Several days later, Li Ping once again visited Artifact Refiner Wu Feng's cave abode.
He hoped to have the second-tier upper-grade Red-Scaled Turtle shell he had bought at the auction and the palm-sized piece of violetheart iron refined into a second-tier upper-grade shield and flying sword, respectively.
Sitting in the pavilion, Artifact Refiner Wu Feng watched Li Ping take the turtle shell out of his storage bag, looking as though he wanted to say something but thought better of it.
He really wanted to ask whether Li Ping had some special fondness for turtles. Why did he keep bringing turtle shells for him to refine?
Li Ping had no idea what he was thinking, or he would certainly have explained himself properly.
He had simply happened to acquire two second-tier upper-grade turtle shells. He had no peculiar obsession with turtles.
After paying half the refining fee, they drew up a contract deed specifying delivery, and only then did Li Ping rise to leave.
Back at his own cave abode, Li Ping immersed himself once again in cultivating the first level of body tempering in the Nine Tribulations True Spirit Sacred Canon.
The deeper he went, the more extraordinary he found this cultivation method. Even after only mastering the basics, he vaguely sensed that he could foresee danger, as though warnings from his spiritual intuition could help him evade calamities before they struck.
Feeling that he had discovered another special effect of the cultivation method,
Li Ping could not contain his delight. Averting calamity, dispelling misfortune, concealing my aura, form- and face-changing-now this is the cultivation method best suited to a survival-first cultivator like me!
He focused on body tempering, adding brick after brick to his path of cautious survival.
Before he knew it, the New Year was fast approaching.
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