Li Ping had secured Shi Yutong's promise regarding a spirit land for Core Formation.
Satisfied, he returned to his cave abode and resumed his arduous cultivation.
However, in accordance with his agreement with Shi Yutong, he would also emerge from seclusion from time to time to refine pills for the Snowflight Sect.
With the Inheritance Tree's assistance, Li Ping's pill-refining success rate was actually one hundred percent.
But to avoid shocking the world too much, he occasionally skimmed off some spirit herbs, fobbing off Shi Yutong's envoys with the excuse that "the refinement failed."
Since his relationship with the Snowflight Sect was already quite good, Shi Yutong placed ample trust in him.
While Li Ping refined pills, her envoys would not enter the Alchemy Room to watch. Instead, they waited obediently in the courtyard, then left with the pills once he finished.
Of course, even after skimming off some spirit herbs, Li Ping's success rate was still far higher than that of other pill refiners.
That was also why no one suspected him.
In truth, Li Ping did not choose which spirit herbs to skim off at random.
Decades ago, in a cave abode within that secret realm in the Western Wasteland, Li Ping had obtained the belongings left behind by its former occupant.
Among them was a Purple Qi Fruit.
Using the Purple Qi Fruit as the main ingredient, along with several hundred other spirit herbs, he could refine the precious Essence Condensation Pill, which aided breakthroughs to Core Formation.
The Essence Condensation Pill was a third-tier pill and could increase the chances of reaching Core Formation by fifteen percentage points.
Li Ping would certainly refine this pill before attempting Core Formation.
Thanks to his peerless talent, he had learned how to refine the Essence Condensation Pill long ago.