Global Games: Reporting the Great Ascension Stage at the Start

In the game, the quality of talismans, magical artifacts, and elixirs is divided into five levels: Common, Spiritual, Mystic, Celestial, and Divine. The corresponding colors are white, green, blue, purple, and orange, respectively.

The most basic Qi Gathering Pill only comes in two qualities: "Ordinary" and "Spiritual Essence." Shen Hua's pill is already the highest quality.

"This medicine is good, I'll take it tomorrow." Shen Hua smiled as he put the pill into his backpack.

The efficacy of "Spiritual Essence" is much higher than that of "Ordinary," roughly twice as high.

With Shen Hua's talent, if he only consumes ordinary Qi Gathering Pills, his cultivation speed will be almost the same as that of a cultivator with a Heavenly Spiritual Root.

However, if he consumes a "Spiritual Essence" quality Qi Gathering Pill, his cultivation speed will be similar to that of a Heavenly Spiritual Root player consuming a "Normal" quality Qi Gathering Pill.

Even players with Heavenly Spiritual Roots can't always have elixirs to eat.

Therefore, when he consumes "Spiritual Essence" level pills, his cultivation progress will be faster than that of most people with Heavenly Spiritual Roots!

With such excellent efficacy, the price of "Spiritual Essence" level medicine is naturally extremely high.

A regular Qi Gathering Pill can only be sold for three spirit stones, but a Spirit Essence level pill can be sold for at least nine.

Moreover, spiritual pills are very rare in the market; they are practically priceless.

This kind of elixir will be bought up by Qingzhu Mountain as soon as it appears, and it will not be allowed to flow into the market.

Therefore, even if Shen Hua went to the Wanzhen Pavilion, he wouldn't be able to buy it unless he presented a token indicating he was an inner disciple of Qingzhu Mountain.

Top-tier second-generation immortals like Xu Lan have parents who are both Golden Core cultivators, and they basically embarked on the path of cultivation by consuming Qi Gathering Pills of the "Spiritual Essence" level.

"Sigh, what a pity, these five can only be refined into white ones." Shen Hua sighed inwardly as he put the other five "ordinary" quality Qi Gathering Pills into his storage bag.

In fact, if he wanted to, he could refine the entire batch of pills into "Spiritual Essence" quality. After all, his pill-refining skills were undeniable; six green pills in one batch were just basic operations for him.

But then another problem arises—how would he explain that to God?

Even the most brilliant alchemists wouldn't produce a batch of "spiritual essence" in their first batch; that would be too conspicuous.

Left with no other choice, he could only slack off in every way during the refining process, even deliberately messing up the proportions of the medicinal powder, in order to forcibly reduce the quality of the pill.

As for Shen Hua saying "not bad, not bad" just now, it's because this batch was precisely controlled to have only one green grain, which is exactly the level of a top-tier alchemy genius. His "controlling the grain plan" was a complete success!

It was late at night, and after a day of running around and refining medicine, Shen Hua was so sleepy that he could barely keep his eyelids open.

After hurriedly putting away the pills, he lay sprawled out on the floor.

"May there be no God in Heaven!"

This was his last thought before he fell asleep.

It's really exhausting to outwit and outmaneuver fate.

……

Just as Shen Hua drifted off to sleep, Xu Lan had no desire to sleep at all.

She had already returned to the sect and met her mother in her secluded cave.

"Is the news true?" In the reception room of the cave dwelling, a beautiful woman dressed in yellow asked with a serious expression.

The beautiful woman had crow's feet around her eyes and looked quite haggard, but one could still vaguely tell that she was once a stunningly beautiful woman.

"It's probably true." Xu Lan nodded and said, "Moreover, I suspect that Bai Shuo is using the voice of someone from outer space to send us a death sentence."

"Why would he do this?" the woman in the yellow dress frowned. "It doesn't make sense, or does he want us to live in fear?"

"I don't know." Xu Lan calmly shook her head. "The situation is still unclear, and it's hard to say anything for sure."

"Sigh." The beautiful woman in yellow sighed, "Bai Shuo is still alive. This is indeed the worst news for us. We need to make proper preparations."

"By the way, Lanlan, your father is from Taipingmen in Tan County. Perhaps we can ask Taipingmen in Tan County for help."

"Taiping Gate in Tan County?" Xu Lan was taken aback. "My father has never mentioned this before."

The beautiful woman forced a smile: "The matter of the sect is a pain that will never be mentioned to your father, so naturally he will never mention it to you."

"It's hard to explain in a short time. Here's what we'll do: I'll make a trip there myself in a while. You stay here and take good care of the sect. If anything happens, send me a message from afar, and I'll come back immediately."

"Yes, Mother."

……

The next day, when the sun was high in the sky, Shen Hua, who had eaten breakfast in the market, returned to his cave.

Because he had a good night's sleep, Shen Hua was full of energy!

However, he did not intend to continue refining medicine, but instead planned to cultivate first.

After all, the spiritual energy in the alchemy furnace is limited. Once it's used up, you have to take it out and find someone to recharge it, which is time-consuming and laborious.

It's better to cultivate your own magical power so you can smoothly start refining medicine without worrying about recharging.

Inside the study of the cave dwelling, sitting on a wooden armchair, smelling the fragrance of grass coming from the courtyard outside the window, Shen Hua opened the bamboo scroll of the low-grade cultivation technique "Green Wood Technique" and slowly read it.

In fact, he can cultivate martial arts without the game. For example, the top-level martial arts he mastered in his previous life, the "Eight-Nine Arcane Arts," is far superior to the top-level martial arts in the game!

But the problem remains: the evil "fate" is still there! Just thinking about "fate" brings tears to Shen Hua's eyes.

If he were to use the "Eight-Nine Arcane Technique" in the game, the system would recognize it as a self-created technique. In an instant, he would be targeted and locked onto by Xiahou Dunkai of [Heaven's Will]!

Creating a martial art of the "Eight-Nine Arcane Arts" level within the game is as bizarre as a simple-minded farmer in the village suddenly developing controlled nuclear fusion. [Heaven's Will] Hesitating for even a second signifies the incompetence of the Blazing Sun Empire.

Left with no other choice, Shen Hua could only practice these broken techniques from the game.

"Is there any way to bypass Lord Tianyi?" As Shen Hua looked at the "Green Wood Manual," his thoughts drifted away.

Undoubtedly, the existence of [Heaven's Will] greatly constrained him, making him hesitant and restrained in his actions.

Just like the prime minister and Xiao Qiao who could not get married, fate always brings tragedy.

Is it possible to bypass "divine will" through some means?

As Shen Hua pondered, he gradually made up his mind: he must find a way to bypass the "divine will"!

Only by circumventing the "will of Heaven" can he leave everyone else in the dust on the path of cultivation.

……

Half a day later, inside the cave dwelling that Shen Hua had rented.

Since he couldn't think of a way to bypass the "will of heaven" for the time being, he decided to focus on cultivation first.

Shen Hua swallowed the Qi Gathering Pill of "Spiritual Essence" quality and began cultivating according to the route described in the "Azure Wood Manual".

The medicinal effects transformed into a surging torrent washing over his body, and he guided the medicinal power along the path of the cultivation technique.

He's an expert in this area, very skilled at it.

Half a day later, the effects of the medicine wore off, and under his guidance, the medicinal power circulated throughout his body for one cycle, successfully completing a full cycle!