NOVEL NEXT Chapter 83: The Heavenly Punishment
Chapter 83: The Heavenly Punishment
On the page Chen Lin flipped to, the recorded spiritual medicine was identical to the one he obtained from the water pool!
Moreover, it was a complete illustration, including the fruit, the withered branches, and the two roots below.
This made Chen Lin extremely delighted.
He was worried about not knowing the use of the fruit, but unexpectedly, he found the answer here.
However, despite his excitement, Chen Lin’s face remained expressionless, and he also made an effort to suppress his emotions.
On one hand, it was due to his cautious nature, and on the other hand, it was because he had just encountered Luo Ziqing.
Back at the trade fair, Luo Ziqing had asked him where he obtained the python skin, although Chen Lin had managed to deceive him, but he wasn’t sure if Luo Ziqing believed him or not, and what his true intentions were.
This spiritual medicine was connected to the python, so Chen Lin added a layer of caution, not wanting to reveal his excitement too obviously.
As usual, he carefully examined each page.
According to the content, the fruit was called the “Withered Vine Spirit Fruit,” a rare and precious heavenly material, worth a fortune.
The fruit’s greatest effect was as the main medicine for the Foundation Establishment Pill!
The three words “Foundation Establishment Pill” made Chen Lin’s heart tremble again.
For Qi Refining cultivators, no one could resist the temptation of the Foundation Establishment Pill, because they needed it to achieve normal Foundation Establishment.
However, the production of the Foundation Establishment Pill was extremely rare, to the point of being almost negligible.
This led to the current situation in the cultivation world, where there were many Qi Refining cultivators, but very few Foundation Establishment cultivators, with a ratio of over 1,000 to 1.
The reason for the scarcity of the Foundation Establishment Pill was that the required spiritual medicines were all rare heavenly materials, and the production rate was also low.
According to the rumors among cultivators, cultivation was a rebellious act against heaven, and therefore, they would suffer heavenly punishment.
No matter what kind of cultivation method, including demonic beasts and plant spirits, they all absorbed the heaven and earth’s vital energy for their own use, and the higher their cultivation, the more they consumed.
As a result, the heaven and earth’s vital energy became scarce, and other living beings would be harmed, with their lifespan shortened.
Therefore, cultivators were equivalent to stealing the lives of other living beings, violating the heavenly way, and the Foundation Establishment Pill, which was essential for cultivators to take a crucial step forward, was restricted in its production.
Chen Lin also acknowledged this saying, which made a lot of sense.
Moreover, it wasn’t just the Foundation Establishment Pill; other Foundation Establishment methods also had various flaws.
For example, Yu Yuehai’s Blood Demon Technique, although it didn’t have a bottleneck, had an unimaginable flaw in terms of lifespan.
Even so, it still required the assistance of the Blood Demon Pill, and the production rate of the Blood Demon Pill was also extremely low.
If it weren’t for his Hit Every Ten Times ability, it would be unknown how much alchemy material would be consumed to refine it.
Thinking of this, Chen Lin remembered that he still had a Blood Demon Pill in his storage bag, which was hidden away for Yu Yuehai’s alchemy.
Unfortunately, he only had the Blood Demon Pill, but not the Blood Demon Technique, making it useless.
Moreover, even if he had the Blood Demon Technique, he wouldn’t dare to cultivate it, as at his age, successfully cultivating it would mean his life would come to an end.
As Chen Lin thought about these things, he continued to browse through the book’s content.
Apart from the fruit being a material for refining the Foundation Establishment Pill, the two roots could also be used for alchemy, but there was no introduction on what pill could be refined from them.
After finishing, Chen Lin quietly flipped to the next page.
This page introduced a glowing spiritual grass called Starlight Grass, which looked like ordinary weeds during the day but emitted a soft glow at night when the stars appeared.
This was also a main material for refining the Foundation Establishment Pill.
Chen Lin continued to browse through the content without expression, memorizing everything in his mind, and then flipped to the last page.
The last page recorded a lotus-shaped spiritual medicine called the Three-Colored Quiet Heart Lotus.
This was also a material for refining the Foundation Establishment Pill, with no estimated value.
Chen Lin couldn’t help but feel puzzled in his heart.
Why would such a high-level spiritual medicine manual be placed in the resting room for everyone to browse through?
If it was to let cultivators better understand the types of spiritual medicines and discover them, wouldn’t recording ordinary spiritual medicines be enough?
As for rare spiritual medicines like those used to refine the Foundation Establishment Pill, who would overlook them if they encountered them? Even if they obtained them, it was unlikely that anyone would casually sell them.
Even if they were put up for sale, they would definitely be auctioned off, not sent here.
After thinking for a long time, Chen Lin couldn’t understand the significance of the Ma Family’s actions and could only assume that they did it to show off their spiritual medicine family’s status.
After finishing browsing through the content, Chen Lin flipped the book back to the first page, preparing to review the parts he hadn’t carefully read earlier.
Just then, the steward walked into the room, holding two bottles.
“I apologize for keeping you waiting, friend. This is the freshly extracted Sweet Cloud Grass Juice, but there’s only this much for today. If it’s not enough, you can come back another day.”
Chen Lin quickly stood up, took the bottles, and thanked him: “That’s enough, thank you so much for your help! I’m truly grateful!”
After obtaining what he wanted, Chen Lin paid the spirit stones and left the room.
As soon as he left, a white-robed youth walked into the resting room, and the other two people inside immediately put down their books and stood up.
“What’s the situation? Did you discover anything unusual?”
The white-robed youth took the book that Chen Lin had looked at and flipped through it, asking the two people.
One of them, a short, stout man, nodded and said, “Yes, after using the sensing talisman to observe, I found that when he saw the content about the Double-Headed Mushroom and the Withered Vine Spirit Fruit, his emotions fluctuated. The reaction was slightly stronger when he saw the Double-Headed Mushroom.”
The white-robed youth flipped to the page about the Double-Headed Mushroom and looked at it, then asked the other black-faced middle-aged man, “Did you notice anything, Uncle Lian?”
The black-faced middle-aged man immediately replied, “My observation was the same. When he saw the page about the Double-Headed Mushroom, his reaction was the strongest. When he saw the Withered Vine Spirit Fruit, he also had some emotional fluctuations, but it’s unclear whether it was due to the spiritual medicine or the three words ‘Foundation Establishment Pill’. When he saw the Starlight Grass and the Three-Colored Quiet Heart Lotus, he also had a faint emotional response.”
The white-robed youth frowned upon hearing this, then nodded and said, “Alright, that’s enough for now. You can go.”
The two cultivators quickly left the room.
It seemed that the white-robed youth held a high position in the Ma Family.
Next, the white-robed youth called the steward over and instructed him expressionlessly, “Investigate this person’s relationship with Ruyi Pavilion and report back to me immediately.”
After giving the order, he took the three books and left the resting room.
Soon, other cultivators came to rest and wait, but there were no books for them to read.