Chapter 1117: Cicada shedding its shell, bottleneck

After the defeat, He He Pingsheng returned to the Immortal Guest House!

After returning to his room and packing all his items, He He Pingsheng took out the bronze mask, instantly transformed into a middle-aged man with an ordinary appearance, and walked out of the Immortal Guest House.

After walking out, he entered a bustling immortal tea house.

There were many people here, and they were all discussing the competition situation today.

Of course, He He Pingsheng also heard everyone's discussions about his competition with Ji Wuxin.

He didn't care how others evaluated him, but took advantage of a time when no one was paying attention to quickly make a small adjustment to his appearance, and then walked slowly out of the immortal tea house.

After coming out of the immortal tea house, he went to two more chambers of commerce, a casino, and several shops.

Anyway, the more crowded the place, the more He He Pingsheng liked it.

Even if someone saw him changing his appearance, no one cared.

They are all immortals, who doesn't have some means?

After doing this seven or eight times in a row, He He Pingsheng's appearance had changed so much that even he himself could hardly recognize it.

The reason he kept changing his appearance like this was to get rid of the tracking and tailing that might exist in the dark as quickly as possible.

"Hello, what do you need?" After changing his appearance several times, He He Pingsheng came to a big chamber of commerce in Star Emperor City.

The enthusiastic beauty guide almost stuck to He He Pingsheng's body.

He He Pingsheng chuckled: "I am about to advance, I need some materials for 【Shenjin Pill】 to refine that Shenjin Pill!"

Shenjin Pill is a second-turn Golden Core.

Its only function is to allow immortals who have refined their bodies to the twelfth layer of the Human Immortal Stage to break through to the Earth Immortal Stage.

And the Shenjin Pill is quite special; it is not a pill commonly used by everyone.

There are two kinds of pills that can break through to the Earth Immortal level, one is the Shenjin Pill, and the other is named 【Ground-Connecting Jin Dan】. Most people use the Ground-Connecting Jin Dan, not the Shenjin Pill.

Why?

Because others are not body-refining, but qi-refining.

He He Pingsheng is different, he is a body-refining cultivator.

Shenjin Pill is used by body-refining cultivators to break through to the Earth Immortal level; while the Ground-Connecting Jin Dan is used by ordinary qi-

The Shen Golden Core is used for body-refining cultivators to break through to the Earth Immortal realm, while the Ground-Connecting Golden Core is used by ordinary Qi-refining immortals.

When Lu Xiaoci originally broke through to the Earth Immortal realm, she used a 【Ground-Connecting Golden Core】.

"A Shen Golden Core?" The woman looked at He He Pingsheng, surprised: "Big brother, you are actually a body-refining immortal? That is quite rare!"

"As far as I know, the sixteen auxiliary materials for this Shen Golden Core are easy enough to obtain, but as for these three main ingredients... we have 【Earth Blood Immortal Grass】 here, but we lack the other two: 【Golden Thread Immortal Crystal】 and 【Dragon-Kuei Supreme Head】!"

Earth Blood Immortal Grass is a common type of immortal herb; it goes without saying that most merchant associations will have it.

While the Golden Thread Immortal Crystal is rare, it is not hard to find; the difficult one is this Dragon-Kuei Supreme Head.

The so-called Dragon-Kuei Supreme Head refers to the 【Supreme Head】 that grows inside the flower disc of a second-tier immortal plant named 【Dragon-Kuei】.

But not every flower grows a Supreme Head; legend has it that out of ten thousand flowers, only one might grow a Supreme Head.

Therefore, the price of this Dragon-Kuei Supreme Head is naturally very high; not only is it high, but the key is that it is rare.

More importantly, there are very few body-refining cultivators in this world, so no one deliberately cultivates this item, because even if it were cultivated, it basically wouldn't sell.

Under this vicious cycle, the quantity of Dragon-Kuei Supreme Heads has become even scarcer.

Occasionally, one appears, but they are all wild.

"Fine!" He He Pingsheng did not force it, saying: "If you don't have it, you don't have it. If you have any, bring me two portions!"

After purchasing a portion of the materials for refining the 【Shen Golden Core】 at this merchant association, He He Pingsheng strode away, changed his appearance again outside, and walked into the next merchant association.

Walking from one shop to another like this, He He Pingsheng purchased a total of two portions of materials for the 【Shen Golden Core】.

Of course, the Dragon-Kuei Supreme Head was excluded.

Because this item, the Dragon-Kuei Supreme Head, is truly not easy to purchase.

It is not that Star Emperor City doesn't have it, but Star Emperor City is too large, and it was impossible for He He Pingsheng to visit every single shop, so he simply hadn't found it yet.

He believed that if he walked through all the shops, large and small, in this city, he would certainly be able to buy it.

It would just require some time and effort.

For this kind of thing, doing it himself is not as good as letting someone else do it.

At the gates of Star Emperor City, there are plenty of low-level immortals with no way to make money.

Some of these immortals have just ascended, while others have been ostracized for certain reasons and can only live a semi-begging life.

He He Pingsheng walked to the city gate and found a female cultivator.

"This is one hundred spirit stones!" He He Pingsheng first took out one hundred spirit stones and gave them to the female cultivator, then said: "I want you to help me do one thing!"

"Go and help me inquire at all the shops and stores, large and small, throughout Star Emperor City!"

"Whichever shop has this second-tier immortal fruit, the 【Dragon-Kuei Supreme Head】, I will give you one month!"

"After one month, I will come back here!"

"If you find it, I will give you an extra one thousand spirit stones as a reward!"

"But if you don't find it, these one hundred spirit stones are your payment, and I will not give you anything else at that time!"

The female immortal was instantly excited and said: "Senior, please rest assured. As long as it exists, I will definitely be able to find it within this month!"

He He Pingsheng nodded: "Very well, but you must ask secretly. Do not make a big scene, and certainly do not stir up trouble throughout the city!"

"Yes!" The woman put away the spirit stones and immediately went to search.

He He Pingsheng, meanwhile, wandered leisurely along the street and found a relatively low-end immortal inn not far from the city gate to stay in.

One month later, He He Pingsheng truly purchased two 【Dragon-Kuei Supreme Heads】.

With this, the materials for refining the 【Shen Golden Core】 were finally gathered.

He He Pingsheng set up several arrays in this immortal inn and then began his seclusion.

He did not leave Star Emperor City.

This seclusion had two main purposes.

First, to improve his cultivation base and strive to cultivate the Chaos Golden Scripture to the eleventh layer.

The second purpose was to refine the 【Shen Golden Core】.

Since coming to the Immortal Realm, He He Pingsheng had always spent money to buy elixirs and had never refined them himself.

Therefore, he had to start from scratch with alchemy and try it slowly!

So, during the following seclusion, He He Pingsheng let the thirty-six immortal patterns in his body absorb the blood-energy from the sarira while contemplating the 【Three-Turn Golden Core Method】.

Of course, if possible, He He Pingsheng also wanted to practice the Spirit-Refining Method.

But the Spirit-Refining Method had not been strengthened, and now that he was in Star Emperor City, he dared not strengthen it, so he had to give it up for the time being.

Time flowed slowly.

In a flash, twenty-eight years passed.

One day, twenty-eight years later, the aura on He He Pingsheng's body suddenly jolted.

The eleventh layer of the Human Immortal stage had arrived.

After reaching the eleventh layer, a realization immediately surged into He He Pingsheng's heart: the bottleneck had arrived.