Clang! Clang!
Two flying swords stabbed against each other in the air, agile as dragons and snakes.
It was a man and a woman practicing flying sword assassination techniques.
As the two swords entangled, Xu Yue'er's eyes abruptly twitched, and an invisible mental fluctuation transmitted out. Instantly, the man opposite her trembled all over, seemingly unable to resist. Illusions multiplied, and various emotions were mobilized. His spirit could no longer manipulate the flying sword, and it fell to the ground with a clatter.
"So formidable! Senior Sister Xu, how are you so formidable? Your spirit skyrocketed! To actually be able to cause me to have multiplied illusions. What dharma formula have you cultivated in these ten days? Last time we were still evenly matched."
This male disciple managed to recover with great difficulty, stood up, panting slowly, his spirit still unsettled. Xu Yue'er's mental impact just now nearly turned him into an idiot.
"It is nothing much, I merely consumed the Taiyi Sect's spiritual pill, the Origin Infant Pill, every day. I didn't expect the Origin Infant Pill to be so wondrous. Taking it continuously for ten days made my qi and blood meld perfectly, breaking through my bottleneck. No wonder the Taiyi Sect is the number one immortal dao portal in the world. This Origin Infant Pill has laid a solid foundation in one fell swoop."
Xu Yue'er smiled faintly, and a crystal-clear pill appeared in her hand. In the center of the pill, a tiny phantom of an infant was vividly lifelike, displaying the miraculousness of creation.
"Ah! Origin Infant Pill!"
"It really is an Origin Infant Pill!"
"For Senior Sister to actually have Origin Infant Pills to consume, it seems the first place in this Mountain and River Ranking tournament belongs to none other than Senior Sister. I wonder where Senior Sister got the Origin Infant Pills from?"
Several surrounding inner sect disciples were all endlessly envious.
"This is not anything unusual. This Origin Infant Pill is not from the Taiyi Sect, but refined by Senior Brother Fang Han of the Samsara Peak. Senior Brother Fang Han actually possesses supreme divine abilities, able to refine Origin Infant Pills in massive quantities! He once rewarded the eight sisters of our Jialan Society, giving each person two hundred pills. Furthermore, in four or five months, the Mountain and River Ranking tournament will begin. I heard that for this Mountain and River Ranking tournament, the sect's rewards are even more generous, so everyone must work hard. Also, Senior Brother Fang Han recently has been recruiting disciples on Samsara Peak for refining pills, tending the fire, planting herbs, and raising spiritual beasts. You all can go check with Junior Sister Hongyi to see if you can get this job; when the time comes, Senior Brother Fang Han will reward you with Origin Infant Pills."
Ye Yu said indifferently, her few words hooking the interest of many disciples.
Xu Yue'er and Ye Yu were disciples of the Jialan Society that Fang Han acquainted with on the heavenly demon battlefield. Fang Han refined massive amounts of Origin Infant Pills and rewarded them firsthand, letting them spread the word everywhere to stir people's hearts.
"Fang Han, isn't that the person challenging Senior Brother Hua Tiandu? Is he this formidable now?"
"No wonder he dares to challenge Senior Brother Hua Tiandu, but where did he get so many medicinal materials to refine Origin Infant Pills?"
"Let's go take a look! If we can be rewarded with Origin Infant Pills, our martial arts can advance a step further. Otherwise, muddling along like this, we will never cultivate to the Divine Ability Realm in an entire lifetime…"
In just a few days, the news that Fang Han could refine massive amounts of "Origin Infant Pills" spread throughout the entire sect. Among the hundreds of thousands of inner and outer sect disciples, it became a buzzing sensation.
Massive numbers of disciples rushed to the foot of Samsara Peak, wanting to see Princess Hongyi and then become members of Samsara Peak. Princess Hongyi selected a few reliable inner sect disciples, rewarded each with ten Origin Infant Pills, and then stipulated that they could claim one Origin Infant Pill every day. Seeing that the matter was true, instantly, the disciples of the entire Yuhua Sect exploded in an uproar once again!
A supreme grade pill like the "Origin Infant Pill" was being continuously condensed out by Fang Han. This was equivalent to opening the granaries to distribute food during a famine!
The hearts of the disciples from both the inner and outer sects of the Yuhua Sect were completely thrown into chaos. Originally revering Hua Tiandu as a god, they were now gradually being turned around bit by bit by Fang Han.
