True and False Restriction Breaking

Yue Qianchou and Wood Lady Mu walked away hand in hand on the steps of the hall. The demons and ghosts below heard everything clearly. Seeing that the spiritual herbs could cause Yue Qianchou to lose his composure like this, their expressions all became solemn. Many people had already taken out the copied jade tablets and injected their Divine Sense to check the spiritual herbs ranked at the top. One by one, they silently made their own plans...

The storehouse was located in a cave carved out of the back mountain. Wood Lady Mu led him to a private room. As soon as Yue Qianchou entered, his eyes lit up. On a long, narrow stone platform, various strangely shaped and diverse spiritual herbs were arranged, each with its own place. He walked step by step along the platform, nodding and smiling, finally seeing many spiritual herbs he had never seen before.

He contacted Qu Ping'er within Utopia with his Divine Sense, instructing her to prepare to receive the spiritual herbs. He casually swept the spiritual herbs from the stone platforms he passed by into the areas he had looked at.

"Sir, these four are the top-grade spiritual herbs," said Wood Lady Mu, pointing to a single short stone platform in the center. The four spiritual herbs, each with a different appearance, immediately caught Yue Qianchou's attention. He rubbed his hands excitedly and took a few steps towards it.

"Huh! Seven Star Blood Orchid?" Yue Qianchou paused for a moment, picked up the blood-red orchid that was quite old, examined it carefully to confirm, and then casually tossed it into his Storage Bag. He was very familiar with the Seven Star Blood Orchid because there were a lot of them planted in Utopia.

"Sir, is this thing called Seven Star Blood Orchid? What is it used for?" Wood Lady Mu asked curiously.

"It's nothing, just something I need for alchemy." Yue Qianchou casually brushed it off. When he gave her the jade tablet, it only listed pictures of the spiritual herbs; the names and uses were not copied in. He naturally had a plan for why he did this.

Wood Lady Mu, being a powerful figure, wasn't stupid. Seeing that he was unwilling to elaborate, she didn't press him further. However, she then saw him solemnly pick up another spiritual herb, a Ganoderma lucidum with seven different colors.

"Seven-Colored Spirit Ganoderma..." Yue Qianchou murmured to himself, his face showing some disappointment. The Pill Formula Recipe Record stated that if the Seven-Colored Spirit Ganoderma, combined with several other spiritual herbs, were refined into a pill and consumed, it could smoothly break through all bottlenecks in cultivation stages below the Tribulation Transcendence stage and even in the early Tribulation stage Transcending stage. It was a treasure for advancement in the Cultivation World. If a cultivator's cultivation was stuck at the peak of the late Nascent Soul, consuming a pill refined from a Seven-Colored Spirit Ganoderma would almost certainly help them break through to the Tribulation Transcendence stage.

The item, though valuable, stirred up painful memories for Yue Qianchou. It was precisely because Hao Sansi had inadvertently acquired this very item that he had incurred the wrath of the Daluo Sect. The thought of the Daluo Sect's long-unresolved hatred for his master's murder Yue Qianchou with a somber expression.

"Sir, what's wrong? Is something the problem?" Wood Lady Mu asked somewhat fearfully. This seven-colored Ganoderma lucidum wasn't picked by anyone else; it was picked by her own men. Seeing Yue Qianchou's current state, he was clearly very unhappy, so how could she not be afraid?

"It's nothing." Yue Qianchou took a deep breath and smiled bitterly as he held the Seven-Colored Spirit Ganoderma in his hand. "When I first entered the Cultivation World, I took a master as my teacher. It was because of this that my master lost his life. Now I feel a bit emotional about it." He then stuffed the Ganoderma into his Storage Bag.

Wood Lady Mu breathed a sigh of relief, her heart finally at ease. When she looked at Yue Qianchou again, she saw him staring at the remaining two spiritual herbs with his mouth agape, his eyes slowly widening in disbelief, frozen in place.

The two spiritual herbs were about half a person's height, with Ye Zi as green as jade, shaped like a baby's palm, and otherwise as transparent as crystal, revealing clearly visible veins within. They resembled bamboo, growing segment by segment, with a crystal ball-like node every finger's length. The two herbs looked strange, yet almost identical, the only difference being that one had clearly visible red veins, and the other purple.

"What's wrong now?" Wood Lady Mu looked at him with a suspicious expression. The beings in the Demon Ghost Domain have almost no ability to identify and utilize spiritual herbs, but it is precisely because of this that some rare spiritual herbs have been preserved. She didn't understand, so she naturally found it strange.

