"The bigger the storm, the more valuable the fish!"
"It's just… I only want to Fish when the waters are calm."
Su Ping, who had at least experienced the washing of thousands of novels in the information age.
Combined with his twenty years of bitter cultivation experience in the Immortal Sect.
Su Ping had already envisioned a story where an Outer Sect Disciple, on an external mission, accidentally or deliberately fell into a trap!
Then, under the influence of evil Qi, he unwillingly became an evil Cultivator, and was eventually redeemed by himself.
And that evil Cultivation Technique Jade Slip was very likely deliberately sent out by the person who designed it!
Their goal was nothing more than to use the evil spirits to escalate the situation and muddy the waters!
Su Ping resolved the doubts in his heart and was about to return when he suddenly heard Zhou Xuan's conversation in the opposite room through the hearing of Ling Rat White, who was lie on the corner of the wall.
Zhou Xuan, the young Taoist Priest of East King Temple.
He hadn't had an easy time recently.
Because he had bought a large amount of white sugar and sensitive chemicals, he had to seek help from his family and teachers.
He finally managed to temporarily cover it up with a reason that sounded unreliable and looked unreliable, but was better than nothing… studying ancient Alchemy techniques.
However, this caused his parents and Enshi to start worrying about Zhou Xuan, Taoist Priest's mental state.
Enshi constantly warned Zhou Xuan that most ancient books on Alchemy were later fabrications by people who then falsely attributed them to their predecessors.
His parents, on the other hand, feared that Zhou Xuan had cultivated a Heart Demon by obsessing over the Dao, and hoped he could go home and rest for a while, preferably even go on a blind date.
They hoped he would adjust his mindset before deciding whether to continue being a Taoist Priest.
Zhou Xuan, who believed he had found the true Dao and was therefore correct, naturally did not listen to these admonitions.
But Su Ping disagreed, and Zhou Xuan did not dare or want to reveal his experiences during this period.
He was still waiting for the day when the grand vision painted by the enlightened Immortal would come true, allowing him to successfully cultivate to Immortality and then inadvertently shock everyone!
"Alright, Mom, I know what I'm doing!"
"Don't worry, I've had remote video calls with a psychiatrist, and they all said I haven't gone crazy!"
"Alright, that's it then."
Zhou Xuan, Taoist Priest waited for his mother to hang up first before putting down his phone.
Talking to his parents made Zhou Xuan, Taoist Priest feel more mentally exhausted than doing an afternoon's worth of Cultivation.
"Hmm?"
"Taoist Priest, you're back!"
Seeing Su Ping, who appeared like an Immortal from a painting, at the doorway, Zhou Xuan, Taoist Priest quickly bowed respectfully, his voice filled with unconcealed joy.
"You've worked hard these past few days. The white sugar and other items are temporarily sufficient."
"Ah!"
"Taoist Priest, did I do something wrong?"
Upon hearing that he no longer needed to buy white sugar, Zhou Xuan did not feel relieved but instead felt a chill run through him and became fearful.
Seeing Zhou Xuan's expression, Su Ping reached out and placed his hand on his shoulder, simultaneously sending a surge of magic power into his body to cleanse him.
While Zhou Xuan felt a warm sensation and his body relaxed again, Su Ping also ascertained the extent of improvement the Little Green Fish had brought to Zhou Xuan's body.
The situation was quite good.
The effects of the Little Green Fish were steadily manifesting.
The Spiritual Qi-less environment of Water Blue Star only prevented the extraordinary from creating something out of nothing and achieving great things with little effort.
It wouldn't, however, cause existing effects to dissipate.
"Don't get excited, it's just that we don't need white sugar for now."
"There are some other materials that I hope you can help collect."
Su Ping took out a Jade Slip and used his magic to project the miscellaneous items he wanted to purchase into Zhou Xuan's mind.
Afterward, Su Ping left a small gold bar, and just as he had arrived, he disappeared from Zhou Xuan's sight before Zhou Xuan even fully realized it.
Zhou Xuan solemnly bowed towards the empty doorway, then edited a text message and sent it to his Enshi and parents.
The gist was that he was temporarily suspending Alchemy and would no longer purchase large quantities of white sugar.
Especially to his parents, Zhou Xuan specifically reminded them not to find him any new psychiatrists!
He, Zhou Xuan, was not crazy!
.........
This time, Su Ping brought back over a hundred controlled elite rats from Water Blue Star to the Cultivation World.
Spirit Rats with Spiritual Qi were hard to find in the Cultivation World, and the few that were discovered would be sold in the market.
So, Su Ping simply brought them from Water Blue Star, saving himself the trouble of buying too many spiritual animals from the market and arousing suspicion.
It was already an open secret that Su Ping had accepted Shu Daoren and sought his expertise.
The people of Linyue Manor already knew that their master was learning this method.
They were not surprised by the sudden appearance of over a hundred rats, only preparing the necessary daily food for these rats.
Only Shu Daoren vaguely felt that this batch of rats brought by Inspector seemed different from his own?
They seemed to possess more Spiritual Qi!
He, who couldn't even be considered a Loose Cultivator, merely took it as a circle exclusive to Immortal Masters, so as long as an Immortal Master was interested, he could immediately find enough and good enough rats to train.
This made Shu Daoren's heart almost cry with envy.
However, he ultimately didn't have the guts to ask Su Ping for them.
Having already passed his seventieth birthday, he was still very sensible and was now single-mindedly devoted to improving the medicinal formulas for Su Ping.
After Su Ping returned to Linyue Manor, he instructed Ling Rat White and Ling Rat Grey to manage the rat group and perform alert duties.
Su Ping, feeling a premonition, entered a state of secluded bitter cultivation.
He even instructed the maidservants to stop serving his three daily meals and not to disturb him.
Invitations from the aristocratic families in Jinque City were all declined.
Thus, five days later, late at night.
Inside the cultivation room, Su Ping sensed that the threshold of his Five Layers of Qi Training was starting to loosen!
This was faster than he had anticipated.
Although after he became a Body Tempering Three Layers Body Cultivator, he found that the amount of medicine he could consume daily also increased.
Thus, in the following time, he accumulated his cultivation to the limit of Four Layers of Qi Training by relying on discarded pills.
He then used purification spiritual medicine to cleanse the pill toxins, recover old injuries, and keep his body in a pure and perfect state.
But this loosening was still too fast!
Su Ping couldn't help but suspect that perhaps one-tenth of the Ten Directions Annihilation Holy Body also had an effect on Qi Training, making his Spiritual Root no longer as simple as a Low Grade Spiritual Root!
It was naturally a good thing to be able to advance faster, and Su Ping would not be troubled by this.
He took the magic power Spirit Medicine and life spirit medicine, raising his state to its upper limit, and then began to fully operate his Cultivation Technique.
The magic power within his body gradually became smoother and more fluid as it circulated, and slowly, it suddenly seemed to boil all at once.
Su Ping only felt a buzzing sensation in his mind and body.
The temperature of the entire cultivation room seemed to rise by a few degrees with that sudden surge.
After a while, Su Ping slowly opened his eyes, feeling a comforting warmth filling his limbs and bones.
The magic power within his body had increased by almost thirty percent compared to before he started circulating it!
And this upper limit was still slowly climbing as the magic power circulated.
Su Ping let out a long breath.
"Five Layers of Qi Training, Breakthrough!"
"At this Realm, I have finally caught up with most of my Senior Brothers and Junior Brothers in the Outer Sect who were with me in the same period."