PLOP! PLOP! PLOP! Zhang Bin and the other two plunged into the water.
They continued the search.
However, after searching for more than an hour, they still hadn’t found it. That one elixir had completely escaped.
"What a trendous loss! Such a pity!" Li Taiqing beat his chest and stamped his feet, his face wracked with pain and regret.
"Isn’t it just one Nascent Soul Pill? There are still eight left, so it’s no great loss," Zhang Bin said comfortingly, though he also felt a tinge of regret, he wasn’t nearly as heartbroken.
"What the hell do you know? That was an elixir that had gained sentience! It was no longer a simple Nascent Soul Pill. If we had caught it, eating it might have allowed us to ascend to the Immortal Realm imdiately," Li Taiqing said, exasperated.
"Holy shit... How is that even possible?"
Zhang Bin was astonished, barely able to believe his own ears. So a pill I refined has turned into an Immortal Pill? No wonder it refused to be caught. It knew that if I caught it, I would eat it. What a tragic fate.
"That’s what the legends say. An elixir that survives a Heavenly Tribulation and becos a Pill Demon is a true Immortal Pill. It absorbs the dicinal power of the thunder and undergoes a miraculous transformation. Consuming such an elixir allows one to ascend amidst a radiant glow," Li Taiqing said with another sigh.
"Thunder has dicinal power? How co I never knew that?" Zhang Bin asked in astonishnt.
"Thunder is one of the most miraculous Spiritual dicines in the world. That’s why a Nascent Soul Pill must endure thunder and absorb its dicinal power to truly be considered a Nascent Soul Pill," Li Taiqing said. "When we cultivators break through a major bottleneck, we must face a Heavenly Tribulation. In essence, our bodies must absorb the dicinal power of thunder to undergo the final, drastic transformation."
"There’s that kind of interpretation of the Heavenly Tribulation?" Zhang Bin was dumbstruck.
"Of course, and it’s true. That elixir just absorbed a massive amount of thunder’s dicinal power, which is what turned it into a true Immortal Pill. It’s a pity we weren’t fated to have it," Li Taiqing sighed.
"Don’t worry. Next ti I’ll perform alchemy inside the City of Gold with the gates sealed shut. I’ll refine a bunch of Immortal Pills. Every Taiqing Sect Disciple gets one, my parents each get one, and we’ll all ascend to the Immortal Realm," Zhang Bin said nonchalantly. "After all, I have plenty of blood."
"Pfft..."
Li Taiqing burst out laughing. Even Chiang Xue, who was listening nearby, couldn’t help but laugh as well.
"Am I wrong?" Zhang Bin asked, stunned.
"Of course you’re wrong. You will absolutely never be able to refine a second Immortal Pill," Li Taiqing said. "Immortal Pills can’t be refined so casually. They require an imnse number of coincidences and fortuitous encounters. Things like the ti, place, climate, temperature, and the alchemical ingredients. I suspect one of the herbs you used this ti must have had a fortuitous encounter of its own, giving it a special dicinal power."
"The ingredients had a fortuitous encounter?" Zhang Bin had a strange look on his face.
"Yes, ingredients can have fortuitous encounters, just like us cultivators," Li Taiqing said. "For example, the place where the herb grew might have contained real Dragon Blood, or so strange mineral. Or perhaps a special teorite landed there."
"Alright, alright, I get it. The ingredients can have their own fortuitous encounters, and the Immortal Pill I refined was the result of many coincidences converging," Zhang Bin said. "Now I just want to know, what will happen to that Immortal Pill in the future?"
"That... I don’t know either. Perhaps it will also ascend to the Immortal Realm," Li Taiqing said, looking completely clueless. Who could possibly know what happens to an Immortal Pill?
Just then, all the disciples of the Taiqing Sect flew over.
Liu Ruoi shouted from afar, "Brother-in-law, that’s my pet! Quick, give it to !"
Whenever she wanted sothing from Zhang Bin, she just had to call him "Brother-in-law," and he found it impossible to refuse. This was because she had two identities: one was Zhang Bin’s secret lover, and the other, his sister-in-law.
"I didn’t catch it. It escaped," Zhang Bin said with a wry smile.
"You’re all so powerful, yet you couldn’t even catch one sentient elixir?" Liu Ruoi’s eyes widened, her face a mask of disbelief.