Passing each day, Fang Han could refine three hundred and thirty-six Origin Infant Pills. His strength could be said to be growing more powerful day by day.
Not only were the hundreds of thousands of disciples of the inner and outer sects in an uproar, all sharpening their heads trying to drill their way onto Samsara Peak, but even true disciples began to stir restlessly.
True disciples also needed to consume pills to be able to cultivate. Only those at the Longevity Realm could eat qi, appearing divine and immortal un-dying.
On the southeast side of the Yuhua Sect mountains, a black mountain peak, seeming as if cast from fine iron, pierced into the sky. This was the mountain peak of an extremely formidable true disciple, called "Xuantie Peak."
On "Xuantie Peak," that disciple was called "Xuantie Zhenren," an expert who had cultivated to the sixth realm of divine abilities, the "Origin Return Realm." He synthesized various divine abilities into one talisman edict, myriad methods returning to one, possessing tremendous magic power, being a top-tier character within the Yuhua Sect. Although inferior to Central Tiandu, East Lingxiao, South Wanluo, West Jialan, and North Yaoguang, he was also a prominent figure in his region, receiving respect when going outside.
In the pill room of "Xuantie Peak," several true disciples were gathering.
The leader was naturally Xuantie Zhenren, a middle-aged man dressed entirely in black. Do not look down on his black clothes; it was an extremely formidable treasure artifact, a treasure called the "Xuantie Battle Robe," impervious to water, fire, thunder, and lightning.
He had excellently cultivated multiple divine abilities, having already fully cultivated all five elements, being almost equivalent to the Seven Leaves Demon Lord.
The other several disciples wore clothes of various colors, magic power rolling on their bodies. The quality of those clothes were surprisingly all treasure artifacts! And not the low-grade kind, but all middle-to-high-grade treasure artifacts, possessing immense power.
The temperament on their bodies was exactly the same as Fushou Zhenren and Luming Zhenren; they were all actually experts who had cultivated to the "Heaven-Man Realm."
This group of people could be considered the upper echelon among the true disciples of the Yuhua Sect.
If within a sect, realms above the Golden Pill are the pinnacle, then the fifth realm Heaven-Man Realm and the sixth realm Origin Return Realm are the upper echelon.
At this time, this Xuantie Zhenren pinched an "Origin Infant Pill" in his hand, looking at it left and right, and subsequently shook his head: "This Origin Infant Pill is truly refined by Fang Han himself. I have seen the Taiyi Sect's Origin Infant Pills, and their quality is not this high. The pill I am consuming now is merely the Foundation Building Pill, and I still have to painstakingly gather medicinal materials and capture heavenly demons to refine it, wasting so much of my cultivation time! Experts of the Heaven-Man Realm and Origin Return Realm also only have an eight-hundred-year lifespan, and over four hundred years have already passed for me. If I don't change, decades later, when my essence, qi, and spirit dry up, there will be even less hope, and I can only die of old age!"
"Indeed!" A true disciple beside him also nodded: "Historically in our Yuhua Sect, there have also been Heaven-Man Realm experts who died of old age. Once the essence, qi, and spirit begin to dry up, aging starts to go downhill, and no one can save them."
Experts of the Heaven-Man Realm and Origin Return Realm have an eight-hundred-year lifespan, but if they exceed five hundred years of age, they become elderly, their essence, qi, and spirit drying up. At that time, even with pills that increase lifespan, they cannot break through realms.
Only by cultivating to the Golden Pill can one increase their lifespan again to over a thousand years.
"If Fang Han could provide us with a massive amount of Origin Infant Pills every day, saving us the cultivation time spent refining medicine, it is not impossible for us to cooperate with him, lend him a hand, and oppose Hua Tiandu."
For a cultivator of the Divine Ability Realm, a lot of time is spent searching for medicinal materials and refining pills. A sect cannot possibly support you entirely. The elders within the sect also need to cultivate and also require pills. Always supporting a parasite would not conform to propriety.
"Since that is so, how about we go find Fang Han now? Currently, among our true disciples, aside from the five great experts of the east, south, west, north, and center, there are also several disciples at the Origin Return Realm, all wanting to successfully cultivate the Golden Pill. If we can get Fang Han's help this time, having him supply Origin Infant Pills, saving the effort of refining medicine, our certainty of successfully cultivating the Golden Pill will be much higher. Senior Brother Xuantie should strike first to gain the upper hand. Befriend that Fang Han. Moreover, that Fang Han possesses the Yellow Spring Diagram; begging a drop or two of Forgetfulness Water can expel the impurities in our gang qi. This would be enormously beneficial for condensing the Golden Pill!"
