Reversing Cultivation Aptitude

Nine months later, Jiang Ping'an finished all nine Nine Revolutions Coiling Dragon Pills. As expected, his cultivation had fallen from the middle stage of the Golden Core Realm to the early stage, but his foundation had indeed become many times more solid.

Having finished the Nine Revolutions Coiling Dragon Pills, the next step in Feng Jiuzhen's plan was to improve his acquired spirit apertures.

"This is the Pill Recipe for the Heaven-Reaching Pill, specially meant to improve your acquired spirit apertures." Feng Jiuzhen took out nine jade slips and handed them to Jiang Ping'an. "Take them back and study them yourself."

Jiang Ping'an accepted the nine jade slips somewhat puzzled. The next moment, he roughly guessed why there were nine of them. He asked, "Nine different Heaven-Reaching Pill Recipes?"

"Correct." Feng Jiuzhen nodded. "The human body has nine great spirit apertures. Though they are all spirit apertures, none are exactly alike, so you cannot use one kind of spirit pill for all of them. Otherwise, either the effect will be poor, or the consequences will be serious."

"I understand," Jiang Ping'an said.

Then he asked, "Can acquired spirit apertures truly be improved until they are no worse than innate spirit apertures?"

"Of course they can." Feng Jiuzhen spoke with absolute certainty. "The Heaven-Reaching Pill was not created by me. It has existed since ancient times. I merely made slight adjustments according to your circumstances to make its effects even better."

"The reason so few people know of it is that those who need it cannot afford to use it, while those who can use it have no need for it."

"To refine one furnace of Heaven-Reaching Pills, setting aside the effort of gathering spiritual herbs and ingredients, the spirit stones alone cost over one million. It also requires a grandmaster