Immortality begins with inheriting the myriad arts of cultivation.

More than ten days later.

Inside the cave on Immortal Peach Mountain, Li Ping hovered dozens of feet in the air, looking down below.

After more than ten days of busy work by Bai Lin, all the exotic flowers and plants planted in the cave had been cleared away and turned into fertilizer for the ground.

The entire courtyard looks bare, a far cry from its former beauty.

After doing all this, Bai Lin reported to him this morning and left Immortal Peach Mountain to find Cheng Yao and ask her to accompany her to the market to buy medicinal herb seeds.

Now, he is the only one in the cave.

Taking this opportunity, Li Ping could test the power of his newly mastered "Bloodwing Escape Technique".

……

Taking a deep breath, Li Ping immediately used his escape technique.

"Crunch crunch~"

An unpleasant sound suddenly filled the air.

With the sound, two large bulges quickly appeared under Li Ping's ribs, as if something was about to crawl out from them.

Despite being a Foundation Establishment cultivator, large beads of sweat continued to pour from Li Ping's forehead due to the intense pain.

The two large lumps on his ribs and back continued to grow, until finally his skin was almost reduced to a thin layer of blood membrane, through which one could vaguely see a pair of crystal-clear, jade-like blood wings that were constantly extending.

"Sizzle~"

A sound like tearing cloth rang out, and the pair of blood wings finally broke through the skin and emerged from Li Ping's body.

……

"This is the Bloodwing?" Li Ping stroked the enormous bloodwing that stretched out behind him, a full ten feet wide.

Just by allowing those blood wings to grow, Li Ping could feel that he had lost several years of his life essence.

The demonic art of creation is so cruel!

Feeling that the essence of life was still constantly slipping away, Li Ping dared not delay any longer.

"brush!"

Bloodwing flapped slightly, instantly stirring up a gust of wind!

next moment.

Li Ping's figure had already disappeared. Only a faint line of blood could be seen shooting out at a terrifying speed in the sky, constantly shifting and moving within a thousand acres!

The air was immediately filled with the stench of blood.

……

Li Ping had to stop after using the "Bloodwing Escape Technique" for only a short while.

Through his experiments, he found that this escape technique was indeed incredibly fast. It wasn't just useful for escaping; it was also very useful in combat. The extremely high movement speed within a small area made it virtually impossible for enemies to defend against.

However, Li Ping would not use this escape technique in battle.

After all, why risk fighting when you can escape?

The Bloodwing Escape Technique boasts astonishing speed, but at the same time, its consumption of one's lifespan is truly frightening.

Just a short while after using it, Li Ping felt that he had lost at least several decades of his lifespan, and many white strands had appeared in his full head of black hair!

Fortunately, during this period of rest, he could feel his depleted essence slowly recovering under the nourishment of the Nourishing Life Technique.

He couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, recovering from the immense panic of losing his lifespan.

Li Ping would never have practiced such a deadly spell without the protective power of the Nourishing Life Technique.

He cultivates immortality for the sake of longevity; who would complain about having too long a life?

But when he thought about how he now had a secret technique for self-defense, which would allow him to escape even if he were chased by a Core Formation cultivator in the future, a smile couldn't help but appear on his lips.

……

Two months later, Li Ping's losses had been fully recovered.

He also refined more than a dozen portions of the spiritual herbs in his storage bag into pills.

His alchemy skills are only at the first-grade superior level. Of course, with the blessing of the inheritance tree, his success rate in refining first-grade superior pills is 100%, which is far beyond what ordinary first-grade superior alchemists can achieve.

However, due to the limitations of his skill level, refining Qi-Nourishing Pills was not as simple as refining Qi-Boosting Pills.

Even with his extraordinary talent, it would take him several days to successfully refine a single batch of Qi-Nourishing Pills.

He originally intended to continue his seclusion and refine all the spiritual herbs into pills, but Bai Lin reminded him that someone had come to visit.

Li Ping had no choice but to temporarily abandon alchemy and come out to meet the guests.

……

In the pavilions and towers of the courtyard.

Li Ping greeted the visitor with a smile. The man who came to visit him was over sixty years old, short and stout, with a slightly tanned face and long white hair that fell to his shoulders.

It was his good neighbor, Master Hu Feng.

A moment later, Bai Lin served the two of them spiritual tea. Upon seeing Bai Lin's appearance, Master Hu smiled mischievously and said, "Fellow Daoist Li is quite fortunate."

Li Ping smiled and introduced him, "Berlin is my housekeeper."

Over the past two months, Bai Lin's performance has been quite satisfactory to him. Although she is a bit clumsy due to her youth, she is very simple-minded and not the kind of person who likes to cause trouble. He has decided to keep her.

However, he had been busy refining pills and restoring his original essence during this time, and had not had time to tell Bai Lin about it.

"Well, it's our first meeting, so I can't be stingy." As Master Hu spoke, he smiled and took out a palm-sized cyan jade bottle from his storage bag: "Young friend Bai, here is a bottle of beauty-preserving pills, which can help female cultivators maintain their youthful appearance. I'll give it to you as a gift."

"Huh?" Bai Lin was caught off guard.

Li Ping smiled and said, "Since it's from Master Hu, you should accept it."

In Li Ping's eyes, the Beauty Elixir was somewhat like the skincare product from his previous life. After taking it, it could help delay the aging of one's appearance. The value of a bottle was even higher than that of the Qi Nourishing Elixir, which could enhance a cultivator's cultivation level.

However, those who are obsessed with the beauty pills and willing to spend high prices to buy them are mainly older female cultivators like Meng Qingyi.

Young female cultivators like Bai Lin are in the prime of their lives, their natural beauty as radiant as the morning glow reflected in snow, even without makeup. They have no need to worry about aging or their appearance, and therefore don't actively seek out elixirs or similar remedies.

She genuinely didn't understand the value of a bottle of beauty-enhancing pills; she probably thought it was just some trinket worth a few spirit stones.

Upon hearing Li Ping's instructions, Bai Lin accepted the beauty pill in a daze. She didn't forget to express her gratitude, bowing slightly and saying, "Thank you, Master Hu."

Li Ping smiled and waved his hand, "Alright, you can go ahead and get busy."

……

After Bailin left.

As the two chatted, they unknowingly started talking about how Li Ping had visited Master Hu, only to be interrupted by the Wang family patriarch.

"That day he asked me to refine Foundation Establishment Pills, and I did a good job, refining two for him." Master Hu shook his head as he spoke of this: "I later heard that his descendants took two Foundation Establishment Pills in succession to attempt to establish their foundations, but both failed, wasting those two pills. It's such a pity."

"Oh? Even after all that failed, there's still this good thing." Upon hearing this, Li Ping was overjoyed.

The Wang family patriarch set a trap to steal his spirit stones, and now his descendants are trying to break through to the Foundation Establishment stage, but they have wasted two Foundation Establishment Pills and still haven't succeeded.

What is instant karma? It comes quickly!

Li Ping was overjoyed, but his expression remained unchanged. He simply echoed Master Hu's sentiments, lamenting the wasted two Foundation Establishment Pills.

"By the way, Fellow Daoist Li," Master Hu suddenly said mysteriously, "the reason I came here is actually to invite you to join me in seizing a great opportunity."