Chapter 80: Blood Fiend Pill

On this piece of beast skin, there was clearly recorded a second-tier pill known as the "Blood Fiend Pill."

According to the description, once the pill was formed, taking it could provide the cultivator with a massive amount of Blood Fiend Power.

This Blood Fiend Power was different from the pure spirit power refined by cultivators, but for cultivators of the Blood Dao, it could also improve their cultivation base.

Luo Chen immediately thought of the Blood Dao cultivator Xiao Wuyan, whom Wang Yuan had personally killed on the Dao Discussion Platform.

"A Blood Dao pill?" Luo Chen's eyelids twitched wildly.

Wang Yuan couldn't help but ask, "Can you refine it?"

Luo Chen was between laughter and tears, "Brother Wang, you think too highly of me. This is a second-tier pill; how could I possibly refine it? And!"

He paused, his expression becoming very solemn.

"This is a Demonic Dao pill. If I refine it, I will die a very ugly death, and so will you."

The Yuding Sword Sect was very strict about the Demonic Dao.

Or rather, in the entire thirty-six domains of the Far East, there were no Demonic Dao sects.

Sects like the Hehuan Sect, which were both righteous and evil, had to at least pretend to be consensual when harvesting others, and they even hung the name of the Tianxiang Pavilion.

Just looking at the pill formula on the beast skin, Luo Chen felt his heart tremble just from reading the main ingredients once.

Cultivator essence blood, Yellow Springs Yin Fiend, massive amounts of placenta.

Every single one of these was unrelated to the cultivation resources commonly used by righteous cultivators; it was truly the path of demons and evil.

Never mind refining pills; just collecting these main ingredients, once noticed, would lead to being beaten into slag by Yuding sword cultivators.

Wang Yuan also knew this situation and couldn't help but droop his head.

He sighed, revealing a look of unwillingness.

"It's a pity. If I had this kind of pill to assist me, even without a Foundation Establishment Pill, I could attempt the Foundation Establishment stage."

"Is it that useful... wait?"

Luo Chen looked at the man in front of him in surprise, "Can one establish a foundation without a Foundation Establishment Pill?"

"Who told you that a Foundation Establishment Pill is necessary for Foundation Establishment?" Wang Yuan countered.

Luo Chen was stunned.

He carefully recalled the people and events he had encountered in his past years of cultivation.

Those with Heaven Spirit Root aptitude had no bottlenecks when breaking through to Foundation Establishment and didn't need a Foundation Establishment Pill.

There were also cultivators with Dual Spirit Root aptitude who, with the help of other auxiliary pills, luckily broke through to Foundation Establishment.

Not to mention anything else, he knew someone who had once attempted Foundation Establishment without a Foundation Establishment Pill.

Fu Xiuxiu!

After their first dinner together, Bai Meiling had mentioned Fu Xiuxiu's experience.

She had a Dao companion who was once a disciple of the Yuding Sword Sect, but because his attempt failed, he was demoted to the outer sect and put in charge of managing sect industries.

Later, he became depressed and indulged in pleasure.

Perhaps Fu Xiuxiu couldn't bear to see her Dao companion decadent, or perhaps she felt her accumulation was sufficient, so she attempted to break through to Foundation Establishment once without relying on a Foundation Establishment Pill.

It was just that she failed later on.

Although she failed, because of her special constitution, she didn't suffer much backlash, and after many years of recuperation, she had recovered to normal.

It was precisely because of this that the people from the Divine Talisman Pavilion valued her, promoted her to deacon, and even wanted to take her back to the sect.

Thinking about it this way, a Foundation Establishment Pill didn't seem to be a necessity?

Wang Yuan said indifferently, "I am not following the traditional path of a Qi Refining cultivator, but focusing on body cultivation. Although I also concurrently cultivate Qi Refining techniques, if my physique is strong enough and the blood and Qi in my body undergo a qualitative change, I can completely force my way through the Foundation Establishment barrier."

"And this Blood Fiend Pill is undoubtedly a miraculous medicine that can cause my blood and Qi to undergo a qualitative change."

A miraculous medicine?

Yet it uses the lives of cultivators and even mortals as its main ingredients!

The two fell silent.

Wang Yuan reached out his hand, preparing to take back the beast skin from Luo Chen.

Unexpectedly, the beast skin didn't move; the other end was gripped tightly by Luo Chen.

"Hm?"

