Chapter 50: Nascent Soul Breaking Pill, Ox and Horse of the Immortal Treasure Pavilion

You left the Treasure Pavilion with Bai Ruoxi, preparing to head elsewhere.

“You killed them all?” Looking at the corpses strewn throughout the Azure Cloud Sect, Bai Ruoxi stared at you in disbelief.

You shrugged, neither confirming nor denying. “What, do you want to avenge them?”

“What a good death! I saw long ago that they were no good. If not for my lack of strength, I would have acted long ago!” Bai Ruoxi suddenly spoke up.

You looked at Bai Ruoxi — face pale, whole body trembling, drenched in sweat — and smiled.

If a Golden Core cultivator wished to break through to the Nascent Soul stage, then the Nascent Soul Breaking Pill was indispensable!

You took out Bai Ruoxi’s storage bag. Inside happened to be a set of the materials required to refine the Nascent Soul Breaking Pill.

“Do you know where there’s a pill refiner who can refine the Nascent Soul Breaking Pill?” You left the Azure Cloud Sect with Bai Ruoxi, beginning your preparations to break through to the Nascent Soul stage.

“I know. But I’ve said it — do you dare go?” Bai Ruoxi’s injuries had recovered, but her cultivation was still sealed by you. She spoke with utter disdain.

You ignored her, deciding to go to the nearby Immortal Treasure Pavilion to ask.

Anything that could be solved with money was not worth risking your life over again.

Three days later, you arrived at a cultivation world marketplace. There was an Immortal Treasure Pavilion branch here.

You stepped inside first, Bai Ruoxi following close behind. With her cultivation sealed by you, if she left your protection, she likely wouldn’t live long!

“Greetings, Senior. May I ask what you need?” A female cultivator walked up to you and asked.

You sized up the female cultivator before you. She was only a Qi Refining cultivator. “I’m looking for your Pavilion Master. I have a big business deal to discuss.”

The female cultivator hesitated. Seeing your extraordinary bearing, and unable to see through your cultivation, she ultimately chose to report it.

“Please wait a moment, Senior. I will go fetch the Pavilion Master.”

“The Immortal Treasure Pavilion here is too low-grade. No one here can refine the Nascent Soul Breaking Pill at all.” Bai Ruoxi, who had seen the world, reminded you.

You shook your head, saying nothing.

The reason you had come here, besides refining the Nascent Soul Breaking Pill, was to offload a portion of your artifacts.

Having wiped out the entire Azure Cloud Sect, you now had far too many low-grade artifacts in hand, completely useless to you.

At the same time, you had also taken every technique from the Azure Cloud Sect’s Treasure Pavilion — aside from the sect-guarding cultivation method — all packed up and carried away.

You planned to make a fortune here in the Immortal Treasure Pavilion, which claimed to refuse no one!

After a pause, the female cultivator from before emerged with a middle-aged cultivator. You discovered he was actually a Golden Core cultivator!

“Fellow Daoist… may I ask what big business you wish to discuss with my Immortal Treasure Pavilion?” The Immortal Treasure Pavilion Master sized the two of you up, only to find he could not see through your cultivation!

He immediately did not dare be negligent, and invited the two of you inside to talk.

You followed the Immortal Treasure Pavilion Master to his office desk. Only the three of you were here.

“I wonder if Fellow Daoist’s establishment can refine the Nascent Soul Breaking Pill?” You stated your purpose directly.

“Nascent Soul Breaking Pill?!” The Pavilion Master shot to his feet. Then, realizing he had lost composure, he hurriedly apologized to you.

“Ahem, my apologies, Fellow Daoist. I got a little excited.” The Pavilion Master explained to you, “The Nascent Soul Breaking Pill, as a tier-four pill, is an essential pill for Golden Core cultivators breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage.”

“But a pill of this grade — in the northern part of the Heaven Mystery Continent, almost no one can refine it!”

“Almost? Then that means there are still some who can refine it?” You seized on the key point.

“Ha, to be honest, Fellow Daoist, those are all unorthodox paths. The Nascent Soul Breaking Pill they refine can at most increase the chance of forming a Nascent Soul by ten percent.” The Pavilion Master held up one finger, explaining to you.

“Whereas the authentic Nascent Soul Breaking Pill can increase the chance of forming a Nascent Soul by thirty percent!”

“Do you know why there are so few Nascent Soul cultivators in the northern part of the Heaven Mystery Continent?”

“Because every cultivator who wishes to break through to the Nascent Soul stage mostly heads to Central State!”

“Only Nascent Soul cultivators who can’t make it in Central State return to this barren north to enjoy their twilight years.”

Realization struck you, and your understanding of the entire Heaven Mystery Continent deepened further.

“Now you know how formidable my Central State is?” Bai Ruoxi said proudly. “If you’re smart, release me now. When you go to Central State later, I’ll look after you!”

“You can’t even take one punch from me. Central State cultivators are only this strong?” You spoke with utter disdain.

“You!” Bai Ruoxi was furious, but the facts were the facts. Bai Ruoxi simply could not refute them, and in the end could only stew in her own anger.

“Then what about this Nascent Soul Breaking Pill?” Returning to the topic, you asked.

“Ah, to be honest, my Immortal Treasure Pavilion can indeed provide Fellow Daoist with the Nascent Soul Breaking Pill, and it won’t even cost money!”

“But!” The Pavilion Master glanced at you and said no more.

You calmly slid over a storage bag containing three thousand mid-grade spirit stones.

The Pavilion Master quickly accepted it. After seeing the spirit stones inside, he lowered his voice to explain. “But you would need to work for my Immortal Treasure Pavilion for five hundred years!”

Hearing this, you laughed in anger.

“Nascent Soul cultivators generally live a thousand years. For one Nascent Soul Breaking Pill, I’d have to work five hundred years! Then what’s the point of breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage?”

“Aren’t I just a beast of burden for the cultivation world?”

Not just you — even Bai Ruoxi beside you was completely stunned upon hearing the Pavilion Master’s explanation.

This Immortal Treasure Pavilion looks glorious on the surface, but it’s darker than my Bai family! Bai Ruoxi thought this, but did not say it aloud in front of the Immortal Treasure Pavilion Master.

“Ah, mortals all think we cultivators are so free. But in truth, sometimes we’re worse off than mortals!” The Immortal Treasure Pavilion Master sighed.

“Beyond that, is there any other way?” You were unwilling to give up. Could money really fail to get things done?

“If you don’t want to be bound by others, you can only hire a pill refiner to refine pills for you privately.”

“Beyond that, you can only join another faction and serve them.” The Pavilion Master explained to you.

Bai Ruoxi lightly nudged you, looking at you without speaking.

“Thank you for the explanation, Fellow Daoist.” You said no more on this topic, instead taking out over a dozen storage bags and laying them before the Pavilion Master.

“This is?” The Pavilion Master looked at the storage bags before him, face full of confusion.

“This is the big business I mentioned earlier!” You smiled faintly, personally handing one to the Pavilion Master for him to inspect.

“Th-this… so many!” The Pavilion Master looked at the over a thousand Profound-rank artifacts inside the storage bag, unable to believe it.

“These, are these all…?” The Pavilion Master pointed at the storage bags you had taken out, his whole body trembling.