Chapter 125: Reward, Foundation Establishment Pill

"Creak!" A sound.

He Pingsheng opened his room door.

Looking outside, three people were standing at the door.

Xu Kunlun!

Zhao Linger!

Tian Xiaoqing.

Three little cuties!

But looking closely, their cultivation base made He Pingsheng shocked.

Tian Xiaoqing was at the tenth layer of Qi Refining, exactly the same as He Pingsheng.

But Xu Kunlun and Zhao Linger had both reached the twelfth layer of Qi Refining.

"Come in and talk!" He Pingsheng opened the door and invited the three Senior Sisters and Wang Shixiong into his room.

The four sat cross-legged on the ground.

"Old Eight is so amazing, also at the twelfth layer?" He Pingsheng was shocked.

Zhao Linger was at the ninth layer before; she had been in seclusion for six years, breaking through two layers was not rare, plus the Water Origin Spirit Apricot, that was the twelfth layer.

But Xu Kunlun...

Six years ago, when coming out of the Mystic Realm, he and He Pingsheng were exactly the same, both at the seventh layer of Qi Refining.

From the seventh layer to the twelfth layer.

This is... five layers.

Six years, five layers.

Even if he relied on the Water Origin Spirit Apricot for the last layer, he still broke through four layers.

Hiss hiss hiss...

Terrifying.

"Haha..." Xu Kunlun touched his head and said: "I don't know either; cultivating and cultivating, accidentally reached the eleventh layer!"

"When I reached the eleventh layer, I encountered a bottleneck, then swallowed that 【Water Origin Spirit Apricot】 you gave me, and then broke through to the twelfth layer!"

"Next, I am ready to break through to Foundation Establishment!"

Zhao Linger nodded and said: "Me too!"

He Pingsheng nodded, then asked: "Qiao Shijie, Wang Shixiong, have you asked for your Foundation Establishment Pills yet?"

When inner sect disciples break through to the twelfth layer of Qi Refining, the sect will give a Foundation Establishment Pill.

This is a benefit that every inner sect disciple has.

However, after getting it, it's hard to say what the quality is.

Foundation Establishment Pill is a very precious medicinal pill; even the Master at the Foundation Establishment Stage might not have many.

So, for many people, the opportunity to impact the Foundation Establishment Stage is not much.

"Got it!" Zhao Linger said:

"By the way... this is for you!" While speaking, Zhao Linger handed over a white porcelain bottle.

He Pingsheng took the bottle with a puzzled look and asked: "What is this?"

Zhao Linger looked at him with envy and said: "Open it and you'll know!"

He Pingsheng opened the bottle.

A medicinal fragrance instantly wafted out.

"This is..." He turned the bottle upside down, and two greenish pills fell into his palm.

The pills were very small, about the size of soybeans, and appeared a jade-green color, but there were some golden patterns on these green pills.

There were three pill patterns in total.

He Pingsheng said in surprise again: "Foundation Establishment Pills, and high-tier ones at that?"

"Mm..." the three little cuties nodded almost simultaneously.

He Pingsheng asked: "For me?"

"Mm!" The three nodded in unison again.

"Where did they come from?" He Pingsheng asked.

Zhao Linger said: "Isn't it because you performed meritorious service over at the Ice Extreme Sect? The Chongyang Zushi... no, no, no... it's the Grand Elder, the Nascent Soul ancestor of our Tai Xu Men. He was very happy and said you won honor for the sect!"

"This is a reward personally given by him!"

"Hiss..." He Pingsheng drew a deep breath and said: "The Grand Elder... what a pity I have no chance to meet such a Nascent Soul existence!"

The Nascent Soul stage is legendary, said to be able to touch the edge of the true Dao.

They can utilize the power of the rules between heaven and earth; with a single thought, the world changes color, which is terrifying.

Such people, He Pingsheng has yet to see since he began cultivating.

The highest cultivation base he has seen is merely that of great Golden Core cultivators like Daoist Qiao, Chongyang Zushi Chongyang, Chongyang Zushi Elder Xuan Yang, and that Daoist Bingxuan of the Ice Extreme Sect.

"Don't even think about it!" Zhao Linger said: "People like the ancestor are comprehending the Dao every day; how would they have time to see you!"

"We are just small fries at the Qi Condensation stage!"

"Let alone us, even Master herself seems to have only met the Grand Elder a few times. Even if we stood in front of the Grand Elder right now, he might not even recognize her!"

He Pingsheng nodded: That is true.

"You two, what tier are your Foundation Establishment Pills?" He Pingsheng looked at Zhao Linger and Xu Kunlun and asked.

Zhao Linger said: "Mine is mid-tier!"

Xu Kunlun's face darkened: "Mine is only a low-tier!"

"Give them to me!" He Pingsheng said: "Give me your mid-tier and low-tier ones, and you two take these two high-tier ones of mine."

"Ah?"

The two were stunned for a moment.

What kind of move is this?

"This... this..." Xu Kunlun couldn't believe his ears: "Old Nine, you aren't serious, are you?"

What a joke.

You have to know, a low-tier Foundation Establishment Pill only has a thirty percent chance of breaking through to the Foundation Establishment stage, and a mid-tier one only has fifty percent.

While a high-tier one has eighty percent.

Let's put it this way, if He Pingsheng had two high-tier ones in his hand, while you couldn't say he was guaranteed to succeed, it was close enough.

But if it were swapped for one mid-tier and one low-tier, that would be a different story.

"I've hit a bottleneck now!" He Pingsheng said: "I hit it at the tenth layer, and even if I swallow that Water Origin Spirit Apricot now, when I turn back to the eleventh layer, it will still be a bottleneck!"

"Whether I can break through to the twelfth layer in this lifetime is hard to say, and when I can reach Foundation Establishment is also an unknown."

"So, even if these two high-tier Foundation Establishment Pills are given to me, I might not even be able to use them!"

"You two take them and use them first; we'll talk about the future later!"

From He Pingsheng's perspective, he would definitely strengthen these pills.

Whether it's mid-tier, low-tier, or high-tier, they all become top-tier after strengthening.

So why bother using high-tier ones to strengthen?

Isn't it better to use them as a favor?

Looking at the two of them stunned, He Pingsheng said: "Are you swapping or not? If not, I'm putting them away!"

"Swap, swap, swap..." Xu Kunlun grabbed the porcelain bottle with a grin and said: "Old Nine, you are truly generous!"

"I, Xu Kunlun, have only seen hypocritical and selfish people in my life; in the cultivation world, someone like you is truly rare!"

"That's right!" Zhao Linger shook her head and said: "Junior Brother, I don't know whether to call you generous or stupid?"

"Exactly!" Tian Xiaoqing added: "If it were me, I wouldn't have given the top-tier storage bag to Master; I would have kept it for myself!"

Hearing this, He Pingsheng's brows twitched, and he almost fell to the ground: "Wait, wait, wait..."

He looked at the few people in front of him with a serious expression: "You... you all know?"

"Mm..." the three little cuties nodded in unison again.

He Pingsheng's face was as black as the bottom of a pot: "Hey... didn't I tell Master to keep it quiet?"

"Hehehe..." Zhao Linger chuckled: "What's there to fear? This is a good thing!"

"Besides, only a few of us know right now, and we aren't outsiders!"

"Right!" Tian Xiaoqing added: "We aren't outsiders!"

Fine...

He Pingsheng took a deep breath: I hope Qiao Shijie Qiao keeps her promise and doesn't show it off everywhere.

Otherwise, if the news from both sides collides, how am I supposed to explain it?

My head is truly spinning.