Immortality begins with inheriting the myriad arts of cultivation.

He devoted himself to seclusion and rigorous self-cultivation.

Two years have passed in the blink of an eye.

Li Ping stood in the courtyard, and the thought of going out had just crossed his mind when his intuition began to pound wildly, warning him.

Clearly, the threat outside Lingxiao City is still lurking there.

"Sigh!" Li Ping couldn't help but sigh, "What grudge does a Nascent Soul cultivator have against me, wasting all his time waiting outside the city for me?"

He was completely unaware of the true identity of the person he was staking out, or what he had done to offend that person.

Thinking about this, Li Ping's originally good mood turned sour.

After clearing the border, as usual, he first went to Caibaixuan to deal with the backlog of second-hand magical artifacts there.

The longer the grand auction has passed, the more Lingxiao City's popularity has declined, and now Caibaixuan receives fewer and fewer second-hand magical artifacts each year.

After inspecting them, he found that these secondhand magical artifacts were not very useful, and while he was disappointed, he wasn't too surprised.

After all, there aren't many skills he's willing to spend the effort to collect and pass on.

Therefore, the only useful things for him are second-hand magical artifacts that embody these few techniques.

Furthermore, he has already reached a very high level of expertise in alchemy, artifact crafting, talismans, and arrays. If the skill level of a second-hand magical artifact is too low, it will be of no use to him.

After making that selection...

Having been in the Great Zhou for over twenty years, he has managed to collect four useful secondhand magical artifacts, including two fourth-tier skills, which can be considered extremely lucky.

Unfortunately, for various reasons, he has not been able to acquire most of these inheritances.

After handing the appraised secondhand magical artifact to the beaming Chu Xiu, Li Ping left the market and flew towards the black market.

Half a day later, he returned to his riverside cave with a slight sense of disappointment.

This trip to the black market to acquire extreme Yin energy also yielded no results.

Although the Three Elders of Lingxiao are independent cultivators, their style of doing things is actually more inclined towards the righteous path. Therefore, there are very few demonic cultivators and ghost cultivators living in the city, and the trading of related cultivation resources in the black market is also pitifully scarce.

"By the way, it's been two years since Wei Yiling and Feng Xishuang went to Beiman Mountain to carry out the Datong Society's mission. If everything went smoothly, they should be returning soon!"

Standing in the courtyard, Li Ping unconsciously thought of this matter again.

Before the two set off, he asked them to help him gather the extreme yin energy he needed.

"I hope you can give me a surprise!" he thought to himself.

……

Another year later.

When Li Ping emerged from seclusion, he was surprised to see Wei Yiling and Feng Xishuang waiting for him in the courtyard with smiles on their faces.

"Congratulations to both of you on completing your mission and returning safely!" Li Ping said with a smile.

Feng Xishuang quickly stood up, while Wei Yiling tossed a clear jade bottle in front of him, her face full of arrogance: "Here... four liters of the extreme Yin energy you wanted should be enough!"

Upon hearing this, Li Ping was taken aback for a moment, then reached out and took the jade bottle. After uncorking it, he probed the bottle with his divine sense.

The jade bottle contained a dark, malevolent aura. From time to time, ghost-face-like patterns would appear within the churning aura, roaring angrily at Li Ping's consciousness.

The moment his divine sense touched it, the aura of desolation and annihilation of all life rushed towards him, causing his divine sense to stagnate slightly and feel stiff.

This malevolent aura was the extremely yin energy he had been searching for for over ten years.

Although the jade bottle is only the size of a palm, it is actually engraved with a shrinking and weight-reducing restriction similar to a storage bag, and its internal space is quite large.

Li Ping estimated that the extremely yin energy was indeed at least four liters, just as Wei Yiling had said.

With so much Yin energy at his disposal, plus the Soul Refining Beads he had already purchased from the black market, he could inherit the fourth-tier Corpse Refiner's skills at any time if he wished.

Tighten the cap and put the jade bottle away.

Li Ping solemnly bowed to the two women: "Thank you both for finding the extreme Yin energy for me. I owe you both a favor for this."

"Tch, it's just a trivial matter, why talk about personal feelings!" Seeing his serious expression, Wei Yiling waved her hand dismissively.

But from the crescent-shaped corners of her eyes when she smiled, it was clear that she was very pleased with Li Ping's words of gratitude.

Li Ping shook his head: "As far as I know, extreme Yin energy is an excellent cultivation resource for those evil beings. You two must have gone through a fierce battle in the process of collecting extreme Yin energy. I should thank you both properly."

"No danger, no danger, just a few zombies. I'll take care of them..." Wei Yiling still had that arrogant, girlish look.

But before she could finish speaking, Feng Xishuang interrupted her with a sly smile: "Fellow Daoist Li, don't listen to Sister Yiling's boasting. The cave we discovered had two third-tier green bronze zombies and more than ten second-tier black iron zombies living and cultivating there. In such a gloomy place, dealing with a group of powerful zombies was something I didn't want to cause any trouble."

But Sister Yiling insisted on taking action to gather extreme Yin energy for you, Fellow Daoist Li. In the end, we expended a great deal of effort to successfully eliminate these zombies and extract all the extreme Yin energy produced in the cave. Sister Yiling was even injured in the process. If you want to express your gratitude, Fellow Daoist Li, you should thank Sister Yiling even more.

"I told you not to say it, you're so annoying..." Wei Yiling blushed with embarrassment at being exposed by Feng Xishuang for lying to Li Ping.

But in the face of her anger, Feng Xishuang just smiled and remained silent.

With her intelligence, she had long noticed Wei Yiling's inexplicable feelings for Li Ping. The reason she "deliberately" exposed Wei Yiling at this moment was actually to further bring the two closer together.

Of course, she could sense it too.

She actually had feelings for Li Ping as well, but she wouldn't compete with Sister Yi Ling.

Moreover, in her opinion, the main reason she had feelings for Li Ping was that he had treated her injuries.

Her goodwill was actually out of gratitude towards Li Ping, not love.

"In any case, I must thank you both."

Li Ping glanced at Wei Yiling, whose face was flushed, and then changed the subject: "Fellow Daoist Wei, you are injured. As an alchemist, I have also studied pharmacist techniques. Fellow Daoist Wei, please bring your hand here, and I will treat you!"

"Um."

Wei Yiling blushed and softly agreed, extending her tender, slender fingers towards Li Ping.

Li Ping nodded, raised his hand and grasped Wei Yiling's wrist. Strands of health-preserving magic power flowed along the skin and into her meridians, healing her internal injuries.

Her injuries were mainly caused by the zombie's evil energy. The green evil energy lingered in her body like a bone-deep sore, devouring her flesh and blood. However, under the power of the Nourishing Life Technique, all of this evil energy vanished into nothingness.

"Hmm!"

With her pain gone, Wei Yiling let out a comfortable groan through her nose.

Read Chapter 390, "Extreme Yin Qi and the Female Cultivator's Intentions," now to begin today's exciting chapter.