“Qi Rui, when I was hunting demonic beasts with Qi Hou, I saw him use a Crimson Flame Sword Talisman. It was quite powerful.”
Upon hearing Qi Rui’s introduction, Chen Mobai’s eyes lit up, and he naturally steered the conversation towards that topic.
“Qi Hou? He is a potential true disciple of our Shenmu Sect. If there are extra Foundation Establishment Pills in the next batch, he might get one.”
Qi Rui also knew Qi Hou, and his face showed admiration when he mentioned him.
“Oh, aren’t the Foundation Establishment Pills of the Shenmu Sect available for exchange once you’ve accumulated enough contribution points?”
Seeing that Qi Rui seemed talkative, Chen Mobai tried to ask about the situation of the Shenmu Sect.
“It’s not that simple. The orthodox Foundation Establishment Pill requires a thousand-year-old Golden Jade Lingzhi. Although our Shenmu Sect inherited the largest medicinal garden of the Wuxing Sect, our ancestors wisely planted many Lingzhi seeds. However, we can only harvest ten mature thousand-year-old Golden Jade Lingzhi every ten years.”
“An orthodox Foundation Establishment Pill can theoretically yield ten pills, but we would be grateful if we could get eight or nine. When our Shenmu Sect and Jinguang Cliff split from the Wuxing Sect, we agreed to give Jinguang Cliff three Golden Jade Lingzhi each time they mature.”
“After the split, our Shenmu Sect and Jinguang Cliff fought with the remaining three branches of the Wuxing Sect for twenty years. Eventually, everyone grew tired and agreed to a truce. One of the conditions for the Wuxing Sect to recognize our independence was that when the Golden Jade Lingzhi in the giant tree ridge matured, we also had to give the Wuxing Sect three.”
“All three sects entrust the Huitian Valley to refine the Foundation Establishment Pills. After each batch, regardless of how many pills are made, Huitian Valley takes one from each batch. Basically, every ten years, our Shenmu Sect only gets about 30 Foundation Establishment Pills in the warehouse.”
“There are at least a hundred disciples at the ninth level of Qi Refining in the Shenmu Sect. To be as fair as possible, these 30 Foundation Establishment Pills need to be competed for with contribution points. Ten thousand points can be exchanged, but the more points you have, the greater your chances of getting one.”
Although these are simple common knowledge for disciples of the Shenmu Sect, for Chen Mobai and Shi Pengyi, they are valuable knowledge, and they listened with great interest.
The Golden Jade Lingzhi should be a term used in the Tianhe Realm. In the Di Yuan Star, it’s called Jade Marrow Golden Lingzhi, which is quite similar.
As Chen Mobai was thinking about this, Qi Rui began to explain the ranking of the true disciples of the Shenmu Sect, which is actually the order of exchanging the Foundation Establishment Pills.
Although Qi Hou is not among the twenty-four true disciples, his cultivation is not ordinary, and he is a disciple of a Foundation Establishment elder of the Shenmu Sect. If the next batch of Foundation Establishment Pills is made and there are extras after supplying the true disciples, he can basically reserve one.
The Foundation Establishment elder with the surname Xi.
Upon hearing this, Chen Mobai thought of the quiet and refined Xi junior brother. He must be a descendant of that elder.
No wonder Qi Hou was willing to bring him to train in the Dream Swamp. It turns out they are fellow disciples.
“Qi Rui, I heard that besides using the thousand-year-old Golden Jade Lingzhi as the main ingredient, there is another method to refine the Foundation Establishment Pill.”
Suddenly, Luo Lin asked a question that Chen Mobai was very interested in.
“Yes, using Golden Jade Lingzhi as the main ingredient is the orthodox method for refining Foundation Establishment Pills. The other method is to use the inner pill of a demonic beast, but the success rate of this method is not high, and the demonic beasts that can condense inner pills are at least at the peak of the second order, making them very difficult to hunt.”
Qi Rui nodded and answered the question.
