Life Creating Pill

Over the years, countless dazzling geniuses had entered the Azure Cloud Sect.

Some possessed astonishing comprehension and cultivated at incredible speed, crossing several realms in a single year and entering the Innate Secret Realm from the Bone Refining Realm.

Others had special constitutions and boundless strength. Despite being only in the Bone Refining Realm, they could uproot mountains, their power comparable to someone at the Half-Step to the Innate Realm.

By comparison, the boy before them was not particularly outstanding.

Even though he had relied on the strength of the Viscera Refining Realm to withstand the attacks of four Marrow Refining Realm cultivators and had advanced all the way to the thirty-mile stele, in the eyes of the White-Browed Old Man and Instructor Su, he could only be considered excellent.

Take Instructor Su's Little Rain Peak, for example. It ranked last among Azure Cloud's Thirty-Three Peaks, yet she could find at least three disciples there who could resist the pursuit of a Marrow Refining Realm cultivator and still complete the Sea Trials.

But...

A Viscera Refining Realm cultivator had actually managed to withstand the pressure of fifty cauldrons, then stand up under that immense pressure and remain upright.

Not only could Little Rain Peak not produce a second disciple like this—even if they searched all of Azure Cloud's Thirty-Three Peaks, they still would not find another.

Instructor Su had intended to step forward and pull Luo Zheng out of the immense gravity.

However, the White-Browed Old Man stopped her. "Don't rush. Look at what he's doing."

Instructor Su looked closely and saw streams of blood-red liquid flowing from his body. The astonishment on her face deepened. "He's actually refining his viscera!"

Their insight was far superior to that of the four people from before. At a glance, they could tell that the red liquid was not blood, but impurities from his organs. Most people forced such impurities out of their bodies over the course of years, yet this boy had expelled such a tremendous amount in such a short time.

"This child's future..." The White-Browed Old Man was about to make a judgment, most likely that utterly unoriginal phrase: "His future is limitless."

But Instructor Su suddenly said, "A future shrouded in darkness, right?"

The White-Browed Old Man asked in puzzlement, "Instructor Su, what do you mean by that?"

"I think this boy's aptitude is mediocre. Merely passing the Sea Trials was already lucky for him. As for what happened just now, I want you to pretend you never saw it." Instructor Su smiled sweetly, but the meaning behind her words was utterly unreasonable.

The White-Browed Old Man was no fool. He understood that Instructor Su wanted him to keep this secret.

But the Sect Rules stated that if an especially outstanding disciple was discovered during the Sea Trials, the matter had to be reported up through the proper levels. A boy like this clearly fit the requirement.

"This..." The White-Browed Old Man began hesitating again. If Luo Zheng's performance had remained as it was before, he could have turned a blind eye and let it pass. But Luo Zheng's performance now was that of a once-in-a-thousand-years genius. If he concealed this matter, wouldn't that be going too far?

Seeing the White-Browed Old Man hesitate, the radiant smile on Instructor Su's flowerlike face tightened slightly. "No need to hesitate. Do I need to use the Son of Heaven Token?"

"Cough, cough..." At the words "Son of Heaven Token," the White-Browed Old Man immediately launched into a bout of violent coughing. Ever since Instructor Su had entered the Azure Cloud Sect, his health had worsened by the day. Every Sea Trials, this girl made him worry himself sick. How could his health possibly improve?

What was the Son of Heaven Token?

It could be used to ask "that person" in the Burning Heaven Palace to do one thing.

Exterminate a lineage, kill a person, destroy a nation...

Such earth-shaking matters were merely trivial tasks to that person.

The prerequisite was that one had to possess a Son of Heaven Token to even be qualified to make such a request.

In the past two hundred years, only six Son of Heaven Tokens had flowed out of the palace in total.

The Ouyang Family of the Imperial Capital had once obtained a Son of Heaven Token by a twist of fate. They later enshrined it in the Main Pavilion of their family. Relying on the might of that single token, they had leaped from an ordinary little family to become one of the Ten Great Scholar Clans.

Although this was inseparable from the painstaking management and diligent cultivation of the Ouyang Family's members, that Son of Heaven Token had undoubtedly played a tremendous role as well. With a token like that enshrined in your home, who among ordinary people would dare touch you?

