Chapter 28: The Bigger the Waves, the More Valuable the Fish! (Seeking Follow-up Reads)

"The bigger the waves, the more valuable the fish!"

"It's just... I only want to go fishing when the winds are calm and the waves are still."

Su Ping, after all, had been washed over by the thousands of novels of the information age.

Combined with his twenty years of bitter cultivation experience in the Immortal Sect.

Su Ping had already imagined a story of an Outer Sect Disciple on an external mission who had accidentally, or perhaps by design, fallen into a trap!

And then, under the infection of Evil Qi, he became an Evil Spirit practitioner against his own will, only to be saved by himself in the end.

And that Jade Slip of Evil Art was very likely something the mastermind had intentionally sent out!

The goal was nothing more than to use the Evil Spirit to stir up trouble and muddy the waters! After resolving the doubts in his heart, Su Ping intended to return, when he suddenly heard the voice of Zhou Xuan in the opposite room through the hearing of Spirit Mouse Xiaobai, who was lying in the corner of the wall.

Zhou Xuan, a young Daoist of the East King Temple.

This period of time had not been easy.

Because he had bought a large amount of white sugar and sensitive chemicals, he had to seek help from his family and teacher's connections.

He finally used a reason that sounded unreliable, looked unreliable, but was better than nothing... researching ancient alchemy techniques.

It was considered a temporary cover-up.

But because of this, his parents and his mentor both began to worry about the mental state of young Daoist Zhou Xuan.

His mentor kept warning Zhou Xuan that most ancient books recording alchemy were fabricated by later generations who made things up and then falsely attributed them to the names of ancestors.

His parents were afraid that Zhou Xuan would become obsessed with cultivation and develop inner demons, hoping he could return home to rest for a while, and preferably go on a blind date first.

Only after adjusting his mindset should he consider whether to continue being a Daoist.

Having seen the true Dharma and believing that he himself was the one who was correct, Zhou Xuan naturally could not listen to these exhortations.

Yet Su Ping had not agreed, and Zhou Xuan dared not and was unwilling to tell anyone about his recent encounters.

He was still waiting for the day when the grand promise made by the high-level Immortal would be realized, so that he could succeed in his cultivation and then shock everyone in an offhand manner! "Alright, Mom, I know what I'm doing!"

"Don't worry, I've had a remote video call with a psychologist, and they all said I'm not crazy!"

"Fine, that's it then."

Daoist Zhou Xuan waited for his mother to hang up the phone first before putting down his mobile phone.

Talking to his parents made Daoist Zhou Xuan feel more mentally exhausted than doing homework for an entire afternoon.

"Hmm?"

"Daoist, you're back!"

Seeing Su Ping, who looked like an Immortal from a painting, appear at the door, Daoist Zhou Xuan hurriedly bowed respectfully, his tone carrying unconcealable joy.

"You've worked hard these days; the white sugar and other items are temporarily sufficient."

"Ah!"

"Daoist, did I do something wrong?"

Hearing that he no longer needed to buy white sugar, Zhou Xuan did not feel relieved but instead felt a chill all over and became panicked.

Seeing Zhou Xuan's expression, Su Ping reached out and pressed his hand on his shoulder, while a stream of Dharma Power entered the other's body to wash through his entire being.

While making Zhou Xuan feel warm and allowing his body to relax again, it also allowed Su Ping to figure out the improvement status of that Small Green Fish on Zhou Xuan's body.

The situation was very good.

The effect brought by the Small Green Fish was playing out steadily.

The non-Spirit Qi environment of Water Blue Star only made it impossible for the extraordinary to create something from nothing or achieve great results with small efforts.

It would not, however, dissipate the effects that were already present.

"Don't be agitated, it's just that white sugar is temporarily not needed."

"There are still some other supplies 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. Afterwards, Su Ping left behind a small gold bar and, just as he had arrived, disappeared before Zhou Xuan's eyes the moment he realized it.

Zhou Xuan bowed solemnly to the empty doorway, then edited a text message to send to his mentor and parents.

The gist was that he was temporarily suspending alchemy and would not continue to purchase large quantities of white sugar.

Especially to his parents, Zhou Xuan specifically reminded them not to find him any new psychologists!

He, Zhou Xuan, was not crazy!

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This time, when Su Ping returned to the Cultivation World from Water Blue Star, he specifically brought back over a hundred controlled Elite Mice.

Mice with spirituality were not easy to find in the Cultivation World, and the few that were discovered would be taken to the Market to be sold.

Therefore, Su Ping simply brought them over from Water Blue Star, which also saved him the trouble of being suspected for buying too many animals with spirituality at the Market.

Because Su Ping had accepted Shu Daoren and asked him for advice on his craft, it had long been an open secret.

Everyone in Linyue Villa already knew that their master had learned this method.

They were not surprised by the sudden addition of over a hundred mice, just preparing more of the food these mice needed daily.

Only Shu Daoren vaguely felt that this batch of mice summoned by the Inspector seemed very different from his own?

They seemed to possess even more spirituality! Even though he couldn't even be considered a Loose Cultivator, he just assumed this was the circle that only an Immortal Master could have, so as long as the Immortal Master was interested, he could immediately find enough and good enough mice to train.

This made Shu Daoren almost cry with envy in his heart.

Yet, in the end, he didn't have the guts to go and ask Su Ping for them.

Having already passed his seventieth birthday, he was still very sensible, and now he was wholeheartedly improving medicine formulas for Su Ping.

After Su Ping returned to Linyue Villa, he instructed Xiaobai and Xiaohui to manage the mouse colony and do a good job with early warnings.

Su Ping, feeling something in his heart, entered a mode of closed-door bitter cultivation.

He even ordered the maid to stop the three daily meals, telling her not to come and disturb him.

As for the invitations from those noble families in Jinque City, he pushed them all away.

And so, five days later, late at night.

Inside the practice room, Su Ping noticed that the threshold for his Qi Refining Fifth Layer had actually begun to loosen! This was faster than he had anticipated.

Although after he became a Body Tempering Third Layer Body Cultivator, he discovered that the amount of medicine he could consume daily had also increased.

Consequently, in the time that followed, he relied on Waste Pills to pile his cultivation up to the limit of the Qi Refining Fourth Layer.

He then used Purification Spirit Medicine to cleanse the pill toxins and recover from old injuries, keeping his body in a pure and perfect state.

But this loosening was still a bit too fast! Su Ping couldn't help but suspect that perhaps it was because that one-tenth Ten Directions Annihilation Saint Body was also having an effect on his Qi Refining, making his Spirit Root no longer as simple as a Lower Grade Spiritual Root! Being able to advance faster was naturally a good thing, and Su Ping would not dwell on it.

He consumed the Mana Spirit Medicine and Life Spirit Medicine, and after raising the upper limit of his own state, he began to circulate his cultivation technique with all his might.

The Dharma Power within his body gradually became more rounded and fluid during circulation, and slowly, it suddenly seemed to boil all at once.

Su Ping only felt a hum in his mind and body.

The temperature of the entire practice room seemed to rise by a few degrees following that moment.

Before long, Su Ping slowly opened his eyes, feeling his limbs and bones filled with a reassuring warmth.

The Dharma Power within his body had increased by nearly thirty percent compared to before the circulation! And this upper limit was still slowly climbing as the Dharma Power circulated.

Su Ping let out a long breath.

"Qi Refining Fifth Layer, I've broken through!"

"At this realm, I have finally caught up to most of the Outer Sect senior and junior brothers who joined at the same time as me."

It's Monday; follow-up reading during the new book period is crucial, I ask everyone for your help! Thank you all 〒_〒

(End of this chapter)