Cultivation begins with separation.

Chapter 400 The Jade Plate for Mending the Sky
Following the instructions of Tai Chu Zi Xing, Zhan Mingyue began her meditation practice to break through to the next level.

Tianjian Mountain, the fourth floor of the Immortal Pill Pavilion.

As a man with sharp eyebrows and bright eyes looked at rows of pills and pondered what to buy, a sense of loss suddenly arose in his heart, as if something important was leaving him.

Qi Qi's expression was not good. He had lived for eighteen years and had been in the cultivation world for three years.

During these three years, he had a smooth journey, rising from an outer disciple of Tianjian Mountain to an inner disciple and then to the core, becoming a well-known genius in Tianjian Mountain.

Such smooth sailing is naturally due to several major opportunities encountered over the past three years.

He has experienced both the feeling of encountering and losing opportunities.

At this moment, this feeling is all too familiar.

"Damn it, who stole my opportunity?"

Qi Qi stared intently in one direction, his eyes gradually becoming bloodshot.

"Fellow Daoist, are you still going to buy the pills or not?"

A female cultivator at the third level of Qi Refining lazily spoke:

"If you're not going to buy, then don't delay the other fellow cultivators."

Du Wei used to be a rogue cultivator from Tianjian Mountain. When he saw the disciples of the Tianjian Mountain sect, he didn't even dare to raise his head.

However, everything changed after she was hired as a disciple of the Immortal Pill Pavilion. She no longer paid attention to ordinary sect disciples.

The Immortal Pill Pavilion is guarded by a Nascent Soul cultivator.

There are many female cultivators like Du Wei who have been recruited by the Immortal Pill Pavilion during their visits to Tianjian Mountain.

The Immortal Pill Pavilion itself is a magical building, with eighteen floors, each floor containing hundreds of small compartments for different kinds of pills.

The female cultivators working at the Immortal Pill Pavilion didn't earn much, but they all felt that their status was different from before, because they regarded the Immortal Pill Pavilion as a powerful force and felt that they had joined it.

The Immortal Pill Pavilion is a combined magical artifact, naturally possessing powerful artificial intelligence. However, activating this artificial intelligence requires more spirit stones than hiring a rogue cultivator.

Qi Qi wasn't angry about Du Wei's attitude; he simply said:
"Ten bottles each of the first-tier Spirit Refining Pill, the first-tier Body Refining Pill, and the first-tier Qi Refining Pill."

As soon as she finished speaking, the female cultivator immediately dropped her nonchalant demeanor and became respectful.

Those who can afford to buy so many pills with spirit stones are either highly skilled in cultivation or have a powerful background within the Heavenly Sword Sect; they are not ordinary disciples of the Heavenly Sword Sect.

After the Immortal Pill Pavilion appeared, the number of Foundation Establishment and Golden Core cultivators increased dramatically.

If you have a lot of spirit stones, you can quickly convert them into cultivation points. With the Immortal Pill Pavilion, to a certain extent, personal wealth and strength are linked.

Du Wei clicked on the magic artifact screen while inserting Qi Qi's magic artifact card into the machine next to her.

Before long, after deducting the number of spirit stones from the card, three bottles of pills appeared on the counter.

After Qi Qi picked up the pill, he didn't leave immediately, but instead asked:

"Did the Heavenly Sword Sect buy ten portions of Nascent Soul Spirit Light?"

Du Wei manipulated the screen, and soon found some publicly available information.
"In the past few days, eighteen copies of the Nascent Soul Spirit Light have been sold. As for whether they were purchased by the Heavenly Sword Sect, that's beyond my ability to find out."

Qi Qi asked a few more questions, and Du Wei answered them all that she could find out, with a respectful attitude.

When Qi Qi stepped out of the Immortal Pill Pavilion, he looked at the Heavenly Book Pavilion not far away.

Although there is no Heavenly Book inheritance within the Heavenly Book Pavilion, there is an inheritance of cultivation techniques for Nascent Soul and Void Rebirth.

The Nascent Soul Transformation Inheritance is something even Heavenly Sword Mountain doesn't have, let alone the Void Returning Inheritance, which no one has ever even heard of.

