Chapter 479: Regional Differences

"The Heart-Questioning Talisman is a third-rank talisman specially bestowed by a Golden Core True Person in the palace for this trip.

Unless this Fellow Daoist Wang is also in the Golden Core realm, once he is locked by the effect of this talisman, if he uses lies to deal with the questions I raised, the talisman will automatically burn. At that time, we would have to take action even if we didn't want to." The young man said, flicking his sleeve, and a talisman suddenly appeared in his hand. Although there were only some simple pale gold spirit inscriptions on the surface, it carried a hint of indescribable mystery.

"A third-rank talisman. Even if it were exchanged for the most ordinary attack or defense talisman, the value would immediately increase tenfold. The Heart-Questioning Talisman is considered the most useless kind of third-rank talisman." The old man looked at the golden talisman in the young man's hand but showed a hint of regret.

"What is Senior Brother thinking?

Our Bishui Palace only has one third-rank talisman master, Jin Shibo Zhu, who usually focuses on cultivation and seclusion. If it weren't for the Palace Master's active request, I fear Jin Shibo Zhu wouldn't be willing to spend a bit of time refining talismans.

The Heart-Questioning Talisman, the simplest kind of third-rank talisman, is already the talisman Jin Shibo Zhu refines the most for the palace." The Yan-surnamed young man replied helplessly, and after flipping his palm, the golden talisman disappeared.

"That's true. If it weren't for the Heart-Questioning Talisman, Wang Wang Shidi wouldn't have been casually bestowed a third-rank talisman. However, since Fellow Daoist Wang passed the Heart-Questioning Talisman's test, his background shouldn't have any big problems.

But what do you think about his claim that he is a second-rank artifact refiner?

Could it be an exaggeration? Maybe he just knows a little bit about artifact refining and only said so to increase his value in our eyes. After all, the effect of the Heart-Questioning Talisman should have passed by then." Zhang Xiufu asked with some hesitation.

"Since he took the initiative to say so, it should be mostly true; otherwise, such things are too easy to be exposed. However, a second-rank artifact refiner, even in a major sect, cannot have a low status.

More importantly, I see that his bone age doesn't seem to be very old; he should be under fifty. It seems this Fellow Daoist Wang wouldn't be an ordinary disciple in his original sect; a true disciple position is highly likely." The Yan-surnamed young man's eyes flashed, and he replied slowly.

"Bone age is so low! Plus the identity of a second-rank artifact refiner, if he can also comprehend something from that gifted spirit object, wouldn't he be eight or nine out of ten..." Zhang Xiufu was startled.

"Yes, with such talent and potential, even our Bishui Palace wouldn't easily give up. This Fellow Daoist Wang will highly likely become our fellow sect member; at the very least, an inner disciple identity is guaranteed." The young man replied after pondering.

"Inner disciple? If he were a rogue cultivator, the probability would indeed not be small, but according to your speculation, he is already a true disciple of some sect in the Southern Continent. It wouldn't be appropriate for him to become an inner disciple of our Bishui Palace, right?" The old man frowned and asked back.

"Yes, although there is no explicit rule, it is indeed inappropriate for a major cultivation sect to accept disciples from other sects.

But our Bishui Palace is a top major sect with a Nascent Soul great power sitting in town. If we really did that, who would dare to say anything? The rules set by our Bishui Palace are the true rules of this Chaotic Spirit Domain.

Moreover, this Fellow Daoist Wang has already drifted from the Southern Continent to our Eastern Wasteland. Whether his original sect still exists is a question in itself." The young man didn't care upon hearing this.

"That's true. With our Bishui Palace's strength, unless it's another Nascent Soul-level sect, who would dare to point fingers at our Bishui Palace?" The old man thought for a while and laughed dumbly.

Two hours later.

Wang Yu walked out of the gate of a seemingly imposing pharmacy under the respectful send-off of an old man.

He walked a few steps, looked back at the 'Miaozhi Hall' plaque hanging above the pharmacy a few times, and then walked away unhurriedly.

