Chapter 221 – Soaring Cultivation
Wang Lin stared at the pill furnace while thinking about Yun Fei. He patted his storage bag and took out a piece of jade. This was the jade he had obtained from Yun Fei.
He placed the jade on the table and said, “This jade belongs to the person who owns the pill furnace. Let’s see if there’s any connection between them.”
Li Muwan’s beautiful eyes lit up. She picked up the jade and examined it. After a moment, she frowned slightly and whispered, “Qihuang Sect… this must be from the Qihuang Sect. The recipe inside this jade is definitely from the Qihuang Sect. Brother Wang, did you get this from the depths of the Sea of Devils?”
Wang Lin nodded.
Li Muwan bit her lower lip lightly and said, “Then, it must be the Qihuang Sect. The Qihuang Sect was originally a sect from a rank 4 nation, but after a conflict with an enemy sect, they moved to the Sea of Devils and disappeared without a trace. It seems like this pill furnace belongs to the Qihuang Sect, which means the method for unsealing it has been lost. Wan Er only knows that this seal cannot be opened carelessly. It requires a series of procedures and precise timing. If it is opened by force, it will damage the pill beside it. Furthermore, Wan Er feels that the pill is not ready yet. Even if we open it properly, the pill will not reach its intended potency if we leave it sealed for any longer.”
Wang Lin nodded silently. This was the only explanation why Yun Fei hadn’t opened it herself, but instead had tried to exchange it for the removal of her restrictions.
Li Muwan said with a determined expression, “Brother Wang, Wan Er will go to the Sky Cloud Sect’s library to see if there is any information on how to break the seal. If the pill is for increasing cultivation, then it will increase your chances of reaching the Nascent Soul stage.”
Li Muwan took out several bottles of pills and handed them to Wang Lin. After he explained the purpose of all the pills, Wang Lin left.
Wang Lin left the south courtyard under Li Muwan’s reluctant gaze. However, Wang Lin’s cultivation was too low. If he stayed with Li Muwan for too long, it would attract people’s attention.
Therefore, Wang Lin left the southern courtyard and decided to undergo closed-door training back in his room.
He and Li Muwan had already made arrangements and left each other transmission jades. Once she broke the seal, she would send the pill to him.
At the same time, for Li Muwan’s safety, Wang Lin left the devil Xu Liguo and the second devil to protect her. With the two of them working together, they should even be able to hold off a Nascent Soul Cultivator for a while.
That amount of time would be enough for Wang Lin’s main body to emerge. Furthermore, only demons related to Wang Lin would still be able to connect with him while he was inside the Heaven-Defying Bead’s space.
Just as Wang Lin walked out of the southern courtyard, a soft voice came from the white mist behind him.
“Your name is Wang Lin?”
Wang Lin’s footsteps stopped. He turned around and saw white mist billowing as a middle-aged man walked out. He was extremely handsome and graceful, possessing the aura of a fairy.
This person was the son of the outer sect elder Sun, Sun Zhenwei.
Wang Lin said calmly, “Yes.”
Zhen Wei flashed a friendly smile and chuckled, “Did you just go to see your teacher’s ancestors?”
Wang Lin sneered in his heart, but he nodded calmly.
Sun Zhenwei looked at Wang Lin and smiled, “In two months, I will also be someone who can be considered your teacher’s ancestor. You are very diligent, and that’s good. If you have any questions about alchemy, you can ask your teacher’s ancestor, and if you have any questions about cultivation, you can ask me.”
Wang Lin’s expression remained normal as he said calmly, “If there is nothing else, this disciple still has a batch of pills to take care of.”
Sun Zhenwei became angry and his face turned gloomy, but he soon smiled again. After glancing at Wang Lin, he took out a flying sword and said, “This flying sword is called Green Wind. Consider it a gift. Take it.” After that, he waved his hand and the sword flew toward Wang Lin and floated in front of him.
After Wang Lin received it, he cupped his hands in thanks, then turned and left.
Sun Zhenwei continued to smile as Wang Lin disappeared. A cold light flashed across his eyes as he secretly thought, “This brat is only at the Foundation Establishment stage, so he’ll be the perfect pawn to keep an eye on Li Muwan. Hmph, even if he suspects something is wrong with her cultivation, he won’t be able to find anything.”
Wang Lin walked back to his courtyard. After entering his room, he formed a restriction and placed it on the flying sword.
The flying sword emitted a cold light. Sun Zhenwei had given him the flying sword, as Wang Lin had predicted. At most, the flying sword was just a means of spying on him.
Wang Lin sneered. His restriction not only stopped the flying sword’s surveillance effect, but it also did so in a way that Sun Zhenwei wouldn’t notice.
