Chapter 81: Let’s Try Our Luck (2/2)

Other than talent in pill refining, one’s talent in cultivation was equally important for a pill refiner. As the tier of the pills being refined increases, the demands towards the pill refiner’s cultivation increases commensurately. If a pill refiner’s cultivation is too low, it would be difficult for him to refine higher tier pills.

However, Mo Wuji never thought that his talent for cultivation was a problem, as his rate of cultivation was simply too fast. The thing that was on his mind was Yan Qianyin’s words. If he really joined the sect and became their pill master, he would gain access to the library. Who knew, maybe he would get the chance to join the lessons of the Sect Technique Master. At this point, Mo Wuji quickly replied, “If I can become a pill master of the sect, I’ll definitely agree, but it can’t be this easy right?”

Yan Qianyin sighed, and answered him confidently, “As a Tier 1 Pill Master, you’ll be very useful to the sect. I can recommend you to join the sect, and become one of the sect’s pill masters. Just that your talent for cultivation is very limited, so I cannot guarantee that you’ll get sufficient resources for pill refining.”

What resources for pill refining, Mo Wuji did not care at all. Since he arrived at the Formless Blade Mountain a month ago, he had already enjoyed many benefits from the sect already. “Senior apprentice sister Yan, I will be satisfied as long as I am able to enter the library to study, and listen to some elders’ lessons. As for the resources for cultivation and pill refining, I don’t really mind.” Mo Wuji said.

Yan Qianyin did not have any of the arrogance that other Tier 4 Earth Pill Refiner had, hence once Mo Wuji changed his tone, the relationship between them improved.

Hearing that Mo Wuji had little requests, Yan Qianyin lightly chuckled, “Don’t worry, as a pill master of the sect, regardless of whether you’re a Tier 1 Pill Refiner, your position in the sect will be already much higher than most ordinary disciples. These requests of yours are all something that disciples would ask for, so there naturally won’t be any problems meeting them.”

“Senior apprentice sister Yan, what happened to you previously? It seemed as though all life was sucked out of you?” With Yan Qianyin’s assurance, Mo Wuji could relax a little, and his mind moved onto the scene before him not that long ago. Yan Qianyin’s mood took a sudden change for the worse. Her peaceful demeanor quickly switched to become very serious, and at the same time, she stood up.

After mulling over something for a few minutes, she took a look at Mo Wuji and asked, “Junior apprentice brother Mo, there is a great treasure out here. But there is equally great danger associated with it. If you’re not careful, you’ll end up like me previously, drained of life energy. Would you dare to try your luck at it with me?”

“Oh, so you nearly lost all of your life energy for the treasure?” Mo Wuji finally understood what was going on. Yan Qianyin nodded her head and replied, “You’re right, I suspect that the place I was at had the Peerless Blade Technique and Skill that one of the past sect heads had left behind, or even more than that. However, you can’t get close to that location at all, once you move nearer to it, your life energy will get sucked away.”

“Do you still have any more of those Elementary Life Pills?” Mo Wuji thought of Yan Qianyin’s previous situation and a lightbulb lit up above his head. However, Yan Qianyin shook her head, “No, I do not. Since you have chosen the path of cultivation, if you don’t struggle through such adversity, how could you ever achieve anything?” After all this, Mo Wuji still did not want to go. There were many other ways for him to improve his cultivation. It wasn’t that he was afraid of dying. If he was, then he wouldn’t have staked his life to use lightning energy to train his meridians. The true reason behind his reluctance to follow Yan Qianyin was that there was simply too much risk involved, and there was nothing that really attracted his attention. To put his life on the line like that would be plain stupid.

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