"From now on, I'll need more and more True Essence Pills."
Chen Qing thought to himself, his brows knitting almost imperceptibly.
The fixed monthly allotment from the True Martial lineage, combined with the extra portions Elder Zhang Yi and Elder Pei Tingchun privately arranged for him, already amounted to no small quantity—enough for an ordinary True Disciple to cultivate frugally for several months.
But Chen Qing was different from others.
When others cultivated, they needed to balance exertion and rest, temper their state of mind, lest their foundations become unstable or they fall into a bottleneck.
But he bore the [Heaven Rewards Diligence] fate, and every cultivation session inevitably yielded results, without the slightest waste.
This left him with an extremely high demand for resources like True Essence Pills, which could be directly converted into cultivation.
Especially now, as his cultivation of the Great Void True Scripture deepened and he advanced toward his third True Essence Tempering, each circulation through the heavenly cycle consumed increasingly vast amounts of True Essence. Naturally, his reliance on and expenditure of True Essence Pills rose with the tide.
True Essence Pills were not easy to refine. Neither the main ingredients nor the supplementary herbs were anything but rare treasures, and the sect controlled them with exceptional strictness.
After all, these were strategic resources that sustained the cultivation foundations of every expert in the Tianbao Supreme Sect at the True Origin Realm and above. Danxia Peak's output was limited, every lineage had a fixed allocation, and even Elder Zhang Yi had already reached his limit in the extra he could secure for Chen Qing. Asking again would be forcing the hand of another.
As for the other elders of Danxia Peak, that was even less possible.
"In that case, I can only purchase some through