Ever since Lin Bai learned that members of the Heaven Swallowing Race needed to consume massive amounts of immortal jade to break through their cultivation realms, he had been racking his brains for other solutions.
Immortal jade was an exceedingly scarce cultivation resource, whether in the Demon Realm or the Spirit Realm.
The excessive exploitation carried out by their predecessors had already drained the resources dry. The few immortal jade veins remaining in the Spirit Realm and Demon Realm had all been firmly monopolized by the top powers of both realms.
Trying to obtain immortal jade from those top powers was harder than ascending to the heavens.
Take Lin Bai, for example.
If he had not agreed to make a deal with the Tianshui Sect and help it rise again, the Tianshui Sect would never have been willing to produce five hundred thousand immortal jades to help Lin Bai break through his cultivation realm.
Likewise, the one hundred thousand immortal jades he received as a reward from Emperor Chu in the Imperial Capital had been earned only after repeatedly risking his life to capture Lanyue, the Demoness for the imperial clan.
Immortal jade resources were so scarce that every sect and lineage in the Demon Realm placed extraordinary importance on them.
Lin Bai was a member of the Heaven Swallowing Race, and every time he broke through a cultivation realm, he needed dozens of times more immortal jade than other martial artists.
If he relied solely on immortal jade to break through, who knew how many years it would take Lin Bai to reach the Grand Luo Dao Fruit Realm?
That was why Lin Bai had constantly been searching for something else to replace immortal jade and assist him in breaking through.
After racking his brains, Lin Bai finally found