Yue Qianchou took out the Pill Formula tablet, infused it with his Divine Sense to examine it, then put the tablet away. Suddenly, he grabbed the two spiritual herbs in his hands, smelled the one on the right, then the one on the left, and nodded slightly, muttering, "The fragrance is strong yet lingers, one strong and one faint, there's no mistake, absolutely no mistake, it's actually 'True and False Restriction Breaking', damn it, I'm rich... hahaha!" His expression became more and more excited, and in the end, he even burst into wild laughter.

The "True and False Restriction Breaking Pill Recipe" Pill Formula tablet records that this substance is actually two spiritual herbs that grow side-by-side, one male and one female. The male herb is called "False Restriction Breaking," and the female herb is called "True Restriction Breaking." Wherever the male herb grows, the female herb can also be found, and vice versa. When combined with several other spiritual herbs, they can be refined into "False Restriction Breaking Pill." The male herb is used to refine the "False Restriction Breaking Pill," and the female herb is used to refine the "True Restriction Breaking Pill." However, when the male and female herbs are combined and refined, there is no distinction between true and false; the elixir is simply called the "Restriction Breaking Pill."

Since it's called the 'Restriction Breaking Pill,' it naturally possesses miraculous effects. Generally, if a cultivator takes one of these pills and has sufficient Spirit Stone, the absorbed Spiritual Qi can be rapidly refined into True Essence within the time it takes for the pill's effects to wear off. Imagine, if one had enough Restriction Breaking Pill and enough Spirit Stone, wouldn't one's cultivation level increase without any restrictions?

Of course, while the Restriction Breaking Pill is miraculous, it's not that exaggerated. If it were, Yue Qianchou could have turned his subordinates into gods. Although the elixir is called Breaking-Restriction, the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth still possesses powerful constraints.

First, there's the issue of the large quantities of Spirit Stone and Restriction Breaking Pill, which Yue Qianchou can handle. Second, there are the hurdles in cultivation progression, such as the breakthrough from the Foundation Establishment Realm to the Core Formation stage; he can manage those too, especially now that he possesses the 'Seven-Colored Spirit Ganoderma,' which can help one break through cultivation bottlenecks. However, once one's cultivation reaches the Tribulation Transcendence stage, where one must withstand the calamities of heaven and earth, these elixirs that force rapid growth will all lose their effect. Such mysterious matters of the world are difficult to explain.

In other words, whether it's Restriction Breaking Pill or a genuine or False Restriction Breaking Pill, it's true that they can quickly help people improve their cultivation level, but they become completely useless once they reach the Tribulation Transcendence stage. However, since this pill is divided into three types, each naturally has its own unique advantages.

The True Restriction Breaking Pill can indeed help improve one's cultivation level, but after reaching the Tribulation Transcendence stage, even with arduous cultivation, one can only reach the late Tribulation Transcendence stage at most. Further progress becomes difficult because this pill has side effects; the accumulated toxic side effects from excessive consumption... just as Bi Changchun said, things reach their extreme and then reverse. Originally intended to break barriers, it actually sets up an insurmountable restriction at the end.

The fake Restriction Breaking Pill can also help people raise their cultivation to the Tribulation Transcendence stage, but it is obtained by exchanging one's own life. Once one truly reaches the Tribulation Transcendence stage, whoever takes it will die. It also has an insurmountable restriction... Bi Changchun often said that if Heaven had feelings, he was indeed a master who cultivated the Dao. His words truly revealed the secrets of Heaven.

Genuine Restriction Breaking Pill are indistinguishable from fakes, but the limitations of the Tribulation Transcendence stage still apply. While they lack the painful restrictions of some pills, the heavens won't grant you complete freedom. There's a trade-off: the price of one pill is a month of immobility, complete stiffness. Only after the side effects dissipate can the body regain full mobility, a month later. If one is willing to endure anything to improve cultivation, they can simply endure the stiffness every month.

Yue Qianchou was often troubled by the cultivation level of Utopia's subordinates. When they were taken out to fight, he always had to calculate and scheme. Although there were many of them, they could only do things in secret, which was quite annoying. But what could he do? He couldn't win against the powerful ones!

Just as he was dozing off, someone brought him a pillow—how could he not be happy? Imagine if his several regiments were all experts at the Tribulation Transcendence stage, and highly trained—what would that mean in a fight? Just thinking about it made him incredibly excited...

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