A Mortal's Journey to Immortality

"Zhou Ping, you're too thrifty! You even dug up the roots of that Blood Emperor Grass. Are you planning to go back and plant another one?"

On the flying boat, Gu Caiwei's beautiful eyes darted around. Seeing Qin Changqing's cold and aloof appearance as he closed his eyes to rest, she had no choice but to temporarily focus her attention on Zhou Ping, who was sitting upright in the back. She pouted and teased him.

"I'm sorry to have troubled you, Fairy Gu. I think this Blood Emperor Grass was cut off by that Tribulation Cultivator with brute force, but the roots are still quite intact. If I take it back and cultivate it properly, it can really sprout again. I've always been quite interested in these spiritual plants, so I just dug it up."

Zhou Ping chuckled and gave the girl in the yellow dress a brief explanation.

Although the Blood Emperor Grass that had previously appeared in Ma Hualong's hands has now been acquired by Qin Changqing, this does not prevent Zhou Ping from setting his sights on other things.

Since the Blood Emperor Grass, a body-refining treasure, has appeared in the fox-crow's nest, even if the mature form has been obtained by others, it is hard to guarantee that some saplings or seeds will remain. If one of them can be found, it would be an incredible opportunity for Zhou Ping, who possesses the mysterious agarwood.

Therefore, before leaving the fox-crow's nest, Zhou Ping searched every inch of the cave, both inside and out, with extra care.

Finally, in a hidden crevice in the rocks, although no seeds or seedlings of the spirit herb were found, the roots of the Blood Emperor Grass, whose broken ends were still fresh, were discovered. While secretly delighted, he carefully dug them out without making a sound and sealed them in the jade box he carried with him.

With the roots of this Blood Emperor Grass, he could resume his long-abandoned body-refining cultivation.

"So what if it can sprout? For this kind of spiritual herb to be suitable for alchemy and medicine, it needs to be at least several decades old. By then, you'll be an old man, and you'll still be thinking about tempering your physical body?"

Although Gu Caiwei's mouth was small and rosy, the words that came out of her mouth were not flattering, and Zhou Ping could only smile bitterly in silence.

He had little experience dealing with such a wealthy heiress and was unwilling to offend her easily.

"Sister Caiwei, you don't understand. If Junior Brother Zhou can really cultivate it, not to mention anything else, there are large areas of spiritual fields in the sect and various families' spiritual herb gardens that want to cultivate this thing. At that time, he might be able to exchange it for some other precious resources."

Qin Changqing, who was meditating on the flying boat, seemed somewhat displeased with Gu Caiwei's words and surprisingly spoke up to help Zhou Ping out of the predicament.

"Now it seems that the weak fox crow was able to advance to the level of a second-level demon beast, which is rare. It was probably because it had consumed the Blood Emperor Grass. After all, the Blood Emperor Pill is a precious medicine that can temper a cultivator's physical body to a level comparable to the peak of Qi Refining. It makes sense that the fox crow underwent such a change after consuming it."

Qin Changqing was somewhat surprised when he first saw the Level 2 Fox Crow, but now that he knows about the Blood Emperor Grass, his doubts have been dispelled.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Ping nodded secretly. He knew the effects of the Blood Emperor Grass better than Qin Changqing and Gu Caiwei.

The mature form of this medicine is usually around a hundred years old. At that time, it can be combined with several common spiritual herbs to refine the Blood Emperor Pill. As Qin Changqing said, this pill is a precious medicine that can temper a cultivator's physical body to the extreme of the Qi Refining stage.

However, this is only part of the effects of the Blood Emperor Grass. Zhou Ping had previously seen some descriptions of this in several handwritten books he obtained from Guiyuan Pavilion. Although there were only a few words mentioned about various spiritual herbs for body refining, it still gave him a general understanding of these herbs.

This not only includes descriptions of the Blood Emperor Grass, but also mentions body refiners who were popular in the cultivation world in ancient legends.

It is said that in ancient times, in the cultivation world, there were not only cultivators who relied on spiritual roots, but also another mainstream cultivation system, namely the body refiners who focused on tempering their physical bodies.

These body cultivators only cultivate their physical bodies. Even without spiritual roots, they can still enter the ranks of immortal cultivators. It is said that the powerful cultivators who reach the later stages are no less capable than high-level cultivators. With their physical strength alone, they can move mountains and fill seas, and split the heavens and earth. In terms of combat power, they can often even suppress immortal cultivators at the same level.

After all, the core of most cultivation techniques practiced by immortal cultivators is the path to longevity through self-cultivation and longevity. In terms of advancement in realm and prolonging life, they far surpass those of body cultivators. However, in the face of body cultivators who pursue ultimate power, their offensive capabilities are slightly inferior.

Unfortunately, in today's cultivation world, body refiners have long since disappeared, and even those who use body refinement as a supplementary practice are extremely rare.

The reason is simple: the cultivation world today, after countless years of cycles, has had its foundation emptied by countless cultivators.

Looking back to ancient times, when heaven and earth were first created, all things possessed spirits, and natural treasures were everywhere. Opportunities were readily available. The abundance of resources provided uniquely favorable conditions for body cultivators who relied on consuming the spiritual objects of heaven and earth for cultivation, making them one of the mainstream cultivation groups of that era.

However, as the number of cultivators continued to increase, the cultivation resources in the world became increasingly scarce due to insufficient resources. After hundreds of thousands of years of depletion, it finally became what it is today. Even in the deep mountains and old forests, it is extremely difficult to find any precious spiritual plants or rare spiritual objects.

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With the world lacking the various resources needed by body refiners, body refinement schools without advanced methods naturally disappeared into the long river of time.

While cultivators who rely on spiritual roots for their cultivation system have also been greatly affected by the scarcity of resources, their fundamental nature has not been damaged. As long as they possess spiritual roots and there are still spiritual veins and spiritual energy in the world, they can still cultivate normally.

Therefore, in today's cultivation world, there are no longer any body refiners; there are only cultivation schools that take spiritual roots as the foundation of cultivation.

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Zhou Ping recalled the legends about body refiners in the book, and the Blood Emperor Grass was a body refinement medicine that helped him cultivate. It was also said to have the miraculous effect of increasing the chance of breaking through realms, similar to the Foundation Establishment Pill that existed in the cultivation world. However, its effect was only aimed at the physical breakthrough of body refiners, and it would not help cultivators break through to the Foundation Establishment stage.

Of course, the reason why the Blood Emperor Grass in ancient times was called a breakthrough medicine was because it had to reach a thousand years of medicinal age before it could be used as medicine. Compared with the pills made from a hundred years of medicinal age, it is naturally worlds apart.

In other words, only when the Blood Emperor Grass has reached a medicinal age of a thousand years can the Blood Emperor Pill, refined from it, have the miraculous effect of increasing the chances of a Body Refiner breaking through to a higher realm. Otherwise, it can only be taken as an ordinary pill for tempering the body.

In today's cultivation world, although many super powers are able to spend time cultivating such spiritual herbs, many of these herbs have long since disappeared from the cultivation world, causing the path of body refiners to become a dead end. During the process of body refinement, cultivators may find their cultivation level difficult to advance due to the lack of certain elixirs.

Therefore, in the current cultivation world, those cultivators who also practice body cultivation only regard it as an auxiliary cultivation method.

Similar to formations and talismans, anything that can improve one's combat power is a good choice.