Second-Grade Dao Venerable!
About half a month later, a powerful aura suddenly burst from the secret chamber where Lin Bai was in secluded cultivation, spreading across a hundred miles.
Zhou Xi hurried out of his residence and looked toward the secret chamber where Lin Bai was cultivating in seclusion. He cried out, "Master has broken through to the Second-Grade Dao Venerable Realm!"
After consuming a hundred Purple Cloud Pills, Lin Bai's cultivation finally broke through to the Second-Grade Dao Venerable Realm that day. Yet this brought him little joy, because the pills required to break through a single realm had far exceeded his expectations.
The Purple Cloud Pill was no ordinary cheap, inferior elixir. On the contrary, it was currently the most suitable cultivation elixir for Dao Venerable martial artists in Qilin Town and the Eternal Thirteen Provinces, and one of the finest pills available. Every pill was worth the astronomical price of ten thousand Devil Orbs!
Yet Lin Bai had swallowed several hundred of them and had only broken through a single realm. He had originally thought that consuming a hundred Purple Cloud Pills would let him break through to the Third-Grade Dao Venerable Realm, but the result had left him bitterly disappointed. Even breaking through to the Second-Grade Dao Venerable Realm had been perilously difficult.
Moreover, after breaking through to the Second-Grade Dao Venerable Realm, Lin Bai felt that the Purple Cloud Pills' effects on his future cultivation had greatly diminished. If breaking through from the First-Grade Dao Venerable Realm to the Second-Grade Dao Venerable Realm required a hundred Purple Cloud Pills, then breaking through from the Second-Grade Dao Venerable Realm to the Third-Grade Dao Venerable Realm would require at least five hundred!
Five hundred Purple Cloud Pills—that was equivalent to five million Devil Orbs!
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