Nine Evolutions of the True Spirit - Chapter 270

NETS – Chapter 270 – Qian Yuan Immortal Land

This time, Great Ancestor Hong Ye’s aura only appeared for a split second—its oppressive strength wasn’t as potent as before.

Just as the cultivators were wondering what the Great Ancestor was intending, they suddenly noticed that the entire Qian Yuan Great Hall had disappeared. Instead, the hall had turned into a huge white cloud in the sky, resembling a floating fairy land.

Enlightened Master Ji Ya-Kong opened her eyes and looked around in surprise. “Is this the Northern League’s Qian Yuan Immortal Land? How unexpected, the grandiose Qian Yuan Great Hall is actually a spatial mystic treasure.”

With a laugh, Enlightened Master Qin praised, “Enlightened Master Ji, what amazing eyesight. Indeed, Qian Yuan Great Hall is the spatial mystic treasure that contains our Qian Yuan Immortal Land.”

The other Enlightened Masters were shocked at this admission, and they quickly spread out their divine revelation and inspected the area.

Lu Ping was also dumbfounded by the Northern League’s profound heritage; he couldn’t help making comparisons with the Zhen Ling Sect. He was confident that the Zhen Ling Sect possessed a similar heritage, but the fact that the Northern League would magnanimously reveal theirs to the public—and even bringing in other cultivators—was a clear display of their self-confidence and affirmation of strength.

Great Ancestor Hong Ye waved his hand in the air and 128 puffs of white clouds flew down from the sky, slowly landing in front of the alchemists.

Enlightened Master Qin smiled at the Enlightened Masters of the other four major sects and asked, “Would you like your disciples to join us?”

With a laugh, Enlightened Master Kun Shan and the others replied, “We are glad to accept your invitation!”

Lu Ping was about to step on the white cloud in front of him when he heard the Enlightened Masters laughing. Their accompanying disciples then stepped on the white clouds that flew towards them.

At this time, the young disciple standing beside Enlightened Master Qin stepped up and said, “Teacher, I too wish to join them and compete with the elite Alchemists from the East Ocean sects.”

Enlightened Master Kun Shan and others were shocked anew when they noticed that the young man was not addressing Enlightened Master Qin, but Great Ancestor Hong Ye!

The young man was only a Blood Condensation Realm Alchemist, which was normally far from being qualified to be a Great Ancestor’s direct disciple. Hence, he must either be Great Ancestor Hong Ye’s descendant, or someone truly talented to make him an exception.

As the young man flew out on the white cloud, Enlightened Master Feng Lian-Ying couldn’t help but ask Enlightened Master Qin, “I didn’t expect this little junior brother would be the Great Ancestor’s disciple. He must be exceedingly gifted, and perhaps received the Great Ancestor’s heritage?”

Enlightened Master Qin nodded with a sigh. “Brother Zhou is a rare alchemical genius in the Northern League. If not for his low cultivation base, he would have become a Master Alchemist in a matter of months. I am afraid that even I, his senior brother, will soon be surpassed.”

When the Enlightened Masters of the four major sects heard that, their faces changed slightly, all immersed in their own thoughts.

Enlightened Master Kun Shan laughed and said, “It seems that this Junior Brother Zhou Chuang will be taking the top spot in the Alchemy Conference.”

Enlightened Master Qin glanced at him and said, “Enlightened Master Kun Shan must be joking. I believe that Crystal Palace, Violet Charm Pavilion, Thunderous Wind Island and Sky Cleaving Sword Sect are also sending out their most outstanding young alchemists.

“Not to mention, I heard that the alchemist who came with Enlightened Master Kun Shan this time is Crystal Palace’s most talented genius, Alchemist Ning Shi-Ze. I heard that he’s received a lot of guidance from Great Ancestor Lian Shan, he’s practically his direct disciple. I believe his alchemy is not inferior to Junior Brother Zhou.”

Enlightened Master Kun Shan’s expression flickered and he forced out a smile. “I didn’t expect Nephew Ning’s fame to spread this far, even those in the Northern League have heard of him. ”

Chuckling, Enlightened Master Qin replied, “There are countless talented alchemists in the cultivation world. Junior Brother Zhou and your Crystal Palace’s Ning Shi-Ze might be rare alchemical geniuses, but they’re hardly unparalleled. Not just from major sects like us, but even commoners may unearth an alchemical genius. For instance, I’ve heard that two alchemists have already entered into a Bet of Cauldron recently.”

While Enlightened Master Qin was busy explaining the incident that led to the Bet of Cauldron to the other Enlightened Masters, Lu Ping had already stepped onto the white cloud.

Despite its wispy appearance, it felt as solid as the ground when he stepped on it. He injected his arcane energy into the white cloud and refined it. After taking control of the cloud, Lu Ping flew away from the huge central cloud and hovered in the sky.

As Lu Ping maintained a certain distance from the other white clouds, he heard Enlightened Master Qin’s voice speak up from the central cloud. “The first stage of the Alchemy Conference is for all alchemists to refine medicinal pellets according to the recipe. You must do this in the shortest possible time, with the highest possible success rate, and the greatest possible quality.”

Lu Ping turned around and saw white fog suddenly rise from his cloud. The fog surrounded him and formed an obscure room that prevented others from seeing the interior clearly. Then, a cloud table rose up in the center of the room. On the table lay a jade scroll and an interspatial pouch.

Lu Ping took the jade scroll and reached inside with his divine revelation. Tthe jade scroll contained three pellet recipes: Soft Jade Pellet, Warm Jade Pellet, and Rhino Jade Pellet. Lu Ping read the recipes carefully, then checked the contents of the interspatial pouch. Sure enough, it contained a cauldron of spirit herbs for each of the three pellets.

Soft Jade Pellet, Warm jade Pellet, and Rhino jade Pellet were Late Blood Condensation Realm medicinal pellets collectively known as the Three Jade Pellets. They were relatively difficult to concoct compared to other Late Blood Condensation Realm pellets.

Lu Ping had wished to learn them, but couldn’t find the recipes before this. So it was truly a surprise to obtain them here.

Aside from honing their alchemy skills, alchemists needed to concoct different types of pellets to ensure their cultivation progressed. Repeated consumption of the same pellets would lower the pellets’ efficacies, so different pellets were always needed.

Thus, alchemists were always in search of new pellet recipes.

In the cultivation world, no one could progress smoothly without the aid of medicinal pellets, and no alchemists had become Master Alchemists just by mastering one medicinal pellet.

Unfortunately, Lu Ping wasn’t very lucky, these pellets weren’t the kind he was familiar with. At times like this, it really showed how lacking his alchemy accumulation was.

Not far away, the alchemists that represented Wang Clan, Zhang Clan, and Shangguan Clan settled around him.

Representing the Wang Clan was Crystal Palace’s Senior Martial Brother Qi.

Representing the Zhang Clan was Enlightened Master Qin’s disciple, Senior Martial Brother Ye.

Representing the Shangguan Clan was Yue Jiang-Rui.

Yue Jiang-Rui smiled after taking a brief look at the contents of the jade scroll. Then, he picked out a cauldron of spirit herbs from the interspatial pouch.

He looked up and found that Lu Ping was still reading the pellet recipe, and he immediately sneered coldly.

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