle. This time, he didn't return to Xuanqi Island but came to Dikun Island where the auction for cultivators at the Blood Refining stage would be held after three months.