The young man before them was indeed a rare genius, but casually using a Son of Heaven Token for his sake was inevitably rather excessive.

Although he understood that this girl was using the Son of Heaven Token to threaten him, he knew even more clearly that, given her temperament, if he continued to drag his feet, she might truly do it.

Since she had put it that way, what else could the White-Browed Old Man say? He could only lower his brows and submit. "Since you have decided, then there is no need to report this matter."

"Remember, I don't want anyone to know about this. The images recorded on that Trust Jade must all be deleted as well. No third person may see them!" Instructor Su thought for a moment before adding, "In a while, you'd better make this boy keep his mouth shut too. If the people from the other peaks find out, it will still cause no small amount of trouble."

Only after saying this did she turn her fiery gaze toward Luo Zheng, staring at him as though he were an uncarved jade treasure.

Luo Zheng was wholly focused on letting the Warm Current cleanse his body. He continuously absorbed the pressure, and most of the impurities in his five viscera and six bowels had already been expelled.

He drew a deep breath. His whole body trembled violently, and a large amount of red impurities gushed from his pores. From a distance, he looked like a man made of blood.

"I've finally reached the peak of the Viscera Refining Realm! I'm only a hair's breadth away from entering the Marrow Refining Realm!"

A glimmer of light shone in Luo Zheng's eyes. This rate of progress filled him with delight. At this stage, only by rapidly increasing his strength could he contend with Luo Peiran and earn the qualification to go to Purgatory Mountain to save his younger sister.

According to his plan, he had wanted to continue cultivating here. Perhaps he could cross that line and break through into the Marrow Refining Realm.

But his legs began to tremble. Under this enormous pressure, his legs finally could not hold out any longer, and he was about to lose his balance and fall to the ground.

At that moment, however, a pair of hands seized Luo Zheng by the neck and dragged him out of the path.

Luo Zheng felt his body grow light, and the invisible pressure vanished completely. When he turned around, he saw that the person who had pulled him out was the White-Browed Old Man, who was also responsible for overseeing this Sea Trials. Beside the White-Browed Old Man stood a Green Shirt Woman as beautiful as a celestial maiden.

"You have already passed the Sea Trials. Why are you still lingering here?" the White-Browed Old Man said sternly.

After being scolded like that, Luo Zheng calmly replied, "This disciple didn't know that lingering here was forbidden."

"Now you know? Take the jade pendant and exchange it for a trial token. Then wait for the trial assessment." The White-Browed Old Man spoke.

Luo Zheng obediently turned and left. Naturally, he did not want to needlessly anger the White-Browed Old Man. But after walking two steps, he turned back and asked, "Examiner, may I ask—if I am fortunate enough to enter the Azure Cloud Sect, can I enter this path again?"

Using the pressure to temper his body had made Luo Zheng's cultivation advance at astonishing speed. He had become somewhat addicted to it, so he was naturally very concerned about this question.

Hearing this, the White-Browed Old Man gave a cold laugh. "This is a place where Innate Secret Realm experts cultivate. If you want to enter, you must have Sect Points to qualify. As for your unauthorized use this time, I will not pursue your responsibility. But keep this secret. Do not spread it!"

Luo Zheng nodded, then hurried away.

Only after Luo Zheng had gone far did the White-Browed Old Man turn to Instructor Su. "How was that?"

"Mm! Not bad. As thanks, I'll give you this!" Instructor Su wore a five-colored flower ring on her hand, set with five gemstones of different colors. It was exceptionally beautiful. With a light tap of her finger, a bright silver pill appeared in her hand, and she casually tossed it to the White-Browed Old Man.

When the White-Browed Old Man caught the bright silver pill, his expression shook violently.

Instructor Su's gift truly was extraordinary. That bright silver pill was actually a Life Creating Pill!

A single Life Creating Pill could extend a person's life by one year! It was a fifth-grade Sacred Medicine, exceedingly rare!

An inch of time was worth an inch of gold; even ten thousand pieces of gold could not buy an inch of time. For many elderly people in their twilight years, a single year was already immensely precious. It could change far too many things.

He had never expected Instructor Su to casually reward him with something so precious. If he had not been afraid of losing face, he might have burst into tears of gratitude on the spot.