After throwing the flying sword aside, he took a deep breath and placed his hand on his forehead to enter the Heaven-Defying Bead. Wang Lin knew that he was short on time. With the Heaven-Defying Bead, he had about two years.
There’s not much time left.
Wang Lin sat cross-legged in the beads that defied heaven and in front of him were more than 10 pill bottles. Some of the bottles were sealed with wax.
These pills were the best pills Li Muwan had ever refined in the past 200 years. They were all perfectly suited for her and would greatly increase her chances of reaching the Core Formation stage.
Wang Lin followed Li Muwan’s instructions and placed the bottles in the order he was supposed to drink them, from right to left. He picked up a bottle and broke the wax seal. A strong medicinal aroma wafted from it. Inside were 10 lychee-sized pills.
This pill is called the Qi-Zuo Pill. It is a tier 2 spirit pill. Using many rare ingredients, this pill not only provides a large amount of spiritual energy but also helps widen the channels in one’s body.
This Qi-Zuo Pill is one of the 18 rare pills of the old Luo He Sect. In the cultivation world, this pill is extremely rare, one level above the Foundation Establishment Pill.
What makes this pill so rare is its effect on channel widening. Even within the Sky Cloud Sect, there are few pills that can widen channels, and all of them are rank 4. Rank 2 pills that can widen channels are extremely rare.
Within the Sky Cloud Sect, there were only about 20 Qi-Zuo Pills and they were all made by Li Muwan.
Wang Lin took the pill and popped it into his mouth. Then, he immediately began cultivating. Spiritual energy flooded his body, and he immediately noticed the difference between it and the Foundation Establishment Pill. The Qi-Zuo Pill had more than double the spiritual energy of the Foundation Establishment Pill.
The boundless spiritual energy slowly calmed down as it was swallowed by the ancient god’s tactics. After a while, Wang Lin swallowed another pill.
Time passed slowly, and Wang Lin’s cultivation had reached the late Foundation Establishment stage after consuming all the Qi-Zuo Pills. This method of consuming pills that ignored any negative consequences was something only Wang Lin was willing to do.
It must be said that even in some pills specifically designed for cultivation methods, no one would consume this many pills in such a short time. First of all, absorption is a huge issue. Absorption time varies depending on the pill, but it takes at least several days, or even longer, to absorb all the spiritual energy in a pill so that none of it is wasted.
Besides the scarcity of the ingredients for the pill, cultivators didn’t want to waste it, so they absorbed as much spiritual energy as possible. However, the pill contained a significant amount of spiritual energy. Absorbing too much at once would not only be ineffective, but would also increase the likelihood of demons possessing the cultivator.
And if the pill is consumed too much in a short period of time, or in other words, if the cultivation is increased too quickly in a short period of time, then although it will not harm the body, it will have a fatal impact on subsequent cultivation.
However, Wang Lin experienced none of these problems. First of all, with the ancient god’s tactics, the spiritual energy within the pill was rapidly absorbed. As for its effects on future cultivation, this was merely an avatar, not the main body. In fact, an avatar was essentially just a super “pill.”
However, the power contained in this “pill” surpassed that of any ordinary pill. It was a human-shaped pill designed to help his main body break through to the Nascent Soul stage.
After consuming all the Qi-Zhuo Pills, Wang Lin took the second bottle. He wasn’t sure how difficult it would be for his avatar to reach the Core Formation stage. It should be said that back then, using the Underworld Ascension Method, he had formed three sub-cores, then fused them together to create a core embryo. Later, only after taking a series of pills from Li Muwan did he finally reach the Core Formation stage.
Li Muwan didn’t name the pill, but said that Wang Lin would know when he saw it. She broke the wax seal, then looked inside the bottle and smiled faintly.
Inside the bottle were five purple pills. Wang Lin immediately recognized them as the Tian Li pills he had taken before.
It seemed that Li Muwan had spent a great deal of blood and sweat over the past 200 years to refine this Tian Li Pill again. In fact, this was true. The Tian Li Pill was a tier 3 pill, and its ingredients had become extinct along with the country of Hou Fen. Only after coming to the Heavenly Cloud Sect and using her status as an elder did Li Muwan manage to obtain the ingredients to refine more.
However, even the Sky Cloud Sect didn’t have many of these ingredients. After refining these five pills, they had all used up.
In fact, most of the ingredients for the pill Wang Lin took were obtained by Li Muwan from the Heavenly Cloud Sect. It could be said that Wang Lin’s cultivation expenses this time were entirely covered by the Heavenly Cloud Sect.