This was the first time Chen Mobai had heard of this, and he asked with great interest.
It was normal for him as a rogue cultivator not to know this, and the other three in the team didn’t suspect anything.
Shi Pengyi and Luo Lin had heard it from their masters.
The founder of their small sect had successfully established his foundation by taking a Foundation Establishment Pill refined from a demonic beast’s inner pill, and then left this experience in the sect’s secret records, which have been passed down to this day.
“The two demonic beasts that were killed on Qingguang Island this time, I feel they should both be at the peak of the second order. Maybe they have already condensed inner pills. If that’s the case, there might be a few more Foundation Establishment Pills in this batch.”
When Qi Rui said this, his eyes were a bit envious, but his cultivation was only at the eighth level of Qi Refining. Even if he had enough contribution points, he might not qualify.
“Is there a difference between the Foundation Establishment Pill refined from a demonic beast’s inner pill and the orthodox Foundation Establishment Pill?””There is a difference, but the effects are similar. However, with each batch, only two or three pills can be produced, and the auxiliary ingredients cannot be reduced, which is somewhat uneconomical.” Qi Rui couldn’t help but shake his head as he spoke, “Huitian Valley is reluctant to refine this kind of Foundation Establishment Pill because each time it takes a year of the alchemist’s cultivation time. Given the same amount of time, they would rather refine the orthodox Foundation Establishment Pill.”
However, it was precisely because of this that the other alchemists in the Eastern Wilderness found their value.
Huitian Valley was unwilling to refine Foundation Establishment Pills with monster beast inner pills as the main ingredient, but other alchemists were eager to do so.
The major sects and even the cultivation families in the Eastern Wilderness trained their own alchemists, with the ultimate goal of refining this kind of Foundation Establishment Pill.
However, after hearing this, Chen Mobai felt that the decision-makers of Huitian Valley were far-sighted.
After all, if they really monopolized the production of Foundation Establishment Pills, Huitian Valley’s status would not be as detached as it is now. They would definitely be targeted by the other six major sects, and might even face extinction.
“Brother Qi, do you know when the next batch of Golden Jade Lingzhi from Shenmu Sect will mature?”
Chen Mobai asked, attracting the curious gazes of the rest of the team.
“Cough, you may not be able to wait, they matured this year and have already been sent to Huitian Valley. When the new disciples are admitted next year, it will be the time when this batch of Foundation Establishment Pills enters the sect’s warehouse and can be exchanged.”
Qi Rui understood Chen Mobai’s meaning and said regretfully.
The Shenmu Sect recruits disciples once every ten years, which coincides with the time it takes to refine the Foundation Establishment Pills. This is to ensure that the inheritance from generation to generation is orderly.
Even if Chen Mobai is a prodigy, he will have to wait until the next decade to compete for that batch of Foundation Establishment Pills.
“What about the Foundation Establishment Pills refined from monster beast inner pills?”
Chen Mobai thought of this and continued to ask.
“The three Foundation Establishment seniors who came to support us, judging by their sword light, two of them should be the uncles from Jinguang Cliff. The inner pills of the two second-order peak monster beasts killed today, I guess one will be given to them. The remaining batch should yield two Foundation Establishment Pills by Uncle Zeng, but there are at least twenty or thirty senior brothers and sisters who have accumulated enough contribution points and are queuing behind the twenty-four true disciples.”
Qi Rui said this with a slight sigh.
He was also aiming for the orthodox Foundation Establishment Pills ten years later, but even if he had reached the peak of Qi Refining by then, he might not be able to compete with these senior brothers and sisters.
“Has there ever been an exception? Like someone who was guaranteed a Foundation Establishment Pill as soon as they joined the sect.”
Chen Mobai asked unwillingly.
“It’s not that there hasn’t been. Ten years ago, when we recruited disciples, we snatched a genius with a heavenly spiritual root from a small sect. Ancestor Fu personally came out of seclusion and rewarded him with a Foundation Establishment Pill.”