Chapter 1331 (1/2)

Chapter 1331: 1331

The ancient castle felt like a giant beast emitting a desolate aura . Once Zhao Xiang led Long Chen into the palace, they weren’t checked or questioned . Zhao Xiang simply greeted the guards and walked in with Long Chen .

Once they were inside, Long Chen saw that the entire castle was supported by a huge formation . The spiritual qi inside was several times denser than outside, which made Long Chen once more sigh at Pill Valley’s wealth .

Long Chen saw that this place, which was a holy land to alchemists, was bustling with activity . He saw quite a few young disciples walking around . But they all seemed to be in a rush and ignored him .

The thing that shocked him was that some of them were extremely young . Some only looked to be sixteen or seventeen, and their cultivation bases were only in the Meridian Opening realm .

“Pill Valley cares about alchemy, not cultivation base . The younger the disciple, the more potential that can be unlocked while they’re in Pill Valley . And the lower their cultivation bases, the more room for their Spiritual Strength to grow . So it’s normal for you to see disciples with low cultivation bases . However, the compet.i.tion between disciples is intense . Those who can enter Pill Valley are all alchemy geniuses . But even geniuses become ordinary people here .

“Geniuses are all used to being arrogant existences wors.h.i.+pped by others, so when they come here, they all go all-out cultivating . There’s practically no need to encourage them . You see how busy they are . Even friends will only nod toward you in pa.s.sing . That’s because they feel that speaking is a waste of time . They need to spend all their time on cultivation,” explained Zhao Xiang .

“Wow, is there a need to go all-out like this?” Long Chen was stunned . They didn’t even want to waste the time to speak?

Long Chen felt like he had been training hard, but now in comparison, it seemed that he was a slacker .

“Hehe, they have no choice . Sometimes, just honor and glory are enough to drive a person to do their best . Everyone wants to stand above others and not be trampled on . Within Pill Valley, alchemy is everything, so they have no choice but to cultivate their alchemy arts to the peak . As long as your alchemy arts are great enough, you can get whatever you want . Furthermore, alchemists walk a different path from ordinary cultivators . They don’t need to remain hasty . As long as you become strong enough, you can get as many resources and beauties as you want . You won’t even need to ask; they’ll simply flock toward you . Hehe, you understand!” Zhao Xiang winked at Long Chen .

The benefits were this great? It seemed living in Pill Valley would be amazing .

For normal cultivators, once they reached the Xiantian realm, they could theoretically start producing progeny . And that wouldn’t stop them from advancing in the future .

But the majority of cultivators wouldn’t start doing so immediately after reaching the Xiantian realm . That was because the higher the realm of the parents, the greater the purity of their Spirit Blood, and the greater chance their progeny would inherit their bloodline and be termed geniuses .

That was why most cultivators would cultivate until they reached their peak before they considered getting a partner and creating progeny .

For male cultivators, they would usually find one or more Dao-companions after reaching the Xiantian realm, but they wouldn’t have progeny .

For males, becoming Dao-companions with someone else wouldn’t cause any problems for them . But female cultivators normally wouldn’t choose to become Dao-companions .

This related to problems of the heart . For many men, women were like wealth to be gained, and this satisfied their desire to conquer others . But they didn’t have that many real emotions toward this act .

But for women, when it came to these matters, especially during their first time, it caused large ripples in their hearts . Normally, they would only dual cultivate with the one they loved .

This was different from the att.i.tude of male cultivators . As for what was different, it was that one cared about the heart, while the other cared about appearances .

For a woman to love a man represented a large change in their mental realm . Losing their virginity would definitely cause their mental realm to become chaotic for a while .

Cultivation was like rowing against the tide . If you weren’t moving forward, you were going back . So for men, dual cultivation wouldn’t normally cause that big of an impact, but it would cause quite the impact for women .

Unless the woman simply didn’t love the man and was also simply doing it for his looks, in which case she could also get the same benefits . But normally, the gains didn’t make up for the losses .

But alchemists were different . Even women didn’t need to care that much about that aspect . As long as their talent and comprehension were high enough, they didn’t need to necessarily maintain a perfectly clear heart .

That was why Pill Valley didn’t prohibit their disciples from doing such things . Zhao Xiang was telling Long Chen this to give him motivation . After all, he was a man .

Zhao Xiang explained Pill Valley’s rules and restrictions on the way . It was about the same as any sect .

They quickly arrived at a stately building . This was the Pill Management Department, a place where all the new disciples went to register themselves . They were also in charge of all the missions inside Pill Valley .

With Zhao Xiang leading the way, the process was very simple . Long Chen simply handed over his badge, and the rest was left up to Zhao Xiang . It was quickly handled .

Long Chen obtained a new badge, a true disciple badge .

“This is an inner disciple’s badge . It’s not that useful and just part of the process . Your goal is the Divine Pill Hall, a place where the elite disciples cultivate . The treatment they get there is a thousand times better than what an inner disciple will ever get!