Translator: AnubisTL
"It seems the immortal dao civilization of the Autumn Mountain Domain was once incredibly prosperous. To find so many treasures within this small book pavilion is truly remarkable."
After searching the book pavilion for an unknown length of time, Li Qing now held three jade slips and a thin, folded sheet of paper, his voice filled with satisfaction.
These were the several highly valuable immortal dao inheritances he had discovered over the past few days!
The first jade slip contained a third-tier pill refinement heritage! Even true lords in the core formation realm would be tempted by this.
It not only detailed advanced pill refinement techniques but also included two extraordinary pill formulas:
Spirit Nourishing Pill.
Main Ingredients: Third-tier demon beast inner core, five-hundred-year-old Heaven Origin Flower, Azure Moon Root.
Auxiliary Ingredients: Hundred-year-old Purple Blood Ginseng sap, Spirit-Corroding Fruit essence.
This complex formula required multiple spirit herbs and a priceless third-tier demon beast inner core!
Yet the Spirit Nourishing Pill's effect was simple and direct: to enhance cultivation!
That's right—it was a pill capable of advancing a core formation realm cultivator's mana and accelerating their cultivation progress!
Though its function was straightforward and crude, this alone demonstrated the formula's immense value.
In the Great Wilderness Domain, Li Qing had never heard of any medicinal pills capable of enhancing a core formation realm cultivator's mana. Only heaven-defying substances like dragon marrow could produce such miraculous effects.
Of course, Li Qing's ignorance didn't mean such pills didn't exist. The Moonchase Palace's Pure Moon Pill, for example, was rarely known outside the sect.
Even if some sects or rogue cultivators possessed such pill formulas, they would never allow them to circulate.
The moment these highly confidential formulas were leaked, the raw materials required for refining these pills would become scarce and nearly impossible to find worldwide.
Such pill formulas were the lifeblood of cultivation sects, even essential to their survival.
"The Spirit Nourishing Pill... Putting aside everything else, if I were to sell this formula, it would fetch an astronomical price."
He was certain that powerful cultivation sects like the Ghost Sword Sect or Taiyi Sect wouldn't hesitate to add such a valuable pill formula to their collections.
However, Li Qing was equally convinced that these mighty cultivation giants wouldn't hesitate to forcibly seize such a precious formula from a mere rogue cultivator like himself.
It was clear that trading this pill formula was out of the question. Such a precious formula had to be kept in his own hands.
But another problem arose: even with the formula, he didn't know how to refine pills!
Fortunately, I now possess a complete third-tier pill refinement heritage, Li Qing thought with a sigh. Even if I don't know how now, I can learn later. With my long lifespan, there's no need to worry about biting off more than I can chew.
TL/N: Now we are talking!
Li Qing sighed, realizing he might have to moonlight as a Pill Refiner in the future.
Besides the Spirit Nourishing Pill, the alchemy inheritance contained a second pill formula, equally heaven-defying and perhaps even rarer than the Spirit Nourishing Pill itself:
Mortal Transformation Pill.
Main Ingredients: Transformation Fruit, blood marrow from an extraordinary bloodline demon beast, millennial spirit wood.
Auxiliary Ingredients: Blood Fusion Branch, Warm Sun Grass, Yin Condensation Flower Pollen.
Note: The demon beast blood marrow can be substituted with the essence blood from a powerful physique, such as the Innate Dao Physique, Profound Yin Physique, Pure Yang Physique, or Savage Ancient Sacred Physique, but the efficacy will be slightly reduced unless two or more such bloodlines are combined!
Just reading the main ingredients listed in the formula made Li Qing swallow hard, feeling dizzy and lightheaded.
First, the transformation fruit. Li Qing had never heard of such a fruit in all his years of cultivation. And it wasn't due to his ignorance; since arriving in the Great Wilderness Domain, he had diligently studied the knowledge of the immortal cultivation world.
As for the blood marrow of an extraordinary bloodline demon beast, it referred to the creature's essence blood and bone marrow.
What kind of demon beast bloodline could be considered "extraordinary"?
If you lacked a clear concept, just look at the footnote at the bottom: its lower-tier substitutes were some of the most heaven-defying cultivation physiques in the immortal cultivation world!
