With Cultivation Simulator in a Chaotic World-Chapter 107 - 106: Secret Realm and Hype
[You sensed something was amiss, but seeing Master Yunding remain silent, you could only bury the matter in your heart.]
[Due to this incident, your relationship with the Ouyang Family was effectively severed, and you only intervened when Ouyang Ruyu sought help.]
[Ouyang Yan remains an Inner Sect Disciple of the Cyan Yuan Sword Sect, as if the incident with the Ouyang Family never occurred.]
[In the Nine Rivers Calendar year 7928, you purchased a residence in full at the center of the Nine Clouds Market and settled your mother there, then continued to devote yourself to cultivation.]
[In the Nine Rivers Calendar year 7929, with the help of Master Yunding, you had a moment of enlightenment and successfully learned the Third-grade rare pill, the Realm-Breaking Pill.]
The Realm-Breaking Pill is a pill that can help overcome bottlenecks, with extremely rare herbs and difficult refinement. The Third-grade Realm-Breaking Pill’s efficacy can satisfy all bottlenecks in the Qi Refining Realm, but there are few alchemists capable of crafting it, even among Fifth or Sixth-grade ones.
[Your reputation surged again; cultivators stuck at bottlenecks were desperate, and the number of cultivators at the Cloud Cauldron Pavilion doors spiked, further boosting your fame.]
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[In the Nine Rivers Calendar year 7934, you had learned eleven Third-grade pills, thirty-five Second-grade pills, and most of the common First-grade pills available on the market, with your Alchemy Cultivation reaching a very high level.]
[That same year, you broke through to Qi Refining Seventh Layer, officially entering Late-Stage Qi Refining. This year, you turned forty-one.]
[You began focusing your efforts on cultivation. Crafting Fourth-grade pills with Qi Refining Cultivation was too challenging; you were ultimately not a true alchemy prodigy.]
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[In the Nine Rivers Calendar year 7935, your mother fell seriously ill, and despite using pills to save her, you found her vitality weakening. Although you frequently used spiritual pills to replenish her body, these pills were ultimately not Immortal Pills. You realized that in twenty years, she would pass away.]
[You began seeking life-extending pill formulas in advance, but Master Yunding had only one formula for a Fourth-grade Evergreen Pill that extends life by ten years, and a pill at Middle Third-grade strength is not something ordinary people can withstand.]
[Master Yunding advised you to drop the idea, as the divide between mortal and immortal was vast. Moreover, even the Evergreen Pill could only extend life by ten years, and the Top Three Grades Pills, even if they could extend life, would only do so for a few years. You argued that some things must be done regardless, and Master Yunding was swayed, procuring for you two severely incomplete formulas along with two life-extending pill formulas.]
[You decided to aim for creating life-extending pills as your Third-grade creation target.]
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[In the Nine Rivers Calendar year 7937, no insights surfaced, yet your Alchemy Cultivation and True Essence Cultivation made clear progress.]
[You crafted over a hundred Realm-Breaking Pills, making numerous friends among loose cultivators and sect disciples.]
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[In the Nine Rivers Calendar year 7938, you rejected Sha Miaomiao’s confession for the sixth time.]
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[In the Nine Rivers Calendar year 7939, the South Mountain Ruins emerged, rumored to house an ancient sect’s Medicine Garden Secret Realm, containing precious herbs needed for the Foundation Establishment Pill. Countless loose cultivators went crazy, hearing of the ancient sect’s Alchemy Room within, possibly holding ancient pill formulas unseen in the world.]
[The South Mountain Ruins held a forbidden technique where those above Foundation Establishment cannot enter, likely a special Secret Realm for disciples of that ancient sect to test themselves.]
[The Nine Sects initiated a special competition, allowing all Qi Refining Cultivators downstream of Qingqiu River to partake, ranking participants by resources obtained, with more resources for higher ranks.]
[Loose cultivators and small forces had a chance to join the Nine Sects, while Nine Sects disciples had the opportunity to elevate their status, aside from gaining substantial cultivation resources.]
[This was an opportunity to gain fame downstream of Qingqiu River, stirring up excitement across the entire river, and Nine Clouds Market became lively.]
[You showed great interest in the ancient pill formulas, initiating a significant bounty; anyone bringing an ancient pill formula or something related to alchemy to the Cloud Cauldron Pavilion and verifying its authenticity would receive your reward, which included three full sets of Top Three Grades pills, six middle-grade spirit stones, a customized high-tier magical artifact of choice, and five sets of talisman gift packs jointly launched by Cloud Cauldron Pavilion and Changfeng Pavilion, with additional rewards for unique formulas, and the Cloud Cauldron Pavilion offered above market prices for herbs from the South Mountain Ruins.]
[Your bounty stunned countless loose cultivators, sparking secret excitement, all promising to bring pill formulas to Alchemist Ouyang.]
Who is Ouyang Yun? A Third-grade Alchemist, a wealthy figure among cultivators, hardly needing to venture himself?
The alchemist’s best skill, besides alchemy, is splurging; anything settled with spirit stones is no problem.
More so with Master Yunding’s strong backing, as ancient pill formulas and herbs benefit the entire Cloud Cauldron Pavilion.
Ouyang Yun gained a large reputation among loose cultivators and small sect disciples over the decades; he’s one of the few channels for ordinary cultivators to access Realm-Breaking Pills, with over thirty cultivators successfully breaking bottlenecks stuck for years, decades, because of him.
Even within the Nine Sects, elite disciples heard of Alchemist Ouyang’s reputation.
Especially in the Celestial Dust Sect, both the Outer Sect’s Foreign Affairs Hall and Inner Sect’s External Affairs Hall spoke out, asking those with ancient pill formulas to hand them over first, then passing them to Alchemist Ouyang, offering additional rewards beyond those from the Cloud Cauldron Pavilion.
Alchemist Ouyang’s bounty quickly spread across most Qi Refining independent cultivators’ ears.
The South Mountain Ruins themselves were a chance for loose cultivators to leap through Dragon Gate, further fueled by Alchemist Ouyang’s fanfare, exploding in popularity.
Ouyang Yun’s reward essentially guaranteed any Qi Refining cultivator would have no worry over a lack of resources for twenty years, not even for battle resources. With these, even average Qi Refining cultivators could rise to prominence.
[Your promotions succeeded, Cloud Cauldron Pavilion’s bounty spread downstream of Qingqiu River; if cultivators found herbs, besides the Nine Sects, Cloud Cauldron Pavilion was the top choice.]
[Master Yunding was pleased with your actions, informing you that this special competition was the Nine Sects’ approach to obtaining Foundation Establishment Pill herbs.]
The herbs for Foundation Establishment Pills are rare, and they are essential for breaking through to Foundation Establishment, which forms each sect’s foundation; even for the Nine Sects, the more Foundation Establishments, the higher the chance of the next Golden Core emerging.
