Immortality begins with inheriting the myriad arts of cultivation.

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Watching Wei Yiling leave.

Li Ping paused for a long time, but in the end he could only sigh.

Instead of rushing back to the training room to cultivate the True Phoenix Elixir, his gaze fell on a corner of the courtyard.

There, the three spirit beasts, the Wildfire Sparrow, the Earth Spirit Rat, and the Earth Rock Python, each occupied a territory to rest.

Naturally, the Wildfire Sparrow had the largest territory, followed by the Earth Spirit Rat, while the Earth Rock Python cowered in a corner, trembling with fear.

This was exactly what Li Ping had expected.

The order of breaking through the bottleneck should be: Earth Spirit Rat breaks through to the third rank, Wildfire Sparrow breaks through to the middle stage of the third rank, and he himself breaks through to the middle stage of Core Formation.

However, everything changed after obtaining the True Phoenix Pill Essence from Wei Yiling's body.

Once he has spent some time refining all the energy within the True Phoenix Pill, he should be able to successfully break through to the mid-stage of Core Formation.

In other words, he will take a shortcut and break through before the two spirit beasts.

However, he only sighed slightly before clearing his mind of many thoughts. In fact, he was not concerned about the three spirit beasts that lived on the ground, but rather about the underground part.

Since successfully inheriting the fourth-tier corpse refiner technique three years ago, he went to the black market to buy a large number of auxiliary items and used the remaining liter of extreme yin energy to re-refine the two bronze corpses that Wei Yiling brought back.

After doing all this, he separated two strands of his divine sense and placed them into the two bronze corpses respectively. He then secretly buried the two corpses underground to absorb the earth's malevolent energy to nourish their bodies.

However, Lingxiao City is not a place filled with yin energy, so the two corpses' progress in raising the corpse is quite slow.

Three years have passed, and Li Ping's divided soul can only control the two corpses to perform simple actions.

If one wants to manipulate a corpse as smoothly as a puppet, given the local climate, it might take hundreds of years to nurture the corpse.

Of course, he could also go outside the city to find a place with abundant yin energy and place the two corpses there to nurture, which would likely greatly accelerate the formation of their combat power.

He has this plan, but not now.

After all, the fourth-tier corpse king that Ye Xu transformed into after his death might still be outside Lingxiao City.

Although he didn't warn anyone when he had the idea to leave the city, Li Ping also didn't intend to take any risks.

The Nine Tribulations True Spirit Holy Scripture, a third-tier body refinement technique, granted him a lifespan 50% longer than other cultivators of the same tier. This longevity gave him ample patience, so he didn't need to rush things.

"Twenty years, let's wait another twenty years before we talk about it."

Twenty years is enough time for him to remove the Soul-Devouring Restriction from Wei Yiling's soul.

Meng Wanjun, Earth Spirit Rat, and Wildfire Sparrow will also break through one after another.

And presumably, after so much time has passed, the fourth-tier corpse king should have given up on the idea of ​​lying in wait, or obediently left, or found another way.

After he leaves the city and settles the place for raising corpses, he can go to the East Sea to find an unclaimed third-tier high-grade spiritual vein inheritance array.

The two things happened to coincide, so we resolved them together.

Li Ping checked the illusion array used to hide the two corpses and found that everything was intact. He then smiled and nodded before returning to the training room to refine the True Phoenix Elixir within his body.

……

One year later, in the training room.

Li Ping smiled and opened his eyes; he had already successfully refined the True Phoenix Elixir.

After successfully refining the True Phoenix Pill Essence, the aura emanating from him had already reached the mid-stage of Core Formation.

At this moment, the golden pill refined by the "Nine Tribulations True Spirit Holy Scripture" in his dantian was still only the size of a grain of rice, but the golden pill refined by the "Zeshui Nourishing Life Technique" had already reached the size of a pigeon egg.

The changes in the size of the golden core represent the growth of his accumulated magical power.