And these were merely lower-tier substitutes. Using just one would slightly diminish the effect; at least two were required to barely match the so-called extraordinary bloodline demon beast.
"Damn it, could this 'extraordinary demon beast blood marrow' actually be true spirit bloodline?"
Even the usually composed Li Qing couldn't help but curse aloud.
He finally understood: this pill formula was deliberately designed to be impossible. Even if he sold himself, he couldn't afford these main ingredients!
Now, Li Qing strongly suspected that the formula's tier was far higher than Third-Tier. It was likely a Fourth-Tier or even higher heaven-defying pill formula, but for some reason, it had been included in this Third-Tier pill refinement heritage.
It's possible the original owner of this alchemy inheritance stumbled upon this pill formula by chance and then included it along with the two most precious formulas in his possession.
"A third-tier pill refiner obtaining blood marrow from a demon beast with a true spirit bloodline?"
"And this transformation fruit... I doubt even a handful of people in the Great Wilderness Domain have ever heard of such a thing!"
Despite his grumbling, Li Qing's eyes burned with desire for the Mortal Transformation Pill's effects.
Mortal Transformation, Mortal Transformation... It promised to metamorphose one's fleshly body from mortal to divine, making one naturally attuned to the Dao and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, thereby drastically accelerating cultivation speed.
"Refining the Mortal Transformation Pill is impossible. The difficulty of gathering even the primary and auxiliary ingredients is absurd. It's far more practical to focus on the Spirit Nourishing Pill."
At least he recognized the spirit herbs required for the Spirit Nourishing Pill, unlike the Mortal Transformation Pill, which listed ingredients he'd never even heard of.
The other two jade slips contained less information than the alchemy inheritance, but their value was no less extraordinary, making Li Qing's heart pound with excitement.
Hundred Treasures Body Refinement Art!
This body refinement secret technique allowed one to forge magical treasures into one's fleshly body, granting it the durability of a magical artifact!
If the fleshly body could attain the strength of a magical treasure, what kind of power would that grant? Once this technique was mastered, one would be virtually invincible in the Human Realm, wouldn't they?
Of course, that assumed one possessed enough magical treasures and truly mastered the technique.
The final jade slip contained a secret technique to greatly enhance a core formation realm cultivator's mana.
The Origin Forging Cultivation Manual!
This technique was divided into three stages, corresponding to the early, mid, and late Core Formation Realms.
Upon mastering it, one's mana would far surpass that of cultivators at the same level. At its peak, even a late-stage core formation cultivator could wield mana comparable to an early Nascent Soul Realm cultivator.
Mana as vast as the sea—this was no mere figure of speech.
However, such heaven-defying power came at a price: the cultivation process was exceptionally arduous and demanding.
Finally, Li Qing held a folded sheet of paper—or rather, a map.
More precisely, it was a treasure map!
It detailed the layout of a secret realm within the Autumn Mountain Domain, a realm that once housed a heavenly spirit fire.
By following this map, one could locate that extremely well-hidden secret realm.
"Heavenly spirit fire... It's actually heavenly spirit fire," Li Qing murmured to himself, his eyes burning with intense heat.
He never imagined that the second piece of information about heavenly spirit fire would come from the World of Eternal Night.
But a crucial question remained: this world had entered the End of Dao Era. Could heavenly spirit fire still exist here?
"Heavenly spirit fire is a heaven-defying entity. While the End of Dao Era might have extinguished the flames, its fire seed would never be easily extinguished!"
"If I can find that fire seed and bring it back to the Great Wilderness Domain, there's a chance I can reignite it!"
With these words, Li Qing repeatedly scanned the map's information, imprinting it deeply into his mind, ensuring he would never forget it.
Having already possessed one heavenly spirit fire, Li Qing spoke with considerable authority on the matter.
He knew how indestructible heavenly spirit fire truly was. Even the End of Dao Era could only temporarily suppress it, not extinguish it completely.
"Fortunately, I've already achieved core formation. Now I can stay in this world longer!"
"Regardless, I must investigate this secret realm."
(End of the Chapter)
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