Unfortunately, the price of the Heavenly Book Pavilion's inheritance is extremely high, and most cultivators cannot even exchange it for the Golden Core inheritance.

Although Qi Qi was only a Qi Refining cultivator, he was extremely lucky. Various opportunities seemed to follow him, making his wealth far exceed that of most Golden Core or even Nascent Soul cultivators. Therefore, he obtained the highest Void Returning inheritance from the Heavenly Book Pavilion.

After the Immortal Pill Pavilion, Immortal Artifact Pavilion, and Heavenly Book Pavilion appeared in Tianjian Mountain Market, spirit stones, spirit plants, spirit materials, and other substances flowed in continuously.

The Heavenly Sword Sect's tens of thousands of years of accumulation have also been largely harvested.

This business model's harvesting is even more thorough than direct military conquest.

Because military plunder can only plunder resources around Tianjian Mountain at most, while commercial plunder allows a large number of cultivators to collect resources from all over Tianjian Domain and exchange them for various goods.

Qi Qi recently learned that after selling off all kinds of spirit mines, the Heavenly Sword Sect was even secretly selling spirit veins in exchange for various powerful cultivation techniques, supernatural abilities, and elixirs.

Qi Qi knew something was wrong, and many people in the sect also saw that this was overdrawing the potential of the entire Heavenly Sword Domain, but they had no choice but to do it.

Because the Rainbow Moon Kingdom also has three pavilions in other domains, and they guard their resources without purchasing various supernatural techniques, magic weapons, and flying boats, while the cultivation forces in other domains purchase them in large quantities to enhance their strength, the Heavenly Sword Domain will suffer in the end.

Furthermore, the allure of rare and highly sought-after cultivation techniques like the Nascent Soul and Void Return techniques is immense for cultivators whose future paths have been cut off.

It wasn't just the internal conflicts between the various regions of the Rainbow Moon Kingdom; Qi Qi also knew that the kingdom seemed to be planning to recruit cultivators.

This conscription even included cultivators in the Qi Refining stage.

Only the dragons could issue a conscription order of this magnitude.

With the dragons involved, this war is bound to be extremely severe. It is probably because of the impending war that the various guardian beasts on the Rainbow Moon Continent, whether nominally or genuinely subservient to the Dragon Palace, will tolerate the existence of a force like the Immortal Pill Pavilion that violates the rules of the Dragon Palace.

It was precisely because of the impending war that Qi Qi was eager to improve his strength. Otherwise, with his earth-type heavenly spiritual root and various treasures, he could have advanced to the Nascent Soul stage in less than a hundred years. There was no need for him to rush to improve so as not to expose his true strength.

Having purchased the pills he needed, Qi Qi did not leave Tianjian Mountain directly to visit the market. Instead, he went to a secluded area in the market and entered an inconspicuous little house.

This place used to be the entrance to the black market, but now...

With a series of fluctuations in the array, Qi Qi arrived at a place that was basically the same as the Pill Pavilion.

There were very few staff members in this place, but there were far more customers coming and going than at the previous Immortal Pill Pavilion.

This is also the Immortal Pill Pavilion, but cultivators visiting Tianjian Mountain prefer to call it the Poison Pill Pavilion.

This is because the pills sold in this place have significant side effects.

For example, it can shorten lifespan, pollute the soul, damage the spiritual root, and cause physical mutations, etc.

The aforementioned side effects are relatively mild, as they only affect one person. However, some of the bloodline contamination can infect the entire clan through the bloodline's aura, and some can even indiscriminately infect others, which is truly alarming due to their wide-ranging negative effects.

People come and go here, not for any other reason than that the pills here are more than a hundred times cheaper than those in the Immortal Pill Pavilion outside.

With a clear purpose in mind, Qi Qi walked into a pill shop on the third floor.

After waiting for quite a while, an old-looking cultivator lazily walked in.

"Give me three bottles of top-grade Qi Refining Pills, one bottle of top-grade Foundation Establishment Pills, and one Heavenly Crafting Golden Pill."

The previously listless old man suddenly perked up.
"Heavenly Crafting Golden Elixir?"
This is a pill worth a million spirit stones, are you sure?

Is your Spirit Stone Card limit sufficient?

