"Yun Mu, how could I not know what you're saying? It's just that there's nothing I can do about it." Sun Yu held the Tribulation-Transcending Pill I had handed him, his eyes bulging round as he stared at it, apparently still wondering what kind of pill it was.
I smiled. "This is a Profound Earth Pill that can break through the Ninth Heaven realm and enter the Profound Earth Realm directly. With your current cultivation, Grand Elder Sun, consuming one will take you straight to the Ninth Heaven. You could go anywhere under heaven."
"What?! There really is such a miraculous thing?" Sun Yu cried out in alarm, but soon shook his head and returned the pill with both hands. "Even if this priceless item was given by an otherworldly expert, this old man cannot covet it. You should keep it for your future attempt to break through to the Ninth Heaven. I am already advanced in years, my lamp nearly burned out and my oil nearly dry. Even if I ascend to the Ninth Heaven, I would have only a few dozen or perhaps a hundred years left to live. But with your talent, if you were to become stuck at this realm one day, you would waste far too much precious time... Besides, this old man has nothing with which to repay that otherworldly expert. How could I accept a reward without having done anything to earn it?"
"Such pills are precious to us, but to an otherworldly expert, they're really nothing special. Besides, if you take a pill, you'll naturally have to work. I imagine that even after Grand Elder Sun enters the core inner sect, with your current status, you'll continue holding the position of grand elder in one of the disciple residences, won't you? I