Nine Lives: Unbeatable Dragon Blood

Chapter 2 Blood Magic Figure

Lu Ping returned from Lingcang Pavilion with more than a dozen spiritual stones and eight blood purifying elixirs in his hands. Spiritual stones were auxiliary in cultivation and were hard currency, while blood purifying elixirs could purify True Spirit Blood and improve cultivation.

Lu Ping was a disciple of True Spirit Academy. Strictly speaking, he was neither an outer disciple of True Spirit Sect nor an inner disciple. True Spirit Sect trained them for free from childhood to adulthood. Unlike the outer disciples, he didn't need to be self-reliant. Disciples like Lu Ping were cultivated to be the reserve force of True Spirit Sect. If Lu Ping couldn't reach the ninth level of Blood Refining within 15 years, he would become an outer disciple and have to serve the sect while being self-reliant.

In True Spirit Academy, disciples were divided into three levels, and every five years were considered a session. Lu Ping had been in the academy for nearly ten years and was a second level disciple. The second level disciples needed to reach the fourth level of Blood Refining. If Lu Ping failed to reach the sixth level of Blood Refining in the tenth assessment, he would lose his position as a third level disciple and become an outer disciple.

When the second level disciples reached the fourth level of Blood Refining, they would be rewarded two spiritual stones per month. When they reached the fifth level of Blood Refining, besides two spiritual stones, they would be rewarded one blood purifying elixir per month. When they reached the sixth level of Blood Refining, besides those things, they would be rewarded two more spiritual stones. The seventh level was a watershed, which was difficult to be reached. After they reached it, they would enter the late stage of Blood Refining, and their strength would improve greatly. At that time, the reward would be six spiritual stones and three blood purifying elixirs.

The sect also rewarded disciples who reached the late stage of Blood Refining with 10 spiritual stones and doubled the reward for those who reached the late stage of Blood Refining before the age of eighteen, supposedly because disciples who reached the late stage of Blood Refining before the age of eighteen had a better chance to reach the Blood Dissolving stage.

Lu Ping didn't know whether the rumor was true or not. He only knew that few people could reach the Blood Dissolving stage. Once they reached it, they would formally become inner disciples of True Spirit Sect, formally learn Cultivation Methods of True Spirit Sect, and became an example of the outer disciples.

There were thousands of disciples in True Spirit Academy, and about a hundred of them could reach the ninth level of Blood Refining every year. However, few people could succeed in building the foundation. Disciples who did that would make a sensation in True Spirit Academy.

Lu Ping exchanged ten spiritual stones for five blood purifying elixirs, and then he had sixteen spiritual stones and eight blood purifying elixirs. In the past, He always used them up early in cultivation, but this time, except for the basic consumption, he still had some left.

He needed to prepare for the second level Grand Competition.

Grand Competitions were a way for cultivators to gain cultivation resources. It was not only a competition for the sect's rewards to the individual, but also a competition for teams' cultivation resources. If teams made excellent performance in the Grand Competition, they could obtain more resources. Half of the resources would go to the leading Immortal Seniors of the team, and the rest would be distributed to the disciples.

This was also why Immortal Senior Liu was quite delighted when he knew Lu Ping had reached the seventh level. The top ten disciples of their respective teams would participate in the Grand Competition. This was only a basic requirement. The disciples who had reached the seventh level could also participate in the competition regardless of their rank.

In some powerful teams, there were already more than ten people who had reached the late stage of Blood Refining!

Lu Ping returned to the hut, swallowed a blood purifying elixir as usual, held a spiritual stone in his hand, and began to cultivate. After a period of time, the spiritual stone turned into powder, and the medicinal power of the blood purifying elixir had been refined.

Lu Ping did not rush to improve his cultivation, but reviewed the foundation of the first level of Blood Refining to the seventh level and firmly consolidated it. He did this every time after he made breakthroughs. So, his foundation was very solid.