Zhang Bin and the others then detailed what had happened.
Everyone was thoroughly shaken. My goodness, an Immortal Pill? Eating it lets you ascend to the Immortal Realm? How is that possible?
It took a long while for them to compose themselves.
Ma Rufei even chuckled and said, "Have you all forgotten the saying ’a blessing in disguise’? The Immortal Pill fled, but perhaps it will return in the future with a whole group of Immortal Pills."
"That’s right! I even heard the Immortal Pill call Eldest Senior Brother ’Mama’! It clearly knows Zhang Bin created it, so it might co back soday."
"That would probably have to wait until we’re in the Immortal Realm. The pill might return with more of its kind then, since there are no other Immortal Pills on Earth."
"..."
Chen Chaoyue, Zhang Haijun, and the other disciples all began to discuss the matter excitedly, their faces alight with fervor.
Of course, Zhang Bin wasn’t as naïve as they were. An escaped Immortal Pill would never return. However, he didn’t feel too regretful. Even if he had obtained the pill, he wouldn’t have consud it himself. If he ascended, he would likely be a low-ranking Immortal, bullied by the giants of the Immortal Realm. That was not an appealing prospect.
It was better to stay grounded, growing stronger one step at a ti. He would cultivate his Dragon Body, develop his Innate Spiritual Tree, and then ascend to the Immortal Realm to beco a true powerhouse.
「Half a month flashed by.」
Zhang Bin once again took Li Taiqing, Chiang Xue, and the seven enchantresses to the Dragon Palace for cultivation.
During this half-month, the seven enchantresses had each taken a Condensing Crystal Pill refined by Zhang Bin, advancing to the Golden Core Realm. By furiously refining Spirit Stones and converting them into True Qi, they continued to cultivate until they reached the Golden Core Realm Great Perfection.
After all, they were once cultivators at the Mid Nascent Soul stage, so their bodies converted True Qi at an incredible speed. With the help of True Essence Pills and Spirit Stones, it was as if they were simply and rapidly restoring their forr cultivation levels.
As for Chiang Xue, her progress was also swift. She had long ago reached the Great Perfection of the Liquid State. Since she had cultivated to the Integration Realm Complete Perfection in her past life, her body’s speed of converting True Qi was much faster than even the seven enchantresses.
However, Zhang Bin felt her soul was too weak to permit such rapid breakthroughs. She had to diligently practice the Pure Heart Mystique every day to purify her soul, and in the future, she would need to practice a cultivation technique to strengthen it. Otherwise, she would still find it difficult to break through to the Ascension Realm.
After another grueling month of cultivation, the seven enchantresses and Li Taiqing reached the point where they could no longer improve. Their bodies had reached their limit for absorbing Dragon Qi.
Zhang Bin then had them take the Nascent Soul Pills to begin their breakthroughs.
In any other sect, even a single cultivator taking a Nascent Soul Pill to break through would be a montous occasion requiring extre caution. Yet, in the Taiqing Sect, eight cultivators were attempting to break through to the Nascent Soul Realm at once.
How incredible was that?
According to the rules of cultivation, the probability of breaking through to the Nascent Soul Realm was one in a thousand. This ant that out of a thousand cultivators at the Golden Core Realm Great Perfection, only one could successfully reach the Nascent Soul Realm. They would either fail the breakthrough attempt or die during the subsequent Heavenly Tribulation.
Nevertheless, Zhang Bin was filled with confidence about their breakthroughs.
There was absolutely no issue for the seven enchantresses, as they had once cultivated to the Mid Nascent Soul stage.
As for Li Taiqing, he had absorbed a trendous amount of Dragon Qi, and the temperature of his Pill Fire had risen to just over 20,000 degrees. His chances of breaking through the bottleneck were practically infinite.
At this mont, the eight of them, plus Chiang Xue, were seated cross-legged on nine different peaks of Great Green Mountain.
Yes, after more than a month of absorbing Dragon Qi for cultivation, Zhang Bin felt that Chiang Xue was also ready to form her Golden Core. So, she was attempting to break through to the Golden Core Realm.
anwhile, Zhang Bin and all the other disciples watched from another mountain peak. Observing such a process was beneficial for every disciple’s cultivation.
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