Luo Chen raised his head and said seriously, "Brother, leave this pill formula with me for now!"

"I will try to replace the main ingredients inside and refine a pill suitable for you."

Looking deeply at Luo Chen, Wang Yuan withdrew his hand.

"Then leave it with you!"

Luo Chen carefully wrapped up the beast skin and tucked it into the storage bag at his waist.

As he was leaving, he turned back and couldn't help but say one thing.

"I don't know what other good things you got from Xiao Wuyan, Brother, but the Blood Dao is ultimately not tolerated by Yuding. Although body cultivation is not suitable for longevity, it is ultimately the righteous path. Brother, be cautious!"

"Hm."

He simply hummed, not knowing if Wang Yuan had really taken it to heart.

On the way home, it was no longer four people, but only two left.

Qin Liangchen had gone to the Slanting Moon Valley to help Murong Qinglian handle some matters at the Medicine Hall.

So, only Luo Chen and Gu Caiyi remained.

A man and a woman walked on the main road of the outer city, which was bustling with people.

The dirt road, which used to be full of yellow mud, had now changed; some gravel had been sprinkled on it, and under the trampling of people coming and going, it gradually became compacted.

This kind of change wasn't caused in a single day.

It had started slowly before the opening ceremony of the Dao Discussion Platform.

The Yuding Sword Pavilion was gradually developing the outer city area.

With a better environment, the number of visiting cultivators staying behind would also increase.

The more people there were, the more spirit stones these large sects could naturally earn.

Although the outer city was now more crowded, it was actually much safer than before.

After all, the reputation of the Yuding Jin Dan still held its residual power.

There was no longer just Miao Zhen, a Yuding Foundation Establishment cultivator, in the Sword Pavilion; there was also an inner sect Foundation Establishment cultivator specifically responsible for the Dao Discussion Platform industry.

Looking at the changed outer city streets, Luo Chen couldn't help but sigh.

The Dahe Market was becoming more and more prosperous, and the lives of the cultivators were also improving day by day.

Of course, that referred to mid-to-late-stage cultivators; the bottom-level early-stage Qi Refining cultivators were still suffering.

"Luo Chen, thank you."

"Why thank me? Although you joined the Poshan Gang, you earn much less than you did at the Tianxiang Pavilion."

"That's not how you put it. After staying in that place for a long time, I always felt strange."

Gu Caiyi's gaze wandered, and a heartfelt smile appeared on her face.

During this time of resigning and staying at home, her daily routine had gradually become normal, and her interpersonal relationships were no longer as chaotic as before.

"Besides, with you leading the Alchemy Hall, its development will definitely get better and better in the future."

Luo Chen smiled, "You have so much confidence in me?"

Gu Caiyi tilted her head, staring at the handsome side profile of Luo Chen's face.

"Brother Qin told me that you have a share in the Alchemy Hall; don't you want to earn more?"

Luo Chen smiled slightly and didn't continue this topic.

How much of the Alchemy Hall's profits he would get was up to Mi Shuhua and the others of the Poshan Gang.

But how much this hall could earn was up to him.

And in this process, it was absolutely impossible for him to let himself suffer a loss.

He had never seen a chef in any restaurant who would let himself go hungry!

"Let's go home. I heard Sister Xiuxiu is cooking tonight and treating us to a farewell meal."

Mentioning Fu Xiuxiu, Gu Caiyi was stunned.

As a woman, the other party seemed to have always been walking on the right path: a Dao companion of a righteous sect disciple, a deacon of the Six Great Upper Sects, and she had even had the feat of attempting Foundation Establishment, and now she was going far away to become a member of the Divine Talisman Sect.

Compared to her, she was still struggling and wasting time in this small place called the Dahe Market.

To say she wasn't envious would be a lie.

But to talk about jealousy was far from it.

That was a woman who had suffered more than her but lived more resiliently than her.

Besides, what if she was struggling and wasting time in the Dahe Market?

Wasn't this little man beside her also facing everything optimistically?

She smiled lightly, and two shallow dimples appeared on her beautiful cheeks.

"Buy two cucumbers on the way home!"

"Cucumbers?"

"Every year at this season, the Spirit Source Pavilion sells a kind of spirit fruit that is between a fruit and a vegetable, and it tastes very good!"

"Alright! But you pay."

"Stingy ghost, I'll buy them!" ===== CHAPTER 81 =====