"I... I gave them to two Earth Immortals in my sect... Granny, don't scare me! Is it really poison?" Terrified, I shot to my feet, ready to go notify the Heavenly One Sect. There might still be time.
"Wait. There's no hurry." Granny told me to sit down first. Seeing my confusion, she continued, "These pills certainly work, but their side effects are enormous. You know about the immortal sects' Dao Enlightenment Pills, don't you? Those have to be taken together with Tribulation Pills. Without a Tribulation Pill, a half-immortal has less than a ten percent chance of surviving the tribulation. A lightning strike is almost certain death. As for Tribulation Pills—hmph! To put it plainly, after taking them alongside Dao Enlightenment Pills, anyone who wants to consolidate their cultivation has to use Earth Immortal Pills to maintain it through the transition. They become Earth Immortals through a sham tribulation. Their cultivation may look no different from that of ordinary Earth Immortals, but in an actual fight, they can't compare with those who advanced through steady, solid cultivation. All they've done is increase their capacity for magical power. As for how much force they can wield, that depends on their individual fortunes. Look at those people I killed at Great Yin Lake earlier. They could barely withstand a breeze. Clearly, they became immortals through pills and never underwent a tribulation at all!"
"Fake Earth Immortals?" A chill ran through me. Even the immortal sects were pulling this kind of deception? Still, those Earth Immortals hadn't seemed quite as weak as Granny claimed. Perhaps she was simply too powerful.
"I wouldn't call them fake. They've just taken a few clever shortcuts. But you must never take an Earth Immortal Pill. Once you do, you become addicted. Besides shortening your lifespan, it