Nine Evolutions of the True Spirit

Chapter 305: Health Prosper Pellet

Lu Ping briefly glanced at the pellet recipes, discovering that they were both Core Forging Realm pellets, one Mid and one Late Core Forging Realm. There were also about 70 pieces of 1,000-year spirit herbs, and almost 30 pieces of 3,000-year spirit herbs. Among the spirit herbs, there was a Stone Ridge Grass and Blood Decay Flower.

Lu Ping didn’t refuse and happily kept them in his interspatial ring. He smiled, and said, "Junior uncle, don’t worry, your investment will likely not be necessary. I’m sure that by the time I can concoct Late Core Forging Realm pellets, you will already be in the Avatar Realm and won’t want my pellets. If you want pellets at that time, you will have to go and look for the only Grandmaster Alchemist in the sect, Great Ancestor Tian-Lu."

When Zhu Xuan-Meng heard Lu Ping mention Great Ancestor Tian-Lu, she suddenly looked at Lu Ping, only to see him returning her stare. The two of them clearly understood something from each other’s eyes but they didn’t say anything.

Liang Xuan-Feng naturally noticed their reactions, and his eyes flashed with a trace of worry, but he too kept quiet and didn’t say anything.

After that, Lu Ping continued, "Junior uncle, I will excuse myself and go work on the Health Prosper Pellet. No matter what, I think we should give it a try, who knows, we might actually succeed. When junior uncle becomes a Great Ancestor, please don’t forget about my contributions."

Liang Xuan-Feng laughed, "Do you still need my protection? Your teacher will become a Great Ancestor in no time, you should be finding a good congratulatory gift and ask for her protection instead of mine."

…

In another room, Lu Ping asked the others not to disturb him and entered the spatial dimension in the Golden House. Initially, Chu Ting wanted to lend him her high-grade cauldron and spirit fire, but Lu Ping politely declined and instead asked for some of her black dust that could enhance fire.

In the Golden House’s spatial dimension, on the summit of the lone mountain, Lu Ping had built a small hut. Above the hut, Lu Qin and Luan Yu were both flying happily and playing in the sky, the snake trio were playing in the bushes, and Dabao had disappeared long ago to build his underground empire. Only Dagui was faithfully guarding the place, resting comfortably in the spirit pool beside the hut.

Some distance away, on the peach tree, Lu Qin and Luan Yu had created their nests on the tree. The peach tree monster was getting stronger; despite cultivating based on instincts, it was already in the Late Blood Condensation Realm. However, Lu Ping still hadn’t found a suitable cultivation method for flora cultivators.

The black dust from Chu Ting was actually a Grade 2 top-grade spirit wood that had been charred and then grinded down to a powder. This powder was exceptionally good at enhancing fire, making it very helpful in alchemy. In the Alchemy Conference, Luan Yu had once used something similar.

Lu Ping looked at the peach tree, and then took out two peach tree branches from his interspatial ring. Due to the Psycho Wood’s influence, the peach tree’s branches had become Grade 2 top-grade spirit woods. A smith could use them to make excellent mystic instruments, so it was actually slightly wasteful to make them into powder to enhance his alchemy fire.

However, Lu Ping thought it was worth it if he used them for an important cauldron of medicinal pellets.

This time, Lu Ping was truly giving his all, using the Azure Spirit Fire, River Inclusion Cauldron, Amethyst Bee Royal Jelly, and high-grade spirit stones. The spirit herbs were only enough for two cauldrons, and Liang Xuan-Feng could only suppress his injuries for six more days before permanent damage was done to his cultivation foundation. Furthermore, six days was how long it would take Lu Ping to make two cauldrons, so there was no point in preparing a third cauldron of spirit herbs.

There wasn’t enough time or chances, so Lu Ping would just have to take a leap of faith. As long as he could concoct one pellet, Liang Xuan-Feng’s injuries would be healed.

If any other alchemists knew he was gambling two cauldrons of such precious spirit herbs for just one pellet, they would’ve coughed blood and cursed him to death. However, Lu Ping clearly didn’t think that these spirit herbs were more precious than Liang Xuan-Feng’s future.

This time, Lu Ping used the pestle mystic treasure and carefully prepared the spirit herbs. Then, he summoned the Azure Spirit Fire, but as the fire wasn’t strong enough due to his water-element true energy, Lu Ping added the powders to enhance it.

As usual, the spirit purification technique was effective, and he was able to extract the full medicinal efficacy from the spirit herbs. Everything went smoothly up until the final step of condensing the medicinal paste into pellets. This step required a large burst of true energy within a short time frame. Although Lu Ping’s true energy was thick and abundant, producing a massive amount of true energy for alchemy was still an issue.