The old man was a little excited. This Poison Pill Pavilion was different from the Immortal Pill Pavilion outside. The internal service staff did not receive any salary, only performance-based commissions. And the performance-based commissions were very unfair. Only transactions with a single transaction amount of 1,000 spirit stones or more would be counted. Transactions that were less than that would not be accumulated.

Although the treatment at the Poison Pill Pavilion is poor, there are still cultivators willing to work there because, at least no one would dare to seek revenge.

"Go get it."

Qi Qi remained indifferent.

The old man immediately fell silent and quickly went to the counter to operate the magic tool panel. After Qi Qi inserted the spirit stone card into the machine interface and deducted the corresponding number of spirit stones, the pills that Qi Qi needed appeared on the counter.

Watching Qi Qi's departing figure, the old man couldn't help but sigh, "What a warrior!"

Once the Heavenly Craft Golden Elixir is swallowed, even a mortal will immediately possess at least the power of the mid-stage Golden Core realm. If one has a special physique, one might even obtain the power of the peak Golden Core realm.

Of course, the price is that the body and soul of the person who swallows the Heavenly Craft Golden Pill will turn to ashes after a month. If someone has a special talent that is activated by the Heavenly Craft Golden Pill, other results may occur. There is a small probability of positive changes such as extended lifespan, but there is a high probability of adverse side effects.

In general, consuming the Heavenly Crafting Golden Elixir will most likely end badly, because the greatest effect of the Heavenly Crafting Golden Elixir is to condense everything in the human body, including the soul energy, into a golden elixir. After consuming it, the person is practically useless.

Although there are many cultivators in this Poison Pill Pavilion, they generally buy cultivation pills with fewer side effects and weaker medicinal effects. These pills that can make mortals instantly become hundreds or thousands of times stronger are usually only chosen by those who are burdened with deep-seated hatred and want to perish together with their enemies.

In the old man's eyes, Qi Qi was probably the kind of warrior who was willing to risk his life.

However, the old man had no sympathy for the other party, because this person was able to collect a million spirit stones, so he was obviously not some rogue cultivator without any background. Even if the person was about to die, it was not a rogue cultivator like him who had the right to sympathize with him.

There are plenty of people in the world with deep-seated grievances, but few have the spiritual stones to buy the Heavenly Crafting Golden Pill for revenge. From this perspective, Qi Qi is clearly not miserable enough.

Qi Qi had no idea what the old man was thinking.

At this moment, he had returned to his cave dwelling on Tianjian Mountain.

"Whether we succeed or not depends on this one time."

Qi Qi took out a jade plate with dense patterns and placed a flawed Foundation Establishment Pill inside.

As the Foundation Building Pill fell into the jade plate, the patterns on the surface of the jade plate began to brighten.

Before long, the Foundation Establishment Pill emitted a faint glow, and soon, patterns appeared on its surface.

Qi Qi revealed a slight smile.
"Luckily, this is a Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment Pill."

Before the arrival of the Immortal Pill Pavilion, there was no concept of Heaven, Earth, Man, or the like such as Flawless, Leakless, Perfect, Primordial Foundation Establishment, etc. on the Rainbow Moon Continent.

The Immortal Pill Pavilion brought a large number of cultivation techniques, some of which clearly stated the need for foundation building before proceeding to the next stage of cultivation.

Generally speaking, there is no distinction between superior and inferior special foundations. Qi Qi saw in the Heavenly Book Pavilion that the Void Returning Inheritance required a high-quality Humanity Foundation.

The inheritance that Qi Qi exchanged in the Heavenly Book Pavilion requires the Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment.

There are no Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment Pills inside the Immortal Pill Pavilion of Tianjian Mountain. According to Qi Qi's understanding, many high-level resources and pills are only available in the Immortal Pill Pavilion in the capital.

He had originally planned to go to the capital, but unexpectedly, he found a flawed Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment Pill in the black market.

"I never expected that this Jade Plate for Mending the Heavens could not only complete the incomplete cultivation techniques, but also repair the defects of the pills. It is truly heaven-defying. With this treasure, I may well become a True Immortal of the Dao in the future."

Thinking about it, Qi Qi looked at the bottle containing the Heavenly Craft Golden Pill.

(End of this chapter)