Journey to the West: Cultivation Begins at Jindou Mountain

Chapter 17 Blood Infant Pill

[Century-Old Jade Agarwood (Purple): This sacred mountain wood, shaped like jade, has a resin that constantly exudes a delicate fragrance. It is an excellent material for making incense and refining elixirs. The Jade Agarwood itself can also be ignited to aid meditation and cultivation, and has a wide range of uses.]

Niu Yi walked slowly forward and easily opened the unlocked box, revealing a piece of century-old jade agarwood that had been evenly cut into dozens of rectangles, like jade.

"Good stuff~"

Niu Yi looked at the box full of emerald green century-old jade agarwood and smiled.

In the Tiger Roaring Cave, there are two places that are most attractive to him. One is in the mountain wall, which is closest to him.

With his treasure-hunting talent as the Duobao Divine Bull, which is naturally sensitive to treasures from heaven and earth, he can sense the treasure even if it is hidden under the mountains.

For others, treasure hunting is a very laborious task that tests their knowledge and vision.

But for Niu Yi, it was easy, as simple as taking something out of a bag.

Niu Yi looked at the treasure chest in front of him and thought for a moment. He moved his fingers and left his magic power on the treasure chest in front of him to seal the box.

Then, Niu Yi lightly tapped the ground with the green bamboo stick in his hand, and the ground under the treasure chest quickly rippled, swallowing the treasure chest into the ground.

Niu Yi saw that the treasure chest was hidden, nodded with satisfaction, turned around and continued to walk towards the next treasure place that attracted him.

In his perception, there were not many treasures left under this divine fire. There were only three places in the huge Tiger Roar Cave that could attract him.

Apart from the one he had just taken out, the one that attracted him the most among the other two was in the center of the Tiger Roaring Cave. The remaining one was very weak and should be just a white-grade treasure, located on the edge of the Tiger Roaring Cave.

Niu Yi identified the direction and headed straight for the center of the Tiger Roaring Cave.

A moment later, as Niu Yi arrived at the center of the Tiger Roar Cave, what came into view was an extremely huge pit.

Niu Yi was shocked when he saw the terrifying pit in front of him, which was still very hot, more than ten feet deep and a hundred feet wide.

This should be the core location where the divine fire landed, and the treasure that attracted him was at the bottom of this pit.

Niu Yi did not rush into the pit because it still gave him a faint sense of danger.

Niu Yi was seen inserting the green bamboo aside, with his hands on the ground, using all his strength to activate the earth escape ability among the five elements escape techniques.

As waves quickly spread across the ground and spread throughout the area, soon two stone boxes rushed out from the ground in front of Niu Yi!

"Snapped!"

Niu Yi was quick-eyed and quick-handed, catching the two stone boxes one in each hand.

"Hey~ These are the two. They're buried deep in the mountains. If the divine fire goes any lower, I'm afraid these two treasures won't be able to be preserved."

Niu Yi put his two fingers together like a knife and easily cut the chain on the stone box with one strike.

"Crack!"

As the chain broke, the lid of the stone box popped open naturally, revealing the blood-red jade bottle with a stopper inside.

Niu Yi opened the jade bottle and saw the blood-red pill inside. The smile on his face froze and even became a little ugly.

[Blood Infant Pill (Red): This pill is made by taking the blood of one hundred human infants and smelting the essence of tens of thousands of living beings. It can greatly enhance the power of the bloodline and improve cultivation.]

"Wow-wow-" Niu Yi looked at the Blood Infant Pill in the bottle. He seemed to hear the heart-wrenching cry of a baby in the pill. The sound was so frightening that it made people feel scared.

Niu Yi's expression changed continuously, a hint of determination flashed in his eyes, and a burst of golden light and magic power surged rapidly.

"Bang!!!"

As golden light and magic power rushed towards the blood-red jade bottle in Niu Yi's hand, they directly blasted the blood-red jade bottle and the pills inside into powder. The powder was dispersed into the air by a breeze and completely dissipated in the blink of an eye, as if it had never appeared.

The so-called elixir that Tiger Roar King mentioned should be this Blood Infant Pill.
This precious pill can strengthen the bloodline of the demon race and greatly improve the cultivation level. It seems to be a rare red-grade precious pill, but this thing is made with the lives of hundreds of babies and tens of thousands of creatures!

This thing is not just harmful to the harmony of nature.

This thing shouldn't exist in this world!
The Tiger Roaring King regarded it as a miracle drug, but he, Niu Yi, avoided it like the plague.

Niu Yi didn't know how other people practiced Taoism, but he, Niu Yi, practiced Taoism only to seek freedom and ease!
If he used this precious pill, he would probably be able to enter the realm of Demon Commander in a shorter time than the Tiger Roar King, which is the realm of True Immortal among the human race. With a lifespan of thousands of years, he would be an immortal-like existence.

But what could he do? Not to mention the great opportunity of reaching the Spiritual Platform state of mind, couldn't Niu Yi reach the Demon Commander state through his own cultivation? It would just take him a little longer.

But if he really took the Blood Infant Pill, he would probably immediately develop a demon in his heart, and he would never be able to live a peaceful life, let alone a free and easy life.

Although Niu Yi destroyed a bottle of red-grade precious pill with his own hands, he did not feel any regret. Instead, he felt fortunate that he was the first to find the Blood Infant Pill.

Let this precious pill be completely buried in the Tiger Roar Cave along with the death of Tiger Roar King.

Niu Yi casually used his magic power to shatter the stone box in his hand into dust, then picked up another stone box and cut the chain on it while praying in his heart that this stone box was not something that could harm the world.
"Huh? This is..."

Niu Yi looked at the treasure in the stone box with some surprise as the lid popped up and revealed it.

Tiger Roaring Stone (Red): This divine stone, nurtured by Tiger Roaring Mountain for five hundred years, possesses a vast and pure earthly power, imbued with the energy of the Earth Tiger. This stone can also be used to connect to Tiger Roaring Mountain and draw upon its power.

Niu Yi carefully took out a yellowish-brown crystal stone that looked like a roaring tiger from the stone box, and a hint of enlightenment flashed in his eyes.

"This Tiger Roaring Mountain is too good for the Tiger Roaring King. If the Tiger Roaring King cultivates into the Mountain God of Tiger Roaring Mountain, this Tiger Roaring Stone only needs a little sacrifice and refinement, and it will become a ready-made Mountain God Seal, a red-grade magic weapon."

It's a pity that the monsters in Tiger Roar Mountain are not so lucky.
Niu Yi looked at the Tiger Roaring Stone and sighed, then put the Tiger Roaring Stone into his arms with peace of mind.

Feeling the Tiger Roar Stone constantly feeding him, Niu Yi patted the Tiger Roar Stone with satisfaction and strode away.

With the Tiger Roar Stone, the amount of precious energy he could refine in a day became forty strands, an increase of eight strands. This was when he had not yet refined the Tiger Roar Stone.

Niu Yi soon arrived at the last treasure location.

As he expected, he only found some white-grade spiritual fruits.

But even so, Niu Yi was already very satisfied.

The hundred-year-old jadeite agarwood and tiger-roaring stone obtained on this trip are all rare treasures in the area within a thousand miles, especially the tiger-roaring stone, which was produced in Tiger-roaring Mountain after five hundred years, but in the end it was given to him for free.

Sensing that there were no other treasures on the mountain, Niu Yi used earth escape to quickly descend from Tiger Roar Mountain.

To his surprise, the four land gods had all returned from the foot of Tiger Roar Mountain, but their conditions were not very good at this time.

(End of this chapter)