A Breakthrough After a Thousand Years

[That man was the best pill refiner among the Old Dragon King's friends. The Third-ring Heaven-Piercing Immortal Grade pill used to treat Shen Xing had been obtained from him. He was a fourth-ring Dao Pill Immortal Master.]

[This friend of his was named Xiao Yan. He had joined no faction and was an unconventional rogue cultivator.

Xiao Yan's origins were rather peculiar. According to the Old Dragon King, he had been born from a spiritual flame whose name even the Old Dragon King did not know, after it gained sentience and took form. Though his true background could not be discerned, based on their dealings over tens of millions of years, Xiao Yan's foundation was anything but ordinary—perhaps no less profound than that of a Pureblood True Dragon.]

[This friend of his also happened to be preparing to break through the bottleneck of a fifth-ring Dao Pill Immortal Master. The Purple Marrow Jade Lotus you wished to trade away was precisely one of the main supplementary ingredients Xiao Yan needed to refine pills. Aside from the two main ingredients, it was the hardest to find and the most valuable item.

Therefore, upon learning that the Old Dragon King possessed Purple Marrow Jade Lotus Immortal Grade, Xiao Yan contacted him at once. Although Xiao Yan was his friend, it was precisely because of that friendship that the Old Dragon King fleeced him even more ruthlessly—and Xiao Yan still had to thank him profusely.

In the end, the Old Dragon King traded for two Third-ring Heaven-Piercing Immortal Grade Innate One Qi Supreme Yang Pills, as well as two portions of Heaven and Earth Spirit Milk with very few impurities, already at the Third-ring Dao Qi grade. Although this Heaven and Earth Spirit Milk was not innate, it was still a rare treasure