Mortal Alchemy

After personally witnessing Tao Shuang'er's body turn to ashes, Chen Ping finally breathed a sigh of relief, his back already soaked with cold sweat.

The schemes of a Golden Core cultivator were simply too numerous; a moment of carelessness could have led Chen Ping to fall into their trap and suffer a great loss.

Who would have thought that Ji Changsheng, despite his fierce words and intent to kill Chen Ping, had long prepared to transform into a zombie?

No wonder he willingly corrupted his soul and turned into a ghoul; otherwise, how could he enter Tao Shuang'er's body and leave behind the spirituality needed to become a zombie in the future?

It was a pity that there were no bystanders, or this battle would have undoubtedly sparked a massive controversy in the Eastern Region's cultivation world.

Having a Golden Core soul as a servant was tempting, but Ji Changsheng's methods were endless, and Chen Ping would eventually be overturned by him.

Why bother keeping his life?

Chen Ping did not rashly leave but stood in place, swallowing pills to refine and waiting for a full seven days.

A soul without a physical body cannot exist in the world for long.

Seven days later, Chen Ping finally left this place.

This battle was quite dangerous, but Chen Ping's gains were also immense.

First, his soul and spiritual consciousness had exploded to the limit, and there was no bottleneck in entering the fourteenth level of Qi Refining; with steady cultivation for another year or so, he could enter the fourteenth level of Qi Refining.

Second, he had obtained the memories of Ji Changsheng, a Golden Core cultivator, gaining a deeper understanding of the Eastern Region's cultivation world and his own situation.

Finally, there were the second-order offensive magic weapon, the first-order top-grade defensive magic weapon, and the spatial ring left by Ji Changsheng.

And the second-order Netherworld Ice Flame that Chen Ping had not yet subdued and refined.

Without Ji Changsheng's existence, Chen Ping could safely subdue and refine this second-order spiritual fire.

Chen Ping came to another place with hot springs and took out the spirit fire attracting stone again.

Then, he injected spiritual power into it, placing the small bead on his neck aside.

After a while, the Netherworld Ice Flame emerged from the ground and began to wrap around the spirit fire attracting stone.

Chen Ping controlled the spiritual energy, allowing strands of spiritual fire to enter the small bead.

Even though he was already a Foundation Establishment cultivator, he had to do this to refine the spiritual fire.

You must collect enough spiritual fire, possess its origin, and then use artifacts to refine it through your soul and bloodline, making it recognize you as its master.

Not to mention that Chen Ping was not even a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

Therefore, Chen Ping's speed in refining this second-order spiritual fire was destined to be slow.

But he was not idle.

While swallowing pills to refine and improve his cultivation, he also took out the Azure Phoenix Furnace to refine Body Tempering Pills.

He also had to explore Ji Changsheng's memories and learn some spells and techniques.

Chen Ping currently had too few and too weak offensive methods.

Soon, Chen Ping found a third-order sword technique in Ji Changsheng's memory.

Named 'Meta-Weight · Azure Lotus Sword!'

This was a sword technique much more powerful than the Four Seasons Sword Technique.

Its offensive power was extremely fierce. After Ji Changsheng seized Li Jizong's body, it was because of this sword technique that he was able to protect himself after being expelled from the sect and came to this Cloud Ice Mountain to eke out a living.

Cultivating this Azure Lotus Sword to great success, with the body of a Foundation Establishment cultivator, could actually withstand a blow from a Golden Core cultivator.

This was too powerful, as expected of a technique chosen by Ji Changsheng, a Golden Core expert.

"And this 'Five Ghost Sky Net Escape'! By burning精blood essence, you can fly three thousand miles in an hour!"

"This is much faster than the White Jade Flying Boat and is an excellent life-saving method!"

Apart from this, there was nothing else worth learning from Ji Changsheng's memory techniques.

More of the memories were to broaden Chen Ping's horizons.

Mainly because this guy spent a lot of time messing with women, going everywhere and messing with them, with many memories of enjoying himself in bed with various women.

"…" Chen Ping's mouth twitched.

This person had an extraordinary background and top-notch talent. Wherever he went, he was admired and feared.

Countless female cultivators wanted to climb onto his thighs.

After hundreds of years of unrestrained life, he fell into Chen Ping's hands, which served him right.

There were many such people in the Mu family, and Chen Ping was not surprised by this.

The delicate and charming Mu Huadie was willing to cling to a Foundation Establishment cultivator for resources, even though the other party was very old.

The monotonous days began.

Chen Ping repeated these things every day.

……

One year later.

At the foot of Cloud Ice Mountain.

In a secluded and luxurious dojo, sat a handsome young Taoist with a clear and sharp aura.

Outside, heavy snow was falling, and the wind was howling.

"Twenty-eight years old…"

Chen Ping slowly opened his eyes, revealing joy: "This Azure Lotus Sword is finally completed."

"But I didn't expect that cultivating the Azure Lotus Sword actually has the effect of tempering the body and bones."

The Azure Lotus Sword Technique was extremely sharp. It required refining one's own spiritual power into sword essence and storing it in the dantian, which was a trump card.

The Azure Lotus Sword Essence was incomparably sharp and required a large amount of spiritual power to refine, which was a continuous benefit for Chen Ping, further purifying his spiritual power.

Moreover, once the Azure Lotus Sword Essence was successfully refined, it was not in a gaseous or misty state, but in a liquid state!

Liquid state at the Foundation Establishment stage!

This would give him an extra life-saving method when facing Foundation Establishment cultivators in the future.

And he was not a Foundation Establishment cultivator, so this liquid Azure Lotus Sword Essence actually nourished Chen Ping's body and began to automatically temper his body and bones.

"Ji Changsheng's memory did not mention this because he enjoyed top-level resources from birth and had the best medicinal baths to temper his bones and flesh."

"Otherwise, with his nightly revelry, his body would have collapsed long ago, let alone stepping into the Golden Core stage."

Chen Ping did not have such treatment and therefore discovered that the Azure Lotus Sword Essence had a body-tempering effect.

"Ying ying ying." The brocade-haired treasure-seeking mink held a snow lotus from the Ice Mountain and placed it in front of Chen Ping, whimpering a few times, wanting spirit beast meat to eat.

This guy had brought back a lot of spiritual materials and ice silkworm silk to Chen Ping in the Cloud Ice Mountains over the past year, but Chen Ping couldn't use any of them.

"The medicinal materials can be taken back to White Sand Square City for Fellow Daoist Zhou Ying to buy and exchange for money, and this ice silkworm silk can be given to Senior Sister Luo Fei as a gift, whether she uses it to weave socks or clothes, it's a good gift."

Chen Ping picked up the snow lotus in front of him, his eyes lit up: "This is… a main ingredient for the Facial Preservation Pill."

The Facial Preservation Pill, the most expensive pill among the first-order pills. Taking one pill can keep one's appearance youthful for ten years.

It was a great weapon for some older female cultivators and had once sold for a sky-high price of five hundred spirit stones per pill at a black market auction.

Chen Ping had also thought about refining the Facial Preservation Pill, but the materials for this thing were too difficult to find, and a Qi Refining cultivator like him could not collect them all.

Chen Ping touched the treasure-seeking mink's head: "Brother Mink, I don't have any spirit beast meat on me for the time being. I've eaten it all up in the past year."

"But don't be angry, I'm about to finish my business here and leave."

"When I get back home, I'll give you double the spirit beast meat, how about that?"

"Ying ying." The treasure-seeking mink agreed with dissatisfaction.

This little guy had eaten so much spirit beast meat that it was about to gradually give birth to demon power, and recently was the critical period.