The Upper Three Realms, Longevity Pill

[This time, you obtained over twenty Mysterious Grade Treasure Materials and five Earth Grade Treasure Materials on the outer edges of the ruins. Whether it was due to the luck brought by your Sacred Body Dao Embryo, when you were fighting over an Earth Grade Treasure Material, you discovered a formation that teleported you into a room. Based on the room's furnishings, it should have been the residence of a high-level figure from the holy land back then.]

[After searching the room, you found quite a few treasures. Leaving aside the lesser ones, the first treasure you found was the room owner's wooden bed. From its aura, it was a High-grade Earth Grade treasure. Through testing, you discovered that this wooden bed had the effect of clearing the mind and calming the qi. This was undoubtedly a huge boon for you, as whether you were painting or practicing martial skills, both consumed a great deal of mental energy and yuan power.]

[Yuan power could be replenished through pills, which weren't outrageously priced, but pills for mental energy were extremely expensive. You couldn't rely on them for decades of daily training—even with your wealth, you couldn't afford that kind of expense. So, rest was essential, since only with a well-rested mind could you achieve twice the results with half the effort in painting and training. Because you trained diligently, the longer you spent on practice, the more rest you needed. This wooden bed could speed up your recovery of energy and yuan power. Where it used to take you four hours to feel fully refreshed, it now took at least half that time, indirectly boosting your training speed and the frequency of your painting sessions.]

[Treasures like this, which clear the mind and calm the qi, were extremely rare, especially at the High-grade Earth Grade level. The reason was that the materials required were scarce, with very little output, yet the number of martial artists in need of them was enormous.]

[The second treasure you found was the room owner's teapot, also a High-grade Earth Grade treasure. This teapot contained a universe within—not just figuratively, but literally. The old sayings about "a sun and moon in the pot" or "a universe in the palm" described this kind of teapot. It could collect spiritual water-type treasures, greatly reducing their consumption. The spiritual medicine your mother, Lin Lan, had made for you was in liquid form, and similar medicines and baths needed to be used immediately after preparation to achieve maximum effect. But with this teapot, even if you stored them for hundreds or thousands of years, the medicinal potency and spiritual energy would barely diminish. It was also a support-type treasure for combat, useful against martial artists proficient in the Water Attribute.]

[The third treasure you found was three liang of tea leaves stored with the teapot, and this was the most useful item for Jiang Changtian. The tea was Low-grade Heaven Grade, made from leaves of the Heavenly Dao Tree. Judging by the color, the leaves were about a hundred years old—not very aged. But for Jiang Changtian, it was more than enough, significantly boosting the comprehension of an ordinary martial artist like him. Unfortunately, these few liang of tea had little effect on you; drinking it would barely enhance anything. Your comprehension was already too high, and only leaves from the Heavenly Dao Tree aged over ten thousand years would have a noticeable impact. But even the Blazing Sun Holy Land of Jiang State couldn't possess tea of that level. In the entire eastern part of the continent, only the Sky Flame Empire had a Heavenly Dao Tree, and its current year ring was only thirteen thousand years—still a sapling in tree terms. It couldn't spare its ten-thousand-year-old leaves for itself.]

[The fourth treasure was an alchemy furnace in the room, which was Mid-grade Earth Grade. Due to the scarcity of furnaces, its value rivaled some High-grade Earth Grade treasures. Next to the furnace, you also found dozens of pill bottles. Unfortunately, due to the passage of time, the pills inside had turned to dust when you opened them, their spiritual energy long gone. Only one bottle remained intact, and even its container was made from Earth Grade materials, which explained how it preserved the pills' spiritual energy for tens of thousands of years without leakage.]

[Since the bottle itself was made from Earth Grade materials, the pills inside the jade bottle couldn't be ordinary. You found three pills in the jade bottle, all with the same effect, likely from the same batch. These three pills were Low-grade Heaven Grade, called Longevity Pills. Taking one would increase your lifespan by half, and they didn't conflict with other Heaven Grade lifespan-increasing pills. That meant after taking a Longevity Pill, you could still take another Heaven Grade lifespan pill. Normally, you could only take one lifespan pill per grade, and a person could only take a total of five lifespan-increasing pills in their lifetime.]

[However, this pill had a limitation: it only worked for those at the Infant God Realm or below. If you broke through to a realm above Infant God, taking a Longevity Pill would have no effect. But this limitation wasn't too severe—most people couldn't even reach the Void God Realm, let alone the Infant God Realm.]

[The Infant God Realm came after the Spirit Condensation Realm. After the Three Essences Realm, there were the upper three realms, known as the Three Spirits Realm. Martial artists first tempered their bodies through the Body Tempering Realm, Blood Transformation Realm, and Organ Refining Realm. Once the body could withstand yuan qi entering it, they began absorbing yuan qi to further refine and strengthen it, going through the Essence Gathering Realm, Earth Origin Realm, and Heavenly Origin Realm—this was the qi refinement stage. After the Heavenly Origin Realm, they gathered qi and condensed spirit to reach the Void God Realm, then transformed the void into reality to break through to the Spirit Condensation Realm. After reaching Spirit Condensation, they condensed their essence and spirit, returning to simplicity into an infant state, returning spirit to infant to form the Infant God Realm. This prepared them for the next stage, merging essence, qi, and spirit to begin the path to sainthood.]

[The effect of this Longevity Pill was simple: it added half the lifespan of the realm the martial artist was in when they took it. For example, a Void God Realm expert who died naturally would live about five thousand years. Ninety percent of Void God Realm experts couldn't break through to Spirit Condensation because they ran out of lifespan. If they could take a Longevity Pill, their chances of reaching Spirit Condensation would increase significantly. Take the Liu Family's Ancestor, Liu Yuanjin—he was at least four thousand eight hundred years old and had almost no hope of breaking through to Spirit Condensation. He was once a top-tier genius, but due to lifespan limitations, he was stuck at the Void God Realm.]

[As for these three Longevity Pills, you and Jiang Changtian planned to trade them later for other useful treasures. After all, giving such pills to anyone below the Void God Realm would be a waste. You still had over four thousand years of lifespan, and Jiang Changtian, who had only been at the Void God Realm for five hundred years, still had over two thousand years. Lifespan wasn't an urgent concern for either of you.]