After leaving Little Plum Mountain, Li Ping did not head straight back to Windmist Immortal City.
His journey had always served two purposes: first, to pay his respects to his late master and settle matters for his old acquaintances in the Jiang Kingdom; second,
to gather the materials needed to receive the third-tier alchemist inheritance.
Those materials included three millennium spirit herbs and a third-tier spirit flame. Neither could be dispensed with.
Fortunately, the demon cultivator had previously given him a millennium spirit herb, saving him some trouble. He only needed to find two more.
Even so, he had searched inside and outside Windmist Immortal City for over a year, even making a point of attending the grand auction held there once every five years, yet he had never heard so much as a whisper about a millennium spirit herb.
As for a third-tier spirit flame, he did have a lead.
The third-tier Blazing Arrow Eagle that had died at the immortal city during the earlier beast tide should have nurtured a third-tier beastfire within its body.
But that beastfire had fallen into the hands of a Core Formation True Person. With his current cultivation and standing, he had no chance whatsoever of obtaining it.
Li Ping knew perfectly well that if he remained trapped in Windmist Immortal City, he might never gather the remaining millennium spirit herbs and third-tier spirit flame in his lifetime.
His mastery of alchemy would directly determine whether he could advance to the foundation establishment middle stage, the foundation establishment late stage, and ultimately core formation.
With so much at stake, how could he dare take it lightly?
In truth,
although the immortal city lay deep within the Cloudmist Mountains, it had only one core formation cultivator presiding over it. Across the Western Wastes Cultivation