However, Lu Ping still felt that his cultivation had improved significantly. He let out a breath of turbidity. This was something normal after he made a breakthrough. It would become more and more difficult to make breakthroughs in the future. In the later stage of Blood Refining, each level was a hurdle. It was normal to be unable to overcome them in three to five years.

Lu Ping opened the wooden box on the table, took out a piece of yellow spell paper from it, unfolded it on the table, and then took out a piece of graphite and some strange wooden tools. He kept making invisible drawings above the yellow spell paper. Following the Magic Figure patterns in the "Elementary Magic Figure Mastery", he lightly drew the Magic Figure with graphite.

It was difficult to draw Magic Figures, and it was even more difficult for cultivators in the Blood Refining stage to do it. The patterns of Magic Figures were complicated and no mistakes were allowed while he was drawing them. Otherwise, even if he drew them, their power would be affected. However, Lu Ping had solved this problem by using these tools.

"Hehe, this might be the advantage of being a time traveler," Lu Ping thought with a smile.

Lu Ping knew that these were all just petty shrewdness. After reaching the Blood Dissolving stage, the cultivators would develop Divine Mentality Coercion and these tools would become useless. The cultivators with Divine Mentality Coercion could draw standardized Magic Figures without using tools.

Lu Ping took out the brush used to draw Magic Figures. The brush was made from the hair on the tail of the top-ranked monster. There was a simple Spirit Gathering Circle on the brush, which could better transmit spiritual strength to it.

Lu Ping dipped the brush in the spiritual ink blended with spiritual spring water, fine cinnabar and the blood of the first-class monster Earth Spirit Turtle. He slowly injected his Bloodline Spiritual Strength into the brush, and slowly drew the Magic Figure, following the traces he had drawn earlier.

With the completion of the last stroke, Lu Ping let out a long breath. He did it! It seemed that the improvement of his cultivation had an impact on the success rate of making Magic Figures.

Feeling the spiritual strength contained in the Magic Figure and the power it radiated, Lu Ping was surprised and delighted. It had the top quality, which was the best Magic Figure that a cultivator could make at the Blood Refining stage.

Lu Ping thought for a while, pierced his finger, and dripped a drop of his Fine Blood on the Magic Figure. The dark red Magic Figure suddenly became bright red, as if to rush out of the paper.

This was the method Lu Ping learned in Cangjing Pavilion. It could increase the power of the Magic Figure but at the cost of cultivation. Fortunately, cultivators of Blood Refining relied on Bloodline and their cultivation was in Bloodline. Therefore, they had more Fine Blood than other cultivators, so they suffered a lighter loss. If the Magic Figure was not top-grade, Lu Ping would not have sacrificed this drop of Fine Blood.

He meditated to recover his lost energy and spiritual strength. Then he made nine more Magic Figures. Unfortunately, none of them were top-grade. They were only two high-grade Blood Refining Magic Figures, two medium-grade and three low-grade Magic Figures. He made mistakes while drawing the other two, so they were scrapped.

If other cultivators knew that he had such a success rate in making Magic Figures, they might exclaim in surprise.

Lu Ping thought for a while, dripped his Fine Blood in the two high-grade Magic Figures, turned them into Blood Magic Figures, and then put the three Blood Magic Figures in another box. In the box, there were already several high-grade Magic Figures of Blood Refining.

Lu Ping put the medium and low-grade Magic Figures in a package, which had contained dozens of them. What was in this package was the fruit of Lu Ping's work for a month.

Although the cultivators in the academy could enjoy the allowance from the sect for free, the allowance was far from enough for cultivation. Therefore, the cultivators had their own ways to earn spiritual stones. Making Magic Figures was Lu Ping's way.

Since he reached the fourth level of Blood Refining, he made Magic Figures every three days. With continuous practice and research and some small skills, he went through the initial stage of losing spiritual stones to the stage of earning them. Otherwise, with his ordinary aptitude, he would never become one of those first-class cultivators.