Chapter 17 The Potential of the Rat Pack

"A genius of body cultivation?"

"Hehe, there's no such thing as a body cultivation genius!"

"I am simply more diligent than the rest in popping pills and training, that's all."

Having sent the Ji Family's disciples on their way, Su Ping fiddled with the Body Tempering Pill they had given him for a while. With Purification Spirit Medicine at hand, he wasn't worried about any hidden dangers in the pill.

He swallowed it in one gulp.

Humm!

As the medicinal power of the Body Tempering Pill took effect, Su Ping felt as if a hot light ball had appeared in his abdomen, followed by a warm current rushing toward his limbs and bones.

Feeling increasingly hotter, Su Ping hurriedly began to circulate the Ten Directions Strong Body Skill, transforming the medicinal power into energy to nourish his body.

"That's powerful! Worthy of a Transcendent Pill produced by a cultivator, much more intense than a Body Tempering Medicine Bag!"

Half an hour later, Su Ping stopped the exercise, sweating profusely. While marveling at the experience, he also made a mental note of the Body Tempering Pill.

Although in terms of efficacy, this pill for body refining is only about twenty to thirty percent more effective than Qi Blood Waste Pills.

The focus, however, is on unblocking the physical meridians, which Qi Blood Pills cannot compare with.

And for Body Refining to reach the Middle Period or even the Late Period, one of the key objectives is that the hundred meridians throughout the body must be thoroughly connected.

The earlier the realm is improved, it means one can consume more waste pills over the same period of time, and cultivation progresses more swiftly!

Su Ping had already planned to inquire in the workshop for an Alchemist who could concoct Body Tempering Pills when he had time.

He could offer Spirit Stones to purchase their waste pills.

Compared to the slightly effective Nourishing Yuan Wasted Pills and Qi Blood Waste Pills,

these Body Tempering Waste Pills, which even mortal martial artists might want, would surely be accepted by the seller if he was willing to collect them... They would have no reason to refuse the trade.

That night, Su Ping continued his obsessed and unrestrained cultivation.

Relying on five packs of Body Tempering Medicine Bags and three Qi Blood Waste Pills,

with the effect of Purification Spirit Medicine kicking in,

Su Ping's bones emitted a series of crackles, and on the second day of practicing the Ten Directions Strong Body Skill... he officially entered the First Layer Realm of Body Refining!

In the Immortal Cultivation World,

Su Ping could now be considered to have officially started in the body cultivation branch!

While body cultivation just requires any cultivator who is willing to train hard to get started,

most loose cultivators need at least half a year or even a year to make this progress.

Those with better aptitude, like Su Ping who had cultivation before switching to body cultivation, could do it faster, but it would still take at least three months to get started.

If Su Ping let that Ji Family body cultivator check his pulse again,

he would not just offer compliments in front of Su Ping, but sincerely believe that Su Ping was indeed a one-in-a-million body cultivation genius in the entire Immortal Cultivation World!

To start body cultivation in just two nights!

Even the novelists in the Immortal Sect wouldn't dare to write such a story!

"After entering the body cultivation, my physical strength has increased by at least fifty percent compared to before!"

"My ability to protect myself on Water Blue Star has grown stronger!"

"The cooldown for the Town Return Talisman has long passed, it's time to make a trip back."

"I can also try out the secret technique taught by the Rat Taoist, to see if it's effective against the rats of another world."

Su Ping didn't teleport from the Frost Moon Villa, but instead headed to another preselected cave, using it as his departure point. There, he activated the Town Return Talisman and disappeared from the Immortal Cultivation World.

Water Blue Star, in the outer mountain forests on the outskirts of Yushu City.

The rat tide caused by the Spiritual Rats White and Grey sparked a brief sensation online for half a day, but was quickly overshadowed by other breaking news and occupied people's fragmented attention spans.

Nonetheless, the abnormal rat tide caught the attention of some higher-ups.p>

A mainly research-focused team was dispatched to Yushu City to look for traces of the rats.

However, just as Su Ping had speculated earlier, the mouse plague which hadn't brought much destruction wasn't high on the priority list.

The team was still led by a professor from the university who specialized in a relevant subject, and the members were mainly his students.

They, a group of more than ten people, tracked along the direction of the mouse migration and quickly lost the trail in the mountainous forest area.

The outskirts of Yushu City were covered with dense forests, and even further out was a primitive forest nature reserve.

All of these increased the difficulties for the research teams.

But they were not the kind to give up easily.

Mainly because the professor, who had just turned fifty-five, was at the peak of his strength and yearned to advance further and make a name for himself in history.

He was attracted by White and Grey, the two mice who stood out conspicuously in the video.

He vaguely suspected that these two mice might be some kind of special mouse species not yet discovered, such as ones born with an organ capable of emitting a pheromone that attracts their fellow rodents.

This was what caused those unsettling scenes in the video.

For this reason, he found a way to get in touch with an old hunter who came with two hunting dogs to help.

It was easy to find objects tarnished with the scent of the mouse plague, and soon the two hunting dogs, under the command of the hunter, sprang into action.

However, not long after the hunting dogs led the team into the forest, they suddenly seemed to be struck by extreme terror, whining and stubbornly refusing to move forward.

This reaction left the old hunter completely perplexed.

What he didn't know was that when the mouse plague passed through here, the Spiritual Rat Grey had urinated near the tree roots.

Transcendent species are inherently a tier above mortal beasts!

The urine of a Spiritual Rat is several times more potent than the body fluids of a ferocious tiger.

Upon smelling this scent, the hunting dogs felt a deep, bone-chilling terror in the depths of their souls.

Naturally, their instincts made them cower.

While the group was at a loss but unwilling to leave,

Su Ping had already returned to East King Temple and immediately made contact with his two Spiritual Rats.

Then, through the perception of the Spiritual Rat White, he discovered the traces of the group and leapt onto a tree trunk to monitor them.

The Spiritual Rat Grey began training the rat swarm by squeaking according to Su Ping's methods.

After arriving at the rear courtyard warehouse of East King Temple, Su Ping saw neatly arranged daily necessities, bags of white sugar, and boxes of bread, and he nodded slightly in satisfaction.

Taoist Zhou Xuan had done a good job; he carried out the tasks assigned to him and even provided surplus quantities.

Without waking Zhou Xuan, who was still doing homework in the room, Su Ping took a quick glance, collected a large amount of bread into his storage bag, slapped on an Invisibility Spell, and then turned to find his Spiritual Rats.

According to the secrets taught by the Rat Taoist, relying solely on the charm and intimidation of the Spiritual Rats wasn't enough to train a rat swarm well.

Both transcendent intimidation and tasty food were needed.

Only by combining both could the rat swarm be commanded like an extension of one's own arm!

The process of making tasty food for the rat swarm was the Rat Taoist's secret trick.

The Rat Taoist was still preparing to move houses in Chishao Town, but Su Ping had already brought along all of his remaining inventory, a type of seasoning similar to salt.

Su Ping was planning to add it to the bread as a reward for the elite members of the rat swarm.

After training these elites into a backbone through White and Grey, it would be possible to indirectly and quickly command the rest of the swarm.

Once the rat swarm could obey commands,

he could develop from training the swarm to enhancing and arming them.

Compared to the Rat Taoist, who could only increase the physical strength of the rats,

Su Ping felt that he could explore new ideas, like creating special-purpose Abnormal Rats within the swarm.

Such as explosive rats carrying bombs, or Poisonous Rats using toxins to attack, and so on.

As long as one is imaginative and willing to experiment,

Su Ping was quite optimistic about the potential of the rat swarm!