"Let's go, let's go find Fang Han!"
Another two true disciples of the Zhenren level rubbed their palms together.
It turns out when experts gather the various origin qis between heaven and earth, condense Daoist gang qi, and gather grand arrays, they inevitably come into contact with the various complex thoughts and emotional threads between heaven and earth, the so-called "worldly distracting thoughts."
Refining these distracting thoughts into one's own magic power makes it impure, which is a massive hindrance to cultivation. Especially when condensing the Golden Pill, it is even more extraordinarily difficult.
Between heaven and earth, there are things specifically meant to expel distracting thoughts and purify one's own gang qi, and Forgetfulness Water is the best cure. If an expert of the sixth realm of divine abilities, the "Origin Return Realm," obtained a drop of Forgetfulness Water, refined it properly, and used it to wash away distracting thoughts, forgetting the messy worldly emotions, then the certainty of successfully cultivating the Golden Pill would be much greater.
Even for experts who had successfully cultivated the Golden Pill, obtaining Forgetfulness Water could purify the Golden Pill to be even more flawless, allowing them to safely pass through when the eighth realm "Wind and Fire Great Tribulation" arrived.
If heaven had feelings, heaven too would grow old.
Legend has it that Forgetfulness Water is the holy water produced to help the will of heaven forget emotion.
Whether it is the Origin Infant Pill or Forgetfulness Water, they are things that cultivators and Qi Refiners dream of.
"Wait a moment!" Xuantie Zhenren saw his several junior brothers preparing to go to "Samsara Peak" to seek Fang Han and hurriedly stopped them: "Although Fang Han is a fellow disciple and junior brother to us, there is no emotional bond. If we rashly go there and demand massive amounts of Origin Infant Pills, as well as Forgetfulness Water from him, would he just give it?"
"He is also just an expert of the 'Heaven-Man Realm'; we are on equal footing with him. All belonging to the upper echelon among true disciples. For him to bring out a bit of Origin Infant Pills and Forgetfulness Water to accept us, even as a favor, it wouldn't be a loss for him." A true disciple with a high, straight nose bridge, very young, wearing dark golden clothes said. His tone carried a bit of arrogance. From his appearance, his aptitude was exceptionally high, supposedly a genius with an incredibly fast cultivation speed.
Indeed, this person was a rare genius, named Wu Li.
"Junior Brother Wu's words are inappropriate." Immediately, a true disciple shook his head: "He does not even fear Hua Tiandu; we cannot suppress him either."
"I actually can make him bring out massive amounts of Origin Infant Pills and Forgetfulness Water." Xuantie Zhenren said quietly: "He obtained the Yellow Spring Diagram, so presumably what he cultivates is the peerless demonic art, the Five Emperors Great Demonic Divine Abilities. These five divine abilities, in legends, once successfully cultivated, possess immense power. Standing neck and neck with the Taiyi Sect's Twelve Methods of the Mysterious Gates, the Three Disasters and Nine Calamities. However, they are also the most difficult to successfully cultivate. They require massive amounts of five-element essence qi. Without hundreds of years of continuous bitter cultivation day and night, grand completion is fundamentally impossible. With his賭约 with Hua Tiandu, how can he wait that long? Therefore, as long as we can provide him with five-element essence qi, he will surely offer up the Origin Infant Pills and Forgetfulness Water with both hands."
"Oh? Five-element essence qi is a good thing; every Qi Refiner must gather it. Where would we get it? Besides, if this person cultivates the Five Emperors Great Demonic Divine Abilities, regarding the White Emperor Metal Sovereign Slash within it, giving him a hundred mountains of gold and silver to absorb completely, he still might not necessarily be able to successfully cultivate it. Even letting him suck dry the multiple profound gold mineral veins of our Yuhua Sect is a bit implausible. The five-metal qi required by ten people cultivating the Great Freedom Profound Gold Sword Qi might not necessarily be enough for his use alone."
Wu Li sneered coldly.
"Have you forgotten? Five Elements Spiritual Roots!" Xuantie Zhenren licked his lips.