After taking the information jade slip and examining it, Wei Tu narrowed his eyes slightly and thought to himself, As expected.
Xu Qingxuan had not lied to him. In recent years, the Demon Cloud Cult had indeed been frantically gathering all sorts of spiritual herbs needed to refine the Five Essence Pill.
Moreover, their reach extended beyond Dingyuan Immortal City to the entirety of Myriad-Scale Clustered Lakes, encompassing nearly every major market and immortal city.
Fortunately—due to the difficulty of obtaining the Five Essence Pill's "main ingredient" and certain auxiliary ingredients—the Demon Cloud Cult's public collection efforts had so far progressed far more slowly than his own.
"A rare medicine like Divine Ape Grass can only be encountered by chance, never sought. It is virtually impossible for it to circulate on the market. Judging from the auxiliary ingredients for the Five Essence Pill that they are seeking... the Five Essence Pill refined by the Demon Cloud Cult should merely be an inferior, single-element version..."
Wei Tu drew his conclusions from the information on the jade slip.
After a moment, he spent another two hundred low-grade spirit crystals to purchase detailed intelligence from the shopkeeper about the Demon Cloud Cult and another force gathering ingredients for the Five Essence Pill.
This intelligence did not offer as deep an understanding of the Demon Cloud Cult as what Wei Tu had gained after soul-searching Gu San.
However, it did mark out the Demon Cloud Cult's approximate strength near Dingyuan Immortal City in recent years—the identities and numbers of the revealed Void Refinement cultivators.
Aside from the late Void Refinement deputy cult leader, Iron Baleful Venerable.
There was also one mid-stage Void Refinement cultivator and two early-stage Void Refinement cultivators at Iron Baleful Venerable's side.
That was already an exceptionally formidable force.
It was