In this short time, he had explored almost all the herb shops in Hanlan Market and purchased some pills and pill formulas unique to the Eastern Wasteland, and even a batch of pill-refining materials.

He was not worried that Zhang Xiufu and others would receive the news and become suspicious. After all, he was now also a master of a small force, and it was normal to collect some pill resources for the Mishan Sect.

Although Hanlan Market was a small market and there were only a few such herb shops related to pills, Wang Yu still discovered the differences between the pills in the Chaotic Spirit Domain and those in the Wu State.

If the main raw materials for pills in the Southern Continent like the Wu State were mostly spirit herbs, then the pills in the Eastern Wasteland's Chaotic Spirit Domain were surprisingly mostly made of various beast cores, and a small portion of pills even used beast bones and beast blood.

Even from the pill effects introduced, the difference between the two was very obvious.

The same type of pills refined in the Eastern Wasteland seemed to have better effects, but the medicinal properties were also more domineering, and the side effects and drug resistance were higher than those in the Southern Continent.

For example, for a certain second-rank cultivation pill, perhaps a low-grade pill in the Southern Continent could increase a Foundation Establishment early-stage cultivator's cultivation by three months, but taking ten pills would have no effect due to drug resistance.

The same type of second-rank low-grade pill refined with beast cores in the Eastern Wasteland might increase cultivation by four months with one pill, but it could only be taken seven times before drug resistance occurred.

And since beast cores were used as the main material for refining pills, the refining techniques were naturally different from those in the Southern Continent. It seems he would have to spend some time adjusting and adapting if he wanted to successfully refine second-rank pills here.

However, he also learned a piece of good news from the shopkeepers of these herb shops.

That was because the main material for the pills here was beast cores, so not only in the Chaotic Spirit Domain but also in other major domains of the Eastern Wasteland, a large number of cultivators often risked sneaking into demon beast territories to hunt and kill various demon beasts in large numbers. This was not just for Qi Refinement and Foundation Establishment, but even Golden Core True Persons among rogue cultivators would do this.

Therefore, in terms of the supply of high-rank pill materials, this area of the Eastern Wasteland was much more abundant than the Southern Continent. Many high-rank pills were not short of beast cores for refining; what they lacked were just brilliant pill masters who could refine them.

Thinking about it, if a spirit herb wanted to be a material for refining second-rank pills, it had to grow for at least a hundred or even several hundred years, and it had strict requirements for the growth environment. Most could only be planted a little bit, or even just one or two plants.

Unlike most thick-skinned demon beasts, which, in order to continue their offspring, gave birth to a large litter, generally ate anything, and could grow up rapidly in twenty or thirty years, beginning to generate beast cores.

Moreover, in the days since arriving in the Chaotic Spirit Domain, Wang Yu had already learned about the Eastern Wasteland cultivators' concept of demon beast territories.

That was, compared to the eight domains occupied by the human race, the demon beast territories were almost infinitely large, and the demon beasts inside were also seemingly endless. No one knew whether there were more demon beast territories behind the demon beast territories known to the human race, or whether there were more powerful demon beasts and demon clans hidden within.

This was why, even though the Eastern Wasteland human sects were already so powerful and there were over twenty Nascent Soul great powers on the bright side, they still did not dare to easily launch a full-scale war against demon beasts and only dared to slowly expand the human territory bit by bit.

However, these things were naturally too remote for a mere Foundation Establishment Wang Yu. He was now more concerned about the dozen or so new pill formulas purchased from these herb shops.

Most of them were first-rank pill formulas, but there were also three second-rank pill formulas, which was somewhat beyond his expectations.

After all, these were all complete pill formulas, even the three second-rank pill formulas.

Looking at it this way, high-rank pill formulas in the Eastern Wasteland did not seem to be strictly controlled by major sects like Bishui Palace. Was it because the true great enemy of the cultivation sects here was not rogue cultivators of the same human race, but demon beasts and demon clans?

Wang Yu could only think so in his heart.

Just then, he walked into another artifact shop outside of "Bijing Pavilion." ===== CHAPTER 480 =====