Half an hour later, Li Ping walked out of the Spirit Treasure Pavilion with disappointment written all over his face and headed toward another shop.
The Spirit Treasure Pavilion did have quite a few escape arts in its collection.
But just as Li Ping had expected, their speeds were either utterly ordinary, or their cultivation requirements were harsh, demanding all sorts of precious spirit materials he had never heard of.
He had no time to spend gathering vast quantities of spirit materials just for a single escape art.
Even those with side effects merely depleted vital essence or caused a regression in cultivation-things that could be restored later through pills or cultivation.
None of them met Li Ping's needs. They lacked punch.
What he wanted was something truly potent, preferably a spell that left its user beyond the help of any medicine, doomed to die shortly afterward-something no one dared practice!
At a shop called Jade Cliff Palace, Li Ping put away the spirit herbs he had purchased, then likewise asked about buying spells.
After visiting several shops in succession, he had gathered enough spirit herbs to refine Qi-Nourishing Pills.
By then, Li Ping had almost given up hope of finding a potent escape art or a spell for staking his life.
Yet after hearing his request, Jade Cliff Palace's broad-shouldered, corpulent shopkeeper pondered for a moment before saying, "Our palace recently acquired an escape art with astonishing speed. Its side effects are simply too severe, so few people practice it. I wonder whether it would catch your eye, fellow Daoist?"
At those words, Li Ping could not help feeling delighted.
As long as it worked well, he did not fear severe side effects. He only feared they would not be severe enough!
Though thrilled inwardly, Li Ping kept