Chapter 181: Understanding the Cultivation World (2/2)
The reason why all these people were willing to join the Kunlun Sect was because they hoped to look for a backer. At the same time, they wanted to attain natural resources from the sect to assist their cultivation. But as ordinary disciples, especially for the Secular World Kunlun, the resources they received were truly too little. Every month, they would only receive 10 low-grade Qi Gathering Pills. It also meant that if they were to use them sparingly, it would only last them for ten days. Furthermore, all of them were low-grade Qi Gathering Pills. What kind of miraculous effect could it possibly bring? As for spiritual stones, they received one spiritual stone each month, but they were all low-grade.
To these ordinary disciples, this miserly amount of pills was too little. But to a sect, it was already something that was seen as generous. Not every pill master was as amazing as Cheng Yu. Not only was Cheng Yu’s refinement speed fast, the quality was also very good. Furthermore, for these low rank pills, Cheng Yu’s success rate for refinement was 100%. But the skill of those Pill Masters in these sects were very ordinary. Pill Masters were very unique in the Cultivation World. So much so that they could be considered a treasure. However, usually, all these Pill Masters would not have a high cultivation level. Even if their cultivation level was decent, they did not possess any extraordinary cultivation method. If they were not roped in by a sect or not willing to become one of the sect’s assets, the sect would naturally not wish for the Pill Master to live.
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Cheng Yu’s teacher, Daoist Xuanling, died because of this. Daoist Xuanling was a loose cultivator and had attained a Golden Core Realm cultivation. To an ordinary person, for a loose cultivator to reach Golden Core Realm was very hard to achieve. But since Daoist Xuanling was a Pill Master, he would naturally be a lot faster than others. But since Daoist Xuanling possessed a Golden Core Realm cultivation, his cultivation method was not based on alchemy. In terms of aggressiveness, it was very ordinary, to the point where even when he was fighting against a similar Golden Core Realm expert, he would not be able to compete against him. Ultimately, a cultivation sect, Tianhai Sect wanted to rope Daoist Xuanling in. But Daoist Xuanling was someone who treasured being free and easy. He did not like being restricted to one place.
Tianhai Sect saw that they were not able to get Daoist Xuanling to join them, so they sent people to slaughter him. In order to let Cheng Yu escape, Daoist Xuanling exploded his golden core and died while blocking Tianhai Sect’s people from chasing Cheng Yu.
Each and every day, whenever Cheng Yu recalled how his teacher had chosen to explode his golden core just to protect him, Cheng Yu would become extremely sad with tears flowing down his eyes. At that time, Cheng Yu was still a small Foundation Establishment Realm cultivator. In order not to be found by Tianhai Sect’s members, he hid in all the corners of the world. Ultimately, he had unknowingly obtain the Arts of Derivation From All Living Things from Daoist Wansheng’s grave. This caused Cheng Yu to slowly raise in fame as a loose cultivator as well as a Pill Master.
Therefore, there were pros and cons of being a Pill Master. Furthermore, it was extremely harsh for a Pill Master to produce a big quantity of pills in one go. Take the secular Kunlun for an example. They had hundreds of disciples with only one Pill Master. Besides, the Pill Master’s cultivation was not high. Within a month, it was not that hard to refine thousands of low-grade Qi Gathering Pills. But it was impossible for him to prepare so many including the ones needed for accumulation. Besides, there were also chances of him failing in the refining process. This made the difficulty even higher.
However, when Cheng Yu heard that a Qi Gathering Pill of his would be able to exchange for three spiritual stones, he still felt that it was quite worth it. To him, refining the Qi Gathering Pill was not hard. However, he only currently had a couple thousand with him. It seemed like he would need to look for a secluded location and refine more someday. This time, when Cheng Yu crossed over to the Cultivation World, he had filled the storage rings of Fang Wenxuan and Guan Shiyuan with the herbs he had gotten from Lan Ya. He had even brought his pill cauldron as well.
Cheng Yu still had some foresight. As a Pill Master, he could not distance himself from the need of refining pills. It was just that he could not spend too much time in the Cultivation World refining pills, but had just prepared in case. Besides, a Qi Gathering Pill could be exchanged for three low-grade spiritual stones. He could refine hundreds within a day. Wouldn’t it be making a thousand spiritual stones then? This might seem like a lot to others, but to Cheng Yu, this was truly too little. Even if he were to refine for a year incessantly, he would at most be able to get 400,000 spiritual stones.
400,000 low-grade spiritual stones might seem to be a lot, but in the Cultivation World, it could not be counted as much. Even if it was just ordinary armaments, it would cost him thousands of low-grade stones. If it was a top-grade armament, it couldn’t be bought even for 100,000 low-grade spiritual stones. To sum it up, Cheng Yu would never do such a thing that was strenuous, yet unrewarding. After refining for a year, he could not even purchase a top-grade armament, so why should he do that?
Therefore, this trip to the Cultivation World, Cheng Yu had a few goals. Earning a large amount of spiritual stones was one of the goals. Promoting his strength and obtaining a few armaments were the most important ones. When Cheng Yu was in Yunhai, he had already been paying attention for a lot of stuff. He knew that in the Secular World, there were lots of materials that could be used to craft armaments, but it was a pity that Cheng Yu did not know how to craft them. He had spent a tremendous amount of strength crafting just a storage ring. Furthermore, the crafting method was too crude and it was only a space that was 2x2x2 meters big. After placing the cauldron in, there was basically no space for anything else.
Following that, Cheng Yu had also inquires about other state of affairs in the Cultivation World and he also found out that Kunlun Mountain was not as small as he had imagined it to be. The real Kunlun Mountain was located inside the restriction. The secular Kunlun stronghold was basically at the rim of the Kunlun Mountain range and it was easier for them to manage their Secular World matters.
After bidding farewell to the few Daoists, Cheng Yu advanced towards the depths of Kunlun. He wanted to find out about the situation in Kunlun. However, he must not be seen by these daoists. Therefore, he walked towards the opposite direction of the Kunlun Mountains.
“Senior Brother Lin, this kid is definitely a big landlord. How about we find an opportunity to…” When they saw Cheng Yu’s back fading, one of the Daoist signalled by holding up his finger across his neck as he suggested to his fellow daoists.