Even after using the [Spirit Explosion Technique] and releasing the spiritual energy from three high-grade spirit stones, the pellet condensation still failed.

Lu Ping was undeterred as he had already expected to fail his first attempt. The Health Prosper Pellet was too difficult for his current level, hence, failing was normal, and success was a fluke.

Lu Ping recovered his true energy while recalling the entire concocting process. He adjusted his mental state and then started the second attempt.

This time, he mobilized all of his true energy and transformed it to be suitable for alchemy. Although a large amount of true energy was wasted, he was unmoved as the true energy in his body rapidly drained.

On top of that, he used six high-grade spirit stones, leaving him with only two left.

In the end, the medicinal paste was enough to condense four pellets, but after seeing that there wasn’t enough spiritual energy, Lu Ping decisively gave up on two of them, only focusing on condensing two pellets.

At the same time, his divine revelation controlled two drops of Amethyst Bee Royal Jelly, adding one drop to each of the pellets. His divine revelation wrapped around the consolidating pellets, ready for the final step, awakening the spirituality of the pellets.

In the Core Forging Realm, every pellet had its own spirituality. The better the pellet, the stronger the spirituality, and the harder it was to awaken it and successfully concoct the pellet. Even with Lu Ping’s true energy and divine revelation being no weaker than the Mid Core Forging Realm Enlightened Masters, he still struggled to supply the amount of energy needed.

Naturally, one of the reasons was also because he had no experience in alchemy at this level, causing him to waste a lot of energy during the concocting process.

As his divine revelation and true energy was being exhausted, his face turned paler, cold sweat soaked his back, and he even started to feel dizzy.

Lu Ping reluctantly gritted his teeth and shattered one of the condensing medicinal pellets, immediately relieving the burden on his divine revelation. Then, Lu Ping endured the discomfort caused by the massive consumption, and opened the cauldron with a wave of his hand.

Like a bird let out of a cage, a golden pellet flew outside. Lu Ping intended to use his divine revelation to capture the pellet, but a strong headache suddenly struck him, leaving him with power left to stop its escape.

The Health Prosper Pellet was a half-step Avatar Realm pellet that had a strong spirituality making it intuitively want to escape for freedom. However, these pellets were unable to cultivate, so their spiritualities would eventually fade and they would end up losing their medicinal efficacy.

Just as the alchemy was going to fail in such an ironic way, the pellet suddenly flew into the mouth of a jade bottle.

Then, the door of the hut opened, and Luan Yu’s shy face appeared. After looking at Lu Ping’s happy and relieved face, Luan Yu laughed, and asked, "If I hadn’t been attracted by the sounds of your alchemy, would you have succeeded or failed this time?"

Lu Ping had just gotten rid of his headache but he was still feeling drowsy. After hearing Luan Yu’s question, he felt weird. He had calculated all the difficulties that he might have encountered and prepared for all them, but he had missed the simplest thing.

If the pellet flew away because of his inability to collect it, he would be the biggest joke in the alchemy world.

"I didn’t expect that your alchemy had actually reached this level"

The shy Luan Yu didn’t continue to tease Lu Ping, and admitted Lu Ping’s alchemy to be superior to him and sighed.

Lu Ping recovered some of his divine revelation. Although his face was still pale, he had finally recovered. He looked at Luan Yu who remained outside the door, with only his head inside the hut, and asked in a good-natured way, "Why don’t you come in and talk?"

"These are the alchemist’s rules," Luan Yu finally walked in, and said, "Without consent, no one should enter the alchemy room. Didn’t you know about this, or did you forget? I was afraid that you would beat me to death if I entered recklessly."

…

When Lu Ping appeared in front of Liang Xuan-Feng with a pale face, Liang Xuan-Feng had several jade scrolls in front of him and was leisurely reading one of them. Zhu Xuan Meng and Chu Ting saw Lu Ping’s face and immediately thought that he had failed, so their expressions suddenly darkened.

"Oh, the kid is here!" Liang Xuan-Feng was happy to see Lu Ping, and said, "Come here, the adventure to Chong Xuan’s dojo was very fruitful, look what we obtained. Here, read these jade scrolls, you’ll definitely thank me."

Lu Ping saw Liang Xuan-Feng’s calm and undisturbed demeanor, and sighed, thinking that he wouldn’t be able to attain his junior martial uncle’s frame of mind anytime soon. If he was in Liang Xuan-Feng’s position, he would definitely have resented Chu Ting and Zhu Xuan-Meng.

Lu Ping reached out to hand Liang Xuan-Feng a jade bottle, and said, "Uncle, I only managed to concoct one pellet."

Editor: Immortal BloodRogue