His current total mana has more than doubled compared to when he was in the early stage of Core Formation.

The significant increase in his magical power indicates a substantial improvement in his ability to sustain combat, giving him more leeway when engaging in magical duels and maneuvering against enemies.

In addition to the total amount of magical power, the amount of magical power he can mobilize at one time is also greatly increased after the Golden Core grows larger.

Finally, there is the divine consciousness.

An ordinary cultivator in the early stage of Core Formation can only have their divine sense cover a range of one thousand feet. However, by the middle stage of Core Formation, the range of their divine sense will double to two thousand feet.

Li Ping's divine sense was naturally 50% stronger than that of other cultivators of the same level. Later, he cultivated the "Myriad Spirits Divine Technique" to the fifth level, which doubled his divine sense strength again, making it three times stronger than that of other cultivators of the same level!

Even in the early stages of Core Formation, his spiritual sense was stronger than that of an ordinary mid-stage Core Formation cultivator.

Now that he has broken through to the mid-stage of Core Formation, the range of his divine sense has reached six thousand feet, a full thirty-six miles, which is fifty percent stronger than that of a late-stage Core Formation cultivator.

With the increased magical power and spiritual strength that could be activated at once, Li Ping's combat power naturally also increased significantly.

He anticipated that after advancing to the mid-stage, he would be able to unleash the greater power of his magic weapon. Relying on the unique properties of the magic weapon "Dragon-Slaying Guillotine," he might be able to fight against late-stage Core Formation cultivators without being at a disadvantage.

Li Ping was in high spirits: "At that time, I might be able to deal with late-stage Core Formation cultivators by using a siege tactic."

……

I pushed open the door and walked into the courtyard.

Meng Wanjun was feeding the three spirit beasts. In fact, given the current level of the Wildfire Sparrow and the Earth Spirit Rat, they no longer needed spirit food and were more interested in satisfying their appetites.

"Good baby!"

"Bad baby!"

……

"Cough cough~"

Seeing Meng Wanjun enjoying herself, Li Ping coughed twice, and Meng Wanjun immediately turned her head to look at him.

Upon seeing that it was him who had emerged from seclusion, Meng Wanjun couldn't help but show joy on her face. When she sensed the change in the aura and pressure emanating from Li Ping, she exclaimed in surprise, "Young Master, you have broken through!"

No wonder she was surprised; compared to when she met the young master last year, she clearly sensed that his aura had become much stronger now.

Can such results be achieved in just one year of practice?

Li Ping smiled and nodded: "That's right, I have indeed made a breakthrough."

"Congratulations on your advancement in the path of immortality, young master," Meng Wanjun quickly congratulated him with a smile.

Although she didn't know why the young master's cultivation had suddenly improved so much, she and the young master were one, so she was naturally happy that the young master had broken through his realm.

"Wow! Li Ping, you've leveled up."

Just then, a voice with a hint of yin and yang came from outside the courtyard; it was Wei Yiling, who had just arrived.

As she spoke, she glanced at Meng Wanjun, but her gaze eventually settled on Li Ping.

Upon seeing her appear, Li Ping calmly said, "I must thank Fellow Daoist Wei for making this possible."

"I will grant your wish..."

Upon hearing this, and recalling the scene of herself begging for mercy that day, Wei Yiling's face instantly flushed red.

Meng Wanjun looked at Wei Yiling warily. With her woman's intuition, she could sense that Senior Wei's attitude towards the young master was a little strange.

"Could it be..." The thought struck her like a thunderbolt.

Li Ping smiled and invited, "Fellow Daoist Wei, let's sit down in the pavilion and talk."

Since Feng Xishuang had already resolved the Soul Devouring Forbiddenness issue, only Wei Yiling came to visit him this time.

At the same time, he instructed Meng Wanjun, "Wanjun, go and brew a cup of spiritual tea for Fellow Daoist Wei."

"I made tea for her?!"